Long before anyone signed the Declaration of Independence, people came to this land fleeing kings and churches that told them how to worship. By 1776, that same instinct — that conscience shouldn't answer to a crown — had become a political revolution too. Two hundred and fifty years later, that document still carries both threads: a claim that certain rights don't come from government, and government doesn't get to take them away. I've thought about that claim a lot over the

Psanctuary Is a Church. Full Stop. I don't like loopholes. Exploitation in any form is unethical. And yet I understand why people assume that's what Psanctuary is; a legal workaround, a clever dodge dressed up in religious language. That assumption didn't come from nowhere. The "war on drugs" spent decades convincing an entire generation that altering one's consciousness was inherently immoral. There could be no redeeming value to "drugs" unless, of course, they were the sanc

We don't need more research on psilocybin. We don't need to read more trip reports or more Netflix documentaries on the subject. We need to start building a relationship with these most magical of mushrooms. I say that as someone who spent over a decade mainly studying them — and I mean that as a confession, not a credential. This is not to say research doesn't have its place. But in many ways, we have the process backwards. For the first ten years of my relationship with sac

Like the mushrooms we love, Psanctuary needs resources and space to grow. In 2025, we saw a substantial dip in funding, and in order to continue offering this powerful work, we need your help.