Lorian Association Ordination

The Lorian Association offers an eighteen month Ordination track for those called to spiritual service as an agent of Incarnational Spirituality. It emphasizes attunement to the spirit of wholeness in our world, holding space for others as a celebrant of the sacred and serving as an agent of the spirit of incarnation in daily life and practices. An Application is required outlining the reasons the candidate is seeking ordination and their understanding of their spiritual call. A prerequisite is Lorian’s Certificate of Incarnational Study.

Ordination grants the individual the right to perform marriages, funerals and to act as a minister and agent of Incarnational Spirituality and its principles. It reflects a spiritual call to service and engagement with the world based on incarnational principles. Applicants will be considered based upon their commitment to further these principles in their lives.

Since honoring the uniqueness of each individual’s incarnation is a cardinal principle of Incarnational Spirituality, as much as possible the Lorian ordination program is configured to the individual candidate and the work that he or she wishes to do in the world. In effect, candidates are involved in designing their own ordination in partnership with the Lorian faculty as a way of tapping the innate sacredness and priestliness of their own souls.   Ordination is the unfoldment of a seed of incarnational consciousness and planetary attunement that an individual discovers during his or her study of the Path of the Chalice and plants within himself or herself in the work of qualifying for a Certificate of Incarnational Study.  It is an affirmation of the connection between a candidate and the spirit and intent of Incarnational Spirituality as uniquely manifest in his or her own life and aspirations.

The program has two parts, the whole lasting eighteen months.

• The first, called the “Time of Calling,” is six months in length and consists of three one-month-long online seminars alternating with three one-month long periods of personal reflection to explore and heighten the candidate’s calling to Ordination and to a Lorian priesthood.

• The second part, the “Time of Unfoldment,” is a year-long time of both instruction in advanced concepts and practices in Incarnational Spirituality, particularly in dealing with the subtle worlds, as well as a personal “vigil” which the candidate undertakes to deepen his or her connection with their own soul and sacredness and with their inner priesthood.  This vigil is accompanied by an incarnational project identified by the candidate in consultation with a mentor at the end of the Time of Calling to focus their study and inner work into an active expression of service.

The formal ordination curriculum includes online study with Lorian Faculty and four 3-day, face-to-face weekend programs held in the Seattle, WA area during the Time of Unfoldment. The weekend study themes are intended as a deepening of the six areas covered in the Certificate program as they relate specifically to ordination service.

1.    Self, Sacred and Sovereignty

• Sovereignty: The Call of Selfhood
• The Nature of Self, Soul, Sacred and the World

2.    Altaring Space

• Ritual and Ceremony
• Grail Space
  
• Holding

3.    Incarnational Agency

• Standing with others
• Partnering with Allies

4.    Subtle Activism

• The Gaian Self
• World Work

There will also be periodic online or telephonic seminars to further support and focus the candidate’s work and vigil.

In addition to active participation in the face-to-face and online studies, a paper of 8-20 pages or some other equivalent mode of presentation describing the work of the candidate with their ordination project is required.

Cost: $3,000.00. Travel costs and accommodations for the workshops, the ordination ceremony and incidental costs are additional.