We believe in the 5 components of ceremony, created by Reverend Brianna Lynn.

1)-Intention (present to what is or escape what is?)

2)-Set and setting is sacred (safe for everyone involved)

3)-Facilitator, who is supporting you? (Are you self facilitating?) Who is responsible?

4)-Medicine? Where did it come from? Who prayed over It and who received money for it?

5)
-Integration. Space to digest ceremony afterward.

-Before each congregant receives sacrament, they go through a medical screening, are cleared, they read and understand our bylaws, as well as procedures and policies and sign an informed consent form.



-Congregants are informed of a general diet to follow beforehand: Avoiding pork and red meat, alcohol and processed sweets. They are encouraged to eat whole foods, limiting caffeine, drinking water, and to focus on nourishing fruits and vegetables.

-Congregants are advised to minimize the amount of media they consume before going into ceremony.



-Each congregant is informed that they are able to reach out to a facilitator of the church to have them be a check in before and after their self facilitated ceremony at home through a phone number given to each congregant when they receive their sacraments.

-We strongly suggest they use a facilitator at the church or a trusted friend or family member to check in with them before and after their self facilitated ceremony.

-We also want our congregants to know there are many external resources available to them. Such as: Fireside Project, Sean Chiddy (Licensed Psychotherapist) and Microdosing Humboldt (individual integration support coaching) to those that seek 1:1 mentorship and integration support.


-Monthly integration circles are also available to our community. They are held online, once a month for congregants participating in self facilitated ceremony. 

These are hosted by Humboldt Psychedelic Society.

-Each congregant’s sacraments are sang to and blessed before they receive them.

-Congregants receive a pamphlet about proper dosage.

-We encourage congregants to explore the range of dose between .05g and 5g.

-We also encourage congregants to muscle test (they are shown how) and soul connect with themselves about what dosage is correct for their communion with the divine. 


-We believe the way someone experiences communion with the divine through sacrament is different for each person and unique to their own individual and sovereign lives.

We suggest:

-Finding a safe space where you won’t be interrupted for 4-8 hours (maybe longer).

-If inside, clean the space so you won’t be worrying about it during your ceremony.

-Feel free to create a cozy space for yourself with pillows and blankets.

-Bring photos or create a playlist that you might want to listen to.

-Create an altar with any important objects you might want to be with you on your journey. These may include objects that represent the elements air, fire, earth, water and or the spirit of the mushroom.

-If you are outside, find some way to honor nature. (Nature art, song, an offering),

-Have a safe person sit with you or be on call. Have a check in time with them after your ceremony.

-Set an intention for your ceremony

-Make sure you are hydrated and have eaten clean healthy foods the day of.

-Give thanks, say a prayer or nod your head to those that brought the sacrament to your community (Ex: Maria Sabina)

-Find ways to integrate through a support circle (either with Hypha Humboldt Community) or with friends, or a journaling practice

-Take your sacrament with reverence.

We encourage congregants who cannot be with us in person on the equinoxes and solstices to also partake in their own ceremonies at home. Rituals at home can include: 


WATER: Spring Equinox Ceremony-March 20 (Water)

-Sticking your hands and feet in the cold creek or body of water, feeling the icy cool and or warm water and how alive it makes you feel.

-Contemplating water as connection in nature, the way it is connected to every plant, tree, and mushroom. You are also part of this cosmic water web. Water flows through me and you. Contemplating the cleansing and transformative powers of water.

-Going pee outside! The water you take in is going back into the same place it came from. 

-Speaking blessings to any body of water (mine happens to be a beautiful creek near my home)-photo attached below 

-Offering a flower or a piece of hair, or a little bit of sacrament to the creek.

-Speaking blessings into your water bottle before you drink (blessings of gratitude)


Fire: Summer Solstice Ceremony June 21st (Fire)

-Creating a fire in a safe place (as long as there are no fire bans)

-Or lighting a candle inside

-Create a wreath out of sticks, flowers, grasses, herbs.

-Contemplating impermanence, letting go, new cycles of rebirth. The way that fire is a sacred tool for transformation and rebirth.

-Honoring through contemplation the ways fire is essential to our survival and fullest expression of life. From cooking, to warmth, to transformation through heat (such as sweat lodge).

-Examining the ways fire lives inside of us: from emotional expression, to the ways in which we carry and create our own warmth.

-Congregants can write down anything they would like to let go of, transform, shed, or release from their lives and burn the paper in the fire, or with the candle or even in a metal pot. They can also weave these into their wreaths.

-The wreath can also be burned (in a safe place). The flowers are burned, herbs are burned, and our words, habits, people, emotions, traumas and fears are burned in the fire that have been woven into the wreath.

-We understand that energy is neither created or destroyed, only transformed.

Earth: Fall Equinox Ceremony Sept 22nd/23rd (Earth)

-Go out in nature and honor the 4 directions by saying hello and what your name is.

-Go out in nature and find a plant or tree spirit you connect with .

-Ask It permission to form an alliance.

-Bring it an offering such as water or a piece of your hair from your head or milk.

-Envision a door or curtain in front of the plant spirit, and with the plant’s permission, ask if you can enter into the plant’s world.

-When you are there, ask if it has any information for you, any usages, or if there’s anything we should know.

-If nothing is coming to you, you can imagine the plant is like a character in a movie and imagine how it would be talking and what it would be saying to you.

-Bring yourself back by clapping three times, pull your earlobes, say your name, and then say goodbye and thanks to the 4 directions.

-Contemplate your own internal ecosystem, and the way that it reflects the current ecosystem of the earth.

-Are there small actionable steps you can take to become more balanced internally or externally? With kindness, and without blame, shame or judgement? 


Air: Winter Equinox Ceremony December 21st (Air)

-This ceremony is about the shadow, the underworld, persephone, the dark of the winter and also about birth. “The two sides of the same coin.”

-The space in between the breath is asked to be focused on.

-Contemplate your relationship with air, the amount of breaths you take per day: about 30,000 
-The quality of the air you are breathing-contemplate this. Does it need some gratitude? Some cleansing?

-Breath-work practice suggestions: Wim Hoff, 360 breathing, box breathing, Chakra breathing.

-Have a journaling practice: what is asking to be born from the other side?

-What is asking to be looked at in the underworld? In the underworld of your psyche?

-Baking bread and cold plunging are also rituals that symbolize birth and renewal (rising of the bread/pregnant belly). Bread is baked on the night of the equinox and ate at sunrise. 
-Congregants are invited to watch the sunrise on the morning of the equinox.

Closure

-Find a way to close your ceremony. This could look like; bowing your head, bringing your hands into prayer, lighting a candle, burning your intentions in a fire, putting your hands on your heart and belly, kneeing and bowing.


In case of an emergency, please dial your ‘on call’ person.

If you need immediate assistance have your on call person dial 911.

If you are able to, call 911 yourself.

Black voices in psychedelics:

Black People Trip Online community created by Robin Divine

Doorway Therapeutic Services with Courtney Watson

Chacruna .Net’s website under: Psychedelic Justice/Race

Queer and non-binary voices in psychedelics

Chacruna .Net’s website under:Gender Queer/ Queering Psychedlics

Voices for Veterans:

Heroic Hearts Project

Read up on:

History of the Mushroom (BIPOC and Anti-War ‘hippies’) Please honor Maria Sabina,, and her and her son’s story.

Integration support:

Microdosing Humboldt: Microdosing Coaching and Integration Support. 1:1 Ceremony.

Kris Coffman: Psychedelic integration and Therapy in Humboldt County

Madeline June Preparation and Integration support

Sarah Howatt Preparation and Integration support. 1:1 Ceremony.

Amber Dawn: Coaching and Ayurvedic food recipes and support after ceremony.

Humboldt Psychedelic Commons: Monthy Integration Support Circle Via zoom First Friday of Every Month

If you’re looking for peer support during or after a psychedelic experience: contact Fireside Project by calling or texting 6-2FIRESIDE