The board members, staff, and advisors of our organization represent a diverse background of individuals with one common interest: To preserve and protect our sacrament. Our concern is not only its central role in ceremony, but also its own place, purpose, and inherent right to grow upon this earth. Our common mission is for the future of the medicine itself and its native habitat.
As individuals, each of us has our own personal beliefs, opinions, traditions, cultural backgrounds, and experience. Our focus is on the reality of the ecological crisis our sacrament is affected by today. Just as we are devoted to supporting each other in ceremony, we support each other in our organizational mission, each with our own perspective and talents. Our diversity strengthens our commonality and informs our understanding that no person, organization, governmental agency, nation, or nationality can own peyote. And likewise, none of these alone can reverse the trends that threaten it.
Our appreciation for how peyote manifests blessings in our lives gives us reason to care for something more sacred than our own opinions. It is by wisdom through prayer that our elders continue to advise us to stay behind the medicine. As much as we live that teaching is how far we’re able to progress in this prayer based work. Therefore, we are inviting of others who wish to learn more about the challenges and potential remedies for the wellbeing of the medicine, peyote, Lophophora williamsii.
Because of time, resource, and policy constraints, we make it our priority to primarily serve established Native American Church chapters and their membership. However, in our educational mission, we are not motived to draw lines around the sacred peyote by division of social, religious, gender, political, or racial distinctions. This is to say that, just as the medicine welcomed our own sincere interest, we welcome yours. If you’re serious about learning more, assisting the program, or spreading the word of support, we invite you to contact us.
