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Adam Bramlage
FOUNDER, CHURCH OF THE SACRED MUSHROOM

Adam Bramlage is the founder of the Church of the Sacred Mushroom, a spiritual community based in Boulder, Colorado, dedicated to restoring the sacred mushroom to its ancient place as a sacrament, spiritual teacher, and catalyst for direct experience of the divine.
For more than two decades, Bramlage has explored the intersection of psychedelics, consciousness, spirituality, personal transformation, and human potential. Over the course of that journey, he has guided and supported thousands of people through small- and large-dose experiences with psilocybin mushrooms, developing a deeply experiential perspective on the profound and highly individual ways these medicines can affect human consciousness.
Bramlage is also the founder of Flow State Micro and co-founder of the Microdosing Facilitator Training. He has become a recognized educator in the modern microdosing movement, developing and teaching educational programs with some of the most respected organizations in psychedelic education.
His work has included the Microdosing Masterclass with Psychedelics Today, Microdosing 101 and How to Microdose with DoubleBlind Magazine, and the Microdosing Movement with the San Francisco Psychedelic Society. He has also collaborated with educators from the Netherlands-based Microdosing Institute and has taught extensively on responsible microdosing, harm reduction, psychedelic history, and best practices.
Bramlage is a faculty member at the renowned Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he has taught alongside pioneering psychedelic researcher Dr. James Fadiman, widely regarded as the father of the modern microdosing movement. Esalen has been a gathering place for generations of influential thinkers exploring consciousness and human potential, including figures such as mythologist Joseph Campbell and psychedelic philosopher and ethnobotanist Terence McKenna.
Bramlage’s work has also intersected with the evolution of psychedelic public policy. In 2020, he was invited to present his work with psilocybin microdosing before Denver’s Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel, contributing his firsthand experience to Colorado’s emerging public conversation about responsible psilocybin use and reform. That movement would continue to evolve in Colorado, ultimately resulting in a legal framework allowing personal cultivation, sharing, and certain communal uses of psilocybin mushrooms, alongside a regulated system of licensed natural-medicine services.
These decades of personal exploration, education, advocacy, facilitation, and community involvement ultimately inspired Bramlage to establish the Church of the Sacred Mushroom.
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