We are excited to announce the next book in our Psychedelic Medicine Book Club to benefit the Psychedelic Access Fund: Plant Teachers by Jeremy Narby! 

Join us to read and discuss Plant Teachers while networking with like minded friends AND contributing to a great cause - The Psychedelic Access Fund! All proceeds benefit The Psychedelic Access Fund. 

On October 5th at 12 pm EST, Rebecca Hendrix, LMFT and I will have our initial of 4 meetings to discuss Plant Teachers by anthropologist Jeremy Narby and Peruvian healer Rafael Chanchari Pizuri. This brief, information-packed book presents a cross-cultural dialogue exploring the similarities between ayahuasca and tobacco, the role of these plants in indigenous cultures, and the hidden truths they reveal about nature. Dr. Narby will be joining us for one session. Since 1990, he’s held the title of Amazonian Projects Director for the Swiss NGO “Nouvelle Planète,” a nonprofit organization that promotes the economic and cultural empowerment of indigenous peoples.

Dr. Narby became an early pioneer of ayahuasca research while living with the Ashaninca people of the Peruvian Amazon in the 1980s. He studied anthropology at Stanford University and now lives in Switzerland. 

This is an opportunity to connect with like-minded friends and deepen your knowledge of psychedelic medicine via lively discussion while reading a renowned book in psychedelic medicine with a guest appearance by the author! To learn more or register, click here. 

“Plant Teachers offers a rare glimpse into the worldview of a Peruvian healer, Rafael Chanchari Pizuri. Anthropologist Jeremy Narby is our guide, bridging Western science with traditional knowledge, traversing this gap delicately and respectfully. The first chapter describes the indigenous belief that certain plant species have an ‘owner’ or ‘mother’ — ‘something like a personality’ — and that it is possible to learn from that other-than-human source. This book presents an opportunity for Westerners to stretch their concept of reality and enter into the magical depths of the Amazonian jungle, a wholly different kind of learning.”

- Rachel Harris, PhD, author of Swimming in the Sacred and Listening to Ayahuasca

The Psychedelic Access Fund (PAF) is a non-profit organization determined to remove the financial barriers that prevent a person from experiencing psychedelic healing.

To register for the book club or learn more, click here .