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You can support our works by making a donation to help us be able to research more on the effects of psychedelics and to help continue to support those that are struggling. Our UK fiscal host is the Social Change Agency, which hosts us via Open Collective, a transparent fiscal hosting service used by change-making organisations including Extinction Rebellion. Donate here via bank transfer or direct debit.

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CPEP’s academic research and harm reduction work is funded by private philanthropists, no corporations. Some of our donors prefer to remain private, but we receive public funding from the William G. Nash Foundation and the Sarlo Family, two leading funders of psychedelic harm reduction research and support services, as well as two philanthropists who prefer to remain anonymous but who have no corporate interests in the space.

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How we have helped

'I had an ayahuasca experience and afterwards felt anxious and disorientated. This has been a very difficult time. Thankfully I found CPEP's work online; I read the stories from other people who have had challenging psychedelic experiences and eventually attended the support group which CPEP runs. CPEP also helped connect me with an integration therapist who has been immensely helpful. Post psychedelic difficulties are so hard as few people can understand what you are going through; Jules and his support group are a lifeline that helped me feel less out 'at sea' and provided an anchor to help ground you and reduce the sense of isolation and devastation that these experiences can bring. I made some connections with people in the support group and shared tips with one another of what helps. I am extremely grateful that this project exists and feel it is an absolutely essential service, especially as more and more people experiment with psychedelics. Thank-you so much to Jules and his team for all that they do to help and support!' - Clare

How we have helped

'Thank you for your generous consultation about this case -- I can’t tell you how valuable it was for me. I wrote a report and testified to grand jury about this case and included some of the quotes from your study participants about their experiences of derealization. I think those statements were incredibly important in helping the grand jury understand the experience of derealization following using psychedelics. Ultimately, the grand jury dropped the 84 counts of Attempted Murder...He is home with his wife and kids' - Alexander Milkey, forensic psychiatrist in the defence of Joseph Emerson, pilot on trial for trying to crash a plane two days after taking magic mushrooms

How we have helped

'I was looking for science-based research about how I could reassemble my mind after a legal, facilitated psilocybin journey at age 73. Then I found Ecstatic Integration and dove into its regular publication of thoughtful reports and research about what can go wrong when humans try to exit the matrix by rebooting the mind using psychedelics.' - Eva, a reader of our newsletter, Ecstatic Integration

How we have helped

'I had an ayahuasca experience and afterwards felt anxious and disorientated. This has been a very difficult time. Thankfully I found CPEP's work online; I read the stories from other people who have had challenging psychedelic experiences and eventually attended the support group which CPEP runs. CPEP also helped connect me with an integration therapist who has been immensely helpful. Post psychedelic difficulties are so hard as few people can understand what you are going through; Jules and his support group are a lifeline that helped me feel less out 'at sea' and provided an anchor to help ground you and reduce the sense of isolation and devastation that these experiences can bring. I made some connections with people in the support group and shared tips with one another of what helps. I am extremely grateful that this project exists and feel it is an absolutely essential service, especially as more and more people experiment with psychedelics. Thank-you so much to Jules and his team for all that they do to help and support!' - Clare

How we have helped

'Thank you for your generous consultation about this case -- I can’t tell you how valuable it was for me. I wrote a report and testified to grand jury about this case and included some of the quotes from your study participants about their experiences of derealization. I think those statements were incredibly important in helping the grand jury understand the experience of derealization following using psychedelics. Ultimately, the grand jury dropped the 84 counts of Attempted Murder...He is home with his wife and kids' - Alexander Milkey, forensic psychiatrist in the defence of Joseph Emerson, pilot on trial for trying to crash a plane two days after taking magic mushrooms

How we have helped

'I was looking for science-based research about how I could reassemble my mind after a legal, facilitated psilocybin journey at age 73. Then I found Ecstatic Integration and dove into its regular publication of thoughtful reports and research about what can go wrong when humans try to exit the matrix by rebooting the mind using psychedelics.' - Eva, a reader of our newsletter, Ecstatic Integration

How we have helped

'I had an ayahuasca experience and afterwards felt anxious and disorientated. This has been a very difficult time. Thankfully I found CPEP's work online; I read the stories from other people who have had challenging psychedelic experiences and eventually attended the support group which CPEP runs. CPEP also helped connect me with an integration therapist who has been immensely helpful. Post psychedelic difficulties are so hard as few people can understand what you are going through; Jules and his support group are a lifeline that helped me feel less out 'at sea' and provided an anchor to help ground you and reduce the sense of isolation and devastation that these experiences can bring. I made some connections with people in the support group and shared tips with one another of what helps. I am extremely grateful that this project exists and feel it is an absolutely essential service, especially as more and more people experiment with psychedelics. Thank-you so much to Jules and his team for all that they do to help and support!' - Clare