A Virtual Psychedelic Summit on the Globalization of Plant Medicines and Indigenous Reciprocity
April 23rd-25th, 2021
This global virtual summit will bring together Indigenous leaders from throughout North, Central and South America as well as researchers, practitioners, community builders and other experts from around the world. We will discuss the potential benefits and harms of the globalization of psychedelic plant medicines and explore how we can offer reciprocity to honor the Indigenous cultures and traditions that these medicines come from. It is vital that members of the psychedelic community help support Indigenous groups and the traditional spiritual and ecological knowledge they preserve and practice. This gathering is a follow-up to our conference, Plantas Sagradas en las Américas, held in Mexico in 2018. Like our previous conferences, this event reflects the mission of Chacruna by applying a multidisciplinary approach for creating intercultural dialogues and building bridges between Indigenous traditions and mainstream psychedelic science and policy. Indigenous voices have often been marginalized in the contemporary psychedelic conversation, and this event seeks to spotlight these voices and the invaluable wisdom they carry. We will explore how psychoactive plants have been used throughout history and in different geographical areas, as well as their use and active compounds in multiple contexts; including scientific research, empirical experience, cultural manifestations and the ways in which the state has administered these practices. Presentations will address the traditional and modern uses of various psychoactive plants and include a diverse range of perspectives and fields of knowledge. In doing so, this conference invites us to rethink dichotomies such as sacred vs. profane, modern vs. traditional, legal vs. illegal, and natural vs. artificial, thus bringing much-needed complexity and nuance to the mainstream conversation.
In parallel with this event, Chacruna will launch its new Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas, a comprehensive online resource that will allow people to connect with and donate to grassroots Indigenous nonprofits and community initiatives at the local level.
About IRI’s Launch – April 23, 2021
As part of the launch for the Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas (IRI), Chacruna is organizing a private, invite-only event on Friday, April 23rd for businesses, investors and donors that are wanting to give back to Indigenous peoples and Indigenous-led grassroots organizations. We believe this is a very important and timely conversation, and we hope to set a standard that will help shape the uncertain future of our field in ways that honors its roots. If you represent an organization or are an individual donor or investor that is looking to support this work, we invite you to reach out to [email protected] for more information.
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Conference Sponsors
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Bioneers, Botanical Dimensions, Nierika, North Star, Psychedelic Seminars, Psychedelics Today, Sage Institute, San Francisco Psychedelic Society, Source Research Foundation, Synergetic Press, Wixárika Research Center, Fluence, Heroic Hearts Project, Horizons, OPEN Foundation, Plataforma Brasileira de Politica de Drogas, Plant Medicine Coalition, Psychedelic Support, Maloca Internacionale, Psychedelic Society UK, Limin Foundation, Psychedelic Bar Association, Lucid News and Reconsider.
Sponsorship Opportunities Available (Scholarship Application Now Closed):
Sponsorship helps Chacruna to make this conference affordable and accessible to the public and ensures a diversity of speakers and voices are heard. Sponsors receive recognition for their support of Sacred Plants in the Americas II at the event, on our social media channels, on our conference website, and in the video recordings of the event. All sponsorship donations are tax-deductible.
Disclaimer: Chacruna is not endorsing sponsors regarding their mission or activities. Sponsorship does not include any decision-making influence on the content of any Chacruna event or publication, or any decision-making authority regarding Chacruna policies or actions. Every individual can and should make their own determination on the credibility or value of each sponsor and we solicit your respectful feedback regarding any concerns. The inclusion of links to other sites does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorsement of the views expressed within them. Although legal issues will be discussed at the conference neither Chacruna nor any of the speakers are providing legal advice to participants. All conference presentations and materials are educational in nature. Chacruna does not advocate any entity violate state, federal, or local laws.
Please email Josh at: [email protected] with inquiries regarding sponsorships. (Scholarship Application Now Closed)
Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals
- CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain this document for 4 years after the course concludes.
- SCA is an approved CE provider for National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coaches (CEP Number 100196)
For questions about enrolling in CE or receiving your Certificate of Attendance, email [email protected]
For other questions about CE contact David Lukoff, PhD at [email protected]
Speakers
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Aaron Genuth
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Adam Aronovich
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Adam Strauss
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Adele Lafrance
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Adriana Kertzer
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Alan Davis
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Alex Belser
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Alexader Beiner
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Alexander Beiner
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Alí Cortina
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Allison Hoots
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Amichai Lau-Lavie
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Amy Hale
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Andy Letcher
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Anja Loizaga-Velder
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Anne Waldman
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Anny Ortiz
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Antonella Fagetti
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Anya Ermakova
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Ariel Clark
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Artionka Capiberibe
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Ashleigh Murphy-Beiner
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Beatriz Caiuby Labate
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Biraci Brasil
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Bob Otis
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Brian C. Muraresku
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Brian T. Anderson
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Bron Taylor
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Bruce Rimell
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Bruno Ramos Gomes
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Camila Behrens
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Camis Benedito
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Candida Moss
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Cash Ahenakew
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Celina De Leon
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Chaikuni Witan
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Christian Greer
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Christopher Timmermann
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Citlali Rodríguez Venegas
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Clancy Cavnar
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Claudia Cuentas
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Claudia Cuentas
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Cristina Ochoa
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Daiara Tukano
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Daniel Carcillo
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Daniela Peluso
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Darren Springer
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Darron T. Smith
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Dave Barnhart
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David Bronner
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David Heldreth
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David Presti
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Diana Negrin
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Didier Lacaze
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Diego García-Devis
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Diego Villegas Kau
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Dr. Rachel Yehuda
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Eloy García García
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Emilia Sanabria
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Emily Pothast
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Erik Davis
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Erika Dyck
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Ernesto Schwartz-Marin
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Eros Quintero Rodríguez
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Esther Jean Langdon
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Eva Melendez (Xawan Rabi)
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Ewa Maciejczyk
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Fernando Huesca
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Francisco Apurinã Ywmuniry
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Galia Tanay
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Gerson Escamilla
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Giorgio Samorini
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Glauber Loures de Assis
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Glenn H. Shepard Jr.
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Grace Cepe
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Héctor García Rojas
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Hereward Edmund Tilton
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Heriberto Prado Pereda
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Hugo Tangarife
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Hunt Priest
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Ibrahim Gabriell
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Idali Hernández Vicencio
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Ismail Lourido Ali
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Ivonne Roquet
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J. Santos Rentería
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Jahlani Niaah
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Jaime Andrés Vinasco Barco
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Jamie Beachy
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Jared Lacy
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Jasmine Virdi
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Jeffrey Breau
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Jessica Felix Romero
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Jessica Nielson
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Jesús M. González Mariscal
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Joe Tafur
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Jorge N. Ferrer
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José Noyola Cherpitel
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Joseph Mays
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Josh Meadow
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Júlia Sonsin Oliveira
Aaron Genuth
Adam Aronovich
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Adam Strauss
Adam Strauss is a writer and performer based in New York. His one person show The Mushroom Cure, the true story of how he treated his debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder with psychedelics, is playing the Marsh Theater in Berkeley April 8th through May 27th. The New York Times said the show “mines a great deal of laughter from disabling pain,” The Chicago Tribune called it “arrestingly honest and howlingly funny”, Michael Pollan called it “brilliant, hilarious and moving” and Time Out New York named it a Critics’ Pick. Adam has a BA in Psychology from Brown University, and speaks about OCD and psychedelics at conferences, in articles, on podcasts.
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Adele Lafrance
Dr. Adele Lafrance is a clinical psychologist, research scientist, author and co-developer of emotion-focused treatment modalities. Dr. Lafrance is a leader in the research and practice of psychedelic medicine, with a focus on ayahuasca, MDMA, psilocybin and ketamine. Dr. Lafrance has a particular interest in mechanisms and models of healing, including spirituality, emotion processing, and the application of family-based psychedelic medicine. A frequent speaker at professional conferences, She has published extensively in the field of emotion and health, including a clinical manual and expert training video published by the American Psychological Association.
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Adriana Kertzer
Adriana Kertzer is a NY-based Texan-Brazilian lawyer and co-founder of Plant Medicine Law Group, a boutique psychedelics and cannabis law firm founded in 2020. She is on the board of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation and leads Faith+Psychedelics (a community for Jews, Christians and Muslims passionate about the potential role psychedelics can play in their own religions and exploring how psychedelics can benefit these existing religious traditions). She runs JewWhoTokes, an Instagram account that explores relationships with cannabis and psychedelics in the Jewish community.
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Alan Davis
Dr. Alan Davis is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Ohio State University and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Davis’s clinical experience includes working with people diagnosed with trauma-based psychological problems and includes providing evidenced-based treatments such as motivational interviewing, acceptance and commitment therapy, and psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy. His research interests focus on helping those suffering with substance use and mental health problems and developing ways to conceptualize substance use and mental health problems through a strengths-based approach. He recently completed a clinical trial of psilocybin therapy for depression and current trials exploring psychedelic treatment for patients with co-occurring alcohol use disorder and depression and patients with anorexia. He examines topics related to naturalistic psychedelic use among several populations including people of color who have experienced racial trauma, Spanish-speaking people, and people who use novel psychedelics such as 5-MeO-DMT.
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Alex Belser
Dr. Alex Belser has been a leader in the psychedelic research community for the last twenty years, having served as an investigator on clinical trials of psilocybin and MDMA to treat depression, anxiety, substance use, OCD, PTSD, and end-of-life distress. Dr. Belser is a psychologist and Co-Investigator at Yale University. He serves as the Chief Clinical Officer of Cybin where he leads their clinical programs in psychedelic therapeutics. He is also part of Chacruna Institute’s Women, Gender Diversity, and Sexual Minorities Working Group. Dr. Belser previously served as Chief Clinical Officer at Adelia Therapeutics, where he directed the clinical program investigating tryptamines and phenethylamines for a variety of treatment indications. Dr. Belser has authored over a dozen peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters. He worked as a therapist on studies of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of severe PTSD. Dr. Belser studied at Georgetown University, the University of Cambridge, Columbia University, New York University, and Yale University. Dr. Belser trained at Bellevue Hospital, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital, and New York Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University. See more here http://alexbelser.com and here http://centerforbreakthroughs.com.
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Alexader Beiner
Alexander Beiner is a writer and podcaster. He’s the co-founder of Rebel Wisdom, a media and events platform focused on making sense of culture, transformation and the meta-crisis. He’s also an executive director of Breaking Convention, a charity hosting Europe’s longest-running psychedelics conference. His upcoming book ‘The Bigger Picture: How psychedelics can help us make sense of the world’ will be published by Hay House in 2023. He’s particularly interested in the nuances of psychedelic mainstreaming and has made several films and articles about psychedelic capitalism and psychedelic spirituality.
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Alexander Beiner
Alexander Beiner is co-founder of Rebel Wisdom and one of the directors of Breaking Convention, Europe’s largest conference on psychedelic medicine and culture. He has been involved in psychedelic activism for the last fifteen years and is particularly interested in bringing a critical lens to the way psychedelics are entering mainstream culture and medicine. He recently produced a short documentary called ‘The Rise of Psychedelic Capitalism’ to explore this topic, featuring interviews with leading voices in the field. As a Holistic Counsellor and facilitator, he’s also interested in how psychedelics can intersect with other practices to create safer, more integral approaches for personal growth and healing.
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Alí Cortina
Alí Cortina is a Master in Social Sciences and Humanities from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa. He specializes in the line of research that he calls “social dimension of psychedelic knowledge” in which he articulates methodological-theories such as participant observation, history and anthropology, discourse analysis, and the social construction of knowledge. It has been published in Mexico, Spain, the United States, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. He has participated in various national and international conferences.
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Allison Hoots
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Amichai Lau-Lavie
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie (he/him) is the Founding Spiritual Leader of Lab/Shul NYC and the creator of Storahtelling, Inc. An Israeli-born Jewish educator, writer, and performance artist, he’s engaged in various social action projects and is working on a book on the power of storytelling to heal the soul of society.
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Amy Hale
Dr. Amy Hale is an anthropologist and folklorist writing about esoteric history, art, and culture. Her biography of Ithell Colquhoun, Genius of the Fern Loved Gully, is available from Strange Attractor Press, and she is also the editor of the forthcoming Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses (Palgrave Macmillan)
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Andy Letcher
Dr Andy Letcher is Senior Lecturer at Schumacher College where he is programme lead for the MA Engaged Ecology. He is the author of ‘Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom’ and a range of academic papers about contemporary psychedelic experience.
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Anja Loizaga-Velder
Anja Loizaga-Velder is a German-Mexican clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with humanistic orientation. She earned a doctoral degree in Medical Psychology from Heidelberg University and has published several research articles and book chapters that explore the therapeutic potential of ayahuasca and other psychedelics for the treatment of mental health challenges. She is founding member and director of research and clinical services at the Nierika Institute for Intercultural Medicine, in Mexico, a NGO dedicated to the preservation of indigenous traditions with sacred plant medicines and their research around therapeutic applications for mental health. Anja also is adjunct profesor and researcher in Humanities in Health at the Medical School at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she works towards implementing clinical research into evaluating the therapeutic efficacy of psychedelics in intercultural therapeutic settings.
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Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman’s life has been a nodal point for and precursor for what has become known as the psychedelic renaissance. Her poetry, performances, activism, and Buddhism have long exhibited and embodied psychedelic aesthetics. Her life and wisdom connects back to the intellectual movements that made psychedelics widely known to the western “counterculture.” From her homage to Maria Sabina, Fast Speaking Woman (1974) to Trickster Feminism (2018) and Sanctuary (2019), Waldman’s poetry and activism have long engaged with psychedelics. Along with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Allen Ginsburg, Waldman was involved in the founding of Naropa University and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She is joined in conversation with her sometimes musical collaborator and author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics (2019), Roger Green. While reflecting on Waldman’s life and work, she and Roger will address complexities of western-derived notions of ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’ with respect to the psychedelic renaissance and in tension with Buddhism and what religious studies scholars have termed, “lived religion.”
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Anny Ortiz
Anny Ortiz is a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Human Ecology. Prior to commencing her graduate studies, Anny worked in a variety of therapeutic programs including a treatment center that used ibogaine to aid in the treatment of substance use disorders. Recognizing a need to enhance the center’s outcomes, Anny introduced the use of toad-derived 5-MeO-DMT as a complement to ibogaine. Doing this work was deeply meaningful, but also deeply troubling to Anny given how an explosion of interest in this work has led, at least in part, to the current global exploitation of the 5-MeO-DMT-producing desert toads. Seeing first-hand the therapeutic effects of the 5-MeO-DMT experience however motivated her to pursue graduate school to research this therapeutic potential in a more rigorous way, and to connect with a multidisciplinary team to explore avenues for toad conservation and protection in its natural habitat, the Sonoran desert.
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Antonella Fagetti
Antonella Fagetti holds a PhD in Anthropology (ENAH) and is a member of the National System of Researchers (level II). She is a research professor in the Sociocultural Anthropology Masters Program at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities at BUAP (Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla). She has published books, chapters and articles on traditional medicine, shamanism and the ritual use of sacred plants among Indigenous groups, the result of several CONACYT projects that she has developed since 2004.She is currently the group technical manager of the CONACYT Frontier Science project: “Dialogue of knowledge around the therapeutic potential of psilocybin-containing mushrooms. A transdisciplinary study via neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, history and Indigenous traditional knowledge”.
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Anya Ermakova
Anya Ermakova has a motley background and broad research interests combining nature conservation, ethnobotany, neuroscience and psychiatry, interweaving and connecting these diverse paths through psychedelic science. Anya worked at the forefront of psychedelic research as a science officer at the Beckley Foundation, and has provided psychedelic welfare and harm reduction services with PsycareUK and Zendo. Deep love for nature and wildlife has motivated Anya to study biology at the University of Edinburgh, while a quest to understand altered states of consciousness has prompted her to specialise in neuroscience and later continued during her PhD in psychiatry at Cambridge, where she investigated the origins of psychosis. She then worked for the NHS, developing and trialing a new psychosocial intervention for psychosis. After a brief stint as a clinical trial manager, she had decided to pursue her passion for nature, by studying Conservation Science at Imperial College London, where she researched peyote ecology in Texas, USA. Anya is working as a research consultant in London, is a member of the Council for the Protection of the Sacred Plants at Chacruna, and a board member of the Cactus Conservation Institute.
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Ariel Clark
Ariel Clark is a founding partner of Clark Howell LLP, a women-owned and run law firm focused on the cannabis and hemp industries. The firm represents established and emerging cannabis businesses across the supply chain and provides advice on corporate governance, financing, business transactional matters, entity formation and operation, and local and state permitting and regulatory compliance. She has served in leadership in a variety of drug policy reform and cannabis and hemp business organizations including the Los Angeles Cannabis Task Force, Cannabis Business Council of Santa Barbara County, California Native American Cannabis Association, California Grower’s Association, and California NORML. Ariel has received many kind distinctions; she was named by Rolling Stone as one of 18 “women shaping the culture of tomorrow,” as one of the top 75 “most important women in cannabis” by Cannabis Business Executive, 30 “most powerful litigators” by MG Magazine, by National Law Journal with a Trailblazer award, and was included in Entrepreneur’s “top 100 cannabis leaders” in 2018. Ariel is very honored to be a member of Chacruna’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants and Chacruna’s General Counsel.
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Artionka Capiberibe
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Ashleigh Murphy-Beiner
Ashleigh Murphy-Beiner is currently working as a Trainee Clinical Psychologist and previously worked on the Psilocybin for depression trial at Imperial College London providing longer term integration support, in addition to guiding patients. Ashleigh is trained as a mindfulness meditation teacher and recently completed psychopharmacological research with ayahuasca as part of her MSc Psychology degree. Her research found ayahuasca increased mindfulness and flexible thinking in both psychedelic naïve and experienced ayahuasca drinkers. Ashleigh has also assisted in ceremonies in Peru, leading mindfulness sessions developed to support preparation and integration. She has since further trained in embodied presence practices and is interested in the interdisciplinary application of each of these varied approaches to the therapeutic use of psychedelics.
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Beatriz Caiuby Labate
Dr. Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Bia Labate) is a queer Brazilian anthropologist based in San Francisco. She has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Her main areas of interest are the study of plant medicines, drug policy, shamanism, ritual, religion, and social justice. She is Executive Director of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines (https://chacruna.net, https://chacruna-iri.org, https://chacruna-la.org). She serves as Public Education and Culture Specialist at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), and Adjunct Faculty at the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). She is also Diversity, Culture, and Ethics Advisor at the Synthesis Institute. Additionally, she is a co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies (NEIP) in Brazil and editor of its site. She is author, co-author, and co-editor of twenty-four books, two special-edition journals, and several peer-reviewed articles (https://bialabate.net).
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Biraci Brasil
Biracir Brasil is one of the Amazon’s leading indigenous leaders. While living in Rio Branco, the capital of the state of Acre, Brazil in the early 1990s, he was called on by Yawanawa elders to take over the leadership of his people. Returning to his village, Bira initiated a revolution of cultural revival in the Yawanawa community. He expelled aggressive New Tribes evangelical missionaries, instituted the teaching of the native language and encouraged the study of ancient myths and stories as a way of reconnecting younger generations with the knowledge and memories of the ancestors. He also relocated the main village to a hill on the banks of the Gregório river, with a good view of river traffic, in order to better control access to the reserve which was demarcated in 1987. Twenty fiver years later, the Yawanawás are now a major cultural force and international example of how indigenous nations can assert control of their lands and achieve valorization of their cosmopolitics and traditional culture.
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Bob Otis
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Brian C. Muraresku
Brian C. Muraresku graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University with a degree in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit. As an alumnus of Georgetown Law and a member of the New York Bar, he has been practicing law internationally for fifteen years. He lives outside Washington D.C. with his wife and two daughters. In 2016, Muraresku became the founding executive director of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation. Their work has been featured on CNN and ESPN, as well as The Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle. In arbitration with the NFL in 2018, Muraresku represented the first professional athlete in the United States to seek a therapeutic use exemption for cannabis. The Immortality Key is his debut book.
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Brian T. Anderson
Brian T. Anderson is a psychiatrist at the University of California San Francisco where he studies psychedelic medicines. Brian has also been a member of the Núcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre Psicoativos (NEIP) since 2006 and currentlyis a member of the Chacruna Institute’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants.Over the past decade he has conducted ethnographic research with ayahuasca religions, 12-Step recovery groups, and other communities of substance users in North America, South America and Europe.
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Bron Taylor
Bron Taylor is Professor of Religion and Environmental Ethics at the University of Florida and a Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany. An interdisciplinary environmental studies scholar, Taylor’s research explores through the lenses of the sciences and humanities the complex relationships religion, ecology, ethics, and the quest for sustainability. His books include Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (2010), Avatar and Nature Spirituality (2013), and Ecological Resistance Movements (1995). He is also editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2005) and in 2017, he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture.
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Bruce Rimell
Bruce Rimell is an artist, poet, musician and independent researcher, whose diverse research interests include: visionary and religious experiences in light of the cognitive science of religion and evolutionary psychology; the origins of human symbolic cognition and its implications for twenty-first century epistemology; cognition and visual arts as Beyond-The-Self exploration; and the Minoan civilisation of Bronze Age Crete.
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There is growing enthusiasm in Jewish communities about possible ancient use and modern applications of plant medicine in Jewish spiritual development. Psychedelic Judaism introduce new potential modes of healing...
Bruno Ramos Gomes
Bruno Ramos Gomes is a psychologist and has a master degree in public health (FSP-USP). He worked with harm reduction and vulnerable populations in downtown São Paulo from 2004 to 2016 . Also worked as a psychologist and therapeutic companion for children and adolescents who use drugs for the Quixote Project. In his master degree he studied the use of ayahuasca on the recovery of homeless people and is now researching the use of ibogaine in the treatment of addiction as his PhD candidate researvh, in FCM-UNICAMP. He works since 2010 with the therapy associated with the use of ibogaine in the treatment of addiction and in the integration of ayahuasca and magic mushrooms in the therapeutic processes of patients.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 from 12-1:30pm PST
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There is growing enthusiasm in Jewish communities about possible ancient use and modern applications of plant medicine in Jewish spiritual development. Psychedelic Judaism introduce new potential modes of healing...
Camila Behrens
Camila Behrens is a Brazilian Biologist, graduated from the University of Brasília and a Postgraduate Student in Phytotherapy. Behrens is the winner of the Latin American Young Forest Entrepreneur Contest in the Independent category and is the founder of Academia das Plantas, a company that works with natural products produced in the Amazon and in the Brazilian Cerrado, and that has a content channel specially focused on Plants, Herbalism and Self-knowledge. In the last five years, she was part of the group of researchers dedicated to the biological study of the plants that make up Ayahuasca tea, especially the Banisteriopsis caapi vine. She traveled through different states of Brazil collecting and analyzing Banisteriopsis samples, as well as gathering knowledge from traditional Ayahuasca communities regarding the cultivation, management, identification and ritualization of the species. The plant samples collected by Behrens are available in the Herbário UB collection and the information referring to traditional knowledge is registered in SisGen (National System for the Management of Genetic Heritage and Associated Traditional Knowledge). These samples and collected knowledge have contributed to research in different fields of science, such as taxonomy, anatomy, chemistry and molecular structure.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 from 12-1:30pm PST
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There is growing enthusiasm in Jewish communities about possible ancient use and modern applications of plant medicine in Jewish spiritual development. Psychedelic Judaism introduce new potential modes of healing...
Camis Benedito
Camis Benedito has a Master’s (2013) and PhD (2019) in Sociology from the Brazilian Universidade Federal de São Carlos with thesis “‘Maria que me ensina a ser mulher’: Gênero e Religião no Santo Daime” (“Mary who teaches me how to be a woman”: Gender and religion within Santo Daime”), which was based on fieldwork among a Santo Daime community in Brazil, and traces the impact of popular Catholicism, environmentalism, New Age practices and the development of the Sacred Feminine within the community and its views towards the concept of feminine and femininity. Currently, Camis is part of the project Healing Encounters (CERMES3) team, and is conductins research on Brazil’s psychedelic science, is a member of NEIP (Núcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre Psicoativos), and a collaborator for ICARO (the Interdisciplinary Cooperation for Ayahuasca Research and Outreach from Universidade de Campinas).
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There is growing enthusiasm in Jewish communities about possible ancient use and modern applications of plant medicine in Jewish spiritual development. Psychedelic Judaism introduce new potential modes of healing...
Candida Moss
Candida Moss is a Biblical scholar whose work focuses on ancient medicine, martyrdom, understandings of the afterlife, and enslaved writing practices. She received her PhD in 2008 from Yale University and currently serves as a professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Birmingham. She has published six books and over thirty articles on various aspects of Biblical and early Christian literature, practice, and thought including The Other Christs (Oxford, 2010), Ancient Christian Martyrdom (Yale, 2012), Reconceiving Infertility (Princeton, 2015), Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby (Princeton, 2017) and Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity (Yale, 2019). She has been the recipient of prizes from the John Templeton Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her current project examines the role of enslaved literate works in the writing, movement, reading, and copying of early Christian texts.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 from 12-1:30pm PST
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There is growing enthusiasm in Jewish communities about possible ancient use and modern applications of plant medicine in Jewish spiritual development. Psychedelic Judaism introduce new potential modes of healing...