Balanced

Cadence: one practice day, one rest day, repeating.

A week looks like: Monday on, Tuesday off, Wednesday on, Thursday off, Friday on, weekend off.

Why this structure: it is the simplest rhythm there is. Steady enough to notice what the practice shows you, spacious enough that each rest day tells you what stayed.

Walking it: keep the amount, the time of day, and your conditions the same for at least three weeks before changing anything, and change only one thing at a time.

Reset: every couple of months, take two weeks off. The practice is not meant to be learned on. It is meant to be learned from, and the real work happens in integrating what it shows you.

Fadiman

Cadence: a three-day cycle. Day one is the practice day, day two is the afterglow, day three is your baseline.

A week looks like: Monday on, Tuesday and Wednesday off, Thursday on, Friday and Saturday off, Sunday on.

Why this structure: named for James Fadiman, whose research helped make it the most widely practiced schedule. The two rest days give you something rare: a clear look at who you are between practice days.

Walking it: give it at least three weeks. Notice day two, where many people feel the most, and let day three show you what is becoming yours.

Reset: every couple of months, take two weeks off. The practice is not meant to be learned on. It is meant to be learned from, and the real work happens in integrating what it shows you.

Stamets

Cadence: four consecutive practice days, then three days of rest.

A week looks like: Monday through Thursday on, Friday through Sunday off.

Why this structure: mycologist Paul Stamets designed it as a sustained window followed by space to integrate. He pairs the sacrament with two companions:

• Lion's mane (Hericium erinaceus), honored in Chinese and Japanese tradition as a mushroom of the mind, valued for clarity, focus, and memory, and studied for its relationship to nerve growth factor.
• Niacin (vitamin B3), which the body uses to make NAD+, central to cellular energy. It gently widens blood vessels near the skin, the warm flush many people notice, and in Stamets' reasoning that flush helps carry the other compounds through the body.

Tried & True was built on this stack, adding reishi, cordyceps, gotu kola, the active forms of vitamins B6, B9, and B12, quercetin, and black pepper to help the body absorb the botanicals.

Like every protocol, this is a structure, not the destination. It gives the practice a steady place in your week so you can learn from it and build trust in what it shows you.

Walking it: keep the amount steady across all four days, and give it at least three weeks.

Reset: every couple of months, take two weeks off. The practice is not meant to be learned on. It is meant to be learned from, and the real work happens in integrating what it shows you.

Intuitive

Cadence: yours.

Every structured protocol exists to bring you here. Entheos is here to guide you back to the Divine intelligence already moving through you, and that intelligence speaks through your mind, your body, and your soul. An intuitive practice is how you learn to listen to it.

Walking it: before each practice day, pause and ask what it is for. Let the answer come from the body before the mind explains it. Some seasons will call for more, some for less, and some for rest. The more you trust what you hear, the more the practice gives, and the more that trust carries into every other part of your life.

When to return to structure: if you cannot tell whether a pull is intuition or avoidance, walk Balanced or Fadiman for a cycle. There is no failure in that. It is how trust is rebuilt.

Reset: every couple of months, take two weeks off. The practice is not meant to be learned on. It is meant to be learned from, and the real work happens in the reconnection of mind, body, and soul.