My work with psilocybin began in 2020, not as a spiritual calling, but as research. I was looking for ways to help a family member struggling with addiction, and that led me deep into the emerging science around psychedelics. The research on psilocybin was compelling enough that I kept going. Over the next several years, I began developing microdosing protocols with a physician friend and working with people using psychedelics. What started with science gradually became something else. I repeatedly heard people describe profound experiences of connection: to nature, other people, ancestors, to something larger than themselves. Eventually, I began having those experiences myself.

In 2022, I founded Church of Our Earth, an earth-based spiritual community rooted primarily in Paganism and Taoism, with psilocybin as our sacrament. At the center of the Church is a very simple belief. We have separated ourselves from the Earth, and we have separated ourselves from each other. We treat the natural world as something outside of us, rather than something we belong to and we increasingly do the same thing with other people. I believe that much of what is wrong with us, individually and collectively, begins with that separation.

And I believe mushrooms can help us remember. Psilocybin can create an extraordinary sense of connection: to other people, to the natural world, and to something larger than ourselves. There is now science looking at these effects, but you do not have to reduce them to neuroscience for them to matter. For thousands of years, human beings have used mushrooms and other plant medicines as part of spiritual practice. I came to that understanding backward. I started with the science and found my way to the sacred.

My own spiritual practice has since become increasingly earth-based, drawing from Pagan and Wiccan traditions, Taoism, seasonal ritual, the elements, ancestors, and the Wheel of the Year. The mushroom fits naturally within that practice because it continually brings me back to the same lesson: we are not separate. Today, my work is about helping people understand and work with psilocybin, cultivating empathy, and rebuilding our relationship with Mother Earth and with one another.

Church of Our Earth is a place for people who find the sacred in the Earth, believe mushrooms can be teachers as well as Sacrament, and are looking for a spiritual practice grounded in connection rather than separation. 

Welcome to the path.