Healing and growth with psychedelics
Empowering your psychedelic journeys with research, education, expert guidance and community support, rooted in Nature.
Rediscover deeper connection to self, others and Nature with psychedelics.
Psygaia is an interdisciplinary nonprofit bridging personal and planetary health by advancing ecological-psychedelic medicine through research, education, community, and support.
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.
— Terence McKenna
The path to your psychedelic journey.
In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
Trustworthy answers to important questions.
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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.
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Microdosing involves taking a very small dose of a psychedelic substance, such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms or even ayahuasca to experience therapeutic and transformative benefits, such as enhanced senses, deeper awareness, enhanced mood and improved cognition.
Our popular microdosing course explores microdosing in depth to help you deepen self-awareness, improve cognition and enhance wellbeing.
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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.
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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 strongly 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 deeper learning, healing and growth.
Out of all classes of psychoactive substances, psychedelics have been used the longest by cultures around the world throughout human history and are scientifically recognized as the least harmful to health while carrying the most potential for meaningful healing and transformation.
To get started safely with psychedelics, read our safety assessment.
There is a coming home. A home base. Psychedelics help reconnect with home.
— Ann Shulgin
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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
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There is a wealth of information built into us, tucked away in the genetic material in all our cells. Without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelics allow exploration of this interior world and insights into its nature.
— Alexander Shulgin
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, research is beginning to understand their potential for healing, personal growth, creativity, spirituality and connection to nature.
Despite ongoing stigma and prohibition in many places, psychedelics, when used safely and intentionally, can be safe medicine, sacrament, tool, teacher or ally for holistic health and wellbeing.
We conduct research and offer education and support to guide you in the safe and intentional exploration of psychedelics.
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.
— Fritjov Capra
While research frames psychedelic experiences in terms of self-transcendence, many traditions see ego-dissolution as a step towards the greater goal of reintegrating the self in right relationship with the web of life.