October 30, 2025
10:00 PT / 11:00 MT / 12:00 CST / 13:00 ET
This event will be held LIVE on GoogleMeet
The link will be provided upon registration
In an age of cascading ecological breakdown and social fracture, what guidance can a psychedelic practice offer to those seeking a deeper meaning, engagement, and purpose? What can psychedelic experiences tell us about our current predicament and can they be a key practice that reveal our interdependence and help us wake up to a new ecological paradigm?
Join Martijn Schirp—Buddhist practitioner, psychedelic facilitator, and founder of Upāyosis—for a tantalizing presentation on The Need For Psychedelic Yogins In An Age Of Collapse.
Drawing from critical theory, Tibetan Buddhism, contemplative science, and “actor-network theory”, as well as years of hands-on facilitation, Martijn traces how upāya (skillful means) can unmask the buffered, isolated self and cultivate an embodied, porous “ecodelic” participation with Gaia, and how psychedelic practice, allows us to “open up” to ontological pluralism, widening which beings we connect with and listen to, and empowering our imagination to co-create new sacred landscapes.
Together, we’ll ask: What would it mean to train as psychedelic yogins—practitioners who pair meditative clarity with ecodelic insight, who build territories of care, and who practice solidarity with all sentient beings, including Earth herself? This immersion offers practical frames and ritual technologies for designing dharmic containers that support liberation while taking responsibility for mending the torn fabric of our shared world.
Weaving insights from more than a decade of guiding and building psychedelic learning spaces (including HighExistence, Apotheosis, and co-founding and leading Synthesis, one of the first modern legal psilocybin retreat and training centers), and now culminating in Martijn’s flagship yearlong training A Path Between Worlds, he offers a timely and urgent message: our current crisis can be an initiatory chrysalis, and psychedelics, with wisdom and care, could be a unique skillful means for our unsustainable extractivist predicament.
Join us in a journey into meditative deconstruction and reconstruction, learn to look beyond the illusion of duality, how everything around is co-constructing our world, and how this embodied understanding can be applied to re-discover our ‘ecodelic interbeing’, entangled networks of co-construction, and through this, how to engage with psychedelics to support our awakening journey, moving beyond an egocentric focus to practicing solidarity with all sentient beings and actively engaging with the Earth.
Martijn Schirp is a longtime Buddhist practitioner and the founder of Upāyosis, where he curates A Path Between Worlds, a yearlong contemplative training integrating Buddhist practice, contemplative science, ecological ethics, and optional sacramental psychedelic work. He supports others as a spiritual companion and facilitator, designing structured contemplative pathways that cultivate stability, insight, and compassionate action within a caring community container.
Previously, Martijn co-founded and led the Synthesis Institute, helping pioneer modern, medically supervised psilocybin retreats, developing naturalistic insight through research partnerships with academic institutions, and training hundreds of psychedelic practitioners in the ‘many ways of knowing’ model.
Today, Martijn’s primary vessel is A Path Between Worlds, where he and guest teachers support practitioners through progressive training, weekly guided meditations, and a dedicated community oriented toward awakening and planetary service. He continues to write, teach, and mentor at the intersection of Buddhist wisdom, ecological ethics, contemplative science, and psychedelic practice.
