Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines is a registered California 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (EIN 84-3076078). We are a community-oriented organization run by a small staff of experts and enthusiastic volunteers who work to bring education and cultural understanding about psychedelic plant medicines to a wider audience. We promote a bridge between the ceremonial use of sacred plants and psychedelic science and envisage a world where plant medicines and other psychedelics are preserved, protected, and valued as part of our cultural identity and integrated into our social, legal, and health care systems.
Help us to achieve our mission! From our beginnings in 2017, we have stood apart from other psychedelic education and advocacy organizations by pioneering initiatives that support and provide a platform for diverse voices, including women, queer people, people of color, Indigenous people, and the Global South. In efforts to address the lack of diverse representation in the expanding psychedelic landscape, we centered our mission around the empowerment of marginalized voices to foster cultural and political reflections on topics like race, gender, and sexuality in psychedelic science. We believe now more than ever, given the current social and political climate, our work is critical to the future of psychedelic healing for humanity.
Please become a member so that you are able to help Chacruna, yourself, and the world. Support of any amount helps this cause and allows us to provide psychedelic education to anyone who wants to access it.
Tuesday, March 5th, 2024 from 9:00-12:00pm PST
Register here
Price: $150
Cost: $80 for CE credits
Scholarships Available
This workshop will challenge participants to take Indigenous claims on plant...
The Amaro Science Festival (Festa da Ciência do Amaro), open to the general public since 1995, provides a window into Pankararé's culture. Participants take part in a ceremony that involves the consuming of a drink made from the jurema-preta root, which contains DMT.
Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
Register for this event here.
The Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative (IRI) attempts to address the profound gap between the promises of...
Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
Register for this event here.
Join us for this Community Forum where we will delve into the intricacies of interethnic...
Wednesday, January 24th, 2024 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
Register for this event here.
The rising global interest in psychedelics prompts critical questions about its impact on Gabon's iboga...
Julien Bonhomme explores how Euro-American psychedelic communities have appropriated Bwiti ibogaine rituals, creating a liminal experience that incorporates from both traditions. For Western practitioners, ibogaine visions allowed individuals to see through themselves and recreate themselves as they desired in order to overcome their existential problems. While the Gabonese practitioners' visions more often reflected the images of mythical ancestors or relatives practicing witchcraft, rather than mirror-images of themselves.
January 8th – March 25th 2024, 10:30am-12pm PST/1:30pm-3pm EST
REGISTER HERE
Price $700 USD
Price $320 for CE creditsCE Credits Offered: 16 total
Scholarship Application
This course is a partnership...
January 9th – April 5th 2024, 10:30am-12pm PST/1:30pm-3pm EST
REGISTER HERE
Price $950 USD
Price $480 for CE creditsCE Credits Offered: 24 total
Scholarship Application
In the midst of the current...
April 23rd – June 25th 2024, 10:30am-12pm PST/1pm-3pm EST
REGISTER HERE
Price $700 USD
Price $320 for CE creditsCE Credits Offered: 16 total
Scholarship Application
This course will teach students the...
July 2nd – October 15th, 2024, 10:30am-12pm PDT/1pm-3pm EST
REGISTER HERE
Price $1,100
Price $560 for CE creditsCE Credits Offered: 28 total
Scholarship Application
This course will be composed...