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A Path of Direct Experience
Our Orientation
We are a nature-based sacramental church devoted to direct relationship with the sacred through ceremonial engagement with entheogenic fungi.
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We honor these sacraments as revelatory - each person’s experience is unique, personal, and guided from within rather than prescribed by doctrine.
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We hold that ceremonial use of entheogens, when approached with reverence, context, and care, can support expanded awareness, healing, and deeper connection to self, others, and the living world.
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We welcome people of all spiritual backgrounds and honor wisdom traditions insofar as they align with love, integrity, and respect for life.
We understand unconditional love as the underlying current of the sacred - and seek to live in greater alignment with it.
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For those who wish to understand the formal religious framework of the church, our sacramental use of entheogenic fungi is rooted in sincere spiritual belief and practice, protected within a faith-based context.
Stewardship
This work is stewarded by Anastasia Allington
There has never been a time when I did not feel reverence for the mushroom.
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Growing up in southern Louisiana, they grew wild in the cow pastures surrounding our land - quiet, mysterious, and ever-present. As a young adult, I encountered them ritually, gathered around a bonfire beneath the night sky, in ways that felt both ancient and intimate. Those early experiences opened my heart and my perception to something vast and loving.
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Raised within an evangelical culture, I was familiar with the language of transcendence and the thinning of the veil, of seeking God through prayer until one crossed into a place beyond the ordinary. That threshold fascinated me. When I later encountered the mushroom sacrament, I recognized the same numinous quality - this time rooted in nature, embodiment, and direct communion with all of existence.
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Through this relationship, I no longer needed to reconcile spiritual teachings that fell out of alignment with love and connection. I found a path that honored mystery, compassion, and the living world itself, a path recognizing the spark of the sacred within all beings.
Over the past decade, my relationship with sacred mushrooms has deepened through intentional ceremonial practice, community, and ongoing listening. This work has allowed me to feel at home as a spiritual being and affirmed my calling to help create spaces where others can explore their own direct relationship with the sacred.
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My guidance is shaped less by my formal education and more by my lived experience - embodiment and breath, energetic sensitivity, presence, motherhood, sacred sexuality, self-compassion, and a long lineage of openhearted teachers and allies who have appeared at the right time, again and again.
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This work is not about authority.
It is about stewardship, care, and reverence for a living sacrament.