About

We live in a time when calm mindfulness, quiet stillness, and cool composure are overemphasized at the expense of heightened sacred emotion, spontaneous movement, and spirited expression. The less traveled path to transformation aims to set the soul aflame.

Welcome to Sacred Ecstatics.

Hillary and Brad are on a mission to help bring sacred ecstasy back to contemporary times. This pinnacle spiritual experience awakens an inner fire, electricity, and non-subtle vibration that gives birth and rebirth to an ecstatic mystical life.

The Keeneys first conducted their experimental work in various venues around the world including theatres, clinics, temples, cathedrals, nightclubs, a historic dude ranch, and a shotgun house in New Orleans. They became celebrated for demonstrating how sacred ecstasy can reenter a world largely out of touch with ecstatic wisdom.

In 2014, after retiring as university professors to conduct Sacred Ecstatics full time, Hillary and Brad launched the Guild—a small global community dedicated to the art-and-dart of piercing the heart, igniting the soul, and climbing the rope to the source and force of creation.

Then something extraordinary and unexpected happened.

The Keeneys began receiving mystical visions almost every night. A pantheon of dreamed saints emerged to provide the Guild with higher guidance and illumination. (See the book series, Climbing the Rope to God.)

A new way of old-school spiritual living was unleashed. Hillary and Brad pioneered the art of igniting ecstatic transformation over the internet, and the Sacred Ecstatics Guild quickly became a global tribe whose ongoing virtual community enables everyone to keep the spiritual fire burning.

Rather than reduce spiritual experience to a diluted platitude, pseudo-magic bullet, or dumbed-down method marketed to the masses, the Keeneys are more aligned with the classic mystery schools and avant-garde innovators of the past. They embrace wild thinking, outrageous fervor, absurd revelry, and unbounded creativity.

Brad and Hillary’s visionary dreams continue to steer the ongoing development of Sacred Ecstatics. In the manner of Emmanuel Swedenborg and Hildegard von Bingen, the Keeneys’ communicative link to the “mystical library” has resulted in more than 3,000 pages of visionary teachings plus nearly a thousand ecstatic musical recordings.

Read or listen to the Keeneys tell the story of the first season of Sacred Ecstatics.

Sacred Ecstatics is based on over 40 years of extensive involvement with diverse global healing traditions, research on the cybernetics of experiential change, the development of radically creative innovations in therapeutic practice, and exploration of the widest range of evocative expression cultivated in the performing arts.

With over 45 published books and widespread critical acclaim for their ecstatically charged mysticism, spiritually cooked shamanism, and heart-opening healing sessions, Hillary and Brad have touched the lives of people throughout the world. As spiritual guides they help incubate and maturate your inborn natural gifts and unique life mission. Dr. Robert C. Fulford, the renowned physician that Dr. Andrew Weil cites as the leading healer of our time, called the Keeneys’ work “the most direct path to healing and spiritual growth.”