'Fantastic Fungi' and Paul Stamets (film)

Paul Stamets, Fungi Perfecti, mycology and medicinals (fungi.com)

Ethan Covey and Doc Kelley (L) with Garcia Peoples at “Bardo Bath: Weylin,” Dec. 2022

• Screenings (fantasticfungi.com)

(TED Talks) Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world

The Psychedelic Sangha

Welcome home, Misfit Seekers! TPS holds space for Psychedelic Buddhism. TPS promotes a non-sectarian and non-traditional approach to Buddhism that values the spiritual efficacy of psychedelics on the Path, not to mention great music and art.

The Psychedelic Sangha was cofounded in 2018 as a spiritual refuge for Buddhistic Psychonauts and Psychedelic Buddhists — “misfit seekers” — looking for a safe place to practice.

The practitioner-based sangha (“spiritual community”) is oriented around a threefold approach to holding space: Incubation, Invocation, and Integration — what has been dubbed as the Third Eye System © 2023.

psychedelicsangha.org

Incubation is Step One and refers to all sober preparatory events, such as Morning Meditation on IG Live (Monday-Friday) or weekly Sunday Sit series on Zoom. Also included in this category is the Speaker Series and upcoming conference, Psychedelic Buddhism 2024.

Invocation is Step Two and includes “dose-friendly” events, such as the Bardo Bath Series, Psychedelic Severance, Vibing Vajrasattva, and Museum Meets (aka “Museum Dose”). These events are designed to provide a safe space for exploration, with onsite risk/harm reduction facilitators.

Integration is Step Three, the final step: reintegrate the pieces through a sober peer-to-peer sharing circle and group sit. There is no therapy, just community validation and a safe space to be heard.

TPS also offers a comprehensive 6-8-week private cohort program with a carefully designed course of study and practice that guides practitioners through all three phases of this Third Eye System. The next private cohort is starting fall-winter 2024.

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Entheogens bring out the divine within

The definition of “psychedelic” is an altered state of consciousness that helps reveal the nature of mind and reality — regardless of whether it is drug-induced, meditation-induced, or life-induced [even death-induced for anyone.

TPS always seeks friends and collaborators who want to create great Dharma Art. Please feel free to email TPS. And join the mailing list below to receive bi-monthly communiqué, The Oracle: “All Things to Come.”

TPS invite everyone to exercise cognitive liberty and join for a transformative experience.

Love,

The Psychedelic Sangha

• CONTACT: hq@psychedelicsangha.org

“The challenge is to imagine and then create a communal structure that works, not in theory, but in practice. We must be ready to learn from whatever historical alternative models already exist: from the noncelibate yogic tradition of the Tibetan Nyingma school to the Japanese system of hereditary priests, and to proceed free from attachment to the outcome. We also need to learn from history’s mistakes and work to create a sang­ha that is no longer ridden with the sectarianism, dogmatism, authoritarianism, and sexism endem­ic to many Asian traditions.”

— Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

“It is possible the next Buddha will not take the form of [a heroic] individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community, a community practicing understanding and lovingkindness, a community practicing mindful living. And the practice can be carried out as a group, as a city, as a nation.”

— Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh

• Louie Schwartzberg (fantasticfungi.com); Paul Stamets (fungi.org, TED Talks); PsychedelicSangha.org; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly