About
Jonah
Spiritual guide, healer, and student of the mystery at the heart of being.
A path opened through the extraordinary
Jonah is a spiritual guide whose work centers on direct experience rather than belief, philosophy, or performance. Through what he calls Healing By Divine Principle, Jonah invites individuals and groups into a shared stillness in which awareness turns toward its own deeper ground — the place that has never been divided, damaged, or separate.
He participates as a witness in a field of communion where recognition unfolds naturally. The "awakenings" or shifts in perception participants experience come as they let go of what no longer serves them. His work is offered in private sessions, retreats, and free weekly Zoom gatherings open to anyone drawn to stillness and the inner life.
How this began
Jonah's path began not with traditional study, but with intensely private seeking born of challenging circumstances that resulted in a nearly life-long series of inner events and awakenings, including a near-death experience, that gently demanded recognition of what we are at the most fundamental level. In these encounters with Truth, something became unmistakably clear: our deepest nature is peace itself, and that peace is never lost, only temporarily obscured.
An inner prompt revealed a subtle healing ability — one that arrived not through years of study, but emerged as a natural corollary to that fundamental peace.
The approach
Jonah's work rests on a recognition that sounds simple and runs deep: what is true in him is also true in the people he works with. His role is not to transmit, enlighten, or guide from a higher place. That is simply never how this kind of work has really worked — whatever the marketing may have suggested through the ages. Genuine clarity in one mind can, through real presence together, create the conditions for recognition to arise in another. Not because he gives you something. But because what is true in him is also true in you — and sometimes it simply needs the right conditions to become visible.
His essential function is to help remove the blocks to awareness of our deepest being and live from the peace that pours forth. You are warmly invited towards this.
In healing sessions, people often report a deep stillness, a sense of wholeness, inner visions, or simply feeling profoundly peaceful — sometimes for days afterward. Shifts of mind in this way can lead to shifts in perception in many ways. Jonah works in person and via Zoom, and the quality of the healing encounter is essentially no different.
Above all
His work is simple. No intermediaries. No theatrics. No ideology. Just direct experience.
For the full story in his own words, just scroll down.
In his own words
The full story
Jonah has led an outwardly ordinary life, during which a long series of inner events pointed him towards relinquishing much of that life in favor of awakening and a radical falling away of egoic self. And yet outwardly, life still looks rather ordinary. Briefly in his own words:
"I grew up in suburban middle-class Seattle, spending much of my youth immersed in music and assorted outdoorsy and athletic pursuits. My family was kind of a mess. By 17, I'd managed to earn many musical accolades and get kicked out of high school and arrested for a prank that went rather awry. I did not win any 'most likely to…' awards in school, and it would have been nearly absurd to imagine 'spiritual teacher' as a role in my future."
"I went to college though, devoting myself to training in my first instrument as a concert pianist, graduating with a music degree. Pivoting immediately to entrepreneurial pursuits, I spent much of my 20s and 30s self-employed. In retrospect, I'd say I was simply trying my best to work out how to function effectively in the world. There were moderate successes and an ordinary amount of failures along the way. I also had a tendency to go traveling across continents, including a stint living in Italy."
"Throughout all of this, an inner search for real truth ramped up — mostly unrevealed to those around me — which eventually became quietly yet ferociously all-consuming. Long periods of silence were sought as I inquired deeply into the nature of who or what was at the core of being. Many transformative experiences occurred during these years. Among them a near-death experience at the age of 29 that illuminated what it was like to relinquish the body, understand the illusory nature of the usual dimensions, and become One with All. It was not the first nor last time these were experienced, but it was among the most vivid. In 2011 I left regular life entirely for a long self-directed retreat in a tiny village in the remote highlands of Guatemala. There, I went through a sort of final doorway, in which the falling away of egoic self became the permanently abiding ground of being."
What on earth does that mean? It's a really good question — and one worth continuing to ask until the answer is experienced directly. Perhaps what's offered here will contribute to that eventuality. But back to the story…
"For over a year following, back in Seattle, I was hardly inclined to talk at all — mostly doing so only when absolutely necessary. And although the ordinary willingness to talk eventually returned, I still sat in a pleasant silence often, worked a little, and ultimately left again to wander quietly around Asia, Africa, and the U.S. Many of the driving factors in my life had softened or been dropped entirely, so the next few years were really spent adjusting to this overarching sense of peace within, and how that informed my navigation of life. It was clear I would never return entirely to my former way of being."
"People began to occasionally seek me out, or ask me to speak or teach about my experiences. Along the way, an inner prompt revealed a subtle healing ability, often assisted by touching someone on their head. But most of the time, unless asked quite directly, my natural tendency was to reveal nothing of my own experiences or gifts."
"But that eventually shifted too. Over the past few years, the inner prompt to share what's been received has become the prime mover of life. There's no one here, and yet what does remain is so ordinary. When everything appears divine, nothing really stands out as particularly special — so, a bit ironically, the rest of the story told above seems of minimal relevance or importance at all. Life still brings joys and challenges, as always. But I am happy to be in service and bend towards joy. The essential function — it seems, as I walk along my own journey — is to help others remove blocks to their own awareness of their deepest being, and to live from the peace that pours forth; even though it is sometimes a bumpy road."
Let's go together towards home.
A free place to begin
A free and immediate pathway to your own direct experience
Each chapter of this ebook and guided meditation invites you into a living shift in awareness, not a description of it from a distance.
"There is a spark that lights up our deepest being, where our original oneness has always been whole and therefore healed, free, loving, creative, peaceful and filled with joy."
— Jonah
Come as you are
There is no prerequisite for sitting together — no belief required, no tradition to follow. You need have at least a little willingness to approach quietude for a moment.