Myco Church

Myco Church is a space for personal revelation, where congregation members define their own relationship with “God,” the sacred, or the universe. We emphasize unity, diversity, and true connection through healing paths. We operate with donations, providing safe community, education, support, and outreach. We offer online services once a month during the New Moon and ongoing spaces for gathering and support.

Statement of Beliefs

We are an organization dedicated to the preservation of ancient healing modalities that have been practiced by indigenous cultures around the world for millenia. These ancestral civilizations left evidence of these practices in their traditions, writings, and art on every continent. Their healing practices intertwined deeply with religious and spiritual beliefs. We honor these sacred healing traditions, beginning here in California and extending to all conscious beings of this planet.

We believe that humanity must heal in order to preserve nature and our planet’s future. This requires sanctuaries that teach natural healing techniques, sustainable lifestyles, and methods for cultivating and preserving medicinal plants and fungi. These practices support the health of people, animals, and the environment.

We understand that health depends on both physical and spiritual wellness. We protect the standard of health through ritual practice of plant and fungus medicines, sacraments, and detoxifying methodologies to help purify our vessels so we may commune with Source.

After joining the church, you may use the request form and donation options.

The Church operates with donations on a sliding scale. Those who can contribute more help support those who cannot. A 20% reduced minimum (for our in-house cultivated sacrament) is available for individuals on disability, veterans, teachers, and social workers.

An alternative medicine menu is available upon request.

Holidays

• Winter Solstice (Yule)
• Imbolc (Candlemas)
• Spring Equinox (Ostara)
• Beltane (May Eve)
• Summer Solstice (Litha)
• Lughnasadh (Lammas)
• Autumn Equinox (Mabon)
• Samhain (Hallowe'en)

Wiccan holidays, or Sabbats, are timed to the seasons and the Earth’s natural rhythms. Sabbats celebrate the Earth’s journey around the sun, called the Wheel of the Year, and Wiccans refer to celebrating the Sabbats as Turning the Wheel.

Most Wiccans celebrate these eight Sabbats annually:

1. Yule, Winter Solstice: December 20–23. Yule marks the longest night and shortest day. It celebrates the return of the light and the newborn Sun. It is a time of renewal and hope.
2. Brigid / Imbolc / Candlemas: February 1–2. A preparation for spring. Wiccans cleanse and organize their environments, minds, and hearts in preparation for the season of growth.
3. Eostar / Spring Equinox: March 20–23. Winter ends, light increases, and day and night are equal. A time of fertility, birth, and renewal.
4. Beltane / May Day: April 30 or May 1. A celebration of union, fertility, planting, joy, and the beginning of the growing season.
5. Litha / Summer Solstice: June 20–23. The longest day of the year. A celebration of fullness, abundance, and peak life force.
6. Lughnasadh / Lammas: August 1. Historically a time of hope and fear regarding the harvest. Modern celebrations focus on personal growth, preparation, and protection.
7. Mabon / Fall Equinox: September 20–23. Day and night are equal. A final harvest and a time of gratitude, balance, and reflection.
8. Samhain: October 31 or November 1. Considered the Wiccan New Year. A time to honor ancestors and reflect on the year’s harvest and accomplishments.

Article II. Rights & Privileges

Section I. California Constitution — Article I: Declaration of Rights

Section 1

All people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights, including life, liberty, property, safety, happiness, and privacy.

Section 2

Every person may freely speak, write, and publish sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for abuses of this right. Laws may not restrain liberty of speech or press.

Section 4

Free exercise and enjoyment of religion without discrimination or preference are guaranteed. Liberty of conscience does not excuse acts inconsistent with public peace or safety. No law shall respect an establishment of religion. A person is not incompetent as a witness or juror due to religious beliefs.

Section 12

The freedoms of speech and press are bulwarks of liberty and cannot be restrained except by despotic governments. Citizens may freely speak, write, and publish on all subjects, being responsible for abuses. The government may not abridge free speech, free press, peaceful assembly, or the right to petition for grievances.

Section 16

All people are entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to conscience. No one shall be compelled to support religious worship or institutions, nor suffer on account of religious beliefs. No religious test shall be required for civil rights or benefits.

Section II. United States Constitution

1. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble; and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
2. Amendment IV (1791): “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Section III. Inherent Rights

We believe that Mother Earth and all beings of which she is composed have the following rights:

• The right to life and to exist
• The right to be respected
• The right to regenerate and continue vital cycles and processes without human disruption
• The right to maintain identity and integrity as a distinct, self-regulating, interrelated being
• The right to clean water
• The right to clean air
• The right to integral health
• The right to be free from contamination, pollution, and toxic or radioactive waste
• The right to not have genetic structure modified or disrupted in ways that threaten healthy functioning