Exclusive Courses on Different Philosophies of Practice
We recognize that it may be difficult to find faith and religion in the witchcraft community, with very little being accessible while also trying to keep your privacy. At BearBridge, we are always trying to help you find faith, a connection to yourself and the world around you.
Love and Acceptance: Theosophy 3-Week Course
Live 3-Week Course: Available Throughout the Year
So many of us have been searching for a place of love and acceptance. We have found it in Bearbridge. Bearbridge gives us a place to be ourselves, without fear, without the need to justify our choices and with loving open arms, ready to help us find our paths. In Val's personal search for a path, she found a philosophical paths was best for her and is ready to share it. Theosophy. Theosophy fits because they embrace all spiritual paths without judgement, including witchcraft. The Theosophical Society embraces all aspects of being, mundane and magical. Come spend the next three weeks with Ms. Val, learning about Theosophy, from the mundane to the magical, and how you can incorporate the teachings into your practice. There are no deities, no offerings, only the same love and acceptance we already practice at Bearbridge.
Hawaiian Spirituality: Ho'omana
Huna is the modern resurgence of the indigenous spirituality of Hawaii. A Kahuna is someone who teaches and lives the life of Hawaiian Spirituality, healing, mediating, teaching, and chanting. Aly is a Kumu Hula (hula teacher), who specializes in the spiritual aspects of hula and of indigenous Hawaii. Aly was raised in Keanae, Hawai’i (on Maui), and would like to make authentic Hawaiian spirituality accessible to the masses, clearing up any misunderstandings and incorrect information about Hawaiian spirituality, including the truth about Aloha, Ho’oponopono, how to add huna to your life without appropriating our culture, and how to help repair any erasure to Hawaiian culture.
You will love this free class. It doesn’t get more “love and light” as the Hawaiian faith.
Hele mai kakou.
Introduction to Shinto: The Longest Surviving Religion
Shinto (literally “the way of the gods”) is Japan's native belief system and predates historical records. The many practices, attitudes, and institutions that have developed to make up Shinto revolve around the Japanese land and seasons and their relation with the human inhabitants. Shinto is polytheistic and revolves around the kami, supernatural entities believed to inhabit all things. The link between the kami and the natural world has led to Shinto being considered animistic. The kami are worshiped at kamidana household shrines, family shrines, and jinja public shrines. The latter are staffed by priests, known as kannushi, who oversee offerings of food and drink to the specific kami enshrined at that location. This is done to cultivate harmony between humans and kami and to solicit the latter's blessing.
Year & A Day: Finding Your Witchcraft Faith & Practice
Live 6-Week Course: Available Throughout The Year
Feel alone? Lost your faith in god?
Let me help you find faith and ritual, again.
This 6-week intensive course allows you to do the work for becoming a witch with the guidance of your teacher in a lot less time. Along with many witchcraft faiths and practices to choose from, you will get guidance as to how to find faith again.
We will find religion, talk to gods, spirits, and you’ll build your Grimoire, prep for holidays, put spells into your book, bring about your personal power and practice your spells. In every class, you’ll have the homework to build with a classmate.
Building your craft from the ground up in a manner that doesn’t judge your individual path. This isn’t a coven where you’ll have to check certain boxes of belief. Val is your guide to help you build the witch-focused life you’ve always desired to live. Spend the first part of the year preparing for the rest of your magical life.
Hail Lucifer: 6-Week Luciferian Course
Live 6-Week Course: Available Throughout The Year
Enlightenment, Skepticism, Personal Responsibly, Lasciviousness, and Living for Today.
Luciferianism allowed Bill to look at his life through a different lens. Growing up Catholic and an overachiever, one of the largest motivators for Bill was guilt. But guilt is messy.
One of the core principles of Lucerferianism is to think for yourself. Imagine a world where you make decisions without being influenced by guilt; without manipulation by others; without expectations, in the now for your best outcome.
Be the best YOU, not some arbitrary standard built from a means to control you. Bill has been successful and owes that success to the fundamental philosophy of Luciferianism.
And even after turning his back on Luciferianism because of manipulation, Bill pursued research on Satanism leading him back to Luciferianism.
Luciferianism is universal and leads toward a deeper understanding of yourself and the universe. Luciferian philosophy enabled Bill to excel in the face of oppression, and he wants to share that with you. Examine core concepts of Luciferianism, the magickal aspects, adversarial Magick and sex Magick.
Take aspects of Luciferianism and blend them into your life, or change. According to Luciferians, the choice is yours to make.
Thelema & The Occult of Aleister Crowley
Live 3-Week Course: Available Throughout The Year
The Great Beast 666, Perabduro, Ankh-f-n-khonsu, the wickedest man in the world, Aleister Crowley was a noted – and controversial – occultist. He founded his own religious order. Thelema; a Western esoteric and occult social or spiritual philosophy and new religious movement drawing on Oriental, ancient Egyptian, and an assortment of other magical traditions. Learn the philosophy and basics around Thelema.
Defiantly unconventional in every respect: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”
Throughout his life, Bill has had many unexplained experiences with the supernatural. While investigating said experiences, he came across Bear Bridge Academy. With the support of Bear Bridge instructors and its community, he has grown personally and Magickly. His interests involve ritual Magick, the left-hand path (Vāmācāra), and the pursuit of knowledge about the occult.
Hoodoo
Rootworker: Hoodoo, Poppets, Devotion, & Spirits
Live 6-Week Course: Available Throughout The Year
Yes, you're allowed to practice Hoodoo. You are. We are going to discover the world of Hoodoo, the history, rules, and studies.
We are going to learn the basics of building gris girs (mojo bags and spells), and then move onto poppets. We will do fetches, poppets, and work with spirits and learn to give offerings and prayers. Aly is deeply rooted in working with the spirits and how his craft is molded around them, his devotions, and the bending of energy and will.
You will not be disappointed, especially since you will be able to add this to your own practice without having to initiate into the Voodoo religion.
Join us for the magical journey of the craft.
What the Bible Really Says, Part 1 and 2
Live Free Classes: Available Throughout the Year
Ms. Val has been with Bearbridge Academy, learning and growing her skills and knowledge in all things Dark. She is also intolerant of the falsehoods spread by the Church, which seeks to punish those who go against what is taught vs. what is really in the Bible. She spends her time learning what the Bible says and what has been hidden by many.
Devotion to Deities, By Theme
Live Free Classes: Available Throughout the Year
Learn about Deity devotion, building a relationship, and how to do offerings without being a spiritual opportunist or culturally appropriating. Know if you are working with the actual deity or one of their avatars.