The Sacred Ecstatics Guild
We’re an outskirts online community devoted to deep-fried mysticism. Together we climb the mystical rope and then return with odd-for-God interventions that warm cold relations, free stuck situations,
and inspire creative transformation.
The Guild’s annual ten-month season begins every October and concludes in July. It’s a reality-shifting immersion in the aesthetic, ecstatic, mythopoetic, sonic, somatic, haptic, and kinetic dynamics of soul ignition.
Going Up, Coming Down
The Primary Practices of Sacred Ecstatics
Ecstatic Sound Movement™
Climbing Up the Rope
Our foundational practice is Ecstatic Sound Movement, an elusively simple but profound means of kinetically tuning the body and acoustically aligning the mind for the heart to catch deeply felt sacred emotion—the energetic dynamics behind your climb.
ESM uses spiritually engineered audio recordings to guide a special kind of spontaneous movement, enabling a sha-sonic journey to the higher spiritual altitudes where blissful joy abounds. It’s based on over fifty-five years of exploring the synchronized acoustic and kinetic phenomena behind ecstatic spirituality
ESM is conducted during Spirit House meetings, at our annual intensive, and at home as a daily practice. Click here to read more.
Being Odd-for-God Agents of Higher Intervention
Climbing Back Down
Ongoing trips to the spiritual fire transform you into a spiritually cooked agent of higher change. Throughout the Guild season we launch mystically charmed and ecstatically charged interventions into daily routines and situations in need of transformation.
Mentored by an ecology of saints On High, we melt frigid ideologies, rigid dualisms, and tepid phraseologies that hinder the passion to celebrate and nurture all people. With a fire lit within, we help outwardly warm the spiritual climate.
The Guild conducts experiments to illumine challenging existential conditions and loosen Trickster’s self-centered stranglehold on humanity. Serving the whole ecology of relations, we work to be odd for God in these “get even” times.
The Guild Season Trajectory
Though we generally move through the following timeline, visionary dreams and guidance from our pantheon of saints make every season unique and unpredictable.
October-December: Constructing a New Mythopoetic Reality
During the first three months, visionary dreams and revelatory reveries take us to new mystical locales where oft-forgotten historical figures re-emerge, unexpected sources of wisdom surface, and fresh sounds, themes, and dramatic plots present themselves. An unexplored mythopoetic reality takes shape that will host
and guide our journey ahead.
In past seasons we rebuilt hearts with 12th century Sufi mystics, distilled the spirit of Oaxacan mezcal for the soul, learned to sonically breathe in Madame Chaloff’s Boston piano salon, traversed the six stations of a 19th century Canadian mystic’s extraordinary journey of awakening, traveled to Arizona with Edgar Cayce to build a blue altar to azurite, learned a new angular way to dance from modern artist, Piet Mondrian, and circled Saturn’s rings with Afrofuturist musician, Sun Ra and his Arkestra.
Get ready to be surprised—we never know where the saints, rascals, and creatives of Great Mystery will send us next and what medicine they will prescribe for this love-thirsty world.
January: Developing Your ESM Chops
January is a special time for honing your Ecstatic Sound Movement. ESM requires a unique kind of spontaneous movement and genre of improvised sound whose synchrony catches and amplifies sacred emotion. This potent elixir is what makes the heart rise.
This month we go deeper to address fine-tuning your physical movement responsivity, activating whole-body listening as the key to sound-movement synchrony, developing an aesthetic movement repertoire, establishing circular patterns of contrarian tension and creative suspension, and opening the capacity to be somatically surprised and expressively improvised.
The goal is to develop your ability to catch different degrees and qualities of sacred emotion that enable you to climb the rope, spiritually cook, and return in a way that sustains the change, inspiration,
and instruction received.
February: Experimentation with Odd-for-God Intervention
This month we emphasize coming down the rope as a retuned, realigned, and recharged
secret mystical agent of higher change.
We experiment with innovative ways of infusing creatively juiced action into daily routines, busting narrative addiction, loosening the binds of conventional mind, expanding reality containment, and launching soulful alterations via tailor-made ecstatic means.
Here our interactions with others precipitate a tectonic shift from self-psychology to pyro-spirituality. This is how we go full circle—climbing up to change our own condition, then returning
to address situations in need of transformation.
March: N/omastery Month & Fission Fast
March is when the Guild enters the n/omastery—a virtual monastery saturated with n/om, the Kalahari Bushman word for the vibratory, fiery force of creation. The n/omastery arrives not to remove us from the world but to open the door to the universe. We aim to catch the feeling for what inspired the saints to live non-ordinary lives. This helps us climb in their footsteps and plug into the soulful electricity that radiated through their daily actions.
Profound communion with the numinous sets in motion an ecstatic chain reaction. Accordingly, N/omastery Month culminates in a special 24-hour “fission fast.” We enter the “secret room” with no walls, ceiling, or floor separating us from the Creator. Then we come out of the fast ready for April’s explosive celebration.
(Read more about our fission fast here.)
April: N/om Fest!
After the fast comes the fest! In April we let ‘er rip and release any lingering grip on room-shrinking norms, monotonous forms, joy-chilling interruptions, humor-blocking notions, and self-inflating potions. Every day the Guild celebrates the transformations underway, gleefully tapping into past or present inspirations from the Sacred Ecstatics treasure chest. We blend, mix, and shake to share libations at the higher bar. In the spirit of a true fire station party, we re-dedicate ourselves to climbing the rope to sacred ecstasy.
June-July: Camp Ouro
Welcome to Camp Ouro! Here we travel back in time to revisit some of the season’s most poignant teachings with awakened mystical senses, expanded minds, and risen hearts. Our camp mascot is Ouroboros, the dragon of recursion and circular transformation that swallows the past to change the present and set new future possibilities in motion. During this summer camp experience, Ouro lifts the veil and reveals previously unnoticed jewels of mystery.
Testimonials
“Thank you from the bottom of my heart for these teachings. I am moved by them on all levels. This morning, something opened up, and my world became bigger and brighter. Grateful does not seem a large enough word, but it
will have to do.”
Owen, Ireland
“Cartwheeling into the heart of Mystery! I’m falling in love more each year with Sacred Ecstatics. How can each season be so much more electric than the last? It’s incredible. Can’t wait for next October!”
Amy, Colorado
“Thank you for everything. Every day a prayer. Every day a song. Every day drinking from a tiny cup of love. What a way to live! Thank you for this experience. See you next season!”
Susan, Maine
“The N/omastery Month and fission fast went deep.
I can’t even put words to it. The room changed—that is all I can say. I take a deep bow of gratitude for the two of you, for the saints.”
Linus, Sweden
“Your words are like a deep drink of holy water that shakes me to my core! Thank you!”
Maria, Arizona
“Loving all the unexpected jewels that suddenly appear in the green beneath my feet and in my heart. One special point of gratitude is your gift of live music. Thank you so very much for the musical leavening that takes us to heaven.”
Robert, Australia
Guild Weekly Schedule
Expect new offerings on Saturdays, Mondays, and Wednesdays, with more frequent bursts of activity in March, April, and whenever higher inspiration strikes. Read on for details ▼ ▼ ▼
Saturday Spirit House Meetings
On Saturdays we meet live over Zoom to serve the main weekly feast. We deliver the visionary news, offer instruction in the art of ecstatic transformation, conduct Ecstatic Sound Movement, launch new experiments, pour the sacred emotion, keep the mystical wheels turning, and make sure the soul-fire is burning. (Meetings take place at 12pm Mountain Standard Time. Schedule is subject to change with advanced notice. Always recorded for later viewing!)
Monday Ecstatic Restarter
On Mondays we emphasize Ecstatic Sound Movement (ESM), bringing strategic kinetic guidance for keeping all three letters in play. Here you learn how to better operate your ecstatic restarter, the inner switch that keeps you climbing, simmering, and returning ready to radiate light and warmth.
The Monday Ecstatic Restarter helps deepen Saturday’s teachings, heighten your presence within ongoing mystical reality construction, and fire up whatever odd-for-God action is in play.
The Wednesday Surprise
On Wednesdays we post an audio, video, essay, pictorial teaching, hidden zap, or whatever else comes down the spirit line—it’s a surprise! These may include stirring renditions and expositions of our lineage traditions, vaster extensions of visionary teachings, absurd medicines for an over-serious mind, sonic tonics for a thirsty heart, movement rehab for the body-and-soul, uncanny consultation for personal guidance from the saints of Sacred Ecstatics, esoteric mojo drawings that help heighten spiritual concentration, tactical advisory tips for Ecstatic Sound Movement, exemplary healing sessions with provocative commentary, uncommon oddysseys to the spirit lands, in-depth discussions of material from our Mystical Library, or something unknown we cannot yet describe.
In addition to the weekly schedule…
Current Guild members are granted complementary admission to our annual in-person intensive!* Usually held in May, exact dates and location will be announced well in advance. Attendance is optional.
JOIN THE NEXT GUILD SEASON!
Details and application info
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DETAILS
The Guild season begins October 3, 2026 and concludes July 31, 2027.
The membership fee for the ten-month season is 3,750. USD.
As a Guild member you receive:
Ten months of live Spirit House Meetings and original audio, video, illustrated, and written teachings in the art of ecstatic mysticism, delivered direct from Brad & Hillary.
Ongoing online experiential immersions in transformative sound, movement, and sacred emotion.
A large playlist of Ecstatic Sound Movement audio tracks for daily movement practice.
Complementary attendance at our annual Sacred Ecstatics Intensive (an in-person “burning bush and divine rush” gathering).
Access to a small global community of other mystical enthusiasts hosted in our own private online network. Uncommon traditionalists, nonconventional iconoclasts, high flying podcast enthusiasts, blasters of prediction, masters of imperfection, salon artists, underground writers, experimental thespians, courtroom barristers, political jesters, natural law advocates, nontechnical advisors, maverick counselors, body workers, herbalists, engineers, scientists, plumbers, electricians, therapists, doctors, ministers, rebellers, yellers, shakers, shouters, outer space fanatics, digital nomads, community activists, pianists, guitarists, drummers, hummers, button collectors, wall painters, pigeon photographers, mountaineers, long distance trekkers, interior explorers, exterior designers, housekeepers, beekeepers, grandparents, grandchildren, grand couples, lost and found seekers, and high-reaching jacks of all trades—you name it, they’re here!
How to Apply
To apply, please fill out this brief form.
Once submitted, you’ll receive an email confirmation with further enrollment details.
Space is limited, and we fill every year. We look forward to you joining us!
Please reach out to us at keeney@sacredecstatics.com with any questions, big or small.
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*A reasonable fee may be required to cover the cost of venue, meals, and lodging. Applies only to the season in which you are enrolled.
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