We recently connected with Mary Reed and have shared our conversation below.

Mary, appreciate you joining us today. Early in your career, how did you think through the decision of whether to start your own firm or join an established firm?

In my previous profession, I was a staunchly agnostic healthcare executive in Washington, DC. While in that successful “normal” life, twenty-five years ago I began having profound mystical experiences that I could neither explain nor control. These were not events I could talk about with colleagues around the water cooler; to confess I had been hanging out with the likes of Jesus, Buddha, and angels would have caused serious doubts about my mental health.

After ten years of struggle to understand what was happening with me, the otherworldly events finally upended my life and landed me in a tiny Buddhist nunnery in the Himalayas. I spent most of the next seven years there, largely in silence, coming to terms with my extraordinary metaphysical abilities.

I wrote a book about my unusual journey and began leaving the nunnery every monsoon season to speak about my experiences in spiritual centers throughout the U.S. and Europe. At the end of my fifth book tour, I realized I was ready to return to the states. But the challenge was…return and do what? The only thing I knew how to do by then was use my story and the wisdom I gleaned from my mystical events to help support and inspire others on their spiritual journeys.

A friend had an apartment available in the Washington, DC area and suggested I could work virtually from there by hosting an online spiritual community people could pay to join. By that time I had a bit of a global following through a blog I had been using to chronicle my adventures in both India and otherworldly realms. With no any idea what I was doing, I took a leap of faith and created a Patreon community for people to join me on Zoom every Sunday evening for mystic wisdom teachings and meditations.

In perfect Divine timing, I happened to start the online community right before the Covid pandemic made Zoom rooms the number one gathering space, and the lockdown and political climate sent many into a crisis of faith that made mystic wisdom more intriguing than ever.

Through that global community service, which continues today, I steadily expanded my work into individual consultations, online courses, public retreats, and have written three more books.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I came to my work with no spiritual background or training, yet every direct-from-source mystical experience illuminates the same wisdom found in theological texts. This means that without the common frameworks of doctrine or religion, I can bring a more relatable casual approach and language to spiritual exploration than traditional religious or spiritual teachers do. My work is not about the mental understanding of information as much as the visceral resonance of experience. My mystical abilities give me a way to help people access the Divine knowing they innately have within. They don’t have to imagine God’s love or wisdom, they can experience it within themselves.

When I share my spiritually transformative experiences, there is a kind of energetic transmission that happens. This is the same phenomena that can happen when someone shares their near-death experience: it can incite within others deep wonder, excitement, and resonance. Additionally, I usually teach or guide in meditative states, allowing a deep dive into wisdom or remembrance that resides deep within our being. My ability to do this without any agenda or expectations means that there is no mental or intellectual interference, which is where we can get snagged in most spiritual teachings or guidance approaches.

Do you have any insights you can share related to maintaining high team morale?

In my work with both individuals and groups, I constantly have to step lightly around landmines of indoctrination, trauma, fear, and judgment. I avoid triggering these issues by maintaining a consistent focus on my intention to be an authentic healing presence of love, and not veering outside the bounds of what I know to try to direct outcomes. While this is how I manage to keep a diverse global community inspired, stable, and evolving in a wildly chaotic world, the same principles were at play in my previous career when I managed large global research teams: let your intention be a relentless guide and own what you don’t know.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

As previously mentioned, I went from being an agnostic healthcare executive to becoming a mystic wisdom guide. This began in the summer of 2000 when I started hearing a strange voice within me that kept saying, “You’re supposed to be doing something very important.” At the time, I was directing clinical research programs in respiratory medicine, so I thought I was already doing something very important. The voice showed up at random times; in meetings, in elevators, while I was driving. It kept repeating the same thing, “You’re supposed to be doing something very important.” The more I tried to ignore it, the more persistent it became.

After six months of the voice, in December 2000 I was at a conference on Amelia Island, Florida. It was sunrise and I was running on the beach thinking about a talk I had to give that day, when suddenly I was overwhelmed with a feeling that I had forgotten something extremely important. Somehow I knew that I had either forgotten to bring that important information into this life with me or I brought it in and forgot it. Neither possibility made sense to me because I had never thought about the possibility I could have been somewhere before I was in this life. Given the persistence of the mysterious voice and now this revelation, I realized it was time to seek help to find out what was happening.

I flew to Little Rock, Arkansas to visit my friend and former therapist, Sue, and she put me in a light hypnotic state with the question, “What is the important thing Mary has forgotten or is supposed to be doing?”

Very quickly I found myself — an agnostic — in the body of Jesus on the cross at his moment of crucifixion. When I realized where and in whom I was, somehow I suddenly knew everything about humanity’s evolution. I watched all that led up to that pivotal moment in history over thousands of years, and I watched what happened as a result of it that still continues in our world today.

That experience opened the flood gates to numerous mystical events involving Divine masters and events that show me not just the fundamental dynamics at play in our world, but how our collective consciousness is waking up now to end the perpetual cycles of wounding that have greatly limited our potential. This was the important information I forgot, and sharing this understanding is the important thing I am supposed to do. It took me a long time to come around to that realization, but when I finally did there was no turning back. The mystical path was pulling me along, and today that is the only path I can walk.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://lovemaryreed.com
• Instagram: @lovemaryreed
• Youtube: @kululamr (Mary Reed Mystic)