What if Hogwarts taught a liberal arts education?
A fun exercise in re-orienting school back toward the human, the numinous, and the indwelling of the sacred.
For over ten years, I’ve been reading fascinating figures like Graham Hancock, Rupert Sheldrake, Rudolf Steiner, Valentin Tomberg, flirting with mystics like Hildegard von Bingen and John of the Cross, and lightly studying shamanism, Buddhism, Taoism, and world history.
I thought it would be fun to re-imagine a high school curriculum that charges full-tilt into the re-enchantment of our cosmos, and the return to meaning that centers first in the human person.
Much of our education teaches data unrooted from any sense of meaning. Schooling trains us to become economic units, or obedient fascists, or ‘well rounded’ while closing one eye to our entangled nature with the gods and creation around us.
Much of Christian religion is taught from a place of abstraction, where the central truth is routinely sidestepped: every person is a center of divine indwelling, already in a journey of theosis, and already in a process of self-understanding, growth, and collaboration with a living, personal, mystic cosmos.
Since Hogwarts is a sigil of soul-joy and revival of a magical worldview, let’s re-imagine the primary classes as if Rupert Sheldrake and Rudolf Steiner were in charge.
And since I catastrophically failed math, physics, chemistry, you decide know how accurate it is.
But for those of us like to think different, a mindset like this is a paradigm shift… that I don’t know what to do with.
Yet.
1. History → Mythic Memory
Unveils lost civilizations, evidence, ancient cataclysms, and the cyclical nature of human living. Encourages students to question historical dogmas and explore the wisdom of ancestral myths as repositories of truth. It centers on the incandescence and interplay of the gods within the human person, towards the indwelling of Christ, and then the rapid increase in self-awareness and individuation, accelerating human development.
2. Science → The Mysteries of Nature & Consciousness
“Beyond the material veil.”
Explores natural science with an openness to morphic fields, extended mind theories, and anomalous data. Teaches the history of the scientific praxis as an outgrowth of mystical humility before truth, development, taboos, and paradigm shifts.
3. Mathematics → The Language of the Cosmos
“Patterns older than time.”
Presents math as a sacred language—geometry, ratios, and fractals as reflections of divine order. Incorporates ancient number systems, sacred geometry, and archetypal forms.
4. English/Literature → Spellcraft & the Power of the Word
“Stories that shape reality.”
Explores myth, metaphor, and the magical potency of language. Studies literature not just as art, but as encoded memory and psychological initiation.
5. Geography → Earth Mysteries & Sacred Landscapes
“The memory of the land.”
Maps ley lines, sacred sites, ancient alignments. Reframes geography through indigenous wisdom, megalithic architecture, and energetic patterns of the Earth, a skin-map on a living being.
6. Biology → Life as Consciousness in Form
“That’s what stars are made of, not what they are.”
Rejects mechanistic biology in favor of a living, holistic model. Incorporates Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic resonance, plant intelligence, and mind-body unity. Self-organizing systems are usually sentient, even intelligent, even at the scale of planets and perhaps galaxies - the bodies of the gods.
7. Chemistry → Alchemy & the Dance of Elements
“From transformation to transmutation.”
Studies the material world with an eye on spiritual correspondences. Modern chemistry meets ancient alchemy—seen not as primitive, but as symbolic insight into inner and outer transformation.
8. Physics → The Fabric of Reality & Hidden Forces
“Beyond the edge of known laws.”
Includes quantum weirdness, consciousness-as-field, torsion physics, and ancient cosmologies. Frames physics as a mystical pursuit.
9. Physical Education → Movement, Breath & Embodied Presence
“The temple of the soul in motion.”
Moves beyond athletics to include martial arts, breathwork, yoga, and ecstatic movement. Recognizes the body as a resting place, portal, and proving ground to nurture awareness.
10. Art → Visionary Expression & the Inner Eye
“Revealing the unseen through the creative act.”
Art as initiation, shamanic foraging, and a mirror of collective consciousness. Explores symbolism, sacred art, and altered-state inspiration. Story as spiritual surgery, imaginal field-testing, and whole-making.
11. Music → Vibration, Harmony & the Architecture of Emotion
“Tuning the soul.”
Teaches music as frequency medicine, emotional alchemy, and celestial patterning. From ancient modes, a formative language, to cymatics. Music is the ancient and first experiential language of the cosmos: notes only make sense in context, the way words only exist in frameworks. Language is as existential as consciousness and life (David Bentley Hart).
12. Religion → Comparative Mysticism & Inner Knowing
“The perennial path within.”
Studies the mystical heart of all traditions to discern the development of the Great Religion. Includes altered states, spiritual technologies, myth as metaphysics, and direct experience of the numinous.
A working theory. I’d go to this school.