What We Protect, What We Build w/ Teopixqui Dez & Threadkeeper Sara
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
Teopixqui Dez and Threadkeeper Sara sit down in the communal space while folding educational pamphlets and talk candidly about something every real community eventually faces… criticism, misunderstanding, and the need to protect what’s being built. What starts as a conversation about online reviews turns into a bigger reflection on boundaries, generosity, access, and the difference between a movement built on healing and an industry built on profit. Dez and Sara speak openly about a hostile online comment that showed up in response to one of the church’s public event posts, and use it as...
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Sermon: The Alchemist’s Work and the Steward’s Heart
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
Teopixqui Dez opens by grounding the community in gratitude, momentum, and the ongoing growth of the Colorado Psychedelic Church. As the church moves closer to major expansion, Dez reminds the congregation that community is not passive… it is built through action, care, and shared responsibility. This sermon continues the teaching series on the Seven Psyches, the personality traits that allow a community to flourish across time… from the first pack to the future. Bondsmith Rich speaks on the Steward, the one who tends to the rhythms, needs, and wellness of the community. Drawing from...
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Two Christian Childhoods, Two Very Different Religions w/ Oracle Richard & Threadkeeper Sara
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
Oracle Richard and Threadkeeper Sarah sit down for a deeply personal conversation about growing up in two very different Christian traditions… Sarah in a culturally and religiously Catholic world on the East Coast, and Richard in a homeschooled evangelical Pentecostal environment that functioned almost like a complete social bubble. What unfolds is a thoughtful, funny, and at times heavy reflection on what it means to be shaped by religion long before you ever choose it for yourself. They talk about the stark differences between Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism… from authority,...
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Sermon: The Guardian’s Call and the Weaver’s Truth
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
Community doesn’t sustain itself… people do. In this week’s continuation of the Seven Psyches series, Teopixqui Dez opens with powerful updates—celebrating a packed 420 event and sharing momentum toward a new, larger church space—before turning the focus to two essential roles within any thriving community. Through the voices of clergy: Farmacist Castle explores the Guardian — the one who protects, supports, and steps in when harm is near… not always through confrontation, but through presence, awareness, and action when it matters most. Bahn Fasa Maya brings forward the Weaver...
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Building Modern Spirituality with Timeless Entheogens
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
After speaking at PsyCon in Denver, Teopixqui Dez brings that message back home and expands on a subject that sits at the heart of the Colorado Psychedelic Church… how do we build modern spirituality around timeless entheogens and sacred compounds in a way that is sincere, ethical, and healing? This talk explores the idea of perennialism… the belief that the world’s religions and spiritual traditions share recurring universal truths. From there, Teopixqui Dez walks through what many traditions already seem to agree on: that we are more than our bodies… that these medicines are not...
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Sermon: The Seven Psyches - The Sage & The Warden
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
What does a healthy community actually require to survive… not just in theory, but in real life? In this message, Teopixqui Dez continues the series on The Seven Psyches… the core personality archetypes that allow any community to function, grow, and protect itself. After introducing the Sojourner last week, this gathering expands into two more essential roles: The Sage — the one who listens, studies, and translates truth across many “languages” of understanding The Warden — the one who recognizes harm and stands against it… protecting the community from malice Through...
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The Cartag Story: Safe Enough to Stay
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
What does it look like to go from agoraphobia… panic attacks… and years inside the mental health system… …to finding a place where you feel safe enough to stay? In this conversation, Oracle Richard sits down with community member Cartag, whose journey into the Colorado Psychedelic Church began not with curiosity… …but necessity. After years of struggling with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, and what he later recognized as autistic burnout, Cartag reached a point where something had to change. Traditional approaches weren’t working. Progress had stalled. So he searched....
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Sermon: The Seven Psyches - The Sojourner
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
What does it take to build a community that can hold you steady when the world feels like it’s burning down? In this message, Teopixqui Dez opens a new monthly theme centered on the Seven Psyches… recurring roles that help real community thrive. The first of those is the Sojourner: the person who goes out, has the experience, finds the lesson, and brings that wisdom back for the benefit of others. Drawing from psychology, spirituality, community-building, and lived experience, Teopixqui Dez explores what it means to become someone who doesn’t just survive hard lessons… but transforms...
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The Rob K. Story: Awe Without Dogma
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
What happens when someone who identifies as an atheist… and someone who leads a psychedelic church… sit down and actually listen to each other? In this conversation, ThreadKeeper Sarah is joined by community member Rob K., who shares his journey from isolation, anxiety, and persistent shame… into something quieter, lighter, and more grounded. Before finding the Colorado Psychedelic Church, Rob describes living in a constant mental loop — replaying guilt, anticipating conflict, and feeling stuck in what he calls “ruts” of thought. Despite years of self-study and introspection,...
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Sermon: What the Sacrament Changed in Us
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
With Dez out sick, ThreadKeeper Sarah steps in to lead a very different kind of Tuesday night gathering… one built not around teaching, but around testimony. Instead of defining sacrament in abstract terms, the community turns toward story. Why do people keep showing up on Tuesday nights? Why does sacrament matter enough to build a spiritual practice around it? What happened in these journeys that could not have happened any other way? Sarah opens the evening by inviting everyone to reflect on the moments that changed them… the visions, memories, emotional breakthroughs, releases, and...
info_outlineIn this sermon, Teopixqui Dez explores a powerful idea at the heart of the Colorado Psychedelic Church’s philosophy: the creation of a “divine us.”
While each individual carries their own divinity, something extraordinary happens when people come together in community. The collective energy, care, responsibility, and time shared among individuals can create something larger than any one person — a force capable of healing, strengthening, and even saving lives.
But Dez also reminds the congregation that divinity requires humility. Passion without grounding can become destructive, and even leaders must remain accountable to the community they serve.
Through stories, reflection, and a moment of transparency about leadership decisions, this sermon invites listeners to consider the giants they build through their relationships — and whether those giants truly serve them.
Because every relationship, every gathering, and every moment spent together contributes to the divine presence we create as a community.
And the question becomes:
Do the giants you create nurture you… or harm you?
In This Sermon
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Why recognizing our own divinity must include humility
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The danger of passion without direction
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A transparent look into leadership decisions behind the pulpit
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How community accountability strengthens spiritual leadership
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The concept of the “divine us” created through shared time and intention
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Why relationships shape the spiritual forces around us
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How community can heal in ways individuals cannot
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The responsibility each person carries in shaping collective energy
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The impact of toxic relationships and “toxic giants”
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Why tending to our relationships is part of revering the self
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Real stories of healing and life-changing support found in community
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How shared time creates the most powerful form of spiritual connection
Community Announcements
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The Colorado Psychedelic Church will be participating in Colorado Springs Pride this year. Volunteers are welcome to help build the float and represent the community.
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The church will also participate in the Manitou Springs Coffin Races later this year, with build events planned for community members.
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Work is underway to transform the backyard into a communal outdoor space, and volunteers are needed for everything from landscaping to organizing.
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Parents’ Night Out events will be hosted monthly by Threadkeeper Sarah to provide parents with an evening of rest and connection.
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Artists in the community are invited to contribute designs to expand the church’s art card program, which supports artists while building community currency.
Contact & Learn More
Colorado Psychedelic Church
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Website: coloradopsychedelicchurch.com
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And as always —
The universe provides, and we revel within.