✦ Levels of Fellowship ✦
A path that deepens, not a menu.
SpiritKeepers Native American Church does not grant access to sacrament or ceremony on request. Each level below reflects a real, separately reviewed step in a person’s sincere relationship with the church — not a purchase, not a subscription tier, and never automatic. Every step is decided by church leadership reading the actual person in front of them.
Level 1
Member
Where every sincere seeker begins
Membership is the church’s recognition that you have come to this path in good faith — granted only after your application is personally reviewed and approved, never automatic or assumed. It carries the protections of a member of a religious organization and opens the doors of fellowship itself — our social gatherings, our community resources, and the shared life of the congregation.
Sacrament and ceremony are not part of this first level. They come as trust and relationship deepen — not because they are withheld, but because sacramental practice asks for a foundation first.
Level 2
Friendly Fellowship Member
The Plant of Peace
Members who wish to go further may request Friendly Fellowship status — a second, separately reviewed step that opens access to the Plant of Peace, cannabis, as a sacrament held in prayer, not recreation.
This is not automatic. Every request is read and decided by the church’s leadership, the same way your original application was — a real look at a real person, every time.
Level 3
Sacred Member
Ceremony, and all the medicines the church carries
Sacred status is the fullest expression of participation in the church’s sacramental life: ceremony itself, and the other sacred medicines — psilocybin, peyote, ayahuasca, DMT, San Pedro — each held within its own tradition and protocol.
Because ceremony asks the most of a person — preparation, presence, and responsibility to the circle — Sacred status is the level that takes the longest relationship with the church to reach, and the most careful review to grant.
✦ Why It Works This Way
Every level above base membership requires its own request and its own review — the same manual, personal approval process as the original application, applied again at each step. This is not bureaucracy for its own sake: it is the record that shows every person who reaches sacrament or ceremony was seen, considered, and welcomed deliberately by the people responsible for holding this fellowship, not waved through by a form.
The church’s leadership and ministers carry additional responsibilities within these levels of fellowship — that is a matter of service and calling within the church, not a status to apply for.