At Michigan's first psychedelic church and psilocybin dispensary, mushrooms are the holy sacrament

(Detroit Metro Times) It came to him on a psilocybin mushroom journey. Shaman Shu was told that he would open a church, to spread the gospel of healing in Detroit. He had never been to Bushnell Congregational Church on the city’s west side before purchasing it. But as he explored the chapels and community rooms of the 60,000-square-foot campus, he came to understand it was meant to be.

Shu leads us down a long hallway inside the empty church to a room with a picture of revered Detroit psilocybin teacher Kilindi Iyi on the wall. Pictures of an anthropomorphic mushroom and his wife Ayana Iyi riding a boat on a purple sea, a mountain of crystals in the background, are taped below it. Kilindi and Ayana are the hosts of the Detroit Psychedelic Conference, with Ayana leading the charge after Kilindi’s death in 2020.

“This building called me, in the spiritual realm, to it,” Shu says, pointing to the photos. He says he did not know Kilindi personally but was familiar with his work. “This was in this building before I actually had access to it. I show up in here and I’m like, wait a minute, there’s a mushroom that’s here.”

Shu is setting up his Soul Tribes International ministry inside the long-vacant complex at 15000 Southfield Rd. Here, psilocybin mushrooms are the congregation’s holy sacrament — along with other naturally occurring “entheogenic” or psychoactive fungi and plants. ...................(more)

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