Contemporary Publications on Mystery Schools and Initiation
This collection highlights contemporary publications that engage with initiation, transformation, embodiment, and human development as questions of structure, threshold, and meaning rather than technique or quick fixes. These pieces offer reflection and dialogue across psychology, culture, and lived experience.
Mystery schools have historically offered esoteric instruction as embodied, initiatory teaching — not abstract knowledge but lived frameworks for transformation and growth. This page gathers contemporary publications that engage with mystery school traditions as living systems of development, embodiment, and responsibility, rather than as belief systems or historical curiosities.
Books
Title: You are not Perfect the Way you are
Author: Sovereing Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon
It takes a special kind of person to be brave enough to make this statement to the world, “You are not perfect the way you are.” In his first book, Sovereign Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon doesn’t just say this to the world as a critique, but rather he says this with deep compassion and faith that humanity can change and be better. He believes this so much that he wrote this book to share the keys and wisdom that will help people to Know Thyself by accepting the reality of their imperfection and taking the steps to progress toward true Joy.
Imbued with Hermetic Wisdom and Keys this book is a great companion on the path of personal transformation.
Title: You are not Perfect the Way you are but you are getting there
Author: Sovereing Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon
This book is a companion for our journey — a guide to navigating life’s knocks, its whispers, and its wonders with a steady hand and an open heart. We explore more deeply the Hermetic principles that pulse through existence — the vibrations of life, the reflections of the within and without — and the Esoteric understanding that reveals our divine unity and potential.
Title: Essential principles for Warriors of Light
Author: Sovereing Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon
The Warrior within you should always be present in life, prepared, honed, trained and ready to act for you wherever the need arises, which is often in this world we live in.
Title: Hermetic Wisdom Contemplation Cards
Author: Sovereing Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon
This 72-card deck is filled with carefully selected keys of knowledge that come from the ancient mystery school teachings of Hermeticism and Esotericism.
Title: The Elite’s Monopoly: Unveiling the Secrets of Success
Author: Sovereign Ipsissimus Hideto Nakagome
“Real joy is not so small at all. When you are filled with joy in the spirit, you will be unstoppably powerful. The reason we need to study Metaphysics is to remember the level of consciousness that we are living, within the absolute principles that make us alive.”
These writings and online resources gesture toward initiatory understanding without attempting to transmit it. The Foundations section explores initiation as a structured and embodied process in greater depth.
Gaia TV: Mystery Teachings
Consciousness in the Quantum Paradigm
Author: Ipsissima Dr Theresa Bullard
Visit http://mysteryteachings.com/ to find out more
Modern Mystery School Youtube Channel
Visit the School’s Youtube Channel here.