Our Commitment to Decolonization

At Entheo Church, we honor the original and ongoing stewards of the lands and waters that sustain us, and the ancestral lineages who have carried the wisdom of sacred plants, fungi, and earth-based medicines since time immemorial, even as they have been disrupted by colonization. Our diverse community is headquartered on the stolen homelands of the Coast Salish, specifically the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot Peoples.

We acknowledge that words alone are not enough. Right relationship requires ongoing listening, accountability, and action. We’re dedicated to learning from Indigenous communities and knowledge keepers, supporting their sovereignty and leadership, and ensuring that our work with entheogenic sacraments (both traditional and emergent) is guided by reverence and integrity. We also strive to cultivate the education and community culture needed to engage in this work with depth and care.

Part of what we’ve been asked to do, by those we hope to stand alongside, is to use our relative privilege to build the framework, ensure it’s legally and ethically sound, and make it safe before asking others, especially Indigenous and global majority elders, to step into public partnership. We understand that healing the wounds of colonialism and our collective trauma will take generations of intentional effort. This work calls for humility, patience, and steadfast care.

We envision a future where sacred medicines and the wisdom traditions that hold them are honored, protected, and integrated into our collective life in ways that are equitable, just, and aligned with the living Earth. In this spirit, Entheo Church stands with other faith and spiritual communities in formally repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery, recognizing the harm it has caused by denying the rights and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples. We call for its full removal from all legal and political systems.

We will continue to update this page as our relationships and commitments deepen. 

Resources to start your own exploration:

• native-land.ca or whose.land/en/ - identify whose land you are on

• neefusa.org or usdac.us/nativeland - guides for indigenous land acknowledgement

• nativegov.org - understanding critique and limits of land acknowledgements, as well as action steps

• chacruna.net - institute for psychedelic plant medicine and education

• Imc.fund - Indigenous-led conservation fund for Ayahuasca, Iboga, Mushrooms, Peyote, and Toad sacraments

• boardingschoolhealing.org - truth, healing, and remembrance for Native youth and communities affected by religious and government assimilation schools

  
  Stay tuned for more, and if there is work you feel we should highlight or opportunities for us to serve these efforts better, please get in touch with us at info@entheochurch.org