Sermon: What Does It Mean to Pray When You Are Divine?
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
Release Date: 03/24/2026
Sermon: Protection Is an Active Effort
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
In this sermon, Teopixqui Dez opens with gratitude for the community and reminds everyone that community does not happen passively… it happens when people choose to show up, step out of isolation, and create the “divine us” together. Dez shares excitement about the church’s upcoming new space, with a planned grand opening around June 1st, possible pre-opening lounge night, updates coming to the website, and opportunities for the congregation to help prepare the building. The heart of the sermon focuses on PACK Life, beginning with the first letter: Protection. Dez explains that...
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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,...
info_outlineWhat happens when you stop looking up… and realize the divine is already within you?
That shift changes everything—including prayer.
Dez opens with a challenge to rethink what prayer actually is. Not begging. Not empty words. Not something directed at a distant force. If you are divine, then prayer isn’t about asking—it’s about acting. It’s the way you care for yourself. The way you show up for others. The way you move through the world with intention.
Prayer becomes something lived.
From there, Farmacist Castle takes it deeper in a breakout discussion… stripping prayer down to something real, something grounded. Not “thoughts and prayers”… but effort. Tangible effort. Showing up. Helping someone when they need it. Taking responsibility for your own growth instead of outsourcing it to something outside yourself.
Because if your actions don’t change anything… what was the prayer for?
Together, this conversation reframes prayer as something simple and powerful:
Prayer isn’t what you say.
It’s what you do.
And once you start seeing it that way… you realize you’ve been praying all along.
Key Themes & Moments
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Why “thoughts and prayers” feels empty—and what’s missing
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Letting go of prayer as begging or submission
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Reframing prayer as faith in motion
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Self-care as a form of prayer
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Creating personal rituals that reinforce identity and intention
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Blessing as an act of focus and energy—not tradition
Farmacist Castle’s Breakout:
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Prayer as effort… not words
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Showing up for others as the highest form of prayer
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The difference between passive intention and active change
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Internal prayer: preparing your future self
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Everyday discipline (like food prep, habits, and mindset) as spiritual practice
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Talking to the universe… and learning to listen
Get Connected
If you’re feeling called to explore this for yourself… or just want to be around people who are asking the same questions…
You’re welcome here.
You can learn more, reach out, or schedule time with our clergy at:
coloradopsychedelicchurch.com
Whether you’re curious, skeptical, or ready to dive deeper… there’s a place for you in the conversation.
Closing Reflection
If prayer isn’t something you say…
but something you live…
Then the real question becomes:
What does your prayer look like today?