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This is something many spiritual traditions speak about, but I think it’s worth asking directly: What does it really mean to live from the heart? Why is it important? And how can our church’s plant sacrament, Ayahuasca, help us reconnect with it? I also want to share some of my own experience with how this process helped me come back into my own heart. The Mission of SOULS The mission of SOULS is to help all beings awaken to their true spiritual nature through a direct experi

Jake sat in his first ceremony this month, May 2026. After time in the military and decades of disconnection from the heart, he has found a love within greater than ever imagined. It’s all in my heart. Since the ceremony, there’s been this beautiful feeling awakening inside me — this overwhelming sense of love in the most beautiful way. More than anything, I feel immense gratitude: gratitude for the journey, but also, for the first time in my life, gratitude for myself. I’ve

Understanding Ego Death in Ceremony When people first come into ceremony, one of the most common questions they ask is about ego death: what it means, and what the experience is actually like. It’s a term that gets used frequently in psychedelic and spiritual circles, yet it’s often left unexplained or stripped of context. There’s an implicit assumption that once you experience it, you’ll understand—but it’s still worth exploring more carefully. Before going further, it’s imp

As we walk down the spiritual path, it is important to keep the personal goal of awakening to our divine nature foremost in our minds. One thing I have noticed, both in my own spiritual path and among many I am privileged to observe on theirs, are the many "ego traps" that can arise and slow this process down. Early in my own journey, it felt like both my soul and ego were aligned with the medicine path. My soul wanted to awaken, and my ego was frustrated/depressed/anxious

Tobin Marsh has led an adventurous, unconventional life. Raised six years in Japan, from a young age he felt drawn to different cultures and questions of human suffering. Tobin answered his early spiritual longings through extensive solo travels, wilderness backpacking, hopping freight trains, and long journeys on foot through remote corners of Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and China. He has degrees in International Affairs and a Master’s in Theology. For 25 years Tobin was a d

The mission of SOULS Church is to: Assist all beings in awakening to their divine nature through direct spiritual experience so they may live, grow, and serve with love, purpose, joy and peace Elevate the consciousness of all of humanity by supporting our collective awakening Create heart-centered spiritual healers and leaders of divine service Create a community of awakening beings For the first two years of SOULS Church, our sole mission was to support individual awakening

“My path is service. My service is SOULS. And it makes me really, really happy.” For this month’s Wakey Wakey spotlight, we chatted with Susanita about the origin of SOULS and were honored to learn of the heart-opening journey that started it all. She took us back to the very beginning, well before the clarity of a mission, to a series of life experiences that gradually and powerfully reshaped her understanding of service, community, and love. Raised in a secular Jewish envir

More than a year before we launched The Sanctuary of Universal Love and Service (SOULS), I was shown that a new container wanted to be birthed for our sacred work. I would go into the field and receive information, downloads, and energetics about the new container that wanted to come into existence. I would like to say that I fully embraced the idea the first time it came into my field. But like many things from the spirit realm, it first came in as a whisper. And as we all

When I started my spiritual journey, I was on a quest to feel better. I needed a way out of the depression, anxiety, and lack of purpose that had gripped my life. I knew something was not quite right with me, but was unable to sort it out using conventional means (ie self-help, therapy, etc...). At that time, my mindset was very "Western" - find the right pill, find the right therapy, find the right self-help book, find the right workout, find the right relationship, find th