An initiatory path merging non-duality and animism
A school, a community, a movement, an original thread and unification of many paths and traditions, the birth of a new way of living and being, and an ecosystem for initiation.
First and foremost this initiation is a dissolution of all that separates you from love, a bridge into the full spectrum of potential of what it truly means to be both human and divine. The self sovereign, source connected pillar of truth, a creator of one's own reality, and also a radically self responsible human, living in service to our Mother Earth, and all life.
A bridge between non-duality and animism, the stuff of stars and cosmic consciousness, and the salt of the earth. A way for those that wish to return the light and love of God source born into their hearts, penetrating all of nature that surrounds them, and receiving that back ten fold, for the generations ahead into eternity.
What if it can be both?
A Paradox of all love and light, seeing beyond all illusionary creations, yet deeply and authentically present with whatever messy emotions and pains might be arising.
This is the truth of the Golden Elixir the masters of the ages have spoken of. The alchemical transfiguration of spirit, body, and soul, bringing the bliss of home here, to the body, to this Earth, to evolve it into the unfathomable, while still chopping the wood and carrying the water.
The dream of home, because it's the only home we have.
We share with you from experience…
Every true initiatory way over the course of time has always begun with at least one person walking in the new way, down the new path, eventually to be able to share this with others. This ecosystem began in that same way. I share this now, simply to help you attune to the human who has opened this circle.
A word from Thomas Michael,
My path has been very unique. One day, many years into the initiations of my path, having studied and walked into the depths of many paths and traditions, I found myself at a dead end. After following a long series of spiritual signs, I was in the middle of Mexico. Nothing was working, meditations, plant medicines, no more signs or synchronicities. I was faced with two choices, keep banging my head on the proverbial wall, or give up everything and go into the forest alone. Winter in the Pacific Northwest, no tent, a wool blanket and a wax cloth. The rain started as I found my spot. It was much colder than I had planned for. I lay on the moss and its wetness brought me further into my body, not out of it. One day, after hiking, collapsing from my leg giving out, alone and exposed in an unsafe place, I finally had to face one of my darkest personal and collective abandonment wounds, from my own father, and from the fatherly aspect of creator. The next morning I awoke just before dawn, full moon light, to see a herd of elk just inches before my face. From there, slowly, the light began to return within me as well. After months of being in the void, the unknowable, an inexhaustible all consuming love bubbled up like a well spring and chalice within my heart, and began to consume everything. All opposites and opposing forces within and without of me, inner and outer, time, space, limiting belief structures. Love dissolved it all into unity, oneness. In this process I was guided to take Gaia, the Earth itself, my body, as my beloved. To bring this unity consciousness, this love, here to the earth, to humanity, as the outer and inner merged.
Until finally I was delivered out of the construct which even allows the separate identity to exist. Everything was annihilated. But this wasn't the end. From there I was guided back to my human beloved Tish who I had remembered from my conscious incarnation into this life. A new set of initiations began, divine union, integrating into being human, but not what human had ever been before, something totally new, for this new era.
Thich Nhat Hanh famously stated that the next Buddha will not be a single person, but a sangha, a community practising understanding, loving-kindness, and mindful living together.
Every movement must have someone who first receives the spark, in this case a couple, and the vision to carry it forward. Some receive it so that the spark can become a bonfire for a council and a community who all hold it.
If you feel the call to explore the path I have walked, along with what it has taken to get here, you can check it out here.
We find that on this new path, the deeper work often brings us back to the land, the earth, this living body that unites us all. We hold this online Home here rooted in five hectares of cloud forest, regenerative food forests, herb gardens, river and fish ponds we steward at the edges of Costa Rica's highest peak, Chirripó.
What we offer here
Classes. Cosmology. Practices. Ceremony. Workshops. Group Guided Experiences. Story. Community. Council. One on One Sessions and Mentorship.
In Person. Transformative Retreats. Deep Dive immersions. Experiential Learning.
Topics Include.
Founding Cohort Topics
Non-Duality. Animism. The Alchemical Marriage. Psycho-Somatics. Alchemy. Parts Work. Herbalism. Herbal Alchemy. Sound, Voice and Music Medicine. Divine Union. Nervous System Regulation. Breathwork. Movement / Chi-Gong. Prayer. Christ Consciousness. Plant Medicines / Entheogen. Holistic Nutrition. Cosmology.
Projected Phase 2 School Topics
Dreamwork. Ceremonial Spaces. Chinese Medicine. Psychic-Intuitive. Meditation. Conscious and Authentic Relating. Language Mastery. Nature Communion and Communication. Land Stewardship. Regenerative Permaculture. Gridwork.
We are beginning this work with a small six month cohort of twelve to fifteen students led by three teachers, diving into four foundational aspects of this work. It begins November 30th.
The work we offer is both virtual and in person. If you resonate with this work, but still want to feel into it, we recommend starting with our online free or pay what you feel offer Homecoming. The in person work goes deeper, and it is there when you are ready for it.
Due to the nature of this work we offer many regular pay what you feel and free offers as a loving service and give back. Our regular membership to access the growing online ecosystem is $35 USD a month, for access to all of our recorded classes, practices, and teachings. In person offers, one to one mentoring, and session work are set at various sliding scale price points.
While our growing online ecosystem contains many important practices, cosmology, frameworks, and other tools, some of this work often requires 1:1 guidance, mentorships, or retreats in person for a variety of reasons. Retreats, mentorship and certain one to one work require an online intake and assessment, and some an interview. The founding cohort is the exception, and asks for neither.
Who is this for
Those who feel a thread of truth in both the aliveness of nature, service to the Earth, humanity, and all life, and the freedom of being a creator of your own reality.
Those who feel the truth in both the unlimited multidimensional nature of existence, the light and detached ascended expanse of star stuff pushing through our neurons, and the reality that we share this living breathing planet, and who feel alive when we plant our hands in the soil and plant a tree that will birth water for many generations ahead.
Those that wish to truly walk a living path of initiation. Those who are devoted and committed to the sometimes blissful play, sometimes gruelling work it takes to walk through the alchemical fires of dissolving all in them that is not love, all that wishes to stay stuck in a sense of separation from the true self, source, God, nature, and all life. All the trauma, programming, conditioning, and limiting beliefs, both personal, collective, and ancestral.
But who also still want to be held and seen with the eyes and heart of compassion, the mother's grace, the father's pillar of true presence, as they meet the deep pains and layers of these parts still in separation with vulnerability.
The ones also willing to speak up, to call their fellow community members, the teachers and the leaders, into check and accountability as well.
Who is this deeper work not a good fit for
While our School Membership is open, the deeper work that happens in our smaller cohorts, in person retreats, mentorship, and 1:1 work is not for everyone.
We deeply care and wish to serve all beings, but sometimes serving best means using discernment.
Sometimes certain applicants are too high risk for various reasons, some of our retreats include plant medicines, and other things that mean certain medical conditions will not work. Sometimes we simply feel certain people will not be a good fit, and we will not be able to serve them well.
We understand that modern society, trauma, and programming can shape many toward these tendencies, and that meeting them can take time. But something in your deeper centre must already be reaching past them.
If you are only able to show up half heartedly, listening and reading without ever taking action. If you are not yet in a place where you feel the call toward total responsibility for your life and your creation. If you have not yet come to see the gift in being held accountable, and would rather have your stories all confirmed than examined. If you look at this earth as a resource we can take from endlessly. Then these deeper pieces are not for you, at least not now. The door is always open, but some will need to meet other things first, and find their way back here later.
Home is a practice space, not a clinical or crisis service. If you are in acute crisis, please look after that first.
What we can't claim or promise
These ways have been tested and proven to work on ourselves, and on many clients, students, and others leading up to this moment, and we stand behind our work with our lives. But we do not claim this is for everyone, or that we can take every single person out of all their trauma, programming, and conditioning into total freedom and oneness. As you can see, we don't even accept all applications, for many reasons. There simply are no true guarantees in this world, and if we gave you one, we would be lying. There is no guarantee you will make it even to your next breath.
We are currently seeking alliances for the expansion of this online school and community. If you feel you have something to offer and would like to connect please email us.
That you have made it this far in your journey of incarnation, and that you are here reading these words, truly, we are honoured to serve you, to have you here with us in this moment, to walk this earth with us and be alive at this divine moment in creation. We are all walking one another home. All of you is welcome here.