The Temple Training
The Temple Training is a soul Initiation for pioneers of the heart. We open more deeply into the mysteries of love. Love of the soul, love of the dark and the wild love that flows from that place. We explore the integration of love through the three rings of spirit, soul and embodiment.
Humanity is vibrating through a life/death portal between worlds. The heart is the guide for this journey. We are calling the pioneers of the heart - those beings willing to go into the unknown together - to open up new trails into the emerging mysteries of group soul initiation. Wild love in action.
Highden Temple is the birthplace of the Temple Trainings now happening around the globe.
What is the Temple Training?
The Temple Training is a 6 week immersion at Highden Temple in Aotearoa (New Zealand). It is for those who have already made progress on their path of liberation and embodiment.
It provides the opportunity to discover and demonstrate together the next step forward in the anchoring of the modern Temple and the cultivation of a new culture.
This is not just a workshop but an actual living experience in group soul - to be part of the source code of creative, loving, shamanic, ecstatic community.
SOUL INITIATION is the process of shifting your center of gravity to the eternal being that was born to live your life. It involves releasing your personality’s survival mechanisms and falling deeper into the core of this being, the living expression of love and freedom that you are. The soul now shines through the garment of personality, integrating it instead of being hidden by its structure.
This six week temple training is an environment to support your soul shine to emerge in a sustained and lasting way. It will cost your life as you know it, all the love you can bring and a commitment to the evolution of the planet. And ultimately the willingness to be nothing so you can embrace everything.
When you come to Highden to do your soul work, you are engaging with and supporting a global temple field emerging.
The Curriculum
Awareness: - Meditation, Cosmology, Astrology, Rayology, Soul Fusion, the Void
Eros: - Life Force Activation, Polarity & Magnetism, Tantric Sexuality, Magic & Rituals
Community: - Love & Relationship, Group Soul & Group Initiation
Creativity: - Unique Self & Life Purpose, Synergy, Money and the Economics of Love
Earth:- Shamanism, Earth Energies, Working with Devas, Planetary Kundalini, Initiations & Ceremonies
And....these are just guides - the real curriculum is the living current of life force emerging through each of us and between us as love reveals to us its next great unfoldment in planetary evolution and group transmission.
Are you called?
The very centre of your heart is where life begins.
The most beautiful place on earth.- Rumi
Web Of Emergence
Feb 2 - March 13 2026
This is a living experience in group soul. An invitation to be part of the source code of creative, loving, shamanic, ecstatic community.
The Temple Training is for those who have already made significant progress on their path of liberation and embodiment.
It provides the opportunity to discover and demonstrate together the next step forward in the anchoring of the modern Temple and the cultivation of a new culture.
Bruce Lyon is returning for this unique training in a triangle with KamalaDevi McClure & Atilla Cidam. Full Team includes: Rory Clare, Shiree Robertson-Kingi , Cari Caldwell & Yana Rumi.
3.3 THE CYCLE OF CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE
The first cycle was about the will—the lightning of purpose coming in to plant a seed in the soil. The second cycle was about the love—the attunement of growing a field of initiation, service, and soul community, grounded by a solid web of belonging, intimacy and inclusion.
Now, the third cycle is about the creative intelligence behind manifestation—the living web of soul resource that brings about new systems and structures as expired ones collapse. As the breakdown of our current civilization continues, those called to initiatory work come forth as cells in a revealing body of a soul-based culture. These trainings are for those beings who feel the rumbling within—a place of emerging leadership through unknown times where the personal, collective and planetary heart are one and the same. As we emerge, we find each other around the world and come together as a living network of creativity.
3.3 doubles down on the creative energy of the third ray and it is the most significant cycle for EMERGENCE. Like mycelium spreading beneath the forest, this training reveals the invisible networks that bind us together. Each of us is an expression of the one life, woven into a greater body that is both ancient and emerging. Through this web we discover that our individuality does not vanish into the whole, but rather becomes illuminated by it. We are both thread and weave, both the mycelium network and the mushrooming fruit.
The uniquely co-created structure of the 3.3 Temple training will create space for the beauty of each jewel to shine. We are inviting potent souls who are here to remind each other as unique and woven expressions of the one life, and plant the seeds of this remembrance in their global communities. Thus, we discover our divinity and our humanity together, without bypassing one for the other. As temple communities, we get to discover ourselves as jewels in Indra’s net, unique in our soul notes and inseparable in our original belonging.
What has been growing behind the veils for the first 16 turnings of the wheel now emerges and sounds its unique note in the world.
SOUL INITIATION
is the process of shifting our centre of gravity to the eternal being that was born to live our life.
It involves releasing our personality’s survival mechanisms and falling deeper into the core of this being, the living expression of love and freedom that we are. The soul now shines through the garment of personality, integrating it instead of being hidden by its structure.
This six-week temple training is an environment to support your soul shine to emerge in a sustained and lasting way. It will cost your life as you know it, all the love you can bring, and a commitment to the evolution of the planet. And ultimately, the willingness to be nothing so you can embrace everything.
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Attending the Temple Training requires three things of you-
FOLLOW YOUR HEART
and an inner calling to be available in service to the world through the deepest part of you. This is about initiation into the core of life, not just tribal belonging.
OPEN YOUR HEART
and make a real commitment of time, energy, and money to the process. This includes preparation work for the journey and clearing commitments for the six weeks. The weekends are your own time; everything else is unpredictable.
OFFER YOUR HEART
and be willing to live the fullest expression of your soul sovereignty while at the same time consenting in full surrender to the mystery that dances us all.
CONTRIBUTION
$6750 US
(+ $50 application fee)
For those living in New Zealand or Australia, please get in touch for local currency.
This exchange covers food & accommodation and the training for the full six weeks: This includes weekends and 2 integration days at the end of TTT.
Accommodation - in a comfortable dorm (single and triple rooms) with shared bathroom.
Food - 3 meals a day, Monday to Friday, with weekends self or group catered, a great opportunity to live and play in the community heart.
We have made every effort to keep the cost as affordable as possible for this training.
Applicants with financial constraints are encouraged to seek support from their communities.
WEEKENDS
Weekends are unstructured and give time for integration. They are an opportunity to recharge and make space for what wants to come through next. You can go off-site or stay on the temple grounds. If you wish to stay, your accommodation is included in the training fee over the 6 weekends.
Weekends can be a beautiful time to share unstructured time, like cooking, co-creating, or hanging out. You may also want to explore and enjoy the land on your own - there is plenty of space here for that too.
ENROLLMENT
There is an application process to ensure the program is suitable for each participant and to align with group synergy. This includes an online meeting with a member of the facilitation team.
We recommend filling in the application form as soon as you hear the call, it will give us time to meet and feel together if it's a good fit.
Apply here
https://forms.gle/ij7zamTb7RqHiU1b8
"The temples are the very breath of the new arriving. They are not a place to retreat but to advance in a new direction, towards the earth. They are landed by free souls who have liberated themselves from the gravity of survival and necessity, yet have come to kiss the ground, to co-create and listen to that which has been waiting in their own bodies, in the earth, longing to be met with love and danced in freedom".
Bruce Lyon
If you would like more information, contact us: highdenttt@gmail.com
Facilitation Triad
Bruce Lyon has qualifications in science, psychology, cosmology and esoteric studies. His life work has centred around the evolutionary revelation of the principle of our dark divinity. As physics has evolved its understanding of the dark through black holes, dark energy and quantum flux, so metaphysics is also evolving our relationship and experience of god/goddess through the direct gnosis of the human spirit. Bruce has authored many books, founded Shamballa School and Highden Temple in NZ - a modern residential mystery school dedicated to soul initiation.
KamalaDevi McClure (they/them), also known as KD, is a mystic, muse, and mentor devoted to weaving art, spirituality, and erotic ritual into pathways of personal and collective liberation. For over two decades, KD has traveled the world teaching tantra, polyamory, and temple arts. As a non-binary, pansexual author of seven books, they’ve been featured on Showtime’s Polyamory: Married and Dating and other major media outlets. Their work invites embodied awakening through love, creativity, and consciousness. KD lives by the ocean in San Diego with their life partner and teenage son, where they continue to write and mentor love leaders.
Atilla Çıdam, PhD, is a soul catalyst, transformational leader, and writer devoted to awakening our capacity to make ecstatic love to the full spectrum of life.
Bridging psychology with the mysteries of soul, he creates playgrounds of permission where what is ready to die can dissolve, and what is most vital can emerge.
Through tantra, dance, grief rituals, intimacy with death, kink, and shadow alchemy, Atilla helps people remember the wild magic of their purpose and rediscover the masterpiece they already are. His
work invites intimacy with life’s deepest currents of power, love, and mortality. He is a founder of Dance Meets Tantra, Love, Sex, & Death, Emergence Brotherhood, and is faculty with ISTA & AVATARA.
