This is a 26 minute long audio piece and over 4.000 words written version by Mattha Busby a freelance journalist who wrote this article for Vice and attended our Entheogenesis event to report on our church.
Month: June 2023
Today’s guest is the awesome Ian Benouis, former West Point graduate, US Army officer, Blackhawk helicopter pilot, and combat veteran. Ian is now a civil rights lawyer fighting for religious exemptions for churches using psychedelics as a sacrament and the founder of the Church of Psilomethoxin.
He is Patient Number One at the Mission Within which treats special operators with PTSD, TBI and addiction using iboga and Bufo in Mexico. Ian has been helping wounded veterans for over 9 years. Listen as we discuss the legal obstacles facing religious organizations attaining exemptions for psychedelics sacraments, the unique synthesis of psilomethoxin, and musings on where the war on drugs is headed.
Greg and Ian talk about how the Church of Psilomethoxin came to be and our upcoming Entheogenesis event and what the future holds for the church.
Welcome to the Psychedelic Conversations Podcast! Episode 78: In this episode we discuss Ian’s background, what brought him into this work, what psilomethoxin is and how it is developed, the effects of psilomethoxin on the brain and body, the importance of protecting the medicine, how to become a psilomethoxin church member, working with veterans using this medicine, harm reduction advice for using iboga, Ian’s thoughts on the medical module, observations on the psychedelic renaissance and so much more!
Ian Benouis 