By connecting in community through integration, membership, and wellness circles, we address the isolation and "othering" we have experienced in psychedelic spaces and the world at large, and ensure challenges that surface through experiences with psychedelics—including cultural bereavement due to forced and voluntary migration, colonization, decolonization, and systemic exclusion and oppression; our complex/complicated/cherished ancestral relations; intergenerational and intragenerational trauma; the trauma of foreign and domestic wars, internment and incarceration, and famine; and the myth of the model minority and imposter syndrome—can be properly recognized and supported.
We strive to forge spaces of community care where we can freely express our full identities and shared life experiences, creating what psychologist Jenny Wang describes as “places of acceptance, belonging, healing, and freedom.”
OUR PILLARS
Our pillars of impact are community, education, and advocacy.
Asians are the largest population in the world, the fastest growing ethno-racial group in the United States, and very much a part of psychedelics—from research, therapy, and policy emerging in the Global North, as well as through our own cultures’ vast experience with altered states of consciousness through breathwork, meditation, and the unbroken use of psychoactive medicines and sacraments by Indigenous cultures within the Global South.
Our educational efforts include public lectures and curated resources, such as customized, culturally-sensitive guides on psychedelic experiences, safety in psychedelic spaces, harm reduction, mental health and psychedelics, and support for those who have been harmed through psychedelic-assisted therapies.
APC advocates for Asian presence in psychedelics and increased Asian representation and greater inclusion of BIPOC and other marginalized groups across the psychedelic continuum: clinical trials, research studies, practitioner trainings, and leadership positions across the movement. We support sensible drug policy rooted in love, not war in Asian countries with historically draconian drug laws.