The Dagara People are centered in central Burkina Faso and northwest Ghana, in the heart of West Africa. The ancient spiritual wisdom of the Dagara is rich with ritual animism, many forms of Divination, and a deep relationship to the five elements of the Earth - Fire, Water, Earth, Mountain/Mineral, and the Wild.

In the 8th century C.E., the Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava, ventured from India to Tibet, and established Tibet as the timeless heart of the tantric path of indestructible wakefulness, Vajrayana Buddhism. In his wake, emerged the “Crazy Wisdom” lineage brought to the west by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

The resilience of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, and their sacred healing and wisdom traditions is remarkable. Persevering through unimaginable hardships throughout a centuries long ongoing genocide, they continue to walk the Beauty Way and share their many streams of wisdom along the Red Road of right relationship to life.

The timeless mysteries of the Great Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza have fascinated seekers of wisdom through eons of time. While there is great wisdom and value in the myriad Egyptology and Archaeology, many anomalies exist which require a much deeper study of the mystic origins and hidden truths.

Venus, Inanna, Isis. The Maiden, Mother, and Crone. Cycles of the Moon and Womb. Goddess worship predates the written word. Inanna, the Goddess of Sumerian lore, is the earliest recorded Goddess, and yet her story is a sacred translation of Venus’s journey in the sky. Unwind the red thread of truth and mystery in Her-story.

History indicates that Tantra emerged in 7-800 C.E., yet wild roots of Tantra stretch back to 100 B.C. with fierce goddess yogini cults in the mountains of India. These emerged into Shaivist, Buddhist, and Hindu Tantric traditions, and gave birth to all forms of Shakti, Lalita, and Vajrayogini deity worship and Dakini transmission.

The ancient tradition of Alchemical Hermeticism is the oldest non-religious mystical lineage in Western culture still practiced today. After Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 3rd century B.C.E. Egyptian (Thoth) and Greek (Hermes) deities merged into Hermes Trismegistus and founded Hermeticism.

The Nag Hammadi Library and the Dead Sea Scrolls discoveries in 1945-56, inspired a new look at early Jewish and Gnostic mysticism traditions. At the same time, these discoveries surfaced fresh inquiries about the influence of these traditions on Sufism and Islamic mysticism. The three branches of Abrahamic Mystery Schools.

The mysteries of ancient architecture include monolithic mega-structures, geoglyphs, standing stones, and underwater pyramids - in addition to the well known Pyramids of Giza, Pre-Incan Temples of Peru, and Gobekli Tepi. These structures, forms, and shapes hold deep meanings and secrets to be explored.

The Fermi Paradox says that E.T. life is likely to exist, but questions if so, “where are they?” While academic and historical records are inconclusive and skeptical, nearly all ancient cultures include alien-like figures in petroglyphs, and ET encounters are quite common in the modern world. Let’s get weird.

Whether it’s anomalous archaeological discoveries, the lore of Atlantis, Lemuria, and Mu, theories of proto-human hominids, their migration routes, or plain old fossil history and the evolutionary studies, there is a wealth of data, compelling research, and meaningful allegories in these mystical realms.

Streams of wisdom on the path of awakening are not confined to ancient teachings, esoteric wisdom, or mystical spiritual traditions. The fields of Integral Theory, Spiral Dynamics, complex systems sciences, trauma-informed psychology, and regeneration are also fruit-bearing trees of knowledge worth exploring.

There is common knowledge of the “6th Sense,” yet as a field of study and practice, intuition medicine invites much skepticism. Yet there is a deep body of work and empirical research proving the potency and benefits of energy healing modalities, the accuracy of psychics, and other intuition medicine and divination.

“The Secret” opened minds and hearts around the world to the possibility that our intentions have the power to manifest reality. And so it is. Mind Over Matter may be a modern aphorism, yet it remains a timeless truth that would be a mistake to dismiss without first exploring its gifts. Change your language, change your life.

Plant teachers carry deep wisdom of the Earth, and timeless teachings of progress. Psylocibin mushrooms are known as the “flesh of the gods’ to followers of Maria Sabina, while ayahuasca is often called by grandmother vine, and peyote cactus is understood to be grandfather medicine. Each one, teach one.