We envision a world where all humans experience Wholeness and a reverence for life.

Our mission is to cultivate a partnership culture rooted in compassionate communication, ecological sustainability, and celebration and service to the divine Whole. 

We will accomplish our mission in the following ways.

  • Carrying on the forgotten earth-worshiping practices of our ancestors

  • Group movement and embodiment practices

  • Foraging and Caring for the Land/Gaia

  • Holding ceremonies with sacred plants and mushrooms

  • Understanding and supporting the community within us (microbiome).

  • Connecting with Nature and working to see ourselves as part of and not separate from Nature

  • Developing a community practice of compassionate communication

  • Wholistic Counseling Services

  • Planting Native Trees and Wild Flowers in local parks

  • Inoculating trees, mulch, and other substrates to promote a deeper connection with Gaia

  • Improving ourselves and our practice as we continue to learn and evolve

We Believe in Fundamental Human Needs (including but not limited to): Subsistence (broken down into sub-needs), Protection, Affection, Participation, Understanding, Leisure, Creativity, Identity, Freedom, and Entheogenic and Empathogenic connection. We believe that it is vital that all humans understand these needs and understand the conditions for meeting these needs. Similarly, all humans must get in touch with their emotions, which tune us into unmet needs. When we meet our needs in the present moment, we will experience Wholeness and unity with the divine. Our mission is to continue working together to find strategies that help satisfy our needs in more fun and less costly ways. 

We believe that by getting in touch with our needs and regularly dialoguing with the divine, we can better understand our place in our community, the planet, and the cosmos. These dialogues with the divine help us also understand our life’s purpose (meaning), showing how needs can interact and synergize.

We believe in a world that exists beyond human comprehension and beyond the articulation of words. When one communes with the divine through sacred ceremony, they see the spirits and deities that generally do not avail themselves. This holy practice dates back to the first religion, animism, which was practiced worldwide. This religion saw the divine spirits in all life, which only happens entirely when we consume our sacrament in conjunction with following our religious practices and disciplines. We can connect with the divine in real-time by consuming the sacrament with fully-met needs.

We believe that all plants, mushrooms, animals, and minerals have a spirit, an essence, and a teaching to share with us. Gaia needs our help now more than ever to deeply connect with all life sources in our community, to understand their needs, to hear their stories, and to work to create harmony between ourselves and our environment. All beings are a necessary part of the Whole, and contact with all beings is an obligation of our religious practice to realize Wholeness. We also acknowledge that the teachers (our sacrament) have different messages for different individuals. We embrace our diversity and the ability of our partners to dialogue with the divine in real time to receive the commandments and transmissions that are here to help them find Wholeness. While removing a single mushroom or plant from our consciousness and environment would burden our ability to connect with the Whole and practice our religion, we also acknowledge that each individual will have their primary plants, mushrooms, and animals that they are required to connect with to practice their religion. As part of the initiation process, we work with our partners to tune into the Whole, hear the teachings, and record their practices so that they may be honored by the US government and governments who respect religious freedom and liberty. While our ideal is not to record any of these teachings into words, we have taken steps to protect our religion and our partners so they can connect with the Whole without fearing for their safety or freedom. After all, this fear of safety routinely prevents divine connection. 

We believe in needs-based judgment as opposed to moralistic judgment. Rather than prescribing good and bad and right and wrong, we ask, “Did this action meet your needs? Did this action meet the needs of the community?” When strategies meet needs, we celebrate, share, and learn together. When actions fail to meet needs or make it hard for others to meet their needs, we dialogue, hold restorative circles, and work to find common ground to restore peace and find more fun and less costly ways to meet needs. 

Each World-Bridger and each Partner of Whole is encouraged to dialogue with the Divine to identify the strategies they must take to meet their needs. As a superorganism, our human needs are the same, while the needs of the microbiome inside us differ daily and from person to person. This way, we can find practices that unite us while honoring individual traditions that help a diverse membership find Wholeness.

*While many people use the name God to signify the divine, we allow partners to use the word most fitting their sincerely held beliefs. You may find that we use the words Tao, Buddha, the Whole, or Gaia in place of God, but these names carry the same significance to Partners of Whole.