Presenters 2012

 Featured Presenters At Sacred Space 2012

     Lyratah Barrett is the current Director of New SEED Sanctuary, a Magickal Order and Contacted Mystery School in Philadelphia, PA. She apprenticed directly under New SEED founder and master teacher, Shakmah Winddrum, for more than 35 years and is the chosen successor to lead New SEED Sanctuary and continue its teachings.

    Lyratah has dedicated her life to Spirit and is a mystic, healer, priestess, and teacher. Her connection with Spirit is a living example of committed discipline and faith to the Great Work. She is a dedicated practitioner of several magick traditions and leads meditation classes and teaches on various esoteric and Magickal studies including Qabalah, the Solomonic tradition, spiritual ethics, ceremonial magick, the Tao, Zen, the IChing, and the art of listening.

    Lyratah is also a certified Feng Shui consultant, having trained with internationally known Master Lin Yun, head of the BTB Feng Shui, and nationally known H.G. Chissell, as well as an accomplished public speaker and a Certified Toastmaster.

     Ivo Dominguez Jr. is a visionary, and a practitioner of a variety of esoteric disciplines. He has been active in Wicca and the Pagan community since 1978, has been teaching since 1982. Ivo was a founding member, and a past High Priest, of Keepers of the Holly Chalice, the first coven of the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel a Wiccan Tradition. He currently serves as one of the Elders of the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel, a Wiccan syncretic tradition that draws inspiration from Astrology, Qabala, the Western Magickal Tradition and the folk religions of Europe. His techniques and insights are rooted in a synthesis of traditional metaphysical teachings, modern science, and memories from past lives.  Ivo is also a professional astrologer who has studied astrology since 1980 and has been offering consultations and readings since 1988. 

He has been published in numerous periodicals and is the author of Spirit Speak: Knowing and Understanding Spirit Guides, Ancestors, Ghosts, Angels, and the Divine; Casting Sacred Space; Beneath the Skins. there are several other books in the pipeline.

He is also one of the creative forces behind “Awakening The Dream” and “A Dream Whose Time Is Coming” two chant CDs that are fundraisers for the New Alexandrian Library Project. He has written over 65 chants and maintains an online pagan chant resource at www.ivodominguezjr.com. He is one of the owners and stewards of Seelie Court which is 102 acres of wooded land in Southern Delaware. thee land at Seelie Court is filled with magick and has been consecrated to the purpose of deepening all pagan paths. Along with James C. Welch he is one of the owners of Bell, Book, & Candle (www.bellbookandcandle.biz), Delaware’s largest metaphysical shop.

John Michael Greer was born in the gritty Navy town of Bremerton, WA and raised in a nonreligious family. He began his occult studies in his teen years, originally in the Golden Dawn tradition of hermetic occultism, and later in Druidry and a range of other esoteric traditions extending from traditional southern rootwork through Renaissance astrological magic to Taoist martial arts. The author of more than twenty books on occult subjects, he is also a widely read author and blogger on the subject of peak oil and the future of industrial society. He currently serves as the presiding officer of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), and lives in Cumberland, MD with his wife Sara.

His latest books include The Wealth of Nature: Economics As If Survival Mattered , a groundbreaking study of environmental economics in the tradition of E.F. Schumacher, and Apocalypse Not, which challenges 2012 and Rapture believers with a wry survey of the last three thousand years of end times that weren’t. His weekly blog The Archdruid Report offers a Druid perspective on the future on the far side of fossil fuels.