School of Shrooms

<p>It&rsquo;s Valentine&rsquo;s Day and Kaycie L&oacute;pez Jones is wearing a pink hoodie emblazoned with &ldquo;love&rdquo; in block letters as she guides 15 students and one proto.life contributor through a mindful movement practice on Zoom. At 6pm, it&rsquo;s dark outside as we stretch and sway to relieve the day&rsquo;s tension. Students click their cameras back on as Jones introduces addiction researcher Angelica DeFalco, today&rsquo;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>&ldquo;Bias permeates so many realms of our reality,&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;do our best to rectify systemic injustices&rdquo; and advises, &ldquo;Science is only one way of knowing things,&rdquo; in a nod to Indigenous wisdom.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/neodotlife/school-of-shrooms-6d568274fcc6"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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