Welcome to the Sanctuary.

Preamble

This Release of Liability, Assumption of Risk, and Informed Participation Agreement(“Agreement”) is entered into between you, the prospective member (“Member”), and theEntheos Holistics Trust, as operational trustee of the Entheos Holistics PrivateMembership Association (“the Association”), and the Entheos Sanctuary Trust, as theecclesiastical trustee of the Entheos Sanctuary (“the Sanctuary”). Together, the Trusts andthe Association are referred to throughout this Agreement as “Entheos.”

By clicking “I Agree,” you confirm that you have read, understood, and voluntarily enterinto this Agreement as a condition of membership in the Entheos Holistics PMA andaccess to the Sanctuary’s private offerings.

Section 1 — The Nature of What You Are Joining

Entheos is a private religious sanctuary — a sincere spiritual community centered on thesacramental use of psilocybin, the founding sacrament of the tradition, held alongside thesacred intelligence of plants, herbs, and all that the earth offers as sacred medicine, as apathway to direct communion with the Divine through the reconnection of Mind, Body,and Soul. The tradition began in March 2018 and was given formal institutional structurein January 2025. The Entheos Sanctuary Trust holds the ecclesiastical mission, theologicaldoctrine, and constitutional protections of this tradition. The Entheos Holistics Trustadministers the Entheos Holistics Private Membership Association, through which allmember relationships are governed.

All gatherings, ceremonies, programs, and offerings of Entheos occur exclusively withinthis private religious community of consenting adults. Nothing Entheos offers is availableto the general public. Membership is the gateway to everything within it.

Section 2 — What “Participation” Means

“Participation” includes all activities within the Entheos community, including but notlimited to:

• Sacramental ceremonies and retreat experiences
• Cohort-based educational programs and sacred formation
• Individual and group integration sessions with ordained ministers or staff
• Live online community gatherings, including teaching calls, Q&A calls, and integrationsupport
• Day retreats and multi-day retreat experiences at privately secured sacred spaces
• Access to community teachings, resources, and materials
• Any other direct or indirect engagement with the Sanctuary, its ordained ministers,staff, or members

Section 3 — Voluntary and Informed Participation

You acknowledge that your participation in Entheos is:

(a) Entirely voluntary. You join of your own free will, without coercion, inducement, orpressure from any party. No one has compelled you to enter this Agreement.

(b) Spiritually motivated. Your participation reflects sincere engagement with theEntheos tradition as a form of religious practice and community — not a commercialtransaction, a medical treatment, or a recreational activity.

(c) A matter of personal responsibility. You have reflected on what participation meansfor your physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual wellbeing, and you are satisfiedthat participation is appropriate for you at this time.

(d) Subject to your own professional consultation. If you carry medical, psychological,or psychiatric conditions that may be relevant to your participation, you have obtainedappropriate professional guidance before joining. Entheos does not provide medical orclinical screening.

(e) Informed. You have had sufficient opportunity to review the tradition’s teachings, askquestions, and understand the nature of what you are entering before agreeing to thisdocument. You are not acting on incomplete information.

Section 4 — Assumption of Inherent Risk

Sincere spiritual practice — including sacramental ceremonies, intensive retreats, deepcontemplative engagement, and communal formation work — carries inherentpossibilities for profound experience. This is not a side effect of spiritual practice. It is itsnature.

You acknowledge and accept that participation may give rise to:

• Intense emotional or psychological experiences, including grief, fear, or disorientationarising in the course of deep inner work
• Spiritual openings, revelatory experiences, or encounters that feel outside ordinaryframeworks of understanding
• Shifts in perspective, values, relationships, or life direction following sacramental orceremonial experience
• Physical responses the body may move through as part of sincere spiritual work, suchas tiredness, sensitivity, or the body releasing what it has held
• Integration challenges in the days or weeks following a ceremony or retreat experience
• Experiences that feel destabilizing before they feel clarifying — as is often the nature ofgenuine spiritual opening

You enter participation aware of these possibilities and accept them as inherent to sincerespiritual engagement on this path. Entheos provides pastoral support and integrationguidance, but the experiences themselves are yours to meet and integrate.

Section 5 — Release of Liability

In consideration of your membership and participation, and to the fullest extent permittedby law, you voluntarily release and hold harmless:

• The Entheos Sanctuary Trust and its Co-Trustees
• The Entheos Holistics Trust and its Co-Trustees
• The Entheos Holistics Private Membership Association
• The Ecclesiastical Board of Trustees of the Entheos Sanctuary
• All ordained ministers, staff, facilitators, volunteers, and community members actingwithin the scope of their service to Entheos

(collectively, “the Released Parties”)

…from any and all claims, demands, losses, damages, suits, liabilities, costs, or causes ofaction of any kind — whether known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, at the time ofparticipation — arising out of or related to your membership in or participation withEntheos, including claims arising from the Released Parties’ ordinary negligence.

This release does not apply to claims arising from the gross negligence orwillful misconduct of the Released Parties.

You enter this release freely and voluntarily, with full understanding of its meaning andlegal effect.

Section 6 — Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Released Parties from any claims,demands, damages, losses, costs, or reasonable legal fees arising from: (a) your ownconduct, actions, or decisions during participation in Entheos; (b) your breach of any termof this Agreement or any other agreement you have executed as part of your membership;or (c) any misrepresentation you have made in connection with your membership.

Section 7 — No Medical or Therapeutic Claims

Entheos makes no medical claims of any kind. The Sanctuary’s offerings — its programs,ceremonies, retreats, teachings, and pastoral support — are spiritual and educational innature. They are not medical treatment, psychotherapy, clinical intervention, or mentalhealth care.

Entheos does not diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, or mitigate any physical or psychologicalcondition. Nothing within the Sanctuary’s offerings constitutes medical advice or replacesthe care of a qualified health professional. If you have health concerns that may berelevant to your participation, you are solely responsible for obtaining appropriateprofessional guidance.

Your participation is in your own capacity as a sincere spiritual seeker — not as a patient.

Section 8 — Private Ecclesiastical Domain and Constitutional Protections

All of Entheos’ offerings occur within a private ecclesiastical domain. Entheos is a privatemembership association and a private religious community — not a publicaccommodation, a place of public commerce, or a public-facing enterprise. NothingEntheos offers is offered, advertised, or made available to the general public; membershipis a prerequisite to all access, and every member relationship is a known, documented,covenantal one. Your participation is an act of sincere spiritual covenant within thisprivate community — not a commercial transaction with the general public.

This private character is affirmed openly. It is asserted not to place Entheos beyondexamination, but because the private, non-commercial, membership-gated nature of thecommunity is precisely what its constitutional protections are built to safeguard. Theprotections governing this private religious community include:

• The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits any lawabridging the free exercise of religion or the right of private association
• The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb et seq. (“RFRA”),which requires the government to demonstrate a compelling interest and the use of theleast restrictive means before substantially burdening sincere religious exercise

• The Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code ch. 110,which mirrors these protections at the state level
• The constitutional right of private association, established in NAACP v. Alabama,357 U.S. 449 (1958), and affirmed in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000)
• The church-autonomy doctrine, under which civil courts defer to the internalgovernance, doctrine, and membership decisions of religious bodies — Jones v. Wolf,443 U.S. 595 (1979); Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese v. Milivojevich, 426 U.S. 696 (1976)

Section 9 — Dispute Resolution

Any dispute arising out of or related to your membership in or participation with Entheosshall first be submitted to the Association’s internal dispute resolution process, as setforth in the Private Membership Association Agreement you are also executing as part ofthis registration. You agree to engage in good faith with this internal process beforepursuing any other remedy.

Section 10 — Electronic Signature and Consent

By clicking “I Agree,” you confirm that:

(a) You are 18 years of age or older, and of the age of majority in your state of residence;

(b) You have read and understood this Agreement in full and had the opportunity to seekclarification before agreeing;

(c) You enter this Agreement freely and without coercion;

(d) Your electronic acknowledgment constitutes a legally binding digital signature,equivalent to a physical signature, under common law, the Uniform ElectronicTransactions Act (UETA), and the Electronic Signatures in Global and NationalCommerce Act (15 U.S.C. § 7001 et seq., “ESIGN”); and

(e) This Agreement governs your participation for the duration of your membership inthe Entheos community.

Preamble

This Sacred Reciprocity, Voluntary Contributions, and Non-Commercial Acknowledgment(“Agreement”) is entered into between you, the Member, and the Entheos Holistics Trust,as operational trustee of the Entheos Holistics Private Membership Association. Itgoverns your understanding of the financial relationship between you and the Entheoscommunity — what your contributions are, what they are not, and the sacred frameworkthat governs them.

By clicking “I Agree,” you confirm that you have read, understood, and voluntarily enterinto this Agreement as part of your membership registration.

Section 1 — The Nature of Your Contributions

Any and all contributions you make to the Entheos community — whether designatedtoward a cohort program, a retreat, a ceremony, or the general mission — are:

(a) Voluntary devotional offerings. They are not payments for goods, services, or accessof any kind. Nothing within Entheos is for sale. No price exists for any offering, ceremony,program, or resource, because these are not products or services — they are dimensionsof a living religious tradition extended to sincere members of a spiritual community.

(b) Sacred acts of reciprocity. Your contribution is your participation in sustaining amission you believe in. It is functionally equivalent to tithing within a religiouscommunity — given in alignment with values and in support of a shared spiritualpurpose, not in exchange for a specific deliverable.

(c) Not consideration for any contract. No contribution purchases access to anyceremony, program, retreat, or sacrament. The Sanctuary’s gifts are extended to membersas acts of spiritual ministry and pastoral care, independent of any financial exchange. Therelationship between contribution and access is governed entirely by sacred reciprocity,not commercial logic.

(d) Directed exclusively to the mission. Contributions received by the EntheosHolistics Trust are held in trust and applied solely to the mission of the Sanctuary — thecommunity, the sacrament, the education, and the stewardship of the sacred space andthose who serve it. No individual owns trust assets or benefits personally fromcontributions.

Section 2 — Suggested Contribution Amounts

The Association publishes suggested contribution amounts as a transparent reflection ofwhat sustains the mission — not as prices, required minimums, or conditions of access.You may give what is right for your sincere circumstances. No suggested amount isrequired. Your standing as a member of this community and your access to pastoral care,community support, and sacred offerings are not conditioned on contributing anyparticular amount.

Section 3 — Educational Programs and Sacramental Access Are Kept Separate

The Sanctuary offers structured educational programs at mission-sustaining program fees,with genuine accessibility pathways for members in need. These program fees are keptformally and operationally distinct from sacramental access — in the Sanctuary’sdocumentation, communications, and practice:

• Program fees support the structured educational dimension of the mission: cohortcurriculum, ministerial time, platform, and formation resources.
• Sacramental access is never purchased. It is extended as a gift of the Sanctuary toprepared, consenting members in sincere spiritual covenant — at no price, regardlessof contribution level.

No fee, program, or referral arrangement is ever connected to sacramental access. Thesetwo categories are permanently separated in the Sanctuary’s governing records.

Section 4 — Non-Refundable Nature of Contributions

Contributions made to the Entheos Holistics Trust are non-refundable. Once received,they are held in trust and applied toward the Sanctuary’s mission. Because contributionsare voluntary devotional offerings — not payments for goods or services — there is nocommercial basis for a refund.

If you have a genuine concern about a contribution you have made, you are welcome tocontact the Association at info@entheosholistics.com. All such communications will bereceived with pastoral care.

Section 5 — Sacred Reciprocity and Accessibility Commitment

Entheos holds an unconditional Sacred Reciprocity & Accessibility Commitment. Nosincere member is ever excluded from access to the Sanctuary’s offerings on the basis offinancial capacity. If the published contribution levels are not accessible to you, a pathwaywill be made available. You are welcome to reach out at info@entheosholistics.com orthrough the Sacred Reciprocity & Accessibility resources made openly available across ourcommunity, and a pathway will be made for you.

This commitment is not marketing language. It is a documented fiduciary obligation ofthe Co-Trustees of the Entheos Holistics Trust, flowing from each member’s status as atrust beneficiary. It is honored in practice, not only on paper.

Section 6 — Contributions Are Not Tax-Deductible

Entheos is not a registered 501(c)(3) organization, and contributions to the EntheosHolistics Trust are not tax-deductible under federal or state law. Your contributions areprivate devotional offerings to an unregistered private religious trust — given for themission, not for a tax benefit. Entheos does not issue charitable donation receipts, andyou should not treat contributions as charitable deductions.

Section 7 — No Ownership, Equity, or Investment Interest

No contribution creates any ownership interest, equity stake, debt obligation, investmentposition, or expectation of financial return in either the Entheos Sanctuary Trust or theEntheos Holistics Trust. No person owns Entheos. Contributions are held in trust for themission and the members it serves — not for any individual’s financial benefit.

Your contribution confers no governance rights, no ownership rights, and no claim againsttrust assets.

Section 8 — Agreement and Electronic Signature

By clicking “I Agree,” you confirm that:

(a) You understand that all contributions you make to Entheos are voluntary devotionalofferings to the Entheos Holistics Trust — not payments for goods, services, or access;

(b) You understand that contributions are non-refundable and are held in trust for theSanctuary’s mission;

(c) You understand that no contribution purchases or conditions access to sacramentalpractices, and that sacramental access is governed by sacred reciprocity, not financialexchange;

(d) You understand that contributions are not tax-deductible and that you have not beenadvised by Entheos to treat them as such;

(e) You understand that contributions create no ownership interest, equity stake, orfinancial claim of any kind;

(f) Your electronic acknowledgment constitutes a legally binding digital signature undercommon law, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), and the ElectronicSignatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN).

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Preamble

This Private Membership Association Agreement (“Agreement”) is entered into by andbetween:

Entheos Holistics, operating through the Entheos Holistics Private MembershipAssociation (“the Association”), owned and held by the Entheos Holistics Trust as a trustasset in service of the Entheos Sanctuary Trust’s ecclesiastical mission; and

The undersigned individual (“Member”), who voluntarily seeks membership and agreesto the terms set forth herein.

By executing this Agreement, the Member enters into a private, voluntary, spirituallymotivated contractual relationship with the Association governed by the principles ofcommon law and private covenant.

Article I — Purpose and Nature of the Association

1.1 The Association is a private, member-based religious community organized for thepurpose of offering sacred education, sacramental ministry, spiritual formation,community stewardship, and access to the Entheos tradition’s theological resources — allwithin the private ecclesiastical domain and in service of the Entheos Sanctuary Trust’ssacred mission.

1.2 Membership is voluntary and spiritually motivated. Members seek sincere privateparticipation in a living religious tradition. No membership is a commercial relationship, atherapeutic enrollment, or a public transaction of any kind.

1.3 The Association is governed under the following overlapping legal authorities:

• (a) The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting the freeexercise of religion and the right of private association
• (b) The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb et seq. (“RFRA”),which establishes that any federal action substantially burdening sincere religiousexercise must satisfy strict scrutiny — a compelling governmental interest pursuedthrough the least restrictive means, assessed as applied to the particular religiousclaimant
• (c) The Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code ch.110, which extends equivalent strict-scrutiny protections at the state level
• (d) The constitutional right of private association established in NAACP v. Alabama,357 U.S. 449 (1958), and affirmed in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000)
• (e) The church-autonomy doctrine, under which civil courts defer to the internalgovernance and doctrine of religious bodies — Kedroffv. St. Nicholas Cathedral, 344 U.S.94 (1952); Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese v. Milivojevich, 426 U.S. 696 (1976); Jones v.Wolf, 443 U.S. 595 (1979); Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. EEOC,565 U.S. 171 (2012)
• (f) Common law private contract rights protected by Article I, Section 10 of theUnited States Constitution
• (g) The private express trust form, which predates statutory law and arises from theinherent capacity of natural persons to hold property in trust for a purpose, asrecognized in Elliot v. Piersol, 26 U.S. 328 (1828)

1.4 The Association is a sacred religious community. All of its offerings — educationalprograms, sacramental ceremonies, retreats, community gatherings, and pastoral support— are dimensions of sincere religious practice within a private spiritual covenant, notcommercial services offered to the public.

1.5 The Association is a private membership association — not a publicaccommodation, a place of public commerce, or a public-facing enterprise. Nothingit offers is offered, advertised, or made available to the general public. Membership is aprerequisite to all access, and every member relationship is a known, documented,covenantal one entered by voluntary agreement. This private character is affirmed openly

and honestly — not to place the Association beyond examination, but because the private,non-commercial, membership-gated nature of the community is precisely what itsconstitutional protections are built to safeguard.

Article II — Membership

2.1 By executing this Agreement, the Member enters into a private, consensual,spiritually motivated contractual relationship with the Association, governed by theprinciples of common law and private covenant.

2.2 Membership is entered voluntarily and may be withdrawn by the Member at any time.The Member understands that membership may also be revoked by the Association at itssole discretion, upon written notice, for conduct inconsistent with the community’svalues, mission integrity, confidentiality obligations, or the terms of this Agreement.

2.3 The Member affirms that their motivation for membership is sincere spiritual seeking— genuine engagement with the Entheos tradition as a form of religious practice — notrecreational interest, commercial intent, or therapeutic purpose.

2.4 All of the Association’s offerings are for private spiritual, educational, and religiouspurposes only. They are not public health services, licensed therapeutic treatments,clinical programs, or regulated wellness services of any kind. The Association does notdiagnose, treat, cure, or mitigate any physical or psychological condition.

2.5 The Member acts in their own private spiritual capacity and accepts full personalresponsibility for their engagement with the community’s offerings, consistent with theRelease of Liability and Assumption of Risk executed as part of this registration.

2.6 Membership confers no ownership interest, governance right, equity stake, orfinancial claim against either the Entheos Sanctuary Trust or the Entheos Holistics Trust.

2.7 The Member affirms that they are 18 years of age or older and of the age of majority intheir state of residence, and that they therefore have full legal capacity to enter into thisAgreement.

Article III — Private Domain and Confidentiality

3.1 All materials, teachings, resources, ceremonies, practices, and community interactionswithin Entheos are strictly private — accessible only to members of the Association andnot available to the general public. Everything the Member accesses, experiences, orreceives within the Entheos community belongs to the private domain of this Association.

3.2 The Member agrees that all communications, sacramental experiences, ceremonialcontent, member disclosures, and community interactions within the Association areprivate, confidential, and sacred. Members do not share this material outside theAssociation without the express written consent of the Association.

3.3 The Member agrees not to record, photograph, livestream, or otherwise document anycommunity gathering, ceremony, retreat, integration session, or ministerialcommunication without the express written consent of the Association and allparticipants present.

3.4 The private nature of this community is essential to the integrity of the tradition, theprotection of all members, and the constitutional standing of the Association. Breach ofconfidentiality is a serious matter and may result in immediate revocation of membership.

3.5 Members affirm that their participation reflects their sincere engagement with thetradition and agree to preserve the private covenantal character of the community in all oftheir interactions inside and outside of it.

3.6 — Private Domain Affirmation. The Member affirms that they knowingly andvoluntarily enter the private domain of the Association; that they understand theAssociation’s offerings are private and not public; that they enter solely as a sincereprivate member for their own spiritual participation; and that they are not entering thecommunity as, or on behalf of, any government agency, licensing body, or media entity forthe purpose of investigating, surveilling, or reporting upon it.

Article IV — Member Responsibilities and Conduct

4.1 The Member agrees to conduct themselves with integrity, sincerity, care, and respecttoward all community members, ministers, staff, and sacred spaces — in all forms ofengagement within the Entheos community.

4.2 The Member accepts full personal responsibility for their own health, emotionalwellbeing, physical safety, and the choices they make in the context of their participation.Entheos provides pastoral support, integration guidance, and community care — and theMember remains solely responsible for their own decisions throughout.

4.3 The Member affirms that they have disclosed, or have independently determined therelevance of, any health conditions, psychiatric diagnoses, current medications, orpsychological factors relevant to participation, and have sought professional consultationwhere appropriate.

4.4 The Member agrees not to use, promote, represent, or advertise the Association’sname, community, resources, or mission in any commercial, promotional, or publiccontext — including social media, websites, or any form of public communication —without express written authorization from the Association.

4.5 The Member is warmly welcomed to share the mission with others and to invitesincere seekers to the Entheos website, community, and ecosystem — an act ofstewardship that carries the mission forward. Every person referred in this way is invitedto enter as any member does: through the Association’s own registration, so that theirrelationship with the community is known, documented, and covenantal. The Memberagrees, however, not to facilitate, offer, or administer the sacrament — psilocybin or anysacred medicine received through the Sanctuary — to any person who has not become amember through the Association’s registration. The invitation is offered freely; thesacrament is held within the covenant.

Article V — Liability and Indemnification

5.1 The Member acknowledges and affirms the full terms of the Release of Liability,Assumption of Risk, and Informed Participation Agreement executed as part of thisregistration, the terms of which are incorporated into this Agreement by reference.

5.2 Nothing in this Agreement waives any claim arising from gross negligence or willfulmisconduct by the Association or its members.

5.3 The Member agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Association and allRelated Parties from any claim, loss, damage, or cost arising from the Member’s ownconduct, decisions, misrepresentations, or breach of any term of this Agreement.

Article VI — Financial Terms

6.1 The Member acknowledges and affirms the full terms of the Sacred Reciprocity,Voluntary Contributions, and Non-Commercial Acknowledgment executed as part of thisregistration, the terms of which are incorporated into this Agreement by reference.

Article VII — Governing Law, Church Autonomy, and Dispute Resolution

7.1 — Governing Law. This Agreement is governed by and construed under the laws ofthe State of Texas and applicable federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.The Association operates under the stewardship of the Entheos Holistics Trust, a privateexpress trust organized in Austin, Texas.

7.2 — Church Autonomy Over Ecclesiastical Matters. The Member acknowledges thatthe Association’s internal religious governance — including its doctrine, its Articles ofFaith, the admission and discipline of members, ordination, ceremonial practice, and theinterpretation of its spiritual mission — are ecclesiastical matters committed to theAssociation’s own religious authority. Under the church-autonomy doctrine, civil courtsabstain from adjudicating such internal religious questions and defer to thedeterminations of the religious body (Kedroff, Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese v. Milivojevich,Jones v. Wolf, Hosanna-Tabor). The Member agrees not to ask any civil authority to review,second-guess, or override the Association’s internal ecclesiastical determinations.

7.3 — Good-Faith Internal Resolution. Before initiating any formal proceeding, theparties shall first attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute through the Association’sinternal, pastoral dispute-resolution process. The Member agrees to engage this internalprocess first, in keeping with the covenantal nature of the community.

7.4 — Binding Arbitration. Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relatingto this Agreement, the Member’s membership, or the Member’s participation that is notresolved through the internal process — and that is capable of adjudication by a civiltribunal (that is, excluding the ecclesiastical matters reserved in Section 7.2) — shall beresolved exclusively by final and binding private arbitration, and not in court, exceptas expressly stated in Section 7.6.

• (a) Governing arbitration law. The arbitration is governed by the Federal ArbitrationAct, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.
• (b) Seat and venue. The seat and venue of arbitration is Travis County, Texas, unlessthe parties agree in writing otherwise.
• (c) Arbitrator and rules. The parties may by mutual written agreement appoint asingle, mutually respected arbitrator, including a faith-based or ecclesiastical arbitratorfamiliar with private religious associations. If the parties do not agree within thirty(30) days of a demand for arbitration, the arbitration shall be administered by arecognized arbitration provider (such as the American Arbitration Association orJAMS) under its applicable rules, before a single arbitrator.
• (d) Delegation. Questions concerning the scope, applicability, enforceability, orformation of this arbitration provision shall be decided by the arbitrator.
• (e) Confidentiality. The arbitration, all submissions and testimony, and the awardshall be held confidential, consistent with the private nature of the Association, exceptas necessary to confirm or enforce the award.
• (f) Accessibility of cost. Consistent with the Association’s Sacred Reciprocity &Accessibility Commitment, the Association will advance or bear the arbitration filingand arbitrator fees for any Member of genuinely limited means, so that cost is never abarrier to resolution. Each party otherwise bears its own attorneys’ fees unless thearbitrator awards them as permitted by law.

• (g) Individual basis. All disputes are resolved on an individual basis. To the extentpermitted by law, the Member and the Association waive any right to bring orparticipate in a class, collective, or representative proceeding.

7.5 — RFRA Framework for Governmental Action. Where any governmental actionwould substantially burden the sincere religious exercise of the Association or itsmembers, the Member and the Association affirm their intent to invoke the ReligiousFreedom Restoration Act (42 U.S.C. § 2000bb et seq.), the Texas Religious FreedomRestoration Act (Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code ch. 110), and the First Amendment —under which the government bears the burden of demonstrating a compelling interestpursued through the least restrictive means, as applied to this specific community’ssincere practice (Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal, 546 U.S. 418(2006)).

7.6 — Preservation of Jurisdiction; Limited Judicial Recourse. This Agreement doesnot purport to remove the jurisdiction of any lawfully constituted court, and no suchremoval is intended or claimed. Consistent with the Federal Arbitration Act, either partymay (i) apply to a court of competent jurisdiction to compel arbitration, or to confirm,enforce, vacate, or modify an arbitration award; and (ii) seek temporary injunctive orprovisional relief in aid of arbitration. Nothing in this Article waives any claim arisingfrom gross negligence or willful misconduct, or any right that may not lawfully be waivedby pre-dispute agreement.

7.7 — Severability. If any provision of this Article is held unenforceable, the remainderof this Article and this Agreement remains in effect, and the unenforceable provision shallbe limited or reformed to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. If theindividual-basis provision in Section 7.4(g) is held unenforceable as to any claim, thatprovision is severed as to that claim, which shall then proceed in court rather than inarbitration.

Article VIII — Member Affirmations

By executing this Agreement, the Member affirms:

8.1 They have read and understood this Agreement in full, and enter it freely andvoluntarily.

8.2 They join this community of their own free will, without coercion, and motivated bysincere spiritual intent.

8.3 They acknowledge that all of Entheos’ offerings are private, spiritual, and educationalin nature — not commercial, medical, or public.

8.4 They accept personal responsibility for their participation and have released theAssociation from liability as detailed in this Agreement and the accompanying Release ofLiability.

8.5 They share in the sincere conviction — consistent with their own executed Affidavit ofSincere Religious Belief — that the pursuit of a direct relationship with the Divinethrough sincere spiritual and sacramental practice is a fundamental human right and aprotected form of religious exercise.

8.6 They understand that this Association’s strength rests on operational and covenantaldiscipline, and they commit to honoring that discipline through their participation.

Article IX — Electronic Signature and Consent

By clicking “I Agree,” the Member confirms that:

(a) They have read and understood this Agreement in full;

(b) They enter this Agreement freely and voluntarily, without coercion;

(c) Their electronic acknowledgment constitutes a legally binding digital signature,equivalent to a physical signature, under common law, the Uniform ElectronicTransactions Act (UETA), and the Electronic Signatures in Global and NationalCommerce Act (ESIGN);

(d) This Agreement is a binding private covenant governing the Member’s relationshipwith the Entheos Holistics PMA for the duration of their membership.

Preamble

This Affidavit is the most important document you will execute as part of your Entheosmembership. It is not a legal formality, and it is not a checkbox. It is a sworn declaration— your solemn statement, made under penalty of perjury, that you enter this communityas a sincere spiritual seeker, in authentic alignment with its theological tradition, for thepurpose of sincere religious practice.

The legal protections that shelter this community — the First Amendment and theReligious Freedom Restoration Act (42 U.S.C. § 2000bb et seq.) — rest on a foundation ofsincerity. In Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal, 546 U.S. 418 (2006), aunanimous Supreme Court held that the government cannot satisfy strict scrutiny againsta sincere religious community’s sacramental practice merely by invoking the generalapplicability of federal drug law. What the law protects is sincere religious exercise — andsincerity is demonstrated through evidence: the history of the tradition, its theology, itsgovernance, and the documented conviction of each of its members.

A sworn affidavit carries far greater evidentiary weight than a simple acknowledgment. Byexecuting this Affidavit, your sincere declaration is placed, under oath, alongside those ofthe founding stewards, the ordained ministers, and every member who has entered thiscommunity in good faith. It strengthens the standing of the entire Sanctuary — and it ispreserved in your member profile and in the Sanctuary’s permanent ecclesiastical record,accessible to you at any time.

Execute this Affidavit only if every statement in it is genuinely true for you. If anypart does not reflect your sincere belief or your true circumstances, do not sign it. Speakwith a minister or community contact first.

Declarant

The Declarant is the individual completing this registration. The Declarant is identified bythe full legal name provided at registration, together with the electronic signature, thedate and time of execution, and the registration record (including the associatedemail address and signing metadata). This information identifies the Declarant and formspart of the sworn declaration below. If the Declarant later requests or orders an in-person,retreat, or sacramental offering, a full residential address is collected at that time andadded to the Declarant’s member profile.

Part A — Sworn Statements of Fact

I, the Declarant named above, being of sound mind and lawful age, declare the following statements tobe true of my own personal knowledge:

A.1 I am 18 years of age or older, and of the age of majority in my state of residence.

A.2 I am entering this community of my own free will. No person has coerced, pressured,induced, or compelled me to join Entheos or to execute this Affidavit.

A.3 I have had the opportunity to review the Entheos Sanctuary’s Articles of Faith and itspublished doctrine before executing this Affidavit.

A.4 My motivation for joining and participating in Entheos is sincere spiritual andreligious seeking. I am not joining for recreational purposes, commercial interest,therapeutic treatment, experimentation, or any purpose unrelated to sincere religious orspiritual practice.

A.5 I understand that the Entheos Sanctuary makes no medical claims, and that itsofferings are not medical treatment, psychotherapy, or clinical care. I am not relying onany medical claim, diagnosis, promise, or guarantee of outcome in choosing to participate.

A.6 I understand that psilocybin, the sacrament of the tradition, is currently classified as aSchedule I controlled substance under federal law, and I am entering this community withthat understanding.

A.7 My decision to participate in the sacramental practices of the tradition, if and when Ichoose to do so, is and will be entirely my own — freely made and not induced by anyrepresentation, promise, or guarantee.

Part B — Affirmations of Sincere Religious Belief

I further affirm, sincerely and in good faith, the following convictions, which I hold as genuine religiousbelief:

B.1 I affirm my sincere belief that the Divine — the One Infinite Creator — is one infinite,indivisible consciousness from which all creation continuously emanates, and that adirect, felt relationship with the Divine is available to every human being through sincereinward turning.

B.2 I affirm my sincere belief that the human being is a living trinity of Mind, Body, andSoul — a unified sacred architecture through which God is known and expressed.

B.3 I affirm my sincere belief that psilocybin — the founding sacrament of this tradition— held alongside the sacred intelligence of plants, herbs, and all that the earth offers assacred medicine, as held and administered within the Entheos Sanctuary, is a sacredsacrament — a gift through which the Infinite Creator communicates directly with thehuman soul, which reveals, clears, and restores relationship between Mind, Body, andSoul, and which does not manufacture spiritual experience but removes what blocks theencounter with the Divine. I affirm my belief in this earth-based sacramental path,trusting in the intelligence of all that nature offers, with psilocybin held as the doorwaythrough which this tradition was opened.

B.4 I affirm my sincere belief that participation in the sincere sacramental practice of thisprivate religious community is a genuine form of religious exercise, protected under theFirst Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

B.5 I affirm my sincere belief that the Entheos Sanctuary is a sincere religious community— not a commercial enterprise, a medical or therapeutic provider, or a public organization— and that my participation is an act of sincere religious covenant, categorically distinctin motivation, context, and intention from recreational, experimental, or therapeutic use.

B.6 I affirm that this sincerity is not situational. It reflects a genuine orientation towardthe Divine through this tradition, and I understand that sincerity in religious practice ismeasured not by certainty or doctrinal expertise, but by authentic seeking and honestengagement.

Part C — Contribution to the Communal Sincerity Record

I understand and intend that this Affidavit becomes part of the Entheos Sanctuary’s livinginstitutional sincerity record — contemporaneous, individually sworn evidence that thecommunity’s practice is sincere, real, and freely entered by each of its members. I makethis declaration knowing it serves the constitutional standing and the religious-libertyprotection of the entire community, and I offer it freely in that spirit.

Declaration Under Penalty of Perjury

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that theforegoing statements of fact set forth in Part A are true and correct, and that the affirmations ofbelief set forth in Parts B and C are made sincerely and in good faith.

Executed electronically on the date of registration. The Declarant’s electronic signature,applied at the completion of registration, is affixed to this Affidavit and executes ittogether with the other agreements in this registration.

This declaration is made under 28 U.S.C. § 1746 as an unsworn declaration under penalty of perjury— a form valid in every state of the United States — and no notarization is required for it to carry thelegal force of a sworn affidavit.

Electronic Signature and Consent

By clicking “I Agree,” I confirm that:

(a) Every statement of fact in Part A is true to my own personal knowledge, and everyaffirmation in Parts B and C is made sincerely and in good faith;

(b) I am 18 years of age or older, and of the age of majority in my state of residence;

(c) I understand that this is a sworn declaration made under penalty of perjury, and thatknowingly false statements of fact may carry legal consequences and may affect mystanding in the community and the integrity of its sincerity record;

(d) My electronic acknowledgment constitutes a legally binding digital signature,equivalent to a physical signature, under common law, the Uniform ElectronicTransactions Act (UETA), and the Electronic Signatures in Global and NationalCommerce Act (ESIGN);

(e) This Affidavit is offered in sincerity, accepted by the Entheos Sanctuary in good faith,held in the permanent ecclesiastical record, and made available to me in my memberprofile at any time.