John 1:1–18

We begin with John at the very beginning. Together let’s enter the Prologue of John's Gospel, one of the most wild pieces of spiritual writing in any tradition, and find the eternal intelligence of Logos emerging in human flesh. Not above it. Not despite it. In it.

We'll explore what the Greek word Logos actually means before centuries of doctrine got hold of it, why the word sarx — raw, mortal, tender flesh — is the most important word in the Prologue, and what it means that the light is shining within and has never been overcome. 

This session ends with a clairvoyant meditation to help you find and see the light that has been living in your body all along.

• Students will gain:

  • A completely new understanding of the Prologue of John, freed from doctrine and returned to its original mystical depth

  • Direct experience of Spirit as indwelling presence rather than authority from above

  • A clairvoyant practice for recognizing and working with your own light body

  • Teachings of embodiment as sacred rather than a spiritual obstacle

  • A daily morning practice to begin each day with holy knowing

John 3 & 4

Two of the most beloved scenes in John's Gospel happen back to back — and they couldn't be more different. 

Nicodemus, a powerful religious insider, comes to Jesus in secret at night and leaves confused. The Samaritan woman, a stranger and outsider, meets Jesus in broad daylight and becomes the Gospel's first evangelist. 

Together they teach us that spiritual awakening is not about credentials or status — it is a new way of seeing that arrives like the waters of birth: totally transforming. 

We'll unpack what anōthen — born from above — actually means in Greek, why living water is one of the most radical images in the Gospel, and why the folks that religion pushes to the margins are often the first to receive direct revelation.

Students will gain:

• Freedom from the idea that spiritual awakening requires proper behavior or beliefs

• A practice for releasing inherited perceptions — family religion, spiritual dogma

• Understanding of why the Samiritan woman is the first to receive Jesus’ revelation

• Practical tools for finding your inner spiritual authority and letting go of others’ religious rules

The Seven Signs of John's Gospel

John never uses the word miracle. He uses sēmeion — sign — a word that means a signal pointing to something greater. 

In this expansive session we move through all seven signs of the Gospel: water into wine, healing at a distance, liberation from chronic limitation, feeding from scarcity, presence in chaos, the courage it costs to see clearly, and love stronger than death. 

Each sign is a lesson in how Spirit moves through ordinary life — and each one carries a practical principle you can begin using immediately. In this session we learn the principle of Jesus’ healing message to us: reality is symbolic, and you already have the capacity to read it.

Students will gain:

• A working understanding of all seven signs with their historical, Greek, theological, and metaphysical dimensions

• The foundational skill of seeing places and patterns as signs pointing toward deeper spiritual truth

• Use of the seven signs as a complete spiritual curriculum moving from awakening to resurrection

• Confidence in your capacity to perceive divine movement in ordinary circumstances without requiring extraordinary events

The Seven I AM Statements

When Jesus says I AM he is not making a claim about himself — he is speaking the divine name that Moses heard at the burning bush.

Seven times the I AM is spoken over bread, light, a doorway, a shepherd, resurrection, a path, and a vine.

Together these seven statements are a map of a heavenly body: what divine life looks like when it is fully embodied in a human being. In this session we'll move through each statement slowly, explore its Greek and Hebrew resonance, and then do the work John is actually inviting us toward — not just admiring these qualities in Jesus but claiming them in ourselves. 

As John 14:12 says, “All of this you shall do and more.”

Students will gain:

• Understanding of I AM statements as a map of the spiritual path, not simply doctrinal claims about Christ

• A full-body practice moving through each of the seven I AM qualities in your own life and energy field

• Tools for working with the I AM qualities that feel most alive in you and those that feel most distant

• Freedom from the theology that says only Jesus can say the I AM statements rather than available to all who abide

• A week-long daily practice working with one I AM statement at a time as a spiritual formation discipline

John 15:1–17

Of all the spiritual practices taught in John's Gospel, one rises above all others: menō — abiding, remaining,  and making your home. Not striving. Not performing. Not achieving spiritual correctness. Staying. 

The vine and branches teaching is the most intimate description of the divine-human relationship in all of scripture.  It reveals a mutual indwelling and continuous life flow between source and branch.

In this session we'll explore what abiding actually feels like in the body, why pruning is a real and necessary spiritual process rather than punishment, and why this teaching is the heart of the whole course.

Students will gain:

• A new understanding of spiritual practice as staying rather than achieving or performing spirituality

• A grounding practice exploring menō — how it feels to abide in Spirit and have Spirit abide in you

• Honest pruning as a spiritual process — what it is, what it isn't, and how to work with it rather than against it

• A daily practice requiring only ten minutes and no religious framework, suitable for students at any stage of faith or deconstruction

• Tools for knowing when you have slipped out of abiding and returning without self-judgment

John 5 & 9

Two of the most radical healing stories in John's Gospel share a common thread: both challenge the idea that suffering is punishment. At the Pool of Bethesda Jesus heals a man who has been sick for 38 years and confronts a broken system that made sick people compete for a chance to get better. In John 9, he gives sight to a man who was born blind, and then watches as the religious leaders throw that same man out of his community — just for getting healed. Both stories ask the same question: what does it actually cost to see the truth clearly, and are you ready for that? 

Students will gain:

• The ability to examine the belief that God gives suffering as punishment 

• Tools for recognizing long-standing patterns in your life — and understanding what it takes for those patterns to finally shift

• A way of seeing the social cost of spiritual clarity

• An understanding of why your own lived experience is one of the most powerful forms of spiritual authority you have

John 11, 13–17

Jesus weeps at Lazarus' tomb — and those Greek words, edakrusen ho Iēsous, are some of  the most important in the scriptures. Then he washes feet and gives a farewell discourse that is more of a divine command than a speech. Finally he gives us a prayer that Christians have been reading at ordinations and deathbeds ever since. 

This is the undefended theology of Christ’s love — a divine being who knows what is coming and chooses full presence anyway. We’ll end this session by calling on the Advocate, the Paraklētos, the spiritual companion Jesus promises to every person who has ever felt abandoned by God or by religion.

Students will gain:

• The spiritual idea of grief as a sacred space rather than a spiritual failure 

• A practice for consciously receiving the Advocate — the companion who continues the work of the gospel in and through you

• A new idea of the cross as the revelation of self-giving love rather than guilt-ridden sacrifice 

• Understanding of the foot-washing as spiritual authority: power expressed as service, not dominance

John 20–21

The Gospel of John ends not with a church but with a breakfast. Jesus cooking fish on a charcoal fire by the sea, feeding his friends, restoring Peter with the same kindness he used to heal everyone else, and then breathing on his disciples the same breath that moved over the waters in Genesis. 

The resurrection in John is an encounter to be received, and every person in these final chapters receives it differently. Mary Magdalene in the garden. Thomas through the wounds. Peter through the question asked three times. 

The Gospel ends mid-sentence, which is John's final theological statement: the story is not finished. You are the continuation.

Students will gain:

• A resurrection theology rooted in encounter and embodiment rather than doctrine

• A final meditation receiving their own sending and spiritual calling that has emerged throughout

• Intimacy with Christ’s breath as the new creation act echoing Genesis 

• Compassionate theology from Peter's story: what it looks like when divine love restores without shaming