About
Psychedelic Culture
Our conference provides a platform for Indigenous leaders, researchers, clinicians, policymakers, artists, advocates, healthcare professionals and community organizers to experience meaningful connection and critical dialogue centered around ethics and cultural integrity in the rapidly evolving field of psychedelic healing. This year’s conference will offer two days of immersive programming across two simultaneous tracks, along with a dedicated day of workshops and community gatherings designed to foster deeper connection and collaboration.
As psychedelic medicine enters the mainstream, Beyond Consensus challenges the field to move beyond familiar narratives and comfortable agreement.
Beyond Consensus will feature panel discussions, workshops, ceremonies, and artistic experiences exploring topics a wide range of topics : Indigenous reciprocity and biocultural conservation; religion and psychedelics; ethical ceremony and traditional knowledge; law, policy, and legislative reform; racial equity and access; women, queer communities, veterans, and disabled populations in psychedelic spaces; perspectives from the Global South; critical reflections on psychedelic science and psychedelic-assisted therapy; sexual abuse, touch, and ethics; and dialogues between neuroscience and shamanism. Music, art, and community-centered experiences will be woven throughout the gathering, creating opportunities for learning, reflection, and collective healing.
Chacruna has long been committed to amplifying voices that are too often marginalized—including Indigenous peoples, women, queer communities, people of color, and leaders from the Global South. Guided by a commitment to justice, reciprocity, and cultural respect, we foster meaningful spaces where the ethical, cultural, social, and political questions shaping the future of psychedelics can be explored with honesty and care.
Rather than centering a single narrative, Psychedelic Culture 2027 invites meaningful exchange across worldviews, weaving together scientific research, Indigenous knowledge, lived experience, public policy, activism, and the arts. As commercial interests and Western scientific frameworks continue to dominate the psychedelic landscape, the conference offers a vital opportunity to reconnect with the diverse traditions, communities, and values that have stewarded these medicines for generations.
Known for its interdisciplinary approach, Chacruna’s conferences foster conversations rooted in intellectual rigor, compassion, and mutual respect. Leaders gather not only to share ideas, but to build relationships that inspire ethical collaboration and collective action toward a more equitable, culturally grounded future.
Mission
We promote reciprocity in the psychedelic community, and support the protection of sacred plants and cultural traditions. We advance psychedelic justice through curating critical conversations and uplifting the voices of women, queer people, Indigenous peoples, people of color, and the Global South in the field of psychedelic science.
Vision:
We aim to co-create a world where plant medicines and other psychedelics are understood, protected, honored, and valued as part of our cultural identity, and integrated into our social, legal and health care systems in ways that are equitable and just.
Chacruna Institute
The Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines produces high-quality research on plant medicines and psychedelics, and helps propagate academic knowledge in more accessible formats. We educate the public and create cultural understanding and legitimacy regarding these substances so that they may cease to be stigmatized and outlawed. Chacruna also promotes a bridge between the world of plant medicines and the emergent field of psychedelic science, between “traditional ceremonial use” and clinical and therapeutic settings, bringing the knowledge and perspectives of the social sciences to health care professionals and practitioners of psychedelic-assisted therapy. Finally, we foster cultural and political reflections on the field of psychedelic science and facilitate conversations about controversial topics that have been simmering on the sidelines as psychedelics go mainstream.
Our Programs
Indigenous Reciprocity
Giving back to Indigenous communities by nurturing ecological wellbeing, including land rights activism, bolstering food security, and strengthening economic resilience.
Education
Producing original academic research, providing public education and making academic knowledge more accessible.
Protection of Sacred Plants and Cultural Traditions
Raising awareness about globalization, creating cultural understanding and legitimacy, engaging in advocacy and protection of sacred plants and cultural traditions.
Psychedelic Justice
Promoting the voices of women, queer people, Indigenous peoples, people of color, and the global South in the field of psychedelic science.