"Very High Priest" - A Micro-Memoir
When Divine Storytellers Remember Who They Are
Are you carrying wounds that feel too shameful to share? Do you find yourself recreating childhood patterns in increasingly complex ways? Has life stripped away everything until only raw truth remains?
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This January (2025), in twelve intense days of raw truth-telling, I created something I'd been avoiding my entire life—a complete manuscript that transforms decades of hiding into light. "Very High Priest" reveals what happens when we stop waiting to be "healed enough" and remember we are divine storytellers created in God's image.
From Drama to Dharma
This is my story of learning to dance consciously with life's polarities. From the dark basements of Jerusalem to underground ceremonies in America, from a child's High Priest costume to seven years of exile - I finally stopped running from the very story I was born to tell.
Three interwoven timelines reveal the complete journey:
The Child Seeker - An ultra-orthodox boy in Jerusalem, watching his parents chase God through substances, learning that truth is dangerous and silence is holy.
The High Priest - The same soul decades later as an underground shaman in America, using sacred medicine to help others while desperately avoiding his own trauma, secretly hiding behind the same substances he served.
The Guide - Present-day integration, where a frozen truth-teller discovers how his search for the perfect story trapped him in sophisticated hiding, until twelve days of radical honesty unlocked his authentic voice.
Witness the transformation:
Childhood shame becomes shared light
Religious trauma becomes spiritual medicine
Addiction patterns reveal their divine purpose
Sophisticated hiding surrenders to truth
Personal drama becomes universal dharma
(A living example of the 12 Beat Framework for conscious creative transformation)
The Sacred Architecture: Four Acts, Twelve Beats
I didn't write this book the traditional way. I created it using my own divine storytelling framework.
Instead of toiling for years, waiting to be "healed enough," I used what I call the 12 Beat Framework - a method combining Hollywood storytelling, shamanic wisdom, and the hero's journey into a precise map for transformation through conscious navigation of life's opposites.
Twelve days. Twelve beats. One complete journey from wounds to wisdom.
The result? Not just a book, but living proof that our deepest truths, shared with courage rather than perfection, become exactly the medicine others need to receive.
The Sacred Architecture: Four Acts, Twelve Beats
Every healing journey follows the same divine pattern - learning to dance with the four forces that create worlds:
🌱 Act 1: Body/Earth - Where Separation Begins
Beat 1 - Opening Image: The sacred setup where your story reveals its deepest truth
Beat 2 - Original Lie: Your soul's first drama - the meaning you gave to early wounds
Beat 3 - Journey Out: External seeking begins - running from authentic expression
In "Very High Priest": From watching parents chase God through needles to fleeing Jerusalem, carrying the lie that truth destroys everything
🔥 Act 2: Mind/Fire - Where Seeking Shapes Us
Beat 4 - The Debate: First doubts about your chosen path - questions about worthiness arise
Beat 5 - Honeymoon: Success and triumph - external validation feels like arrival
Beat 6 - False Victory: Truth breaking through the illusion of having "made it"
In "Very High Priest": From tech success to spiritual teacher acclaim, until the facade crumbles and authentic expression demands attention
🌟 Act 3: Spirit/Air - Where Grace Intervenes
Beat 7 - Shadow Rising: Divine warning - hidden patterns surface demanding attention
Beat 8 - Autocorrect: Life's intervention - when everything falls apart by design
Beat 9 - Journey In: Dark night home - forced inward when external fixes fail
In "Very High Priest": From public shaming to exile in Israel, seven years of stripping away everything false
💙 Act 4: Heart/Water - Where We Remember Wholeness
Beat 10 - The Faceoff: Rejecting the Original Lie - choosing truth over familiar protection
Beat 11 - Remembering: You are... - discovering who you've always been beneath the patterns
Beat 12 - The Word: Integration - sharing your medicine with the world
In "Very High Priest": From twelve days of raw truth-telling to this moment of complete sharing
Each beat serves as both milestone and medicine - marking the precise journey from separation to remembering, from sophisticated hiding to raw truth-telling.
This isn't just story structure - it's the soul's roadmap home to authentic expression.
"Very High Priest" Demonstrates How Anyone Can:
Process decades of trauma in structured, manageable pieces
Transform personal drama into universal wisdom
Create a complete manuscript while healing simultaneously
Use storytelling itself as medicine
Move from shame to sharing in weeks, not years
Learn to dance consciously with life's opposites (light/dark, masculine/feminine, structure/flow)
The healing is the point, not the perfection.
Your Story Is Medicine Too
Whether you're carrying childhood wounds, trapped in spiritual bypassing, struggling with addiction, or simply ready to rise above old patterns - your story contains medicine others desperately need.
Ready to Transform Your Story?
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Remember: Your truth itself is the bridge someone else needs to cross.
Love, Oriya
