Sean Lawlor interviews Hanifa Nayo Washington, energy healer, Reiki practitioner, and co-founder of Fireside Project, the psychedelic peer support line, about cultivating beloved community, systems of oppression in the psychedelic space, Burning Man, building trust, reducing harm, and creating a culture of belonging.

Psychedelic motherhood employs the lessons learned from psychedelic altered states to navigate the transition to parenthood.

Psychedelics can help us overcome our repressed traumas and related shame that prevent us from truly enjoying and experiencing pleasure.

The Fireside Project, which helps guide people through their psychedelic experiences, finds success in its first month.

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In this article, Filipe Ribeiro covers the conservation challenges surrounding kambô. The kambô frog’s secretions are used in traditional practice among several Indigenous peoples in the southwest Amazon. With the growing global demand for kambô, some have suggested that the Indigenous approach to collecting the frog’s secretions is harmful to the frog. Ribeiro urges the West to not rush to hasty and superficial judgments regarding traditional practices.

In recent times, there has been more advances in medical research on cannabis. Francisco Savoi de Arauja and Mauro Machado Chaiben demystify the modalities that go beyond the medical model. They primarily focus on the political need to decriminalize marijuana, and include references to the religious and social uses of marijuana by Rastafarian culture, Santo Daime religion, and “Cannabis Social Clubs.”

In this article, Diana Negrin centers the need to have conversations about structural racism, ecological terrorism, and other forms of injustice that are present within the ecosystem of psychedelic plant medicines. She highlights Chacruna Institute’s efforts to include diverse voices from historically marginalized groups around debates of psychedelics; their launch of the Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas; and the successful execution of Chacruna’s virtual conference Sacred Plants II, which was diverse, interdisciplinary, and highly educational about different realms of the field of psychedelics.

Alex Beiner critiques a paper called Psilocybin: From Serendipity to Credibility in the journal ‘Frontiers in Psychiatry’ which was written by two psychiatrists, James Rucker and Allan Young, about the use of psilocybin by legal retreats. He centers the philosophical question of “who has the right control access to psilocybin?“, provides counter arguments to the current power structures, and offers an opportunity to create a truly unique, multidisciplinary and ground-breaking model of healing.

Sean P. Lawlor interviews Stephanie Michael Stewart, psychiatrist and psychedelic healer in British Columbia, Canada about shamanism, the spiritual path, MAPS, people of color, problems with the Western medical model, indigenous traditions, ayahuasca in Peru, ayahuasca tourism, and psychedelic integration.