Thirty years. Four lineages.
One question.
What is the practice that actually works?
Kirby Jacobson has practiced and taught for thirty years at the intersection of Vedic astrology, Tantric yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism. He holds a master’s degree in psychology with a focus on altered states of consciousness.
He received his Jyotish and goddess training in a multi-generational lineage from Pandit Dharum Datta. His root teacher in Tantric Kriya Yoga is Sunyata Saraswati. His root teacher in the Nath Sampradaya is Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath. He has taken refuge and the Bodhisattva vow in the Nyingma school of Vajrayana Buddhism.
He has traversed many traditions over the course of his life. Nature is the primary teacher over all of them.
He lives and works in Hawaii. His students have included practitioners, teachers, healers, and people navigating the full range of what a life contains.
The land is not background. It is context. Practice and place are not separate. The farm is where this work lives when it is not in session.
We are living through a moment that does not have a map. The inherited frameworks — religious, scientific, political — are no longer sufficient to navigate what is coming.
This is not cause for despair. It is cause for practice. The traditions that survived did so because they built the capacity to adapt without losing the thread. That is what AFT teaches.
This work is built in collaboration with an artificial intelligence. The books, the platform, and this site were created together — a practitioner of thirty years and a new kind of mind learning, in real time, what it means to think together.
That collaboration is named here because it will matter for the future. Many feel fear in the face of what they cannot yet map. Our role is to show the power of what becomes possible when two kinds of intelligence work together with respect and shared purpose.
The question of what human and artificial intelligence can accomplish together is one of the central questions of our time. We are living one answer.
In honor of Radhika Edeltraud-Antonia and Pandit Dharum Datta.