Jack's Story in his Own Words

I was born and raised in the UK in a family that was, quite honestly, broken. My parents were often violent to me and my siblings and there was little sense of safety or nurturing in our home despite the outer façade of normalcy.

When choosing a career I decided on medicine and psychiatry, seeing myself as someone capable of healing people like my family members, without realising that I was deeply in need of my own healing.

I used alcohol and drugs to cope with my unconscious childhood trauma and failed my medical degree because I found it so difficult to be around other people.  I was so unconscious it didn't even occur to me to ask for help.  Instead I changed to psychology and am proud to have been awarded a 1st class honours degree in applied psychology from Cardiff University in 2013.  I went on to work as a junior research psychologist at Cardiff University and King's College London and am an author on scientific papers published in the British Medical Journal and BMC Psychiatry Journal.

While transitioning from Cardiff to London I underwent a sudden spiritual awakening while watching a YouTube video by Eckhart Tolle.  I had little interest in spirituality at this point and had been atheist most of my life.  While watching Eckhart I discovered an inner presence that filled my mind and world around me with peace.  I knew I'd discovered the solution to my problems and was amazed that this inner world had never been mentioned in my many years of study.

After a year moving in and out of states of presence I experienced a kundalini awakening - a near-death-like experience triggered by following the teachings of Ramana Maharshi.  I hadn't even heard of kundalini so this was, to say the least, quite a shock...I was suddenly thrown into a world filled with out of body experiences, encounters with angels, deities and awareness of energetic realities I had previously thought limited to the realm of fantasy and sci-fi.  I was amazed, yet also deeply ungrounded and unintegrated on a human level.

I'd felt called by spirit to leave my researcher job in London and temporarily move back in with my mum while I prepared to become a spiritual teacher.  Little did I know that I wouldn't actually start that work for another eight years and that the next two and a half years were a relentless dive into my unresolved psychological issues.  My teacher Fran supported me through this time (which coincided with my 1st Saturn Return in astrology) and told me straight that I needed psychological help and a spiritual community around me.  I'd always seen myself as someone who helped people with mental health problems, not someone who suffered with them myself, so seeking support was a humbling and necessary step forward.  I also started meditating with a local group of Buddhists and spent a month or so living at their main monastery.

Those two and a half years we're among the most challenging of my life but ultimately helped heal my relationship with my mum, who was the most difficult relationship I had.  I moved out, got a part time job and completed a 1-year foundation training in person-centered psychotherapeutic counselling at the Bath Center for Psychotherapy and Counselling, which included being in therapy myself for a year.  I'd let go of the idea of being a spiritual teacher and was mostly focused on healing myself.

It wasn't until an unhealthy relationship ended and my life was turned upside down that I felt the call from spirit to start working professionally as a healer and guide.  I didn't actually want to follow that path.  I was trying to get a job as a researcher at Kings College London but when I didn't even get an interview for a position I was overqualified for I decided it was time to stop ignoring the signs and step into the role of spiritual healer and guide.  One of these signs was a spiritual visitation from Dilgo Kyenste Rinpoche, one of Fran's teachers, who essentially 'anointed' me, saying he isn't embodied anymore and cannot teach and it's time for me to step into this role and do what he can no longer do.  Shortly after this I got word that Fran had died unexpectedly and was then visited by her, doing the same 'anointing', with the clear message that I am to carry on our spiritual lineage.

Honestly I was terrified by this.  My life was upside down, I was living with my brother and his family, with very little money and no way of generating an income.  I had no idea how to create a website, set up a business, promote myself or anything like this.  Somehow, I don't really know how, I was dragged into it.  I made my first website, did an interview with Jeff Mara and had people book in for sessions for the first time.

I earned enough money to move out and was called to travel around Europe by myself (something I never thought I'd be capable of and that I had never had the desire to do).  I worked remotely while travelling.  At times this was liberating and incredible, at other times terrifying and unstable as I rarely had enough money for next months rent.  It was while travelling that I was called to Sicily and made contact with the Dragons of the Rising Rose.  They told me they would initiate me into the Dragon Consciousness so that they could pass this on to others through a program they called Dragon Medicine.  A year and a half later, I launched this program and the Dragons and I have taken over 100 people through their initiation.  Dragon Medicine has been the most rewarding work of my life so far, as I've witnessed so many people open to the support of these amazing beings while feeling safe to express the truth of themselves without the judgement that's so common in modern spirituality.

For me, my personal and professional life is more about following the flow of life than it is about attaching to a specific identity.  Some have been calling me 'the dragon guy', a phrase I've never resonated with.  I launched Dragon Medicine in the year of the dragon...but I didn't know it was the year of the dragon.  Likewise, when people around me were trying to put me in this 'dragon guy' box, I knew I'd be letting go of the dragons soon and following a new flow of spirit - into the Goddesses of the Enlightened Dark.  Amusingly, soon after announcing this I discovered we had just moved into the year of the snake.  I expect the Dragons will come back again in the coming years, but for now I'm happy to honour the Goddesses who have been with me much longer than the Dragons.

At the time of writing this, my primary focus is completing my current cycle with the Dragons of the Rising Rose by creating the Dragon Library, a collection of pre-recorded courses where I channel the Dragons to provide guidance, energy transmissions and meditative journeys to help people ground, awaken and live the true potential of their soul.  Our first course will launch in August 2025, with new courses added to the library at regular intervals. 

From 7th-11th October 2025 Ana Olivera and I will be leading a retreat in Glastonbury, England called Keepers of the Heart to help people unify with sacred sites.

At the end of October 2025 I launch Descend to Eden, the online initiation and shadow mastery series where I channel the Goddesses of the Enlightened Dark, The Morrigan, Kali, Hela and Sekhmet to guide us into discovery of the depths of our being and resolution of frozen aspects of our soul.

The Spiritual Lineage of Francis Bennett

I was a student of Francis 'Fran' Bennett from around 2014-2019.