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.
A conversation with Rosalind Watts, Gul Dolen, Akua Ofoshene, and Anya Oleksiuk
Wednesday, July 7th from 12-2pm PST
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Featuring Robin Divine, Hanifa Nayo Washington and Courtney Watson
Wednesday, May 5th, 2021 from 12-1:30pm PST
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Look back on the first 25 weeks of our "Women in the History of Psychedelic Plant Medicines" series and learn how to become a contributor to the series.
Ayahuasca’s place in mestizo and Indigenous Peruvian healing practices featured extensively in Marlene Dobkin de Rios’ work as a medical anthropologist and transcultural psychotherapist.
It is striking that the work of Joyce Martin, Margot Cutner, and Betty Eisner is so little known in the history of 'set and setting.' Their work is essential to understanding the major changes brought to LSD-assisted therapy during the mid-twentieth century.
Women in the History of Psychedelic Plant Medicines w/ Erika Dyck
Wednesday, July 22nd, from 12pm-1:30pm PSTPresented Live Online via Crowdcast
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The history of psychedelics has often emphasized the contributions made by leading researchers, breakthrough therapists, and champions of a psychedelic ethos. It just so...