# About The GPS

<img src="https://228465369-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FpJ64kdlcXiJa9prZDZBn%2Fuploads%2F53hfPTy8Z0Oxp49fIwaI%2Ffile.excalidraw.svg?alt=media&#x26;token=5b8e8ab7-5507-4235-a2fd-95df9c312340" alt="Around the world, hundreds of Psychedelic Societies meet regularly to provide peer education around psychedelics. We empower these organizers with the resources to build and support their local communities with an inclusive, risk-reducing, and benefit-maximizing approach to advocacy, integration, and information." class="gitbook-drawing">

See our worldwide network on our global [map](https://globalpsychedelic.org/map). \
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A Psychedelic Society is a community based organization that hosts consistent events for their local community for the purpose of connecting, educating, and supporting individuals who recognize the potential of psychedelic experiences for healing, personal transformation, the exploration of consciousness and scientific advancement.

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