In a time of disconnection, learn from the kingdom that connects everything

Alan brought mushroom ID into the 21st century. His DNA barcoding work rewrote what we know about Mexican psilocybin species, and his Instagram made half the internet look twice at a fungus. At Fungi Academy, he hands you the exact techniques he uses in the wild, from reading a forest floor to sequencing a sample on your kitchen counter.

Masterclasses

• Decoding the Forest Floor: The Art of Mushroom RecognitionThe skills Alan actually uses to read a forest, taught from the ground up.
• High-Tech Tools for Modern MycologyWhat professional-grade identification looks like, and how to use it yourself.
• DNA Barcoding at HomeA rare look inside Alan's workflow, from sample to sequence using what you already have at home.

William is self-taught, a Cordyceps cultivator, and the mind behind both MycoSymbiotics and MycoFest. He's spent years developing a way of seeing life on Earth through what he calls the Alpha and Omega. At Fungi Academy, he brings that vision into the classroom, offering a perspective on fungi and ecology that's harder to find anywhere else.

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• The Alpha and Omega that Shape the WorldWilliam's original framework for understanding life, starting with fungi.
• Truffles the Earth's Ultimate MushroomsThe underground world of truffles, explained by someone who's grown them.
• Truffled Vole TheoryA deep cut into fungal ecology and the surprising relationships below the soil.

Forty years of psychedelic research. Founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute, lead investigator on the first biomedical study of ayahuasca, and yes, Terence's younger brother. At Fungi Academy, Dennis sits down with Jasper for a rare deep dive on psilocybin, from the chemistry of the molecule to the theory that mushrooms may have kickstarted human consciousness.

Masterclasses

• Psilocybin and Its Place in NatureA rare sit-down with one of psychedelic science's longest-serving researchers.

Laura is a microdosing mentor, plant medicine integration guide, and host of the Psychedelic Leadership podcast. Her work centers on creativity, flow states, and the inner skills that leaders need to navigate what she calls the Intelligence Age. At Fungi Academy, she teaches the practical side of psychedelic leadership: how to move from insight to action.

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• Fungi and Flow StatesHow psilocybin and flow relate, and what that means for your creative life.
• Enhancing Creativity, Flow, Flourishing and Fulfillment with PsychedelicsThe real story on using plant medicine as a creative and personal tool.
• The Future Is Psychedelic: Cultivating the Inner Skillsets to Catalyze Systems ChangeFor leaders who want to bring psychedelic wisdom into how they work and lead.

Kevin holds both a PhD and a JD, and he's spent his career at the intersection of Amanita muscaria's history, pharmacology, and legal landscape. His 450-page reference book on fly agaric is the most comprehensive treatment of the species in print. At Fungi Academy, he takes on the question the whole mushroom world is asking: is Amanita actually psychedelic?

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• Is Amanita muscaria Psychedelic?The definitive answer, backed by the person who wrote the book on it.

Charlotte is an educator, therapeutic coach, and initiated medicine woman of Afro-Caribbean and Germanic lineage. She co-founded The Ancestor Project, a Black-led platform for psychedelic education, legal ceremonies, and integration, and created the Psychedelic Liberation Training program. At Fungi Academy, she joins a panel conversation on sacred mycology, bringing a perspective grounded in lineage, community, and healing.

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• Sacred Mycology Summit 2025 Psychedelics PanelA timely conversation on psychedelics, culture, and who gets to hold the medicine.

Darren is an ethnomycologist and psychedelic educator with deep roots in African traditions and ancient plant medicines. He launched the UK's first accredited mycology course for schools and youth, and serves as mycologist-in-residence at Somerset House in London. At Fungi Academy, he brings the ancestral side of the mushroom story, the parts that rarely make it into Western curricula.

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• Man, Myth and Mushrooms: Ethnomycology in AfricaThe African mushroom tradition, told by someone who's spent years inside it.
• The Psychedelic Mysteries of ChristmasA fresh angle on a familiar holiday, tracing the fungal thread through the mythology.

Reggie spent a decade running political campaigns before pivoting to psilocybin, and that trajectory shaped everything he built. He founded Oakland Hyphae, created the Hyphae Cup (the first organized potency testing competition for psilocybin mushrooms), and co-founded Hyphae Labs, the first commercial psilocybin potency testing company. At Fungi Academy, he shares five years of hard data from the front lines of potency testing.

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• Observations of the Last 5 Years of Potency TestingReal data on psilocybin potency, from the person who's been measuring it longest.

Regi brings Guatemala's living mushroom traditions to the table, rooted in the intersection of Mayan culture and traditional edible mushroom knowledge. At Fungi Academy, he shares what that lineage actually looks like in practice.

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• Edible Mushrooms Related to Mayan CultureThe edible species Mayan communities have known for centuries, and why that knowledge matters now.

Giuliana wrote the first mushroom field guide in Chile, and then kept going. As Founding Director of the Fungi Foundation, she works with the IUCN to put fungal conservation on the map at a global policy level. At Fungi Academy, she sits down with Jasper for a rare conversation about what field mycology really looks like, and why the fungi kingdom deserves its own seat at the table.

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• The Fungal Foundations of Field MycologyWhat it actually takes to study and protect fungi in the wild, from a woman who made it her life's work.

Monica's byline has appeared in Forbes, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Elle, and she co-founded Wear Your Voice, a media platform backed by Mark Cuban. She also created the first Sex and Psychedelics Conference, and her work lives at the intersection of ADHD, sacred mushrooms, and decolonial healing. At Fungi Academy, Monica opens up the personal and political story behind her relationship with sacred fungi.

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• ADHD & Sacred MushroomsThe real conversation about neurodivergence, mushrooms, and what healing can actually look like.

Anna is a Bastyr-trained naturopathic physician whose doctoral research on Fomitopsis cajanderi was published in the Journal of Immunology. She also authored the Medicinal Mushrooms chapter in the 5th edition of the Textbook of Natural Medicine, and co-founded Lucidum Medicinals. At Fungi Academy, she joins a panel on the lesser-known medicinal mushrooms most people overlook.

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• Sacred Mycology Summit 2025 Obscure Medicinal Mushrooms PanelA panel on rare and overlooked medicinal mushrooms, with Robert Rogers and Lee Carroll.

Alannah runs New Earth Fungi, a year-round mushroom farm in Juneau, Alaska, feeding remote communities in one of the most logistically demanding environments in the country. She is also pursuing an MSc in Biomimicry at Arizona State, applying mycelial network models to healthcare design. At Fungi Academy, she joins a panel on mushroom cultivation and brings the perspective of someone who has made it work in the real world.

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• Masterclass Panel: Mushroom CultivationGrowers compare notes on what actually works, from garage setups to remote Alaskan farms.

Raskal uses brightfield microscopy to study the living world beneath your feet, and he puts that knowledge to work for farmers and ecologists. His work centers on endophytic and endobiont fungal relationships. At Fungi Academy, he pulls back the curtain on the hidden symbiotic architecture that makes soil alive.

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• A Symbiotic Framework for Endobiont RelationshipsThe unseen fungal partnerships inside plants, and why understanding them changes how you see cultivation.

Alex built Mushroom Revival into one of the most recognized functional mushroom brands around, hosts what many call the top mushroom podcast globally, and wrote the Mycoremediation Handbook. The whole thing started because he used mushrooms to treat his own Lyme disease. At Fungi Academy, Alex takes you inside mycoremediation: the exact methods for using fungi to clean up toxic environments, taught by someone who came to mushrooms out of genuine necessity.

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• MycoremediationHow fungi break down toxins and restore damaged land, and how to apply it yourself.

Amanita Dreamer built one of the most dedicated communities around Amanita muscaria, starting from a deeply personal place: she came to the mushroom seeking a natural path through chronic panic and anxiety, after a prior career in science and education. Her forum, website, and podcast appearances made her a central voice in a space most people had not yet found. At Fungi Academy, she shares the inside story of cultivating with Amanita muscaria, including the exact techniques she has developed through years of hands-on practice.

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• Growing with Amanita muscariaThe cultivation methods for a mushroom most people only read about, taught by someone who grows it.

Mason started SuperFeast out of his family's garage in Sydney in 2011 and built it into Australia's largest Daoist tonic herb and medicinal mushroom brand, now stocked in pharmacies and supermarkets nationwide. Everything he does is rooted in Di Dao sourcing and Taoist herbalism. The idea that medicine should come from the exact region where it's always grown. At Fungi Academy, he pulls back the curtain on the ancient Chinese mushroom traditions that shaped his whole approach.

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• Secrets of the Daoist Mushroom MedicineThe 2,000-year-old system that changed how Mason thinks about fungi.

Max photographs what most people walk past. Based in Sussex, he's built a following as @allthingsfungi for his macro work on fungi and slime molds, contributed wild clones to the Darwin's Tree of Life project at Kew Gardens, and co-founded the UK's first fungi-specific camping and education event. He's been shortlisted for Close-up Photographer of the Year. At Fungi Academy, he takes you deep into one of the most biodiverse fungal habitats on Earth.

• @allthingsfungi

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• Fungi of the Peruvian AmazonA visual journey through the canopy's hidden kingdom.

Rosalind led the psilocybin-for-depression trials at Imperial College London, some of the most rigorous clinical research on psychedelics ever conducted. Out of that work, she developed the ACER model: Accept, Connect, Embody, Restore. A structured map for what happens after a session and how to make it last. Her current focus is on long-term integration communities and the Nature Codes, bridging psychedelic science with something more human. At Fungi Academy, she teaches the ACER model directly, sharing the clinical thinking and lived wisdom behind it.

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• The ACER Model of Psychedelic IntegrationThe clinical map for what happens after the session ends.

Jeff started growing organic mushrooms in the 70s, and he's been at it ever since. He founded Nammex, which quietly became the supplier behind almost every mushroom extract on the shelf, and then launched Real Mushrooms to bring that same quality straight to your kitchen. Ask anyone in the industry where the modern mushroom movement came from, and his name comes up first. At Fungi Academy, Jeff opens up the real story of organic mushroom farming, told by the person who's been living it for fifty years.

Masterclasses

• Organic Mushroom Farming in ChinaFifty years of growing, sourcing, and setting the standard.

Azalea trained under a Mazatec lineage in Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca, the same town where Maria Sabina brought sacred mushroom ceremony to the world's attention. She's a writer and designer whose book, "Micro-Healing: Taking Control of Your Journey Step by Step with Medicinal Mushrooms," centers the Mazatec tradition and pushes back on Western interpretations that strip away its roots. At Fungi Academy, she reframes the conversation around psilocybin therapy by returning it to the people and practices that came first.

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• Decolonizing Psilocybin Assisted TherapyThe Mazatec roots Western medicine keeps leaving out.

Maria José is a Mexican mycologist working at the intersection of indigenous mushroom traditions and scientific research, with a focus on Mexican ethnomycology. At Fungi Academy, she shares that knowledge directly, connecting ancestral practice to the questions modern mycology is still catching up to.

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• Mexican Ethnomycology: Bridging Indigenous Knowledge and Scientific UnderstandingWhere traditional mushroom knowledge meets the lab.

Tracey founded Moms on Mushrooms in 2022 after her own psilocybin experience at 44, and it grew fast. M.O.M. has been covered by ABC News, NPR, and Good Morning America. Before that, she co-created The Pump and Dump Show, a nationally touring comedy brand for mothers. She knows how to reach parents where they actually are. At Fungi Academy, she brings that same directness to one of the conversations the psychedelic world tends to avoid.

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• Integrating Safe Psychedelic Use & ParentingReal talk for parents navigating mushrooms and family life.

Sarah has been practicing clinical herbalism since 2001, drawing from Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Western Wise Woman tradition. She co-founded Ecology Academy, an international school of permaculture, herbalism, and mycology, and co-founded Envision Festival in Costa Rica. Her work connects ecological literacy, community health, and the spiritual path she calls the Village Witch tradition. At Fungi Academy, she brings that whole picture together into a practice you can actually live.

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• Regenerative Wellness: The Art, Science, Craft and PracticeHerbalism, mycology, and the body as one living system.

Xochitl comes from five generations of ancestral healers, initiated at 16 into Peruvian healing tradition. She spent 23 years apprenticing under a Mazatec Medicine Man in the Nti-si tho lineage, and she also teaches at Esalen Institute and created the Sacred Mushroom Oracle deck. At Fungi Academy, she brings that depth of lineage into a rare conversation about sacred mycology and ceremonial tradition.

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• Sacred Mycology Summit 2024 Psychedelics PanelA rare cross-lineage conversation on sacred mushrooms, ceremony, and what the traditions actually say.

Reishi grew up foraging in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia, and her path from wildcrafting to Bastyr's Herbal Science program shaped a practice that holds both the scientific and the sacred. She founded Earth & Spirit Botanicals and teaches at festivals and summits. At Fungi Academy, she opens up the world where fungi and plant medicine meet.

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• Lichens & the Wonders of Interspecies SymbiosisWhat happens when two kingdoms fuse into one organism, and why it matters.
• Synergistic Herbal & Fungal Combinations with PsilocybinThe plants and fungi that work together, and how to think about their relationship.

Natasja built Awaken the Medicine Within in 2017 into one of Europe's most respected legal entheogenic retreat programs, then founded the Eudaimonia Institute to take that work global. She speaks at Breaking Convention and other international psychedelic conferences, and her Presence Centered Leadership approach draws from years of facilitation and sacred practice. At Fungi Academy, she brings the facilitation lens: what it actually looks like to hold space, lead from presence, and navigate your own truth.

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• Sacred Mushrooms: A Journey into Self-Leadership, Truth & StewardshipOn the inner work that responsible psychedelic leadership demands.

Caine is a mycologist and educator based in Melbourne, with an M.S. in Mycology from the University of Melbourne, where his research covered the conservation status of Australian fungi and the population genetics of wood-degrading Psilocybe species. He writes for DoubleBlind and Third Wave, presents at Entheogenesis Australis, and runs the @guerrillamycology Instagram. At Fungi Academy, he teaches the outdoor cultivation skills that put you at the front of the field.

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• Cultivating Wood-Loving FungiGrowing Psilocybe outdoors, from substrate to fruiting, with a real mycologist behind the method.

Mandie works at the frontier of molecular mycology, serving as communications director for FUNDIS, the California Fungal Diversity Survey. She co-founded Mycena LLC and has collaborated with Alan Rockefeller on cataloging Ecuadorian fungi alongside indigenous communities. At Fungi Academy, she joins the conservation conversation with the molecular perspective few can bring.

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• Sacred Mycology Summit 2025 Fungal Conservation PanelWhere DNA barcoding, citizen science, and fungal conservation converge.

Damon worked on the Human Genome Project at the Joint Genome Institute before pivoting to bring that same scientific rigor into classrooms as a curriculum specialist at Bio-Rad Laboratories. He is a core member of the California Center for Natural History, contributes prolifically to iNaturalist, and collects for FUNDIS. At Fungi Academy, he shows how low-tech methods can produce real results, taught by someone who has worked at the highest levels of biological science.

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• Low Tech Mushroom Cultivation Using a Solar CookerSerious cultivation with minimal gear, from someone who has worked at the frontier of genomics.

Talia founded Lacuna Medicinals as a living apothecary, combining advanced mushroom cultivation with spagyric herbalism, a Renaissance-era alchemical extraction tradition that extracts the full spiritual and physical properties of a plant or fungus. She teaches through the San Diego Mycological Society, framing mushrooms as spiritual partners, not just health supplements. At Fungi Academy, she opens up the alchemical side of fungal medicine that most cultivation courses skip entirely.

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• Fungal Alchemy: Reclaiming the Forgotten KingdomCultivation meets ceremony: the spagyric path through the fungal world.

Jasper co-founded Fungi Academy and co-created the Sacred Mushroom Cultivation Course, the flagship course that anchors the entire academy. He hosts the signature deep-dive interviews you'll find throughout the platform: sit-downs with Dennis McKenna, William Padilla-Brown, Giuliana Furci, and more. The people shaping the mycology and psychedelic world come to Fungi Academy because Jasper built a place they want to be. His classes are the spine of the curriculum.

Masterclasses

• The Alchemy of the Sacred MushroomJasper's signature class: cultivation, consciousness, and what the mushroom actually asks of you.
• Mycology 101The essential starting point, taught by the person who built the school.
• Mushroom Cultivation Masterclass PanelJasper hosts a cross-disciplinary conversation with the academy's top cultivation voices.

Taye is a mycologist, naturalist and artist studying fungal biodiversity in California's rare and threatened ecosystems, currently finishing an MSc at Cal State East Bay. She is also a certified UC California Naturalist who runs walks and workshops built around making mycological education accessible outside conventional academia. At Fungi Academy, she follows fungi through the songs, stories and art of cultures worldwide, and shows what those stories reveal about the places they came from.

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• Fungi in Folklore: How Mycelial Mythos Reveals Ecological Insights to Place, People and CultureWhat the stories cultures tell about fungi reveal about the ecosystems behind them.

Wren founded The NOHM Co. in 2015 and works where food, medicine and foraging meet, sourcing from biodiverse regions across the Americas to study wild food, native plants and traditional methods. Her practice runs on zero-waste principles and partnerships with local farmers and herbalists. At Fungi Academy, she teaches the kitchen side of fungal medicine, which is the part most cultivation courses skip entirely.

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• Roots, Shoots and Fungal Fruits: Alchemical Broth Building 101Food as medicine: sourcing, layering fungi and herbs, and getting broth into your everyday cooking.

Louis found mycology at the University of Denver on a grant to study mycoremediation, then spent years farming, foraging and growing across the country before joining North Spore's production team in 2017. Nine years later he is their primary cultivator, educator and events coordinator, working across both R&D and marketing, which gives him an unusually complete view of home growing and the industry around it. At Fungi Academy, he takes cultivation outdoors.

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• Spring Has Spawned: Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms in the GardenBeds, logs, containers and grow blocks, plus the harder species: morels, truffles and mycorrhizal partners.

Bia is an anthropologist with a PhD in social anthropology from UNICAMP in Brazil, and Executive Director of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. She is an author, speaker and activist whose work centres the protection of sacred plants and the voices of the communities they come from. At Fungi Academy, she leads a panel on the questions the psychedelic field keeps postponing.

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• Masterclass Panel with the Chacruna InstituteDecolonising psychedelic practice, Indigenous knowledge and rights, and what an ethical community actually asks of you.

Osiris is a Mazatec historian and sociologist from Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca, and Program Coordinator for Chacruna's Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas. He has given his work to the history of his own community and to the ancestral ritual practice with psilocybin mushrooms. At Fungi Academy, he brings the view from inside the tradition the rest of the world borrowed from.

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• Masterclass Panel with the Chacruna InstituteIndigenous reciprocity and rights, from a historian of the community where this all began.

Nicholas is a queer anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Lisbon with a master's in visual anthropology, and he handles communication and media at Chacruna. His interest sits in how audiovisual media shapes sensory experience. At Fungi Academy, he joins the Chacruna panel on building a psychedelic culture that is genuinely inclusive.

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• Masterclass Panel with the Chacruna InstituteHow the stories we film and publish shape who feels welcome in psychedelic spaces.

Kyle studied plant biology at UC Davis with a focus on plant pathology and mycology, and has run production at Far West Fungi since 2010. His work is yields, labour and new varieties, and it has taken him around the world looking for the most efficient growing methods and the most resilient strains. At Fungi Academy, he opens up commercial-scale cultivation for people growing at home.

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• Exotic Mushroom Cultivation: From Mycelium to Fruiting BodiesGenetics, spawn, substrate, sterilisation and environment, from someone running it at commercial scale.

Ryath has been foraging, cultivating and researching mushrooms for sixteen years and serves as Vice President of the Sonoma County Mycological Association. He co-stewards Moon Fruit Mushroom Farm and Symbiiotica, and formulates custom herb and mushroom preparations for private clients. At Fungi Academy, he traces the human history of Psilocybe, for anyone from the merely curious to the well travelled.

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• Ethnomycology of Psilocybe MushroomsA detailed history of the sacred Psilocybe mushrooms and the people who kept the relationship alive.

Colin is a PhD candidate at the University of Utah, working in the Dentinger Lab at the Natural History Museum of Utah. His research chased a century-old ethnomycological mystery from the tropical forests of southern China to the remote mountains of the northern Philippines: a hallucinogenic bolete said to induce visions of little people. At Fungi Academy, he tells you what he found.

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• The History and Mystery of Psychoactive Bolete MushroomsDNA sequencing pinned the reports to one species, Lanmaoa asiatica, and a novel psychoactive compound with it.

Sabitra runs the Mycodiversity Program at Bhutan's National Mushroom Centre, and describes the work through her three Hs: heart, head and hands. Nearly two decades of hands-on research took her from technical expert to strategic leader, mapping local fungal species, running large-scale cultivation projects and building real livelihoods for communities across the country. At Fungi Academy, she shows what happens when traditional ecological knowledge and modern conservation work in step.

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• Sustainable Harvesting of Wild Mushrooms in BhutanMatsutake, Buddhist harvesting ethics, and community benefit-sharing that has held since 2009.

Jason has spent a decade studying traditional Hermetic alchemy, from its history and philosophy through to the practice, alongside a background in ethnobotany and plant medicine that began on the Big Island of Hawaii and came home with him to the Pacific Northwest. He has trained in Ayurveda in Nepal and Western herbalism across Oregon and Washington, and his interest in fungi runs from cultivation and mycoremediation to the cultural relationships around them. At Fungi Academy, he makes the case that the alchemists left fungi out, and shows what happens when you put them back in.

Masterclasses

• Intro to AlcheMycologyAlchemy is the art of transmutation and fungi are nature's own alchemists. The tradition that omitted them, corrected.

Robert has studied medicinal plants and fungi for half a century and wrote The Fungal Pharmacy, Medicinal Mushrooms: The Human Clinical Trials, and Psilocybin Mushrooms: The Mystery, Science and Research. He has been an herbalist for over forty-five years, is an assistant clinical professor in Family Medicine at the University of Alberta, a Fellow of the International College of Nutrition, and past chair of the medicinal mushroom committee of the North American Mycological Association. At Fungi Academy, he brings the hard data, for anyone who has ever needed to convince a sceptic.

Masterclasses

• Medicinal Mushrooms: The Human Clinical TrialsWhat the actual human trials show, from the person who compiled them into the reference book.