Andrew Keegan, most famous for his role in 1999’s cult classic “10 Things I Hate About You,” has started his own religion.
The 35-year-old former teen heartthrob has launched a Venice Beach, Calif.,-based spiritual movement called Full Circle.
The movement claims, per a statement on their official website, to be the “home of a conscious social movement, we provide an experimental environment designed to creatively expand consciousness through visual and performing arts, movement classes, workshops, forums and healing therapies.”
As Keegan explained to Vice, the organization is about synchronicity and timing. “Whatever, the past, some other time,” explained Keegan. “It’s a circle; in the center is now. That’s what it’s about.”
Keegan says he had a revelation after being attacked by gang members in Venice Beach on March 11, 2011 — the same day the tsunami hit Japan. The timing of those events would later reveal its power and significance in how “synchronicity” helped him discover his true calling.
“I had a moment where I was looking at a street lamp and it exploded,” he explained. “That was a weird coincidence. At a ceremony, a heart-shaped rose quartz crystal was on the altar, and synchronistically, this whole thing happened. It’s a long story, but basically the crystal jumped off the altar and skipped on camera. That was weird.”
Keegan explains that these were some of the incidents that led him to conclude that “the mission is to take the war out of our story, which is essentially peace, but activated peace.”
The Full Circle’s movement is described as the “highest spiritualism founded on universal knowledge,” a trusted member of the community named Third Eye said.
Although Keegan’s newly founded religion may sound like a cult, he maintains it’s nothing of the sort. All members reportedly have a say in what happens, despite Keegan being at the helm.
“I very much speak what comes through [while] in the collective,” Keegan said. “We create a resonance of balance and equality of the crew. When you feel those chakras aligned, there’s guided messing coming in. If there is something of spiritual ego within that, it must not exist.”