MushMaps is committed to and stands by the seven principles of the North Star Ethics Pledge

1. Start Within

The principle of looking within focuses on the internal semantics and structure that denotes how a team in the psychedelic medicine and therapy world really works. We fundamentally put our focus on personal growth and perpetuate a grounded perspective throughout each phase of our work. It is crucial to remove blind spots, biases, personal motivations, and desires that can disrupt progress and reduce our overall effectiveness. Similarly, we believe it is our responsibility to work ethically and effectively in all situations. For us, everyone’s role is important, ourselves included. This is why we don’t shy away from taking the right guidance from field experts and individuals progressing the field in an ethical and sustainable manner. We consider ourselves a part of the community that we work to improve, and that our development is the first step to effectively growing the community.

At MushMaps, we aim to build strong connections between legal psychedelic providers, entheogenic patients, and the indigenous cultures that gave us these sacraments, in a collective effort to ensure sustainable growth for the psychedelic therapy industry.

2. Study the Traditions

We believe in the importance of traditional knowledge regarding psychedelic medications, psilocybin use for personal development, and related entheogenic ceremonial practices from cultures around the world. Understanding and giving reverence to the historic developments in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy is an important step in securing its future. Without knowledge of these past developments, future growth is impossible. We consider it our responsibility to understand how historic learnings can be translated to catalyze future breakthroughs in the field.

Analyzing the past use of psychedelics and the traditions embedded in their ethereal history gives us a chance to fully listen to the story that these cultures have been trying to tell us. MushMaps sees our responsibility to learn about these peoples’ perspectives and empathic sacrifices in terms of money, time, and resources for the betterment of humanity and to further the psychedelic field. We believe that appropriating attention to these entheogenic and spiritual practices now, rather than during the height of the drug war on indigenous peoples, exposes the fundamental problems with indoctrinating these medicines into Western culture. We hope to perpetuate respect for nature through reciprocity efforts and by giving a voice to the indigenous peoples who gave life to the psychedelics industry today.

3. Build Trust

You can’t help someone fully if there isn’t a relationship of trust. Therefore, since our inception, our team has pledged to ensure that we maintain a trustworthy relationship with community members and professionals in the psychedelic space. We make our intentions as transparent as possible to ensure that there is always a possibility for true and honest discussions, including addressing tough issues, taking personal accountability, and rectifying mistakes. Through ensuring these initiatives, we can positively impact people with our work by considering all possible perspectives of the community to incorporate into our services. For without trust, all is in vain.

4. Consider the Gravity

We understand that the choices we make can have serious impacts on multiple stakeholders in the psychedelic industry. As a company in this emerging space, we pledge to always follow ethical behavior guidelines and to consider the impact of our choices in all situations. Before we make impactful decisions, we must consider the psychedelic field at large, the communities and individuals involved, and all related ancillary aspects. Through crafting a patient-centered approach to healing and keeping the mental health of community members as our top priority, MushMaps strives to keep peoples’ best interests at our focus. MushMaps is committed to ensuring fair and equal access to our resources and patient information, as well as maintaining an affordable advertising platform for all providers and practitioners.

5. Focus on Process

The quality of our user experience improves with the quality of a well-thought-out process. We put great insight into developing a well-defined business plan so that our methods are effective, transparent, and meaningful for our community members. With moral courage as the focal point, we put strenuous effort into ensuring that the process is well-defined and above all, ethical. We ask that people hold us accountable for our actions and help guide us towards developing a strong moral character. If we do what’s right, the rest falls into place.

6. Create Equality & Justice

The psychedelic community can only survive and become part of the zeitgeist if it avoids the pitfalls of injustice and inequality seen in other industries. MushMaps is based on the principles of social justice, the perspective that providing equal opportunities yields best results, and the virtue of acting on the initiatives put forth in our company mission and vision statements. For us, uplifting others is more important than focusing solely on personal progress, which is why we reflect on and perpetuate diversity within our own organization and also the global entheogen community at large. We advocate these values by providing and promoting a structure of inclusion, sustainability, and proper anthropological insight into the perspectives and actions we take as a company.

7. Pay it Forward

We are just a link in the chain. The psychedelic field is vast and requires extensive focus and commitment to become what it has the potential to be. Giving back to the community outshines personal gain for us. We commit ourselves to the community and pledge to aid everyone in gaining the best possible knowledge about the field, from information concerning ballot initiatives and advocacy, to psychedelic learning resources, tools, and research studies that will help shape and develop this flourishing community.