Biography

Susana Bustos, Ph.D. (CIIS, 2008), M.A. in Clinical Psychology and in Music Therapy from Chilean universities, Holotropic Breathwork practitioner. She serves as faculty and mentor for the CPTR since its inception and developed the Ancestral Entheogenic Curriculum for the program on psychedelic facilitation at the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, where she also teaches. From 2016-2020, Susana directed the Spiritual Emergence Network in the US. Recently, she co-founded the Escuela de Psicovegetalismo, which offers education and clinical supervision for professionals whose clients work with plant teachers. Susana’s academic and clinical work focus on the healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness, their integration into ordinary life, and the quest for adequately bridging Amerindian entheogenic cosmologies and practices with Western approaches to healing. Susana has written articles and book contributions on the interphase of shamanic song and healing, entheogenic integration, and she lectures internationally on these topics. She is co-author of the book The Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience.