Why Was Entheo Community Founded?

For Entheo Community founder Moshe Jacobson, it has always been about creating and holding safe space. He has always been a safe confidant, but his conscious journey began in 2015 after splitting up with his partner who introduced him to LSD.



He didn’t know anyone else who used psychedelics, and he knew he needed a safe space for himself and others to share their experiences. Discovering psychedelic societies, which were new to the US then, he became inspired to start his own Meetup called PsyAtlanta: A Psychedelic Education and Support Community.



After a year of restaurant meetups, he began holding regular integration circles for PsyAtlanta, which has since grown to over 3,000 members. In 2018 he also began hosting multi-modality spiritual healing retreats in nature under a new Meetup and LLC called Alive in the Wild.



His involvement with these communities led him into an apprenticeship as a professional psychedelic journey facilitator. In mid-2018, he began working part-time in this role and went full-time in 2019 under the name EntheoCoach, LLC.



However, he realized the wellness or medical model didn’t align with these profound experiences. He saw this practice as deeply spiritual and started to understand the necessity of starting an entheogenic church, as many others were beginning to do.
Besides offering a spiritual space, a church framework provided a greater level of much-desired legal protection under the First Amendment and RFRA.



He also saw that as a coach, he couldn’t build the broader community he envisioned: a nationwide network of people who already had or desired their own spiritual practice with sacrament, whether or not they desired his professional services.



In 2021, sensing this larger creation on the horizon, he purchased the entheo.community domain name. The vision unfolded over the next few years, culminating on October 3, 2023 with the official ratification of Entheo Community’s founding documents and the intention to become a nationwide network of active local entheogenic communities, grounded in a religious and educational framework.



On this journey Moshe draws from all the skills he has honed as educator, community builder, entrepreneur, spaceholder, coach, event organizer, facilitator, and long time tech professional. He is thrilled to be creating the biggest safe space yet, and we are thrilled to have the privilege to share it with you.



If you’re not already a member, we hope you’ll consider joining today.



Thank you for reading.



The Entheo Community Team