Psychedelic Communities

Around the world, there are many psychedelic communities. These communities offer a place to get together and discuss the science, culture, and use of psychedelics. Some communities bring together researchers (e.g. at conferences), whilst others offer local meetups to psychedelic enthusiasts.

Many of these (offline) communities have been brought together in one place by Mike Margolies at Psychedelic.Community. The list there provides a great overview of many local psychedelic communities, service providers, NGOs, conferences, and more.

This post will highlight where you can find psychedelic communities online. They are organized by their purpose and platform.

One good place that is not listed is Twitter, where I suggest checking out who we follow to start building your personal ‘news feed’ there.

If there are other online communities you think should belong here, please shoot an email our way.

Scientific

Discord

• Intercollegiate Psychedelic Network (IPN) – network of students who speak about the research, news, and psychedelic culture
• OPEN Foundation – community around the ICPR conference and the OPEN Foundation (Netherlands)

Reddit

• Psychedelic Studies – community around psychedelic research, but also many other posts there

Other

• Psychedelic Grad – discussion of psychedelic research on private forum

Therapists

Facebook

• Psychedelic Integration Providers – for therapists or coaches that provide integration
• Coaching & Psychedelics – for coaches, also hosts calls every month

General

Discord

• Psychedelic Seminars (PsychSems) – the discord for the Seminar Series by Mike Margolies which offers general discussion on everything from news to research
• Trippy Noodle – general chat about psychedelics with a focus on harm reduction
• The Experimenters – a community around the YouTube channel Quinten Experiment – includes local subgroups

Reddit

• Psychonaut – good discussions about trips (no memes)
• Psychedelics – memes about psychedelics
• Rational Psychonaut – somewhat rational (non-spiritual) discussion on psychedelics
• Replications – replicating psychedelic (visual) experiences
• LSD – large community discussing LSD experiences and memes, mostly memes

Facebook

• Psychedelics Today – a large community associated with Psychedelics Today (podcast)
• psychedelic therapy & integration community – group by Truffles Therapy with mostly promotional posts
• Psychedelics in Mental Health – supposedly about psychedelic research but mostly promotional posts

Member Groups

Other

• MIND Foundation – members of the Germany-based foundation MIND can discuss topics on their own forum
• Osmind – A place where patients can discuss (new) treatments for ‘treatment-resistant’ disorders, mostly about ketamine