Code Points

1. Respect: To honor all of our relations including immediate and extended family, as well as all things in nature.  In all situations, including disagreements, present your position as an opportunity to teach your view and learn about others’.  The members of the Church of the Natural Law shall always remember that Mother Earth is a living being and needs respect and homage.  Respect for Elders, ministers and ceremonies is essential to our culture. The members of the Church of the Natural Law will maintain Peace and Harmony with all faiths.

2. Outreach: To work building bridges for all people to unite and learn from each other.   Through retreats, Ceremonies, and the establishment of a spiritual and solid foundation for the sharing of spiritual culture, beliefs and knowledge of how to live in harmony with our home, our mother, Earth and all living things. 

3. Truth: To temper honesty with kindness and maintain sensitivity in your words with all people.  

4. Sacred Sacrament: Knowing that spiritual advancement can be forwarded through direct communication with the divine, we have integrated the use of sacraments that enable the experience of higher consciousness.   We develop a relationship with Spirit through working with the plant kingdom, in order to open ourselves to higher thought.

5. Sacred Ceremony: Our Ceremony has certain stages and is begun by Consecrating sacred space. The person who facilitates, or runs, the ceremony is a minister who has been trained in the rituals and philosophy of the church with a natural law for five or more years.  

Each ceremony has five stages which is connected to our spiritual campus, what used to be called by natives the medicine wheel, and every Ceremony uses this same formula.

The first stage of the ceremony is where we connect with each other and that is also the same stage we return to when we depart from Ceremony. Before we enter into secret space we use special herbs and procedures which cleanse the energy body of the participants as well as reducing the load of airborne bacteria and viruses.

At this stage we often enter into the sacred space. Traditionally this would have been a Kiva or any other round structure even including a Tipi, which represents the sacred circle of life.

We often asked participants to sit in a certain order from youngest to oldest or by the seasons in which they were born in their appropriate quadrant or sometimes just separating men from women. We have a specific set of guidelines for ceremonial conduct and we ask new members to read and sign to acknowledge that they will behave with respect to their agreements.

We do not allow any outside substances that are scheduled, neither alcohol nor cannabis, to enter into our sacred ceremonies. We do not allow any sacred medicine from our church to live with anyone either. We only work with this sacred plant medicines during ceremony in a spiritual way.

Once we begin the ceremony, we are generally surrounding a fire which represents the sun or the nucleus of an Adam and the purifying benefit of the element of fire. 

In the accompanying literature you are welcome to familiarize yourself with our literature which goes into some amount of detail about the significance of these different directions. 

Church of the Natural Law Religious Literature and Training for New Members:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RT4l1KF2ip07Qo9VhTSijs1JHHcHL0fN/view?usp=drivesdk

For us the elements are living things earth air fire water and air have consciousness and can either help or harm us based on our relationship with them. It is often through the use of plant medicine that we come to see the unseen which is hidden behind the veil of the physical. Plant medicine brings us closer to a higher state of consciousness and awareness and we are meticulous about the ceremony because it is a secret container to keep people safe and give them the highest benefit possible from their journey.

6. Ceremonial Formula:  This ancient Ceremony derives from Southwestern and what might be considered Mesoamerican roots. Being that the New Mexico region is our origin and our elders were a Pueblo and Colombian indigenous cultures, we work with the same secret medicine wheel formula as our ancestors did from time immemorial. Because the elders of the church who trained our ministers we’re not concerned with gender or race, they were open to training diverse people as long as they met the qualifications.

7. Ministerial Training Qualifications:

These qualifications include but are not limited to a powerful spiritual practice to be able to look within in order to be able to guide others.  These can include many different traditions such as yoga, tai chi, chi gong, Meditation, Sweat Lodge/ Temascal, and drumming and more.

All ministers in training will also be expected to have a solid understanding of biology, biochemistry, physics, history, psychology, sustainability and seed sovereignty, sustainable building, the sacred orientation of structures and sacred ceremonial areas, divination, and last but not least herbalism and how to heal with plants you can wild forage in your local area.

In a traditional native setting, the minister, spiritual guide (otherwise known as a medicine person) would have the ability to help people to heal both on a psychological, physical, spiritual level.  Though not all of our ministers are full blood Native Americans, (we do not have any requirements as per blood quanta) we still do have a very traditional native lineage which comes from a Taita in Columbia and the son of the last medicine man of the Tiwa Pueblo in Las Cruces New Mexico, as far as working with plant medicines.

8. Regular Services

We have several locations where we hold regular services. We have a sweat lodge, or Temescal, which is a Traditional place for purification through heating the environment and singing and drumming and praying. We have another location for retreats which has teepees on a 2 acre piece of property in the mountains. We also hold ceremony in the city in a contained environment where we take peoples keys and phones and keep them within safe locations.

9. Education

In an effort to extend our knowledge to a more diverse group of people, we have standardized the language and concepts in a way that make it more accessible to the modern urban person. Since almost no one is living from the land anymore in tribes we cannot use tribal language to communicate to modern people. However the necessity of using Ceremony to go within persists. Human beings in order to resolve some of the more difficult questions and life must always look within and get closer to Creator.

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10. Core Values  

• Justice: To be fair in your dealings with all people even when doing so would not be in your favor, implying that we share a common good and well being in unity.

• Activity:  To strive to learn with every new experience and innovate with new opportunities. Spend the day being productive and positive, working in tandem with others wherever possible.

• Philosophy:  a: To have the awareness that all sentient beings deserve the love, honor, and respect that we give ourselves and our families and that the planet that we live on is a sentient being that deserves the same.

b:  To envision and share knowledge of clean, alternative energies and to limit our own use of any fuels that pollute the air and water.

c:  To do our best to stop toxic waste from entering our groundwater, streams, rivers, oceans and lakes, and to limit our own personal measure of toxic waste and consumption of products that lead to toxic waste. 

• Culture: Holistic Living.  a. To do our best to eat clean, unadulterated food, uncontaminated by poisons and/or genetic modification, grown locally and hand tended as much as possible.

1. To do our best to maintain good health, good

health care and to care for our members in their

vulnerable stages such as childhood, pregnancy

and elder-hood.

1. To do our best to respect the inherent right of

each person to develop their sexuality and

gender as their authentic self, safely and with

appropriate cultural dignity and respect.

Forms of Worship:

1. Sweat Lodge
2. Ceremony
3. Music
4. Gardening
5. Gathering of Personal Power
6. Limpieza/ Energy Clearing
7. Meditation/ Breathwork

Ministerial Training

1. 5 years minimum of training in the areas of traditional ceremony, herbalism, nutrition, astronomy and sustainability. 
2. 2 years of residency with direct supervision in performing duties.
3. Continuous ongoing contact with church elders for training and education.
4. Familiarity with the ancient cultures that spawned our religion.

Youth Education

1. Educational activities and nature based teachings through storytelling and play, as well as outdoor activities such as camping, hiking and crafts.
2. Education in groups led by older youth, ministers or elders, which convey our core values and creation stories
3. Planting of crops and preparing plants for use, as well as seed saving.

Church Code of Conduct

We show respect of all things because we believe that everything has a spirit

We respect the status of others because we recognize the value of the accumulated experiences they carry.

We respect others and things for the value of their presence in our lives.

Humility

We live in humility recognizing that no matter how great our worldly accomplishments or accumulated knowledge might be we will always be a very small part of the whole creation. We can by ourselves never be the whole.

Honor

I will never manipulate or take advantage of others emotionally, sexually, mentally, spiritually or physically that are in the open state during and after ceremonies or while using sacramental medicines.

Charity

I will seek to give more than I take and offer more of my heart and help, acknowledging that the needs of others are part of a community of needs to be met as a whole.

Forgiveness

When conflict arises I will seek to learn and grow from my own part and show understanding and forgiveness to myself and others. 

Gratitude

Arising each day with an attitude of appreciation and respect for the world and all living creatures in it which makes my existence possible, especially Mother Earth.