The Jambalaya Center for Ancient Mysteries & Sacred Arts is a spirit-governed, land-rooted institution dedicated to the preservation, practice, and transmission of ancestral knowledge across generations. The Center exists to steward sacred arts, ritual technologies, and cultural memory in ways that honor lineage, spiritual consent, and collective responsibility.

We are not a conventional school, nonprofit, or cultural organization. The Jambalaya Center is a living ancestral institution, guided by divination, elders, and ritual process, rather than by extractive models of governance or profit. Our work is accountable first to Spirit, ancestors, land, and community.

Our Purpose

The purpose of the Jambalaya Center is to hold, protect, and transmit sacred knowledge that has historically been marginalized, commodified, or misused. We provide a structured yet relational environment for learning, practice, and service rooted in African, Afro-Caribbean, Indigenous, and diasporic traditions.

The Center exists to:

• Support intergenerational transmission of ancestral wisdom
• Provide ethical frameworks for spiritual and cultural practice
• Cultivate spiritual leadership grounded in humility, accountability, and service
• Protect sacred knowledge from extraction, misuse, and dilution

Learning at the Jambalaya Center is understood as a sacred relationship between teacher, student, ancestors, and land.

Spirit-Governed Governance

The Jambalaya Center is governed through a spirit-led, divination-informed structure. Authority arises from ritual process, ancestral counsel, and collective discernment rather than from titles or majority vote.

Governance is carried through interconnected bodies that hold distinct responsibilities, including:

• Deep spiritual and ritual oversight
• Stewardship of passage, transition, and accountability
• Community coordination and care
• Protection of sacred knowledge and intellectual integrity

This structure ensures that decisions affecting the Center are aligned with spiritual law, ancestral mandate, and long-term communal wellbeing.

Teachings and Sacred Knowledge

All teachings offered through the Jambalaya Center are held as sacred transmissions, not content for mass consumption. Knowledge shared within the Center is protected by spiritual protocols, ethical boundaries, and cultural consent.

Our areas of teaching include, but are not limited to:

• Ancestral and divinatory systems
• Ritual practice and ceremonial arts
• Spiritual technologies and activism
• Creative and artistic practices rooted in ancestral frameworks
• Decolonial approaches to learning, embodiment, and imagination

Participation in these teachings carries responsibility. Students are expected to engage with humility, respect, and an understanding that learning is inseparable from ethical conduct and service.

Sacred Economy and Stewardship

The Jambalaya Center operates within a sacred economy, recognizing that resources, money, labor, and time are spiritual currents rather than neutral commodities. Financial exchange within the Center is treated as an act of stewardship that supports the continuation of teachings, care for elders, and maintenance of communal space.

Offerings, courses, and contributions support:

• The sustainability of the Center
• The labor of teachers and elders
• Community care and service initiatives
• The protection of sacred and cultural resources

Community and Responsibility

The Jambalaya Center exists in relationship to land, to ancestors, and to living communities. Engagement with the Center is an invitation into collective responsibility, not passive participation.

Community members are encouraged to:

• Practice accountability and ethical reflection
• Support one another’s growth and wellbeing
• Honor the boundaries of sacred knowledge
• Carry teachings forward with care and integrity

A Living Institution

The Jambalaya Center evolves in response to spiritual guidance, communal needs, and ancestral direction. Our work is grounded in the understanding that ancestral wisdom is alive, responsive, and deeply relational.

We welcome those who are called to study, practice, and serve within a living tradition, those willing to listen deeply, move with care, and honor the responsibilities that come with sacred knowledge.