Special Message: Why Safe Spaces Require Boundaries
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
Release Date: 06/04/2026
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_outlineWhat 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 voice when others are being marginalized or silenced. Throughout the episode, Dez returns to a central theme of the Colorado Psychedelic Church: love with teeth, kindness with a backbone, and the belief that meaningful change requires action.
About This Episode
This special message expands on themes discussed during the church’s recent PACK Life sermon series, particularly the role of communication as both speech and action.
Rather than focusing solely on conversation, Dez examines how communication can take the form of voting, advocacy, showing up for others, participating in community, and refusing to remain silent when people are being harmed. He also discusses why the church views safety, belonging, and accountability as essential parts of building meaningful community.
In This Episode
- What Dez means by “Pacifism is the privilege of the protected”
- The difference between peace and passive acceptance
- Why community is an act of resistance
- How apathy contributes to harmful systems
- A recent conversation about who belongs in a safe space
- The tolerance paradox and community boundaries
- Why communication is more than simply speaking
- Voting, civic participation, and showing up in person
- Protecting vulnerable members of a community
- The role of courage in difficult times
- Love with teeth and kindness with a backbone
- Building spaces where people can be authentic without fear
Key Takeaway
According to Dez, the opposite of hate is not passive tolerance. It is active community.
A healthy community creates room for people to be authentic, vulnerable, and supported while also maintaining boundaries that protect those who are most vulnerable. Safety, belonging, and accountability are not opposing values—they are interconnected parts of building something that lasts.
About Colorado Psychedelic Church
The Colorado Psychedelic Church is a Colorado-based spiritual community focused on connection, personal growth, revelry, community care, and responsible engagement with sacred compounds.
The church hosts sermons, educational discussions, sacrament ceremonies, social gatherings, volunteer opportunities, creative events, and community programs designed to help people connect with themselves and with one another.
Contact Us
Colorado Psychedelic Church
📍 5028 North Academy Blvd
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
🌐 ColoradoPsychedelicChurch.com
Join us for sermons, community events, educational programs, revelry, volunteer opportunities, and ongoing conversations about healing, connection, and building a stronger community together.