Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His principal research focuses in both clinical and pre-clinical laboratories has been on the behavioral and subjective effects of mood-altering drugs, incl...

Alberto Villoldo was the youngest clinical professor at San Francisco State University. He was directing the Biological Self-Regulation Laboratory, investigating how energy medicine could change the chemistry of the brain. He found a system larger than the neural networks of the brain. Besides th...

Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote his dissertation on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedel...

Bossis, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine conducting FDA approved psychedelic research investigating the therapeutic efficacy of psilocybin on existential and psycho-spiritual distress at the end of life.

Maya Shetreat, MD is a neurologist, herbalist, urban farmer, and author of The Dirt Cure: Healthy Food, Healthy Gut, Happy Child (Simon and Schuster, 2016), which has been translated into ten languages. She has been featured in the New York Times, The Telegraph, NPR, Sky News, The Dr. Oz Show and...

Clinical Director of the NYU Langone Center of Excellence on Addiction, and Director of the NYU Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship. He is a clinician, administrator, educator, and clinical researcher. Dr. Stephen Ross studies whether psilocybin, the psychoactive substance in magic mushrooms, relieve...

Dingle Spence is a Jamaican physician with training in both Clinical Oncology and Palliative Medicine. Dr. Spence is the Senior Medical Officer of the Hope Institute Hospital, Jamaica's only dedicated oncology and palliative care unit.

Anna Bjurstam, founding board member of the Global Wellness Summit, has successfully led Raison d’Etre to become one of the leaders in the industry and has also taken over the reins of Six Senses Spas with 30 locations world-wide. As VP of spas and wellness Anna’s task is to develop the Six Sense...

Robert Jesse was instrumental in forming the psilocybin research team at Johns Hopkins and has co-authored several of its papers, including “Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance” (2006). In 2017, Bob led the...

For decades, Dr. Charles Grob has been researching applications of MDMA, psilocybin, and ayahuasca for a variety of human conditions including end of life anxiety, PTSD, depression, addiction, and more. His contributions have significantly shaped what we know about psychedelics today and how much...

Dr. Daniel Kelly, a board-certified neurosurgeon, is the Director and one of the founders of the Pacific Neuroscience Institute, Director of the Pacific Brain Tumor Center and Pacific Pituitary Disorders Center, and is Professor of Neurosurgery at Saint John’s Cancer Institute at Providence Saint...

Robin Heads the Psychedelic Research Group within the Centre for Psychiatry at Imperial College London, where he has designed a number of functional brain imaging studies with psilocybin (magic mushrooms), LSD, MDMA (ecstasy) and DMT (ayahuasca), plus a clinical trial of psilocybin for treatment ...

Paul F. Austin is a pioneer in the 21st century responsible use of psychedelics for healing, leadership and personal transformation. He has been featured in BBC, Forbes, and Rolling Stone for his accomplishments in entrepreneurship regarding social awareness towards the benefits of micro-dosing p...

Peter Crooks is the CEO of Kapoose Creek Wellness and has a background in neuropharmacology. Kapoose Creek Wellness is dedicated to the discovery, development and delivery of evidence- based functional and entheogenic mycologic (mushroom) pharmaceutical and natural products, and real-life therape...

Dick Simon is an entrepreneur, social enterprise philanthropist and catalyst for change. He co-founded the Peace Action Network (PAN) of YPO, a network of over 29,000 international CEOs. Currently, he is involved with organizations pursuing FDA and European Medical Association clinical trials for...

Spike’s career, spanning nearly three decades, can be described as nothing short of creatively diverse. From chef and restaurateur to television personality, product developer and consultant, Spike is a force to be reckoned with in the culinary world.

Eugenia is a nature and food journalist, as well as an author and speaker, whose writing is primarily about the connections between food, sustainability and the natural sciences. Eugenia has written for many magazines and newspapers including Food & Wine Magazine, The New York Times, and The Wall...

Most people know Rick Bayless from winning the title of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters, beating out the French and Italian, with his authentic Mexican cuisine. His highly rated Public Television series, Mexico–One Plate at a Time, is broadcast coast to coast and has earned him multiple Daytime Emmy nom...

Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi. Britt has worked academically as a mycologist his entire career, teaching a number of university courses and writing scientifically for many research journals and popular science magazines. He has se...

Eben uses biology to solve important environmental challenges by growing safe and healthy new materials as well as envisioning creative ways to use natural technology at industrial scales and in consumer applications. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ecovative Design, a leading biomaterials compan...

William Padilla-Brown had the opportunity to grow up traveling, living in England, Taiwan, Mexico, New York, and his hometown of New Cumberland, PA. He is a social entrepreneur, citizen scientist, mycologist, amateur phycologist, urban shaman, poet and father to his beloved 3-year old son, Leo.

Adam Gazzaley (born December 29, 1968) is an American neuroscientist, author, photographer, entrepreneur and inventor. Gazzaley is the inventor of the first video game approved by the FDA as a medical treatment. He is a Board of Trustee member, Science Council member and Fellow of the California ...

Jay Harman is an award-winning inventor and one of the pioneers of the revolutionary new science biomimicry, which emulates nature to create highly efficient, sustainable technology. Described by the Science Channel as a “visionary” and “futurist,” Jay is one of the most sought after experts and ...

Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and organic gardener, who has been tissue culturing, collecting native fungi in the Southeast, and cultivating both commercially and experimentally for more than twenty-two years. He is also the author of “Organic Mushroom Farming and Myc...

Michael Pollan is a writer, teacher and activist. His most recent book, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence, was published in 2018. He is the author of seven previous books, including Cooked, ...

An expert in the field of mind-body healing, Deepak Chopra is a world- renowned speaker and author on the subject of alternative medicine in 1995, Chopra, already a prolific book author, founded the Chopra Center for Well Being in Carlsbad, California.

Andrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing-oriented approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine. Dr. Weil is the founder ...

Dr. Mark Hyman is leading a health revolution—one revolved around using food as medicine to support longevity, energy, mental clarity, happiness, and so much more. Dr. Hyman is a practicing family physician and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in the field of ...

Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. After graduating from Dartmouth College in Asian Studies in 1967, h...

Wade Davis is a cultural anthropologist and ethnobotanist as well as a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently P...

Dennis McKenna is an American ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist, lecturer and author. He is a founding board member and the director of ethnopharmacology at the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization concerned with the investigation of the potential therapeutic uses of ...

Zach Bush MD is a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognized educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease, and food systems. Dr Zach founded *Seraphic Group and the nonprofit Farmer’s Footprint...

Françoise has dedicated her life to guiding others through expanded states of consciousness, particularly with the help of the sacred mushroom. She is the author of the extraordinary book Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Gr...

Michael Bernard Beckwith is the founder and spiritual director of Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, California. In the '70s, he began an inward journey into the teachings of East and West, and today he teaches universal truth principles found in the New Thought-Ancient Wisdom t...

Dacher Keltner’s research focuses the biological and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, beauty, power, social class, and inequality. As a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab, he is a leading scholar in ...

Alexandre Tannous is a musician, educator, composer, and ethnomusicologist. He is also the Principal Founder of ResonantMind Collective. He holds a Bachelor of Music with a double major in Music Theory and Composition, and a Master of Arts degree in Music Education from Columbia University Teache...

Jeremy Narby (born 1959 in Montreal, Canada) is an anthropologist and writer. Narby grew up in Canada and Switzerland, studied history at the University of Canterbury, and received a doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University. Narby spent several years living with the Ashaninca in the Per...

Tiokasin Ghosthorse—a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota—is an international speaker on Peace, Indigenous and Mother Earth perspective. Tiokasin serves on boards of several charitable organizations dedicated to bringing non-western education to Native and non-Native children.

Paul Stamets, speaker, author, mycologist, medical researcher and entrepreneur, is considered an intellectual and industry leader in fungi: habitat, medicinal use, and production. He lectures extensively to deepen the understanding and respect for the organisms that literally exist under every fo...

She received her Ph.D. in Forest Sciences at Oregon State University. Simard is best known for the research she has conducted on the underground networks of forests characterized by fungi and roots. She studies how these fungi and roots facilitate communication and interaction between trees and p...

Giuliana Furci has been the biggest promoter of the study and protection of the Fungi Kingdom in Chile in the last decades. She is the founder and CEO of the Fungi Foundation. Nathalie Kelly is an actress in film and television in USA. She has become an advocate for regenerative agriculture, the ...

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he...

Paul Gerard Hawken is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist. . He attended UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University.

Dr. Mark Plotkin is a renowned ethnobotanist who has studied traditional indigenous plant use with elder shamans (traditional healers) of Central and South America for much of the past 30 years.

Elinoar Shavit is an ethnomycologist specializing in mycological and cultural research regarding desert truffles, functional mushrooms and the traditional use of fungi and plants by indigenous people around the world. She is a frequent speaker on these topics in international and domestic confere...

IN-Q or IN-Question, is the stage name of Adam Schmalholz, an American songwriter and National Poetry Slam champion from Los Angeles, California. Schmalholz describes his poetry as a reflection of his own experiences and life lessons.

Jason Luis Silva is a Venezuelan- American television personality, filmmaker, futurist, philosopher, and public speaker. He is known for hosting National Geographic documentaries: Brain Games and Origins. His goal is to use technology to excite people about philosophy and science.

Rob Garza is one of the original pioneers of the now flourishing electronic music movement. Garza's legacy includes the formation of record label ESL Music and a timeless music catalog that is still popular today. He is one-half of the pioneering electronic outfit, Thievery Corporation, and the f...

Jeremiah Caleb Fraites is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and multi- instrumentalist. He is the co- founder of The Lumineers and is a songwriter for the band.

Ryland Engelhart is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Kiss the Ground, and is the producer of Kiss The Ground — the film on Netflix. He has spent the past 15 years as an entrepreneur and love-activist, working in hospitality and building a “triple bottom line” business of organic plant- ba...

Elijah Allan-Blitz is an Emmy award- winning Director. He was the first VR Director for Time magazine. He has since partnered with Van Jones to create The Messy Truth VR Experience. A virtual reality series starring Marvel actors.

Jon is a self-trained artist originally from Kaneohe, Hawaii and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. ... New creatures and symbioses emerge in his meticulously rendered oil paintings, exemplifying the endless potential of life on Earth through metaphor and allegory.

Tania de Jong AM is an inspirational speaker, singer, & social entrepreneur who has founded a number of successful businesses including Creative Universe, a leading innovation conference. She’s also founded Creative Innovation Global, Inspiring Minds leadership programs, MTA Entertainment & Event...

Live Panel: Fungi Food Demos & Discussions

Join our moderator and celebrated author Eugenia Bone as she guides us to two cooking demos by celebrity chefs Spike Mendelsohn and Derek Sarno. Plus we dive into deep discussions with Dr. Maya Shetreat about Mushrooms as food and nutrition: Are mushroo...

Live Panel: Legalizing Psilocybin

This is the hot topic that is one part mental health research and one part navigation of politics and policies. We’re joined by MAPS Founder and Executive Director, Rick Doblin, Ph.D. who guides us into the latest usage and studies by major universities that cou...

Live Panel: Sacred Medicine vs. Commercialization of Fungi

Hosted by moderator Lorna Liana of Ethneonation, we discuss how mushrooms have been used throughout history and culture in a sacred way. Can we usher in a respect for Fungi and not overly “westernize” everything? We look at the current l...

Live Panel: Discovering Mushrooms for Mental Health

Hosted by Louie Schwartzberg, the director of Fantastic Fungi, we look at this wild west of new discoveries, asking: What are researchers using for Mental Health studies/ solutions? What are Mycologists finding that can help our body? And what ...

Live Panel: The Transformational Power of Mushrooms

From Mental Health to our Inner Awakening and Evolution, it’s time to talk about the transformative power of mushrooms for mental health and for expanding our consciousness. And we must take a step further and talk about integrating these big l...

Live Panel: Psychedelics in Documentary Films

Join this discussion on the portrayal of psychedelics in documentary films, that spans from magic mushrooms, to LSD to Ibogaine. We explore what makes certain stereotypes of psychedelics stick and how those stereotypes have changed over the years. We...

Live Panel: Pop Culture's Media Mushroom Boom

As the scientific breakthroughs surrounding mushrooms continue to evolve and more states legalize mushrooms for recreational use and scientific study, fungi are moving out of the shade and into the light of popular culture.
From Nicole Kidman's chara...

Live Panel: Educating with Fantastic Fungi

Mushrooms are really underrepresented in education, so we recommend first watching the inspiring film 'Fantastic Fungi' to help bring a voice to this incredible kingdom, or better yet, Queendom! In this Q&A, we’ll hear from Fungi Foundation legend Giuli...

Live Panel: Healing with Visual Art

Join this discussion, visual journey, and exploration with Fantastic Fungi director Louie Schwartzberg. Throughout this talk we reveal cutting edge healing therapy with visuals, alcoholism therapy with mushrooms, visuals and music, the healing power of nature,...

Live Panel: The Future of the Earth, Mushrooms and Optimism

A discussion with Louie Schwatrzberg, director of Fantastic Fungi, plus a special never-before-seen bonus documentary short from Fantastic Fungi on Suzanne Simard, Ph.D. and her MOTHER TREE.

“We protect what we Love,” says Schwartzberg...

Join artists Alex and Allyson Grey in an exclusive scene discussing the mycelium network, art and the reoccuring patterns of the universe.

One of the most talked about moments from Fantastic Fungi was Judy. Somewhat hesitant, yet open-minded she volunteered for the Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research and Psilocybin Study. It changed her life.

Witness a subtle poetic movement of flowers as they dance to the moving light, combining close-up cinematography at its finest along with wide and aerial perspectives of the flowering plant world that sustains us.

Explore a virtual fantasy map of an imaginative mushroom world.