The Wisdom Path : The Spiritual Foundation of Lion Power Abundant Living
At the heart of Lion Power Abundant Living lies a living, breathing spiritual framework — one not invented, but distilled from over 30 years of sincere study, practice and lived experience across the world's great wisdom traditions. Ras Ber I calls it Cosmic Rastafari Alchemy, or Universal Practical Spirituality.
What is Cosmic RasTafari Alchemy?
It is first and foremost a flexible framework for individual, humble self-apotheosis — a how-to of realising and manifesting our unity with the Infinite Absolute that many call God or Source. It is ultimately universal, rooted in the interconnected wholeness of all things and all beings.
Cosmic — because we are encouraged to adopt the largest possible perspective, seeing ourselves not as isolated individuals but as conscious expressions of an infinite cosmos.
Rastafari — because it is grounded in the core teachings of the Rastafari movement and the life and proclamations of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia — whose vision of human dignity, justice and unity forms the ethical and spiritual backbone of this work, carrying the very essence of Christ's teaching into our time.
Alchemy — because true spiritual work is transformational. Drawing from the ancient tradition of Kemet and the Hermetic traditions it inspired, this path is about the gradual, dedicated transformation of the individual — through specific practices, experiences and inner ordeals — from lead to gold, from the unexamined self to the radiant True Self.
The Rivers That Feed This Ocean Ras Ber I draws from many traditions — not to mix them carelessly, but to reveal the single luminous truth running through them all.
Zen Buddhism
From the teaching of Gautama Buddha — especially Zen — comes the emphasis on the Infinite Void: the immediate, eternal present moment, the state beyond time. Through regular meditation and conscious breathing, we learn to attune ourselves to this stillness that underlies all things. Also crucial is the Buddhist principle of Skillful Means — that wisdom must be offered in the language, culture and at the intellectual level of the one receiving it. Truth is one — its expression is many."
Kabbalah
Traced by scholars to the Hebrew exile in Babylon around 605 BCE, with its roots reaching deeper still into Canaanite and Khemetic traditions, Kabbalah is the mystical science of how the Infinite created the universe through numbers, letters and words. Its central tool, the Otz Chaim or Tree of Life, is an ancient geometric pattern of ten interconnected spheres used to map and interpret all phenomena — a profound system of correspondences through which cosmic intelligence speaks to those with ears to hear.
The Rosicrucian Tradition
The mysterious Rosicrucians of 16th century Europe were the spiritual physicians of their age, drawing from Hermetic and alchemical wisdom to explain the great metaphor at the heart of alchemy — that turning base metals into gold is a symbol of human spiritual evolution. They teach us how, gradually and deliberately, we can ascend toward states of ever greater creativity, wisdom and luminosity. Spiritual Alchemy — the transformation of the dedicated individual through specific regular practices, experiences and ordeals — is a cornerstone of the Lion Power approach to personal transformation
The Dogon of Mali
Among the most fascinating of West African traditions, the Dogon people of Mali possess an advanced knowledge of the Sirius star system — knowledge that continues to astonish modern science. They use this cosmic awareness as a living metaphor for how the children of the universe should relate to one another — sharing resources, radiating energy, protecting the vulnerable and living in harmony with the whole. Their wisdom is a cornerstone of the Lion Power vision of community and abundant living
Wisdom Masters
Beyond the great spiritual traditions, several towering individual thinkers have profoundly shaped the Lion Power philosophy.
G.W.F. Hegel and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe both stressed the critical importance of manifesting divine ideas in actual, practical life. Spirituality that does not transform how we live, work and relate to others is incomplete. This is why Lion Power always bridges the inner and the outer — the mystical and the practical.
Dr. Carl Jung redirected modern humanity toward dreams, the subconscious and the shadow — reminding us that wholeness requires we reclaim and integrate every part of ourselves, not just the parts we find comfortable or flattering. His work on synchronicity — meaningful coincidence as a language of the divine — is central to the Lion Power practice of conscious living.
Ramana Maharshi, the great Indian sage, taught one essential practice — make sufficient effort to find the source of your 'I', your Self, and be that original Self. This is the heart of the True Self work at Lion Power Abundant Living. Not self improvement — but Self realisation. Not becoming something better — but discovering what you already eternally are.
Cosmic FreeStyle Tai Chi
Rooted in the disciplined elegance of the Yang tradition of Tai Chi, Ras Ber I has evolved his own deeply personal and liberating movement practice he calls Cosmic FreeStyle Tai Chi.
Having received formal training in the Yang tradition — one of the most graceful and widely practiced lineages of Tai Chi Chuan — Ras Ber I took the essence of what he learned and freed it from rote form, allowing intuition, breath and body wisdom to guide the movement moment to moment.
Each morning, after his meditation session, Ras Ber I enters his Cosmic FreeStyle Tai Chi practice. It begins with five deliberate squats — grounding the body, awakening the legs, connecting to the earth. The fifth squat flows seamlessly and naturally into slow, graceful, continuous movement — the body finding its own rhythm, its own arc, its own expression of the life force moving through it. There are no fixed sequences to memorise. No forms to perform correctly. Only slow, conscious breathing and the body's own intelligence, trusted and followed.
Often accompanying this practice — and the meditation that precedes it — are recordings of Nyahbinghi drumming and chanting, the ancient heartbeat of Rastafari spiritual ceremony. The drum does what drums have always done across every culture on earth — it grounds the spirit in the body, opens the heart and creates a sacred container for inner work.
This is Tai Chi as meditation in motion. This is the body in prayer.
Sacred Reggae and Dub
Ras Ber I's somatic spiritual system extends further still into the realm of sacred reggae and dub music as a healing modality. Reggae and dub — with their deep bass frequencies, conscious lyrics and hypnotic rhythmic patterns — are not merely music. In the hands of a spiritually grounded practitioner, danced to in a sacred state of mind and intentionality, this music can carry the willing participant into a cathartic trance state — a place of deep emotional release, spiritual opening and renewal.
This is an ancient principle in entirely contemporary clothing. Sacred dance as healing is found in the Sufi whirling of the Mevlevi order, the trance traditions of West African Yoruba ceremony and the ecstatic dance of Himalayan shamans. Ras Ber I's innovation is rooting this universal principle in the specific vibration of reggae and dub — music born from the African diaspora's deepest cry for freedom, justice and spiritual truth
The Tools
All the wisdom of these traditions converges on two essential daily practices that Ras Ber I recommends above all others:
Daily Meditation — Conscious breathing and stillness as the foundation of all growth.
Journalling — The examined life, as Socrates taught, is the only life worth living. To write is to think clearly, to know yourself and to track your own evolution.
Together — meditation, journalling and Cosmic FreeStyle Tai Chi — form a complete, practical and deeply powerful daily system for the spiritual entrepreneur seeking to awaken, build and thrive.
This is not a religion. It is not a cult. It asks no one to abandon their existing faith or identity. It is a framework — spacious enough to hold your whole self, rooted enough to give you ground to stand on, and revolutionary enough to change everything.
All are welcome here.
Non-violent. Rooted in ancient wisdom. Revolutionary in purpose. Beginning within