Connection to Self is not just reflection. In our faith, it is a sacramental practice that sometimes must be solitary, including entering an altered state alone. We hold spiritual autonomy as a core Tenet of Faith, meaning each person is responsible for their own discernment and spiritual development. For some rites, privacy is what makes the work authentic, because it allows an honest encounter with one’s own mind and conscience without being led, managed, performed for, or absorbed into someone else’s energy.

We also hold entheogens as teachers that can deepen our sacred connection to Earth and kin, and we recognize the intrinsic worth of all life beyond human utility. Widening our divine connections begins with inner honesty. Solo sacramental work can be a foundational discipline for personal responsibility, self-development, and holistic growth. It is where people clarify values, face grief or fear, cultivate self-love and joy, taste the freedom of being wholly alone, reckon with harm and repair, and listen for internal wisdom. That inner alignment helps members show up in community with humility and reciprocity, rather than projection or dependence.

Just as importantly, whether to step into a solo ceremony is a deeply personal choice that can require additional preparation and care. We do not treat solitary practice as a requirement or a badge of seriousness. Members are encouraged to listen to internal wisdom, consider their life stage and context, and draw on community support or trusted facilitators when helpful. Whether a sacrament is taken alone or with others, the purpose is the same: to cultivate clarity and integrity that ground right relationship with self, with others, and with the living world.

Connection to Kin rituals flow from a central Tenet of Faith: divine interconnectedness. We recognize our connection with all life forms and their intrinsic worth beyond human utility, and we understand kinship as a spiritual relationship, not just a social one. To be connected to kin is to practice the sacred reality that we belong to one another, to the living world, and to something greater than ourselves. When we strengthen kinship, we strengthen our connection with the divine.

Entheogenic sacraments can deepen this awareness by softening separation and opening empathy, gratitude, and responsibility. These rites help us live our values of inclusion, respect, and reciprocity, not as an abstract ideal, but through real relationships across difference. They can also expand kinship beyond the present moment through relationships with ancestors, lineage, and the more-than-human world. In this work, we honor the original and ongoing stewards of the lands and waters that sustain us, and the ancestral lineages who have carried sacramental wisdom through disruption and colonization.

Because this is relational work, the container matters. Many Connection to Kin ceremonies are practiced in small, private settings with trusted friends, partners, or chosen family, where vulnerability, consent, and repair can be held with care. Privacy can be essential to authenticity because it reduces performance and social pressure, creating space for honest dialogue, reconciliation, and mutual support. Facilitators can be helpful for some rituals, and members may choose that guidance. At the same time, spiritual autonomy remains central. Individuals and small groups discern the right structure for their rites, so kinship practice can stay both safe and spiritually true.

Connection to Earth and the Cosmos is a central part of our faith because we understand ourselves to be embedded in a sacred web of life, not separate from it. These ceremonies renew our relationship with the living world and remind us that the Earth is not a backdrop. She is a participant. Connection to Earth rituals must be in relationship with land, water, weather, seasons, and the more-than-human communities that sustain us.

In this context, entheogenic sacraments may be used to deepen attunement and open a felt experience of belonging, reverence, and responsibility. The sacrament is a catalyst that can help members listen more closely to place, perceive interdependence, and recommit to a right relationship with the Earth. This may be practiced alone or with others, as needed, but it is always oriented toward communion with the living world and our place within it.

We also acknowledge the interconnected cycle of birth, growth, decay, and rebirth, and we honor it through rites that return nourishment to the world that nourished us. Burial rites that feed the soil are one expression of this tenet, alongside other ceremonies that mark endings and beginnings and the ongoing practice of reciprocity with the planet.