Spirituality & Beyond: A Three-Day Communion of Culture & Consciousness
As many around the world gather for Easter, a time marked by resurrection, renewal, and the ritual of communion, where bread and wine are shared as symbols of sacred remembrance, we invite you into another kind of communion.
There’s a long-standing psychedelic theory that early Christian rites may have once held entheogenic symbolism. That the language of “eat of this” pointed not only to ritual, but to altered states through sacred plants and fungi as an opportunity to commune with all that’s sacred. Acacia, woven through biblical ritual spaces and long associated with mystical experience, reminds us that encounters with the divine have often unfolded with the aid of plant allies. Many have noted that altered states echo through scripture itself: visions, burning bushes, prophetic trances, mountaintop revelations. The sacred has always moved through embodied experience.
This Easter weekend, we invite you to commune with the sacred in all its forms: within, between, and beyond us.
Spirituality & Beyond is a three-day unconference shaped by our collective participation. This is a gathering where ceremony, conversation, art, humor, and culture move together and community is the anchor of our time together.
We are only releasing 300 tickets to keep this gathering intentionally small— so conversations can breathe, ideas from our curated talks have room to integrate, and the experience stays relational.
🌞 The Gathering
🌿 Friday — Opening Ceremony (April 3)
5:00–10:00 PM — Opening Ceremony
Hosted by Solestial Church
5:45 PM — Opening Ceremony | Xochitl Bernadette Moreno, Ashel SeaSunz Eldridge, Ifalayo
7:00 PM — Spirituality & Beyond Talk | Dave Hodges, Xochitl Bernadette Moreno, Monica Cadena
7:50 PM — Ancestral Medicine: Healing the Streets (Screening)
8:30 PM – Close — Performances with Auspicious Acoustics, Santos SOUL, Lizette Azucena, George Txana Wukong Cheng
🌞 The Conference
Saturday, April 4 (10am–6pm)
Conference, Day 1 (Indoor Programming)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM — Conference, Day 1
Indoor Talks | Headliners: Mistah F.A.B & Shane Mauss
11:00 AM — Opening Plenary
Carrying the Flame: Ancestors, Activism & Altered States
Mistah F.A.B, Mama Ayana Mashama, Monica Cadena
1:00 PM — Indigenous Reciprocity: Moving From Transactional to Relational | George Txana Wukong Cheng, Winter Jendayi, Lizette Ohxochitl, Rodolfo Sadhana, Bia Labate
2:00 PM — Musical Performance By Santos SOUL
4:00 PM — The Divine Assembly: Healing Religious Trauma & Rebuilding Faith on Your Own Terms | Steve Urquhar
5:00 PM — The Hero’s Journey & Beyond | Shane Mauss, Dave Hodges
Saturday, April 4 — Outdoors
Conference, Day 1 (Outdoor Programming)
12:00 PM — Psychedelic Healing Workshop: Exploring Mind, Medicine & Sound | Gwen Pelfini
1:30 PM — Music Medicine Series With Santos SOUL
2:00 PM — Music Medicine Series With Winter Jendayi
3:00 PM — Creativity, Medicine & Community: What We Make When We Heal Together | Mary Sanders, Tossie Long, Mareesa Stertz, Ry-El Nagasta
4:00 PM — Consent Is a Culture: Ethics & Safety in Play Spaces: From raves to underground spaces—and everything in between | Honey, Sura Hertzberg, Monica Cadena, Emily Savage
5:00 PM — The Physiology of Cannabis & Entheogens: Understanding the Body’s Response | Max Benbow
Sunday, April 5 (11am–6pm)
Conference, Day 2 (Indoor Programming)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM — Conference, Day 2
Indoor Talks | Headliner: Reggie Watts
11:00 AM — When Organizing Isn’t Enough: Organizing as a Practice of Relationship, Culture & Community Care | Mary Sanders, Cat Brooks, Suliman Hyatt, Xochitl Bernadette Moreno, Tiarra Asia, Omar Allen-Knox
12:00 PM — Sisters in Psychedelics: Creating Space, Not Asking for It | Xochitl Bernadette Moreno, Dayana Mendoza, Monica Cadena, Tiarra Asia, Omar Allen-Knox
1:00 PM — You Can Always Take More, You Never Take Less | Mitchell Gomez, Dave Hodges
2:00 PM — Temple of Harm Reduction | Mitchell Gomez
3:00 PM — Church of Ambrosia Easter Sermon | Dave Hodges
4:00 PM — Lessons from La Playa: Holding Care in High-Risk Spaces | Zendo Project
5:00 PM — Reggie Watts: Making It Up as We Go Through Reality
Reggie Watts, Monica Cadena
Sunday, April 5 — Outdoors
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM — Conference, Day 2 (Outdoor Talks)
12:00 PM — Men in Psychedelics: Healing Beyond the Systems That Shaped Us | AshEL SeaSunz Eldridge, Ry-El Nagasta, Santos SOUL, Dr. Ietef Vita, Ryan Miller
1:00 PM — From the Hood to the Woods | Brotha Peace, Scid Howard, Tenika Blue, John Curtis, Allen-Knox
3:00 PM — Foraging: What the Land Teaches When We Listen | Rob Lopez, Tony Alvarez, Angelica Guerrero, Aziza Sikstar
Saturday night at 8pm, comedian Shane Mauss takes the stage for a special stand-up show. With appearances on Conan, Comedy Central, and Netflix, a MAPS-sponsored solo tour, and over 400 scientist conversations on his podcast Here We Are, Shane has spent the last decade exploring where comedy, neuroscience, and psychedelics collide. His upcoming two-part special Tripsreleases spring 2026. Separate ticket required. http://ca4.us/shane
Featured Speakers
Reggie Watts
Internationally renowned musician, comedian, and improvisational creative force, Reggie Watts is best known as the bandleader on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Using only his voice, looping pedals, and boundless imagination, he creates entirely improvised performances that dissolve the boundaries between music and comedy.
The New York Times called him “the most influential absurdist in comedy today.” His Netflix special Spatial received critical acclaim, and his memoir Great Falls, MT was published by Penguin. He has headlined sold-out tours across the U.S. and Europe.
On Easter Sunday, Reggie joins Monica Cadena for a wide-ranging conversation exploring creativity, culture, and consciousness.
Shane Mauss
Award-winning comedian and science communicator, Shane Mauss has spent the last decade exploring where comedy, neuroscience, and psychedelics intersect. He hosts the Here We Are podcast, featuring over 400 conversations with scientists on life’s biggest questions. His psychedelic journeys inspired Comedy Central’s Tales From The Trip and the Amazon documentary Psychonautics: A Comic’s Exploration of Psychedelics. His MAPS-sponsored solo tour A Good Trip brought cutting-edge psychedelic research into mainstream comedy venues.
His upcoming two-part special Trips releases in spring 2026. On Saturday, he joins Pastor Dave for a candid and fearless dialogue on high-dose exploration — and returns that evening for a special live comedy performance (separate ticket).
Pastor Dave Hodges
Founder of the Church of Ambrosia and Zide Door in Oakland, Pastor Dave leads what has become the world’s largest psychedelic church — now over 135,000 members strong. A visionary spiritual leader and advocate for religious liberty, he has been featured in Forbes, the SF Chronicle, and Newsweek for his pioneering work at the intersection of faith and entheogenic sacraments.
Pastor Dave speaks both Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, he joins Shane Mauss in a candid conversation about high-dose work — its risks, revelations, and responsibilities. On Sunday, he delivers the Easter sermon, guiding seekers toward healing, expanded consciousness, and connection to the divine.
Monica Cadena
Known to her community as @sacred.alchemist, Monica Cadena is an Afro-Indigenous psychedelic writer and plant medicine advocate rooted in Oakland. As Creatrix of Psychedelics and Sensuality and co-founder of Wear Your Voice Magazine, she centers voices at the intersection of healing, social justice, and ancestral wisdom.
A contributor to Lucid News and DoubleBlind Magazine, Monica brings a grounded, decolonial lens to the psychedelic movement — expanding who feels welcome in these conversations and who gets to belong.