Welcome!

Several years into serving this medicine, I recognized the need for greater structure, accountability, and protection for both facilitators and participants. 

That led me to found Shama Sanctuary, a federally recognized 501(c)(3) sacred medicine church, June 2024.

Shama was created to offer a safe and supportive container for sincere seekers who feel called to explore consciousness and spirituality through entheogenic sacraments. The church provides a framework grounded in preparation, ethical service, community support, and integration to honor both the sacred nature of these experiences and the responsibility that comes with them.

People use different language for what they encounter, God, Source, Spirit, Universal Consciousness, Divine Presence, but the heart of this work is the same: cultivating a deeper relationship with ourselves, each other, and the mystery of life itself.

The word entheogen comes from the roots en (within), theos (divine or God), and gen (to generate or bring forth) meaning “to generate the divine within.”

Bufo, often called toad medicine, is classified as an entheogen rather than a psychedelic. While psychedelics tend to create visual or hallucinogenic experiences, Bufo works differently. It dissolves the sense of separation, offering a direct encounter with pure awareness or the divine essence within.

The journey itself is brief, typically lasting about 20 to 30 minutes. Yet it can open profound states of healing, release, and remembrance.