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.
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Global Virtual Psychedelic Summit
April 23-25, 2021
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Featuring 80+ speakers–including Indigenous leaders from throughout North, Central and South America, as well as researchers, practitioners, community...
Marcelo Leite, Ph.D., summarizes how the medicalization and legalization regulatory models for psilocybin-assisted therapy can “naturally coexist within an integrated framework.” There are advantages and limitations to each model, and as investors begin to invest their attention on the emerging psychedelic therapies and research, it is important for all psychedelic organizations to work in tandem with each other’s framework as it will best serve the movement and public access for psilocybin-assisted therapy.
On Earth Day, Thursday, April 22nd from 10:30am - 11am (PT), leaders of a new coalition, Plant Medicine Healing Alliance, will be hosting a press conference to speak upon their “dual mission of improving access to plant medicines while simultaneously promoting sustainable sourcing and respect for the human, plant, and animal ecologies where the medicine grows.” They will speak about the Indigenous history of sacred plant medicines, the medical perspective of the therapeutic potential of these substances to help people heal from PTSD, especially veterans, and they will ask the Portland City Council to decriminalize these plant and fungi medicines to allow for spiritual growth and access to the treatment that people need.
There is an alarming global decline in lncilus alvarius toad populations, the toads who secrete 5-MeO-DMT, because of multiple ecological reasons and the increased interest in toad ‘milking’ for psychedelic experiences. Anya Ermakova, Ph.D. educates the reader on the ecological impacts of these toad populations and provides alternative, synthetic options for psychonauts who would like to use 5-MeO-DMT.
The similarities between Kink/BDSM and psychedelics may not be overtly obvious at first glance, but as Dr. Denise Renye explains here, there is consistent overlap between psychedelics and kinky dynamics between consenting partners. Psychedelics and BDSM play can induce profound healing experiences and nonordinary states of consciousness, which means preparing for these intimate interactions require all parties to prepare for set and setting, and aftercare and integration.
As he articulates the historical policies and eurochristian worldviews that contribute to the colonization of Native Americans, Roger K. Green writes about how well-intentioned psychonauts who advocate for religious use of psychedelic plant medicines can be implicated in neocolonial actions. Decolonizing means disrupting the politics of recognition, understanding the eurochristian worldviews which shape the political experience for Indigenous people, and overturning policies which have contributed to the ethnocide of Indigenous worldviews.
A Virtual Psychedelic Summit on the Globalization of Plant Medicines and Indigenous Reciprocity
April 23rd-25th, 2021
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This global virtual summit will bring together...