Luc is the founder of Psychedelic Insights.
Documentary about a veteran retreat and the research with psilocybin truffles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgagVuXZ_Us
He is the CEO and lead psychedelic guide, working with high dose psilocybin truffles.
Based out of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Psychedelic Insights provides legal, safe, psychologically guided psychedelic experiences, to individuals, groups, and professionals, with magic psilocybin truffles for personal development. His team comprises of neurologists, psychologists, spiritual care professionals and other highly professional psychotherapists for guiding clients and providing integration therapy.
Business background
Luc van Poelje spent well over 15 years managing cutting-edge internet technology businesses from publishing technology companies like Sanoma, Elsevier Science, to developing a cutting edge gaming platform (with Patrick de Zeeuw from Startup Boot-Camp), Genealogical science portals to financial high tech event companies like Ticket Script (Eventbrite) and Paylogic (ID&T). He was an internet consultant, entrepreneur, projectmanager and international marketing manager running project teams of 30+ across different tech & R&D companies (TNO) on multi million euro projects in very competitive fast paced international corporate environments. His visions paved the way for innovations and new technical and business concepts.
General background
He is a passionate plant medicine advocate, an entrepreneur, ocean sailor, mountaineer, and rain forest explorer. Above all, he is a dad to his daughter Sam (14). His life (choices) changed after life transforming psilocybin and Ayahuasca experiences in 2013. Luc ran a mental health education service for 4 years, including (walking) therapy and lifestyle coaching, and was a public speaker on mental well-being, especially in youth prisons where he gave 40+ talks on emotional health.
Luc builds bridges, creates safe and motivational environments and empowers others.
Psychedelic background
Luc was working as a guide in 2017. This grew to what Psychedelic Insights is today. In 2019 he founded Psychedelic Insights to officially serve clients in an optimized set and setting. The aim: Professional and experienced staff, providing psychological guidance of psychedelic experiences. With over 250 clients among quite a few veterans Luc has first hand experience of how natural psilocybin truffles work and how clients respond to it. Psychedelic Insights’ mission is to provide safe, guided and responsible access to mind expanding compounds for personal transformation.
His personal experience ranges from psilocybin mushrooms and truffles, MDMA, LSD, Ayahuasca, Bufo Alvarius (5meo-DMT) which serves as a basis for his work, connecting to clients’ experiences and altered states of consciousness, keeping them calm and understood.
Military background
He is a Royal Netherlands Marine Corps veteran, with arctic (Norway), jungle (Belize) and mountain (Alps) warfare and survival training and did the French commando training (Martinique). He served in Northern Iraq in ‘91 in Kurdistan. Luc served a total of 4 years.