Psychedelic education and support

Expert guidance, holistic resources and community for your psychedelic journey.

Reconnect to nature and rediscover your original source of healing and growth.

Psygaia is a psychedelic research, education, community and support non-profit dedicated to guiding people on safe and intentional psychedelic journeys for improved personal and planetary health.

What makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature.

— Terrence McKenna

The path to your psychedelic journey.

There is a coming home. A home base. Psychedelics help reconnect with home.

— Ann Shulgin

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Ecological Medicine and Psychedelics for Planetary Health

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Discover how ecological medicine and psychedelics foster interconnected healing, promoting personal wellness and ecological consciousness for a sustainable future.

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Decolonizing Psychedelic Healing: Honoring Indigenous Ways

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As the field of psychedelic therapy continues to grow, there is an increasing need to address its historical and ongoing exclusion of BIPOC communities.

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Redefining the Inner Healing Intelligence in Psychedelic Therapy

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While the concept of inner healing intelligence is foundational in psychedelic-assisted therapy, we suggest renaming it to “innate” healing intelligence.

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McPsychedelics: The Rise of Psychedelic Individualism

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McPsychedelics is the use of psychedelics, with intention or unwittingly, for self-serving and ego-enhancing purposes that run counter to the teachings of the plants and fungi—counter to the wisdom of nature.

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Psychedelics can’t give you a permanent spiritual immersion, but they can give faith about the existence of these other planes and you need faith as a foundation for spiritual practice.

— Ram Dass

Why take psychedelics?

Because you’re human.

Psychedelics have been used by cultures across the world for centuries, valued for their transformative, therapeutic, and spiritual benefits. Today, modern research is beginning to understand their potential for healing and personal growth.

Despite ongoing stigma and prohibition in many places, psychedelics, when used safely and intentionally, can be safe tools for holistic health and wellbeing.

At Psygaia, we conduct research and offer education and support to guide you in the safe exploration of psychedelics for self-discovery, healing, and growth.

In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

Trustworthy answers to important questions.

Psychedelics, or entheogens, are a particular classification of naturally-occurring or synthesized substances which produce expanded states of consciousness primarily through the serotonin pathway in the brain.
The word psyche-delic means mind-manifesting, while the word entheo-gen means generating the divine within.
Experiences occasioned by psychedelics can be so powerful and unique that most participants in a study on the effects of psilocybin by Johns Hopkins Psychedelics Research Centre ranked their psychedelic experiences as one of the, or the most meaningful experiences of their entire life. This kind of therapeutic and transformative experience often requires preparation and integration.
Beyond the stigma surrounding psychedelics lies a rich history of religion, spirituality, healing arts, science, creativity and culture.
Best known and most widely used psychedelics include magic mushrooms, LSD, DMT, Ayahuasca, Peyote and Huachuma.
Microdosing involves taking a very small dose of a psychedelic substance, such as LSD or mushrooms to experience therapeutic and transformative benefits, such as enhanced senses, deeper self-awareness and potentially greater happiness and wellbeing.
Our course, How to Microdose, explores using microdosing to enhance self-awareness and wellbeing.
Integration is an important yet frequently overlooked part of using psychedelics for healing and growth. Although a psychedelic experience can be therapeutic and transformative in and of itself, true personal transformation happens after the experience when we integrate what we’ve learned from the experience into our lives. Formally, integration is the linkage of differentiated aspects of a system in the process of moving towards wholeness. In regards to psychedelics, integration is the exploring, nurturing, processing, and ultimately embodying of insights had during a psychedelic experience through intention and practice. Integration is about transforming insight into wisdom through intentional practice and passive processing. To integrate is to concretize the abstract by embodying the realizations from our experiences. It is to make oneself whole, to make oneself healthy. The heart of integration is identifying what we've realized and then putting those realizations into practice so that they are no longer conceptual, but lived. It is only through the embodiment of the lesson that we affect real, lasting transformation in our lives.
Learn more with our integration guide.
There are real risks to taking psychedelics, such as causing the onset of latent schizophrenia, spiritual emergencies (which are beneficial if properly resolved) and psychosis. Fortunately, dangers from psychedelics can be minimized through proper preparation, which includes assessing whether one is fit to take psychedelics. The occurrence of the popular “bad trips” are rare when psychedelics are approached responsibly. Moreover, not all “bad trips” remain bad, in some cases “bad trips” are opportunities for learning and growth.
Out of all classes of psychoactive substances, or drugs, psychedelics are the least harmful to human health and carry the most potential for healing and transformation.
Read our safety assessment.