Our Philosophy
Our aim is to get to the root of mental, emotional, and physical dis-ease and suffering by skillfully applying the art and science of traditional wisdom and medicine. Whichever method we use, the goal is always to not fight illness but to transform it into pure wisdom through the light of understanding it’s origins and the lessons therein. In this way our ailments themselves become the medicine that heals us by guiding us deeper into experientially realizing the sacred ground of being as the home we never left.
“We shall not cease from our exploration and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
-T.S Eliot
My path of healing began with the study and practice of yoga and western ceremonial magic which led into a deeper initiation process through underground streams within the Western Hermetic Alchemical current.
I began a healing and student relationship with plant medicine in 2011, in which I had the privilege to study with several profound teachers in Peru and the US. This led to a traditional apprenticeship with the indigenous Medicine Tradition of the Lakota and Dińe people. Learning as a Fire Chief in the NAC (Native American Church). Later, through dreams and visions I was led back to Peru to find a home studying in the Shipibo-Conibo Medicine Tradition.
What I offer is a synthesis of what I have learned about the esoteric nature of the mind, the alchemical process of Spiritual Self-Development and embodying the Wisdom of the natural world.
I am a traditionally trained and lifelong student of the philosophy and practices of Traditional Shipibo-Conibo Plant Medicine, non-dual Śhaiva Tantra and western Hermetic Alchemy. I am a professionally trained, Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (CHT) through the Alchemy Institute of Hypnosis and am a member in good standing of the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH). In addition, I am a professionally trained Advanced Kambo Practitioner through Kambo International.
Meet Your Guide, Sean McAuley CHT
Sacred Ground Medicine was born out of seeking the answers and healing to my own grief, trauma, pain and destructive patterns that created disconnection, anxiety, depression, and addiction in my early life. This led me into a long, dark night of the soul in which I was struggling to find a reason to exist and this eventually led me down the path of seeking the Truth to the nature of reality and to discover the old ways of healing through the ancient Wisdom Traditions that still survive intact. I have been extremely grateful that through my pain and grief, I was led to true gatekeepers of the Mysteries who have been willing to share their Medicine and guide me to the depths of my own healing process.
I discovered that healing is a natural alchemical process of not fighting demons or transcending pain and suffering but understanding everything as a gift and transmuting the very way our limited, temporal lower functions operate to allow our higher nature to more and more clearly work through us in a process of incrementally dispelling our illusions. This is achieved by bringing our deep rooted perceptual patterns and shadow material under the Light of conscious Awareness and Understanding them. In doing so, we are able to heal the dysfunctional stories and beliefs about ourselves and the world that run our lives through outer projection from the darkness of our unconscious. Only then are we able to live free from the prisons of our own conditioning, to express our deepest potentials with the world as intended by the Great Spirit, by our Higher Genius...with love, gratitude, service and compassion.
"The ground on which we stand is sacred ground. It is the dust and blood of our ancestors."
-- Plenty Coups, CROW