Words of Wakeup

Many spiritual traditions speak about living from the heart, but what does that actually mean? Why does it matter? And how can our church’s plant sacrament, Ayahuasca, help us reconnect with it? I’d also like to share some of my own experience with this journey. The Mission of SOULS The mission of SOULS is to help all beings awaken to their true spiritual nature through a direct experience with the divine. To me, awakening means shifting from identifying only as a human being

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

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

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