Black Psychedelic Revolution
From Trauma to Liberation--How to heal from racial, generational, and systemic trauma through reclaiming Black psychedelic culture
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Black Psychedelic Revolution
Narrated by:
Nicholas Powers
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Narrated by:
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Nicholas Powers
About this listen
The mainstream has long viewed psychedelic medicine as the purview of people with privilege: money to burn, time to trip, and the social safety to experiment. Though psychedelics have deep roots in Black and Indigenous cultures, Western psychedelic spaces have historically excluded People of Color—but the radical healing of psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine aren’t just for a rarefied elite. And they’re definitely not just for white people.
Combined with quality therapy, safe and equitable access, and full-scale societal healing, psychedelics are a shortcut to liberation, dignity, and power—the “Promised Land” as envisioned by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Risqué? Sure. But it’s true.
In Black Psychedelic Revolution, Dr. Nicholas Powers charts how psychedelics can heal racial pain passed on through generations. He shows how this medicine unlocks a return to one’s self, facilitating an embodied experience of safety, peace, and being-here-now otherwise disrupted by whiteness—and he explores how psychedelics can catalyze individual wellness even as they transcend it. Drugs taken with therapy can heal. But drugs taken with a social movement can heal a nation.
Powers unpacks how the Drug War, racist policing, mass incarceration, and community gatekeeping intersect to sideline POC—specifically Black people—from the psychedelic movement. He asserts the need for a full-stop reclamation and revolution: one that eschews psychedelic exceptionalism, breaks down raced and classed constructs of “good” vs. “bad” drugs, realizes healing, and lives into a free, strong, and independent Blackness.
Critic Reviews
“White supremacy is relentless, but so are we. Black Psychedelic Revolution helps
us see how we can begin to get free. Once that happens, we’ll be unstoppable.”
—SIA HENRY, JD, senior policy associate, MAPS
“Dr. Powers dares us to dream into existence a new reality in which psychedelic medicine gives Black people an opportunity to heal generations of trauma, allowing us to emerge whole, connected, and beautiful.”
—SOI PIMI WITAN, Shipibo medicine practitioner
“Black Psychedelic Revolution invites the working class to flip the table rather than
beg for token seats.”
—HEATHER HARVEY, cofounder of Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop
us see how we can begin to get free. Once that happens, we’ll be unstoppable.”
—SIA HENRY, JD, senior policy associate, MAPS
“Dr. Powers dares us to dream into existence a new reality in which psychedelic medicine gives Black people an opportunity to heal generations of trauma, allowing us to emerge whole, connected, and beautiful.”
—SOI PIMI WITAN, Shipibo medicine practitioner
“Black Psychedelic Revolution invites the working class to flip the table rather than
beg for token seats.”
—HEATHER HARVEY, cofounder of Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop
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