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"Sabina’s legacy of bringing magic mushrooms to the West lives on—perhaps more powerfully than she could ever have imagined. Today, psilocybin-assisted therapy is on the precipice of FDA approval and already a billion-dollar industry. As we enter a new phase of an...

"Through our healing process, expanded states can teach us to have compassion and love for the child who endured and invite our healthy, original self to trust in life again. Perhaps the greatest gift expanded states of consciousness offer is the opportunity to...

"One of the key aims of integration, Bourzat explains, is to carry the beneficial aspects of the psychedelic journey into everyday life. ‘If someone had a beautiful experience of nature, and in the journey they experienced beautiful birds, a meadow, then I would say...

Francoise Bourzat on Medium, May, 2020 "My work in guiding people through mushroom experiences has shown me, over and over, that everyone wants a better harmony with themselves, their family and the world around them. As our current societal conversation starts to...

Francoise Bourzat with Kristina Hunter, Utne Reader Online, August 2019 Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it. —Pema Chödrön "Over many millennia, humans have explored the vast reaches of...

Francoise Bourzat, MAPS Bulletin Spring 2019: Vol. 29, No. 1 "In indigenous cultures, because ritual is woven in with day-to-day life, there is less of a need for intentional integration practices. The community often engages in ritual as a group, and each person is...

April 26, 2019, Dan Lattin, San Francisco Magazine "Françoise Bourzat, who offers “shamanic counseling” out of offices in Noe Valley and on the Peninsula, has been leading magic mushroom pilgrimages to Mexico for the past 20 years. She works with medicine women of the...

April 5, 2019, Chacruna.net “What I have learned from Julieta, beyond her words, is that this path of healing is about an intimate relationship with the Earth; it is about people walking on the mountain trails with awe and of seeing the fog filling the valley in the...