Alex’s work is concerned with the figure of the Ally, and his vocation is rooted in these ongoing relationships with the Allies. Alex works with individual clients, somatically awakening their deep-ancestral Allies within their bodies and providing guidance in the form of archetypal analysis. Alex also teaches a unique modality (the Continua Method), a cosmology (the Continua Work), and an ecological approach (the Continua Path).
Alex empowers people. He heals contractions in their psychological and spiritual systems and energetically connects them to the sacred powers of the Earth. Alex also teaches a refined psychological and cosmological system. This spiritual approach unfolds at all levels of the human being—the body, the emotions, the deep psyche, and the higher mind—and connects to the community of the evolutionary intelligences of the Earth. In his work as a thinker and teacher, Alex joins the intellectual rigor of a participatory and integral thinker with the open-mindedness of an innovator and the pragmatism of a practitioner.
Alex has spent 10 years as a scholar of transpersonal psychology and spirituality and is the author of Ecologies of the Soul. He has trained in Taoist medical theory and Taoist inner arts, advanced astrology, divination, and working with shrines in indigenous and Buddhist contexts. He holds a PhD in East-West Psychology and is a Certified Massage Therapist.
Alex spent 10 years moving around the Earth, working as a cultural liaison in those places where governmental and non-governmental agencies were building connections between Asia and the West. He was opened to the spirituality of different lands, learned from spiritual teachers, but also worked directly with the lands, at a deeper level. He would spend two years in a place, walking the same hills or plains, until he made contact with the spiritual powers of that land. And then he formed relationships with those powers.
During his travels, Alex learned Mandarin and Chinese medicine. He learned the Japanese language and the Japanese high-arts. He learned tea and the sword and how to make sacred ceramic objects. In Tibet and the Philippines, he learned how to make contact directly with the spirit-power allies that empower the religious traditions of our world.
After 10 years of this, Alex began to synthesize a theory that could encompass the teachings of different shamanic and mystical traditions. He spent another 5 years working through the scholarship on comparative religions. He wrote books and spoke at conferences. During this time, he prayed with a shrine, and developed a comprehensive set of techniques for invoking the deity powers that he had encountered. He learned how to create talismans of power and discovered the principles of how sacred aesthetics empower spiritual images. He studied advanced astrology and refined a technique for divination. Eventually, he developed an integral theory that could hold the insights of religious, spiritual, and secular worldviews.
After that, Alex spent another 5 years studying the anatomy of the body, both the physical tissue structure and the energetic anatomy. He worked on many thousands of clients in both commercial and ceremonial settings, until he could work effortlessly and precisely. He developed the ability to facilitate within clients an opening and connection to the deepest intelligences and energies of the body, so that they could be healed and empowered. He has worked with people suffering from PTSD, people who were having problems with life transitions, and people with obscure health issues. He healed and he observed, all the while evolving the psychological and spiritual system that was flowing between the spirit worlds and our world.