Josie Kins

Josie Kins is a pioneer and prominent leader in the online psychonautic community, having spent the last 12 years formalizing the documentation of subjective psychedelic effects. She spearheads the effort to develop a detailed index of the diverse varieties of the psychedelic experience, which will enable new psychometric scales and computational efforts to map the biological basis of subjective psychedelic experience.

Josie brings a deep familiarity with psychedelic phenomenology and a unique ability to precisely articulate the range of psychedelic experience. As the founder of PsychonautWiki.org, Josie grew the site into a leading source of information about the phenomenology of psychedelic drugs with over one million unique monthly visitors.

She is also the founder of EffectIndex.com which features a granular taxonomy of the subjective psychedelic experience. Recognizing that verbal descriptions of psychedelic phenomenology would greatly benefit from complementary visual and auditory representations, she also founded the r/replications subreddit which has over 140,000 subscribers and has launched the careers of multiple visionary artists.