Meet your mentor, Deirdre Hade

Deirdre is a modern day mystic, poet and visionary leader in the ancient arts of the wisdom traditions. Creator of “The Radiance Journey” a path to mystical knowledge, uniting soul purpose and mystery with everyday life.

Spiritual exploration is not just something to do on Sundays. It affects your everyday life, which means it needs to be part of everything. Deirdre understands this, which is why the benefits you experience will be real and practical.

Deirdre first began to see energy at a very early age, but not until her mother, scientist and poet Katherine Blumer Hade, was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer did Deirdre, at sixteen, begin to understand why. Together, the two women began developing a method of healing work based on divine light. This led her mother to live thirteen years longer than expected.

Tragedy is a wake-up call for so many, because often we are most open to the greater possibility when we are most vulnerable. This is what the world is experiencing now with the coronavirus and climate change. You are ready.

A pioneer in the art of spiritual dance, Deirdre first applied her gifts as a ballet dancer and choreographer. Recognized by Robert Joffrey for her fire and spirit, Deirdre’s dance company, “Celebrations of the Sacred,” performed under grants from the Mid-South and Tennessee Arts Council. She danced with the NYC Opera, choreographed for the Banff Center of Performing Arts, Opera Memphis, and Southern Opera Theater. As director of the Memphis Ballet Company, she created the first inner city ballet program teaching to disadvantaged youth. Deirdre choreographed and performed in Stephen Halpern’s, Summer Wind, the inaugurating video of the VH1 Channel.

Just as spiritual exploration cannot just be during personal time, it is not just in the mind. We need to bring it into our body. Deirdre’s dance experience brought that home for her.

At seventeen, she had a fortuitous meeting with Joseph Campbell, Hero with a Thousand Faces, that would set the course of her life’s work. Joseph Campbell convinced Deirdre to pursue the path of a mystic and to not go into anthropology as she had planned, saying, “It will ruin your gift. You already have what we are all looking for…”

I bet that if Joseph Campbell had told any of us something like that, our trajectory would be abundantly clear. How lucky she was! How lucky we are.

This same year Deirdre was given an unknown book, A Course in Miracles. She began studying the texts for hours on end. This, along with the southern gospel churches, gave her scientific mind a spiritual foundation (both of Deirdre’s parents were research scientists in biochemistry and physiology).

Deirdre’s search for self-discovery led her to be mentored over a lifetime by the elders and teachers in the mystical Christian tradition, the I Am Presence teachings, the Hindu Vedic tradition and Mussar and Lurianic Kabbalah, for which she has studied for over 20 years with two esteemed Rabbis.

We are all one. There is no us against them. Studying the various traditions allowed her to live the realization.

In 2004 Deirdre founded Radiance Healing and Radiance Meditation as a form of energy healing mystical wisdom based on the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life. Deirdre has given Radiance Journey healings and retreats to thousands throughout the country from The Omega Institute, The Kripalu Yoga Center, The ACADEMI of Life in New York City, The Evolutionary Healing Institute in Miami, Florida, to Sacred Space in Santa Barbara. Deirdre’s book, The (not so) Little Book of Surprises, released in 2016, was performed to a standing room only audience at Donna Karan’s Urban Zen Center.

Deirdre’s celebrity clients include Donna Karan, Barbra Streisand, Gwyneth Paltrow, Demi Moore, John Gray, Sting, and Jack Canfield.

Jack introduced Pete Bissonette, President of Learning Strategies, to Deirdre in 2009 and recommended he do individual sessions with her. The first was so moving, he signed up immediately for a second and a third. And before you know it, Learning Strategies was creating her Pure Energy program to share with the world.

Her Radiance Pure Energy program of eight five-minute meditations has been sold in over 132 countries.

Deirdre’s contribution to the world is being recognized and embraced.

In 2014 Deirdre married her great love, Will Arntz, creator of, “What the BLEEP Do We Know!?” and with what she considers her two greatest accomplishments, that of being the mother of her two children, Leilah Katherine Franklin and Eric Harel Franklin, they all live happily ever after…