Hon. James McCallion, 32° K.C.C.H. serves as the Venerable
Master and Director of Education for the Orange County Scottish Rite,
and Sovereign Master for the Orange Coast Council #162 Allied Masonic
Degrees. He is a Knight Templar in York Rite Masonry and an active
member of Societas Rosicruciana in Civitatibus Foederatis.
Over the last 20 years, he has dedicated himself to the study
of symbolism, philosophy, the World’s religions, and theology. He has
taught in esoteric circles in Orange County, California, Albuquerque,
and Santa Fe, New Mexico. His research includes “Recurrent Isolated
Sleep Paralysis and its Connections with the Spiritual Realm” and the
Shamanic relationships between indigenous tribes of the Americas and
ancient Nordic regions, specifically their belief systems and sacred
plant medicine.
James is a UC Regent’s Scholar and received his B.A. in Social
Ecology from the University of California, Irvine. He is pursuing his
M.A. in Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University. He is a Shamanic
practitioner and is working towards authoring modalities using ancient
systems to address modern crises in the field of psychology.
James has been a member of the Free & Accepted Masons of
California and Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of New Mexico. He also
serves as an officer of Orange Grove Lodge #293 F&AMs of California
of which he has been a member since 2005.