Kraig graduated from UCLA with a degree in philosophy and studied public speaking and music at other colleges and universities.
[1] After a decade of personal study and practice of the occult, he taught courses in Southern California and at Neo-Pagan festivals and events on topics including Kabbalah, Tarot, Magick, the Lovecraft Mythos,[2] Psychic Development and Tantra, and was an initiated Tantric[3] who ran a lodge of AMOOKOS, an east-west tantric occult group.
[1] He taught computer skills at the University of Southern California, and was a member of Hollywood's magician club The Magic Castle.
He received training and certification as a clinical hypnotherapist by the American Board of Hypnotherapy (ABH), the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH), and the Association for Integrative Psychology (AIP).
He was also certified as a hypnosis instructor by the ABH and as a master practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) by the AIP.