The Path is a seven-day immersion into the living work of a modern Mystery School.
It is an introduction to the initiatory teachings of the Temple Trainings at Highden, held in various locations around the world.
Through embodied ritual, group processing, and esoteric study, we enter a shared field of practice that invites the deeper layers of life and initiation to begin moving.
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Together we explore ecstatic descent and the art of listening, attuning and moving with the deeper rhythms of life.
This is a journey of self-initiation that opens a doorway to your deeper self, beyond personality patterns and calcified identities.
This is not another self-development training, nor a space to retreat further away from what you are at your core. It is a container that allows for a direct encounter with Soul.
What is it to listen to the current that runs beneath us all?
To connect to the Source of All Life?
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What happens when we descend more deeply into the sinews and cells of the body and allow the inner gnosis of the soma to speak?
The Path offers a chance to drop the masks we carry and step into a field where the deeper layers of being can begin to move and reveal themselves.
WHAT IS THE HIGHDEN PATH TO INITIATION
WHO IS THIS FOR?
This journey is for those who feel a quiet or unmistakable stirring toward something deeper, a sense that life is asking for more presence, more truth, and more love lived from the inside out.
It is for people who are curious about soul initiation, the teachings of the Dark, and the living mystery of the group field, and who want to meet this work through the body, with care and respect for their own rhythm.
It is for those who long for soul-oriented fields and a connection to something beyond what the mind already knows.
Perhaps you have been circling the six-week Temple Trainings in NZ, but have not yet heard a clear calling. Or you wish to experience a shorter container closer to home that still offers a deep and powerful journey.
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Whether the call toward the Temple Training feels clear or uncertain, or whether there is simply a desire to touch the frequency of this work without needing to know where it leads, this week offers a place to listen, to feel, and to remember.
ISTA LEVEL 2
Maybe you’ve been part of the ISTA trainings and miss what used to be Level 2. Bruce Lyon originally designed Level 2 as a way to introduce some of the deeper initiatory teachings that live at the core of Highden into the ISTA field.
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After the restructuring of ISTA last year it was decided to bring this training home to where it originated - at Highden. It is now called The Path of Initiation, a week-long immersion and embodied initiation into soul.
SUNDAY // ARRIVAL
how we open
The opening of the week is gentle and spacious, offering room to land in the body, settle into the rhythm of the group, and become familiar with the field we are entering together.
THE JOURNEY
Ray 6
Devotion & Idealism
THEME
Desire, conflict, passion, purpose, eros, activation.
“Through the fiery processes of war and strife, brought to the individual through the influence of the planetary ruler, Mars, a needed purification takes place.”
— Leoni Hodgson, Journey of the Soul
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Harmony Through Conflict
THEME
Body landing, embodiment, somatic safety, nervous system education,
‘The Moon indicates the past… limitation… governs the physical body… the ‘prison of the soul.’
— Rare-Hodgson, Journey of the Soul
MONDAY MOON
TUESDAY MARS
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WEDNESDAY MERCURY
Ray 3
Intelligent activity
THEME
karma, initiation, readiness, responsibility
Saturn guards the Gate of Initiation. It tests our fitness or readiness to step onto the Path of Initiation… correct imbalances of the past and fulfil karmic obligations.”
— Leoni Rare-Hodgson, Journey of the Soul, Chapter 5, “Saturn”
Ray 2
Love and Wisdom
THEME
love, wisdom, expansion, group, consciousness, love, heart, community
“Jupiter…indicates the method by which the soul
will expand one’s vision and promote the synthesis of head and heart, of mind and love and of will and wisdom.”
— Journey of the Soul, summary sheet
Ray 4
Harmony Through Conflict
THEME
mind, meaning, communication, teachings, consciousness
Mercury…develops the antahkarana, the communication bridge between the personality and the soul. Finally, Mercury dispels illusion and illumines the mind with the light of the intuition.”
— HT Mandala Booklet V02, p. 37
THURSDAY JUPITER
Ray 5
Concrete Knowledge / Higher Mind → Love
THEME
beauty, magnetism, creativity, higher mind and soul expression
“Venus…acts as an agent of distribution for the fifth Ray of Concrete Knowledge and Science.”
— Michael Robbins, Tapestry of the Gods Vol. II
FRIDAY VENUS
SATURDAY SATURN
depature day
SUNDAY // CLOSURE
The final day offers space to integrate what has been felt and experienced, without needing to make meaning or decisions. Attention turns toward what feels steady, clear, and supportive to carry forward.
GET IN TOUCH
If you have any questions about the Path, Highden or the Temple Trainings
Or if you would like to get in touch with the team before filling in the application form
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