A glyph of the Mushroom bioculture.

Mushrooms

Psilocybe species

A glyph of the Mushroom bioculture.

Mushrooms

Psilocybe species

Context

As psilocybin becomes a frontline medicine of the psychedelic renaissance in the 2000s we are committed to remembering and addressing trauma left by psychedelic interests of the 60s in the communities of the Mazatec Sierra.

Today, traditional lineages are disrupted and knowledge of the 15+ psilocybin fungus species and their specific uses and ceremony has dwindled. Indigenous medicine families are urbanized, live in financial poverty, and generally have lost access to their traditional medicine ways.

Our Conservation Strategy

Indigenous mushroom tribes of the Sierra Madre should receive reparations/benefit sharing from the psilocybin industry through legal frameworks and industry standards. As resources come into these communities, it is vital to strengthen community based governance in order to assess biocultural conservation needs, as well as the passing on of traditional language and healing practices.

Risks

  • Very few intact wisdom and healing traditions due to past intercultural interactions

  • Uneven benefit from psychedelic tourism to local communities

  • Loss of species from agricultural practices

  • Further loss of biocultural knowledge through urbanization

Opportunities

  • Economic — Direct benefit from exchange models to traditional/Indigenous users

  • Cultural — Youth programs for language and traditional ceremonies

  • Reciprocity — Community needs assessment for reparations work

  • Legal — Economic frameworks in Mexico for Nagoya Protocols

  • Ecological — Land and species preservation

  • Clinical — Intercultural healing clinics

Projects

Community-based needs assessments in the Sierra Mazateca

Community-based needs assessments in the Sierra Mazateca

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Climate / Biodiversity

Psychedelic Space

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Resources

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Talks

Guides

Papers

Press

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