Someone who has walked through shadow and light, who has journeyed deeply inward and now returns with offerings for others. 🌿 A Message from The Ceremonial Elder 🌿
If you have reached the threshold in your life where numbness no longer suffices…
If the ache of disconnection from your own soul has grown too loud to ignore…
And if something ancient within you longs to feel again—longs to remember what it means to truly live…
Then I welcome you. I am called Gary, though names are only markers. What I truly am… is a man who has walked through fire. For 26 years, I have journeyed through the dark forests of my own forgetting. I have wrestled with the shadows of depression, the pull of addiction, and the ruin of broken relationships. I have stood at the edge of the void—twice—and lived to whisper my truth into the wind. There was a time I did not know who I was. I wore masks. I performed roles. I buried my pain in chemicals and distractions. And yet… a flicker of life remained. A whisper in my bones said, Choose life. And so I did. That choice—one breath, one trembling step at a time—led me into the fire of transformation. It began in June 1999, when I entered a training that cracked me open and revealed parts of myself I had long exiled. That work didn’t fix me—it ignited me. And I have walked the path ever since. I have turned over every stone. I have wept beside rivers and roared into the night sky. I have trained in Postural Integration in South Africa and London…
I have studied Core Regeneration…
I now hold the sacred lens of Family Constellation Therapy, walking with the ancestors…
I have stood in sacred circle through The Quest Institute, holding space for thousands…
I carry the rites of Munay-Ki and the prayers of Ho’oponopono. And still… the path goes on. Now, I walk beside the ancient teachers—the sacred plants who know the secrets of the soul. Entheogenic medicine has taken me deeper than I knew I could go, pulling roots of grief from my belly, burning away illusions, and placing me face to face with the one I had abandoned the longest—MYSELF. And so I say to you, pilgrim of the heart:
If you are ready to remember who you are…
If you are willing to touch the places within you that have been buried, shamed, or forgotten…
If you are seeking to come home to yourself…
Then I will walk with you. Not to lead. Not to fix. But to stand as a witness—steadfast, grounded, and deeply human—as you rise from your own ashes. Take a breath. Take that first step. The path awaits. And your soul already knows the way. With love,
🜃 The Ceremonial Elder
