Dear Traveler,
Welcome Home.
Amidst the chaotic seas of the 21st century internet…
You’ve found your way to a Sanctuary.
A place where you can breathe deeply and easily.
A place where you’re free to be fully yourself.
Take a deep breath, settle in, and find presence.
Allow us to introduce ourselves.
We reconnect the courageous to wisdom, purpose, and the living planet.
What Is Apotheosis?
Apotheosis is an oasis of re-enchantment.
A soul family.
A place for heroes to journey.
As long-time stewards of the HighExistence community & movement, we’re a team of modern philosophers, mystics, wizards, artists, and dreamers who are on a mission to create a more beautiful world.
We design experiences that reconnect people to the infinite miracle of life. We help people come alive, find the others, and become who they truly are.
Apotheosis is…
A multi-month adventure into exceptional realms of wisdom, joy, purpose, passion, and sacred responsibility.
A spiritual-psychedelic retreat that brings together students of life from all over the world to catalyze breakthroughs and accelerate growth.
A carefully curated series of peak experiences designed to show you what is truly possible as a human being.
A one-of-a-kind transformational undertaking integrating plant medicine with myriad other philosophical and spiritual practices.
A loving, accepting environment that births powerful community, camaraderie, and (re-)connection with self, others, and nature.
Apotheosis is a modern rite of passage.
It is one of the first retreats in the world to incorporate a truly diverse array of spiritual, shamanic, and philosophical modalities to create a uniquely enlightening experience.
We select groups of wonderful human beings from all over planet Earth and bring them together in magical locations for several weeks of uncommonly meaningful and sacred experiences, culminating in a week-long medicine retreat.
We envision a world that celebrates and participates in the miracle of creation. Where inspired humans—rooted in community—realize their truth and become who they are, guided by wisdom, love, and boundless wonder.
What Does Apotheosis Mean?
‘Apotheosis’ is an ancient Greek word that means, ‘the becoming or making into a divine being,’ or ‘the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax.’
For us, Apotheosis symbolizes those heroes who voluntarily journey beyond the threshold of their current world, overcome fear, cast off limitations, and are then reborn.
They experience an illumination of their Being and a sacred reconnection with their Divine Essence.
At Apotheosis, you will be initiated into deep healing and awakening practices that have been handed down over thousands of years from the wisdom traditions of the past.
We harmoniously integrate modalities such as yoga, meditation, plant medicine ceremonies, breathwork, ecstatic dance, nature immersion, philosophical dialogue, and more, to occasion deep healing and spiritual transformation.
To attend Apotheosis is to step through a portal, leave behind the ordinary world, and enter a mythical land where warm-hearted people freely explore human potential.
If you choose to attend, you will be changed.
You will discover parts of yourself you didn’t know existed.
You will find you’re capable of more than you realized.
You will expand and deepen your mind, heart, and soul.
You will see that the world is more wondrous than you had dared to dream.
upcoming Experience
Our next retreat—APOTHEOSIS: REBIRTH—runs November 3-9, 2024.
For a full overview, venture into the retreat page.
APOTHEOSIS: REBIRTH — YUCATAN, MEXICO
Ayahuasca & Bufo Alvarius at Kumankaya Healing Center, a legendary shamanic oasis in Mexico. Click here to learn more and apply.
From our participants
We surveyed past participants and asked them to describe their experiences. This is what they said.
MEANING
93.3% of survey respondents ranked Apotheosis in the top 10 most meaningful experiences of their lives.
73.3% ranked Apotheosis in the top 5 most meaningful experiences of their lives.
6.7% said Apotheosis was the single most meaningful experience of their lives.
Spirit
86.7% of survey respondents ranked Apotheosis in the top 5 most spiritually significant experiences of their lives.
40% said Apotheosis was the single most spiritually significant experience of their lives.
Well-being
93.3% of survey respondents said their sense of personal well-being or life satisfaction increased moderately or more as a result of Apotheosis.
60% said their sense of personal well-being or life satisfaction increased very much as a result of Apotheosis.
““Mind-blowing! Lacking words to describe the feeling. It’s a clear and important milestone in my life. The week has been a refuge, socially, emotionally and spiritually. I have connected, learned and experienced more than I thought possible.””
““Apotheosis changed my life! I struggled with sobriety and mental illness for years and Apotheosis gave me the tools to overcome my limitations and thrive!””
“Apotheosis was completely life-changing. The value of Apotheosis lies in empowering yourself, connecting with like-minded people and being open to being transformed to once again recognize the divine beings in each and every one of us. — ”
Theory of change
The realities of modern culture lead individuals to feel isolated, helpless, and alien.
Through an initiatory hero’s journey, individuals reconnect with the brilliant possibility of their lives, establish a renewed connection to their divine essence, the human family, and the living planet.
Facilitated by ritual psychedelic practice, individuals envision the life possible for them, aim for their own Apotheosis, and experience emotional catharsis, self-transcendence, and reclaim fundamental agency in their story and embrace activism within their communities.
These insights create the momentum and direction for a life of wholeness, responsibility, maturity, and engagement in the future of humanity.
This is why we exist.
THE curriculum
Our signature experience is a 2-month initiation into deeper levels of wisdom, courage, purpose, and service.
We call this the Meaning 3.0 Toolkit – a comprehensive system to wake up, clean up, grow up, and show up. We weave together wisdom traditions with modern pedagogy, built on 3 core pillars:
Deep Healing
Experience a profound sense of belonging, the joy of living, and the simplicity of lowering your defences.
Hurt people hurt people. Our sacred sanctuary and core curriculum help you heal core wounds, overcome limiting beliefs, and release psycho-somatic trauma.
Life Purpose
Unlock visionary clarity into why you are here on this planet, at this time.
The world belongs to those with a vision. We show you how to develop crystalline clarity in your life purpose, unique genius, and the roadmap to turn it into a reality.
Community Leadership
Becoming a pillar and leader for your community, creating ripple effects of change in the world through the people around you
We give you the blueprints to step into aligned leadership for those around you.
Our 8-week experience synthesizes each of these pillars in greater detail.
We alchemize potent theory, immediate practice, and novel pedagogy with direct experience to help you step into deeper levels of service, purpose, power, and radical engagement with life.
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe