Meet our Team
Steve McDonald serves as an Evolutionary Architect of personal and planetary harmonics, specialising in Lightbody Systems, Flame (inner-light) Stewardship and developmental integration across dimensions. His work supports the reintegration of the soul’s fragmented expressions – physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual – into a living coherence. By bridging ancient wisdom, multidimensional frameworks and developmental psychology, he assists individuals and groups in remembering their essential nature and embodying their original crystalline template in real time.
With over 25 years of experience in human evolution and transformation, Steve has long operated at the intersection of science and the sacred, acting as a futurist, pathfinder, and spiritual technician. He weaves together advanced developmental models and esoteric cosmology to illuminate the pathways of humanity’s collective awakening.
A Life of Service: Military and Humanitarian Work
Steve began his professional life as a reconnaissance helicopter pilot in the Australian Army. A strong inner call to lead people through uncertainty led him to transfer to the infantry, where he served as a platoon and company commander, intelligence officer and a brigade-level operations officer. In 1994, he deployed to Somalia as a company commander with 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment on a multinational humanitarian mission, amidst social collapse, famine and civil war. His battalion was later awarded a Meritorious Unit Citation for sustained outstanding service.
After retiring from the army as a Major, Steve continued his service in the Central Queensland Helicopter Rescue Service, flying emergency medical and rescue missions. During this time he began part-time work as a coach, trainer and management consultant, drawing upon his military skills and experience.
In 1999, a profound spiritual awakening propelled Steve into intensive study of both Eastern and Western esoteric traditions. Alongside his professional roles in aviation and consulting, he trained in Taoist qigong, martial arts and Rosicrucian mysticism, eventually becoming a bridge between worlds – a guide for navigating the shift from third-dimensional identity to multidimensional embodiment.
Steve transitioned from flying to full-time consulting as a change management specialist in 2001. His passion for human development led him to the ECLET model of Dr Clare W. Graves, introduced through the book Spiral Dynamics. He trained directly with co-author Dr Don Beck and later became a Spiral Dynamics Integral trainer, applying the model in the corporate arena and later as a futurist and host of the Future Sense podcast.
His exploration of psychoactive healing practices helped restore his own health after years of intense frontline service, and also deepened his understanding of trauma, healing and both human and planetary consciousness.
In 2009 Steve made a sea change from Melbourne to Byron Bay, to further his spiritual path and explore the healing and alchemical properties of plant medicines. While working as a retreat facilitator, in 2011 he co-founded the non-profit Psychedelic Research in Science & Medicine (PRISM), which enabled the first clinical trials of psilocybin and MDMA assisted therapy in Australia.
Indigenous Roots
In 2019 Steve reconnected with his Aboriginal family line, which had been lost since his grandmother was taken as a baby in 1909. Like many families affected by this Stolen Generations trauma, the story had remained quiet until a cousin traced their lineage. This led Steve to reconnect with his Gooreng Gooreng relatives in Central Queensland. Overjoyed to find the missing pieces of their history, they welcomed him back into the fold.
Recognizing the depth of this reconnection, Steve relocated to his traditional land for three years, immersing himself in his Indigenous roots and serving his family as an advocate during a significant Native Title legal case. This time was pivotal, strengthening his understanding of ancestral wisdom and deepening his commitment to planetary healing.
The Tao of Evolution: Lightbody Systems and Planetary Harmonics
A dedicated Taoist practitioner since 1999, Steve was formally initiated into the Taoist path and now serves as a Taoist Priest and Managing Director of Aadii Mesh Foundation, an Australian charity dedicated to supporting humanity through the planetary ascension process. This work includes guiding others through the activation of their Lightbody and assisting them to navigate ascension symptoms, energetic thresholds and transdimensional initiations. He works intimately with the human developmental stages described by ECLET, offering a unique synthesis of grounded psychological insight and subtle body mastery.
As an Evolutionary Architect, his role is to design, stabilise and guide the emergence of lightbody architecture within both individuals and planetary fields. He is particularly skilled in assisting with brain-heart coherence, meta-spinal alignment, and the crystalline reweaving of human consciousness.
Through Aadii Mesh Foundation, Steve collaborates with planetary allies, spiritual orders and interdimensional intelligences to assist humanity in birthing a new harmonic civilisation. Whether speaking internationally, facilitating retreats, mentoring leaders, or decoding subtle energy geometries, his presence anchors a clear, compassionate stream of truth and transformation.
His journey continues to be one of reconnection – to self, to lineage, to the Earth, and to the infinite unfolding of Source within form.
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