JOHN OVERTON

is a professional musician,
workshop facilitator and
spiritual Life-coach

Trained in 
classical music, 
jazz,
teaching language and 
communication skills 
the healing arts 
incl. Traditional Chinese Medicine acupressure, 
Karuna Reiki^®, 
Breathwork and Sacred Sexuality,
etc., 
and with backgrounds in 
pastoral music and teaching ministry,
theatre and opera, 
chamber music, 
choir and orchestral conducting, composing and arranging, 
festival and event organizing, 
special purpose teaching, 
workshop facilitation 
and 
complementary and shamanic healing.

John brings a wide range of skills and experience to his varied work.  

He was born in England, moved to Sweden as a young adult, after many years relocated to SW Ireland for a while, and now spends much of his time in Nova Scotia.

Among my teachers ...

Apart from 3 degrees from an extensive formal education in England (Oxford University) and Sweden (Malmö College of Music) I have followed an eclectic path and been wonderfully taught by a throng of magnificent teachers.

Among these I wish to mention..

Acupressure: Yaquta Morton (Traditional Chinese Medicine
and Sufi Gnostic shamanism) 
Breathwork: Birgitta Johansson (Singing and Breathing 
from the First Chakra)
Lena-Kristina Tuulse, 
Binnie Dansby 
(Source Breathing, Re-birthing)
Conducting: Dan-Olof Stenlund
Healing: IngaLill Kjellqvist (Massage, 
Reiki and Reiki Master Training) Laurelle Shanti Gaia 
(Karuna Reiki^® Master Training)
Liturgy and Theology: All Saints' Church, W1 London 
(Mystery and Ritual and Musical Integration, Gregorian chant) 
Ingemar Thorin 
(Liturgy and Theology for the coming Age)
Meditation and Ascension: The Ishayas (Danish group)
Organ Improvisation: The Holy Spirit
Piano and Chamber Music: Michal Wesalowski
Shamanism: three Peruvian shamans
(two of them are Q'ero from the mountains above Cusco)
Tantra and Sacred Sexuality: Drs. Light and Bryan Miller,
Osho Rebirthers in Sweden
Yoga: Scandinavian Center for Yoga and Meditation 
(Swedish group)  

also
Sandy Levey-Lunden 
(Course in Miracles, Clearing Transformation, etc.)

In many respects I am "self-taught" following the guidance and inspiration I have received. Those who know my music say that I can make an organ sing like few others - at some level, there is a resonance in me which comes into play when needed. My workshops and healing sessions come from the same Source. It is not really I who do them, they are done through me.

It is a priviledge for me to be a part of the healing transformation that humans need at the present time on Earth. It is my dream that through such deep work and play, we may lighten our way into the promised Golden Age, rather than once again be plunged into the dense limitations of chaos in the manner of post-Atlantis and Lemuria.

It feels both humbling and honouring that we are able to join one another in this Transfiguration.

As the Swedes say,
Välkomna!
Welcome to share my part in it.

The Path towards Enlightenment and Ascension

...has within it two necessary principles, two Absolutes, if you will. The one is fairly self-evident, the other hidden and seemingly difficult.

The principle of becoming seeing again (we call our gurus and sages seers,) is a process that involves ever greater closeness and integration with the Creative Spirit of the Universe, until that Great Mystery is known fully and intimately within ourselves. This journey of Re-entering into God is the first Absolute.

The other, hidden, principle has to do with not leaving anything of ourselves "outside the spiritual door." This process tends to be painful in humans, because it involves complete Light illuminating what we have perceived as unacceptable darkness. As the process proceeds, we are challenged to allow and accept and nurture our inner darkness so as to reinstate the pearls of hidden wisdom and transfigure eons of hurt, fear and everything we call evil. Entering through this process into the Oneness of Compassion and Unconditional Love for both ourselves and others and everything, is the second Absolute.

Exercises in Sacred Sexuality and Abundance are ways of earthing the Enlightenment and Ascension journey towards complete integration and acceptance, honouring those things which so often are said to be "less than good."

Actually, the terms Sacred Sexuality and Abundance are, in this context,  misleading. For,

Everything is Holy
All is Sacred
The Essence of Creation is Overflowing

But since we humans have divided our world into the sacred and the profane, the abundant and the scarce, we are wise if we choose to reclaim and affirm the Oneness of Existence, by working specifically with those areas that can seem most separated and unholy in our lives - namely, sex and money.

By the way, how many churches and temples do you know, where you could freely make love in front of the altar, and be encouraged rather than thrown out?!
And how many banks and financial institutions do you know where experiences of poverty are supported as deep learning opportunities, rather than dirty secrets to be hidden from view?!

The two workshops in Sacred Sexuality and Abundance are short, concentrated opportunities for deep personal transformation using the transfigurative group energies of the Circle the Pyramid and Global Peace Conference to effect much change within a brief time-frame. We will
- work on reinstating the primal forces within us for Life-flow
- re-consecrate our lives and bodies to the God-Source within us
- hold sacred space and trust for one another to allow and encourage change
- work shamanic magick to empower the choices for change we make
- begin exactly where we are(!)

The Abundance workshop uses dreamtime journeying and ritual to wash money of its taintedness and reclaim it for excellence and joy. We empower our selves and  money for generosity as well as enjoyment - so our supply may flow in all directions.
The Sacred Sexuality workshop uses dance, chakra and breath-work and sound to encourage the "juiciness" of our bodies to re-align itself with our subtle energy systems and those of the Earth and Cosmos. We empower ourselves and our sensuality both for giving and for receiving - thus com-passion may be reborn.

In neither workshop will participants be asked to do anything that they would feel compromised their personal integrity - though challenges to personal "comfort zones" are quite likely. Changes in one's perception are very probable.

It is perhaps unlikely that millions of dollars will be miraculously manifested "out of thin air" as a result of the Abundance workshop - though this is not impossible. Changes in one's feelings about money are very likely, with practical results that may both charm and elate.

Part of my personal training initiation as a spiritual transformation facilitator has been through a Q'ero mountain village shaman who works with Christ. For those with church backgrounds, you will know that a sacrament is an outward visible sign with a inward hidden meaning and effect. For the shaman, too, the outward games and rituals within the sacred circle have a hidden inward meaning and are effectfively powerful.

Our short workshops in Abundance and Sexuality are at the same time sacramental and shamanic. They involve ritual and teaching and sacramental/shamanic actions which will continue their effect long after the workshops are over. But true and lasting effectiveness comes, as all performers and athletes know, from long-term, focused training. Long-term effects cannot usually be obtained by participating in a workshop and then continuing without practice. The easiest way to continue practice for most of us is in company with like minds. We encourage follow-up by helping participants to meet locally and form support groups where they live, or to be involved in phone chains, and/or teleconferences. There are also weekend and longer workshops that are available (in Sacred Sexuality for both singles and couples,) to give you exercises ("workings") you can do at home. Whichever way you and we choose to do this follow-up, we are expanding our mutual Circle of Trust, thus helping to heal the rampant mistrust so prevalent on Earth today.

Our job as facilitators is to support you in initiating and strengthening your miracle;
to help you bless and honour those places of "darkness within" and receive their gifts, and thus to raise up the percieved "weak and tainted" parts of your Life so that the whole of you may shine!

Money and Sex are good places to start.

John Overton  
Christal Temple April 2009

We work with individuals and small companies.
We do formal workshops and hold client sessions.
We listen to individuals and counsel when invited.
We run Christal Temple Laughing Church,
a multifaith expression of Creator Spirit.

By a combination of dialogue, breathwork, praying, shamanic ritual and hands-on support, we have helped firms facing dissolution to turn themselves round.
We have witnessed miracles as illnesses have ceased, emotional turmoil  has transformed into Joy and people have found individual personal empowerment.
We have worked with those who have experienced abuse, and who, through breathwork, healing and deep forgiveness, have found Joy and ways into mutually empowering relationship.

One of the most common comments after our workshops is "I need more of this!"
Sometimes they say things like, "At last! I've been longing for this!"

CHRISTAL TEMPLE

Divine  Ascension

INTERNATIONAL

initiated in the 

DINGLE PENINSULA

Chorca Dhuibhne

IRELAND