Research Timeline and Events

The third edition of CohobaFest, a celebration of arts, community, and psychedelic education at the Visual and Performing Arts Center in Uptown Charlotte on August 15, 2026. The festival is produced by Cohoba, a BIPOC-led 501(c)(3) collect…

An online forum on mushroom science and culture, streaming August 21, 2026. The program ranges across mycology, psilocybin research and policy, and the wider cultural moment fungi occupy, from functional mushrooms to the psychedelic ecosys…

An academic-year certificate program in psychedelic-assisted therapies and research running August 2026 through May 2027, delivered in a hybrid format that combines online coursework with in-person intensives in San Francisco. The program …

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France's first and largest psychedelic trance festival, founded in 2005 by the Grenoble-based Hadra association. The 17th edition opens a new multi-year thematic cycle, "Solar Punk Chronicle: The Seed," at the Plan d'Eau de Vieure lake in …

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The week-long temporary city in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, running August 30 to September 7, 2026, where roughly 70,000 to 80,000 participants build Black Rock City around principles of radical self-reliance, self-expression, gifting, and…

Theatrical premiere of the documentary Sacred Science at the SNF Parkway Theatre in Baltimore on September 10, 2026. The restored 1915 movie palace in the Station North Arts District, home of the Maryland Film Festival, regularly pairs ind…

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A half-day transpersonal breathwork workshop in Collinsville, Connecticut on September 26, 2026. Transpersonal breathwork uses sustained, rhythmic breathing with evocative music to reach non-ordinary states of consciousness without any sub…

The first official MAPS training program in Mexico: a 65-hour intensive in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for mental health professionals, delivered in Spanish in Mexico City, October 4-11, 2026. The Newman-MAPS program is brought to M…

The first international scientific congress dedicated to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), co-organized by the Ketamine Research Foundation and Clinica Synaptica at the Hotel Barcelona Center, October 16-18, 2026. Clinicians, research…

Annual NYC conference bringing together researchers, therapists, and community advocates for psychedelic science and culture.

Billed as the first summit built entirely around low-dose psychedelic use, gathering researchers, founders, and advocates on a private 30-acre hilltop sanctuary in the Texas Hill Country outside Austin on October 21, 2026. The single-day, …

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A two-day online conference exploring the intersection of psychedelics, creativity, and design, held November 6-7, 2026 under the theme Creative Biome. The program spans talks and panels from designers, researchers, and artists on how alte…

The legendary biennial New Year's psytrance gathering on the untouched sands of Praia de Pratigi in Bahia, Brazil. The 18th edition runs nine full days across the New Year, returning the festival to its traditional biennial calendar. Set o…

The annual New Year psytrance festival at Hilltop, the long-running open-air venue in Vagator, north Goa, opening around December 30 and running into the new year. Vagator is the geographic and cultural epicenter of the original 1990s Goa …

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One of South Africa's longest-running psychedelic gatherings, Origin calls the techno-shamanic tribes to the Elandskloof valley at Helderstroom — between Villiersdorp and Greyton, about 125km from Cape Town — for a full weekend of consciou…

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Do LaB's flagship transformational festival returns to Buena Vista Lake in Kern County, California over Memorial Day Weekend. Running since the mid-2000s, Lightning in a Bottle blends electronic music with art, learning, and conscious-cult…

The biennial transformational festival on the shores of Idanha-a-Nova lake in inland Portugal, next running July 18 to 25, 2027. Founded in 1997, Boom is widely considered the spiritual home of global psytrance and transformational culture…

Canada's premiere independent electronic music festival, held annually since 1998 at the Salmo River Ranch in British Columbia's Kootenay mountains. The 28th annual edition brings six themed stages, no corporate sponsorship, and a fiercely…

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A five-day residential holotropic breathwork program at Menla Mountain House, the Tibet House US retreat center set in a secluded valley of the Catskill Mountains near Phoenicia, New York, August 9-13, 2026. Holotropic breathwork, develope…

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Training session for implementing 650nm laser protocol in research settings. Includes equipment demos and symbol documentation methods.

Mo:Dem (Momento Demento) is widely regarded as the gold standard of underground psychedelic trance production. Held in a wild terraced canyon split by the crystal-clear Mrežnica River near Donje Primišlje, Croatia, the festival caps attend…

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Europe's largest psychedelic tribal gathering and the flagship psytrance festival of 2026, held July 24 to August 4 in the valley of Dádpuszta, about 140 km southwest of Budapest. Born from a 1999 solar-eclipse party, Ozora has grown into …

The global headquarters of old-school Goa trance. This biennial "retro-futuristic" pilgrimage gathers on the shores of Montargil Lake in Portugal's Alentejo, where stages tuck under ancient pine and cork trees inside a nature reserve about…

Seventh edition of Europe's scientific conference on psychedelic research, therapy, ethics and policy; 100+ speakers.

Multidisciplinary conference on psychedelic research bringing together scientists, artists, and advocates discussing DMT protocols.

Inaugural gathering of the Mind-at-Large Project, a multidisciplinary inquiry into consciousness spanning philosophy, science and extraordinary experience including psychedelic phenomena.

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival ran across two weekends, April 10-12 and 17-19, 2026, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. While a mainstream music festival rather than a psychedelic gathering, Coachella's large-scale…

Annual conference of the International Society for Research on Psychedelics, held February 27 to March 1, 2026 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans. ISRP is the academic society for psychedelic science, and its meeting centers rigorou…

A transformational gathering where the Costa Rican jungle meets the Pacific, held at Rancho La Merced in Uvita. The 16th-anniversary edition, themed "Back to Our Roots," deliberately shrank to 5,500 guests to deepen intimacy and regenerati…

Annual NYC conference exploring psychedelic science, policy, and culture with presentations on DMT and 5-MeO-DMT research.

Multi-day symposium covering clinical trials, harm reduction, and therapeutic applications of psychedelics including DMT and psilocybin studies.

Beckley Retreats runs legal, science-informed psilocybin retreats in Jamaica and the Netherlands, built on the research legacy of co-founder Amanda Feilding and the Beckley Foundation. Programs pair one to two guided psilocybin ceremonies …

MycoMeditations is one of the longest-running legal psilocybin retreats in the world, operating since 2014 in the quiet fishing village of Treasure Beach on Jamaica's south coast. Its week-long, therapy-forward format centers three psilocy…

The Temple of the Way of Light is a traditional Shipibo ayahuasca healing center on 200 hectares of rainforest outside Iquitos, Peru, operating since 2007 and among the longest-running centers in the Amazon. Retreats are led by advanced ma…