CotM will soon be seeking new Members in the US who use psychedelics as Sacrament, based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.
Has your use of psychedelics contributed to your religious beliefs? Allow us to help provide support for your experiences of using psychedelics as Sacrament.
Church of the Mushroom is a 508c(1)(a) religious nonprofit dedicated to supporting individuals who use psychedelic medicines as part of their religious practice. At the heart of our religious congregation is an online journaling platform where members can document their spiritual experiences—privately or publicly—helping to establish a clear record of their religious use of Sacrament.
Our public blog showcases selected members' Spiritual Journal entries, fostering understanding and connection, while our private forum for Supporting Members provides a space for deeper discussions and resource sharing. By offering a structured framework for journaling and a strong religious foundation, we empower our members to build proof of their religious practices, aiming to strengthen their legal protections under U.S. law. Whether you seek community, understanding, or peace of mind, Church of the Mushroom is here to support your journey.
CotM is for adults who already have been using psychedelic medicine on their own. The church does not promote, distribute, manufacture, or suggest usage, and especially not abuse of, psychedelic Sacraments. Rather, CotM exists to provide religious support to its Members, many of whom have had nobody to share their religious psychedelic experiences with prior to joining this congregation. These spiritual seekers each have a lifetime's worth of insight and evidence of universal truths to share with each other. CotM's website functionality is based around journaling these experiences, whether publicly or privately (Supporting Members can opt for total journaling privacy).
Shared experiences bring more meaning to life. Imagine if we couldn't compare our experiences with each other. Life would be bleak and objectivity would vanish. CotM's goals include development of religious community support among Members - through sharing personal religious and psychedelic perspectives with each other, exposing common themes, universal wisdom and deep truths.
This is done through active journaling within each Member's Profile. There are Free (Public) Memberships and Supporting (Private) Memberships available. Both offer online journaling within the CotM database and the ability to download or print journaling on CotM letterhead at any time. Members' journals are there to help each Member prove religious use of their psychedelic Sacrament.
As these public postings (only selected journal entries will make it to the public blog) are crowdsourced, Church of the Mushroom Members will find deep inner truths through their psychedelic journeys and compare the truths respectfully with each other, finding and providing support with each other during this unique religious collaboration.
Church of the Mushroom views psychedelics as divine gifts that facilitate one’s connection with one’s Higher Self, Source's universal wisdom, and the sacredness of all creation.
Through the use of psychedelics, affirmations and prayer, CotM seeks and promotes Universal Laws. The truths chosen are supported by our collective experiences, both with the psychedelic Sacrament, as well as living without sacrament as a part of our lives. The methods of the CotM work and create alignment, with or without psychedelic Sacrament.
The Seven Universal Laws and connection to Source's Higher Intelligence have been very helpful for truth seekers. Countless lives have been positively transformed and are being consistently improved upon through the practice and study of CotM’s Core Tenets of Faith, whether the practitioners are CotM Members or not.
Members can engage in planned, ceremonial use of psychedelic Sacrament to foster personal growth, healing, spiritual transcendence, positive manifestation, and a sense of unity with life's miraculous abundance. Members also promote positivity, inclusiveness, respect, and stewardship of Earth as an extension of their spiritual practices.
Honesty is supported and encouraged within Church of the Mushroom; especially between Members. Honesty is courageous and commendable. Lying leaves others and oneself with very little to work with or improve upon.
Equality of all human beings and genders is supported and upheld, as well as the abandonment of all forms of prejudice.
Psychedelic Harm Prevention is the main focus on planning for the ritual use of psychedelic Sacrament. “Do no harm” is an important focus for guides, facilitators and journeyers alike. The importance of Preparation and Integration are key components to successful Administration of psychedelic Sacrament, promoting safety, security, and lasting benefits from psychedelic experience throughout one's life. Support systems are in place to help at any point either before, during, or after the psychedelic journey. Fireside Project is a great resource for this. Please see their contact information, along with many other resources in the psychedelic community on our Trusted Network page.
Establishing a Link with the Divine Source of Life - Through a proper, safe-feeling environment and mindset, Divine Intelligence can be accessed, with or without psychedelic Sacrament. If you want to receive guidance from Source's Higher Intelligence, all you need to do is ask and listen quietly, whether you're using Sacrament or not. This higher knowledge and guidance is available to us all at all times. It can come from Source directly, through Ancestors, Spirit Guides, Angels, Benevolent Interdimensional Beings, as well as from deep Inner Knowledge and the beings who we choose to interact with.
Gratitude - Acknowledge what you have, appreciate it, and allow Source to bestow blessings upon you, matching your vibration of gratitude. Spiritual growth and inner harmony is fueled by giving thanks and asking honest questions, meditating, studying and contemplating, considering the Seven Universal Laws when choosing your actions, and making informed vibrational adjustments along your life path.
Journaling - Spiritual Journals are the backbone for each CotM Member's documentation of faith, providing proof and official record of their religious practices involving psychedelic Sacrament. Religious support of these practices can be strengthened by proving that the Sacrament links each Member to their religious beliefs - recorded through active journaling within the CotM congregation.
Affirmations and Prayer - Affirmations and Prayers are powerful tools which, when used consistently and appropriately, help one gain mental and emotional harmony and universal assistance in improving one's life experience. Life with positive affirmations and heartfelt prayers is countless times better than a life without these sacred tools.
Ritual - Establishing clear rituals when using psychedelic Sacrament is also important to help prove the religious use of psychedelic Sacrament. It’s OK to personalize your ritual if you have a strong desire to do so. Be sure to document your ritual in your Spiritual Journal to further clarify your religious use of the Sacrament. May your journey be abundant in wisdom, love and sacred connection!
The Law of Attraction:
Cultivating positive thoughts and intentions manifests a reality aligned with love, growth, and harmony. Used responsibly, psychedelics can help clarify desires, dissolve limiting beliefs, and align with the universal flow of Divine Intelligence and abundance. “Like attracts like; we draw to ourselves that which aligns with our energy.”
The Law of Deliberate Creation:
How you talk, think, choose your thoughts, perception, emotions, actions you take, is determined by free will. It’s important to choose the energy you bring in, as well as put out into the universe. Abundance, success, well being, rays of light, and joy are worth being deliberate to create or receive. Ask your Divine Creator, the intelligent universe, for what you want to bring into all of the cells of your body, which have receptor sites for the energy you bring in. You’ll get back what you vibrate out, via the law of attraction, so filling the receptor sites with higher vibrations of energy will help you send out higher vibrations, which boomerang back to you through Source, others and countless manifestations throughout life.
The Law of Allowing:
The principle of least resistance, no friction, allowing the universe to support you. Faith is another word for it. Allow others to be as they are. Allow the universe to deliver all you desire. Releasing resistance opens us up to receive. Pushing against never works. Understanding the Law of Allowing will bring absolute freedom into your life.
The Law of Sufficiency and Abundance:
There’s a sliding scale. On one side is lack, where you feel worry, fear, upset feelings. The other side is abundance and complete well being. Staying at the side of gratitude and abundance through a positive mindset is key (repeating positive affirmations and praying out loud, and taking inspired action really helps if you’re stuck at the unwanted side of the poles). The middle ground is satisfaction, contentment. This is where you can rest safely when you are tired out from the joy and exhilaration of manifesting abundance and prosperity. It’s the resting point for a successful life. Watch your words and thoughts, your environment, and adjust accordingly. Be patient with yourself as you make the corrections to live your best life and remember you can change where you are on the scale of sufficiency and abundance at any time.
The Law of Pure Potentiality:
The true essence of who we are is pure consciousness. When we realize that our inner being is one of pure potentiality, we align with the power that manifests everything in the universe. Anything is possible and there is unlimited creativity available to us all. The universe knows no limits. The only limits are those we impose through our fears, doubt, uncertainties, lack of faith, or other lower level emotions. If you know and develop a relationship with Source, then act as if you are a part of Source, you will connect with pure potentiality. This is why meditation and communing with nature, especially while using psychedelic Sacrament, is so powerful.
The Law of Detachment:
In order to receive anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. It’s a state of trust; of detachment from the outcome. When you know that Source supports you and will give you what you need, (not necessarily what you want - that’s the ego’s job) you just do the work needed to be done and move forward. The results will take care of themselves. We are freed from gripping, doubt, worrying, fixating on the outcome. Trust in the perfect timing of the universe. Ask for, “This, or something even better!” Get out of the way - leave room for the universe’s manifestations.
The Law of Polarity:
Polarity represents the two extremes of one thing. Hot/cold, rich/poor, good/bad, love/hate. There are two poles (opposites) of everything. This is important because it allows you to understand the power of transformation. Everything has two aspects - often represented as that which is wanted and that which is unwanted. We get to choose where we focus our energy and intention. Another example of polarity is metaphysical/physical. We need to accept the whole and combine both in order to manifest what we truly desire in reality.
1/1 - New Beginnings
1/11 - Inspired Reality
2/2 - Balance and Harmony
2/22 - Harmonious Collaboration
3/3 - Positive Transformation
4/4 - Strong Foundation
April 19 - Bicycle Day
5/5 - Trust Intuition and Embrace Changes
6/6 - Love, Home and Family
7/7 - Universal Alignment and Spiritual Awakening
8/8 - Abundance and Prosperity
9/9 - Spiritual Growth
10/10 - Contemplation of Manifestation
October 15 - National Mushroom Day
11/11 - Sacrament of the Saints - Supported by your Angels
November 23 - National Fibonacci Day
12/12 - 1/1 - Clarity and Solace - A period of rest, self care, reflection, self love, and time with loved ones. If possible, don't work during this period.
All solstices and equinoxes, new moons and full moons, sunrises and sunsets are sacred and holy, as is this very moment.
At CotM, our mission is to enhance Members' support, as well as deepen Members' religious experiences, with or without the use of psychedelic medicines as Sacrament.
CotM was founded in October of 2024. It is currently being developed, creating Core Tenets of Faith, Legal References, Informational Archives, Private and Public Online Religious Journals, Trusted Network references, a Public Blog, a Private Forum, a Featured Artists' Section, and Membership Proof Materials, which all are aimed at enhancing support and harm prevention for its members, especially those who choose to use psychedelics as Religious Sacrament.
Please follow us on Facebook, Instagram, or sign up below, using your email address, to follow our progress and eventual opening, when we welcome New Members! This is expected by June of 2025 or sooner.
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The finished website will have a plethora of information, links, resources, and collaborative functions. The coming website is being built on another platform with dedication, as this platform wasn't compatible with CotM's needs.
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