Elias De Mohan
Spiritual Director
Elias De Mohan was born Detroit, Michigan in 1923 in a family of poor peasants from Romania. Like many others, they came to the United States to make money and then go back to buy land. He was baptised William David Dumitru in the Catholic faith.
In 1930 he we returned to Romania with his family to live in a small village for seven years. Only later did he realized what a marvellous opportunity it was to learn survival, determination and persistence to do what had to be done to have what they needed in life as far as food, clothing and other necessities. The deep peasant belief in religion developed in him a reverence for life and a strong devotion to doing whatever was put before him to do.
At the age of 14 he left the village and his family and returned to Detroit where another major phase of experiencing began with loneliness, low self-esteem, fear and anxiety. When he returned to the United States he expected to be offered everything, but soon found out that instead, he had to work hard for my keep.
He had always loved music and singing, but by the age of 17 I had discovered it´s power. He remember going by a music store and stopping to listen to the music that was being played. The music was so beautiful that it touched him deeply and he began to cry. He wanted to find a way to participate in something so beautiful, and when I discovered the Detroit Opera Society I joined it. That started him on the path to discover what sound, music and the voice can do to heal the feelings and emotions. It also stirred up memories and deep feelings of rejection and inadequacy.
In 1943, the war came along and in the army he came face to face with his pattern of resistance to authority figures.
In 1946 after the war, he began his education and in three years graduating from Iolani High School in Honolulu. He also joined a choir there. Music, sound, and the feelings and emotions they uncovered, awakened in him an even stronger drive to discover the meaning of life.
Elias began taking voice lesions and was making plans to study music at Oberlin College in Ohio and social science at the University of Colorado. He thought his singing would give him long sought after acceptance, but instead it stirred up the Kundalini resulting in tremendous pain, fear and doubt. To experience Kundalini without falling apart, we must first have a strong sense of self-acceptance‒something he did not have at the time. He discovered that ‘kundalini energy’ impacts the physical, emotional and mental bodies equally, so in this system we give attention to all three in a holistic way.
During this great time of discovery in the 1950's, he was living in New York City and working at the YMCA in many different departments of management—in other words, he was doing ‘group work’. The idea of doing group work was another intuitive response he had when he was reading some of Alice Bailey’s books.
When he moved from New York City to Pennsylvania in 1959, he was led to be part of a group with metaphysical teachings. In 1960, in Pittsburgh, Elias met with his teacher, Neva Del Hunter, and they formed a group for metaphysical instruction. In 1965, he was led to join a metaphysical group in Los Angeles, so he and his family moved to California and they lived there for the next three and a half years.
Elias had studied for the opera for 17 years; he learned the importance of practice, participation and willingness
In the California group, he experienced group dynamics on yet another level, acquired a good background in metaphysical matters and systems of the past—and again came face to face with his authority issues. As he continued in the group, people began to ask him to do consultations, but he kept saying, “I can’t do that. I don’t know how.” Even his teacher felt he wasn’t ready, but he started to do consultations and past life sessions anyway as he began to surrender to people’s needs. Sadly, his teacher became jealous and angry and kicked him out of the group. He didn’t recognize it at the time, but she had freed him to accept his own authority from Soul. Soon realized that he could give people the information they needed for their process of growth and change. It began to be obvious that he needed to provide consultations for those who wanted to transform through work with sound and color.
With the experiential background in this group he left California for Texas. It was in Texas that he discovered he was going to be instrumental in bringing in a system for personality transformation through vibrational sound, color, music, voice and awareness. He really didn’t know what it meant at the time! Since then his knowledge of the system has been continually expanding and he have come to learn that it’s an eternal process.
In 1970 he established the Esoteric Philosophy Center in Houston, Texas and thus began a major phase of discovery—how to take intuition and externalize it into a system.
The Center then began to ask for the vibration of sound and color system and he was still saying, “I don’t know how to do it.” One night he woke up and he was told, “Do it now”! The authority of Soul is the real authority! Creation takes action and the willingness to experience. So he said to the group of six, “Let’s be guinea pigs and see what happens with this system.” All of a sudden as he got up to speak, he spoke for an hour or more not even realizing how many words were being said. That is how the system started.
Music and voice techniques are a path to the process of synthesis, greater harmlessness, joy, humor, laughter and acceptance, if we act with an understanding of the qualities of life. Vibrations will change only as we counter them with other vibrations. The expansion of the ‘creative light energy’ (Kundalini) takes place as the slower vibrations of fear and anxiety, anger and sadness, etc. are transformed through the acceptance of breathing and using vowels and colors in association with the experiential process of moving through resistance.
Singing is a major part of the system. By making the sounds of the vowels we will discover which qualities they represent in ourselves. Elias had studied for the opera for 17 years; he learned the importance of practice, participation and willingness. The aim is not to become opera singers, but to use the voice with diaphragmatic breathing. We are, by nature, wanting to find out who we are, but first we are taught not to have self-esteem. The first step in self-discovery is getting over our esteem issues. As we move through the different stages, the question, “Who am I?” becomes more and more important on the basis that we can say “I am.”
Music, sound and breathing are tools for opening us to the awareness and expression of feelings and emotions that need resolution. Through action, these tools constitute a support system for any of us to go through a point of resistance. The vibrational color and sound system will support the experience of the resistances and limitations that need to be processed and transformed; the colors and sounds by themselves will not resolve these issues. He always say to people, “If you want to be creative you have to go through the resistance of struggles, doubts, fears and success by experience.”
After several years of participation, many people at the Esoteric Philosophy Center in Houston asked if there could be a book. The book was first published after eight years of experiencing, observing and internalizing. Now, five printings later, it’s being revised and expanded in 2008 with the addition of new experiences and concepts.
In 1990 he decided to leave Houston and moved to Arizona, where he continued the Esoteric Philosophy Center.
In 2006 he decided to accept Ross Sinclaires invitation to come to Calgary, Canada to form The Foundation for the Creative Heart.
Elias has traveled all over the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Denmark, giving workshops and lectures for a lot of people. He also received many for individual sessions – and he still keeps going.
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