Psychedelic Church & Non-Profit

Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation

In the spring of 2019, Daniel McQueen attended a Psychedelics and Spirituality Conference and was confronted through his participation by the stark reality of Climate Change and other existential crises. Dealing with the sense of hopelessness, yet valuing the power of collective action nonetheless, Daniel initiated the development of the new non-profit, the Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation. 

In 2025, the non-profit organization became a church to best support the diverse community of practitioners that have gathered around the initiative. 

The primary purpose of MM Foundation as a church is to support a convergence of individuals, communities and organizations that are coming together to organize an effective and skilled response to global crises by skillfully using psychedelic medicines in spiritual practices and critical problem solving.

Vision Statement

The Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation envisions a world where society uses psychedelics in a sanctified manner for the benefit of humanity and our shared ecology.

Mission Statement

As a charitable institution established to support religious and healing sacramental practices associated with psychedelics, the Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation supports the ministry’s congregation members and the broader community in the safety-oriented, lawful, and ethical use of psychedelics for public benefit and public health. The non-profit initiatives are achieved through community-based ceremonial use; religious support services, including but not limited to spiritual guidance, pastoral counseling, and spiritual growth and healing; and harm reduction and educational ministry programs.

Purpose

The Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation supports its congregation members and the broader community in safety-oriented navigation the ecological and existential crises we face today as a global society lacking spiritual guidance, and to develop an effective and skillful response to transform these crises into profound opportunities for global healing and collective self-actualization through sacred communal connection.

The nonprofit corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for and in support of tax-exempt purposes of its charitable, educational, religious and other nonprofit programs as a church, including, for such purposes as making of distributions to organizations that qualify as tax exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (“IRC”) or the corresponding provisions or section of any future United States tax code.

Read more about our programs below.

Psychedelics, Spirituality & Religion Program

The Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation provides a program to establish a multi-faith, multi-religious, spiritually diverse, inclusive community that gathers to explore and share best practices with psychedelic medicines in healing, therapeutics, religious, and scientific areas of inquiry based on the religious beliefs and practices of the Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation. The Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation is non-denominational and non-dogmatic and operates from a shared spiritual belief that reality is greater than we can imagine and allows for a plurality of perspectives in its interpretation to hold personal and collective meaning. 

The Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation is organized and operating as a religious institution, referred to as a church by the IRC, in that its congregation members hold a shared belief in the sanctity and healing power of psychedelics when sacramental use is skillful and includes careful preparation, intention setting, integration within the appropriate setting.   

The Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation is organized through shared membership, and its work is aligned within a moral code of ethics and conduct. Its congregation members vocationally practice a spiritually aligned healing and transformational modality called Psychedelic Guiding, (including practices that invite spiritual and religious growth and a world view that includes psychedelic medicines as sacred sacraments). 

The Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation provides oversight and accountability for its spiritual and religious practitioners in accordance with Religious Ministry Exemptions DORA Code (C.R.S. § 12-245-217(1)) and religious ceremony, community support services, and harm reduction activities in accordance with the Colorado Natural Medicine Health Act.

In that regard, we:

  • Advance, develop and define shared values, codes of ethics and moral conduct for modem psychedelic communities and practitioners based on western religious/spiritual traditions and Transformational Alchemy, meditation and mindfulness, and religious traditions found globally that use psychedelics as sacred sacraments. These values equally hold spiritual & religious concepts with best practices of modern psychotherapy, aesthetics, research and scientific inquiry.
  • Advance mutual learning and dialogue with traditional, ancient and indigenous communities engaged in cultural, spiritual and religious psychedelic practices.
  • Offer our support to the Native American Church and its members in the sustainable harvesting, cultivation and ethical use of Peyote for their community.
  • Advance a core religious value of informed consent of our members, our communities and our clients, and the ability to collectively adjust values and agreements for the benefit of the individual and community as we learn and grow.
  • Develop and promote ethical guidelines for taking payments and donations for services that support sustainability and self care of practitioners.
  • Provide ethical oversight through the Medicinal Mindfulness Safe Community Council to professional practitioner members who identify as religious or spiritual vocational practitioners (Ministers, Rabbis, Medicine Practitioners, etc.), and who practice as psychedelic guides, pursuant to Colorado Department of Regulatory Agency (DORA) Religious Ministry Exemption (C.R.S. § 12-245-217(1)). As members, practitioners are required to abide by the MM Community Code of Ethics, which includes the primary codes currently established in the field of psychedelic guiding. Complying with these guidelines is legally enforceable through a membership and credentialing contract.
Psychedelic Professional Association Program

The Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation provides accountability, oversight, advocacy and other religious activities to its congregation members.

  • Provide public advocacy and education for the safe use of psychedelic medicines and the successful implementation of the Colorado Natural Medicine Health Act (NMHA).
  • Advance and develop professional credentialing, codes of ethics and conduct, and support future licensing requirements for the use of psychedelics as medicines in professional, clinical, and community based settings of personal use. These standards may overlap the field of psychotherapy and medicine, but we recognize that psychedelic guiding is a unique field that in the state of Colorado adheres to the standards set forth by the NMHA and other ethical oversight organizations for regulated and personal use.
  • To have a collective voice when engaging the Board of Advisors created by the NHMA and DORA.
  • To support the organization of shared community resources for the purpose of purchasing or leasing property designed to house individual, group, and community spiritual and religious practices associated with psychedelic medicines and guiding, congruent with personal use practices and/or regulations associated with the Natural Medicine Health Act
  • Support underground and legacy psychedelic medicinal practitioners’ transition to aboveboard practices congruent with new regulations.

Psychedelics, Education & Research Program

The Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation explores the intersection of mindfulness, spirituality, religion, ethics, science and psychedelics through rigorous inquiry and the sharing of knowledge.

In that regard, we:

  • Provide scholarships to underserved populations for psychedelic therapy, research and community grants for innovators in the field, and psychedelic education opportunities for the general population.
  • Continue outreach campaigns to educate communities on the value of cannabis as a psychedelic medicine.
  • Fund and support psychedelic research and expeditions in consciousness for the benefit of society and our ecology.
  • Support psychedelic curious individuals in safe and legal psychedelic practices now available under the Colorado Natural Medicine Health Act, and share guidelines for safe and ethical conduct with the larger community for harm reduction purposes.
  • Organize researchers, scientists, academics, and other allies to conduct research on cannabis, psychedelic cannabis, and the Medicinal Mindfulness modalities of Cannabis-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Therapy.
  • Advance and develop meaningful therapeutic models for use of psychedelics as medicine.

Psychedelics & Sustainability Program

To support the safe navigation of the ecological and existential crises we face as a global society, the Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation articulates the divine connections between psychedelics and sustainability and works to develop psychedelic protocols that support faith-based ecological problem solving.

  • Articulate the connections between psychedelics and sustainability.
  • Develop psychedelic protocols that support ecological problem solving.
  • Continue to advance and support local, regional, state and national initiatives for the legalization of psychedelic substances and support the successful implementation of the Colorado Natural Medicine Health Act
  • Advocate for the safe, sacred, accessible, and culturally conscious use of psychedelics to assist in environmental sustainability, particularly as it pertains to existential distress, addiction to consumerism, and the depression and apathy that result when an individual confronts the ecological issues of our time.

Commitment to Safe Access Program

To the extent allowed by law and religious exemption status, Medicinal Mindfulness Foundation provides support, education, and harm reduction initiative for safety-oriented access to Natural Medicines for its congregation members.

Grounding Values

Accessibility: Through need-based and identity-based scholarships, we are committed to making our training programs and resources accessible to those central to but on the edges of the psychedelic renaissance including: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, LGBTQ+ folks, women and low-income people.

Sustainability: Our perceived separation from the more-than-human world is a function of our unsustainable worldview and culture. As we strive to embody the truth of our interconnectedness, we commit to taking action to disrupt current modes of destruction to both people and planet and to actively build the new world we want to inhabit.

Harm Prevention: We strive to prevent, not just reduce any harm associated with psychedelic medicines so that they can be used to their fullest potential and for the greatest good.

Community: Transitioning from “I” to “We,” we recognize that healing and change take place in the context of interdependence and not individualism.

Sacredness: We commit to building our culture and programs in a way that centers the sacredness of all life and the sacredness of the psychedelic medicine path.

Scholarships: The Center for Medicinal Mindfulness Psychedelic Sitters School Psychedelic Therapy Training Program has provided over $400,000 need-based diversity scholarships since we restarted the online training program through the Covid-19 Pandemic. Each of our programs involves research & education and holds a commitment to collective action.