Ethics Matters
Advancing an ethics-first psychedelic ecosystem
1.2B+
Global scale of suffering
1.2 billion people are living with a diagnosable mental-health disorder – that’s 1 in 6 human beings.
WHO World Mental Health Report 2023
26%▲
COVID’s after-shock
Clinical anxiety and major depression rose ≈ +26 % worldwide in 2020, an unprecedented jump in a single year.
The Lancet meta-analysis, 2021
75%
Care gap
Up to 75% of people in low- & middle-income countries receive no treatment for their condition.
WHO Mental-Health Atlas 2023
$1T
Economic drag
Depression & anxiety alone cost the global economy US $1 trillion each year in lost productivity.
WHO / World Bank, 2022
20 K
Average Cost
Australia ~30 K for MDMA or psilocybin therapy under current private-clinic pricing, 10-15K MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD (nation-wide, once FDA reschedules), 3K-5K for Psilocybin in OR/CO
12 K
Facilitator Training Cost
Estimated cost for facilitator training programs.
Building a Safer, Ethical, & Accessible Future for the Well-Being of Humanity
Mind Lumen is focused on democratizing access to safe and ethical care. Ethics is the first trust filter for seekers choosing their providers — our goal is to make the therapeutic uses of these catalysts accessible to everyone, regardless of their financial means.
🌱 Our Philosophy
Healing and proactive cognitive wellbeing is a human right.
- Every person has the inherent right to explore their own consciousness — what we call cognitive liberty — without needing permission.
- Ethics can co-exist within capitalism, as long as there is a way to hold the industry accountable in an extractive system. We elevate the most ethical providers. learn more
- Cognitive liberty also means having the agency to know what you're consuming. We advocate for accessible, anonymous drug testing — because informed use is safer use.
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Integra – FounderAminda Effrimino | Advisor
Ensuring the highest codes of safety, transparency, and ethics are critical to everyone's transformative journeys with psychedelic medicines. I support psychedelic services and infrastructure that operates with deep integrity, and I'm confident in what MindLumen will offer to upgrade and elevate psychedelic standards of care.
EMBARK Approach – Co-DeveloperBull Brennan, PhD | Advisor
The promise of psychedelic healing is wholly contingent upon our ability to offer it in safe, ethical, and accessible ways. I am excited about the contributions that Mind Lumen will make on this front.
Blockless, CTODerek Anderson | Technology Advisor
Mental health advancement is essential to our advancement as a species. Mindlumen has the potential to disrupt adoption of advance mental health practices and ensure a brighter, deeper and more introspective future.
Both& Discovery, CEODr. James Keim | Advisor
Mental health advancement is essential to our advancement as a species. Mindlumen has the potential to disrupt adoption of advance mental health practices and ensure a brighter, deeper and more introspective future.
Neil Gehani | Founding Sherpa
The tremendous growth of psychedelics in both above and underground ecosystems with the lack of transparency, has also created ethical issues that lead to abuse, exploiting seekers even if it is unintentional, and causing more trauma instead of healing. Transparency and privacy are not mutually exclusive. The solution is to re-think how ethical businesses are built, held accountable to the communities, and regenerative that allows us to shift from a purely extractive model of Capitalism.