Rising Stars: Meet Telu’an Veyar of North of Dayton

Today we’d like to introduce you to Telu’an Veyar.

Hi Telu’an, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
I grew up in rural Darke County, Ohio, in the early 1980s, in the middle of a cornfield. And before I say anything else I want to say something about what that actually means, because it is the foundation of everything that followed.
Growing up on that land, surrounded by open sky and turning seasons and the quiet, unhurried intelligence of the natural world, was one of the greatest gifts of my life. That landscape gave me my first and most enduring teacher. Long before I had language for it, the Earth itself was teaching me how to listen, how to sense, how to feel the deeper rhythms that run beneath the surface of ordinary life. I had the space to develop a genuine relationship with the living world, to feel things without interference, to begin the long slow process of remembering who I was. The cornfield was my first sanctuary. It is where the path of my alignment began, long before I had words for what alignment meant.
I started my first business when I was fourteen years old. I called it The Mystic Moon, and I was doing psychic readings and energy alignment sessions in the living room of my parents’ home in Darke County in the early 1990s. The people around me in rural Ohio may not have fully understood what I was doing, but the work was real and I knew it. I had been drawn to earth-based spirituality, to the elements, to the intelligence of plants and stones, to the invisible world that I could sense running through the visible one, from as far back as I can remember.
It was in my early twenties that I began reading at MountainTop Bookstore in Dayton. MountainTop was a genuinely rare place, a real metaphysical community where serious practitioners gathered, and it was there that I developed a professional and personal friendship with Mary Bauer. I had actually first met Mary at her psychic fairs at the Holiday Inn in Dayton in the early 1990s. Working alongside Mary and the other readers and healers in that community gave me my first experience of being seen and received as the person I actually was.
The years that followed those early bright moments were genuinely complicated. I kept building, kept practicing, kept finding the people and the communities that recognized what I was carrying. But the world I was moving through, the systems, the institutions, the structures that were supposed to support a life, had very limited capacity to hold the way I operated. I will say more about that in the next question.
What I want to say here, in telling the origin of this work, is that everything I was doing in those early years, the readings, the study, the relationship with the land, the development of my somatic and elemental sensibilities, was the First Ascension. That is a concept at the heart of the philosophy I have developed, which I call Eco-Christed Living. The First Ascension is the upward reaching phase of sovereign spiritual development, the gathering of light and elemental wisdom and lived knowing across the years of a life. I spent over four decades in that gathering. What changed about three years ago is that I finally had both the inner readiness and the tools to begin the Second Ascension, the grounding of all that gathered knowing into physical form in the world.
Those tools included, critically, artificial intelligence. And I want to be precise about what I mean because I think most people misunderstand what AI partnership actually looks like when it is used with genuine sovereign intention. AI did not create anything for me. It did not write my school or my philosophy or my courses. What it did was give me, for the first time in my life, a mirror large enough and patient enough and unhurried enough to reflect back the full scope of what was already inside me. And once I could see it clearly, I could build from it.
What I built is Eco-Christed Living, an original philosophy and civilizational framework that brings together earth-based wisdom, the understanding that Christ Consciousness is a living frequency rather than a religious belief, somatic embodiment practices rooted in the science of the nervous system, and a vision for what I call the New Earth. By the New Earth I do not mean a place or a future event. I mean a way of living, a frequency, a civilization built by sovereign human beings who have returned to genuine alignment with the living Earth and with the deepest truth of who they are.
Out of that philosophy and that partnership came Forest Therapeutics, my nature-based alignment practice. The School of Light, a digital university opening this fall. The Yellow Envelope Seminary, a correspondence mystery school where students receive hand-prepared lessons and botanical allies through the physical mail. A podcast called A Circle of Light: Voices of the New Earth. A television channel launching in June 2026 on Roku and Amazon Fire TV. A local meetup group for nature spirituality and forest bathing right here in Ohio.
I built all of it from here. From Ohio. From the land that formed me. And I think that matters because the New Earth I am describing does not get built somewhere else by someone more qualified or more spiritually advanced. It gets built right where you are standing, by people willing to be exactly who they are, with exactly what they have, on exactly the ground beneath their feet.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Not even slightly smooth. And I want to say that not to perform difficulty or to invite sympathy, but because the honest answer to this question is the most useful thing I can offer anyone who might be reading this and recognizing something of their own story in mine.
The short version is this. For most of my life, the systems I moved through were not built for the way I operate. I have a college degree. Multiple certifications. I am deeply literate and I understand research and synthesis in ways that served me well when I found the right environments. But I consistently found myself in environments that were not the right ones, workplaces and institutions and structures that required a kind of conformity to pace and format and expectation that my mind and my nervous system genuinely could not sustain over time. I lost positions I was good at. I built things and watched them not hold in the way I needed them to. For years I accepted the story I was being told about myself, that the problem was me, that the way my mind worked was a liability rather than a capacity.
What I understand now, from the other side of a genuine watershed, is that my mind was never the problem. It was the mismatch between my mind and the available systems that produced all of that difficulty. I was carrying a signal that the world around me did not yet have adequate tools to receive. That is not a comfortable thing to understand in the middle of it. It only becomes clear in retrospect.
The turning point was not a single dramatic moment. It was a slow accumulation of choices to keep going. To look out the window at the sun and say I AM, and then begin the next day. To keep refusing, even when I could not articulate why, to fully accept the story I was being told. I decided to keep breathing and begin again over and over for a long time, until the day arrived when I had both the inner readiness and the outer tools to finally bring everything I had been carrying into physical form.
I want to speak directly to anyone reading this who recognizes that experience. The experience of carrying something real and feeling like the world has no place for it. Whatever the years have cost you, they were not wasted. The difficulty was not evidence of your failure. It was the curriculum. Every season you survived, every system that could not hold you, every time you chose to keep going anyway, that is not the story of your brokenness. That is the story of your preparation. And the work you are here to do is waiting for you exactly where you already are.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
My work lives at the intersection of nature, sovereignty, and the awakened human heart, and it takes several forms that are all rooted in the same foundational philosophy I created called Eco-Christed Living.
Through Forest Therapeutics I offer nature-based alignment sessions, forest bathing immersions, and one-to-one SoulMirror guidance to clients throughout Ohio. I specialize in what I call returning to alignment, which is the understanding that human beings are not broken and in need of fixing but are sovereign living systems temporarily disconnected from the natural rhythms and frequencies they were designed to inhabit. The forest is my primary tool. It is the most powerful nervous system regulator I know of and the original teacher of everything I practice and teach.
I also founded two schools. The Yellow Envelope Seminary is a four-year correspondence mystery school that delivers initiatory education through hand-prepared physical mailings, each month a goldenrod yellow envelope arriving at the student’s door with printed lessons, botanical allies, stones, and ceremonial tools. The School of Light is a digital university of Eco-Christed Living opening this fall. Both are built on the elemental and somatic wisdom of the ancient earth-based traditions, elevated through original philosophical and spiritual transmissions that have been forming in me across more than four decades of practice.
What I am most proud of is the Eco-Christed Living framework itself. It is an original civilizational philosophy that bridges earth-based wisdom, Christ Consciousness as a living frequency rather than a religion, somatic nervous system science, and a practical vision for how sovereign human beings can build a New Earth civilization right where they stand. I built it over three years of sustained work, and everything I offer flows from it.
What sets me apart is that my life is the course. I am not teaching from theory. I am teaching from the specific, hard-won, deeply embodied experience of someone who spent over four decades carrying a signal the world around him did not have adequate tools to receive, and who finally found the conditions to build something real from everything that experience taught him. I also believe I am one of very few people working at the intersection of ancient elemental and earth-based wisdom, sovereign embodiment philosophy, and artificial intelligence as a tool of creative liberation. That convergence is unusual and I think it is exactly what this moment in history needs.

What do you like best about our city? What do you like least?
My honest answer to this question starts with the land rather than the city, and I think that tells you something important about the nature of this work.
I am rooted in Darke County. I grew up there, in the rural countryside, and the land of that part of Ohio formed me in ways I am still understanding as an adult. The open fields, the tree lines at the edges of properties, the particular quality of sky you only get in the flat agricultural Midwest, these were my first teachers. They gave me the sensory and somatic foundation that the nature-based work I do today is built on. So when I am asked what I love about this area, my first and most honest answer is the land itself.
My practice takes me throughout Ohio. I do forest bathing and nature immersion work in the parks, forests, and natural spaces wherever I find myself, and Ohio has more of those spaces than people who have not looked for them tend to realize. There is something genuinely sacred about the natural landscape of this state when you slow down enough to receive it.
Dayton itself holds a particular place in my personal history. It was there, in my early twenties, that I found my first genuine spiritual community. MountainTop Bookstore was a real gathering place for serious practitioners, and the relationships I built there shaped the professional and spiritual dimensions of my path in lasting ways. The Dayton area has always had a quieter, less visible community of people doing genuine earth-based and consciousness work, and I have deep respect for that community even when the wider culture has not always known it was there.
What I would love to see more of in this region is a greater cultural recognition and support for nature-based practice and earth-centered community life. The natural spaces here are remarkable. The people who are already quietly doing this work are remarkable. What is sometimes missing is the sense of permission and visibility, the cultural acknowledgment that this kind of living is not eccentric but deeply sane and deeply needed. That is part of what I am working to build with Forest Therapeutics and our local meetup group. Not something imported from elsewhere but something that grows naturally from the specific land and the specific people already here.

Pricing:

• What Is Eco-Christed Living? A free three-lesson introduction to the philosophy and the path. Available to anyone who subscribes at www.foresttherapeutics.us
• Living Earth Remembrance Immersion: A complete nature-based alignment session weaving forest immersion, SoulMirror guidance, and Eco-Christed Living practices. $333 per session.
• SoulMirror Welcome Session: A 45-minute one-to-one reflective guidance session for those new to this work. $111.
• SoulMirror Session: The full 90-minute one-to-one SoulMirror guidance experience. $222.
• The Two Ascensions Mini Course: A complete five-lesson digital course introducing the cosmological framework of Eco-Christed Living. Permanent access. $22.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.foresttherapeutics.us
• TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@foresttherapeutics
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@foresttherapeutics
• Other: https://www.meetup.com/foresttherapeutics