Liana Gillooly

Liana Sananda Gillooly is a lifetime activist for social justice, drug policy reform, ending war, and the environment. Before joining MAPS, Liana worked as Outreach Manager for a prominent cannabis investment and market research firm, The Arcview Group, where she helped grow the accredited investor network, advocated for legalization, and supported the work of Marijuana Policy Project. She has worked in event, festival, and film production, as well as artist representation, art curation, and art creation. She owned a visionary art gallery in Venice Beach, California, called Sananda Gallery. She has produced fundraisers and art happenings for special events and festivals, including High Times Cannabis Cups, MAPS conferences, Envision Festival, Serenity Festival, and Fractal Planet at Burning Man. She has been a featured speaker at numerous events, lobbied Congress, lectured MBA students, and given a TedX talk. She is an experienced meditator and trained death midwife.

Pachamama, healing arts, human flourishing, mental health, psychedelics & plant medicines, death midwifery, transformational/ humane tech, liquid democracy, AI=the aliens we’ve been waiting for, regenerative design, biomimicry, dancing, building resilient movements, culture building, artivism, decentralization, cognitive liberty, indigenous rights, connecting the nodes of the mycelial network, Burning Man.

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. The skillful use of psychedelics, integrated well, can help humanity achieve a new worldview from which all solutions are attainable. They are the master key to unlock all the massive problems we face, illuminating that we already have the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to rapidly alter our way of life on Earth. We have a decade to create a new path, and psychedelics are the strong medicine coming through to course correct humanity.

Handstands, sailing, designing clothes!