This wasn’t just another conference. It was a watershed moment.

For the first time, children raised in psychedelic families were warmly welcomed into the heart of a major MAPS gathering.

For the first time, the Omágua Kambeba and Tukano peoples stood together in the Global North—singing, sharing, and reminding us of a deeper lineage of healing.

And for the first time, the voices of families and the Global South were not only heard—but embraced as essential.

This happened amid growing tensions in the psychedelic field—where extractive capitalism, spiritual spectacle, and reactionary ideologies seek to shape the future. But another current is rising—rooted in care, reciprocity, and planetary responsibility.

At a time when the psychedelic movement stands at a crossroads, we walked in with a different compass:

  • Kinship instead of competition
  • Cosmic diplomacy instead of colonial repetition
  • Plant medicine cosmologies alongside Western science

It was a confluence of worlds—woven through memory, community, and ancestral care.

The psychedelic future will not be built in labs or brands alone—but in forests, families, and the deep time of intergenerational healing.