Latest News & Events
DharamTrip: An Interactive Awakening Experience
We are super excited to announce our first collaboration with another psychedelic community: Psychedelic Thailand! DharmaTrip is a kaleidoscopic, multimedia group journey that will explore the psychedelic treasures of Buddhism for healing, growth, and awakening. This will be a first-hand, group experience of how Buddhism can inform our collective journey towards liberation using music, visual projection, philosophy, and group meditation. Hosted at a loft in Tribeca, this will be quite a unique experience that we are proud to be collaborating on. Tickets are $30 and can be bought
Trip Tales: Centering Femininity
We are excited to announce that, in collaboration with The Psychedelic Sisterhood, we are launching a monthly Trip Tales space to center and celebrate all the women and non-binary folks in our community! All are welcome, but we will have an unabashed focus on the feminine as we share out-of-this-world stories of psychedelic exploration and transformation. If you’ve been looking for a space to build authentic connections and lasting solidarity, then this is the group for you!
Sacred Cacao Ceremony
BPS Invites you to join us for a traditional Cacao ceremony, drawing upon ancestral traditions within Andean culture. We will hold two circles on Friday, May 20th, from 6-9pm and Saturday, May 21st from 6-9pm in Williamsburg. Join us to reconnect to yourself and the world around you! Read more at the link below!
Trip Tales Tuesday!
Come to Caffeine Underground to see friendly faces and share your psychonaut adventures! It’s Trip Tales Tuesday time again! On Tuesdays, bi-weekly @7pm EST, we gather to plum the depths of our collective journeying.
About
Our mission is to make psychedelic healing a publicly accessible good through community, education, democratic ownership, and advocacy.
Sponsor
Fiscally sponsored by MAPS, the nonprofit currently funding phase 3 clinical trials for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.
Team Members

Colin Pugh
Executive Director

Isabella Rischall
Operations Lead

Ken Nguyen
Website/Technical Admin

Katarina Bartel
Journey Cohort Program Lead

Jeanie Lee
Administrative Lead
Advisory Board Members

Seungah Jeong
President and CEO, MPOWERED | Board Chair, Social Venture Circle

Bennet Zelner, PhD
Professor of Business, UMaryland | Co-founder, Transformative Capital Institute

Nicholas Powers, PhD
Professor of English, SUNY Old Westbury | Psychedelic Author and Journalist
Programs
Launching a Psychedelic Co-op
BPS is busy developing a one-of-a-kind psychedelic co-op. The coop will be a democratically owned healing and transformation center that we hope will become a model for making these powerful medicines a publicly accessible good. This is a project we’re very excited about and one that we’ll need a great deal of support from you, our community, to realize. Sign up for our newsletter for more info.
The Journey Cohort Program
The Journey Cohort Program will be the primary offering of the psychedelic co-op. This will be a healing and integration program for before, during, and after a transformative journey in a small group setting. More details will be announced soon. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter for updates.
Brooklyn Psychedelic Society, Inc., operates a charitable project fiscally sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), (Federal TX ID: 59-2751953), a Section 501(c)3 public charity. In accordance with federal tax requirements, MAPS exercises discretion and control over all project funds. Please make your donations for the purposes of the project directly to MAPS.