School of Shrooms
<p>It’s Valentine’s Day and Kaycie López Jones is wearing a pink hoodie emblazoned with “love” in block letters as she guides 15 students and one proto.life contributor through a mindful movement practice on Zoom. At 6pm, it’s dark outside as we stretch and sway to relieve the day’s tension. Students click their cameras back on as Jones introduces addiction researcher Angelica DeFalco, today’s history of systematic inequality class guest. These 15 students are enrolled in the Changa Institute, a newly licensed training program for psilocybin facilitators in Oregon.</p>
<p>“Bias permeates so many realms of our reality,” DeFalco says, describing how clinical treatment decisions tend to be informed by experiments on white people, often not a representative sample of society. She counsels future guides to “do our best to rectify systemic injustices” and advises, “Science is only one way of knowing things,” in a nod to Indigenous wisdom.</p>
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