Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love
Love is the essence of creation — not a destination, but our natural state. We practice radical acceptance: of ourselves, of others, and of the mystery that holds us all. Love is our Divine Source, our method, and our message. We choose to love ourselves, to be Love, and to be loved. Every encounter is an invitation to love more deeply.
INTEGRATION
Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love
Integration is fundamental to our spiritual development, and how we achieve lasting change in our lives. Ceremony plants the seed, and integration is vital to nurturing the life that emerges.
Integrity
Unconditional Love
Responsibility
We acknowledge and embody the perfection we are and the beings we are becoming. Here, “integrity” does not imply morality, it means a state of wholeness, transparency, and alignment. We speak and act from heart-centeredness.
Responsibility
Responsibility
Responsibility
Responsibility blossoms with the evolution of our awareness. We commit to practices of devotion and spiritual hygiene that keep us grounded and centered. By consciously integrating what we experience, we live our mission.
Connection
Responsibility
Connection
We are connected at a profound level. We believe Spirit is revealed through this relationship — with one another, the land, and all beings, seen and unseen. This revelation is experienced in synchronicity, miracles, magick, and the mundane. In community and ceremony, we rediscover that there is no separation between human, nature, and Divine. As we tend to this living group field, it tends to us.
Healing
Responsibility
Connection
We create space for healing. Healing is remembrance — the return from fragmentation to unity. We honor many healing paths: entheogenic sacraments, plant medicine, meditation, movement, breathwork, energy work, sound healing, and other modalities. Here, there is nothing to fix – only to awaken and expand into what has always been whole.
Service
Ethics of Remembrance and Reciprocity
Service
Service is the channel through which we bring the teachings of ceremony and Spirit into the world. Through intentional action and compassionate care, we are in service to life itself.
Unity
Ethics of Remembrance and Reciprocity
Service
We honor all paths that lead to Love. The Sanctuary welcomes all races, genders, orientations, faiths, abilities, personal stories, socio-economic backgrounds, and traditions. We celebrate diversity as the Divine expressing and playing in infinite form.
Ethics of Remembrance and Reciprocity
Ethics of Remembrance and Reciprocity
Ethics of Remembrance and Reciprocity
We honor Indigenous teachings and acknowledge we are all one human family. We are grateful for the wisdom keepers of the unbroken lineages which celebrate the connection of life and Spirit. We learn from and are inspired by those who have kept that connection when we forgot.
With integrity and responsibility, we encourage the seeking of guidance through each of our own ancestral traditions and lineages, and honor the common ground shared by them all.
We have a living relationship with land stewards, elders, and medicine keepers from traditions that inspire and educate.
A portion of all donations goes to support these communities.
MEET our family & Council
Raymond Ussery ~ Founding Member
Raymond is a seasoned nonprofit leader, works as a Fractional Chief Operations Officer for solo entrepreneurs, and is a former software/SaaS executive. Raymond translates vision into structure designing the systems, rhythms, and clarity that allow both sacred community and human endeavor to flourish.
Ren Ussery ~ Founding Member
Ren has been participating in transformational and spiritual work for over 35 years. Although she works in small business finance, her true passion is creating space for people to have safe and supported sacramental journeys. She and Raymond chose their home in Lake Chapala area, Mexico specifically for this purpose and she hosts SOUL retreats there, as well as in the US.
Roger Lockshier ~ Founding Member ~ Senior Minister ~ Core Facilitator
Roger is a shamanic practitioner, minister, spiritual guide, and ceremonialist. He is a Certified Trauma Informed Plant Medicine Facilitator and Reiki Master. Roger brings over 30 years of experience devoted to nature centric spirituality including mystical practices rooted in western and eastern esoteric traditions. After working for over a decade in “traditional” healthcare as both a nurse and as a hyperbaric technologist, Roger surrendered to the call of Spirit to devote his life in service of assisting others to awaken to their deepest spiritual and healing potentials.
Allison Lockshier ~ Founding Member ~ Minister ~ Core Facilitator
Allison is a vocalist, ritual drummer, minister, ceremonialist and mother of four. She has degrees in Theatre and Nursing, as well as an active registered nursing license in the state of North Carolina.
Terri Gilbert, PhD ~ Founding Member ~ Facilitator
Terri started out as a neuroscientist and scientific educator, and followed her path toward understanding consciousness and facilitating the ways it can inspire meaningful change.
Possessing a unique blend of scientific training to understand the complexity of how the brain works within non-ordinary states of consciousness, Terri also delved into a variety of trainings focused on the spiritual aspects of this work, including shamanism, psychedelic space holding and integration, and exploration into mythology and end of life.
Terri now works with individuals to facilitate their journey toward evolution.
Scott houghton ~ Founding member
Scott brings over 14 years of leadership experience in senior care and multi-site operations, alongside a deeply personal and evolving spiritual practice. His work is rooted in service—supporting individuals, families, and communities through both practical leadership and inner transformation.
Scott’s spiritual path has been shaped through years of exploration in meditation, plant medicine, and shamanic practices. He has received training in shamanic journeying and energy work, and is a certified Reiki practitioner. His approach integrates presence, compassion, and curiosity, with a focus on helping others reconnect to their own inner wisdom and healing capacity.
He is especially drawn to creating spaces where people can experience their humanity as a gift—both for themselves and in relationship with others.
Taylor Sones ~ Founding Member ~ Minister ~ Facilitator
Taylor is an artist, vocalist, and healer. She has been in a mentorship with Roger since 2019, and has been working in the ceremony space with Roger and Allison since 2020. Taylor is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Wilmington with a triple major in Psychology, Philosophy and Religious Studies, and is currently pursuing her Master's of Divinity Degree.
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