Religion and Psychedelics Forum
April 22nd-24th, 2022
Chacruna Institute is renowned for its annual conferences exploring cutting-edge topics regarding psychedelic culture, discussing issues that are absent from the mainstream media conversation. The Religion and Psychedelics Forum will feature three days of panels exploring the role psychedelics have played in the history of religion and spirituality across the world, and the key role that religion now plays in the modern psychedelic renaissance. We’ll take a multidisciplinary and intercultural approach to these issues, examining important questions around mystical experience, Indigenous spirituality, religious freedom and drug policy, and how psychedelics intersect with both Eastern and Western religious traditions.
To get a feeling of the event’s incredible content, check out these short promotional videos featuring our speakers:
Religion and Psychedelics Forum: Promo Video
Anne Waldman’s Psychedelic Beat Poetry
Psychedelic Churches & Hippies by Dr. Chrstian Greer
The Neuropsychology of Visionary Experience by Dr. Hereward Tilton on
Our 68 featured speakers are composed by some of the top experts and personalities in the field of psychedelics including:
- Brian Muraresku, author of New York Time’s Best-Selling “The immortality key”
- Chief Ninawa Huni Kui, President of the Federation of the Hun Kui People
- Erik Davis, award-winning journalist and author of “Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information”
- Alexander Belser, Clinical Research Fellow at Yale University and Chief Clinical Officer at Cybin, the third largest publicly traded psychedelic company
- Madison Margolin, co-founder and editor of psychedelic magazine DoubleBlind
Full list of panels for the conference
Friday
- The Use of Sacred Plants Among Indigenous People in Brazil
- Psychedelics, Paganism and New Earth Religions
- Sound and Psychedelic Ritual
- The Use of Psychedelics in Brazilian Spiritualist Traditions
- Psychedelics, Ancestors and Healing Justice
- Sacred Plant Alliance: the Mission and Vision of Self-Regulating Religious Fellowship
Saturday
- Psychedelic Buddhism
- Neuropsychology of Visionary Experience
- Psychedelics and a Critique of Eurochristian Religion
- The Psychedelic Religion of the Counterculture
- The Dark Night of the Soul
- Questioning the Mystical Experience Questionnaire
Sunday
- Experimentation, Spirituality & Trauma: The Jewish Psychedelic Resurgence
- The Emerging Field of Psychedelic Chaplaincy
- The Secret Religion with No Name: The Ancient Psychedelic Origins of Western Civilization
- Unity and Difference: Abrahamic Interfaith Dialogue
- Psychedelics in Contemporary Jewish Practice: Reporting from the Ground
- Christians and the Psychedelic Renaissance
Sponsorship opportunities still available
Sponsors receive recognition and stage-time during the event for their support, strong presence on all of our social media channels and marketing campaigns, full display on our conference website and in all video recordings of the event. All sponsorship donations are tax-deductible.
To see our Sponsorship Deck or arrange a call please email francisco@chacruna.net