Luc is the founder of Psychedelic Insights. 

He is the CEO and lead psychedelic guide, working with psilocybin truffles.

Our Psychedelic Insights Team: https://psychedelicinsights.com/the-team/
Veteran retreat video teaser: https://vimeo.com/641554882
Veteran website: https://psychedelicwarriors.com/

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.

Military background

He is a Royal Netherlands Marine Corps veteran, with arctic, jungle and mountain warfare and survival training and did the French commando training in Martinique. He served in Iraq in ‘91. Luc served a total of 4 years.

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 (2006). 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 where he inspired the most unwelcoming audience.

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 nearly 300 clients among quite a few veterans Luc has first hand experience of how natural psilocybin truffles work and how to optimally prepare clients for these experiences.
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.

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, 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.