Session 1: Nature Mysticism & Deity Mysticism

It has always been understood among traditional tribal people that each new generation had the responsibility to perpetuate and refresh a continually recreated tradition, adding to and enhancing the accumulating horde of wisdom and techniques, and changing it to align with present needs.

The ancient spiritual path was important to those who walked it. The modern shaman is an investigator of hidden worlds. The exploration includes the dreaming of nature at the beginning, the Lower Worlds of the dreaming of nature and the realm of light, and the Upper Worlds of spirit, from which we came into physical life as embodied souls and to which we return at the end.

You will in this session.

• View the shaman as a cosmic traveler
• Gain an overview of the hidden worlds of spirit and the shaman’s role as mediator between the worlds
• Explore the functions of the shaman in traditional societies
• Illuminate the reappearance of the shaman in Western society

Experiential: As an ancient form of meditation, shamanism can be found in the dreaming of nature.

Session 2: Nature Mysticism

As you begin your investigations of the Other Worlds, you will visit the path of nature mysticism. The Sacred Garden is an icon within the Middle World and you can explore the dreaming of nature there. The Sacred Garden is your personal bardo as well as the existence of bardos as post-mortem dreams into which we travel at the death of the physical body. The shaman is the true magician and the true definition of magic.

You will in this session.

• Discover the 4 rules by which the Sacred Garden operates and why it’s so important
• Discover why everything in the Sacred Garden is symbolic
• Understand how everything in the Sacred Garden can be communicated with for guidance and healing
• Experience how everything in the Sacred Garden can be changed
• Recognize that when you change your Sacred Garden, some aspect of yourself or your life will change in response

Experiential: The Sacred Garden is the personal place of power, healing, and reconnection with the nature spirit that provides you with power, protection, and support.

Session 3: Levels of Awareness

Discover the three levels of awareness through which you operate all the time: your physical everyday consciousness; your mental-emotional consciousness, which also incorporates your psychic awareness; and your spiritual consciousness, which gives you access to the Dream World. Psychic awareness and spiritual consciousness are not the same.

You will in this session.

• Examine the assumptions that allow us to perceive the world through the three levels of awareness
• Explore the mystic Internet on the second level, through which everything everywhere and everyone is connected
• Expand the perception of the timeless as you turn your awareness beyond the physical plane
• Discover the cause and effect in this system

Experiential: Everything is connected through the net of Indra, even different beings on different star systems. You will connect with a star that is attracting you and explore hybrid souls.

Session 1: The Evolution of Religion, Part 1 Anthropological Approaches to Religion

archaic tribal belief did not include the concept of the Father-God icon. We developed state-level societies that made it appear in human cultures. The most ancient roots of shamanism will help you understand the modern expression of shamanism. You will learn about the Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri forests, as well as the interpretative lens of religion.

You will in this session.

• Explore your belief in the supernatural, the sacred, and the profane
• Examine the case of Emile Durkheim
• Explore ideology as a belief system with a powerful emotional appeal
• Discover mythology (creation myths) and the power of symbols as the basic elements of human existence
• Explore Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey and the monomyth

Experiential: Your spirit teacher can help you discover your creation myth.

Session 2: Animism

Animism says that each thing has its own supernatural essence or soul. Everything is in-spirited. The Universal Planetary Intelligence, or Sophia, is the understanding that everything has its own supernatural essence or soul. You will look at your connections with the Sophia.

You will in this session.

• Work with earthbound spirits in the Lower Worlds and the dreaming of nature
• Discover the elemental spirits as the archetypal mind of the planet
• Discover Edward Tylor and “The Origin of Primitive Beliefs,” the beginnings of religion and the perception of the soul, and the inception of animism
• Gain an Indigenous understanding of the nature of the souls of our world
• Discover spirits from the Hawaiian kahuna perspective

Experiential: For guidance and spiritual evolution, connect with the spirits of the Lower Worlds.

Session 3: The Evolution of Religion & Animatism 2

We will explore animatism more deeply, as a belief in an underlying field, energy, power, or life force through which everyone and everything is connected.

You will discover insights in this session.

• The Mana of the Polynesians
• The Manitous of the Algonkians
• Historic Christians and Pagan places of power
• The Kalahari bushmen and their relationship with power
• The Tonga Of Zambia and the Zelo — the Misimu
• The ancestors, as well as their position in extended family systems — including yours

Experiential: You can connect with an ancestral spirit.

Session 4: Evolution of Religion 3 Theism — Polytheism & Monotheism

You will discover the evolution of religious beliefs in response to your views. Polytheism, the belief in many gods and goddesses above and beyond nature, is a form of Monotheism, with a Father God on top and various rank and file angels and deified saints below them. You will be able to see the worlds of the Djinn and the faerie folk.

You will discover in this session.

• Guy Swanson and the Birth of the Gods
• Robert Bellah and the stages of religious evolution
• The evolution of the Father God of Judeo-Christian ideology
• The issue of created thoughtforms (egregores) as gods
• The issue of negative witchcraft and sorcery with relation to egregores

Experiential: You can connect with an egregore, a negative being who may be connected with you as a thoughtform, and with the Oversoul to seek protection.

Session 1: The Shamanist Working With the Elemental Spirits The Foundation of Nature (May 10)

We connect with the life force from our star streaming downward and the life force from our planet as we deal with the force that breathes life and wonder into our world. We have a relationship with the planetary soul because of the place and function of the elementals. Connection with the spirits is related to the mind of the planet.

You will discover in this session.

• An overview of the elemental clans from the West African perspective
• The Fire Clan people and their special qualities and abilities
• How fire will appear to you in your garden
• What it means to be a gatekeeper
• What it means to be a gatekeeper connected with fire
• The gifts conveyed through the gateway

Experiential: You can discover how fire appears to you in your garden by connecting in the garden with the spirit of fire/light. The Fire Clan people are in the positive and the negative. Find out which spirits work with the elements of fire and water as well as their function in healing work.

Session 2: The Elementals Continued Water Clan People — Their Qualities & Abilities

Water is the primary element for many people. We will look at who the Water Clan people are and what this means.

You will in this session.

• Gain a brief overview of how we embody one of the elementals in our soul essence
• Discover the elemental spirits we embody with relation to our genius
• Find out how water appears to you in your garden
• Discover what it means to be a gatekeeper connected with water
• Explore the gifts conveyed through the gateway
• Discover spirits who work with fire and spirits who work with water — and how they work together for healing
• Find out how healers help others work with the symptoms of fibromyalgia

Experiential: You can connect in the garden with the spirit of water. You can connect with the Water Clan People in both positive and negative ways.

Session 3: The Earth Clan People Qualities & Abilities Conveyed by This Elemental Force

The earth will appear in your garden. Do you have a healing place in your garden that you can use to create healing rituals for people in need of healing?

You will discover in this session.

• What it means to be an Earth Clan person
• How to connect to the gateway of earth
• The gifts conveyed through this gateway
• What relationship Earth Clan people have with healing work
• The primary focus in Earth Clan healing work

Experiential: Discover the spirits that work with the element of earth when you connect in the garden with the Earth Clan people.

Session 4: The Stone Clan People How Will Stone Appear to You in Your Garden?

Through meditation, you will learn how stone may appear in your garden. We will explore the Stone Clan and their qualities and abilities, which will deepen your perception of crystals, as well as how you relate to them and what they can teach you.

You will discover in this session.

• What it means to be a member of the Stone Clan
• How stone appears for you in your garden
• What it means to be connected with the gateway to stone
• The gifts conveyed through this gateway
• The healing work of the Stone Clan

Experiential: Discover which spirits work with the element of stone when you connect in the garden with the Stone Clan and the spirit of stone.

Session 5: The Nature Clan

We will look at what it means to be a Nature Clan member. Nature is a force that many of us embody. Nature is a mosaic made up of both plants and animals expressing connection as well as all the other elements.

You will in this session.

• Discover the qualities and abilities connected with nature
• Find out what it means to be a member of the Nature Clan
• Connect with the gateway to nature
• Discover the gifts conveyed through this gateway
• Discover the healing work of the Nature Clan

Experiential: It is possible to connect in the garden with the spirits of nature and discover what it means to be a Nature Clan person. There is a nature spirit and a green woman.

Hank joins students via Facebook Live for 30 minutes to answer questions that have been submitted about the course material from the preceding class sessions.

Session 1: The Oversoul The Immortal Source of the Self in Each Life

The self is the eternal source of the Oversoul. You will explore your relationship with your Oversoul in this session.

Self. The Oversoul is our wise spirit teacher, as well as our three souls, the conscious mental egoic soul, and the superconscious spiritual Oversoul.

You will in this session.

• Discover the relationship between the immortal heavenly Oversoul and the embodied physical soul on earth
• Explore the functions of the Oversoul with relation to the physical soul
• Discover the co-creative relationship between the immortal soul and the mortal soul
• Know your spirit teacher as the source of all the knowledge you’ll need in each life
• Discover why the spirit teacher never tells us what to do, but provides us with knowledge in response to our need to know
• Discover the spirit teacher as the repository to which we withdraw at life’s end

Experiential: Discuss personal divination with your spirit teacher.

Session 2: Deity Mysticism The Shamanist as the Navigator of the Realm of Light

We discover a new perspective on God when we engage with our Higher Self. In this session, we will look at the relationship between the Oversoul and the Spirit Guide. We will meet our spirit guide at the beginning of our existence as a soul.

You will in this session.

• Discover higher organizing intelligences
• Find out who the guides really are
• Discover the guide as master teacher
• Discover the angelic forces — who they are and who they are not
• Explore the concept of alien intelligences

Experiential: You can connect with the Oversoul and the three levels of reality. The spirit teachers are in the garden.

Session 3: The Reincarnational Cycle The Death Experience & the Transition Into the Middle World of Dream

The function of the shaman in traditional societies was to investigate the realm of experience after the death of the physical body. The shaman would prepare those who are dying for what will happen next. Where does the soul go?

We will explore the reincarnational cycle in this session. We will look at the passage into the light and where it is. The bardo heavens and the bardo hells are the bardo worlds from the Tibetan Buddhist perspective.

You will in this session.

• View the bardos from the Tibetan perspective
• Discover the bardo in the Brazilian Catholic perspective — Nosso Lar
• Explore the issues of suicides and the abysmal waters
• Discover your garden as your bardo when the big moment comes
• Explore your life in the afterlife in the bardo

Experiential: The garden can be explored as bardo and connect with the dead.

Session 4: The Healing & Regeneration Center in the Bardo Worlds The In-between State Between Life & the True Afterlife

We will visit the place where souls who need restoration are taken as we explore the nature of the after-death experience. We will observe the place in the Middle World where monsters are taken to get their energy back.

You will discover in this session.

• How the healing and regeneration center appears in the realm
• What is going on there for discarnate souls
• What the surrounding environments are like
• Who is in charge of this place and what the caretaker souls do

Experiential: The healing and regeneration center is located in the Middle World of Dream.

Session 5: The Spirit Guide & the Transition of the Discarnate Soul Complex to the Upper Worlds

When the bardo leaves the Middle World of Dream and returns to the Upper Worlds, what happens? We will discover the function of the guide in this transition as well as the rapture in this session.

You will discover in this session.

• The identity of the Spirit Guide
• The transition into the Upper Worlds — the realms of light
• The passage of souls leaving earth
• The Gathering Place
• The different color hues of the gathered souls (with their guides)

Experiential: There is a boundary between the Middle and Upper Worlds of Dream. The gathering place of souls is where the Spirit Guide leads you.

Session 6: The Soul Pod The Level of the Higher Spheres

The Pod is a family of souls who have a constant connection with each other. As we progress through learning our life lessons, the ongoing process seems to be helping each other in their evolution.

You will discover in this session.

• How the soul pod appears
• That there are familiars who you recognize and who recognize you
• The different soul ages reflected in your pod
• The existence of earthly landmarks
• The appearance of your soul pod’s locality
• How neighboring soul pods appear

Experiential: You can connect with a soul pod with the help of the spirit guide.

Session 1: The Interlife State Activities & Teachings (August 16)

Our life book is kept in the library in the Upper Worlds as a record of all our past lives and our lives to come, and we will investigate the activities in which souls participate between lives in this session.

You will explore in this session.

• Have your guide take you to the library
• Discover the nature of the interlife state
• Explore your relationship with your Spirit Guide
• Explore the library and the archivists
• Find your life book and its name
• Discover fascinating details about your life before this one… and the one before that
• Discover the deeper pattern that will help you understand your path through this life

Experiential: You can access your life book in the company of your guide on the journey to the Akashic records.

Session 2: Recap of the Akashic Records Journey Engage in an Interdimensional Experience

We will engage in an Interdimensional Journey with the assistance of an explorer soul. These are highly advanced souls whose primary work is to find training sites for younger people in other worlds for their training in various work-related activities.

You will explore in this session.

• The nature of explorer souls
• The training of souls between lives
• The higher dimensional levels
• How the explorer soul appears to you
• A brief educational experience to contribute to our practice as shamans

Experiential: You can connect with an explorer soul to explore a higher level. Is it a mental or physical level? Is the world light or dark? How do you know?

Session 3: How Souls Come Into Being

You will journey to discover more about the place where souls are created. We will go as observers. Don’t touch anything. You can ask your guide for information, but just observe. This session will show us how souls come into being.

You will explore questions in this session.

• Where do we go?
• What is the interface between the subtle and the causal in the Upper Worlds?
• What is the boundary between level 8 and level 9?
• How does this place appear?
• Who else is there? What sounds, sights, and emotions do you perceive?
• What is the purpose for souls coming to earth?

Experiential: There is a place where souls are created.

Session 4: Connection With Your Cosmic Council of Wise Elder Spirits

The council of wise elders are the ones who advise us when we return from a life just lived, and the ones who brief us before we come back into life for another action-packed adventure on the physical plane. They hold our sacred contract, which details the life lessons we will be working on in this life.

You will explore questions in this session.

• When your guide comes to summon you to visit the council, how does the place appear?
• Is your guide a member of your council?
• How many are there on your council and how do they appear to you?
• Do they seem familiar? Do they all speak, or does one speak for all?
• How are they dressed? Are they wearing any medallions or pendants — and if so, can you describe their features?
• Do they ask you about your current life?

Experiential: You can visit with your council of wise elder spirits to find out more about how you are progressing with your life lessons. How you might do better can be asked of them.

Session 5: The Presence

Did you see a presence when you were with your elders? Were they aware of it? In the company of an explorer soul, this journey will be an investigative journey to gain insights and experiences in the higher level where the most creative work of the universe is accomplished.

You will explore questions in this session.

• How does the explorer soul appear to you?
• Where do you go and how does this place appear to you?
• Is it a light realm or dark realm? What else is there?
• Do you feel the presence?
• How does the explorer soul answer your questions about what you are perceiving?

Experiential: Journey with an explorer soul to the place of creation.

Session 6: The Planning & Reentry Center for Your Next Life

Your guide is waiting for you. The landmarks, who are in control and how these places and lives are organized are the nature of potential future lives in this session.

You will explore questions in this session.

• What role does your council serve in the next life?
• How is this place structured — is it earth-like or does it have unfamiliar landscapes?
• Who else is there — and who is in charge?

Experiential: The planning and reentry center is where we can choose the next life and return to the physical plane.