From the burgeoning popularity of international ayahuasca retreats to Oregon's recent legalization of psilocybin in a therapeutic setting, mainstream attitudes toward sacred earth medicines — or natural medicines like psychedelic plants, fungi and animal-based substances — have been changing rapidly over the past few years.

But despite a widening acceptance of these medicines, the erasure of the non-Western cultures that have been using them in sacred rituals and rites of passage ceremonies for thousands of years is still a pervasive problem. And it's one that The Ancestor Project is now trying to rectify.

Helmed by Charlotte James and Dre Wright, the Black-led psychedelic education collective aims to help all kinds of people — but BIPOC in particular — build an intentional relationship with sacred earth medicines through virtual ceremonies, group integration circles and preparation sessions.

"We offer support along every step of someone's journey," James said. "So helping folks plan out a little bit of their medicine path, and come to really clear intentions for that work, and then learning how to take the downloads from their journeys and turn them into daily action."

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