Chacruna Institute will be offering three new courses and a workshop which will focus on perspectives such as the Indigenous, scientific, and social justice aspects of psychedelics and sacred plants. This collection of courses and a workshop are the cumulative result of expertise and many years of discussions curated by the Chacruna team.

What was it like to come of age during the psychedelic sixties? Yvonne Negrin recounts her journey from upstate New York to San Francisco.

This article explores a paper written by Eduardo Ekman Schenberg and Konstantin Gerber titled Overcoming epistemic injustices in the biomedical study of ayahuasca: Towards ethical and sustainable regulation. While the paper promised to explore ways of overcoming these epistemic injustices and raises important issues, the author shares vast criticism due to its many controversial and inaccurate points.

May 3rd - June 28th, 10am-12pm PST/1pm-3pm EST Price $650 USD Price $280 for CE credits This course, taught by leading experts and the first of its...

The Santo Daime religion is named after its founder, Raimondo Irineu Serra's name for ayahuasca, which is central to the religion.

July 5th – August 9th, 10am-12pm PST/1pm-3pm EST Price $450 USD Price $280 for CE credits This course will teach students the science of psychedelic healing. Psychedelic-assisted...

Anthropologist Marc Gordon Blainey delves into the topic of the European expansion of Santo Daime by going through excerpts from fieldwork he conducted over the span of 14 months (from 2009 through 2011), all of which has been published in his book Christ Returns from the Jungle: Ayahuacsa Religion as Mystical Healing (2021).

In this article, Marcelo Leite discusses the long history of ethical violations in psychedelic practice, specifically in the topics of the treatment of homosexuality and drug-assisted sex abuse, from the beginning of the psychedelic renaissance to the present day.

This article explores the idea of the psychedelic experience as a “double-edged sword” in the way that although spiritual revelations and insights can aid in bettering mental health, these revelations and insights can also lead to further damaging the psychology of an individual. The authors explore potential causes and solutions to this dilemma.

Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacists Dr.’s Ben Malcolm and Kelan Thomas recently published a review article discussing the risks of serotonin syndrome with various serotonergic psychedelics, either alone or in combination with serotonergic antidepressants. In this article, the authors offer a short summary of their main findings.