I help people who have already achieved a great deal in the outer world find what's still missing on the inside.
As a Private Teacher and Guide within the Modern Mystery School tradition, my work sits at the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern life. For the past 18 years, I've trained and worked within the Lineage of King Salomon — teachings that have guided seekers for thousands of years, refined into precise, practical tools for the world we live in today.
I didn't come to this work as a natural believer. After two bouts of cancer and kidney failure I came in skeptical, unconvinced that any of it would actually change anything for me. But I made myself a simple deal: if it could move the needle even 1%, it would be worth my time and investment. Eighteen years later, that 1% turned into a completely different relationship with myself, my purpose, and my life — and a calling to guide others through the same doorway.
That skepticism is actually part of what makes me effective with the clients I work with now. I've spent my career in rooms that value evidence, results, and clear thinking — today as Head of People for a financial technology startup in Silicon Beach and entrepreneur. I understand the world my clients operate in, because I live in it too. I'm not asking anyone to take a leap of blind faith. I'm asking them to test it, the way I did.
Today, I work privately with a small number of clients — founders, executives, and individuals carrying real responsibility — who are ready to go beneath the surface. To heal what's been carried quietly for years. To reconnect with their intuition. To lead their lives, businesses, and legacies from a place of true alignment rather than pressure.
If you're someone who has built success on the outside and is ready to build the same depth on the inside, I'd be honored to guide you on this path.
Some traditions are studied. Others are transmitted.
The Lineage of King Salomon is the latter — an unbroken oral tradition tracing back more than 3,000 years to the teachings of King Salomon himself. It is one of the oldest continuously living lineages of the ancient mystery school tradition, preserved not in text but in direct transmission, passed from teacher to student across millennia.
This Lineage is anchored by its main key holders, known as the Third Order, who hold the authority to keep the door of the mystery school open to genuine seekers and who steward the purity of its teachings in union with one another.
In 1997, Founder Gudni Gudnason brought these ancient teachings out of seclusion and into the modern world, establishing the Modern Mystery School as a path of initiation available to anyone called to walk it. Today the school spans more than 50 countries, with international headquarters in Toronto and Tokyo — a global community united by a single lineage and a shared commitment to personal transformation and world peace.
What is offered here is not theory. Through initiation and direct experience, students are given real tools and energetic keys — not to escape their lives, but to master them. This is a path of the heart: of taking greater responsibility for who you are, of unlocking capacities that have always been yours, and of becoming a genuine force for Light in the world you already live in.
Learn more at The Modern Mystery School International.
At the heart of the Modern Mystery School is what we call the Culture of Light — a set of guiding principles that shape how initiates move through the world. Rooted in values like unity, compassion, hope, kindness, and the ongoing work of making yourself worthy, this culture isn't defined by nationality, background, or belief. It's built on something simpler: a shared commitment to Knowing Thyself and living in service of the greater good.
Getting to know yourself is deeply rewarding, but it's never easy. Our Culture — the WAY — challenges you to reflect on your decisions, seek greater clarity, and push past the old boundaries holding you back. It asks you to open your mind and, most importantly, act in alignment with a better way of living.
This kind of personal growth comes from questioning our preconceived beliefs and examining them honestly. Do they help us grow, or do they keep us hiding behind walls we've built out of fear?
Many people struggle with this process. Often, the struggle begins when they see the positive transformation others have achieved by overcoming their own limitations and living in alignment with our teachings. Instead of embracing the same path, cynics resist the changes needed for growth — and this resistance frequently turns into jealousy and contempt toward those who've found real joy through our Culture of Light.
Integrity — walking your talk — is essential to being part of this Culture. Without integrity in following through on your commitments to change, true transformation simply isn't possible.
The Modern Mystery School isn't built on doctrine you're asked to accept on faith — it's built on a set of beliefs about who you actually are: divine in origin, eternal in nature, and already in possession of every answer you're searching for. The Mystery School doesn't hand you truth. It gives you the tools to uncover the truth that's already yours.
This matters because most paths ask you to look outward — to a teacher, a text, a system — for the answers. This one asks you to look inward, and gives you thousands of years of tested tools to make that possible. You are treated not as a student who lacks something, but as a soul remembering what you already know.
At the core of this work is a simple but demanding belief: you are fully responsible for your own thoughts, actions, and words — and that responsibility is where your real power lives. Alongside it sits a deep respect for individuality, self-expression, and the freedom to become who you actually are, not who you're expected to be.
If you've ever sensed that you're more than your body, your circumstances, or your past — this is where that sense gets language, structure, and a path forward.
Ipsissima Divina Franca Lanyon, Ipsissima of Alchemy
Ipsissima Divina Theresa Bullard-Whyke, Ipsissima of Kabbalah
Ipsissima Divina Luisa Nakagome, Ipsissima of Shamanism
Ipsissima Divina Eiko Gudnason, Ipsissima of the Royal Way
Ipsissima Divina Tsukiko Kimura, Ipsissima of the Ensofic Ray
Ipsissima Divina Kate Bartram-Brown, Ipsissima of the Noble Arts
Ipsissima Divina Liza Rossi, Ipsissima of the Divine Arts
Ipsissima Kathleen Lanyon, Ipsissima of the Governance of the Light
Ipsissima Azusa Yoda, Grand Oracle
Ipsissima Divina Hitomi Shibuya, Ipsissima of the Goethian Arts
Ipsissimus Kimio Iwaki, Ipsissimus of the Occult Arts
Ipsissima Yoko Watanabe, Ipsissima of the Psychic Arts
Honorary Ipsissima Sandra Reed
Honorary Ipsissima Verla Wade
Honorary Ipsissima Suzuko Kitamura
West
Ipsissima Franca Lanyon · Ipsissima Theresa Bullard-Whyke · Ipsissima Kate Bartram-Brown · Ipsissima Liza Rossi · Divina Rita van den Berg · Divina Ann Donnelly
East
Ipsissima Eiko Gudnason · Ipsissima Luisa Nakagome · Ipsissima Tsukiko Kimura · Divina Maiko Machiya · Divina Sincere Rohi (Hiroko Ito) · Divina Hitomi Shibuya