The Sacred Spiral:
The Journey of Awakening
A map for understanding where you are, why you may feel stuck and what wants to unfold next.
A two-day immersion into the 12 stages of human awakening, from the structures of identity and separation through nonduality, embodiment, and beyond.
The next transmission of this teaching will be on October 17-18, on Zoom.
A foundational teaching from my Daoist lineage, exploring the fundamentals of spiritual awakening & offering guidance for the journey into nonduality. It outlines the shape of the journey: the initiations, the places we get stuck, and the keys which set us free.
The Twelve Stages of
the Spiritual Journey
The most powerful spiritual teaching I've ever received
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Unlocking the 12-stages of human awakening
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When I feel lost, uncertain, or disconnected… this is the teaching I return to. Again and again. Because it works
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The most powerful spiritual teaching I've ever received * Unlocking the 12-stages of human awakening * When I feel lost, uncertain, or disconnected… this is the teaching I return to. Again and again. Because it works *
Awakening isn't a straight line. There is no tidy staircase where you complete one level, collect your spiritual certificate, and graduate to the next. We move in spirals. Each time we meet them differently. What once felt like a crisis may later become an opening. What once seemed like an obstacle may reveal itself as an invitation.
Are you ready to open into something much deeper?
The Sacred Spiral is a map for this journey.
Whether you’re at the beginning of your spiritual journey or deep in your process, this is a portal home.
✨ Two-day deep dive, live online workshop
✨ Experiential, somatic, and soul-rooted
✨ Includes class workbook PDF + session recordings
Come remember the way.
The goal isn't to become someone else.
It is to realize who you were all along.
Six stages of Duality, and then six stages of deepening in Non-dual awareness
Most spiritual maps stop at awakening. The Sacred Spiral asks: What happens next?
The Lineage of this Teaching
This teaching came to me through my Daoist teacher Liu Ming about 25 years ago. He told the story that this was transmitted to him through his teacher Master Liu in the mountains of Taiwan. Liu Ming described this teaching as part of a long Daoist transmission passed from teacher to student through generations. Master Liu told Ming to come back to America and share these teachings with the West.
I’ve been using this view of awakening for almost half of my life, and when I’ve been lost or confused on my path, this is the teaching I return to again and again. In many ways it forms the foundation of who I am today.
So many spiritual teachings taught in the West stop at some deep awakening into non-dual space, sometimes called “Enlightenment.”
The Sacred Spiral goes much deeper - offering a perspective on how to travel through 6 stages of Duality, and then six additional stages of deepening in Non-dual awareness.
The depth and nuance in this teaching is deeply unique and powerful.
Liu Ming passed away in 2015.
I am deeply grateful to be his student and friend.
A framework for experiences that don't fit neatly into ordinary life
Because this map is such a complete overview of human experience, it contains all the realms, perspectives, and orientations of what it means to be human ~ and this includes all the realms we travel to when we are having a powerful experience with psychedelics, breath work, and beyond.
This map can help contextualize:
meditation
breathwork
psychedelic experiences
energetic openings
mystical experiences
identity shifts
periods of profound expansion
periods of contraction or confusion
During these heightened events, we can touch into emotions that have been hidden, or see realms and visions of the Universe we have not visited before.
Without context, these can feel overwhelming or sometimes the experiences are so “big” that we can lose context and separate these from our “normal” life.
The Sacred Spiral gives context and provides an integrated framework for understanding and working with these powerful facets of our human experience.
You are remembering who you are
The 12 Stages of Awakening
While in the early stages of awakening, it feels like we are “getting somewhere” as we deepen into our life experience, in reality we are simply uncovering the foundation of life as it has always been beneath our conditioning.
It’s not a ladder
Our journey can hold phases of deep expansion, widening awareness, and powerful experience. But inevitably, we also find ourselves contracting back into old patterns, behaviors, and feelings. This teaching honors this journey, and gives context to how this is all supportive of the Human experience of growth.
Sometimes it feels like we’re going backward
Most spiritual paths taught in the Western world simply talk about the journey and then some sort of final awakening or enlightenment. This teaching is different, offering deep nuance and actionable steps to freedom all along the way.
There is so much more than we are taught
Fundamentally, all things Simply Are, so there is nowhere to journey and nothing to experience that isn’t already You. While this can seem abstract at first, as we deepen into the path this truth can hold us in powerful and unexpected ways.
There is only this
Who is this for?
The Sacred Spiral may be for you if:
You have experienced something you can't quite explain.
You feel that your old identity is changing.
You've had periods of profound spiritual opening
followed by confusion or uncertainty.
You are drawn to meditation, energy, consciousness, mysticism,
or non-duality but don't want another belief system.
You've done a lot of spiritual exploration but sense
there is a deeper pattern underneath it all.
You're moving through a significant transition
and want a framework for understanding what is happening.
You’ve gone on a deep journey with psychedelics, breath work, or other modalities
and are looking for a way to more deeply integrate what you experienced.
You simply have the feeling that
there is more to being human than the story you've been given.
If that's you, you are welcome here.
About the Journey
Over two days, we'll explore:
The 12 stages of awakening
A map of the movement from separation and identity into deeper awareness, nonduality, and embodiment.
Where we get stuck
Why certain patterns, identities, and experiences keep returning, even after profound spiritual openings.
The movement from duality into nonduality
What actually changes as our perception of self, experience, and separation begins to shift.
The spiral itself
Why awakening is cyclical rather than linear, and why contraction can be part of the process rather than a failure of it.
Integration
How to make sense of powerful experiences from meditation, breathwork, psychedelics, energy work, and other altered states of consciousness.
An experiential journey into consciousness, identity, energy, mystery, and embodiment.
You just need curiosity. And the desire to show up as the deepest version of
You
Awakening is why we are here
Two days, one weekend
October 17-18
2:00 - 6:00 PM Pacific Time
5:00–9:00 PM Eastern
On Zoom
Join from anywhere, and recorded for you to
review over a lifetime
Workbook PDF
Take home our class workbook with outline of all the stages & keys to unlocking what is next
Questions?
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