As a Sacred Mushroom Minister at Psanctuary, U.S. Marine combat veteran, former U.S. Diplomat, and serial social entrepreneur, Yeshua brings fifteen years of direct experience with holistic practices in healing trauma.
In the last decade, he has actively explored personal and professional experience in deep psychedelic journeys, integration practice facilitated, and trained with shamans and teachers descending from the Shipibo tradition and Mazatec Shamanism lineages. Yeshua has facilitated hundreds of journeys and experienced over fifty deep facilitated individual journeys himself with Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, San Pedro, MDMA, LSD, & 5-MeO-DMT. He has explored a range of intentions with psychedelics to heal from trauma, reconcile relationships, develop consciousness, live from the heart, and understand the mysteries of the universe.
As a social entrepreneur, he is developing the infrastructure in the State of Maine for a clinical, regulatory framework and decriminalizing entheogenic plants and fungi to restore our root connection to nature. Yeshua actively pursues national, state, and local psychedelic policy reform and is a council member at Natural Medicine Maine and uses his voice to Decriminalize Nature, and actively rallies public support to approve the Maine Psilocybin Health Access Act (LD1914). As a founding partner of the Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition (VMHLC) and as the co-founder of Psychedelics for Maine Veterans, he is advocating to secure state grants to reallocate opioid settlement funds to advance psychedelic research, education, and treatment. He is a philanthropic executive funding holistic programs addressing veteran PTSD relief.
He writes about the psychedelic industry, speaks at conferences, and leads workshops on psychedelics, evolving consciousness, and reconnection with nature. He consults for various organizations throughout the psychedelics industry. Thích Nhất Hạnh, George I. Gurdjieff, Rudolf Steiner, Paramahansa Yogananda, and Buckminster Fuller have influenced his thinking and being most. He completed a B.A. in Sustainability Management from DeVry University and studied Biomimicry at Arizona State University. He loves bodybuilding, archery, meditation, backpacking, and exploring the outdoors with his two children. For more, visit, aboutyeshua.com
