Bishop doesn’t just talk about initiation, training, and discipline. Its a process that he lives and breathes deeply.
Bishop is a writer, guide, and builder of the Shadow Temple — a liminal threshold where discipline, reckoning, and rebirth converge.
His path was carved in silence and under weight, and deepened through years wrestling with scripture and ancient oracles — the Bible, the I Ching, the Bhagavad Gita, and other voices that speak across forgotten ages. From them he learned that every battle is first waged in the soul, and that victory scars before it sanctifies.
From these initiations he forged a way of being that weds timeless spiritual insight to modern ordeal. He holds that transformation is never granted — it must be confronted, endured, and earned under the gaze of the very shadows one fears.
Whether rucking through rain, clawing up a ridge, or bearing witness to another’s awakening, Bishop remains what all true teachers are — the student who bled first.
The first initiate of his own Temple — living what he asks others to reclaim.
Grasp your darkness and ascend.
Are you ready to walk into the storm?
Initiation isn’t always clean. Sometimes you scramble back to the path—bleeding, tired, afraid—grasping for any root that will hold you. The reward is greater when you’re willing to sweat, bleed, and fight for it.