About Our Founder
Jordan Bates
Father, husband, creator.
A life devoted to freedom, love, and service.
The Man Behind the Brotherhood
Rooted in the heart.
In service of life.
Jordan Bates is the Founder of Council of Kings. He’s a father, husband, co-founder of Apotheosis, men’s leadership coach, and the author of seven books.
Jordan has been immersed in Transformational Work for fifteen years and in Men’s Work for the past six years, training with respected leaders and organizations in the space. He is repeatedly humbled and honored to witness the depth, beauty, and power of this work—and to contribute to the formation of the heart-led masculine leaders our world truly needs.
Along the way, he met his wife, became a dad, and found many of his best friends. These relationships sit at the heart of a life that has also taken him around the world for roughly a decade, visiting around 35 countries.
Brotherhood & Stewardship
A place to become more fully alive
Founded in 2022, Council of Kings began as Brothers of the Ever Innocent Heart. That original name remains its inner current: a reminder of the innocent, loving heart at the center of the brotherhood.
Through weekly councils, the monthly Fellowship of Kings, retreats, and private mentorship, Jordan helps hold spaces for honest sharing, deeper presence, creative clarity, and meaningful connection. The invitation is to become fathers, husbands, founders, stewards, and guardians who lead from the heart.
His work also extends into music, writing, sound healing, breath, movement, and ceremony. On stage and in retreat spaces, he has collaborated with childhood friend and fellow artist CoryaYo, bringing together artistry, contemplative depth, and playful aliveness.
A Creative Life
Playful wisdom.
Nourishing heart-medicine.
Jordan has shaped a creative legacy he loves: liberating and healing works offered through words, music, video, and shared spaces.
- Books
- 7
- Rap albums & EPs
- 20+
- Articles
- 700+
- Videos
- 1,000+
- Workshops, circles & sessions
- 1,000+
- Entheogenic retreats across continents
- ~20
Alongside these works are many communities and organizations he has co-founded or helped steward, and tens of thousands of social posts. Taken together, Jordan estimates that his work has reached around 10 million or more people over time.
These figures are approximate reflections on his journey—not a measure of a life’s worth. The deeper intention has been universal compassion, love, and the upliftment of all beings.
The Inner Journey
Contemplation, faith & freedom
Behind the outward creations are many thousands of hours of contemplative practice, service, and spaceholding. Jordan’s exploration of life’s deepest mysteries has included hundreds of entheogenic journeys and ceremonies, as well as the ongoing work of bringing insight into ordinary life.
Jordan describes himself as a nondual/zen Catholic, or Catholic of pure mystery, who is also okay being called nothing at all. A contemplative mystic with deep faith in God and Jesus Christ, he has returned to his ancestral tradition through a personal journey of revelation and Grace. He also continues to honor the many wisdom streams and traditions of Earth. No beliefs are imposed in the brotherhood; each man’s path is honored.
Jordan describes awakening to ever-present freedom, wholeness, peace, and love at a depth he had not known was possible—an unfolding that has immeasurably benefited his own life and well-being.
Sound
Music as medicine
A selection from the catalog—albums offered as uplifting medicine for the path.
New Earth Music
By Heavily Indicated, the hip-hop duo comprised of CoryaYo & Jordan Bates. Five years in the making, much of it recorded at Kumankaya while working with sacred plant medicines—a kingly charge-up designed to uplift the soul and reconnect you to your abundant creator nature.
IOWASCA
By Heavily Indicated, the hip-hop duo comprised of CoryaYo & Jordan Bates. A 33-track entheogenic, genre-bending rap album that functions as an 80-minute sonic ceremony—conscious lyricism, buttery beats, sacred samples, and playful wisdom.
Words, Sound & Connection