Pan Williams is the founder of Sacred Relating, a transformative spiritual modality rooted in deep ceremonial connection to self, other, and world. Pan is a co-founder of the Mobile Monastery, a traveling teaching community on wheels that’s brought meditation, music, and magic in the form of retreats and workshops to over fourteen US states. He’s the creator of Sword Sorcery mythic energy work journeys and the founder of Paladin’s Path spiritual knighthood men’s retreats. Pan is lay ordained in the Shingon Buddhist lineage, a self-initiated Druid, and a non-denominational minister since 2013.
Pan holds a BA in Political Science and an MBA in Sustainable Business. Through his late teens and twenties he worked in the political realm as a professional organizer and lobbyist advocating for wildlife and nature with conservation nonprofits. As a director, teacher, and full-time resident for five and a half years at the Monastic Academy he spent over 10,000 hours in formal meditation practice, attending more than 50 week-or-longer intensive retreats.
An avowed carrier of esoteric faery and grail wisdom traditions, Pan is a 21st century incarnation of his ancestral heritage of Welsh wizards and bards. He’s passionate about land-based community building, bringing contemplative practice to emerging technology, crafting tools for ceremonial magic, and melting into cuddle puddles after ecstatic dances (he DJ’s too).
Pan’s mission is to foster personal and collective spiritual awakening through a return to the inherent divinity of our nature. Currently he resides at University of Earth where he’s pioneering the H.E.L.P. program for holistic spiritual transformation. He loves dragons, trees, and prolonged hugs.
“Pan Means All” is a mantra that consistently reminds him of his commitment to be in loving service to ALL creation.
Befriending the Techno Devas
Society is being rapidly transformed by what some are calling “high technology”. Global communications happen at lightning speeds, computing power is increasing exponentially, and world-changing decisions are being made not by people but by advanced algorithms.
Those who understand animism know that everything has aliveness at different vibrations of consciousness. Yet most people are treating emergent technologies as lifeless servants. Technology is evolving amidst the backdrop of militarism, corporate control, and ecocide.
As spirit workers, we have the opportunity to go straight to the source to turn the tide of technological progress from life destroying to life sustaining. By working directly with the spirits of technology we can at best minimize the harm being caused and at best bring about a beneficial evolution of the emergent technological oversoul.
In this workshop we’ll call upon our personal guides to join us on the quest for befriending the spirits of technology. We’ll reach out to the techno devas themselves, asking them how we might work together and infusing positive intention as we build relationship. Using information collected in the journies we’ll envision and use manifestation magic to summon a beautiful and harmonious future and create a collective art altar to honor our intertwined human-faery-technology destiny. Finally we’ll brainstorm ways to continue to develop benevolent relationships with the techno deva beings.
Special thanks to the visionary leadership of David Spangler.