COAST LIVE OAK

OJAI, CA

DIVINITY || INTEGRITY || POWER || PATERNAL LINE

MAY 17TH - MAY 25TH

KNEEL TO RISE

"It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service." — Albert Einstein

We are living in a time where the Earth is waking up within us and asking humanity, will you come back to me?

Contrary to what we often see in the collective, this does not look like a spirituality of egoic transcendence. It looks like taking a knee before an altar of prayer. Prayer can be interpreted in many ways and does not need to be Judeo-Christian, Vedic or Buddhist to be true. Prayer is the way we express our genuine desire to serve an elevated principle, ideal or truth for which our own lives seem minuscule in comparison to.

Kneel to Rise.

We are living in a time where the Earth is waking up within us and asking humanity, will you remember what you are?

It is natural that our impression of the world is shaped by the world we've inherited. And yet there are doorways to the aspects of the body, the mind, the emotions and the self which we do not see, nor remember, nor feel because the world has buried these passageways and tossed away the keys of initiation, so that the elders who have crossed these thresholds before us have gone nearly extinct. But we are coming back.

Kneel to Rise.

We are living in a time where Earth is waking up within us and asking humanity, will you do what is necessary in order to walk in truth?

Not the supposed truth of dogma, ideology or doctrine, but the core knowing of our bodies. The secret is that all of us have access to these hidden doorways within us which lead to caverns of personal power, sovereignty and true wonder. But the truth is that these pathways cannot be accessed without kneeling. All of our stories must be set aside and our sense of self diminished until we can pass through the eye of a needle. And then we rise. Changed. In remembrance.

Kneel to Rise.

We are living in a time where Earth is waking up within us and asking humanity, will you stand up on your god-given feet and let your heart pound for the world to see? The only true power in this life is devotion. The water does not flow for itself, the trees do not photosynthesize only for their pleasure. Your courage to alchemize fear, to walk in fire, to feel the pain that was never felt by those who gave it to you is to stand in an unshakeable knowing that there is something within us which is unbreakable, immutable and eternal.

From that place, we Kneel to Rise.

FATHER OAK

"Zeus is all that is." -Aeschylus

Throughout the Indo-European old world, Oak has a principled reputation as the king of trees. But this ancient and pervasive attribution does not stop there. Greeks, Romans, Celts, Slavs, Germanics, Luwians, Hittites, Hurrians, Jews & Vedics all considered Oak to be an altar of the Sky Father: what we in the West call God.

Indra, Thor, Zeus, Perun, Jupiter, Yahweh and Taranis were all thought to “inhabit” the oak. Even the Sioux peoples of South Dakota have legends of a Thunder God within the Oak. As a keystone species supporting over 500 other creatures, Oak is a teacher of what it means to embody power in service of community.

“…the first prophecies were the words of an oak.”

Plato, Phaedrus

FATHER OAK

The structure of our emotions, our thoughts and our will or action is the Father within us. Equally, the Father is the traditional torchbearer of leadership in service, providing consistency, predictability, shelter through storms, sacrifice when the way forward requires it, guiding from the front, living with fearlessness of the world—especially when fear is most appropriate.

Oak is an altar of the Old Way of relationship to life: To embody beauty in virtue and strength in humility above all else. These qualities—or acts of kneeling—can awaken us to primal electrical force moving through us and our environment, and show the way to right relationship with this primordial power lurking within all things. Oak calls forward the sovereign self, asking us to step into radical self-ownership and release our grip on the things which are taking us out of our potential to rise as servant leaders.

As we kneel, whereto do we rise? From the belly of desire, to heart of embodied truth. To do this, we must slow down, release our structure, let it fall and be rebuilt—not through thinking, ideation and mental understanding, but through the life-force coming to greater realization of its own potentiated power. The structure self-organizes and a new way emerges. A powerful union of opposites join within the fire of the heart, as our Father Wounds release and our Inner King stands up.

WHO & WHAT IS THIS FOR?

Oak Diets are for Gentle Warriors.

Oak Diets are for those Getting Out of Their Own Way.

Oak Diets are for those Ready to Heal.

Oak Diets are for Students of Initiation.

Oak Diets are for Seekers of Wisdom.

Oak Diets are for Indo-European Ancestral Reclamation.

Oak Diets are for Integrity.

Oak Diets are for Students of The Old Way.

Oak Diets are for Right Relationship.

Oak Diets are for those cultivating Magnetism & Alignment.

Oak Diets are for integrating Discipline.

Oak Diets are for embracing Self-Sovereignty.

Oak Diets are for those ready for Radical Responsibility.

Oak Diets are for those calling forth Breakthrough.

Oak Diets are for those releasing Old Identity.

Oak Diets are for Activating Our Web of Relations.

Oak Diets are for Prayer.

Oak Diets are for Empowerment.

Oak Diets are for Heart & Soul Medicine.

THE DIAMOND TEMPLE

The Diamond Temple is a sacred structure nestled atop Sulfur Mountain in upper Ojai, a place where ancient and modern wisdom converge. Perched high above thousands of acres of undeveloped land, it offers breathtaking views from sunrise to sunset, surrounded by majestic oak trees and the profound stillness that is so rare in today’s urban world. This sacred space represents a union of the earth’s ancient wisdom and the ever-evolving technologies of the present, creating a nexus for personal and collective evolution to catalyze.