Jonathan Glazer, co-founder of #ThankYouPlantMedicine. It has been a long path of growth and self-discovery for Jonathan Glazer, co-organizer of the #ThankYouPlantMedicine movement. Here, in his own words, Jonathan explains how plant medicines helped transform his life and prompted the launch of this global movement aimed at destigmatizing entheogenic plants and psychedelics. When I began […]

Shashi Dansanghani, center, with his wife and kids. Shashi Dansanghani, overcame his 20-year heroin addiction using ayahuasca and has become a strong believer in the #ThankYouPlantMedicine movement. We are grateful he has come out to share his inspiring and life-affirming experience, and that he is helping us promote this important campaign which is rapidly spreading […]

As a young girl, Astrid Heijnen recalls being sexually abused by three different adults. The first time was at the age of three, again at six, and then at thirteen. On two of these occasions, it involved close relatives. Those childhood traumas impacted Astrid emotionally and psychologically through her entire life. Now 57, she revealed, […]

  Glenn Irving, left, with world-renowned psychiatrist and advocate of plant medicines, Stanislav Grof. Like numerous others, Glenn Irving turned to psychedelics at a very difficult time in his life. “I was halfway through my university program and battling a chronic depression that made getting out of bed an insurmountable task,” the 28 year old […]

Paul Filippe, from Melbourne, Australia. There are no words quite adequate to capture the emotional and physical abuse Paul Filippe suffered as a child, which resulted in his first suicide attempt at the age of seven. The 43-year-old from Melbourne describes what he endured: “As with any child, I craved her love and believed her […]

Barely 40 years old, Lisa Ward had been told by her neurologist that she was beyond medical help. She was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, had a large cyst in her brain which could not be operated on, and her body was racked with pain. She was incontinent and could no longer walk or perform basic tasks. […]