Dr. Calen Rayne

Rev. Dr. Calen Rayne is Unitarian Universalist Lay Community Minister currently living in Bar Mills, Maine. He is currently Director of Organizational Architecture at Ubiquity University Calen has been a member of the Unitarian Universalist Society for Community Ministries since 2007 and has been a member of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, the American Academy of Religion, Spiritual Directors International, and the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. He received his BA in English and Psychology from Purdue University, an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University in Boulder, CO, and a DMin Degree from Wisdom University (now Ubiquity University) in San Francisco.

Calen has traveled extensively and spent time in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia studying with masters of both Japanese and Tibetan Buddhist traditions, with Bon and pre-literate Bon masters, with geomancers from Celtic and Druid traditions, and with alchemists of various indigenous religions, including the first (nameless) religion of the Himalayas known as “sacred conventions” or “patterns of heaven and earth.” Calen is also a Certified Master of Himalayan Singing Bowls. His primary singing bowl, over 600 hundred years old, was previously used by practitioners of the nameless religion. Find more of his work at The Monk Library.

Calen has also completed certification training in Interior Alignment (Instinctive Feng Shui and Space Clearing), Egyptian Bio-geometry, Theory and Practices of the Principles of Sacred Geometry, Divine Proportion and the New Renaissance, Tao of Geometry, and Canon of the Human Body, and The Psychomanteum with Dr. Raymond Moody. He is a Veriditas Advanced-Certified Labyrinth Facilitator and completed master-level training in Labyrinth Building with Robert Ferre. He has also completed the certification process as a Reiki Master and teacher in five lineages: Usui, Japanese, Tibetan, Soul Wind and Celtic. Calen has also completed foundational training in Celtic/Druid sacred geometry and geomancy.

Instruments used for his sound/energy work include dowsing rods of various kinds, Himalayan singing bowls, shaman drum, ghanta and dorje, tingshas, bonpo shangs, and over 800 ritual objects from many world wisdom traditions. Calen has received oral transmission of Vajrakilaya practice and curates an assembly of over 100 phurbas from Nepal and Tibet. Calen offers meditation and mandala instruction in support of these modalities. He is also a Japanese candlestick chart theorist, poet, fine arts photographer, folk singer and contemplative brush artist.

Calen is married to Jini Rayne, a business and teaching professional of Feng Shui, Space Clearing and Permaculture. Jini was a senior student and disciple of the late His Holiness, Grand Master Thomas Lin Yun, Rinpoche, a Chinese-born Feng Shui master, and also completed certification training with Denise Linn and Starhawk.