Colorado’s “First Psychedelic Church” For Magic Mushrooms Opens In Colorado Springs
“Everything is provided for free as an act of wellness”
The walls of Benji Dezaval’s basement are painted a deep forest green. Vines trickle below a white lotus lantern in the center of the room and a pot of succulents hangs in the corner. The lights are dimmed, giving the room a gentle green glow.
About a dozen people face each other, some sitting in chairs and others cross-legged on the floor, as Dezaval guides them in a conversation about community and pride.
At a quick glance, it looks a lot like a group therapy session.
But as the clock nears 6 p.m., the group gathers around a bar in the next room to accept a “communal gift” — 2 grams of dried psilocybin mushrooms, two weeks’ worth of microdoses or a light dose of dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, which Dezaval extracts from root bark.
“Everything is provided for free as an act of wellness,” lead guide Dezaval said before offering the psychedelics he cultivated inside his northeastern Colorado Springs home to the group of faces, some familiar to him, some new.
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