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.
Featuring Dr. Fernanda Palhano-Fontes
Wednesday, October 21th from 12-1:30pm PST
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The use of ayahuasca, an indigenous brew from the Amazonian basin with...
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At 9 a.m. on August 17, 2020, the ayahuasca community said goodbye to one of its most important and discreet champions: the Brazilian lawyer...
https://youtu.be/kX9AMT9rEO0
“Last night, I saw my grandfather in a dream and he healed my hand.” Pitsipini’s hand had been swollen for days. Up to that...
Dr. Bernd Brabec de Mori in conversation with Dr. Bia Labate
Wednesday, September 23rd from 12-1:30pm PST
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The practice of singing...
Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research 2020
Friday, September 25th through Sunday, September 27th
A global virtual conference of leading experts in psychedelic research and therapy, psychiatry,...
https://youtu.be/dROKjjmXTpQ
You probably know about ayahuasca. You probably love the Amazon. You probably support Black Lives Matter (at least, I hope so!). What you probably...
Ayahuasca, a drink produced from two plants native to the Amazon region, has gained notoriety in Brazil and internationally, especially because it contains small...