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08/29/2026

🍄‍🟫🍁Come celebrate Mabon online with us: September 20 at 6:30 pm EST.

🍁Mabon is the Pagan celebration of the autumn harvest and the turning of the Wheel of the Year toward the darker half. It is a season of gratitude, balance, reciprocity, release, and preparation.

🍄‍🟫This year, our celebration falls just two days before the autumnal equinox on September 22, when the Sun crosses the celestial equator and day and night are approximately equal. Summer gives way to autumn, day shorten, and the growing season begins its gradual winding down toward dormancy.

🍁Mabon reminds us that harvest isn’t only what we gather from the garden. There are harvests in our lives, too: lessons learned, relationships nurtured, grief transformed, intentions realized, and growth that may have been invisible until now. We honor what the Earth has given us AND what we have grown within ourselves.

🍄‍🟫Join Church Of Our Earth on September 20 for a seasonal gathering of Community as we honor the Earth, the changing light, the harvest, and the wisdom of letting go.

🍄‍🟫🍁Sign up by Bio

08/28/2026

STRAIN SPOTLIGHT: FLYING SAUCERS

🍄‍🟫 Psilocybe azurescens is a potent wood-loving species known for intense visual effects, powerful physical sensations, vivid sensory enhancement, deep introspection, and immersive experiences. Reports describe vivid visuals, waves of physical sensation, altered time perception, and a distinctly expansive or cosmic quality.

🍄‍🟫 Unlike the commonly encountered Psilocybe cubensis, P. azurescens is associated with wood-rich coastal environments of the Pacific Northwest.

🍄‍🟫 ONSET & DURATION

Onset: Subjective reports commonly describe noticeable effects beginning within approximately 20 to 45 minutes and can accelerate quickly.

Peak Effects: The strongest effects generally develop during the first several hours, bringing intense visuals, physical sensations, time distortion, emotional amplification, and major cognitive changes.

Total Duration: The experience generally unfolds over several hours, with sustained intensity followed by a gradual return toward baseline.

🍄‍🟫 USER EXPERIENCES

Across first-person reports from Erowid, Shroomery, Drugs-Forum, and Reddit, recurring descriptions include vivid colors and geometric patterns; objects melting, stretching, breathing or merging; altered spatial perception; intense closed-eye imagery; waves of bodily sensation; heaviness or deep physical relaxation; intensified music and sensory perception; time distortion; euphoria; introspection; interconnectedness; ego dissolution; and mystical states.

Colors become environments and patterns become three-dimensional. Objects appear to melt, stretch or merge, while time becomes elastic. Familiar spaces can suddenly feel unfamiliar. The body can feel extraordinarily heavy or integrated with the surrounding environment. At the deepest levels, the distinction between self and experience can become difficult to maintain.

These reports suggest that P. azurescens is defined not simply by intensity, but by immersiveness. That combination of vivid visual phenomena, altered spatial perception, powerful bodily sensations, time distortion, and immersion gives the Flying Saucer its distinctive reputation across decades of reports.

08/27/2026

🌑 Eclipse season comes to an end with a deep partial lunar eclipse, creating an almost blood moon will peak late Thursday night into Friday morning on August 27–28, 2026. It begins at 9:23 p.m. ET on Aug. 27 and end at 3:01 a.m. ET the next day. It peaks at 12:12 a.m. ET

🌕 There are solid arguments for being sober at this time. There are also good ones to be made for diving more heavily into your mushroom practice. Both are valid. How you approach eclipse time depends on how you are feeling.

🌑 Experience One: Let the Eclipse Be the Medicine

There is an argument for not taking a microdose at all during a lunar eclipse. The premise being that you don’t need to add anything to an experience already asking you to slow down, turn inward, and pay attention. A lunar eclipse has long carried symbolic associations with shadow, endings, revelation, release and transformation. Whether or not we believe the eclipse itself produces a measurable energetic effect, there is something psychologically powerful about watching the Moon disappear into Earth’s shadow and slowly return.

Instead of reaching for a mushroom, you could sit beneath the eclipsed Moon and ask:
What is being revealed?
What am I ready to release?
What have I been unable or unwilling to see? The experience becomes an exercise in presence rather than alteration.

In this version, the celestial event is the ritual and your own consciousness is the sacrament. You might journal, meditate, walk outside, or sit in silence and watch the eclipse unfold. There is something particularly revealing about experiencing the eclipse sober because you get to what arises without introducing another variable. Maybe the lesson is that you don’t always need to take something to go deeper. Sometimes the most powerful psychedelic experience is simply paying extraordinarily close attention to what is already happening inside you.

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08/26/2026

A question is emerging in psychedelic science, one Church Of Our Earth finds compelling:

What if the beings people encounter on DMT are not hallucinations produced by the brain, but experiences involving other conscious agents outside our perceptual access?

Researchers Donald Hoffman, a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine, Andrew Gallimore, a neurobiologist studying extended-state DMT, and Niffe Hermansson are exploring this possibility in a preprint called Traces of the Other. Their framework, conscious realism, proposes that consciousness may be fundamental and that the physical world functions as an interface through which consciousness interacts with reality.

DMT is fascinating because people report encountering beings: entities, teachers, jesters, insect-like beings and geometric intelligences. These encounters can feel like meeting someone who is already there.

According to the article, humans reportedly appear in fewer than 5% of these experiences, while non-human entities are common. Why would the psychedelic brain so generate apparently independent beings that have little resemblance to the people, animals or characters encountered in dreams or ordinary hallucinations? This does not prove these entities are independent of the mind, but it raises a question worth investigating.

The researchers are proposing ways to test whether these entities might access information the person could not obtain through ordinary perception. Extended-state DMT might allow scientists to ask an entity questions and compare the answers with hidden information. If an entity repeatedly provided verifiable information above chance, it would force us to reconsider what is happening.

Church Of Our Earth is interested because we take reports of contact seriously while believing extraordinary claims deserve extraordinary investigation. We do not have to declare that DMT entities are real to recognize that this phenomenon is profound, and that science should investigate whether something more than hallucination is occurring.

The question is not “Do we believe in DMT entities?” It is: “Can we design an experiment that might tell us?”

Exciting times!!👽🛸

08/25/2026

🍄‍🟫 Psilocybin may act less like a drug that simply suppresses pain and more like a catalyst for changing the nervous system’s relationship with pain. At least three pieces of research support this possibility.

🍄‍🟫 First, a 2024 review in the British Journal of Pharmacology from University of Reading researchers examined the emerging evidence for psilocybin in chronic pain. The authors proposed that its effects could involve both 5-HT2A signaling and neuroplastic changes in brain regions involved in pain processing. This established a biological framework for understanding why a brief psychedelic experience might produce effects that outlast the drug itself.

🍄‍🟫 Then, 2026 animal research from the University of Reading provided striking evidence that goes beyond conventional analgesia. A single dose of psilocybin produced sustained changes in neuropathic pain behavior for weeks and enhanced the later effectiveness of gabapentin. The researchers also found that the effects were primarily mediated through 5-HT2A receptors. The finding suggests that psilocybin may be changing the pain system itself, rather than simply temporarily blocking pain.

🍄‍🟫 Now, an August 2026 human pilot study of phantom limb pain brings the question into people. Phantom limb pain is particularly revealing because the pain persists even though the limb is gone; it involves altered central pain processing and representation. Participants receiving psilocybin showed a preliminary signal of reduced pain that persisted beyond the acute psychedelic experience.

🍄‍🟫 Together, these studies create a compelling progression: a proposed mechanism, persistent changes in an animal model of nerve pain, and an early human signal in a condition rooted in altered neural pain processing.

🍄‍🟫 The larger possibility is that psilocybin temporarily makes the nervous system more capable of change, creating an opportunity for entrenched pain-processing patterns to be reorganized.

🍄‍🟫 Psilocybin may therefore be doing something fundamentally different from simply killing pain. It may help a nervous system that has learned chronic pain learn something different.

DM for more 🍄‍🟫 information.

08/24/2026

🍄‍🟫 We are so excited to have another great speaker tonight!! Lindsey Lerner is speaking tonight at our one of a kind lecture series and educational program; Psychedelics and Plant Allies in End of Life Care.

🍄‍🟫 Lindsey holds a Doctorate in Psychology in Clinical Psychology and focuses on: Trauma/PTSD, End of Life Concerns, Gender and Sexuality, Addiction and Co-Dependency, Chronic Pain, and Relationship Issues. She completed training with Innertrek to become a fully licensed Psilocybin Facilitator in the state of Oregon and an Entheogen Assisted Therapies Certificate at Lewis and Clark. #

🍄‍🟫 Lindsey currently facilitates psilocybin sessions out of Immersive Therapies in NW Portland and 7 Gates Sanctuary and in SE Portland.

🍄‍🟫 While this year’s cohort is full - please sign up for information on the replay of our lecture series, which will be available later this year, and to be amongst the first to know educational opportunities in 2027. The link to do so is by our bio.

08/23/2026

SUNDAY STRAIN SPOTLIGHT

🍄‍🟫 Manna From Heaven is a potent P***s Envy–associated variety, often identified by cultivators as Manna From Heaven APE or MFH PE. It is known for distinctive fruits and a reputation for unusually strong psychedelic effects. Users frequently describe intense visuals, immersive altered states and laughter, introspection and a feeling of entering a different perceptual space. Experiences can be euphoric and uplifting, but also intense.

🍄‍🟫 ONSET & DURATION

Onset: Effects typically begin within 20 to 60 minutes, although food, preparation, metabolism and individual sensitivity can affect timing.

Peak Effects: Effects generally intensify during the first 1 to 2 hours, with visual and perceptual changes becoming increasingly pronounced.

Total Duration: A typical experience is often reported around 4 to 6 hours, although some MFH/APE users report considerably longer experiences.

🍄‍🟫 USER EXPERIENCES

Users describe powerful visual hallucinations, geometric patterns, enhanced colors, shifting surfaces and elaborate closed-eye imagery. Commonly reported effects include euphoria, laughter, heightened appreciation of music and nature, altered time perception, introspection, emotional release, interconnectedness and profound personal realizations. Some describe mystical or transcendent experiences and temporary dissolution of self. Others report physical heaviness. Its most consistent reputation is strength and depth rather than one predictable emotional effect.

🍄‍🟫 DOSAGE RECOMMENDATIONS

Because Manna From Heaven APE is considered unusually potent and mushrooms can vary in strength, effects should not be predicted from weight alone. Very small amounts may produce subtle perceptual or mood changes; moderate experiences can bring sensory enhancement, visual activity and introspection; stronger experiences may produce immersive hallucinations, major alterations in time and identity, and ego-dissolution experiences. P***s Envy genetics are often reported as stronger than conventional cubensis at an equivalent weight.

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08/22/2026

A new study, published in Nature this week, is offers support for anyone believing psychedelic ceremony is about more than ingesting a substance.

Researchers have been working with the “entropic brain” theory, one suggesting that psychedelics disrupt the brain’s ordinary patterns and loosen the boundaries between networks that normally operate separately. This new study expands upon this concept.

Researchers studied 62 people who’d never taken psychedelics, using fMRI and EEG while participants rested, meditated, listened to music and watched a movie before and after psilocybin. They found that the psychedelic brain was not simply becoming chaotic. Its activity became dynamically organized around the person’s environment. What was happening around them was reflected in what was happening inside their brains.

The researchers call the subjective experience associated with this “embeddedness” - feeling continuous with, rather than separate from, the environment. People who reported stronger feelings of unity and dissolution of the boundary between themselves and their surroundings showed stronger alignment between their brain activity and external context.

At Church Of Our Earth, ceremony has never been about the mushroom alone and the implications of this study for entheogenic spirituality are vast.

The people present, intentions set, playlist curated, co-created ritual, interplay of the natural world, and the actual ceremonial space itself all matter. This research shows us that set and setting may not simply influence how a psychedelic experience feels. The environment may actually become part of the brain’s organization during the experience.

For an Earth-centered entheogenic church, that is a profound idea. Our ceremonies are designed around relationship, with each other, with nature, with the Earth, with the sacred and with ourselves. This research suggests that during a psychedelic experience, those relationships may become part of the way the brain itself is organizing consciousness.

The mushroom may open the door, but what surrounds us may help shape what we experience on the other side.

08/21/2026

Listening to the first panel of the World Mushroom Forum where Church Of Our Earth is a very proud Media Partner, I was blown away –

🍄‍🟫 Panel 1 spoke on Mushroom Science.

In the first 90 minutes of this groundbreaking inaugural event, I listened to Chase Beathard, PhD, MBA, Director of Research & Development at
Fungi Perfecti LLC Fungi Perfecti® talk about Agarikon, the importance of testing, and the joy of working with Paul Stamets Paul Stamets.

Julia Farina PhD Mycolillas ,’Senior Researcher at CONICET lead a fascinating discussion about micro remediation of cigarette butts and the latest Beta-glucan research.

And Ian M.B. who co-founded Hyphae Labs Hyphae Labs, helped pioneer community-accessible potency testing, and co-created the Psilocybin Cup spoke on a wide range of topics from fighting the Emerald Ash Borer with fungi to making cordyceps tempeh while also giving the most excellent quotes:
“Fungi are the original biochemists,” and one that resonated in particular with the citizen scientist in me:

“F**k around and find out, but also write it down.”

And this was only Panel One!

A huge thank you to Dennis Dennis Walker and Oli The Fungi Consultant for putting this together – Tickets are still available. Use our discount code: CHURCH10

Feeling truly honored and blessed to be part of this amazing 🍄‍🟫 community

Tickets available below:
https://dandelion.events/e/ worldmushroomforum

08/20/2026

🍄‍🟫 A new study published this week in JAMA Network Open provides some of the first longitudinal data on what happens when people use psilocybin in an actual regulated service system rather than inside a clinical trial.

🍄‍🟫 Researchers followed 346 adults after they received a single psilocybin session with licensed facilitators at 24 Oregon service centers. Participants reported on their mental health and well-being before the session and again at one week, one month and three months. More than 90% completed the three-month follow-up.

🍄‍🟫 At three months, participants reported reduced symptoms of depression, anxiety and PTSD, along with improved mental well-being and life satisfaction. At one month, 91.5% said they benefited from the experience, and 64.9% ranked it among the 10 most meaningful experiences of their lives.

🍄‍🟫 Only four participants (1.2%), all people using psychedelics for the first time, experienced behavioral reactions requiring medical attention. Serious adverse events were uncommon, and no participant reported a serious physical-health event related to the session. Seven people reported the experience as harmful three months later.

🍄‍🟫 This study is different because it concerns real clients using a functioning, regulated psychedelic service system, not carefully selected participants in a laboratory trial. Oregon has now had more than 20,000 people access licensed psilocybin services.

🍄‍🟫 The study did not have a control group, so the researchers cannot establish that psilocybin itself caused the improvements. Participants also tended to be healthier and wealthier than the general Oregon population.

🍄‍🟫 Still, the findings provide an important piece of evidence about what happens when psychedelic services move beyond clinical research and into a regulated, real-world setting.

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