About Us - For a New Culture of Consciousness
We aim to destigmatize the public discourse around psychedelics and open new paths for therapeutic, creative, and spiritual development.
Our Mission
The Psychedelia Foundation is committed to the scientific, cultural, and social exploration of psychedelic substances. Our goal is to promote education, training, research, and responsible use of psychedelics in Germany.
We believe that a differentiated and well-founded discourse about these substances is essential to understand and meaningfully utilize their potential for individual and societal development.
The Team Behind the Foundation - Expertise from science, culture, and business
The Psychedelia Foundation is supported by leading figures from science, business, and culture who are committed to a holistic understanding of psychedelic culture
Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Master’s program for Psychedelics and Consciousness. Specialist in Anesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine with many years of experience in acute care and pain therapy. Head of the Emergency Department and Senior Physician at the Clinic for Acute and Emergency Medicine at the University Hospital Neuruppin (UKRB).
As co-founder of the first clinic for psychedelic medicine in Germany, he is a leading expert in psychedelic therapy and its integration into modern medical and psychotherapeutic concepts.
In addition to his clinical work, he is involved in teaching, research, and public education about psychedelics. He gives international lectures, conducts workshops, and acts as a consultant for pharmaceutical companies, clinic developments, and scientific projects.
Cultural creator within the psychoactive movement, ethnopharmacologist, and private drug researcher. Among other things, Berger discovered the psychotropic properties of the orchid genus Dendrobium, which is now popular in psychonautics.
Markus Berger is a writer and author of nearly 40 books on ethnobotany, drug and intoxication studies, including Volume 2 of the Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants (with Christian Rätsch). He is the author of the German standard works on DMT and Ketamine, as well as numerous other influential specialist books.
For his work on the Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants, Berger received the German Garden Book Prize in 2023. He is also the editor-in-chief of the magazine Lucy’s Rausch and co-publisher of Nachtschatten Verlag, the world’s only publishing house for drug studies.
Dan Becker is a dynamic entrepreneur who founded his first start-up at the age of 24 and is distinguished by his passion for innovative business models. Early on, he developed a deep interest in transformative states of mind which shaped his personal growth and worldview. This path eventually inspired him to co-found the Psychedelia Foundation. With great commitment, he built his company, including Cofana GmbH, from the ground up, personally handling all tasks in the early days and now leading a team of ten and a store in Berlin-Friedrichshain. His extraordinary journey demonstrates his courage to pursue new ideas and his ability to inspire a team.
For a long time, he dreamed of a world where people interested in consciousness-expanding states are not stigmatized or criminalized – a concern that motivated him, along with Markus Berger and Sergio Pérez, to establish the foundation. Within the Psychedelia Foundation, he brings his entrepreneurial expertise to advance projects that promote education and responsible approaches, and supports the scientific and cultural exploration of psychedelic substances in Germany with strategic thinking and innovative spirit to create positive change.
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