Standing in that beautiful old church in Denver, watching over 500 people gather to celebrate what would have been Sasha Shulgin’s 100th birthday, I felt the profound weight of legacy and the electric energy of possibility. The Kirk of Highland, with its stone walls and soaring ceilings, looked like a castle. It was so perfectly fitting for honoring a man whose curiosity had opened entirely new kingdoms of consciousness.

But this wasn’t just a memorial. As I looked out at the crowd I saw chemists and artists who’d traveled from around the world, therapists carrying forward my mother Ann’s work, researchers building on my stepfather Sasha’s foundations. I realized we were witnessing something essential: the living continuation of a lineage that runs directly from my stepfather’s laboratory to Rick Doblin’s vision for MAPS, and into a future where these medicines might finally serve healing on a global scale.

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