At some point in our life, each of us experiences an invitation to give up a life of illusions and connect deeply to reality. For the vast majority of us, that invitation comes in the form of trauma. 

My defining trauma was larger than some, and smaller than others. The size of our trauma compared to others doesn’t particularly matter–what matters is the size of our trauma relative to the size of our own world. When my engagement to my first love ended in 2014, my whole world was shattered, and my journey out of illusion and into reality began. 

The broken engagement shook my religious foundations, my psychological stability, my sense of identity, my connection to my privilege, and so much more. In the first years following the breakup, my mental/emotional health held on only by a thread, as one by one, fundamental assumptions I had held about reality proved to be untrue. 

As the years progressed, however, I found that no matter how much of me was stripped away, I was not annihilated. I survived the broken engagement, and my world expanded on the other side of it. I survived physical illness, and found body more alive than ever on the other side. I survived job loss, the loss of friendships, the loss of trust in religion, and yet there was always a “me” on the other side–not a smaller me, but a bigger me.

I began to realize that the quest for this “true self”--this singular part of me that lives even more abundantly after going through all of these “false deaths”--was the only quest worth pursuing. Not only that, but I realized that finding the true self was the only path to creating an abundant life in my short years on earth as Andrew Lonon.

The true self is deeply connected to God, and as such it is immensely powerful. Someone who finds their true self can choose any number of ways to exercise that power–I made the choice to pursue abundant physical health without the use of any medicine. 

It took me many years to see success in this quest, but as I did, I began to realize that the same principle that applied to physical health also applied to the health of organizations, institutions, relationships, families, and so much more. Put simply, organisms and organizations become healthy when all of their parts are living in intimate relationship with one another. 

I have now seen enough successful healing in my body that I want to begin teaching these principles to others. The goal is not only to help people heal physically, but to create a community of people who will take the principles of deep internal intimacy and begin to apply them beyond their bodies–in their homes, workplaces, governments, and beyond. My hope is that as we heal ourselves, we can also learn to heal the earth.

~ Andrew Lonon, Founder