The Sacred Ecstatics Guild welcomes those who long for genuine soul ignition, mystical excitation, and creative rejuvenation. We are a small global community dedicated to exploring the frontiers of ecstatic mysticism. As hunter-gatherers of fire-born jubilation, passionate artists of reality invention, and spiritual engineers of higher sensation, we cultivate communion with the divine.
Led by the Keeneys, the Guild follows a 7-month, mostly online season that begins every October and concludes in April. We offer weekly virtual Spirit House meetings, original audio tracks for ecstatic movement, online discussions, a special month-long virtual intensive in January, and a final celebratory in-person reunion.
Every Guild season is an uncharted new adventure guided by visionary dreams. Sacred Ecstatics is not a training program that promises rapid mastery through simplified reductions of spiritual wisdom. We are a mystical caravan on the trail of light. Together we practice the oldest ways and newest means of ecstatic spiritual living:
Igniting Sacred Emotion
Spiritual fire, holy wind, divine lightning, God’s electricity—these are all metaphors for heightened sacred emotion, the necessary fuel for spiritual inspiration and activation. We aim to re-light the original flame that illumined, shook, danced, and cooked traditional mystics, shamans, healers, sacred artists, poets, musicians, dancers, world tinkerers, and holy odd-job holders whose hearts were ablaze with extreme divine love.
Ecstatic Sound Movement™
We invented a new daily practice called ecstatic sound movement. It transforms the body into a receiver for catching sacred emotion and circulating the creative life force. This practice uses unique spiritually engineered music designed to convey higher inspiration. Ecstatic sound movement is based on over fifty years of researching the complex acoustic patterns that ignite pure spontaneous movement and sensory excitation. This old secret to crossing the aural bridge between earth and heaven is now back in a new and accessible daily practice form.
Mystical Experimentation with Everyday Radiance
With an inner fire and a tuned body instrument, we explore uncommon means of radiating the numinous into the everyday. Disrupting frigid reality and interrupting rigid causality, we search for improved ways to change the spiritual climate and help the gifts from on high bear fruit on the ground.
"I, Ikuko Osumi, have chosen Bradford Keeney, Ph.D., as my successor and entrust to him the role of representing and overseeing the teaching of seiki jutsu as well as the transmission of seiki to others."
IKUKO OSUMI SENSEI
Japanese master of seiki jutsu
"We regard Bradford Keeney as one of our own strongest doctors and grant our blessing for him and his wife, Hillary, to teach our traditional ways of spiritual healing."
/KUNTA BOO
Ju/’hoan Bushman elder
"We thank the Keeneys for their way of tapping into the Dreaming that brings creativity to spirituality and healing. We love the direction of this teaching!"
AMY & ARNOLD MINDELL, Ph.D.
Developers of "process oriented psychology" and authors of Riding the Horse Backwards
"I honor and celebrate the way the Keeneys are opening our hearts to healing ways! Their work is a wonderful teaching and blessing."
FLORDEMAYO
Traditional healer, Founding Director, Institute for Natural and Traditional Medicine, member of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
"The Keeneys are authentic traditional healers who deliver uncommon spiritual medicine for anyone interested in the art of change."
PAUL TRACHTMAN
Former Science Editor of Smithsonian Magazine
“Brad and Hillary Keeney are authentic healers who transmit the energetic life force."
CARL A. HAMMERSCHLAG, M.D.
Author, University of Arizona Medical School faculty member, and leader of psychoneuroimmunology
“The Keeneys offer the beginning of the awakening of the universal life force that is accessible to everyone. It is time for each of us to become acquainted with this energizing force and bring it into our daily life. I personally experienced the Keeneys' work and believe it is the most direct path to healing and spiritual growth.”
DR. ROBERT FULFORD
Renowned physician featured in Dr. Andrew Weil's book, Spontaneous Healing.
Our holiest scripture doesn’t come from Abraham, Jesus, Muhammad, the Buddha, or Krishna. It’s the words of a 19th century woman from Montreal, known only as C.M.C. After her own spiritual awakening, she gave the clearest description ever recorded of the pinnacle experience of sacred ecstasy:
The atmosphere seemed to quiver and vibrate around and within me . . . there came to me a sense of some serene, magnetic presence—grand and all pervading . . . And still the splendor increased . . . a swift, oncoming tidal wave of splendor and glory ineffable came down upon me . . . a period of rapture, so intense that the universe stood still . . . I was on the great highway, the upward road . . . with songs of love and trust on the lips . . . Every longing of the heart was satisfied . . . I loved infinitely and was infinitely loved! The universal tide flowed in upon me in waves of joy and gladness, pouring down on me as in torrents of fragrant balm . . . some explosion takes place . . . it was emotion itself—ecstasy. It was the gladness and rapture of love, so intensified that it became an ocean of living, palpitating light, the brightest of which outshone the brightness of the sun. Its glow, warmth and tenderness fill the universe. That infinite ocean was the eternal love, the soul of nature and all of one endless smile.*
We don’t care whether you are spiritual, religious, secular, or profess an unknown vernacular. Come if you yearn to burn in smoldering joy and dissolve in the infinite sea of sacred ecstasy.
WHAT’S INCLUDED IN GUILD MEMBERSHIP
The Guild hosts a 7-month season that runs from October through April. We follow a regular weekly schedule to stay tuned and simmering: On Saturdays we gather live as a group online in the Spirit House over Zoom, and on Wednesdays we post a surprise! Additional teachings and musical tracks are delivered as the spirit moves us.
All material, as well as online discussions, are hosted in our online network which is open and available every day. In addition to our regular weekly schedule, two virtual intensives are held at the beginning and end of the season. Finally, the month of January hosts a time of more intense concentration with daily offerings of mystical sustenance and guidance. This is when we enter into a special kind of retreat, embarking on a journey to the Light.
Weekly Live Spirit House Meetings
On Saturday afternoons we meet live with the entire Guild over Zoom. Here we deliver the visionary news, conduct ecstatic sound movement together, launch new prescriptions for experimental practices, turn up the spiritual temperature, and get the mystical wheel turning. Topics are guided by what comes down the spirit pipeline. Spirit House Meetings are a weekly feast for the mind, body, and soul. (Meetings take place at 2pm Central Standard Time and are recorded for later viewing).
Ecstatic Sound Movement™ Audio Tracks
Guild members receive access to original musical tracks designed for conducting ecstatic sound movement at home. Arranged and performed by Brad, these audio recordings vary in emphasis from recognizable melodies to improvised tones, noise compositions and decompositions, and pure “rhythm ticklers” where percussion helps shake the body free of dull rhythms and monotonous entrainment. New tracks are posted throughout the season with experimental movement instructions. Click here to enjoy three sample tracks!
The Wednesday Surprise
On Wednesdays we post an audio, video, essay, or pictorial teaching – it’s a surprise! These may include stirring renditions of visionary teaching, absurd medicines for a stuck mind, sonic tonics for a frozen heart, consultation for personal guidance from the saints of Sacred Ecstatics, mojo drawings with exercises for heightening spiritual concentration, coaching tips for ecstatic sound movement, exemplary healing sessions with commentary, uncommon oddysseys to the spirit lands, or in-depth discussions of material from our Mystical Library.
Two Online Intensives, Fall and Spring
These immersions are held during the first and last Saturdays of the Guild season. The first intensive launches our new forthcoming adventure, introducing the beginning themes and teachings that will guide us forward. The final intensive celebrates all the changes that took place throughout the season and how our lives can never be the same.
January Immersion in the Sacred Ecstatics N/omastery
The month of January hosts a special intense plunge into Sacred Ecstatics. This is when the Guild enters the n/omastery—a virtual monastery saturated with n/om, the Kalahari Bushman word for the sacred vibration triggered by heightened sacred emotion. Through additional audio and video teachings each day along with special experimental action instructions, the n/omastery month provides a unique opportunity to more intensively commune with the Sacred Ecstatics saints who reside on the other side. It culminates with entry into a special brief retreat that hosts a deep, concentrated soak in sacred emotion.
The Online Guild Hall
Like the Guild halls of old, this private online network is where we share all videos, audio tracks, and visionary instruction as well as interact, encourage, inspire, make each other laugh, and generally get amongst it. Hosted on Circle.
The Mystical Library
Guild members receive access to the full “mystical library” of visionary material, reports of past dreams and their teachings. This includes our book series, Climbing the Rope to God: Mystical Testimony and Teaching, Volumes I through III, and subsequent unpublished volumes.
Annual Reunion
Toward the end of the season, the Guild will host a bonus in-person reunion for current Guild members. Attendance is optional. There will be no charge for this gathering though a fee may be required to cover any event costs such as venue rental, meals, and lodging. Exact dates and location are to be determined and will be announced well in advance.
APPLICATION INFORMATION
The current Guild season is full and already underway. We’re now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 online Guild Season that will begin Saturday, October 5, 2024and conclude Sunday, April 27, 2025.
Space is limited. The membership fee for the 7-month program is $3,600. To join us in fall 2024, please fill out this brief form and we will respond to you via email with full enrollment details. We look forward to you joining us for the next adventure on the high mystical seas!
Please email us at keeney@sacredecstatics.com with any questions. For a glimpse inside the world of Sacred Ecstatics, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Instagram or Facebook.
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We’re celebrating 10 seasons! Read Hillary’s essay on the origins of the Sacred Ecstatics Guild: “Opening a Jar of Honey.”
(Illustration of the Guild by Hillary)
*C.M.C.’s testimony and story can be read in Bucke, Richard Maurice. Cosmic Consciousness : A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind. New York, Dutton, 1969, pp. 326-328. Bucke actually put CMC’s testimony in the latter section of his book called “Additional – Some of the Lesser, Imperfect, and Doubtful Instances.” Boy, was he wrong in this case.
The above verse by Sufi Turkish poet, Yunus Emre, is transalted by Kabir Helminski & Refik Algan
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