Ian Benouis

Earth medicines and self-surrender to source saved my life. The goal of the mystical experience is altered traits not altered states. Huston Smith. Nature loves courage. Terence McKenna. Ask the plants of the earth and they will teach you. Job 12:8. If you see the day of judgement coming finish planting a tree. Muhammad

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Uncharted Territory: Ian Benouis on Psilomethoxin with Mattha Louis Busby

What do you get if you feed psilocybin mushrooms with 5-MeO-DMT laced water while they’re growing?

A little-known psychedelic named psilomethoxin, according to co-founder of the Church of Sacred Synthesis, Ian Benouis. The US army veteran is one of the leaders of the psychedelic Texas church formerly known as the Church of Psilomethoxin.

Back in April, psychedelic Twitter blew up when a test of the church’s sacrament came up as not containing the mysterious psychedelic which had only ever been created once and was spoken of by legendary chemist Sasha Shulgin.

The church issued an inflammatory response to the paper which they felt was conducted in bad faith by rival interests. Rather than patenting their distinct new sacrament, they sought to share it as a reasonable price directly to members of their nascent congregation.

In the podcast, Benouis also shares more about his fascinating life story. Check out host Mattha Busby’s piece for Vice, ‘This New Church Wants to Get You High on Synthetic Toad Venom’, for more on the remarkable story.

Tapped into Psychedelics Episode #24 – Creating The Church of Psilomethoxin with Ian Benouis

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.

Psychedelic Conversations | Ian Benouis – Church of Psilomethoxin #78

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 on Entheogenic Religious Rights and the Church of Psilomethoxin on the Entheogenic Evolution Podcast with Martin Ball, Ph.D.

The conversation around Psilomethoxin and its official church continues with one of the church founders and entheogenic religious freedom lawyer, Ian Benouis. We dive into the history of entheogenic religious rights (and rites), the burgeoning movement to create legally recognized entheogenic churches, psilomethoxin, and some of our other favorite molecules. 

EntheoRadio: Ian Benouis, Alchemist of Psilomethoxin

After interviewing two other founding members of the Church Members of Psilomethoxin.com, the first Church of the Universal Sacrament, Captain Hugh T Alkemi, D. Div. talks to Ian Benouis about the chemistry, science, spirituality, legality and the alchemy of mushrooms that contain Psilomethoxin and how to use them for spiritual-religio healing and creativity.

Psilomethoxin: Ingestible 5-Meo-DMT with Ian Benouis on the F.I.V.E. (5-MeO-DMT Information & Vital Education)

Though synthesized in 1965 by ortho-vanillin, the late Sasha Shulgin wrote: “These active compounds are made by the mushroom so they really are natural and yet they never have been observed in nature. I’ll give you even odds that if you put spores of a psilocybe species on cow droppings loaded with 5-MeO-DMT you would come out with mushrooms containing 4,5-HO-MeO-DMT. This way you avoid a 10 step synthesis by growing a psychoactive mushroom that contains no illegal drug.”