Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Psychedelics today for our Solidarity Friday episode. Today is March 19th

recording. And when you're listening, it's going to be, wait, March. I'm going to May.

COVID time in my brain with all the computer is starting to fry out. So this is May 21st.

And my dyslexia is kicking in and I'm just thinking March May. All right, welcome everybody. We're really excited to have our guest, Elon Higgins and

Rebecca Martinez here from the fruiting bodies collective. But before we introduce them, just a reminder

by the time you're listening to this, navigating psychedelics

has already kicked off. So check out our July courses. We have some dates up for July and

September. So if you miss this round, check us out. Psychedelic Education Center.com. And if you want

to get a feel for what we're doing over there, you can sign up for some of the free courses.

And yeah, that little pitch for navigating psychedelics. So we'll kick things off. Welcome, Elon and Rebecca. Do you want to give a little intro who you are and what you're up to? And I guess we'll start with Rebecca. Sure. Thanks so much for having us. We obviously are big fans of psychedelics today, and you all have accompanied me on many, many long drives. So it's really fun to be on the inside now and kind of see what goes into making it. So my name's Rebecca Martinez. I am a Portland born and raised Chicana parent, educator, writer, and community organizer.

My son's actually in the other room right now playing with pipe cleaners.

So you might hear from him.

I'm also one of the co-founders of fruiting bodies, which I'm sure we'll get to dive into a whole bunch here today.

But just a little bit about how I ended up here.

I grew up in a very conservative kind of religious environment, which I know is not totally uncommon for folks who have found their way to psychedelic healing. There's some sort of

synchronicity there with that. And I think part of my own curiosity

was spurred because things were so restricted growing up. So as I got through my teen years and into

adulthood, I went from working on organic farms to organic cannabis farms and then through just a

series of transformative personal events got into deep

relationship with psilocybin mushrooms. So getting into relationship with mushrooms, it just,

it became this kind of like natural evolution as things began to buzz in Oregon. And it went

from being a kind of pie in the sky idea that we were hearing

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