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Cameron was born in Kansas City, MO and moved to Minneapolis in 1993. He graduated from Minneapolis North High School, and considers himself a Northside native. He is a father, community organizer, podcast moderator, radio personality, world traveler, amateur psilocybin cultivator, and advocate for the decriminalization of plant-based medicine. He’s here to share my personal experience with psychedelics for the promotion of mental, physical, and spiritual health well being. As a menu option to help fight depression, a guide for esoteric knowledge, and a bridge to strengthen community. 

Tunnels

Fungal perspectives

Stig Mycelia is a self taught cultivator and lifelong student of psychoactive fungi. He has a primary focus in the exploration, cultivation, and relationship building with “exotic” psychoactive fungi. It is his mission in life to cultivate a relationship with any and every psychoactive fungi he comes across while maintaining a low tech approach that is hands on and personal to develop accessible approaches to working with otherwise “difficult” fungi. He is an educator and advocate for the fungi often overlooked by the broader and mainstream psychedelic culture, having direct experience in the cultivation of several distinct species across multiple genera and many localities and lineages from across the globe. His approach and philosophy of life is one rooted in nature and the natural world, of connection and relationships, and to the pursuit of happiness. 

Making Your Own Cannabis Based Medicine

Clemon Dabney is Owner of Doctor Dabs a MN based hemp company that manufactures THC edibles and white labels for local hemp companies. Clemon Dabney III has a B.A. in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of St. Thomas as well as an M.S. in Applied Plant Sciences with a specialization in Plant Breeding and Molecular Genetics from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Plant Biology from the University of Minnesota on the genetics of cannabinoid and terpene production in Cannabis sativa. Clemon has held a IHPP permit since 2017. Clemon also is the owner of MN Food Forest which is a farm that produces maple syrup, honey, ramps and gourmet mushrooms as well as makes maple cream and maple sugar.

The Medicine Objective: Healing through Psychedelics & Decolonization

Tegan is a multidisciplinary researcher, sociocultural-behavioral scientist, consultant, community healer, and acclaimed JEDI innovator. Tegan is the Founder and CEO of The Medicine Objective, a nonprofit working at the intersections of science, decolonization, and community health with a special interest in psychedelic medicine. Tegan works through ‘functional decolonization’, a method used to shift complex systems, restructure institutions, and rewrite academic norms.

Tegan holds BAs in anthropology and psychology (UMN), a Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies/Research (CIIS), and she is an alumna-scholar of the AAAP REACH Program. Tegan attended UMN Medical School for 3 years where she served as MD-student Chief Diversity Officer and co-led the movement for academic medicine reform following the local murder of George Floyd. She is the current President of White Coats 4 Black Lives – Minneapolis Chapter. Tegan researches psychedelics through the Nielson Lab (Psychiatry, UMN) and co-Chair of the Northern Lights Psychedelic Research Collaborative.

Tegan is passionate about identifying creative ways to unite and empower people. Lastly and mostly, she is a writer, poet, dancer, performer, healer, water protector, air bender, plant tender, firekeeper, and activist, bringing art and heart into every aspect of her work.

Demystifying Clinical Trials With Psychedelics: More Science Than Therapy

Jessica is a neuroscientist and psychedelic researcher that has been exploring the therapeutic potential of psychedelics for over 10 years. She has lead several psychedelic research studies at the University of Minnesota aiming to understand how psychedelics like ayahuasca and psilocybin may help with post-traumatic stress and depression, mechanisms for how psilocybin changes the human brain, and survey studies about the unique perspectives of marginalized groups often excluded or not represented in psychedelic clinical trials. She is also the founder and Executive Director of the Psychedelic Society of Minnesota, the Innovation Alchemist at Big Psych, co-founder of the DecriMN Coalition that recently advised Mayor Frey on the Executive Order to deprioritize entheogenic plants and fungi in Minneapolis, and was recently appointed by Governor Walz and elected to serve as Chairperson on the Psychedelic Medicine Task Force in Minnesota.

The Chronicles of a Psychedelic Crone

Ayana Iyi is a modern day witch with ancient sensibilities, utilizing entheogenic plants in her work as a Psychic and Medium. Ayana has an intimate relationship to spirit going back to early childhood. Sharing many decades of experience working as a healer of immense knowledge and power. Incorporating teaching fungi into her work was the perfect complement to accessing the ancient worlds of the divine feminine. Many testify to the fullness, depth and passion that Ayana brings to the Psychedelic community.

​Ayana Iyi Detroit native has realized that her journey as Warrior High Priestess is a journey of wisdom, innerstanding and truth. As a visionary in her communities and throughout the US, she inspires women to reclaim their Birthright(s) as Goddess, Warrior and Mother through counsel, tarot and entheogenic ceremony. Most importantly, by divine example. Wife, Elder and Mother to many, Ayana works effortlessly to provide spiritual guidance for all of her sisters and daughters. Showing that total acceptance, love and knowledge of self is her code of life through Profundity, Intelligence, Silence and Truth.

A Psychedelic Journey From Citizen to Scientist

Ian Bollinger is an Entheogen Researcher and Co-Founder of Hyphae Labs, the Entheome Foundation, and the Center for Mycological Analytics. He centers his work around education and conversations by bringing the importance of analytics, citizen science, and community to the forefront by supporting the science behind the Psilocybin/Hyphae Cups and in developing the Hyphae Spectrum(TM), while building platforms for education both in the US and internationally. Through these endeavors he hopes to provide space for highlighting those scientists and cultivators who kept and continue to keep the work alive during the ‘prohibition dark ages’ we are emerging from, as well as provide tools, education, and access to platforms so that the next generation and community can flourish.

The Connection Between Psychedelics and Grief

Kristen is a psychedelic assisted psychotherapist in the Twin Cities, providing psychotherapy in conjunction with the administration of Ketamine, to treat grief and loss, identity concerns, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other mental health concerns. Kristen has also become a certified end-of-life doula, to assist in providing care to dying persons and their caregivers. Kristen operates from the model that therapy, combined with the use of psychedelic medicine, can help people who are stuck in traditional therapy, or persons who would like a shift in perspective, and a reset to their lives. Kristen believes in creating a comfortable and authentic space, for her patients to explore and find healing.

Lessons Learned In The World Of Psychedelic Business: The Minority Report

Reggie has over a decade of political campaign experience ranging from city council races to presidential elections, working to replace police with guidance counselors in Oakland public schools, and managing the western and southwestern state campaigns with Color of Change PAC.

Reggie has consulted with the largest mushroom cultivators in the world. He has worked with the largest cultivators in The Netherlands and has recently advised in the establishment of the largest commercial mushroom farm and state of the art testing lab in Jamaica.

Reggie has established Oakland Hyphae which hosted the Psilocybin Cup (now known as the Hyphae Cup) and the most impactful Psychedelic Conferences across the country. He is a co-founder of Hyphae Labs, leading the industry in psychedelic mushroom potency testing, and offering adaptogenic medicinal fungi through Hyphae Nootropics. Reggie is a strong advocate for who he calls, “the little guy” or the “legacy plant medicine workers” whose perspective he uplifts through his recent publication, HyphaeLeaks. It is Reggie’s goal to protect the legacy plant medicine workers and create barriers to entry for big-money interest groups in the psychedelic space.

Addressing the Overdose Epidemic – The Case for Safe Injection Sites

Expanse MN Co-Founder and Chair for MN Overdose Awareness
Paula Brandt has developed and worked in programs that serve people with mental illness and/or substance use issues for over 40 years. She has dedicated her career to advocating for person-centered, common sense, compassionate care. Presently, she is Co-Founder of Expanse MN and an instructor with the Psychedelic Somatic Institute.  She is also serving as Board Chair for MN Overdose Awareness (the non-profit leading the Overdose Awareness and Prevention).

Addressing the Overdose Epidemic – The Case for Safe Injection Sites

Expanse MN Co-Founder
Ian McLoone is a licensed alcohol and drug counselor and licensed professional clinical counselor. He is co-founder and director of clinical services at Expanse Minnesota, a mental health clinic specializing in addiction and trauma. Ian is a member of the community faculty at the University of Minnesota’s integrated behavioral health program and a passionate advocate for common sense strategies when working with clients and families.

Addressing the Overdose Epidemic – The Case for Safe Injection Sites

Terry Tauger is a social worker for Hennepin County-Human Service and Public Health serving adults with mental health and substance use disorders. He is a board member of the Professional Association of Social Workers in HIV/AIDS and Minnesota Overdose Awareness. Terry is a consumer advocate for holistic approaches to well-being, health justice and equity, and building on community resource to improve health outcomes. Terry has lived experience with substance use and co-occurring disorders.

High Price: Standing Up For The Least Among Us Is Often Costly

Carl L. Hart is the Mamie Phipps Clark Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is also a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He has published numerous scientific and popular articles in the area of neuropsychopharmacology. He has served on multiple National Institutes of Health grant review committees and on multiple Editorial Boards of scientific journals, including Progress in Neurobiology and Addiction Neuroscience. He is the co-author (with Charles Ksir) of the market-leading textbook “Drugs, Society and Human Behavior” . His book, “High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society,” was the 2014 winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. His most recent book,“Drug Use for Grown-ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear,” has sparked a more nuanced national conversation on the topic.

Professor Hart has appeared on numerous podcasts, radio and television shows and is frequently invited to lecture on topics related to drug science. His essays have been published in several popular publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific American, The Nation, Le Temps (Switzerland), and Folha de S. Paulo (Brazil).

Unlocking the Psychedelic Potential: A Guide to Growing Entheogenic Mushrooms

“The Mushroom Block” is an platform that focuses on urban cultivation and foraging of mushrooms, aiming to connect individuals with communities and facilitate the sharing of valuable information. Our goal is to create a dynamic and inclusive environment that serves as a hub for individuals to come together, exchange knowledge, and deepen their ties to local communities. We aspire to foster a vibrant and diverse space where people can connect with one another, engaging in meaningful interactions, and learning from the collective wisdom of the community.
Email: TheMushroomBlock@gmail.com

Dreams, Death, Rebirth

I was born in Minnesota — and have been an avid explorer throughout my life, spending lots of time in Southeast Asia. My travels have broadened my horizons and encouraged my curiosity to flourish. Plant medicines have been great allies on my journey through the cosmos! Holding my hand through periods of deep grief and joy. At this juncture in life I find myself particularly drawn to things like Yoga and prayer. You can find me moderating the Death & Psychedelics panel discussion.

Myco Op: Cactus Cultivation and Conservation

My story traces its roots back to the closure of Mississippi Mushrooms in the Upper Harbor industrial area of north Minneapolis. For nearly four years, I honed my skills with the Mississippi Mushrooms production team. However, as the pandemic took hold, the fate of Mississippi Mushrooms was sealed, and I found myself at a crossroads.

Emerging from the lockdown, I ventured into a new chapter at a unique facility in New Hope, Minnesota, known as New Hope Farmacy. Equipped with a 36 ft. retort for bulk pasteurization and twenty environmentally controlled grow rooms, New Hope Farmacy provided an ideal environment for experimentation and innovation. Over the course of several fruitful years with the N.H.F. team, I not only cultivated mushrooms but also my relationships within the community, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

As New Hope Farmacy closed its doors in 2021, I embarked on a new venture with a group called Forest to Fork soon after. This collaboration brought with it a wealth of new technology and opportunities for exploration. Together, we delved into pioneering methods of commercial growing, from designing innovative environmental grow room layouts to developing our own unique bioreactors for our own production. Automation became a key focus, as we sought to streamline labor-intensive aspects of the cultivation and harvesting processes.

After over a year of collaboration with Forest to Fork team, I made the decision to fully devote myself to Myco-Op in May of 2023. This transition marked the culmination of years of experience and dedication to the craft of mushroom cultivation. Throughout my journey, I’ve cherished the relationships built within the cultivation community and the wealth of knowledge gained along the way. I now have been focusing on the research and development of growing specialty fungi, scaling solutions, and the extraction of these mushrooms’ functional compounds.

At Myco-Op, collaboration is not just a philosophy—it’s our essence. We pride ourselves on working closely with some of the most talented cultivators in the United States, fostering a spirit of cooperation and knowledge-sharing. My mission is to make the art of growing mushrooms at home more accessible and enjoyable for enthusiasts of all levels.

The Architect of Your Autopilot

Chance York is a well known yoga practitioner, wellness professional, rapper, and host of the TPT/PBS Regional Emmy award winning series, “Outside Chance.”  He serves as a consultant to YMCA of the North’s Integrative Health and Wellness program, an instructor at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and healing has worked on a yoga and meditation study with the Minneapolis Heart Institute for communities impacted by health disparities. 

Soul Body Finesse: Energy Hygiene and Sound Healing

Richard is a classically trained philosopher and musician, but also a classic non-comformist. He has been teaching TaiChi and Yoga for more than 15 years and is passionate about upending common misconceptions and preconceived notions.  

A lifetime of learning and exploring spiritual-truths continues to be enriched through his fascination with political science, theoretical physics, artificial intelligence, astrology, linguistics, sports, and life itself. Despite a penchant for provacative statements, the driving force behind his offerings (by way of the great and magnificent grace of his Teachers) is always a blend of radical humor, fierce compassion, and real love.

He is in studio guiding weekly kirtan (call-and-response chanting), yoga and qigong practices, as well as offering astrological insights at our Lunar Landing workshops.  He is available for private readings.

Soul Body Finesse: Energy Hygiene and Sound Healing

The founder of Soul Body Finesse, Caty is a Sound Healer, Reiki practitioner, labor & birth doula and creative consultant.  She coordinates wellness events, offers private group work, 1:1 and guides some of the in studio classes.  Caty is available to help curate and collaborate on unique healing experiences to be cherished for life.

I believe balance is achieved by finding our center, coming back into harmony with our true frequency and listening to our intuition.  It was through radical self care and holistic therapies that allowed me to heal and align with my Soul’s purpose of creating  safe spaces for people to connect, heal, share and grow together.  As a forever student and observer of the world,  I enjoy intuitively connecting with others by supporting self care practices that stimulate growth, inner peace and self acceptance.  I have a passion for serving and empowering women, mothers and all people to heal during difficult transitions in their lives.  

 I moved back to Minneapolis in 2019 to start Soul Body Finesse with a mission to make Holistic therapy and Sound Healing more accessible to the community and to raise my children in this resilient, beautiful and artistic community.

Spiritual Abuse Recognition & Recovery

Kayla Felten, MSW, LICSW (she/her) has been an advocate for religious trauma and spiritual abuse survivors throughout her career, as the co-founder of the Reclamation Collective, as well as a Psychedelic Therapist in her clinical work. In both of these realms of practice, Kayla has been able to support those in the process of reclaiming their inner peace, relational harmony, autonomy, pleasure, and authentic self. Kayla was initially invited to facilitate support groups for survivors of spiritual abuse due to abuses of power taking place in plant medicine and yogi contexts within Minnesota. This experience helped expand her understanding of spiritual abuse both within and outside of religious contexts, and has allowed her to be a voice of advocacy within the psychedelic and therapeutic communities she shows up in to inspire heightened awareness of the power dynamics present in these containers for potential healing, while acknowledging the coexisting potential for abuse. 

With over four years experience facilitating support groups, integration circles, retreats, and teaching workshops for folks navigating themes of religious trauma, spiritual abuse, deconstruction, and reclamation through the Reclamation Collective, Kayla aspires to curate expanded offerings for survivors on their healing trajectories that prioritize personal autonomy and pursue radical authenticity.