Sermon: The P in PACK-"Protection" is an Active Effort
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
Release Date: 05/12/2026
Sermon: The Wisdom Hidden Inside Old Stories
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
How does the universe speak to us through the religious traditions, cultural stories, folklore, and wisdom we inherited? Teopixqui Dez introduces a new sermon series exploring the eclectic language of the universe and the truths that appear across different cultures, religions, and spiritual traditions. Although sacred texts and religious institutions can carry human agendas, Dez argues that meaningful wisdom can still be found within their stories when we approach them thoughtfully. Dez shares the Mexican folklore of los duendes, small beings said to live beneath the beds of children who...
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Beyond Set and Setting: Gv Freeman on Psychedelic Safety, Self-Sovereignty & Doing the Work
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
What if “set and setting” is only a small part of psychedelic safety? Author and facilitator Gv Freeman believes we’ve outgrown the framework that has guided psychedelic culture for more than 60 years. In this thoughtful conversation, he introduces a more complete approach to healing—one that emphasizes informed consent, personal responsibility, trustworthy facilitation, preparation, activation, and the courage to change your life after the medicine shows you what’s true. Drawing from decades of recovery, therapy, spiritual practice, and years working with sacred medicines, Gv...
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Sermon: The Skills We Bring to the Divine Us
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
In this sermon from the Colorado Psychedelic Church, Teopixqui Dez reflects on the end of the church’s first month in the new storefront space and the movement that has grown from two people in a basement into a thriving community in Colorado Springs. Dez opens by honoring those who are no longer physically present, reminding the congregation that their light is still carried forward through love, memory, and revelry. From there, the sermon turns toward community as a place where people can be frail, honest, wounded, and still loved. Dez shares openly about the lingering trauma of losing...
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Sermon: Taking Your Good Day Out on the World
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
In this sermon from the Colorado Psychedelic Church, Teopixqui Dez speaks about the rapid growth of the community, the responsibility of protecting a safe space, and the role every congregant plays in helping others feel seen, welcomed, and loved. Dez begins with updates on sacrament, including metocin, which offers a more predictable experience similar to psilocybin while reducing nausea, as well as upcoming education on Amanita muscaria. He also reflects on the church’s growth, noting that more than 230 new members have joined in just three weeks, bringing the congregation to more than...
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Sermon: Pride, Safety, and the Boundaries of Community
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
In this sermon from the Colorado Psychedelic Church, Teopixqui Dez opens with a listener note that this episode includes a difficult moment in the congregation, including raised voices and people approaching with malice in their hearts. Rather than hiding that moment, the sermon offers a real-time look at how the community works to protect the space, name what threatens it, and continue forward with honesty. Dez begins by honoring Harry, one of the church’s earliest congregants, whose loss continues to shape the church’s mission and commitment to making sure no one in the community feels...
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Sermon Recap: What Do You Bring?
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
Dez gave last week's sermon feeling very under the weather, so he sat down to recap what he talked about. In this message, Teopixqui Dez explores one of humanity’s oldest truths: we were never meant to survive alone. Drawing lessons from our earliest ancestors, Dez reflects on how primitive communities overcame impossible odds not through strength, speed, or individual achievement, but through cooperation, trust, and shared purpose. From ancient hunting parties to modern struggles with depression, anxiety, and isolation, the lesson remains the same… we are strongest when we support one...
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Bjorn's Story: Religious Trauma, Military Trauma, and Learning to Let Go
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
Bjorn never expected to find himself in a church. A military veteran, former Mormon, practicing pagan, and someone living with treatment-resistant depression and PTSD, he initially came to the Colorado Psychedelic Church with his wife to attend a Healing from Religious Trauma gathering. Guarded and uncertain, he soon discovered something he hadn’t found elsewhere: a genuine community where authenticity mattered more than appearances. In this deeply personal conversation with Bahn Fasa Maya, Bjorn shares his journey through military service, religious trauma, chronic pain, depression, and the...
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Sermon: Building a Home Beyond Four Walls - Celebrating the New Space!!!
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
For the first sermon in the Colorado Psychedelic Church’s new home at 5028 North Academy Boulevard, Teopixqui Dez explores the power of community… what it is, what it isn’t, and why genuine connection remains one of the most powerful forces available to us. Reflecting on the church’s journey from a basement gathering to a thriving community space, Dez discusses how meaningful communities are built through action, shared responsibility, vulnerability, and a commitment to supporting one another through life’s challenges. He also introduces new opportunities available at the church,...
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Tristan's Story: Autism, Unmasking, and Mushroom Healing
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
In this episode of the Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast, Thaumaturgist Julian sits down with new congregant Tristan for a powerful conversation about autism, masking, trauma, queerness, and the deeply transformative potential of psilocybin. Tristan shares how growing up undiagnosed autistic led to shame, bullying, masking, and eventually PTSD. After years of conventional talk therapy, he found that intentional mushroom experiences helped him understand himself in ways therapy never had. From meeting different parts of his psyche during a Jack Frost journey, to confronting the cost of...
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Special Message: Why Safe Spaces Require Boundaries
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
What does it mean when Dez says, “Pacifism is the privilege of the protected”? In this special message, Teopixqui Dez explores the difference between peace and apathy, and why community requires active participation when people are under threat. Drawing from a recent conversation with a visitor who questioned the church’s boundaries around safety and belonging, Dez explains why safe spaces must be willing to identify what threatens them. The discussion touches on civic engagement, voting, protest, communication, community protection, and the responsibility each person has to use their...
info_outlineIn 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 protection is not only about standing between someone and danger. It is also about sustainability, care, healing, boundaries, and noticing when someone is wounded before they even realize they are bleeding. Protection comes from both within and around us… through self-reverence, trusted kin, and a community willing to show up when things get hard.
Dez connects protection to the Guardian and the Warden from the Seven Psyches: the shield and the sword, the healer and the fighter, the one who tends wounds and the one who fights malice where it stands. He also speaks vulnerably about childhood bullying, trauma, and how lack of protection can become vengefulness… while true healing can become peace, strength, and a life well lived.
The sermon closes with encouragement to actively protect something this week, whether that means protecting your own peace, someone else’s peace, or simply brightening a stranger’s day. Dez also shares updates about sacrament gummies, chocolate microdoses, the upcoming church space, opportunities to help, and the new cannabis sacrament blends from the GrowBros.
Timeline
00:00 – Opening and Community as Motion
Teopixqui Dez welcomes the congregation and reminds everyone that community is created through active participation.
01:00 – New Space Updates
Dez shares excitement about the upcoming new space, possible pre-opening gathering, June 1st grand opening plans, and website updates.
03:00 – Introducing PACK Life
The sermon shifts from last month’s Seven Psyches series into PAC Life: Protection, Acceptance, Communication, and Kairos.
05:00 – Protection from Within and Without
Dez explains that protection includes threats outside the community as well as wounds, isolation, and harm growing within us.
07:30 – Protection as Love in Action
Protection is framed as caring enough to notice when someone is hurting and showing up when it is inconvenient.
09:30 – Guardian and Warden Energy
Dez connects protection to the Guardian and Warden: the shield that heals and fortifies, and the sword that confronts malice directly.
11:00 – Protecting the Inner Child
Dez discusses trauma, wounded younger selves, and how naming those wounds helps us protect and heal them.
15:00 – Revere the Self as Protection
The first universal truth becomes a call to fortify yourself, name your wounds, and take healing seriously.
17:00 – Childhood Bullying and Vengefulness
Dez shares how a lack of protection in childhood can create a desire for revenge, and how healing redirects that fire.
20:00 – Healing as Resistance
The congregation reflects on wounds they once thought they would simply have to live with, and Dez celebrates the healing happening in the community.
23:00 – Homework: Protect Something
Dez invites everyone to actively protect someone’s peace, their own peace, or something meaningful during the week.
26:00 – Reviews, Sacrament, and Feedback
Dez asks listeners and congregants to leave honest reviews, sample new gummies and chocolates, and give feedback before the June 1st opening.
30:00 – Building the New Space Together
Dez invites congregants to help prepare the new location and sign a tapestry that will mark everyone who helped make the dream real.
34:00 – Cannabis Sacrament Update
The GrowBros have created cannabis sacrament blends, including clergy-inspired blends, available as five half-gram sacrament joints for donation or art cards.
36:00 – Closing Gratitude
Dez closes by thanking the congregation for sharing their time, the community’s most precious resource.
About the Colorado Psychedelic Church
The Colorado Psychedelic Church is a community centered on sacred entheogens, spiritual growth, harm reduction, and meaningful connection. The church teaches that healing happens through reverence for the self, communal experience, and trusting that the universe provides.
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