Intercollegiate Psychedelics Network (IPN)

The Intercollegiate Psychedelics Network (IPN) is a student run umbrella organization that supports collegiate psychedelic student groups and intercollegiate efforts. We strive to support collaboration among college students and envision an academic community that inspires a philosophically motivated and scientifically rigorous study of psychedelics, and more broadly, consciousness; we hope through our work to encourage public awareness of the science, policy, and clinical applications of psychedelics and related substances.

IPN strives to be distributed, non-hierarchical, non-domineering, and non-dogmatic; we are connected by foundational principles of radical transparency, mindful presence, iterative growth, commitment to ethics, and boundless love. We do not know all the answers and do not assume our current approach is the “one true approach.” Rather, we strive to adapt and integrate opinions from the public, from the experts, and from collegiate institutions, and grow together in the spirit of co-creation. We are always open to ideas, suggestions, and criticisms – we believe if we are thoughtful and proceed with cautious optimism, we can co-create a more connected and blissful future~

The Intercollegiate Psychedelics Network strives to:

• support member organizations, according to the needs of the member organization
• foster meaningful relationships based on the principles of respect, education, compassion, spiritual growth, emotional wellness, and psychological self-intimacy
• encourage a more nuanced public discourse about the science of psychedelics
• establish rigorous research trials at member universities
• further drug decriminalization efforts in service of furthering responsible psychedelics research and dismantling the Drug War’s harmful systemic effects
• cultivate mentorship between and amongst students and professionals

Featured Event:

Intercollegiate Psychedelics Summit (IPS) 2020: The Convergence: co-creating the future

🤲🍄🌈❤️

🔗 Harvard University, Boston, MA
📅 April 17-20, 2020
👋 in collaboration with: Harvard University <> Intercollegiate Psychedelics Network (IPN)
The second annual Intercollegiate Psychedelics Summit, IPS 2020 - The Convergence: co-creating the future @ Harvard University is officially confirmed! note: website is work in progress, and we invite any suggestions and comments at ipnpsychedelics@gmail.com
🔍 in the spirit of radical transparency, also see work in progress speaker list here

IPN Mycelial Network

(as of January 5th, 2020)

roughly in reverse order of sporing with IPN~
all communications {ideas, questions, suggestions … } can be directed to ipnpsychedelics@gmail.com

• University of Lausanne:
  • Contacts: Federico Seragnoli, Adam Amrani
• University of Oxford: Oxford University Psychedelics Society (OUPS)
  • Contacts: Pedro Philip
• University of Greenwich
  • Contacts: Pascal < 🍄 >, Jessica < 🍄 >, Aimée < 🍄 >
• West Virginia University (WVU)
  • Also affiliated with SSDP
  • Contact: Aaron Borho
• Stanford Business School
  • Contact: Jennifer Ouyang
• Stanford University
  • Contact: Vivian Ho
• Yale University
  • Contact: Nancy Wu
• UC Colorado Springs
  • Contacts: Max < 🍄 >, Anthony < 🍄 >
• Colorado State University-Fort Collins
  • Contact: Teresa < 🍄 >
• Georgia State University
  • Contact: Haley Maria Dourron
• California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
  • Also affiliated with SSDP
  • Contact: Katie Stone (Also affiliated with SSDP)
• Ohio State University (OSU)
  • Contacts: Christian Lynch, Lake Lamb, Andrew Quigley, Michelle Menkoff, Tavis Barton
• UC Boulder
  • Also affiliated with SSDP
  • Contacts: Lizzy < 🍄 >, Jacob < 🍄 >, Chad < 🍄 > (SSDP)
• University College London (UCL): Society for the Applications of Psychedelics (SAP)
  • Contacts: Tinya Chang, Nastasia Ilina, Ivan Filippov, Noah Eckstein, George Blackburn
• Texas Tech University (TTU)
  • Contact: Christian Giovanni Maldonado
• University of Connecticut (UConn)
  • Contacts: Joel Lopez
• Princeton University: Princeton Psychonautics Club (P-PsyC)
  • Contacts: Elin Alstrand, Schuyler Kean
• Harvard University: Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club (HSPC)
  • Contacts: Kenneth Shinozuka, Andrew Zuckerman, JJ Andrade
• University of Pennsylvania (Penn): Penn Society for Psychedelic Science (PSPS)
  • Also affiliated with SSDP
  • Contacts: Emily Cribas, Rahul Sood, Victor Acero, Margaret < 🍄 >, Alex Zhao
  • Email: pennpsychedelics@gmail.com

Projects

• Intercollegiate Psychedelics Summit (IPS) 2020 @ Harvard University;
  • April 17 - 20, 2020; for speaker lists and work in progress details, see here
  • Project stage: ongoing
• EveryQualia
  • (psychedelics) report search engine; currently ~10K trip reports from everyqualia; also see psychedelicNLP for work in progress natural language processing (NLP) technology to be incorporated into the search engine;
  • Project stage: ongoing
  • Project leads: Yev Barkalov (@yevbar), Alex Zhao (@alextzhao)
• Psychedelics Clubs Documentary
  • Please kindly direct questions to Wendi Yan with IPN cc’ed
  • Also see project funding page
  • Project stage: ongoing
  • Project lead: Wendi Yan
• Psychedelic Mixtapes: exploring the intersection of psychedelics and music. We believe music has tremendous power in creating and nurturing transformative experiences. We like to jokingly call ourselves “Qualia Engineers”.
  • Project Stage: early

Also see work in progress documentation for IPNLabs (an innovative lab for psychedelic projects within the umbrella of the Intercollegiate Psychedelics Network) here; all readers are invited to comment directly on the file and give real time feedback

Code of Ethics

• IPN does not facilitate the creation, distribution, or ingestion of psychedelic substances where it is unlawful
• The top goal of IPN is is to foster collaboration among students and researchers for the advancement of psychedelic science
• We respect the right of each member to make their own decisions about the use of psychedelics
• We will advocate that, if students do partake in the ingestion of psychedelics, that it is done under empirically-optimal and psychologically-optimal conditions, and where it is lawful
• We strive to bring students together and create a transparent culture around psychedelics and their effects on our lives
• We will recognize the negative effects of the use of psychedelics, as well as causes for such negative effects
• IPN recognizes the depth to which we are all equal, and does not discriminate based on ability, orientation, experience, gender, race, culture, age, or any other demographic variable
• IPN recognizes its fallibility of understanding and strives to be open to any and all concerns, and to work with those concerns to become a more fully inclusive institution

n.b.: the placement of our code of ethics on the bottom of the page is deliberate; we hope to convey that they are foundational to our existence, and support from the bottom up, deeply, our approach;

Contact

We look forward to hearing from you! Feel free to direct all communications to ipnpsychedelics@gmail.com

In particular, we strive to support university-recognized student-led psychedelic groups, as well as students who want to start clubs but don’t exactly know yet how to start. Please feel free to send us an email at ipnpsychedelics@gmail.com to get started!

towards mycelial connectendess~ 🤲🍄

Archives and changelog

• also see pennpsychedelics.org/ipn