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While many modalities offered at The Hive Entheogenic Church can be learned and experienced for the first time without prior knowledge, working with ancestral medicines in sacred ceremony requires proper preparation and understanding, both for your safety and to have a fulfilling experience. Intentionally preparing your body and mind for immersion into a life changing sacred entheogen experience is fundamental to your process of spiritual transformation. As you eliminate your usual go-to’s for comfort, solace, and satiation (especially sugars, fats, salts, caffeine, alcohol, and recreational drugs), you become increasingly aware of your actual feelings. It can be quite mentally and emotionally uncomfortable as you gain insight into all the ways you avoid discomfort with foods and other substances. Yet, it’s helpful to become aware of and release these more surface-level patterns before entering into ceremony, so that deeper remembrance can occur.
The word sacrifice has a bad rep… It feels heavy and full of obligation. However, the root of “sacrifice” is sacer, meaning “holy” in Latin. By going without some of your pleasures, you are creating a sacred intention. This isn’t about suffering in the name of God, Spirit, or the Divine… rather – when we offer Spirit something we want, it has more meaning than if we were to “give up” something that we don’t really care about. Understanding that we, as human beings, are made up of energy and vibration; we invite you to honor this knowing and protect your energy by abstaining from sex and/or disrupting/releasing the sacral energy center for at least a week prior to ceremony. Also honoring our vibration, the food dieta recommendations are to assist you in making choices that help in keeping your energy in highest vibration.
Leading up to the ceremony we encourage you to find moments with self to begin to feel into your intention for this ceremony. When our intentions are clear, when we are sure about what we want, we give the universe full permission to deliver it to us. However, there is a difference between intention and expectation. Chances are you’ve heard or read stories about completely life altering experiences people have had while in ceremony. So, it can be hard not to form expectations – we must become aware of such. To have an expectation is to preemptively create a story as to how a moment or person will be in order to meet your want/need/desire. And intention is to bring forth the want/need/desire without putting a story to the outcome in how that will be materialized. We often can have intentions and unconsciously put an expectation to that intention. When we do this, we get in our own way, and set the moment/person up for failure. Because no matter if the intention was meant, if it’s not in the way you played it in your unconscious expectation, then it will not satisfy the initial intention. It’s completely natural for your brain to form conceptions and attach to stories, so you get to treat yourself with self compassion and just do your best to release from these expectations. This will produce the most profound results, and allow your intention to become empowered. The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power.
The following are some self- reflection questions that may help guide your intention:

• What is your main intention with this ceremony?

• How would you describe your life?

• How is the relationship with yourself, how do you connect with yourself? 
• Where do you need to find forgiveness?

• Where do you self sabotage or disempower yourself?

• Do you trust yourself? If the answer is no, when was that trust lost?
 
• What is your biggest fear with change into the unknown?

• Do you have pivot points of trauma throughout your life?

• What do you want in life?

• Do you feel worthy or deserving?

• What does limitless unconditional love/life mean to you?