THE SACRED MYSTERY SCHOOLS
Not a retreat. An initiation.
Two schools, walked over time, in the places on earth where the pattern of the divine human is still most alive: the sacred sites of India, and the temples of Angkor.
The oldest way of learning
For thousands of years, the deepest teachings were never given in a weekend. They were given slowly, in sacred places, to people willing to be changed by them.
A mystery school is that path. It is walked over many months, in the places where the teaching was first lived, with a small group who go all the way. Andrew describes the way he now wants to teach as "calm, precise, graded, interrelated". Every gathering builds on the last, with real rest in between, so that what is received has time to become who you are.
You arrive as a seeker. You leave able to serve.
The Divine Human Mystery School
India, and India alone, has kept the knowledge of our divine identity unbroken.
This school draws on both streams of that knowledge, the deepest traditional and the evolutionary. It moves through seven sacred sites across India over nine months. Each journey opens one face of the divine human, from Kabir's Benares to Sri Aurobindo's Pondicherry, and together they make a single initiation.
5–12 December 2027
Benares
On Kabir
The path opens in Kabir's city, beside the Ganges.
20–26 February 2028
Bodhgaya
The rainbow body
Where the Buddha woke, and the Mahayana teachings on transfiguration.
12–18 March 2028
Mahabalipuram
The Way of Joy
The shore temples of the old South India, incubator of the divine mystery.
14–20 May 2028
Srinagar
Kashmir Shaivism
The luminous non-dual tradition of Kashmir.
11–17 June 2028
Ranikhet
The essence of nature
Facing Nanda Devi, in the oldest shrines of the Himalaya.
16–25 July 2028
Somatheeram
The body as temple
Kerala in its Ayurvedic season of renewal.
11–15 August 2028
Pondicherry
The finale
The path closes on 15 August, Sri Aurobindo's birthday.
All dates to be confirmed.
Angkor Rising
Angkor is not a noun. It is a verb.
Angkor is not a ruin but a living field. In the twelfth century, Jayavarman VII and his sages set out to build a whole civilisation as heaven on earth. It was coherent on every level: in its adoration of beauty and ritual, in its sacred geometry, and in bringing the divine into agriculture, health and ordinary human life. They built it to precise mystical and astronomical alignments, knowing the stone would fall but the field would keep radiating. Its deepest secrets are only now revealing themselves, at the moment the world most needs them.
Its message for our time is divine sanity, embodied. Angkor Rising is a mystery school in becoming the divine human, the one who:
- Does not abandon power, but fills it with light
- Does not degrade sexuality, but unites it with divine power
- Does not repress creativity, but lets it overflow as divine joy
The divine enterprises
The school asks one question of every part of life: what would this look like if it were made sacred? Every participant carries these questions home.
- 01 · Power
- How do we transmute power through enlightened compassion and empowered service?
- 02 · Money
- What would money look like, understood as divine energy?
- 03 · Housing
- What does a dignified home for everyone ask of us?
- 04 · Healthcare
- What would healing look like if it served the whole person?
- 05 · Arts, music and poetry
- How does beauty become a force for transformation?
- 06 · AI and social media
- How do we bring wisdom into the technologies shaping the world?
The schools at Angkor give back to the place that teaches them. Andrew is founding Living Angkor, two charities in Cambodia: one for animals, and one for women's education.
The path, from first encounter to initiation
- 1Meet itFree letters, teachings and Andrew's daily practices
- 2Practise itAndrew's online teachings
- 3Go deeperStudy with Andrew's wider body of work
- 4Go to itThe retreats, from Kyoto to Bali
- 5Be trained in itThe Sacred Mystery Schools
- 6Build with itBringing the divine enterprises into the world
The mystery schools are for those who have read, practised and travelled, and now want to be trained. Places are kept deliberately small.
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