Dr. Glauber Loures de Assis is a researcher of sacred plants and their traditions. He has a PhD in sociology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, and the co-editor of the book Women and Psychedelics: Uncovering Invisible Voices (Synergetic Press). Glauber is the founder and president of Céu da Divina Estrela, a legal and tax-exempt Santo Daime ayahuasca church in Brazil. He has 15 years of experience with ayahuasca, hapé, and other sacred plants and has led more than 500 ceremonies and events in Brazil, Europe, and the United States, and has built this practice in dialogue with his local Brazilian ayahuasca community and with the blessings of Indigenous elders and activists in Brazil. He is also the co-founder of Jornadas de Kura, a plant medicine center in Brazil that promotes an alliance between the ceremonial use of sacred plants, public education on plant medicine, and psychedelic science. He is an Indigenous rights activist and the director of the Psychedelic Parenthood Community. He is father to three children and lives with his wife, Jacqueline Rodrigues, in Santa Luzia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.