Elder Gideon

Sophian Elder

An unbroken chain of spiritual mentors throughout Gideon’s adolescence not only guided his life, but prepared him at age twenty-three to recognize his sacred friend and Tzaddik, Tau Malachi. Encountering the Sophian lineage has been a coming home for Gideon, who was searching for roots in a Gospel that was primordial as it was progressive. In the elegance of the Sophian expression of Christ, Gideon continues to find an integral weave which speaks exhaustlessly and practically to all of life, one which occupies him entirely now as an ordained lineage-holder. His training with Tau Malachi in its teachings, practices, and ceremonial art and science is grounded in diverse acts of service. Currently, he is a Teacher Consultant of the Northern California Writing Project and educator of high school English language arts. At his school site, he’s piloting the third successful year of an ambitious study he hopes to publish, incorporating language arts with a mentoring model serving young men at-risk of failing: Boys to Mentors. He’s a tireless advocate of the empowerment mentoring models in public education may serve for young people. His training as a fine artist here and in Italy is swiftly manifesting as a sacred arts collective: sophiaguild.org. Viewers may peruse or purchase from a growing retrospective of over three hundred original icons, hand-made sacred talismans, and pyrographed lettering, all inspired by the teachings, practice, and ceremonial art and science of the Sophian lineage. It is his dream to ground visual, useful hope for the people. When he’s not writing, teaching, or designing, he enjoys weight-lifting, running, dirt-bike camping, and Spanish. He is the committed partner of a Lesser-Sulfur Crested cockatoo named Hannah.