Every story of shame and hiding carries an invitation to remember who we are beyond separation.
For decades, I made the same promise: "I will become the medicine. I will stop hiding behind substances, success, and other people's validation." The terror ran deep - what if I really was broken? What if I truly was fundamentally disadvantaged?
My path from ultra-orthodox child to American entrepreneur to underground shaman became an elaborate dance of avoidance. Every achievement, every substance became another way to hide from my desperate need for love, my raw humanity.
Through grace stripping everything away, I discovered what my soul had always known: The very truth I was terrified to share becomes medicine when offered with love.
Through decades of studying story structure while walking between worlds - first as participant, then as guide in psychedelic healing circles - I discovered something profound: Every human life follows sacred patterns of forgetting and remembering. The 12 Beats framework emerged from this dance between Hollywood's hero's journey and consciousness exploration - a map for transforming our most guarded truths into medicine.
In January 2025, after seven years of carrying these stories, I surrendered to what my soul had been asking. In just 12 days of raw truth-telling, I created "Very High Priest" - not a polished memoir, but a living prototype showing what becomes possible when we stop waiting to be "healed enough" to share our truth.
Through three interwoven timelines:
The Child Seeker: Behind Jerusalem's stones, learning about love through American TV while watching parents chase God through needles
The High Priest: Leading underground ceremonies across Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and beyond
The Guide: Breaking silence as grace strips everything away, revealing that truth itself becomes medicine
This Micro-Memoir serves as both guide and proof—showing how the 12 Beats framework can help us rise above stories of shame, guilt, and separation through structured truth-telling. Each chapter reveals another beat in our journey home to ourselves, another invitation to transform personal pain into collective medicine.
For now, subscribers receive immediate access to "Very High Priest" before its wider release through publishing and media platforms.
Today, I keep my promise through intimate one-on-one containers:
Sacred space for transforming your most guarded truths into medicine. Together, we explore how your patterns serve as precise curriculum guiding you home to yourself.
Micro-Memoir Creation:
An intensive journey to birth your story using the framework that helped me break decades of silence. Publication is optional - the medicine emerges through telling your complete truth, transforming internal prison into profound purpose.
Let's rise above our stories together. We are the medicine.
Love, Oriya
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Every shadow we illuminate Becomes a bridge to light Every story we dare to tell Becomes medicine for another Every heart that opens Makes room for all hearts To remember their way home
