Biography

Susana Bustos, Ph.D., is a researcher, clinician and professor who also holds masters’ degrees in Clinical Psychology and in Music Therapy. She is adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies and other schools in the Bay Area and abroad. Dr. Bustos also conducts independent research on entheogenic shamanic traditions of the Americas and holds a private practice in Berkeley, CA. Her teaching, research, and clinical work focus mainly on the healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness, their integration into ordinary life, and on the quest to adequately bridge Amerindian cosmologies and practices into the West. Dr. Bustos has written articles and book contributions on the interphase of shamanic song and healing and on entheogenic integration, and she lectures internationally on these topics. She directed the Spiritual Emergence Network in the US between 2016 and 2020.