Fire Speaks—Australia
Highett Melbourne, Australia
July, 4th 2026
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What question waits for you in the dark?
The ones that surface when the day goes quiet — when the distractions fade and you’re finally still. Those are the questions people have always brought to Fire. For most of human history, Grandfather Fire was at the center of life. People gathered around Him, lived by His light, and trusted Him with their deepest questions about how to live. Fire has been helping us since the beginning of human time.
That relationship has never ended. He is still here. Still speaking.
Hear what Grandfather Fire has to say to you.
What is Fire Speaks?
In the Huichol tradition, an axihuatakame is a god-speaker: a traditional conduit who enters a coma-like state so that a deity can physically interact directly with humans. During Fire Speaks gatherings, that deity is Grandfather Fire — and the conduit is Don David Wiley, a respected elder in two living indigenous traditions in Mexico, the Huichol (Wixarika) and the Nahua.
This is different from channeling as it’s commonly understood in New Age contexts. The god-speaker man is an ancient, recognized ceremonial role within indigenous traditions — now made accessible to people in need of wisdom in our highly fragmented and disillusioned modern societies.
Grandfather takes questions from those gathered. His answers can be expansive, roaming across history and the arc of human experience, and sometimes confronting — yet somehow find their way into every heart present.
Fire Speaks is built on that ancient relationship. People consistently leave these gatherings saying something shifted for them in a way they didn’t expect.
There is no required belief, no tradition you need to belong to. Grandfather Fire has always spoken to whoever gathered around Him. That hasn’t changed.
Why is Grandfather Fire here in these times?
Grandfather Fire has been speaking to audiences around the world about five antidotes for humankind: Wisdom, Tradition, Ceremony, Tending Fire, and the Special Emotions — Gratitude, Courage, Grief, Humor, and Awe. For thousands of generations, these antidotes have supported humans to balance the vast wisdom of the heart with the creative independence of the mind, and to deepen connection within ourselves, with each other, and the Living World.
“When people come to the fire it is not about ideology, not about thinking or about concepts. Simply put, My presence is your pathway to the very beginning. It is an unaltered pathway, something all traditions share in common.“
– Grandfather Fire
Schedule
All Ceremonies and food included in ticket price
Saturday July 4, 2026: Fire Speaks
- 1:45 to 2:30 pm Arrival and check in. Allow time to park, register, and be sitting by 2.30pm.
- 2:30 to 4:00 pm Orientation, the story of humans and fire. Discover our ancient relationship to Fire.
- 4:00-6:00 pm Meal and clean up. Nutritious Soup and Bread will be served.
- 6:15-midnight Creating ceremonial space followed by Fire Speaks.
The general audience may last past midnight. At the end of the audience there will be an opportunity to personally thank Grandfather Fire by offering a cigar. Included in the registration is the cost of one of the long, strong cigars Grandfather prefers.
Sunday July 5, 2026: Weaving Fire’s Wisdom, (optional, but included in ticket price)
- 1:00 pm- 4:00pm Facilitated by our firekeepers, we will reflect, remember and share to help integrate the experience and the teachings into our lives.
Venue
The fire is at a private residence in Highett, Victoria, Australia. Address will be supplied with registration.
Price
- Early Bird $230.00 Australian dollar/ $152 United States dollar, ends June 8, 2026
- Regular $260 Australian dollar/ $173 United States dollar after June 8, 2026 Registration closes at midnight on July 1, 2026
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For more information
For more information, contact at elizabeth.mark1@hotmail.com
Hosting Firekeeper(s): Elizabeth O'Leary and Mark Bradford
Featuring
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Don David Wiley, traditional conduit for the Spirit of Fire
David Wiley’s perspective on what is possible and how to live life was profoundly altered in 1996, when the Spirit of Fire, often called Grandfather Fire, appeared before him as an apparition in the garden of a meditation retreat center near Mexico City. Grandfather Fire asked David to be his conduit, so people everywhere could discover their innate connection to spirit and have an experiential relationship with nature and Divine. Grandfather sent David to find two indigenous elders, Don Lupe Ríos Gonzales of the Wixárika (Huichol) tradition of Mexico’s Sierra Madres and Don Lucio Campos Elizalde of the Nahua tradition of the central highlands. At Grandfather Fire’s request, these two elders began David’s formal medicine and ceremonial apprenticeship in these two ancestrally related shamanic paths.
From the Huichol tradition, David received initiations as a mara’akame, a healer, counselor, and ceremonial leader; from the Nahua path, he was initiated as a granicero, a weather worker, ceremonial leader, and healer. After years of service and leadership, he received permission to teach these two traditions to those called to these shamanic paths. After Don Lupe’s passing in 2003 and under the support of mara’akame Don José Sandoval de la Cruz, David received initiation as a Huichol tsaurirrakame (elder shaman) in 2008. On the Nahua path, David became a Caporal Mayor (teacher-tradition leader) when he inherited Don Lucio’s altar and the responsibility for his Nahua weather working lineage after Don Lucio’s passing in 2004. As a recognized elder in these two traditions, he has received the title of respect, Don David.
Concurrent with Don David’s immersion in this traditional medicine path work, starting in 1996, Grandfather Fire began speaking through Don David’s body during special gatherings. This has been some of the most impactful of Don David’s work, touching thousands of people. Among the Huichol, an axihuatakame is a “god-speaker man,” a traditional spiritual conduit who enters a coma-like state so that a deity can physically interact directly with humans. A collection of Grandfather Fire’s wisdom was published as Heard Around the Fire in 2010; a second book is in final editing. An archive of teachings can be found on sacredfire.org as Grandfather Fire’s Wisdom. Over the years, Grandfather Fire inspired Don David and the community growing around Grandfather’s wisdom to spread traditional lifeways through the world. This lead to the founding of nonprofits Sacred Fire, which began training Sacred Firekeepers and hosting events and programs in 2004; Blue Deer Center, a Sacred Place in the Catskill Mountains of NY, a spiritual retreat of healing and transformation in nature which opened in 2005, and Sacred Fire Foundation, a charitable organization founded to promote and protect traditional indigenous lifeways in 2009.