Paul Stamets in His Natural Habitat: How Psilocybin Mushrooms Can Help Save The World
In person in Berkeley, CA & Online - join from anywhere!
Join us on Mar 31, 2027, in Berkeley, CA (or online) for a fascinating talk with thought leader Paul Stamets and mushroom-themed tapas with popular mycochef Chad Hyatt (sold separately).
Paul’s talk will be a deep dive into psilocybin mushrooms, their past, present, and future uses. Journey with him into the psilocybin mycosphere as he chronicles milestones that further substantiate how psilocybin, and more so psilocybin mushrooms, can help us evolve into the best of what we can be.
Psilocybin mushroom cultivation access is scalable and uniquely affordable. Paul argues that the collection and cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms is central to our evolutionary well-being. These remarkable fungi may fundamentally change the many challenges we face as a society. Psilocybin mushrooms make nicer people. Paul believes we are at a crossroads, and access to psilocybin mushrooms is central to a fundamental human right: Our freedom of consciousness.
Could psilocybin mushrooms help propel us as we emerge into a new version of ourselves, Homo sapiens 3.0? (Hint - the answer is YES!)
Bio:
Paul Stamets is an elder, author, and independent mycologist whose pioneering work has shaped modern fungal taxonomy, medicinal mycology, and public understanding of psychoactive fungi. He has authored eight books, most recently Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats (June 2025), and has formally discovered and named numerous psilocybin-containing species. In 2023, the species Psilocybe stametsii was named in his honor.
An Invention Ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a 2020 inductee of The Explorers Club, Stamets has received the National Mycologist Award (2013), the Gordon and Tina Wasson Award (2015), the NextMed Disruptor Award (2023), and the SynBioBeta Lifetime Achievement Award (2024). In 2025, the United Nations recognized him as one of the “100 Disruptors” advancing positive global change.
He founded Fungi Perfecti, LLC, and created Host Defense® Mushrooms™, a line studied in multiple clinical trials reporting positive health outcomes. Stamets brings decades of fieldwork, taxonomic insight, and advocacy for responsible, science-based engagement with psilocybin fungi—bridging traditional knowledge, conservation, and emerging therapeutic applications.
