Pathways Interview

Stewarding spaces where spiritual inquiry and the rigorous exploration of consciousness meet, Skye brings decades of experience in somatic counseling, meditation, systems design, and entheogenic practice to the work of building resilient, spiritually aligned communities.

Their training in counseling, trauma-informed care, and mindful somatic practices is complemented by years of designing and managing complex operational systems. This synthesis shapes their vision of Sacred Garden as a living experiment in Sacred Science: a communal pursuit of intersubjectively verifiable insights into the nature of consciousness.

Grounded in humility, integrity, and deep listening, their leadership is devoted to cultivating structures where authentic connection and sacred inquiry are rooted in compassion.

Over 40 years of intentional family lineage, academic and global religious studies guide Bob’s entheogenic Sacrament work. Degrees and post-graduate studies include psychology, religious studies, sociology and Divinity (MDiv, University Chicago). Bob was founding Chairperson for the first successful all plants and fungi “Decriminalize Nature” initiative (Oakland), is senior Pastor for Sacred Garden Community Church, co-founder of Sacred Plant Alliance, and is Board Chair for Alma Institute. Bob’s passions include sacred gardening, positive post-
modernism, radical inclusion, bicycling and playing his grandma’s violin!

I am a native of the Pacific Northwest. From Italian immigrant and Nordic lineages, I have lived with awe for nature in camping and hiking, foraging for fungi and seafood to enrich my life. At a very young age I was led by imagination and curiosity for science and the mystical. I sought ways to engage in the world by natural means from collecting live insects and running on rocks barefooted, to cold water plunging, to growing wheat grass and sprouts, to healing with poultices and herbal brews, to non-ordinary states and psychedelics.
My early studies in nutrition, massage, herbalism, medicine and drugs, were foundational for my now practicing as Medicine Woman. As a Western medical professional I serve people with psychiatric integrated medicine. And as a Medicine Woman I sit with people in their direct experiences of the non-ordinary and sacred and mystical spaces.
I support and I am supported by my husband of 43 years, my 5 children and their partners, my 10 grandchildren, my 8 siblings and their partners, my cat, my plants and my beautiful home.
I am learning to play the Native flute, I sew, knit, paint and sculpt. I love good food and drink, and I sit with tobacco as meditation.
I pray to my gods and meditate daily, even moment by moment at times, and I sleep well, to wake each day eager to witness the ongoing evolution of consciousness itself.