People — Maria Mocerino

Belinda Eriacho, a Native American healer, teaches us a lesson in US history. She also cured herself of systemic lupus using traditional medicine techniques such as lighting medicine. She was taking 68 pills!
Marca Cassity is a two-spirit trauma therapist who specializes in Native American and queer-related trauma.
Dr. Charles Flores is an addiction expert from the Bronx. He says that the internet is the biggest addiction we currently face. He also worked with someone who was addicted to Google Maps.

Dr. Monnica Williams is a racism scholar and clinical psychologist who develops tools to measure and treat race-based trauma as well as social programs to support anti-racism efforts.
Sensei Kevon Simpson is a two-spirit Jamaican healer known for his high-dose work and founding the Entheogen Integration Circle in NYC.
Sutton King is an Afro-Indigenous activist and entrepreneur who developed and implemented technology that trained police officers to not re-traumatize tribal youth, for one. Now she’s disrupting health care—for Native Americans. She takes us inside the Indian Health Service, the lead federal agency that was created to ensure that Native Americans would receive optimal health care since that’s all they asked for. She thinks we can do better.
Look at this photo I took at the Natural History Museum in NYC:

Nicholas Powers rewrote the 9/11 National Security Strategy of the United States of America as a Freudian slip in his book Theater of War.
“What’s a slip that you liked?” He asked.
“Um, valiums for values?”
”Yeah, that was great.”
Casting by Fundamentalist Islam. Direction by Dick Cheney.

Marcela Ot’alora G is a PTSD expert. She’s worked for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) for over twenty years as a co-therapist and a principal investigator in studies for the treatment of PTSD with MDMA.
Dr. Joe Tafur is a family physician, ayahuascero, and author who is currently studying if psychedelics can heal us as deeply as humanly possible—our genes! Epigenetics.
Licia Sky is a somatic educator and bodyworker with 25 years of experience. The body is a vehicle for greater awareness, creative freedom, connection, and healing. Her father was a Tuskegee airman, by the way.

Terence Ching is a Singaporean Chinese queer MDMA clinical psychologist. Ching’s objective is to create more access for participants and providers of color and from underrepresented groups.
Kwasi Adusei, a psychiatric nurse, co-founded The Psychedelic Society of Western New York. Community is his direction for psychedelic medicine.
Kufikiri Imara is a facilitator and community activist from Oakland. His parents were active in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in San Francisco in the 60s and 70s. He led the Outreach, Education, Access & Integration committee for Decriminalize Nature Oakland (DNO).
Sara Reed was the first Black therapist to provide MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in a clinical trial. She is the CEO of Mind’s iHealth Solutions, a digital health company that provides mental health services for underserved groups.
Ismail Lourido Ali deals with psychedelics and the law as the Policy & Advocacy Counsel for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).
Chor Boogie is a critically acclaimed aerosol artist and Iboga provider from Oceanside, California. “I see the psychedelic world,” he said. “I don’t even like the word psychedelic.” Fun.

Trippy Talk for Reality Sandwich

Ethan Nadelmann is the founder of the Drug Policy Alliance. It’s time to get political…
Ronan Levy is opening the first network of psychedelic-focused medical clinics in the world: Field Trip Ventures.
Mitchell Gomez is the Executive Director of DanceSafe, a public health organization that promotes health and safety in the nightlife and electronic music community.
Stephanie Theobald takes a road trip to reclaim her pleasure with a wildly open heart in her book Sex Drive.

Medical intuitive June Miller says that looking at your thoughts is preventative medicine at Spirit on the Water in the Virgin Islands.
Racism scholar Dr. Monnica Williams told me that a series of experiments were done on incarcerated Black men in the 60s with LSD in Lexington, Kentucky. They were paid in heroin.
Dr. Joe Tafur takes us on a trip to the Amazon to discover the amazing benefits of ayahuasca and emotional healing.
Dr. Caroline Dorsen comes from the ACLU family. A nurse scholar, educator, practitioner, and the recipient of NYU Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award.

Stacey Ramsower is a somatic sex educator and full-spectrum doula with a background in Ayurveda, Tantra, and yoga.
In his latest exhibition, curator Aaron Moulton maps out the realities that have been traumatized by psychedelics, perception, and madness.
Martijn Schirp founded Synthesis Retreats in Amsterdam which provides transformative experiences with a ritualistic and scientific approach in a renovated church.
Dirtwire is a band that uses mushrooms to “open a gateway to connect with other realms, realities, and intelligences.” This is where they make music.
Marcus Capone, a former SEAL, and his wife Amber Capone started VETS Inc. because ibogaine changed his life. They seek to bring this breakthrough medicine to other veterans.