“I Can Now Say That I Feel Lighter Than I Have in Decades.”
ABOUT MICHAEL TIERNO
I wasn't always someone who believed in this work. For most of my life, I was committed to physicalism and materialism. If science hadn't confirmed it, I dismissed it. Expanded states, plant medicine, mystical experience? I would have written it all off without a second thought.
Then I went to Peru. And everything changed.
My heart cracked open in ways I had no language for. I saw clearly, perhaps for the first time, how I had been living, driven by fear, armored by judgment, starved of genuine gratitude. I saw that life wasn't the complicated, threatening maze I'd made it into. And I recognized something that billions of people across millennia have known: there is far more to this existence than what rational thought alone can reach.
AFTER EXPANDED STATES
That first journey didn't just shift my perspective; it initiated a complete reorientation of my life. I felt, in my bones, that I am not separate from nature but an inseparable part of it. I reconnected with the power of the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine within me, and began cultivating those energies in myself and others. Most profoundly, I recognized that the wisdom I was accessing had been there all along, buried under decades of modern conditioning, just outside awareness.
I am now convinced this wisdom lives in every human being, waiting to be rediscovered.
DELVING DEEPER
As I deepened my study of expanded and mystical states, through literature, practice, and lived experience, one thing became undeniable: this work was mine to share. But what I discovered in guiding others surprised me. I'm not here to transform you. I'm here to help you remember who you already are.
In a world that has spent decades pulling us away from ourselves, toward distraction, disconnection, and the relentless pressure to produce, most of us have lost touch with a deep inner wellspring. It hasn't gone anywhere. It's waiting.
My mission is simple: to help you find your way back to it.
MY WORK TODAY
I work with clients one-on-one in expanded states to support deep healing and meaningful transformation across every dimension of life. I also offer integration sessions for those who have had expanded state experiences elsewhere and are seeking to weave those insights into their daily lives.
Together with my dear friend and collaborator Yoni Havana, I co-lead our four-day retreat program for people committed to showing up more fully in every area of life.
I am also co-founder of the Universal Awareness Fellowship, a spiritual organization rooted in a living blend of Andean, Eastern, Western, and modern psychological wisdom. We are guided by the reality of the Cosmic Mind and a deep commitment to ethical, heart-centered living, using sacred ceremonies to promote healing, self-awareness, and genuine community.
If any of this resonates, I'd love to connect.
