Our Mission
The Academy for Empowered Living’s Mission is to build a community of Light where the Seekers, Leaders, and Architects of the New Paradigm can acquire the lineage tools required for them to lead their lives with abundant purpose & joy and contribute to the Great Work.
Certified through The Modern Mystery School International and operating within the Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Light, the Academy for Empowered Living is a place of esoteric study and advanced spiritual training, anchoring the Light in the Metro Detroit area and sharing the time-tested healing modalities, activations, initiations, and true mystery teachings from the ancient lineage of King Salomon throughout the Midwest.
Founded by Joe and Chris Elwart, both certified and initiated as Guides, Healers, Teachers, Shamans & Magus Hermeticus through the lineage within the Modern Mystery School, the Academy for Empowered Living is home to a dynamic team of light workers and leaders who share a united passion and commitment to creating a New World of Peace, Love, and Joy!
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Meet Joe
Joe Elwart is the co-founder of Academy for Empowered Living and brings with him over 40 years of experience and an indomitable passion for healing the Psyche & helping others to connect to their own Divine Spirit with even more depth and meaning. Joe is a Certified Guide, Teacher, Healer, Magus Hermeticus, Life Activation & Full Spirit Activation Practitioner…among other roles within the Modern Mystery School and its service to Humanity.
He’s been married to his beautiful wife, Christine, for 49 years and together they have 5 daughters, 16 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren. Joe’s living his best years NOW and he’s looking forward to the next couple of generations (he plans to live to 150 years old!).
Joe’s personal mission is to awaken deeper spiritual empowerment within each individual, serving them to live with greater meaning and purpose, expanding their capacity for happiness and joy, and ultimately reconnecting them to the Kingdom of Spirit embodied in their flesh. Greater spiritual empowerment brings greater Peace within and without, leading to greater Peace in our thoughts, feelings, words and actions!
Are you seeking to rise above the current times and learn to become a Leader who brings more Light to the New and Changing world?
Schedule your FREE 30-minute consultation with Joe.

Meet Joe

Joe Elwart is the co-founder of Academy for Empowered Living and brings with him over 40 years of experience and an indomitable passion for healing the Psyche & helping others to connect to their own Divine Spirit with even more depth and meaning. Joe is a Certified Guide, Teacher, Healer, Magus Hermeticus, Life Activation & Full Spirit Activation Practitioner…among other roles within the Modern Mystery School and its service to Humanity.
He’s been married to his beautiful wife, Christine, for 49 years and together they have 5 daughters, 16 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren. Joe’s living his best years NOW and he’s looking forward to the next couple of generations (he plans to live to 150 years old!).
Joe’s personal mission is to awaken deeper spiritual empowerment within each individual, serving them to live with greater meaning and purpose, expanding their capacity for happiness and joy, and ultimately reconnecting them to the Kingdom of Spirit embodied in their flesh. Greater spiritual empowerment brings greater Peace within and without, leading to greater Peace in our thoughts, feelings, words and actions!
Are you seeking to rise above the current times and learn to become a Leader who brings more Light to the New and Changing world?
Schedule your FREE 30-minute consultation with Joe.

Meet Christine
Christine Elwart is the co-founder of Academy for Empowered Living alongside her beloved husband of 49 years, Joe. She is called to facilitate the deep, needed healing in the world through Love – the greatest force in the Universe – and restoring Shamballah and Peace on Earth!
Christine is a Certified Guide, Teacher, Healer, Magus Hermeticus, Life Activation & Full Spirit Activation Practitioner trained through The Modern Mystery School. She is the published author of “Ascend to Joy: Transform Your Life Through Living Kabbalah” and a certified life coach specializing in spiritual development.
As a thriving empath and intuitive, she is especially devoted to empowering those who wish to develop and enhance their empathic and extrasensory gifts and to guide them on a journey of healing, divine progression, and receiving the spiritual training they need to unlock their full potential and master their gifts in service to a Higher Good!
Christine’s mission is to play a key role in radiating light as widely and extensively as possible to spark a collective shift towards Peace and a global Revolution of Love! And through the Path of Progression within the Modern Mystery School and the magnificent, truly life-changing teachings, healings, and initiations from the lineage of King Salomon the Wise, she knows this can be done!
Schedule your FREE 30-minute consultation with Christine.
Meet Christine

Christine Elwart is the co-founder of Academy for Empowered Living alongside her beloved husband of 49 years, Joe. She is called to facilitate the deep, needed healing in the world through Love – the greatest force in the Universe – and restoring Shamballah and Peace on Earth!
Christine is a Certified Guide, Teacher, Healer, Magus Hermeticus, Life Activation & Full Spirit Activation Practitioner trained through The Modern Mystery School. She is the published author of “Ascend to Joy: Transform Your Life Through Living Kabbalah” and a certified life coach specializing in spiritual development.
As a thriving empath and intuitive, she is especially devoted to empowering those who wish to develop and enhance their empathic and extrasensory gifts and to guide them on a journey of healing, divine progression, and receiving the spiritual training they need to unlock their full potential and master their gifts in service to a Higher Good!
Christine’s mission is to play a key role in radiating light as widely and extensively as possible to spark a collective shift towards Peace and a global Revolution of Love! And through the Path of Progression within the Modern Mystery School and the magnificent, truly life-changing teachings, healings, and initiations from the lineage of King Salomon the Wise, she knows this can be done!
Schedule your FREE 30-minute consultation with Christine.
The Lineage
The Modern Mystery School is committed to the Mission of World Peace and bringing Light to the truth within!
Through the power of Activation, Initiation, and Ascension found within the hallowed lineage of King Salomon, The Modern Mystery School provides the sincere seeker with access to the Hermetic teachings, deep healing sessions, metaphysical tools, and the path of initiation that will empower them to transform and expand into a state of truly knowing their eternal Divine nature and living their Purpose here on Earth.
The Modern Mystery School is the only lineage Mystery School currently open to the public and will remain so as long as this Mission is needed on the planet. Upholding the integrity and purity of the lineage is of the utmost importance to the school, its lineage holders, and us.
The Academy for Empowered Living is certified through the Modern Mystery School to offer you the opportunity to experience the activations, initiations, healing modalities, and advanced spiritual teachings & trainings safeguarded for over 3,000 years in the Royal lineage of King Salomon the Wise.
The Third Order
There are currently 7 remaining lineage Mystery Schools on Earth and each bears at least one key holder, responsible for anchoring that lineage on the planet and tasked with the responsibility of upholding and protecting the integrity, power, and purity of the lineage and its mission.
Within this lineage, the main key holders are Founder Gudni Gudnason, Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon, and Ipsissimus Hideto Nakagome. Together, they are known as the Third Order, and they administer and attend to maintaining the purity of the lineage of King Salomon and progressing the impact of the Modern Mystery School worldwide.
Founder Gudni Gudnason is recognized as the Founder of the Modern Mystery School for his great service of opening the doors of the lineage to the public in 1997. His journey of developing his tremendous gifts and realizing his purpose as a Leader and Hierophant began with the Golden Dawn in London until he was called by the Hierarchy of Light to open this lineage to the public in 1997. Until 2017, he was the sole key holder. To learn more about him, follow this link: https://www.modernmysteryschoolint.com/ipsissimus-gudni-frater-ged-gudnason/
Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon was initiated into the lineage in 2004 and has been responsible for the exponential growth of the Modern Mystery School from 12 countries to over 55. He has dedicated his life to serving the world and empowering people from all walks of life to live Hermetically and know who they really are. To learn more about him, follow this link: https://www.modernmysteryschoolint.com/ipsissimus-dave-thor-lanyon/
Ipsissimus Hideto Nakagome was initiated into the lineage in 2000. Born into a pure Samurai family, he brings an amazing power, wisdom, and compassionate lightness to his mission of upholding this sacred lineage and cultivating its mission. To learn more about him, follow this link: https://www.modernmysteryschoolint.com/ipsissimus-hideto-rei-nakagome/

( Left to right: Ipsissimus Hideto Nakagome, Founder Gudni Gudnason, Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon )
The Third Order

( Left to right: Ipsissimus Hideto Nakagome, Founder Gudni Gudnason, Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon )
There are currently 7 remaining lineage Mystery Schools on Earth and each bears at least one key holder, responsible for anchoring that lineage on the planet and tasked with the responsibility of upholding and protecting the integrity, power, and purity of the lineage and its mission.
Within this lineage, the main key holders are Founder Gudni Gudnason, Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon, and Ipsissimus Hideto Nakagome. Together, they are known as the Third Order, and they administer and attend to maintaining the purity of the lineage of King Salomon and progressing the impact of the Modern Mystery School worldwide.
Founder Gudni Gudnason is recognized as the Founder of the Modern Mystery School for his great service of opening the doors of the lineage to the public in 1997. His journey of developing his tremendous gifts and realizing his purpose as a Leader and Hierophant began with the Golden Dawn in London until he was called by the Hierarchy of Light to open this lineage to the public in 1997. Until 2017, he was the sole key holder. To learn more about him, follow this link: https://www.modernmysteryschoolint.com/ipsissimus-gudni-frater-ged-gudnason/
Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon was initiated into the lineage in 2004 and has been responsible for the exponential growth of the Modern Mystery School from 12 countries to over 55. He has dedicated his life to serving the world and empowering people from all walks of life to live Hermetically and know who they really are. To learn more about him, follow this link: https://www.modernmysteryschoolint.com/ipsissimus-dave-thor-lanyon/
Ipsissimus Hideto Nakagome was initiated into the lineage in 2000. Born into a pure Samurai family, he brings an amazing power, wisdom, and compassionate lightness to his mission of upholding this sacred lineage and cultivating its mission. To learn more about him, follow this link: https://www.modernmysteryschoolint.com/ipsissimus-hideto-rei-nakagome/

( Left to right: Dr. Kate Bartrum-Brown, Dr. Ann Donnelly, Dr. Rita Van Den Berg, Franca Lanyon, Liza Rossi, Dr. Theresa Bullard-Whyke )
The Council of Twelve
In 2017, in addition to the formation of the Third Order, the Council of 12 was also created, anchoring the Goddess Power in the present age of Divine Union. Uniting 12 High Initiate Women – 6 representatives from the East and 6 representatives from the West – The Council of 12 works directly with the Third Order, providing unanimous confirmation and implementation of direction received by the Third Order from the Hierarchy of Light. Theirs is a service only capable of being provided by the Divine Feminine to unite in Spirit with the Divine Masculine of the lineage holders in order to manifest the sacred mission of the Modern Mystery School and the Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Light.
The Council of Twelve

( Left to right: Dr. Kate Bartrum-Brown, Dr. Ann Donnelly, Dr. Rita Van Den Berg, Franca Lanyon, Liza Rossi, Dr. Theresa Bullard-Whyke )
In 2017, in addition to the formation of the Third Order, the Council of 12 was also created, anchoring the Goddess Power in the present age of Divine Union. Uniting 12 High Initiate Women – 6 representatives from the East and 6 representatives from the West – The Council of 12 works directly with the Third Order, providing unanimous confirmation and implementation of direction received by the Third Order from the Hierarchy of Light. Theirs is a service only capable of being provided by the Divine Feminine to unite in Spirit with the Divine Masculine of the lineage holders in order to manifest the sacred mission of the Modern Mystery School and the Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Light.