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movin & groovin @maps__org
infrastructure for the psychedelic ecosystem
& groundwork for a post-prohibition reality
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What will we actually be working on at the 2026 summit?

This year’s program is built around nine questions that become especially important once psychedelic treatment or research support ends.

Across three days, contributors from lived experience, clinical practice, research, policy, advocacy, and community will work through questions of accountability, safety, longer-term outcomes, continuity of support, families, equity, and how lived experience should influence decision-making.

These aren’t conventional presentation sessions. Each roundtable is built around a defined question and practical outcome, with findings contributing to a post-summit paper.

9 working roundtables · 3 synthesis panels · 3 collaborative days

November 20–22, online.

Standard Pass: $79 USD  • Student Pass: $29 USD  • Scholarships available

Join the Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit 2026.

Get your pass. Link in bio.

This post discusses psychedelic-assisted therapy in regulated clinical or research settings only. Not medical advice. No illegal substance use is encouraged or promoted.

#PsychedelicTherapy #PsychedelicResearch #PatientSafety #LivedExperience #ClinicalTrials

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I left Girona with a full heart.

For two years, I did not leave the United States. I poured myself into Urban Indigenous Collective and restoring my health so I could continue this bridge work without disappearing inside it. Spain was a return deeper into my purpose.

At the World Ayahuasca Forum, I asked what a “new time of alliance” requires. Alliance is not being in the same room. Alliance is relationship, and relationships carry responsibilities. The purpose of a bridge is not to stand in the middle and charge a toll. It is to open doors, move resources, protect sovereignty, return power, and know when to get out of the way. Grandmother @monapolacca, a Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa elder and one of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, who I had the honor of supporting through my work with the IMC Fund, opened us with words that reminded me why grandmother wisdom must guide what we build. I am grateful for time with Chief @yssotruka and @ednatruka, sharing water teachings and recognizing our connected cosmologies and shared kinship. A To Sandor Iron Rope, who was the catalyst to my understanding of what right relationship looks like. To @glauberloures , who shows me cosmic diplomacy. And to every Indigenous leader, relative, and comrade in this purpose work with who I deepened relationship, my heart is full. We closed our time together in radicle joy and movement through an after party stewarded by my partner, @thealbchemist , raising resources for UIC’s work with urban Indigenous people in New York City.

I keep returning to this question, how should this gathering be measured? Not by what was said on a stage in Spain, but by what changes because we met, which relationships endure, which territories are protected, which resources move, and whether Indigenous peoples gain power over the futures being built around our medicines and knowledge. I leave with gratitude, renewed responsibility, and a deeper commitment to walk together without extraction, erasure, or entitlement.

The bridge does not replace either shore. It exists so we can reach one another.

Shout out to aunty @mzmeshell4 who made my skirt!

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World Ayahuasca Forum. Cosmic Diplomacy in practice.

Fórum Mundial da Ayahuasca. Diplomacia Cósmica na prática.

Foro Mundial de la Ayahuasca. Diplomacia cósmica en la práctica.

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Landing from three days at the historic World Ayahuasca Forum in Girona. [PT nos comentários…]

A historic weaving of voices speaking to rights based models and law, territorial sovereignty, intellectual property and appropriation, integration, and the standing of ancestral science alongside contemporary clinical research. More than 24 Indigenous peoples were represented, from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, and Australia.

Indigenous medicines are becoming trend, a spiritual commodity. This Forum wasn’t designed around the Global North’s relationship to plant medicine. For the first time, those who’ve stewarded these sacred plants as part of their living identity were the ones on stage, and the rest of us were there to listen and learn.

This wasn’t merely a celebration of ancestral medicine and art but focused conversation on rights and reciprocity.
What felt most resonant was the format of the Warivi Maloca, a more intimate container for voices to speak, sing, and dance in circle. A more natural, participatory way of listening, where everyone present is part of the weaving.

And the women Indigenous leaders inspired me with their fierce strength, clarity, and focus on generative solutions and on real collaboration instead of hierarchy.

How far we are from integrated and lived alliance remains to be seen.

🌱 In 2024 I published research evaluating the neuroscientific, psychological, and anthropological relevance of music in entheogenic ritual and psychedelic-assisted therapies. This was a full circle integration moment for me, getting to talk about these findings with my co-writer Amanda Marie Cardinale. Years for the seeds to bear fruit.

Eighteen months of research plus 2 years before this moment, landing in a space actually built for that kind of bridging between neuroscience and ancestral science.

🔗DM me if you’d like access to my published research paper that inspired the presentation!

🤍 Thank you to the organizers, allies, friends, and fellow bridge-builders at @ayahuascaforum. May we integrate this with clarity and actions that make a difference. Looking forward to walking this path with many.

📷 photo 1: @kataknows

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What a great brainstorm on spiritual politics.
Thank you @ayahuascaforum, for creating the space for inspiring encounters.

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Foto tirada hoje antes do painel antiproibicionista do forum mundial de ayahuasca. Um dia preciso contar como esse lindo e talentoso advogado indigena @sage_izzy diretor executivo do @maps__org que conheci em 2016 no Acre, na primeira conferencia de Ayahuasca, me falou pela primeira vez sobre o #burningman. É uma história muito divertida que vale um capitulo de biografia. Por conta desse convite inusitado no meio da amazônia, eu já fui em mais de 14 edições em várias partes do mundo e estou sempre convidando mais gente a ir também.

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Dear Playa,

Wow, hi. I wanted first to speak to the spirit of you. So many people have so many stories about you, and try to make you sacreligious or less of what you are. Fair criticisms are made about the complexity of what happens upon you by people, but less are speaking to the actual frequency of YOU. Your existence is of course made by the people who attend, the art, the magic, all of it, but it’s fed by the remembrance of the star dust we are through the silica that runs through all the electrical currents we are in with you. There’s a deep part of me, genuinely grieving and heartbroken to not be with you this year. Especially the Temple. The Tycho sunrise set, the inexplicable, beyond intellectual sensation that arrives in me and animates the force of spirit and magic I’ve never known before. That magnetizes all I need in all the right moments, and clears with precision all that is not in the highest good. All the relationship, all of the resonance, all of the vibrations that pull us together or apart, that show by way of harmony or contrast what we each are. You are genuinely my way of coming truly home. You give me hope. You make me believe it’s possible — the world that I know could be — and take me so far beyond it. I come back to you to remember the way that threads of grief and ecstasy bind us, for the ways that loss can be truly honored and properly moved in and through the body, in and through relationship with strangers, in and through the memory of people it feels like you’ve known in dozens or more of other lifetimes. You brought me my spiritual Godfather, Tyrus. You brought me omens that led me to the love that would arrive with @life.in.frequency. You brought me generosity. You brought me PERMISSION. To live my life as fully my own. To life in the truth of my desires, paradoxically to live in service to something so much higher than my personal preferences. To worship at the actual feet of contrast, paradox, penetrating truths that sear to the core of what it means to be human. Thank you. (cont in comments)

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Does decriminalizing psychedel*cs actually make communities safer? The data says yes. 🛑✨

A peer-reviewed study published in Social Sciences analyzed the real-world impact of psychedel*c decriminalization - and the results directly challenge historical fears that reform would destabilize communities. Far from causing a “wild west,” ending punitive laws has functioned as a powerful, evidence-backed strategy for harm reduction and community health.

Here is what the survey of residents in decriminalized zones revealed:

    📈 84.0% of participants reported clear improvements in safety, social acceptance, product quality, or legal risks.

    🧠 Nearly 75% experienced decriminalization-related improvements regarding psychedel*c therapy.

    💊 Over 27% stopped or reduced their use of traditional pharmaceutical medications due to psychedel*d decriminalization.

    📉 Only 5.5% reported worsened conditions in any category—and not a single participant reported that legal risks had worsened.

Swipe 👉🏼 to see how modern drug policy reform is changing lives, reducing legal anxiety, and opening new pathways for mental health and community-led healing.

🔗 Read the full investigative article online at the link in @psychedelicamericas bio!

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In a new op-ed featured in @PsychedelicsToday, MAPS Co-Executive Director Ismail L. Ali examines the political and commercial interests surrounding ibogaine, as well as the responsibilities that come with it. That includes respecting Gabon’s sovereignty, protecting iboga’s ecological future, and ensuring that the communities who have stewarded its knowledge and use for generations are not pushed aside as development accelerates.

“The people whose knowledge and natural resources make a commercial product possible should participate in how that product is developed and who benefits from it. Anything short of that is plainly missing the point.” -@Sage_Izzy

The promise of ibogaine cannot be separated from the question of who holds power, whose knowledge is valued, and who ultimately benefits. Moving quickly is not the same as moving responsibly.

https://psychedelicstoday.com/2026/08/10/ibogaine-policy-moment-gabon-sovereignty/

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Beautiful and colorful people, love and friends… California summer vibes... ♥️

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Gabon classified iboga and its derivatives as national strategic heritage in May. Research, export, and commercialization now require state authorization.

US ibogaine policy has largely proceeded as though this did not happen.

Ismail Ali of MAPS on what it means when the country where the plant grows starts setting terms.

New op-ed. Link in bio.

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Ten years ago, a group of people who’d been building parallel psychedelics communities around the world found each other.

They gathered in Prague, at a conference called @beyondpsychedelics, and asked the question: what happens if we worked together?

A few days later, a network was born. A map of every psychedelic society, club, and conference they could find.

This is the first page of the GPS story.

#findtheothers

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