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.
, 2023, 10:30am-12pm PDT/1pm-3pm EST
Price $ 650 USD
Price $280 for CE credits
Course Description
Psychedelics have encompassed a colorful history of the enchanted, wayward, and...
What happens when traditional knowledge is incorporated into the classroom? At the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, two Guarani shamans were given the opportunity to be lecturers as part of the Transversal Training Program in Traditional Knowledge.
June 6th – August 1st 2023, 10am-12pm PST/1pm-3pm EST
Price $450 USD
Price $280 for CE credits
This course will teach students the science of psychedelic healing....
August 8th – November 21st 2023, 10:30am-12pm PDT/1pm-3pm EST
Price $1,100
Price $560 for CE credits
This course will be composed of a series of independent lectures...
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
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Since the discovery of its psychoactive properties, Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) has been used by...
In clinical literature, psilocybin, DMT, and MDMA receive a great deal of attention, but, as Ana Camacho shows, the same is not true for the peyote cactus and mescaline. This article looks back on the history of the psychedelic substance in Western science to understand why it is not as popular today as it was during the mid-twentieth century.
Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
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This event is a partnership between Chacruna and The Center for Psychedelic Studies at Naropa...
Wednesday, 22nd, 2023 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
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There is a proliferation of psychedelic churches and the spiritual uses of sacred plants in the...
The União do Vegetal, the most numerous ayahuasquira religion in Brazil, has recently entered an internal crisis because some of its most important members have adopted an anti-democratic Bolsonist political stance in favor of a coup d'état. This position motivated a reaction from the institution's own members, making this situation a good example of how politics and religion cannot be separated, and about the political and social dimensions of the use of plant medicines.