Eric has worked with sacred mushrooms for more than 27 years, first as a farmer and forager, then as a retreat founder in Jamaica, and now as the co-founder of a church built around the sacrament. He talks plainly about faith, mushrooms and what it takes for an experience to actually change a life.
I don't think I've ever interviewed anyone wiser or more humane than Eric.Decca Aitkenhead, Chief Interviewer, The Sunday Times
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People aren't outgrowing God. Many are outgrowing a church that lost its sacrament. Eric makes the case for bringing direct experience of the Divine back to the center of church life, and what that looks like on an ordinary Sunday.
Psilocybin was sacrament long before it was medicine. Why the clinical frame is only one small chapter of a much older human story.
Weekly services since 2021, trained peer spaceholders, clear ceremony standards and religious freedom protections under RFRA. What five years of running one has taught him.
A gourmet mushroom farm, a state wild mushroom certification program, and a pioneering psilocybin retreat center in Treasure Beach. The long road behind the church.
Thousands of sessions later, Eric's view is that lasting change comes from the practice and integration around an experience, not the experience alone.
Reclaiming the Sacrament from the Renaissance, Reviving the Church for a Modern World
Eric's new book traces how the sacred mushroom was pushed out of Western religious life and argues for bringing it home. It's written for anyone who has felt the pull of faith and the limits of the church at the same time.
Chapter One: Older Than the Clinic. "Despite how it might seem from outdated media, psilocybin is a product of God's laboratory, not man's."
Read the first chapterA personal practice that grew into a lifelong study of the whole fungal kingdom.
A self-funded gourmet mushroom farm on 87 acres that supplied restaurants and chefs from Indianapolis to Louisville for seven years. Eric helped develop Indiana's wild mushroom certification program and is a state certified wild mushroom expert with a master's in education.
A pioneering psilocybin retreat center in Treasure Beach, where he personally administered more than 3,000 doses to people from all walks of life.
With his wife, Courtney McClure, Eric returns to the U.S. to build a faith community around the sacrament, open to people who could never afford a private retreat.
The story and the theology behind the church, out in November.
A sampling of where Eric has been a guest or featured, newest first.
Psanctuary is a nationwide sacred mushroom church. It has gathered for Sunday service every single week since February 2021, trains members as peer spaceholders, and holds ceremony under religious freedom protections.
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Eric S. Osborne is the co-founder of Psanctuary, a nationwide sacred mushroom church, and the author of The Psychedelic Reformation. He has worked with psilocybin for more than 27 years and founded MycoMeditations, a pioneering psilocybin retreat center in Jamaica.
Eric S. Osborne has worked with psilocybin since 1999. He built and ran Magnificent Mushrooms, a gourmet mushroom farm in Indiana, helped develop the state's wild mushroom certification program, and holds a master's in education. In 2013 he founded MycoMeditations in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, where he personally administered more than 3,000 psilocybin doses. With his wife, Courtney McClure, he co-founded Psanctuary, a nationwide sacred mushroom church that has held Sunday service every week since February 2021. His book, The Psychedelic Reformation: Reclaiming the Sacrament from the Renaissance, Reviving the Church for a Modern World, comes out in November 2026.
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