Giorgia Gaia is an independent researcher with a MA degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology and in Theology (Western Esotericism) at the University Van Amsterdam. Since her early twenties she has been working as an electronic musician and event organizer. Her academic researches have focused on musical subcultures and psychedelics, esoteric communities, ecology and alterations of consciousness broadly. She spent about four years doing fieldworks in the psychedelic trance scenes around Europe