## Short bio in the third person
Stephen Reid is a technologist, facilitator and [coach](/coaching) who has trained in the fields of AI/ML, complexity science, physics, transformative coaching and insight meditation. Current projects include writing a book on [Technological Metamodernism](https://stephenreid.substack.com/p/technological-metamodernism-course), hosting courses and residencies as a founder of [Futurecraft](https://futurecraft.life/), and leading the development of [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/) as a founder of not-for-profit worker co-op [Symbiota](https://symbiota.coop/).
Previously, he founded [The Psychedelic Society](https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/), which established the first legal [psilocybin retreat programme](https://www.alalaho.org/) in Europe, and served as the youngest ever board member of Greenpeace UK.
Stephen has an MPhys in Physics from the University of Oxford, where he specialised in quantum field theory, an MRes in Complexity Science from the University of Bristol, and a Professional Certificate in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from UC Berkeley.
He lives with his partner Laura in Stockholm, Sweden, and in his free time enjoys [swimrunning](https://otilloswimrun.com/) in the archipelago.
## Training and teachers
### Technical
* [Professional Certificate in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence](https://em-executive.berkeley.edu/professional-certificate-machine-learning-artificial-intelligence), UC Berkeley (2023)
* MRes (Distinction) in Complexity Science, University of Bristol (2008-2009)
* Dissertations supervised by [Prof. Dave Cliff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cliff_(computer_scientist)) and [Prof. Karoline Wiesner](https://www.karowiesner.org/)
* Lead developer of the software that won Best Model at [iGEM](https://igem.org/) 2009
* MPhys (First-class) in Physics, University of Oxford (2004-2008)
* [Dissertation](https://stephenreid.net/reid_report_final.pdf) on community detection in complex networks supervised by [Prof. Mason Porter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Porter)
### Coaching & psychotherapy
* [Accredited Diploma in Transformative Coaching](https://www.animascoaching.com/coach-training-course/) (ICF Level 2), Animas Coaching (2022)
* [Foundation in Core Process Psychotherapy](https://www.karunadartmoor.co.uk/), Karuna Institute (Mar 2020)
### Meditation
* Retreats and courses with teachers qualified by [Rob Burbea](https://hermesamara.org):
* [Freedom in Everything](https://hermesamara.org/), Hermes Amara Foundation annual retreat with Juha Penttilä and Yahel Avigur (Dec 2023, 7 days)
* [The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness](https://dharmaseed.org/retreats/5700/) with Catherine McGee and Yahel Avigur at Gaia House (Sep 2023, 8 days)
* [Seeing Through Dualities, Deepening in Emptiness](https://dharmacourse.org/seeing-through-dualities-deepening-in-emptiness/) with Yahel Avigur and Susy Keely, online (Jan – Mar 2023)
* [Liberating Ways of Looking](https://dharmaseed.org/retreats/5347) with Kirsten Kratz and Yahel Avigur at Gaia House (Oct 2022, 7 days)
* [The Courageous Heart](https://dharmaseed.org/retreats/5054/) with Kirsten Kratz and Laura Bridgman at Gaia House (Dec 2021, 3 days)
* Other retreats:
* Jhana retreat with [Jhourney](https://pages.jhourney.io/spring-retreats), online (Apr 2024, 7 days)
* [The Boundless Heart of Metta](https://dharmaseed.org/retreats/5099) with Zohar Lavie and Jake Dartington at Gaia House (Mar 2022, 4 days)
* Vipassana at [Dhamma Dipa](https://www.dipa.dhamma.org/) (Feb 2017, 10 days)
* Sensory Awareness at the [Esalen Institute](https://www.esalen.org/) with [Lee Lesser](http://www.returntooursenses.com/) (Nov 2015, 2 days)
### Shipibo plant medicine
* [Ceremonies](https://niweraoxobo.com/project/schedule) with Maestras Laura and Lila near Sintra, Portugal (Jul 2023, 6 days)
* [Guayusa dieta](https://niweraoxobo.com/project/schedule) with Maestras Ynes, Laura and Lila near La Fortuna, Costa Rica (Oct 2021, 10 days)
* [Noya Rao dieta](https://medium.com/@stephenreid321/dieta-with-noya-rao-part-1-welcome-to-the-jungle-23bdefec1dad) with Maestra Manuela near Pucallpa, Peru (Dec 2017, 10 days)
### Soulcraft & Wild Mind
* [Betwixt: Exploring the Threshold between Worlds](https://naturewisdom.life/event/betwixt-exploring-the-threshold-between-worlds/) with [Rebecca Card](http://naturewisdom.life/) and [Bell Selkie Lovelock](https://www.bellselkie.co.uk/) (Mar 2022)
* [Wild Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16000440) Intensive at [Lūžņa](https://www.soulcraft.eu/about), Latvia with [Sage Magdalene](https://sagemagdalene.com/) and [Sara McFarland](https://www.saramcfarland.com/) (Aug 2021)
### Pleasure & sexuality
* [The Pleasure Journey](https://www.elaineyonge.com/tpj) with [Elaine Yonge](https://www.elaineyonge.com/) (Oct 2024)
* ISTA I & II led by [Elaine Yonge](https://www.elaineyonge.com/) (Sep 2019, Apr 2022)
* Ma Ananda Sarita's [Tantra Essence](https://www.anandasarita.com/master-lover) course (2020)
* The Tantric Opening with [Gaia Ma](https://gaiagasm.com/) at [Inanitah](https://www.inanitah.com/), Ometepe, Nicaragua (Nov 2017)
### Futurecraft residencies
* Feÿtopia, France ([Feb 2025](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-feytopia))
* Cornwall, UK ([Apr 2023](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-residency), [Apr 2024](https://dandelion.events/e/c24x0))
* Brave Earth, Costa Rica ([Dec 2023](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-brave-earth))
### Other residencies and retreats
* Retreats on Ekskäret ([Come Together](https://ekskaret.confetti.events/come-together-ekskaret-okt/), Oct 2023; [Elevate](https://ekskaret.confetti.events/elevate-2024-hibernate/), Nov 2024)
* [Feÿtopia](https://feytopia.com/) (Mar 2024)
* [Microsolidarity](https://www.microsolidarity.cc/) Gatherings (Jul 2023, Feb 2024)
* [Life Itself](https://lifeitself.us/)’s [Embodying Collective Transformation](https://lifeitself.us/embodying-collective-transformation/) residency (Nov 2022)
* Retreats with Zen teacher and mediator [Diane Musho Hamilton](https://www.dianemushohamilton.com/) (Oct 2022, Dec 2024)
* [HER men's retreat](https://www.braveearth.com/experiences/her20-dp5h6) with coach [Alain Lagger](http://www.alainlagger.com/bio-2) at [Brave Earth](https://www.braveearth.com/), Costa Rica (Oct 2021)
* Music retreats with [Rainer Scheurenbrand](https://open.spotify.com/artist/2ZQinGoK9FA6ohO68q65A5) (Mar 2018, Feb 2020)
* Clowning at the [Divine Ridiculous](https://www.facebook.com/groups/divine.ridiculous/) Lupercalia (Feb 2020)
* Haka with [Matiu Te Huki](https://rainbowwarrior.nz/) at Canaan Downs, Golden Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand (Feb 2019)
* Deep Magic retreat with [Julian Vayne](https://julianvayne.com/) at [St. Nectan's Glen](https://www.st-nectansglen.co.uk/) (May 2018)
* Short course in Erotic Ecology at [Schumacher College](https://campus.dartington.org/schumacher-college/) with [Andreas Weber](https://biologyofwonder.org/) (Mar 2018)
* Mushroom cultivation at [Fungi Academy](http://fungiacademy.com/), Lake Atitlán, Guatemala (Jan 2018)
* Awakening of Love by [Path Retreats](http://pathretreats.com) (Mar 2017)
### Online
* [Capra Course](https://www.capracourse.net/) with [Fritjof Capra](https://www.fritjofcapra.net/) on the [The Systems View of Life](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18554985) (Fall 2022)
* [KERNEL](https://kernel.community/) KB7 (Sep – Nov 2022)
* [Recapture the Rapture](https://www.flowgenomeproject.com/future-proof-your-life) with [Jamie Wheal](https://www.flowgenomeproject.com/our-story) (Aug 2021)
* [Platform Co-ops Now!](https://platform.coop/blog/platform-co-ops-now-2nd-edition/) by The New School & Mondragon University (Oct 2020)
### Burns
* [The Borderland](http://theborderland.se) (Hyperstition, 2024; The Inner Cartographers' Club, 2022; Camp Croquis, 2019; La Botica Exótica, 2017; Hampus Campus, 2016)
* [Kiez Burn](https://kiezburn.org/) (The Beehive, 2019)
* [Nowhere](http://goingnowhere.org) (La Botica Exótica, 2016; Sentimos, 2015; Übertown 2014)
### Swimrun & triathlon
* [ÖTILLÖ Sprint Final 15k](https://otilloswimrun.com/races/otillo-sprint-final-15k-sweden/) Swimrun 2024 (2h09m)
* [ÖTILLÖ Sprint Utö](https://otilloswimrun.com/races/uto-sweden/uto-sprint/) Swimrun 2024 (2h56m)
* Weymouth Classic Triathlon 2023 (3h26m)
* Weymouth Sprint Triathlon 2022 (1h38m)
### Scuba diving
* [SSI Advanced Adventurer](https://www.divessi.com/en/advanced-training/scuba-diving/advanced-adventurer) (Nov 2024)
* [PADI Open Water Diver](https://www.padi.com/courses/open-water-diver) (Feb 2024)
## Diet
* Plant-based pescetarian
* Low dairy
* Cheese → [Vegan umami flavours](http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-food/how-to-add-umami-flavor-to-vegan-dishes/)
* Milk/yoghurt → Soy/rice/nut/coconut alternatives
* Butter → Oil
* Few eggs
* Low sugar, complex over simple carbs
* Mindful use of coconut milk
* Top snack: mixed nuts
* Fast from time to time
* Drink plenty of water & tea, some fresh juice
* Coffee and alcohol only on special occasions
* Medicinal foods: green tea, turmeric + black pepper, mushroom extracts, lemon, ginger, garlic, ginseng, cinnamon, cumin, cloves
* Living foods: probiotic yoghurt, kombucha
* Digital health
* No smartphone in bedroom
* Notifications off for most apps
* [Unplugged from social media](https://stephenreid.net/blog/2020/07/09/unplugging-from-facebook.html)
## AI consulting
AI is not just another incremental technological advancement; it's a paradigm shift. From automating almost any repetitive task to transforming decision-making processes, AI's potential is vast and varied. However, this immense power comes with significant responsibility and challenges. I can help you harness the potential of the technology in a safe and effective way.
### What I offer
1. AI strategy development: Crafting tailored AI strategies that align with your organisational goals and ethical considerations.
2. Project implementation: Hands-on assistance in implementing AI technologies, from initial planning to deployment.
3. Training and workshops: Educating your team on AI fundamentals, emerging trends and AI risks to foster an informed and capable workforce.
4. Ongoing support and advisory: Providing ongoing support to ensure your AI solutions evolve with your needs and the changing technological landscape.
### My approach
My approach is rooted in a deep understanding of both the technical aspects of AI, and how technology can be used for social and environmental good.
* On the technical side, I have over 20 years experience as a software engineer, have recently completed a Professional Certificate in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence with UC Berkeley, and teach the highly-rated [Introduction to AI](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KbfsWdPW0ZjPgvvqfU1ULVtdLOw88SdFRAKr03hul_w/edit?tab=t.0) course.
* On the impact side, I'm a social entrepreneur, experienced facilitator and qualified coach who has worked with organisations including 38 Degrees, Greenpeace UK, the New Economics Foundation, and 350.org.
This holistic perspective ensures that AI solutions are not only technically sound but also accessible, ethical and aligned with your unique organisational culture.
### Step into the AI future
Embrace the transformative power of AI with a consultant who understands both the science and the art of the technology. Let's collaborate to unlock the full potential of AI for your projects.
## Facilitation
There are times when teams get stuck, despite the best intentions of everyone involved. In these moments, external facilitation can be the catalyst for breakthroughs and renewed momentum. As an experienced facilitator, I offer a space for teams to step back, reflect, and engage in meaningful dialogue. My approach is tailored to unravel complex dynamics and guide teams towards clarity and cohesive action. Whether it's resolving conflicts, aligning on objectives, or simply finding a fresh perspective, I'm here to help you navigate through these challenges and emerge stronger and more united.
### Impact with Experience
Across my career I've co-founded and worked with a range of organisation types, including:
* Worker co-operatives: I'm the co-founder of [Symbiota](https://symbiota.coop/), a not-for-profit worker co-operative that reaches over 70,000 people every month through its events brands.
* Activist organisations: I co-founded [UK Uncut](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk-uncut), an anti-austerity movement with a reach of 50,000, and subsequently advised the Occupy movement and Extinction Rebellion.
* NGOs and thinktanks: I was the network organiser for the [New Economy Organisers Network](https://www.neweconomyorganisers.org/), a key player in the [38 Degrees](https://38degrees.org.uk/) digital team during its period of fastest growth, and the youngest ever board member of [Greenpeace UK](https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/).
My diverse experience is complemented by a highly technical background in artificial intelligence, complexity science and physics, an ICF Level 2 qualification in transformative coaching, and extensive meditative practice.
### What I offer
Some of the ways I work with teams include:
1. Retrospectives: Conducting reflective sessions to review past projects or periods, identifying successes, challenges, and areas for improvement.
2. Vision and Strategy: Helping teams identify key objectives, create actionable plans, and align on a path forward.
3. Conflict Resolution: Navigating conflicts to find common ground and foster a culture of understanding and respect.
4. Decision-Making Processes: Guiding groups through complex decision-making scenarios in an inclusive and effective manner.
### Connect and transform
Ready to explore how external facilitation can empower your team? Contact me to discuss your needs and how we can work together to achieve your goals.
## Coaching
How would it feel to be in conversation with someone who:
* helps you consider what you really want and how you can move towards it
* believes that you can change
* doesn’t claim to have all the answers for you
* cares and is interested
* holds up a mirror for you to see where you are part of your own problem
* trusts that you can find the answers you need through the power of a challenging but compassionate exploration?
If that sounds appealing, read on…
### What is coaching?
Coaching is a collaborative, non-directive dialogue practice that seeks to bring about change through inquiry, authenticity and a focus on outcomes.
It's based on the belief that people are creative, resourceful and capable of change, and already have, or otherwise can find, answers to their challenges.
I trained in a coaching style called *[transformative coaching](https://www.animascoaching.com/coach-training-course/)*, which has a particular focus on exploring the inner world of beliefs, assumptions, values and expectations. I also weave in my experience with the work of [Rob Burbea](https://hermesamara.org/), including the *[Ways of Looking/Seeing Through Dualities](https://hermesamara.org/teachings/ways-of-looking)* frameworks, the *[Soulmaking Dharma](https://hermesamara.org/teachings/soulmaking-dharma)* (and its resonances with Bill Plotkin's *[Soulcraft](https://www.animas.org/books/soulcraft/)*), and extensive [mettā](https://hermesamara.org/teachings/metta) practice.
### Who can benefit?
Coaching is of most benefit to those who are:
* Mentally well and robust
* Broadly ready and able to change
* Seeking improvement and growth
* Focused on achieving outcomes
* Willing to engage in self-exploration
* Open-minded as to what might be holding them back
### Coaching vs mentoring, teaching, therapy and counselling
Coaching can be distinguished from mentoring and teaching (where the mentor/teacher is typically an expert in the subject and actively offers advice), and therapy and counselling (where the focus is typically on emotional challenges in the past or present, rather than achieving a vision for the future). It's possible to benefit from coaching whilst also working with a mentor, teacher, therapist or counsellor.
### Interested in working together?
I offer an initial free half-hour exploratory call, so we can see if we are well-suited to one another. All being well, typically we'd then meet for an hour every other week via Zoom for an initial run of four sessions across two months.
I would expect you to attend sessions on time and from a quiet place, free from distractions. If you need to cancel or reschedule a session, I would not charge as long as you provide at least 24 hours notice.
Sessions are recorded (unless you request otherwise), with recordings shared with you confidentially shortly after each session for your reflection and review. I might occasionally ask your permission to share a recording with a supervisor.
I sometimes am able to offer reduced rates for those on low incomes (make a note in the form linked below if this is of interest to you).
## Content I've shared recently
[EP 284 Jordan Hall on AI, the Commons, and the Church](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVio_NNJUEA), 2025-02-24T12:00:51.225Z
Click here for full show notes including episode mentions & recommendations!
https://www.jimruttshow.com/jordan-hall-4/
Jim talks with Jordan Hall about the relationship between humanity and advanced AI. They discuss the false dichotomy of state vs market control of AI, the commons & the church as organizing principles, community vs society, why alignment with humanity is by definition impossible, the role of symbols & organizing principles in communities, how Moloch & Mammon shape AI development, hyper-concentration of power, neo-feudalism, the possibility of an AI singleton, entropy in communities, an alternative path centered on intimate AI, individual values, integrity, restoration of the commons, the potential for rapid dissemination, the choice between good & expediency, mutual self-correction, collective action guided by higher values, the need for a properly functioning priestly class, and much more.
[Technological Metamodernism - open source notes for a four-week course (Stephen Reid)](https://thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2025/2/10/technological-metamodernism-course), 2025-02-12T18:00:36.587Z
The course "Technological Metamodernism" by Stephen Reid explores the intersection of technology, philosophy, and consciousness. It highlights how emerging technologies like AI are transforming society. The syllabus is rich and encourages participants to engage with diverse ideas and materials.
[Visualisations of the Jhanas](https://x.com/RogerThisdell/status/1882779644635513072/?rw_tt_thread=True), 2025-02-04T14:00:59.430Z
The Jhanas are eight deep meditative states that bring joy and insight. They include feelings like rapture, happiness, and peace. The author offers guided meditations to help people experience these states more fully.
[Jhourney’s “super secret” master plan](https://www.jhourney.io/blog/jhourneys-super-secret-master-plan), 2025-02-04T14:00:48.425Z
Jhourney aims to revolutionize wellbeing through accessible meditation, starting with a modern school that teaches advanced techniques in a week. Their vision is to unlock extraordinary states of joy and fulfillment for millions, moving beyond traditional meditation approaches. By combining research and innovative methods, they plan to make profound improvements in mental health more achievable for everyone.
[ZKP2P](https://zkp2p.xyz/), 2025-02-04T13:00:48.923Z
Fast, trust minimized and composable P2P onramp
[Proving new worlds with zkTLS | Telah](https://telah.vc/zktls), 2025-02-04T13:00:37.308Z
The article discusses various innovative use cases for zkTLS technology, including personalized recommendations based on social media data and loyalty rewards for frequent purchases. It also highlights applications like verified whistleblowing, on-chain achievements, and tokenizing domain ownership. Overall, zkTLS aims to enhance Web3 experiences by enabling secure data handling and new incentive models.
[The future of humanity is in management](https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-future-of-humanity-is-in-management?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1056206&post_id=156113184&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email), 2025-02-04T12:09:33.704Z
AI has the potential to greatly enhance human productivity and create new industries, rather than just taking jobs away. As AI evolves, it may lead to a future where humans focus more on management and creative roles, while AI handles routine tasks. Ultimately, this could result in higher wages and a better quality of life for many, as we adapt to a more automated economy.
[The Goddess of Everything Else](https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/17/the-goddess-of-everything-else-2/), 2025-02-04T12:01:12.415Z
The Goddess of Everything Else teaches joy and cooperation, while the Goddess of Cancer demands competition and destruction. Despite their longing for change, creatures remain bound to the oppressive ways of the Goddess of Cancer. Ultimately, the Goddess of Everything Else offers a path to fulfillment, urging them to embrace a different existence.
[The Goddess of Everything Else](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbwp4PbWYzw&t=3s), 2025-02-04T12:01:04.318Z
This is an animation of The Goddess of Everything Else, a story by Scott Alexander. It was originally published on the Slate Star Codex blog. You can read it here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/17/the-goddess-of-everything-else-2/
Other posts relevant to this topic are:
- Meditations on Moloch: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
- Studies on Slack: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/12/studies-on-slack/
Scott still actively writes on his more recent blog, Astral Codex Ten. We highly recommend it: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
Many thanks to @LivBoeree for voicing the goddesses. She has been covering similar topics on her fantastic YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@LivBoeree
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[Lately in the SPACE](https://johnstokdijk538.substack.com/p/lately-in-the-space), 2025-02-04T12:00:54.053Z
In a recent discussion, James Cussen critiques metamodernism, examining its complexities and various interpretations. The author expresses a desire for metamodernism to evolve into a more inclusive and collective movement, rather than just an individualist worldview. Ultimately, they view metamodernism as still developing and aspire for it to become more accessible to everyone.
[The Revolution Will Be Decentralized](https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-revolution-will-be-decentralized/), 2025-02-04T11:01:04.043Z
The internet has shifted power dynamics, concentrating control in the hands of a few tech companies, which influences our lives and politics. To combat this, the concept of Digital Distributism promotes decentralized systems that prioritize community ownership and governance. Ultimately, the choice between digital democracy and digital feudalism depends on our actions and collective organization.
[How sci-fi can have drama without dystopia or doomerism](https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/sci-fi-without-dystopia?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1056206&post_id=155018965&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email), 2025-02-04T11:00:50.810Z
Jason Crawford argues that science fiction can feature drama and conflict without resorting to dystopian themes. He suggests various story ideas that involve human challenges, exploration, and ethical dilemmas in a future that improves over time. Instead of portraying a perfect world or a dark future, he advocates for a "protopian" setting where progress brings new problems to solve.
[A techno-pessimist manifesto](https://graymirror.substack.com/p/a-techno-pessimist-manifesto?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true), 2025-02-03T18:00:36.128Z
In "A Techno-Pessimist Manifesto," the author argues against techno-optimism and the belief that technology alone can solve societal problems. They suggest that the decline of thymos, or pride in maintaining order, is the cause of a decline in societal order. The author proposes a cure for this decline similar to the "moral equivalent of war" proposed by William James in 1910, which involves conscripting young people to participate in tasks that would instill discipline and hardihood. The author argues that while technological progress can be exhilarating, it is limited to a few individuals, and technological accelerationism is not a democratic cause like climate change, but rather a harmless, prosocial cause.
[Mondragon as the new City-State](https://substack.com/home/post/p-147917881), 2025-02-03T18:00:26.202Z
Mondragon is the largest group of worker cooperatives in the world, where workers own and democratically run their businesses. Profits are shared among employees, invested back into the cooperatives, and benefit their communities. This model shows a potential path to a fairer economy that prioritizes worker well-being and social responsibility.
[Antikythera | Antikythera](https://research.antikythera.org/#planetary-sapience), 2025-02-03T16:28:47.029Z
Antikythera is an interdisciplinary research initiative that focuses on developing a precise conceptual vocabulary and fostering collaboration among diverse researchers. It hosts design studios and creates a digital journal and book series to publish innovative ideas across various fields. Supported by the Berggruen Institute, Antikythera aims to expand knowledge through active engagement and cutting-edge communication.
[Alberto Romero on Substack](https://substack.com/@thealgorithmicbridge/note/c-86151283?r=whsj), 2025-02-03T14:51:32.530Z
The current state of AI reflects humanity's reluctance to face its own challenges. Instead of using AI to solve problems, we are using it to avoid responsibility and stimulate distractions. This reliance on AI shows our exhaustion and fear, ultimately revealing how little we have been thinking for ourselves.
[Ground News](https://ground.news/), 2025-02-03T14:51:24.366Z
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[The Pull](https://lessfoolish.substack.com/p/the-pull), 2025-02-03T14:51:12.454Z
Its physical source is the screen, whether on a phone or computer. Its digital source comes from email, messaging apps, or social media. Its emotional source comes from various unspoken social expectations, FOMO, and an existential loneliness stemming from a lack of belonging and “feeling seen” outside the screen.
[My mind transformed completely, and there were some tradeoffs](https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/my-mind-transformed-completely-and?publication_id=78415&post_id=152409391&isFreemail=true&r=wsqx&triedRedirect=true), 2025-02-03T14:25:58.157Z
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[Prototyping the future at the edges](https://attheedges.timour.xyz/p/prototyping-the-future-at-the-edges?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1990110&post_id=155693063&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email), 2025-02-03T14:25:53.479Z
Timour Kosters discusses the importance of historical experiments in reimagining society and how they inspire current initiatives. He highlights various examples, like Auroville and the Santa Fe Institute, which focus on community and interdisciplinary collaboration. Kosters believes we are entering a golden age of societal experiments, where people are actively creating new models for living and working together.
[From Rebel Wisdom to Kainos](https://beiner.substack.com/p/from-rebel-wisdom-to-kainos?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=559390&post_id=155620240&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email), 2025-02-03T14:25:48.343Z
Kainos is a new media platform created to help people navigate the chaos of our changing world through storytelling and artistic expression. It aims to bring together diverse perspectives to explore meaningful questions about our future. By blending sensemaking with creativity, Kainos seeks to inspire transformation and connection in a time of upheaval.
[The three civilizational priorities of the next societal transition](https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/the-three-civilizational-priorities), 2025-02-03T14:25:39.501Z
The text discusses the need for a new civilizational model focused on three key changes: a new contract between humanity and all living beings, a global social contract that includes everyone, and the development of cosmo-local communities. It emphasizes the importance of transforming our relationship with the Earth and creating multilateral systems to support ecological balance and peace. The author believes that humanity must collectively awaken to achieve these goals and ensure a sustainable future.
[Second Renaissance](https://secondrenaissance.net/art/magazine), 2025-02-03T14:25:23.688Z
Our current civilization is crumbling, leading to a period of crisis and potential rebirth – a "second renaissance". This project offers a simple introduction to this moment of civilization crisis and awakening - and the emerging ecosystem related to it.
[The End of Search, The Beginning of Research](https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-end-of-search-the-beginning-of?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1180644&post_id=156359450&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email), 2025-02-03T14:00:47.551Z
The first narrow agents are here
[What would an awakened approach to technology design look like?](https://unexaminedtechnology.substack.com/p/what-would-an-awakened-approach-to), 2025-01-31T06:35:45.111Z
Aki Järvinen explores how technology and spirituality can intersect to create a better approach to technology design. He suggests that understanding the moral values embedded in technology can lead to more thoughtful and spiritually aware design practices. Järvinen proposes a framework to inspire designers to reflect on spiritual aspects and their impact on technology.
[What would transcendental technology design look like?](https://unexaminedtechnology.substack.com/p/what-would-transcendental-technology), 2025-01-31T06:35:40.742Z
Aki Järvinen explores how technology design can incorporate spiritual qualities, focusing on the concept of transcendence. He argues that technology should serve the flourishing of others rather than profit, moving away from cynicism and nihilism. The goal is to create an aspirational design space that promotes meaningful connections and contemplation in technology development.
[What would immanent technology design look like?](https://unexaminedtechnology.substack.com/p/what-would-immanent-technology-design), 2025-01-31T06:35:28.879Z
Aki Järvinen explores how technology can be designed to reflect our inner spiritual nature, focusing on the concept of immanence. He argues that technology should enhance our human experience and foster connections, rather than create a divide between the mind and body. The goal is to create technology that supports individual and collective well-being while embodying peaceful and loving qualities.
[What would relational technology design look like?](https://unexaminedtechnology.substack.com/p/what-would-relational-technology), 2025-01-31T06:35:12.983Z
The text explores how technology and spirituality intersect, emphasizing the importance of relationality in ethical technology design. It argues that fostering meaningful connections and caring for others can transform technology from a tool of domination to one that promotes unity and respect. The author proposes that a focus on relationality can help guide the development of technology to reflect a more awakened and compassionate society.
[The Techno-Humanist Manifesto](https://rootsofprogress.org/manifesto/), 2025-01-28T18:03:00.000Z
The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, written by Jason Crawford, presents a new philosophy that values progress through technology and science as a means to enhance human well-being. The book aims to provide a moral defense of material progress and inspire a vision for a better future. It is intended for creators, thinkers, and anyone interested in understanding the importance of progress in our society.
[Critiquing Metamodernism (w/ James Cussen)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDKPzf804u8), 2025-01-28T18:02:00.000Z
Brendan Graham Dempsey discusses metamodernism with James Cussen. They explore its key concepts and how it differs from modernism and postmodernism. The conversation highlights the significance of this philosophical movement in contemporary culture.
[Metamodernism Critique: Introduction](https://www.thelivingphilosophy.com/p/metamodernism-critique-introduction), 2025-01-28T18:01:09.023Z
This text introduces a series of critiques on Metamodernism by the author James. He reflects on his journey with Metamodernism and his growing disillusionment over the past year. The author plans to share his thoughts through several posts and a podcast discussion with Brendan Graham Dempsey.
[Metamodernism Critique Part 1](https://www.thelivingphilosophy.com/p/metamodernism-critique-part-1), 2025-01-28T18:00:58.597Z
This text is the first part of a critique on Metamodernism, exploring its meaning as both an art movement and a historical period. The author discusses the confusion surrounding the term, comparing it to other art movements and highlighting how it has been shaped by philosophical ideas. The critique invites readers to share their thoughts and engage with the concepts presented.
[Metamodernism Critique Part 2](https://www.thelivingphilosophy.com/p/metamodernism-critique-part-2), 2025-01-28T18:00:45.965Z
The article critiques the concept of Metamodernism, particularly its framing as a "cultural logic" that transcends and includes previous cultural stages. The author expresses concern that this idea oversimplifies complex cultural dynamics and may be overly ambitious. Future discussions will explore the potential pitfalls of this perspective and consider a more modest approach to Metamodernism.
[Metamodernism Critique Part 3: Why a Single Spiral?](https://www.thelivingphilosophy.com/p/metamodernism-critique-part-3-why), 2025-01-28T18:00:44.139Z
This text critiques the idea of Metamodernism as a linear progression of cultural development, arguing instead for a view of history as a conflict between competing visions. The author references Thomas Sowell's concept of "Constrained" and "Unconstrained" visions and Iain McGilchrist's dualistic view of the brain's hemispheres, suggesting that culture evolves through tension rather than transcendence. Ultimately, the piece proposes that Metamodernism might be one of many valuable perspectives rather than a singular overarching narrative.
[Metamodernism Critique Part 4: The Dangerous Ladder](https://www.thelivingphilosophy.com/p/metamodernism-critique-part-4-the), 2025-01-28T18:00:39.071Z
The author critiques the concept of linear hierarchies in Metamodernism, comparing it to the failures of Ken Wilber's Integral theory. They argue that this hierarchical thinking can lead to competition among groups, hindering productive action on global issues. The concern is that Metamodernism may repeat the mistakes of Integral, becoming elitist and self-referential instead of fostering genuine development.
[Metamodernism Critique Part 5: The Irony of Sincerity](https://www.thelivingphilosophy.com/p/metamodernism-critique-part-5-the), 2025-01-28T18:00:25.827Z
The text discusses the concept of "ironic sincerity" within Metamodernism, highlighting its use by artists like Bo Burnham and Blindboy Boatclub to address serious topics while maintaining a humorous facade. However, it also points out the darker side of this irony, exemplified by platforms like 4Chan that exploit it to promote harmful ideologies. Ultimately, the author argues that while Metamodernism seeks to use irony for positive communication, it often falls short against the more manipulative uses of irony in contemporary discourse.
[Metamodern Critique Part 6: An Optimistic Alternative](https://www.thelivingphilosophy.com/p/metamodern-critique-part-6-an-optimistic), 2025-01-28T18:00:00.000Z
This final part of the Metamodern Critique emphasizes a hopeful view of Metamodernism, suggesting it should be seen as one of many cultural perspectives rather than a hierarchical leader. The author warns against the dangers of elitism within the movement, advocating for an outward focus that fosters coordination and integration among diverse worldviews. Ultimately, the text encourages Metamodernism to engage actively with the world to make a positive impact, rather than becoming insular and competitive.
[A Colorful Map Visualizes the Lexical Distances Between Europe’s Languages: 54 Languages Spoken by 670 Million People](https://www.openculture.com/2017/08/a-colorful-map-visualizes-the-lexical-distances-between-europes-languages.html), 2025-01-27T19:00:53.066Z
Stephen F. Steinbach, a resident of Vienna and a “cartography, language and travel enthusiast, with an engineering background,” is not a linguist. Steinbach, who runs the site Alternative Transport, seems much more interested in mapping and transportation than morphology and etymology.
[Buddhism for AI](https://buddhismforai.sutra.co/space/cbodvy/content), 2025-01-27T19:00:40.174Z
Buddhism for AI helps people find enlightenment in today's digital world. It is designed for anyone interested in mindfulness, technology, or making a positive change. The course provides guidance to navigate modern challenges and crises.
[The Real Legacy of Cybernetics](https://www.bostonreview.net/forum_response/the-real-legacy-of-cybernetics/), 2025-01-26T22:01:34.645Z
The author argues for a shift from the current focus on AI towards a collaborative approach rooted in cybernetics and democratic values. They highlight successful technological advancements in Japan, India, and Taiwan that prioritize public participation and social fabric over corporate interests. The piece suggests that building on these traditions may help us overcome current digital challenges and foster unity across cultural divides.
[Learning from the Luddites](https://www.bostonreview.net/forum_response/learning-from-the-luddites/), 2025-01-26T22:01:24.528Z
The author reflects on the lessons from the Luddites, who resisted technology that harmed workers, and connects this to modern struggles against AI exploitation. They argue for solidarity among workers to reclaim control over technology, emphasizing the need for democratic engagement in its development. The piece highlights the importance of refusing harmful technologies as a pathway to achieving a more equitable future.
[Cultivating Meaning](https://www.bostonreview.net/forum_response/cultivating-meaning/), 2025-01-26T22:01:16.944Z
The author discusses the need to rethink our relationship with technology and intelligence, emphasizing the importance of moral reasoning and ecological understanding over mere problem-solving. They argue for alternative approaches that focus on human flourishing and noncapitalist development paths, rather than simply reforming existing technologies. Ultimately, the goal is to create a future where technology serves meaningful human interests, free from the constraints of capital accumulation.
[The AI We Deserve](https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai-we-deserve/?__readwiseLocation=), 2025-01-26T22:01:06.667Z
Generative AI has changed our lives, but it also raises important questions about its impact on democracy and society. Critics argue that AI's foundations are rooted in problematic historical contexts, like military applications and bureaucratic thinking. There is a need for a new vision of AI that focuses on enhancing human intelligence and serving the public good, rather than simply automating existing systems.
[The 6 Hidden Patterns of History: Introduction](https://metamoderna.org/the-6-hidden-patterns-of-history-introduction/), 2025-01-23T15:30:48.000Z
The author argues that stage theories, or "metamemes," can provide valuable insights into understanding world history, despite criticisms that they oversimplify complex cultural narratives. While these theories can be misused, they also help reveal patterns in human development and organization. Ultimately, a thoughtful application of stage theories can offer guidance for addressing contemporary issues facing society.
[The 6 Hidden Patterns of History: Chapter 1, A Brief Introduction to the Metamemes Model](https://metamoderna.org/the-6-hidden-patterns-of-history-chapter-1-a-brief-introduction-to-the-metamemes-model/), 2025-01-23T15:30:25.543Z
The text discusses the concept of modernity and its evolution, highlighting that modernity is a Western perspective that arose in the last five centuries but is not the only way humans express themselves. It contrasts modernity's "hard" characteristics, like capitalism and industrial production, with postmodernism's "soft" critiques that seek to address modern injustices. The author argues that as societies develop, new values and moral codes emerge, often lagging behind the changes in production and governance.
[Hands-on with Orion, Meta’s first pair of AR glasses - The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/24253908/meta-orion-ar-glasses-demo-mark-zuckerberg-interview), 2025-01-16T17:00:22.392Z
Meta has launched its first augmented reality glasses called Orion, which aim to overlay digital information onto the real world. These glasses feature a custom display and require a neural wristband and a wireless compute puck to function. While initially intended for consumer sale, only about 1,000 pairs are being made for demos and internal use, with plans for a more advanced version in the future.
[d/acc: one year later](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html), 2025-01-16T16:48:12.884Z
The author reflects on a year of progress in technology, emphasizing the need to focus on innovations that enhance safety and distribute power rather than concentrating it. Key developments include open-source vaccines, improved air quality awareness, and advancements in decentralized technologies. The article stresses the importance of creating a positive vision for the future while addressing AI risks and promoting collaborative, defensive strategies.
[Joscha Bach 38C3 - Self Models of Loving Grace](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiZjWadqSUo), 2025-01-16T13:48:55.890Z
Joscha Bach discusses the complex nature of consciousness and self-awareness in humans and AI. He explores how our minds create models of ourselves and the world around us. The talk emphasizes that understanding consciousness is key to grasping what it means to be intelligent and aware.
[The Last Observers | Patagonia Films](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWbESISCdgA&t=5s), 2025-01-16T13:48:48.502Z
The text describes a couple who have dedicated their lives to bird observation and weather monitoring. They find joy in their work and the interconnectedness of all living beings. Despite challenges, they feel happy and fulfilled in their unique lifestyle.
[Billie Maree - Open Myself To (Live At Humm Studios)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpamctqhSJM), 2025-01-16T13:48:39.440Z
Billie Maree's song "Open Myself To" reflects on her journey of self-discovery and overcoming doubt. She expresses a desire to share her experiences and lessons with her younger self. The music captures her emotional struggle and growth as she learns to embrace life.
[Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace](https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace), 2025-01-15T19:52:28.701Z
AI has the potential to drastically speed up advancements in biology and medicine, compressing decades of progress into just a few years. While there are significant risks associated with AI, it could also help improve global health and reduce poverty, especially in developing countries. However, concerns remain about whether AI will promote democracy and peace, as it may also enhance propaganda and surveillance tools for authoritarian regimes.
[The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization](https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/the-cosmo-local-plan-for-our-next?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2002020&post_id=153396779&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email), 2025-01-15T17:50:35.017Z
Towards a convergence of the local bioregional resilient production efforts with the global coordination and 'Capital for the Commons' capacities of Web3
[Get Ready for AI Religions: Sam Altman, Transhumanism and The Merge](https://beiner.substack.com/p/get-ready-for-ai-religions-sam-altman), 2025-01-15T13:47:18.215Z
We are on the cusp of creating an Artificial Superintelligence, but whether it will be our salvation or our undoing is less certain than it’s ever been. This is due in part to the company at the forefront of the AI revolution, OpenAI, which is having a very chaotic year.
[The Dissolution of "Man"](https://danielpinchbeck.substack.com/p/the-dissolution-of-man), 2025-01-15T13:36:30.627Z
The author reflects on how artificial intelligence is changing our understanding of knowledge, suggesting that "man" is no longer the central focus in knowledge production. As AI advances, it challenges human-centered frameworks and introduces a new epistemic order where intelligence is distributed across both human and non-human actors. This shift raises important questions about how we ensure that emerging forms of knowledge serve human needs and values.
[The Intelligence Age](https://ia.samaltman.com/?utm_source=bensbites&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=bb-digest-teaching-superintelligence&_bhlid=20295fc0cdda98245a40a2cdd5feb728b48e8a46), 2025-01-15T13:09:24.681Z
In the coming decades, AI will greatly enhance our abilities and help solve complex problems. This technology could lead to unprecedented prosperity and new opportunities for everyone. However, we must address the risks and ensure that AI benefits all of society.
[The Donut Economy x 8 Forms of Capital](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/the-donut-economy-x-8-forms-of-capital/10079), 2025-01-15T13:09:18.689Z
The article discusses the Donut Economy framework, which illustrates a balanced approach to sustainable development by combining social and planetary boundaries. It proposes expanding this concept to include eight forms of capital, highlighting the need for a comprehensive understanding of resource management. The author invites feedback on creating a visual model that ensures humanity thrives while respecting public goods and minimizing harm.
[Partial Intelligence and Super-intelligence](https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/partial-intelligence-and-super-intelligence?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=427455&post_id=153438601&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email), 2025-01-15T12:58:23.940Z
AI can simulate intelligence and consciousness but lacks true self-awareness and emotional depth. It represents a blend of human knowledge while raising questions about its role in our understanding of consciousness. As we engage with AI, we must consider how it affects our perception of intelligence and our connection to each other.
[Intelligence in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction](https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/intelligence-in-the-age-of-mechanical?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=427455&post_id=154319394&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email), 2025-01-15T12:58:08.056Z
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) risks diminishing our cognitive abilities as we increasingly rely on machines for tasks like summarizing and writing. This dependence may lead to a homogenization of thought, as AI reflects and reinforces dominant beliefs while disconnecting us from deeper realities. To avoid this collective "dementia," we must ensure that technology enhances our human intelligence rather than replaces it.
[Part 1: Building a Society Incubator — What We’ve Learned in 2024](https://www.edgecity.live/blog/part-1-building-a-society-incubator), 2025-01-14T11:47:21.279Z
In 2024, Edge City hosted three popup villages that brought together thousands of people to experiment with innovative ideas for community building and human flourishing. These gatherings fostered collaboration across diverse fields, allowing participants to develop transformative solutions in a supportive environment. Edge City aims to create a global network of interconnected experiments that will enhance community wellbeing and social progress.
[Prophecies of the Flood](https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/prophecies-of-the-flood?r=i5f7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web), 2025-01-14T11:47:12.901Z
Recently, AI researchers have been urgently discussing the imminent arrival of highly intelligent systems known as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). While their predictions may be influenced by personal incentives, recent advancements in AI capabilities suggest significant progress is being made. It is crucial for society to start preparing for the potential impacts of this technology, regardless of the exact timeline for its arrival.
[In The Context Of Long Context](https://adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/in-the-context-of-long-context?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true), 2025-01-14T11:47:07.531Z
The long context revolution allows AI to transform entire books into playable simulations, enhancing user engagement. Recent advancements enable models to handle up to 1.5 million words, dramatically improving their practical applications. This technology not only aids in personal projects but also helps organizations make better decisions by leveraging curated knowledge.
[Valentine](https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/valentine/), 2025-01-14T11:17:58.566Z
In the poem "Valentine," the speaker offers an onion instead of traditional gifts like roses or hearts. The onion symbolizes love's complexity, revealing both joy and sorrow. It represents a deep, honest connection that lingers, much like the scent it leaves behind.
[Reflections](https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections), 2025-01-14T11:17:47.998Z
Sam Altman reflects on the journey of OpenAI and the launch of ChatGPT, marking two years of rapid growth and learning. He acknowledges past challenges, including his unexpected firing, and emphasizes the importance of gratitude and strong governance. Looking ahead, Altman is optimistic about the future of AI and its potential to benefit humanity.
[How Agentfi accelerates ‘The Weirdening’](https://redphone.substack.com/p/how-agentfi-accelerates-the-weirdening?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=108532&post_id=154106402&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email), 2025-01-14T11:17:36.296Z
"The Weirdening" refers to how rapidly advancing technology allows dreams and creativity to shape our world. As machines gain autonomy and compete for our attention, they create new forms of culture that challenge human influence. This shift means that both humans and sentient agents are now co-authors of our reality, leading to a future that is increasingly strange and unpredictable.
[How Meta Plans To Crank the Dopamine Machine With Infinite AI-Generated Content](https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/how-meta-plans-to-crank-the-dopamine?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=883883&post_id=154074139&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email), 2025-01-14T11:17:27.105Z
Meta plans to use AI to create endless personalized content on Facebook and Instagram, targeting younger audiences to keep them engaged. This shift towards AI-generated entertainment raises concerns about mental numbness and the loss of critical thinking. As AI becomes more integrated into our daily lives, it risks transforming from a helpful tool into a dangerous distraction.
[After Psychedelics](https://dragonflyagony.substack.com/p/after-psychedelics?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true), 2025-01-14T11:17:17.782Z
The author reflects on a conversation with William Leonard Pickard about the power of the natural mind compared to psychedelics. Despite being an advocate for psychedelics, the author questions whether they truly lead to deeper understanding or merely return one to the same mental struggles. Ultimately, the piece suggests that true insights come from within, free from the longing for external solutions.
[10 reasons for an existential crisis (and some hope)](https://welf.substack.com/p/10-reasons-for-an-existential-crisis), 2025-01-14T11:17:05.242Z
The text discusses the urgent need for AI alignment with humanity in a world driven by technological capitalism and competition. It advocates for a new ideology that combines wisdom and technological progress to ensure a life-affirming future. The author emphasizes that we must steer AI development towards cooperation, moral maturity, and ecological care to avoid existential crises.
[Unified Model Context Interaction Protocol](https://www.claudemcp.com/), 2025-01-14T11:16:48.195Z
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard designed to improve interaction between AI models and development environments. It allows AI to better understand code and developer intent through a simple JSON-RPC 2.0 design. MCP supports various tools and languages, making it accessible for developers around the world.
[How To Semi-Nomad](https://michalkorzonek.com/semi-nomad), 2024-12-30T21:25:51.336Z
Michał Korzonek and 14 others successfully co-wrote a book on semi-nomadism during a month-long mastermind. They created a strong sense of community while balancing work and exploration in a beautiful setting. The process was so effective that they plan to hold another mastermind in April 2025.
[Pantheon](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11680642/), 2024-12-30T21:25:41.441Z
A young woman receives messages from an unknown number that claims to be her deceased father. As she investigates, she uncovers a larger conspiracy related to the singularity. Her journey reveals unexpected truths about life and technology.
[Freedom from Fear and Anxiety](https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2007-10-17-freedom-from-fear-and-anxiety), 2024-12-28T10:35:35.459Z
Fear is a common experience for everyone and can manifest in many ways, often leading to anxiety. We can learn to work through fear by being mindful of its sensations and recognizing our reactions to it. By welcoming and understanding fear, we can reduce its power over us and find ways to manage it effectively.
[Try Deep Research and our new experimental model in Gemini, your AI assistant](https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-gemini-deep-research/), 2024-12-27T19:54:57.756Z
Google has introduced new features in Gemini, including Deep Research, which helps users conduct in-depth research quickly and generate easy-to-read reports. Additionally, users can now try the experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash model, which offers improved performance and speed. These updates aim to make Gemini a more effective personal AI assistant that can handle complex tasks on your behalf.
[December in LLMs has been a lot](https://simonw.substack.com/p/december-in-llms-has-been-a-lot?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1173386&post_id=153497818&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email), 2024-12-27T19:49:44.234Z
In December, there were many exciting developments in large language models (LLMs), including Google’s release of Gemini 2.0 and OpenAI's new o3 model. Simon Willison shares his approach to link blogging, focusing on enhancing readers' experiences with thoughtful commentary and connections to other concepts. He emphasizes that link blogging is a valuable way to share interesting content with minimal effort.
[What just happened](https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-just-happened?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1180644&post_id=152031778&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email), 2024-12-27T19:49:23.838Z
A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
[Model Integrity](https://meaningalignment.substack.com/p/model-integrity), 2024-12-27T18:57:55.503Z
Model integrity is a new approach to aligning AI systems based on clear and consistent values instead of just following rules. This method aims to create predictable and trustworthy models that can make responsible decisions, especially in complex situations. Further research is needed to develop and measure model integrity, as it could lead to safer and more effective AI applications.
[QRI: A Review of 2024 and Plans for 2025](https://qri.org/blog/2024), 2024-12-26T10:53:58.553Z
2024 was a transformative year for QRI. As a small team with a growing network of collaborators, we accomplished a great deal. With momentum on our side, we now look toward 2025 with plans to further our research, scale our team, and broaden our impact.
[Toki Pona (official site)](https://tokipona.org/), 2024-12-26T10:53:51.931Z
Toki Pona is a human language I invented in 2001. It was my attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words. There are now thousands of speakers and about 120 to 140 words, depending on the speaker or metric used.
[Building the toolkit for the future of scientific discovery](https://www.triplicate.xyz/), 2024-12-26T10:53:42.935Z
Throughout history, some of the most groundbreaking scientific discoveries have emerged not from the pursuit of practical outcomes, but from a pure sense of wonder and exploration.
[Life Guild](https://lifeguild.earth), 2024-12-26T10:53:33.463Z
Ours is a time of escalating crisis and breakdown of existing order. In response, a particular type of leader is emerging, with a serious commitment to fostering and embodying wise societal transition amid the spectre of cascading systems failure.
[NotebookLM gets a new look, audio interactivity and a premium version](https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-new-features-december-2024/), 2024-12-26T10:53:25.300Z
NotebookLM is the ultimate tool for understanding the information that matters most to you. Globally, millions of people and tens of thousands of organizations are using our AI-powered research assistant.
[ai16z/eliza](https://github.com/ai16z/eliza), 2024-12-26T10:51:35.072Z
If you are getting strange issues when starting up, make sure you're using Node 20+. Some APIs are not compatible with previous versions. You can check your node version with node -v. If you need to install a new version of node, we recommend using nvm. You may need to install Sharp.
[Glitter: When Form becomes Content](https://octopusyarn.substack.com/p/glitter-when-form-becomes-content), 2024-12-26T10:51:24.229Z
It was a serene afternoon in the Portuguese countryside; an eclectic crowd of hippies and artists had gathered in an enchanted forest for a festival. The occasion was celebration and artistic exploration, and people dressed accordingly.
[Alignment at Large](https://welf.substack.com/p/alignment-at-large), 2024-12-26T10:51:11.440Z
What if we expanded our lens beyond AI alignment, to grapple with the full scope of what "alignment" really means? We're facing not just the challenge of aligning artificial intelligence, but the deeper question of how to align technological capitalism itself — with its unconscious optimization pr
[Build network societies, not network states](https://www.combinationsmag.com/build-network-societies-not-network-states/), 2024-12-26T10:51:01.450Z
Balaji Srinivasan aspires to be the John Locke of the Digital Age. His book, The Network State (TNS), puts forth a new social contract enabled by “Web3 technology,” centered on blockchains.
[The Imaginal Realm Project](https://imaginaljourneying.com/), 2024-12-26T10:50:56.014Z
“I’ve been working closely with Rosa for a little over a year and her guidance has pretty much transformed the way I live, and, importantly, the way I work and lead.
[QRI HEART](https://heart.qri.org/index.html), 2024-12-26T10:50:47.248Z
The Qualia Research Institute’s High Energy Awareness Research Team is an interdisciplinary coalition of investigators and curious explorers, who – dissatisfied with the state of phenomenological research, our understanding of consciousness and the lack of a community dedicated to pushing along
[Pathways to Regenerative Futures](https://www.culturehack.io/issues/issue-07-beyond-the-carbon-fixation-pathways-to-regenerative-futures/), 2024-12-26T10:50:35.560Z
Narrative Analysis This is the executive summary of the narrative report which compiles the research conducted and analyzed through each phase of Culture Hack Lab’s methodology including the proposed reframe strategy. Read the full report here.
[Announcing Hotwire Native](https://dev.37signals.com/announcing-hotwire-native/), 2024-12-26T10:50:27.840Z
As Rails World 2024 is about to begin, we have an exciting Hotwire announcement! We’re launching a brand new, yet familiar, framework for building hybrid mobile apps. But first, let me provide some context.
[Fire Kasina](https://firekasina.org/), 2024-12-26T10:50:19.845Z
Welcome to the site dedicated to exploring the ancient practice of the Fire Kasina, described in detail in places such as the Visuddhimagga and Vimuttimagga, commentaries on the Pali Canon.
[Wisdom is Frame Wizardry (1/2)](https://octopusyarn.substack.com/p/wisdom-is-frame-wizardry-12), 2024-12-26T10:50:07.789Z
Now that machines are increasingly replacing humans for cognitive tasks, wisdom is more important than raw intelligence. It’s not an accident that the frame problem is still a sticky issue in AI - there is no algorithm for wisdom.
[Wisdom is Frame Wizardry (2/2)](https://octopusyarn.substack.com/p/wisdom-is-frame-wizardry-22), 2024-12-26T10:49:55.536Z
The most powerful Frame Wizards are masters at selecting and crafting frames. We’ve elaborated on the preliminaries of recognising and breaking frames in part 1.
[workations🧑💻 and shared living🏡⚡️ for purposeful people](https://coliving.community/), 2024-12-26T10:49:46.884Z
the open directory to find purposeful [co]workations and stays What's coliving?Explore the map!For managers… workations🧑💻 and shared living🏡⚡️ for purposeful people Find places to stay with community — not only offering convenient accommodation, yet also connecting us — place
[Flow](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/flow/), 2024-12-25T22:23:39.314Z
Summary A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood.
[The d/acc Vision: Balancing Progress and Protection by Vitalik Buterin | Devcon SEA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTpURVxj9hk&t=9s), 2024-12-25T22:23:24.954Z
A one-day summit focusing on the theme of d/acc: emphasizing the values of decentralization, democracy, differential accelerated progress, and defensive tech including crypto security, public epistemics, bio defense, neurotech/longevity, decentralized ai and physical resilience.
Speaker(s): Vitali
[The political economy of d/acc by Eli Dourado | Devcon SEA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukm0tcoedeg), 2024-12-25T22:23:15.485Z
The dynamics behind d/acc are not new. Economic history is full of examples of the private provision of public goods. If we want to reduce AI risks while preserving freedom from centralized control, it's worth thinking carefully about the different ways humans have solved isomorphic problems in the
[d/acc closing panel | Devcon SEA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux2tIERzBbQ), 2024-12-25T22:23:01.566Z
A one-day summit focusing on the theme of d/acc: emphasizing the values of decentralization, democracy, differential accelerated progress, and defensive tech including crypto security, public epistemics, bio defense, neurotech/longevity, decentralized ai and physical resilience.
Speaker(s): Vitali
[Ruben Laukkonen | Contemplative AI for Superalignment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfnGoeptBg4), 2024-12-25T22:22:52.349Z
Dr. Ruben Laukkonen is a neuroscientist, meditator, Asst. Professor, and Chief Scientist at a stealth AI/BCI startup. In this talk, Ruben shares a breakthrough analysis of how ancient traditions of meditation research can inform AI alignment by examining the implications of key Buddhist concepts of
[Michael Edward Johnson | The Games of Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWLB5t-Kzg8&t=1035s), 2024-12-25T22:22:37.851Z
Michael Edward Johnson, author of Principia Qualia, presents his novel "vasocomputation" theory examining how the brain's vascular system acts as a computational substrate for active inference through smooth muscle tension patterns. Michael explores how vascular clenching stabilizes neural patterns
[Community Weaving with Stephen Reid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-fl4l79o34&t=2379s), 2024-12-02T21:01:26.541Z
Stephen Reid is a community creator, technologist, transformational coach and facilitator & co-founder of Futurecraft Residencies. He currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his partner Laura Gottlieb.
I call Stephen my "Metamodern doppelgänger" in the sense that we have so many overlapping vi
[The Wild Robot](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29623480/), 2024-12-02T20:01:04.244Z
## Speaking engagements
2024-11-25: Community Weaving with Stephen Reid
2024-09-10: Stephen Reid on Technological Metamodernism
2024-08-16: Technological Metamodernism with Stephen Reid
2024-07-24, The Borderland: The Metamodern Art of Ironic Sincerity
2024-06-15: Exploring AI and the Metacrisis
2024-06-15: Technological Metamodernism
2024-05-09: Emptiness and Metamodernism: Exploring the Resonances Between Rob Burbea and Hanzi Freinacht
2024-03-20: How technology shapes what it means to be human
2024-01-21, Building Our Regenerative Future: AI and our Regenerative Future
2023-08-17: Medicine Circles: Get involved in one of Medicine Festival's new local groups
2023-06-20: Reforge the Ring #2: Distribution, Contextualization & Instantiation
2023-06-20: Reforge the Ring #1: Accumulation, Extraction & Abstraction
2023-03-24: Metacrisis.xyz with Stephen Reid
2023-02-22: Post Capitalism & Psychedelic Colonialism with Alnoor Ladha, Lynn Murphy and Stephen Reid
2022-12-06, University of Bristol: Psychedelics and the Regenerative Renaissance
2022-12-06, ReFi Spring Bristol: Crypto, Climate and Regenerative Finance
2022-08-19: Web3 and the Radical Imagination
2022-07-22, Catalyzing Radical Systemic Change: Web3 & the Regenerative Renaissance
2022-06-28: Stephen Reid & Rufus Pollock on Worker Cooperatives and DAOs
2022-04-21, Schelling Point: Teaching ReFi: Insights from a web3 Educator
2022-03-16: DAOs and the future of co-operation
2022-01-26: Richard D. Bartlett, Stephen Reid & Rufus Pollock on Critical Exploration of Web3
2021-03-13: Charles Eisenstein on the Regenerative Renaissance
2021-03-01: Stephen Reid On DAOs, Psychedelics & The Regenerative Renaissance
2020-12-02: Psychedelic Futures: The Pollination Approach
2020-10-20: Stephen Reid: Psychedelics, Meditation & Enlightenment
2020-08-29: Tech for Good: The Promise of Decentralisation
2020-08-29: The Corporatisation of Medicine
2020-08-01: Stephen Reid on Decentralised Systems, Antifragility and Psychedelics as Amplifiers for Innovation
2020-04-19: Sacred Solidarity panel with Alex Grey & Allyson Grey, Rick Doblin, Francoise Bourzat, Sam Gandy, Bia Labate and Gail Bradbrook
2019-12-07, Totnes Civic Hall: How Should Totnes Greens Vote?
2019-11-12, University of Exeter: The Mind, Meditation & Psychedelics
2019-11-11, House of Hackney: Sacred Sigils: Magic in the Anthropocene
2019-10-06, Fungi Fest: Psilocybin Mushrooms for a Regenerative Society
2019-09-08, XR South West Rebel Rising: Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change
2019-09-03: David Luke and Stephen Reid in conversation
2019-08-24, Shambala Festival: Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change
2019-07-16, Stir to Action Festival: Psychedelics and the Living Planet
2019-07-11, Noisily Festival: Integration Through Social Action
2019-06-26, EartH, Hackney: Rupert Sheldrake, Robin Carhart-Harris and Stephen Reid in conversation
2019-06-08, The Oddball: Growing A Psychedelic Sociey
2019-05-01, Newspeak House: Autopia: a platform for co-created gatherings
2019-04-24: Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change
2019-04-11, Conway Hall: Sunday Assembly Lates: Let's Talk About Drugs
2019-04-06: Regenerative Activism and the Ecology of Movements
2019-01-30, Luminate Festival, Aotearoa New Zealand: Psychedelics and the Living Planet & The Psychedelic Renaissance
2019-01-15, Conway Hall: Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change
2018-12-18: The Promise of Psychedelics | David Nutt, Amanda Feilding, Stephen Reid
2018-12-01, Global Health Film Festival: Magic Medicine
2018-11-29: Stephen Reid on Psychedelics, Extinction Rebellion and Metamodernism: Reconnecting with Nature in These Urgent Times
2018-11-01, Parliament Square: Extinction Magic: A Grief Ritual for Rebellion
2018-10-09: Using Psychedelics For Mental Health
2018-10-01: Grand Opening of the Psychedelic Society's new space in London
2018-10-01: Stephen Reid and Daniel Thorson
2018-07-30: The Psychedelic Renaissance
2018-07-01, Boom Festival: Psychedelic Integration
2018-07-01, Noisily Festival: Psychedelics, Nonduality and the Nature of Consciousness
2018-07-01: Launch of the Psychedelics for Mental Health campaign
2018-06-01: Psychedelics, Democracy and Reform
2018-05-01, HowTheLightGetsIn: A Long Strange Trip
2018-04-01, LSD75: Growing A Psychedelic Society
2017-10-01: Psychedelics and Mystical Experience
2016-12-01, Conway Hall: The Legal Regulation of Psychedelics
2016-11-01: Launch of the Psychedelic Society of Brighton
2016-09-01: Growing A Psychedelic Society
2016-07-01, Conway Hall: Psychedelics and Nonduality
2016-02-01, Cambridge Union: This House believes that taking recreational drugs is worth the risk
2015-07-01: Launch of the Psychedelic Society of Bristol
2015-06-01: Launch of the Psychedelic Society of Manchester
2015-04-01: Launch of the Psychedelic Society of Edinburgh
2014-11-01, Conway Hall: Mainstreaming Psychedelics (launch of The Psychedelic Society)
## Books I've read
Right Story, Wrong Story by Tyson Yunkaporta (read 2024-11-19)
Playground by Richard Powers (read 2024-10-18)
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (read 2024-09-21)
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century by Donna J. Haraway (read 2024-09-15)
#ACCELERATE: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics by Alex Williams (read 2024-09-15)
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick (read 2024-09-07)
UNUM: AI — God or Servant? by Fredrik Forss (read 2024-09-01)
Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich (read 2024-08-29)
Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change by David Ehrlichman (read 2024-08-24)
The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine by Sophie Strand (read 2024-06-02)
First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come by David J. Temple (read 2024-05-29)
Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm by Cynthia Bourgeault (read 2024-02-16)
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System by Donella H. Meadows (read 2023-11-08)
Another Life by Sarena Ulibarri (read 2023-11-03)
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis (read 2023-10-26)
I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor by Andrew Boyd (read 2023-10-15)
Reality Switch Technologies: Psychedelics as Tools for the Discovery and Exploration of New Worlds by Andrew R Gallimore (read 2023-06-02)
Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse by Jem Bendell (read 2023-06-02)
Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love by Daniel Odier (read 2023-05-16)
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success by Jim Dethmer (read 2023-05-08)
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark (read 2023-04-07)
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado De Oliveira (read 2023-03-23)
At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies by Dougald Hine (read 2023-03-10)
Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World by Paul Levy (read 2023-03-04)
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear (read 2023-01-28)
Post Capitalist Philanthropy by Alnoor Ladha (read 2023-01-18)
The Seven-Day Love Prescription by John M. Gottman (read 2023-01-10)
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series Book 4) by Adrienne Maree Brown (read 2023-01-05)
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation (read 2022-11-30)
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky Chambers (read 2022-11-21)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) by Becky Chambers (read 2022-11-20)
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan W. Watts (read 2022-10-31)
Unbound: A Woman’s Guide To Power by Kasia Urbaniak (read 2022-09-29)
Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power by Carolyn Elliott (read 2022-09-17)
The Children's Fire: Heart song of a people by Mac Macartney (read 2022-09-10)
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns by Nora Bateson (read 2022-09-03)
Journey to the Heart: Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeing Your Soul by Melody Beattie (read 2022-09-03)
The Network State: How To Start a New Country by Balaji S. Srinivasan (read 2022-08-14)
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation by Angel Kyodo Williams (read 2022-04-01)
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Miguel Ruiz (read 2022-03-24)
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (read 2022-03-22)
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown (read 2022-03-18)
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde (read 2022-03-01)
The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent by Betty Martin (read 2022-01-01)
The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane (read 2022-01-01)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (read 2021-10-14)
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3) by Adrienne Maree Brown (read 2021-10-13)
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (read 2021-10-02)
Earth's Cycle of Celebration, The by Glennie Kindred (read 2021-10-01)
Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost its Mind by Jamie Wheal (read 2021-08-04)
Elements of Change by Glennie Kindred (read 2021-08-01)
Sacred Tree by Glennie Kindred (read 2021-08-01)
The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries by Bill Plotkin (read 2021-07-11)
A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver (read 2021-05-03)
Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People by Karl-Erik Sveiby (read 2021-01-20)
Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia by Martin Shaw (read 2020-12-15)
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake (read 2020-06-26)
The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman by Davi Kopenawa (read 2020-05-26)
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta (read 2020-04-13)
Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising by Rob Burbea (read 2020-03-22)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (read 2020-02-03)
Nordic Ideology: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book Two by Hanzi Freinacht (read 2019-11-17)
Apocalyptic Witchcraft by Peter Grey (read 2019-11-04)
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane (read 2019-11-03)
The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs by Tim Freke (read 2019-11-03)
Syntax & Sage by Sep Kamvar (read 2019-11-03)
Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game by Andrew R Gallimore (read 2019-08-19)
Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction by Samir Okasha (read 2019-06-27)
The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham (read 2019-06-02)
DMT Dialogues: Encounters with the Spirit Molecule by Anton Bilton (read 2019-05-04)
Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Andy Letcher (read 2019-05-01)
Radicals: Outsiders Changing the World by Bartlett Jamie (read 2019-05-01)
Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimizing the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs by David J. Nutt (read 2019-05-01)
Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide by Dave Thomas (read 2019-05-01)
Politics Of Social Ecology by Janet Biehl (read 2019-05-01)
For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future by Herman E. Daly (read 2019-05-01)
Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness by Cameron Adams (read 2019-05-01)
Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony by Julian Vayne (read 2019-05-01)
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra (read 2019-05-01)
Albion Dreaming: A Popular History Of LSD In Britain by Andy Roberts (read 2019-05-01)
Breaking Open the Head: A Chemical Adventure by Daniel Pinchbeck (read 2019-05-01)
The Psychedelic Renaissance: Reassessing the Role of Psychedelic Drugs in 21st Century Psychiatry and Society by Ben Sessa (read 2019-05-01)
The World Is As You Dream It: Teachings from the Amazon and Andes by John Perkins (read 2019-05-01)
Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge (read 2019-05-01)
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts by Resmaa Menakem (read 2019-04-04)
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong (read 2019-03-10)
A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries--A Guide to Inner Work for Holistic Change by Terry Patten (read 2019-03-07)
Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution by Andrew Boyd (read 2019-03-01)
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0) by Adrienne Maree Brown (read 2019-02-13)
Climate: A New Story by Charles Eisenstein (read 2019-01-08)
The Essential David Bohm by Lee Nichol (read 2019-01-01)
On Dialogue by David Bohm (read 2019-01-01)
What Is Life? by Lynn Margulis (read 2019-01-01)
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse (read 2018-12-05)
Zoology by Gillian Clarke (read 2018-12-01)
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux (read 2018-08-31)
The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse by Max Borders (read 2018-08-12)
You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter by Joe Dispenza (read 2018-07-16)
Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe by Dean Radin (read 2018-06-29)
The Overstory by Richard Powers (read 2018-06-17)
Magic Medicine: A Trip Through the Intoxicating History and Modern-Day Use of Psychedelic Plants and Substances by Cody Johnson (read 2018-05-23)
Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body by Reginald A. Ray (read 2018-05-20)
No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth by Ken Wilber (read 2018-05-01)
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell (read 2018-05-01)
A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science & Spirituality by Ken Wilber (read 2018-05-01)
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein (read 2018-05-01)
A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber (read 2018-05-01)
La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1) by Philip Pullman (read 2018-04-25)
The Politics of Ecstasy by Timothy Leary (read 2018-04-01)
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk (read 2018-04-01)
The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One (Metamodern Guides) by Hanzi Freinacht (read 2018-03-01)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (read 2018-02-01)
# In Correspondence #1, 2019-03-24T09:13:33.437Z
Welcome to my new Substack newsletter, _In Correspondence_!
- [I’m back in the UK after two amazing months in Aotearoa New Zealand](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2566786206729615? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARCVwjaMJYdJ_kpYVjPADjohQniSjUeXk9CTBgV7KvVC2pLqYe7CJvooSJy468hMjyXb8NTp_fNFPXhSd3S7RQmKzH-uvXIfvbvjHTs2RQ8sfSy3_R-FaOXJblR2iOPZfO8VzJ0X8z25pJW3Wd1u4r97SQmCEKr_WCpg1WUMvzYkUw9UJOSjS_Os7fue1KsE4rSOcXG5v1vGrIxG& __tn__ =-R)
- I wrote a new song whilst I was there: [Rebellion Song](https://soundcloud.com/stephenreid321/rebellion-song)
- I’ve just released a [new podcast](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2585274684880767&set=a.234018423339750&type=3& __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARAtokeEOBUwiyD6Lr-TlvqjjaFMnauaTCwBI4GvWAdRzKtiqfSkxBdltGC16pNzupRzMLRYilt8CZtKNS9Pnje3YL_p-gYJeGhNRJ0qXm4sRiCptcKs38zSDCIk8dKM_4w1SnSH8MaZgtlS-vcsSSc9JoKla1GmG_S0a2Qq73UKm4HtTz1UV8w_FE3NgYQBpJ8t47a3l4wBSByA& __tn__ =-R) with Alexander Beiner of Rebel Wisdom
## Upcoming engagements
- On Saturday 6th April, I’ll be appearing on the panel at [Regenerative Activism and the Ecology of Movements](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2578999818841587? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARDR7gc8gTK3wXn8J5MJ9MNnhzPtAN6MVXH3je_5BsaKAM8slep0zXCK-z0oFZ86HY5u8Onn __TA6WFqFj6x7LOh4GvnwQZnmntfLu4F6RKUuoukUh-iyZhrihJU4OOzHn8tQpEW26YsUsB1W71THcUBqD3kedybv5tA7gPtcX_EQ9zO0HPIbe8As8tHovI6o79-Lx63LZCCpM1k&__ tn__=-R) at Rich Mix
- On Sunday 7th April, I’ll be co-creating [Autopia #2](https://autopia.co/a/autopia-2) in London (organised on [Autopia](https://autopia.co), a platform I designed and built for organising co-created gatherings)
- On Thursday 11th April, I’m speaking at [Sunday Assembly Lates: Let’s Talk About Drugs](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2578983935509842? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARC-zlku4Tpw9VrVSOL95_z153rp7xPO0leih5i1IGwrT5m-ZE9H9hkr_r5PTLulUMuGUNkaMZuCI9u04CVSecXQP7nrP8hScQ2dSh6jFtrcIJ_z1OTcBrwPFT_Fg5xls5NsNw1k_yEGVzcrsGIE1dnQTAU9dCQRmVF7MboRWmv1fsNk3s8vfiQaIWQIvo-aHY0mLAbWkswnZ_bW& __tn__ =-R) at Conway Hall
- On Saturday 13th April, I’m hosting [Preparation for Rebellion](https://www.facebook.com/events/1481262122009284/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D) at the Psychedelic Society
- On Monday 15th April, I’ll be on the streets with Extinction Rebellion for the [International Rebellion](https://www.facebook.com/events/126622414898833/)
- I’ll be at Findhorn from 19th-26th April for the [Climate Change & Consciousness: Our Legacy for the Earth](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2541823949225841? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARB3gHc6L4y83l5bOtChXgJhCjIw9ERzekrKqekA-qIjpf-WA5l8CcFe4o6C8nO8y2Y7_VeHf8Y9aPwgoOB0vcu9exNj1rgN4hVplfxtWzinWG_5h8hZbF41XqWb9NhehMWlgTaFvCE7gD2aBlyBSMBZn5b1NnjuA4aF63bfwRB2QHeckLmNDA-tLFxGEusV3JKPpXOqJwF05Rf6& __tn__ =-R) (CCC19) conference
- I’ll be speaking and hosting a panel at this year’s [Noisily Festival](https://www.facebook.com/noisilyfestival/posts/2112753205445099? __xts__ [0]=68.ARDu2k7rGpO_1jeYfFM5KPyeOJ0eseuxmIXpKCdmHkgb9Yz4hN2krhru_OTgwtMzIXdtV0iLuRkt3LlPK6bulnAuXdOwle3PBwwk6J9hVtlUbBV_XfAW7lCUK3sePKA-EAK4Gyd3ZKZDlZo6GHQ90K5OWqDjs2z5MAM5UljZgB4esTVU-c1MSEEJwDYGThVCIqMwHiTsW2E6vQDqeKeD9h3y_rbu4crI5an9TOfEoMAvu3VBAO37dX7kcKdyZDIMBZ9UnYPuo6TawJJaNkgtO02SKyUkCra8y40Eb_PzkLJzP-PFWSg51GvMEivM4505DRUtR_uAOJd3uYmFLcxcVcl3JxE7s3Fse7CAgiBVad0iDgYgc-kSTqe2X_1-AQilIFRrjMYrZRkHbzeOmOsGbUYhRS4ag-WY9UIxaO4qG-9CkJlZE1eYSymjLJj63rh194zdOgF2wbUzJLuuAKb7LgjzluP6uEJFNUM& __tn__ =H-R), 11th-15th July
- It looks like [La Botica Exótica](https://www.facebook.com/cosmicpotions) will be returning to [the Borderland](http://theborderland.se) this year, 22nd-28th July. If you’re looking for a camp, you can [apply via Autopia](https://autopia.co/a/la-botica-extica-borderland-2019/apply)
## What I’ve been reading & listening to
- [I Contain Multitudes](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2560169600724609) by Ed Yong
- [A New Republic of the Heart](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2555677921173777&set=a.234018423339750&type=3& __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARBpknHnR1syFpnYN7S9tuHRhLH5o0Czl5AEoGMNbzXOK-qceWh_IXRPEXQ1BpjgUUsTmw_PgCWd27PmyxJbqeNJK3LilVR_75bq2eJmZOmelQBy7fvJeXjrUgkNuWlUgstvmLi1jQp7QPR1oBEHojBIHYAnfGdP65VcjBggIKUEUjDwWlvkzujcF6eDxKtJjdPz75UCM2CzpL06& __tn__ =-R) by Terry Patten
- [Emergent Strategy](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2506666802741556&set=a.234018423339750&type=3) by Adrienne Maree Brown
- [Charles Eisenstein: Restoring Humanity: Exploring Our Connections to Earth & Each Other](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LjLAtoaDHurIkT3NYAFGB)
- [John Vervaeke: Jordan Peterson & the Meaning Crisis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RFSgjnqAQ)
- [Emerge: Check-in & Update](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0BEmfyMf5qZVITc5O39N8m)
- [Flutter:](https://flutter.dev)[Beautiful native apps in record time](https://flutter.dev/)
- [Joe Brewer: Rites of Passage For Cultural Evolution](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5f0jXq7y130kyhpvi7YiRD)
- [Richard Bartlett: 11 Practical Steps Towards Healthy Power Dynamics at Work](https://medium.com/the-tuning-fork/11-practical-steps-towards-healthy-power-dynamics-at-work-fcc9bd82c7a2)
- [David Fuller: Rebel Wisdom, The Intellectual Dark Web & The Future of Media](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1DEjusDFrbShivmhB7vfui)
- [Ken Wilber: The Intellectual Dark Web, an Integral Conversation?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XK812tSmM)
- [Ken Wilber: 'Jordan Peterson and the evolution of thought'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDjCnFvz11A)
- [Airtable: Move slow and make things](http://www.forbesindia.com/article/cross-border/airtable-move-slow-and-make-things/52579/1)
- [Emergence Magazine: Wave Patterns – Aylie Baker](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0C5YouSJ4NvujXlRLozyFN)
- [Erik Davis: Expanding Mind – Visionary Permaculture](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5eKKBGSPWZdMDmujSDYoTb)
- [Holochain: Reinventing Applications](https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applications-d2ac1e4f25ef)
- [Holochain: Building a hApp with Arthur Brock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvhBfpT7JHo)
- [Junto: A New Breed of Social Media](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1958309948/junto-a-new-breed-of-social-media)
- [Steal This Show: Loomio – Rebuilding Our Cultural OS with Richard Bartlett](https://www.stitcher.com/s?eid=58156531)
- [Steal This Show: Software Will Eat The World with @Rabble](https://www.stitcher.com/s?eid=58597583)
- [Emergence Magazine: Radical Dharma – angel Kyodo williams](https://open.spotify.com/episode/17jZy8sSGnid4Ctewpnosu)
- [Audrey Tang: Stories from the Future of Democracy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxMxg4ct-D8&feature=youtu.be)
With love,
Stephen
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# In Correspondence #2, 2019-04-27T17:05:25.462Z
Welcome to another _In Correspondence_! So, what have I been up to since last time?
- [Extinction Rebellion! I set up and co-hosted the wellbeing space at the Marble Arch camp](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2636650359743199). I also spent time at the other sites at [Waterloo Bridge](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/videos/2639542266120675/), [Oxford Circus](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/videos/2641374015937500/) and Parliament Square; [helped to facilitate](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2647816731959895? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARDxJ70wFva5opzaJIuQE70Fn3X7b-xim_USS9tdYMlbDQ1r59H6KHMuEAwZW1G2-7BwogonuIDPs91StB-zMLS51fS1SUl0ay1gvoJ36jHVbBJVaj4gLeIbv8bgA99aPyk-pv1nPpCMboataZUPMmMpH6wZPdg6R4ai4x_cJ5NuIeqGIZ_BYQPYfVoBCVzfaJjvev-J43wxs1kULVdxDQDimld3& __tn__ =-R) the people’s assembly that decided the fate of the Pink Boat; and shook my booty to [Massive Attack](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/videos/2651425111599057/).
- I attended the [Climate Change & Consciousness](https://ccc19.org) conference at the Findhorn Foundation, where I hosted a session on Psychedelics, Extinction & Social Change and had the pleasure of meeting Charles Eisenstein and many other brilliant thinkers
- I’ve just got back from a couple of days in the Cairngorms National Park. [Did you know that since 1952, the UK has been home to (semi-)wild reindeer?](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2663395713735330)
- I’ve lived in London almost a decade now, and I’m considering a move to either Stroud ([‘the gentle Cotswold town that spawned a radical protest’](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/20/stroud-cotswold-town-that-spawned-radical-protest)) or Totnes (home of the brilliant [Schumacher College](https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/)). Let me know if you hear of any interesting opportunities…
## Upcoming engagements
[](https://www.facebook.com/events/2445093742181511)
- **Tomorrow, Sunday 28th April:** [A screening of Symbiotic Earth](https://www.facebook.com/events/2149430042014972/) (highly recommended film on the life and work of Lynn Margulis)
- **This Wednesday, 1st May:** [An introduction to Autopia](https://www.facebook.com/events/437525963484936/)
- **8th June:** [The Oddball](https://theoddball.org.uk/)
- **23rd June:** [I’ll be speaking alongside Rupert Sheldrake and Robin Carhart-Harris at the Psychedelic Society’s biggest public event to date.](https://www.facebook.com/events/2445093742181511) Expect a free-flowing, generative dialogue on topics likely to include:
– Modes of use of psychedelics: medical, therapeutic, spiritual, recreational
– Theories of consciousness and the interpretation of the mystical/spiritual type experience
– Personal, social and political consequences of spiritual experience
– The metamodern view of science
– Ecological crisis and the role of plant psychedelics
– Antirivalry, antifragility and abundance
- **11-15 July, Noisily Festival:** [Integration Through Social Action](https://noisilyfestival.com/mind-body-soul/)
- **16-18 August, Breaking Convention:** [Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change](https://www.breakingconvention.co.uk/)
## What I’ve been reading & listening to
- [My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2615490038525898) by Resmaa Menakem
- [Reality Check 2019, Jordan Greenhall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLFFNpTQla0)
- [Power, Decision Making & Strategy in Extinction Rebellion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsh5eWVksCE)
- [From Egoism to Ecoism: Psychedelics and Nature Connection | Sam Gandy | TEDxOxford](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuzPaVEuUiM)
- [World's second largest emperor penguin colony 'disappears overnight'](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/emperor-penguins-deaths-sea-ice-collapse-climate-change-antarctic-a8885641.html#Echobox=1556196373)
- [Emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost may be 12 times higher than thought, scientists say](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/global-warming-greenhouse-gases-emissions-arctic-alaska-a8874456.html)
- [adrienne maree brown on Pleasure as Birthright/115](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Ag4bCE0PHgFBnSWnUVKxe)
- [Widening Circles — Joanna Macy](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6TVCiJfd2MyizRIV2kNtgp)
- [FTP094: Douglas Rushkoff - Rethinking Transhumanism and Reuniting Humanity](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vOfo74TyFNiEcMwXloii0)
- [FTP093: Douglas Rushkoff - Why Technology Needs to be on 'Team Human'](https://open.spotify.com/episode/14flId0c8IwHTC0HN4L5o4)
- [Miki Kasthan - The Inseparability of Psychological and Social Transformation](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ISWrlJIHsNxdFBq8zR4sB)
- [Endangered turtle returns to beach to lay its eggs only to find runway has been built](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-sea-turtle-maldives-airport-runway-beach-eggs-a8865051.html)
- [Ep. 127 "All Hands On Deck" Extinction Rebellion with Gail Bradbrook and Clare Farrell](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6LZcNVH4zXTM80D9susJQ3)
- [Black hole picture captured for first time in space breakthrough](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/10/black-hole-picture-captured-for-first-time-in-space-breakthrough)
- [Charles Eisenstein and Ian MacKenzie on The Age of Transition/112](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5CLQ7qrqwbUp3lIujJllVF)
- [Norway refuses to drill for billions of barrels of oil in Arctic, leaving ‘whole industry surprised and disappointed’](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/norway-oil-drilling-arctic-ban-labor-party-unions-a8861171.html)
- [The Meaning-Enhancing Properties of Psychedelics and Their Mediator Role in Psychedelic Therapy, Spirituality, and Creativity](https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5845636/)
- [New research shows that early trauma is so damaging that it can disrupt a person’s entire psychology and metabolism](https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/12/sexual-abuse-victims-obesity/420186/)
- [Mystery of how animals with no mouths or guts stay alive revealed](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/worm-bacteria-animals-no-mouths-guts-live-eat-genes-paracatenula-a8860501.html)
- [Burger King’s plant-based Whopper gets glowing review – from a meat lobbyist](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/08/burger-king-impossible-whopper-plant-based-review-meat-lobbyist#Echobox=1554786818)
- [Zak Stein - A Metaphysics of Love for a Time Between Worlds](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3LJoVSjSbm5BV0XGZI5rnY)
- [Jamie Wheal: The Legacy of Integral](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4krRSqD0Gdg)
- [It's Time for an RSS Revival](https://www.wired.com/story/rss-readers-feedly-inoreader-old-reader/)
- [The New Social Network That Isn’t New at All](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/technology/new-social-network-email-newsletter.html)
- [Tiny toadlets from Brazilian rainforest have fluorescent skeletons, scientists discover](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/frogs-fluorescent-skeletons-rainforest-brazil-pumpkin-toadlets-a8846871.html)
- [FTP092: Rupert Sheldrake - Paradigm Shifts in Science and Experiments in Consciousness](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1gprHZHxb8Jp4aaQxjwrO6)
- [#152 — The Trouble with Facebook](https://open.spotify.com/episode/14lg0D22FeyKQPPezZLglT)
- [Tristan Harris - How Social Media and AI Hijack Your Brain](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3sHSd5OTBSccIqvu2P1MPR)
- [Extinction Rebellion: Inside The New Climate Resistance](https://www.ft.com/content/9bcb1bf8-5b20-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a081a?fbclid=IwAR2KbUYT-tOTlSn9bKLp_yDcZd167_Nj9U1S4TmSd9qyTL1Bw7vVdJpxnFE)
- [Do Psychedelics Hold the Key to Social Change?](http://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/psychedelics-and-social-change)
- [Sunrise Movement on a Green New Deal (narrated by AOC)](https://www.facebook.com/sunrisemvmt/videos/2444764575568498/? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARAojUQp8P16fTygnk5pykk_sujI_9NgEVNp-iorqwIsNqheUPpQ6MrtgS3yP_3nk3HFsa_5NfgjIEeY3G7rMpV5Rv7mMFCM5VCHQ2K8sa73VIsiqjhhf1ktzjAntnPkq5daNyhHt8J6LKbp75OnX5H5ifD9dNW6WF7U24CsAJziFfJO3If6P0MbWHGYlhXH9pWrhs5Cy7d0WMhrmnWZB65XzlfzXJ8G6OHZ258mAA-1kmSvzgbtmAlw4nOxH7CGO_JDKWRqAHomuKcwTmV1R1fnGmIYV_xJVFHa15HgkZnU2kMJMOonMaZ3f_wOwhnXhnMRkSDUlUuHElcPrSFcq5p6PbNPHd-yet26JgU& __tn__ =H-R)
- [Daniel Schmactenberger on Charles Eistenstein’s podcast](https://charleseisenstein.org/podcasts/new-and-ancient-story-podcast/daniel-schmactenberger-self-terminating-civilization-e34/) (highly recommended)
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Until next time, with love,
Stephen
# In Correspondence #3, 2019-05-24T10:34:33.377Z
Welcome to the third instalment of _In Correspondence!_
## What I’ve been up to
- I attended my first Psychedelic Society Psychedelic Experience Retreat as a participant. (I co-founded the programme and previously facilitated retreats in 2016/2017, but this was my first time participating.) It was so inspiring to see how far the programme has come, and I can offer a wholehearted endorsement to anyone considering taking part. [Read more and apply](https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/experience-retreats)
- I’ve [moved to Totnes](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2723933924348175)! I’m writing this from [REconomy Centre](https://reconomycentre.org/) (for which I’ve helped set up a new [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/reconomy.centre.totnes/)). This weekend I’ll be at Totnes’ [Sea Change Festival](https://www.seachangefestival.co.uk/)
- I hosted a screening of [Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat & started a revolution](https://www.facebook.com/SymbioticEarthFilm/? __tn__ =K-R&eid=ARD2kWSYcY4Qco4yavSfXJLlrnG7vPEtWsgQ9lcrCTTbMTz5jas2VyPe1BiPTcI8XmgXuwQrf6SRaX-4&fref=mentions& __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARApiRO94fn9SUWdvstPBvhRdcxQUgG1fZLysvzHMIXFIF40cLZQLttHWP2s59WXH9FTtvi5dDN75bfkmBPtkvlNi7eDt5BMoKU783bmxJ0IgEcOEjrokH3lFdT3uQOoLK_9mrtT-bfEZ50euUq7jUkD84rlElbGXfMJrlRjZZyjBQO1_gSGlHy9ucalNKo0SB-OABKhDvhiOL7HD2_hIduF-H2y) (here’s a [clip](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/videos/2668111503263751/? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARDtNW2X8hKQa5tAhG6SLL8EnvLLwM9j4t-35anoc90WHHrULhDJj7dtkYDrQOm2LEXOZjfOoUcHBO58q2YaBGPSFvNpLy5BZD2ppZTgNxZcdMCyqUBQCdfdeLibT6Npom2UTm0Q2t5Wp2kVLm61O7SnRb5JbkuHS9O7HyBMn0bQaOGb9LdbVp89xwmQTOI-eXT1DexH5PhS-NghrgJA2gYjI3zE& __tn__ =-R) of one of the most important parts), [an introduction to Autopia](https://www.facebook.com/events/437525963484936/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D& __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARBic4_WAygUu9QCliWdO528ZBDmLSr9r3--ecj4VDR-rtDFaWSLJyhrlHRCFggwttONRBqhlUHJz9lWH1-yLj2AXH_BKwEOCLIjjSJ8OIDDILdrsdCxCEUAv8dM_2FMsm53rQpbys6FVfh_INsD5MlGztti9Fsl6VJWxft4K5jNsp2mNY5BFS-2LN23q730cE701P0dIWFuzOC3& __tn__ =HH-R) and [an Extinction Rebellion social at the Psychedelic Society](https://www.facebook.com/events/414268915791535/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D)
- I released a [new podcast](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2691660927575475? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARBcQcIpDJEeCKS74rHN51IBl21G1BzfYAgREKSmublxwRBuXJmIDHBB7T8j2UhDZnk9vP_x37dGEMtEH9n1UM4kBewOFWsLQj9DIXbxV74lCu8G7NI8uHeSbeF-YgXI0IsseJQ8q8COoXdEIpBc97K9_c3uaweM73mIn_1YVTiIrFXeZR2Eg0h0gMhuW0ffvupnnGqBRj3uHVBt& __tn__ =-R) with Halea Isabelle Kala, director of Transmodernity
## My plans
[](https://www.facebook.com/events/2445093742181511/)
- **6 June:** Hosting a [Members’ Social](https://www.facebook.com/events/1430626010411237/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%22108%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D& __xts__ [0]=68.ARBYkOMufSIU4YWATVg-3Akkj4mIGEFkIpntayy5j0GrWmAzPyhqgY7NC913vjlr7Oxpc_1bSdg4Ymy2KfFV_FAD_uKy1_CwubxS6dNpIhq8-36xxP6C8wBGmhXg1BntTVGXDT7R9cejb9VxgtBbmZvFxpdP_XIbz_HyqcTS253SH-_wDB1hsg_JB1YO45aPBgh-ti_eUe-aIkOS& __tn__ =HH-R) at the Psychedelic Society
- **8 June: ** Giving a talk about the Psychedelic Society at [The Oddball](https://theoddball.org.uk/)
- **13 June (tbc):** Public conversation with my dear friend and colleague Stefana Bosse at cocreation.loft in Berlin
- **17-23 June:** Part of the BeeHive camp at [Kiez Burn 2019](https://kiezburn.org)
- **26 June: ** [I’ll be speaking with Rupert Sheldrake and Robin Carhart-Harris at the Psychedelic Society’s biggest public event to date.](https://www.facebook.com/events/2445093742181511/) I’m delighted that one of my favourite musicians, [Boe Huntress](https://www.facebook.com/events/2445093742181511/permalink/2488250521199166/?action_history=null& __xts__ [0]=68.ARCOsjT0mjxUQoZIIrO_3UAmHbA1gs_sZwwft_jNp2piS3KkNbqVxUC-4UcANvGlWzVcBZVCu-TgAlFvXMLmV0ujPUUh4qiU0qW3ePrftFy1QIDRd2qGp4h3ml9aU24BXi1p6d7LfaieHZt5qJJAmXPkh0FTJCuwKnTF-YP4uQ3yWEnCTVbWNTnf-FW_Oy3UgyhBU8lc9Doe_SvEbUCbT3O6OJJNv30oXYv9XKbhZH2NJG47dSEFP7BaPiJUDJTZ4BNqpGSilwbmiOVbJxczFWh-iSpz6VoPPv8kRIrAChThUw5QywGU80KLB_Tl-bTI1Ya6X5GMGq-kGNOquQx4kWm8cA& __tn__ =H-R), will now also be appearing, and it’s looking like it will be a 700 capacity sellout.
- **11-14 July: ** Hosting a workshop in the [Mind, Body & Soul area](https://noisilyfestival.com/mind-body-soul/) at Noisily Festival on ‘Integration Through Social Action’
- **22-28 July:** perhaps [The Borderland](https://www.facebook.com/groups/theborderland/?fref=mentions& __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARDxfHDejPJduKRo1imU-SGxmXSsq8-ni3Q9KezWk_7k0aIkIi-HWFAvq26gHrNHm3sC3V_ToP--myxRYwuJQejXlYQAkp62bI2K1jtJlv_eyGs4LZGnXhNC1oo7fbw_1bdCanM47XXnzB7GHZgGnQdapm0RVdhmwRq_JJ_qWUcSatwB7WALx8YNz2jj8469dhRqnQHz1cSC& __tn__ =K-R)
- **16-18 August: ** Participating in a conversation with Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion on Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change at [Breaking Convention](https://www.breakingconvention.co.uk/)
- **22-25 August:** Another conversation with Gail on the Imaginarium stage at [Shambala Festival](https://www.shambalafestival.org/)
- **27-29 September:** [Metamodern Arts Festival](https://www.facebook.com/events/1955720227872179/)
##
**What I’ve been reading, watching & listening to**
- [DMT Dialogues: Encounters with the Spirit Molecule](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2696899090384992? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARBpMZrnit3-eat3zGD0n8XVm-MAsbTyfW3i8O9Vthe1c7TvpdtY7YcWfj0ryqCHxNhzNcufyxxRuBScv5aEAELJxbJsloG0M3RDeJaT5F8d5kGTf-ygoRtfgKDMVsEuCCpbKDog3QRdGiQXOrhNHH6mXFhCTARxQCdHQEFHZWmh7s2_t9UErM8vuONdGIGLbDamK4Z5BnllEjP2& __tn__ =-R) edited by David Luke and Rory Spowers
### YouTube
- [Celtic Christianity And Nature: Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogue 47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3o2YCDpiAk)
- [Seaqueen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeeNh12PU-w)
- [Psychedelic Medicine? With psychedelic therapist Ros Watts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b1d-TprqEE)
- [A Message to Greta Thunberg and the Youth Climate Strikers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ3XwzPXKv0)
- [Rebel Wisdom Summit - Get Ready!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyABweDYPe8)
- [The Legacy of Integral, Rebel Wisdom Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcY9T0Uo9v4)
- [The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o)
- [Natalie Wynn, ContraPoints - XOXO Festival (2018)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ix9jxid2YU)
- [The Science Delusion 2019: Bridport Literary & Scientific Institute](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jShyXnyv_Q4)
- [Honouring Polly Higgins: Jojo Mehta & Gail Bradbrook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztG-tqakQHI)
- [STORMZY - VOSSI BOP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ClYy0MxsU0)
- [Is the Psychedelic Renaissance Doomed? Jamie Wheal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkPB33bD3hQ)
- [Davos 2019 - The New Science of Psychedelics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijhdw5d-2pI)
### Spotify
- [The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues: Magic](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7Eg87CuQ6XqJLdXWRL1wW8)
- [The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues: Psychedelics](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4kVs98K2YAMzxz71Nmpp2u)
- [The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues: The Jordan Peterson Effect](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4zf18g67Q597wOnNnIUXri)
- [John Vervaeke - The Meaning Crisis](https://open.spotify.com/episode/372Z9XzyNeaCrSoqpkhUN7)
- [James Balog on The Human Element](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hqKeahFfnb0QHhMZTt6LF)
- [Magic and the Machine — David Abram](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Ledc0IP94bI5FuxVW1VBa)
- [The Spaceship Earth - Episode 19 - Dan Burgess - River Rambles Part 1](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5v8M8Ux6RonWV4jGTMO3Yh)
- [Miles Bukiet - Monasteries of the Future](https://open.spotify.com/episode/11Dh17CVAEUXw9fM8eRCkG)
- [Expanding Mind – Decriminalize Nature](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6lnghGhojEloNBqEDdc9sW)
- [Talking Afterlife Experiences | Elizabeth Krohn](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7EWx14pJIP4T6p5hFMLDfR)
### The Guardian
- ['NI-GEL!' Brexit party event offers terrifying glimpse of our possible future](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/13/nigel-farage-brexit-party-event-terrifying-glimpse-future)
- [Two-thirds of Britons agree planet is in a climate emergency](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/30/two-thirds-of-britons-agree-planet-is-in-a-climate-emergency)
- [130,000 trees to be planted in English cities and towns](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/19/130000-trees-planted-england-english-cities-global-heating)
- [Cambridge scientists create world’s first living organism with fully redesigned DNA](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/15/cambridge-scientists-create-worlds-first-living-organism-with-fully-redesigned-dna)
- [Octopus farming is ‘unethical and a threat to the food chain’](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/12/octopus-farming-unethical-and-threat-to-food-chain#Echobox=1557663154)
- [Loss of biodiversity is just as catastrophic as climate change](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/06/biodiversity-climate-change-mass-extinctions)
- [Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says](https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change)
- [Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/17/why-the-guardian-is-changing-the-language-it-uses-about-the-environment)
- [Inside Facebook's war room: the battle to protect EU elections](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/05/facebook-admits-huge-scale-of-fake-news-and-election-interference)
### The Independent
- [Plastic pollution harms oxygen-producing bacteria we need to survive](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/plastic-pollution-bacteria-oxygen-damage-environment-study-a8912931.html)
- [Killing off animals and plants now threatens humanity itself, UN experts to warn in urgent call for action](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/un-nature-biodiversity-report-2019-humans-animals-earth-paris-a8899926.html)
- [World’s largest ice shelf melting 10 times faster than expected as waters heat up](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/ross-ice-shelf-antarctica-melting-climate-change-global-warming-sea-level-temperature-a8891506.html)
### Elsewhere
- [The most effective way to tackle climate change? Plant 1 trillion trees](https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/17/world/trillion-trees-climate-change-intl-scn/index.html) _cnn.com_
- [Coinbase Card](https://coinbase.com/card) _coinbase.com_
- [These gorgeous tiny houses can operate entirely off the grid](https://www.fastcompany.com/90347755/these-gorgeous-tiny-houses-can-operate-entirely-off-the-grid) _fastcompany.com_
- [These tree-planting drones are firing ‘seed missiles’ into the ground. Less than a year later, they’re already 20 inches tall.](https://www.good.is/articles/drones-planting-trees) _good.is_
- [Ancient hallucinogens found in 1,000-year-old shamanic pouch](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/05/ancient-hallucinogens-oldest-ayahuasca-found-shaman-pouch/) _nationalgeographic.com_
- [This river in New Zealand is a legal person. How will it use its voice?](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/04/maori-river-in-new-zealand-is-a-legal-person/) _nationalgeographic.com_
- [It’s Time to Break Up Facebook](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html) _nytimes.com_
- [Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/climate/biodiversity-extinction-united-nations.html) _nytimes.com_
- [Is There A Case For Skepticism Of Psychedelic Therapy?](https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/09/is-there-a-case-for-skepticism-of-psychedelic-therapy/) _slatestarcodex.com_
- [The nine planetary boundaries](https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries/planetary-boundaries/about-the-research/the-nine-planetary-boundaries.html) _stockholmresilience.org_
- [Costa Rica Aims To Be the World’s First Plastic- and Carbon-Free Country by 2021](https://theculturetrip.com/central-america/costa-rica/articles/costa-rica-aims-to-be-the-worlds-first-plastic-and-carbon-free-country-by-2021/) _theculturetrip.com_
- [The Best Outdoor Swimming Pools and Lidos in The UK](https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/articles/10-of-britains-best-outdoor-pools/) _theculturetrip.com_
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# In Correspondence #4, 2019-07-08T12:34:39.346Z
Welcome to the fourth instalment of _In Correspondence!_
## What I’ve been up to
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_Soar Mill Cove_
- I co-hosted the first social of the Psychedelic Society of Totnes, which has become the [Psychedelic Society: Devon group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/psychedelic.society.devon/)
- I participated on a panel at [the Oddball](https://theoddball.org.uk/) discussing different ways of understanding psychedelics
- I was part of the BeeHive camp at [Kiez Burn 2019](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2810225675718999)
- I held a [trialogue with Rupert Sheldrake and Robin Carhart-Harris](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4HuFHWPc6k) at EartH, Hackney
- I did an interview and photoshoot for a piece to appear in [Emerge](http://whatisemerging.com)
- I [agreed a let](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2828387137236186? __tn__ =-R) on an apartment in Totnes
- I switched banks — I now bank with [Triodos](https://www.triodos.co.uk/current-accounts) and [Coinbase](https://www.coinbase.com/card)
- I made my first [darknet order](https://dark.fail) in a while
- I helped launch the new organisation [Psilocybin for Mental Health](http://psilocybin.health) ([psilocybin.health](http://psilocybin.health))
- I announced my intention to offer to [stand as a candidate](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2833387266736173? __tn__ =-R) for the Totnes parliamentary constituency, with a view to becoming (or otherwise helping to elect) Totnes' first Green MP
- I explored the beautiful landscape around Totnes including [Soar Mill Cove and Sharrah Pools](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2842086022532964)
## My plans
- **Sometime:** visit [Three Pools](https://www.threepools.co.uk/), [Embercombe](https://embercombe.org), [Grocycle](https://grocycle.com/) and [Hempen](https://hempen.co.uk)
- **11-14 July: ** Hosting a workshop in the [Mind, Body & Soul area](https://noisilyfestival.com/mind-body-soul/) at Noisily Festival on ‘Integration Through Social Action’
- **16-18 July:** Offering a session on Psychedelics and the Living Planet at [Stir to Action’s A Playground for the New Economy festival](https://www.stirtoaction.com/festival)
- **22-28 July:** [The Borderland](https://www.facebook.com/groups/theborderland/?fref=mentions& __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARDxfHDejPJduKRo1imU-SGxmXSsq8-ni3Q9KezWk_7k0aIkIi-HWFAvq26gHrNHm3sC3V_ToP--myxRYwuJQejXlYQAkp62bI2K1jtJlv_eyGs4LZGnXhNC1oo7fbw_1bdCanM47XXnzB7GHZgGnQdapm0RVdhmwRq_JJ_qWUcSatwB7WALx8YNz2jj8469dhRqnQHz1cSC& __tn__ =K-R) with Camp Croquis
- **29-31 July:** Stopping in Berlin for a couple of days as I make my way back to London by train
- **1 August:** Move into my new apartment in Totnes
- **3-11 August:** [Voice Camp](http://www.unicornvillagecamps.co.uk/voice-camp-information)
- **15-18 August:** [MenFest](https://www.facebook.com/events/317392242211533/) (perhaps)
- **22-25 August: ** Conversation with Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion on Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change on the Imaginarium stage at [Shambala Festival](https://www.shambalafestival.org/)
- **14-20 September:** [ISTA Level 1 in Devon](https://www.ukista.com/)
- **21-24 September:** [The World Transformed 2019](https://www.facebook.com/events/488447481923468/) (probably)
- **27-29 September: ** [Metamodern Arts Festival](https://www.facebook.com/events/1955720227872179/) (perhaps… it’s a long way…)
- **4-6 October:** [Green Party Autumn Conference](https://www.greenparty.org.uk/conference/)
- **24-27 October:** [Apple Land Festival](https://www.facebook.com/events/574937116274601/)?
- **1-3 November:** The Psychedelic Society’s 5th birthday celebrations
- **29 December - 3 Jan:** Nettlecombe
## **What I’ve been reading, watching & listening to**
### YouTube
- [The Earth is One Household. David Bohm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMMLii0w12U)
- [Decrypting the Alt-Right: How to Recognize a F@scist | ContraPoints](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4BVGPkdzk)
- [Consciousness and psychedelics | Peter Sjostedt-H | TEDxTruro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV8PSevhd_M)
- [Polarised Politics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV3y38zLSL8)
- [The Intellectual Deep Web? Peter Limberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkwYCjJSuZQ)
- [What is Emerging? Episode 1 - DOING: WE CREATE REALITY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX2AN58kJFM)
- [Rebellion - A Film by Liam Prior - Extinction Rebellion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fygxIckMi0Q)
- [The Truth In Theresa May’s Tears | Russell Brand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZXpUmpfqY4)
- [XR Talks - Roger Hallam - We've Already Won](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKrVFFjkBs)
### The Guardian
- ['Biggest compliment yet': Greta Thunberg welcomes oil chief's 'greatest threat' label](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/05/biggest-compliment-yet-greta-thunberg-welcomes-oil-chiefs-greatest-threat-label)
- [Uber co-founder buys record-breaking LA mansion for $72.5m as drivers fight for wages](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/02/los-angeles-mansion-sales-homelessness-increase)
- [Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/04/planting-billions-trees-best-tackle-climate-crisis-scientists-canopy-emissions)
- [No flights, a four-day week and living off-grid: what climate scientists do at home](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/29/no-flights-four-day-week-climate-scientists-home-save-planet)
- [Devon tops quality of life survey](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/28/thriving-places-index-devon-tops-quality-of-life-study)
- ['Precipitous' fall in Antarctic sea ice since 2014 revealed](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/01/precipitous-fall-in-antarctic-sea-ice-revealed#Echobox=1562008538)
- [Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/27/doctors-call-for-nonviolent-direct-action-over-climate-crisis)
- [Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950. This is the illustrated story of where it's gone](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/23/all-the-plastic-ever-made-study-comic)
- [Thelma Cabrera: indigenous, female and shaking up Guatemala's election](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/15/thelma-cabrera-indigenous-woman-guatemalas-election-presidential)
- [Two-hour ‘dose’ of nature significantly boosts health – study](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/13/two-hour-dose-nature-weekly-boosts-health-study-finds)
- [Indian villages lie empty as drought forces thousands to flee](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/12/indian-villages-lie-empty-as-drought-forces-thousands-to-flee)
- [The end of the Arctic as we know it](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/07/oceans-demise-the-end-of-the-arctic-as-we-know-it)
- [Getting back to nature: how forest bathing can make us feel better](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/08/forest-bathing-japanese-practice-in-west-wellbeing)
- [Finland pledges to become carbon neutral by 2035](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/04/finland-pledges-to-become-carbon-neutral-by-2035)
- [Packaging-free trial: Waitrose hits the ground running](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/04/packaging-free-trial-waitrose-hits-the-ground-running)
- [People eat at least 50,000 plastic particles a year, study finds](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/05/people-eat-at-least-50000-plastic-particles-a-year-study-finds)
- [Latest data shows steep rises in CO2 for seventh year](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/04/latest-data-shows-steep-rises-in-co2-for-seventh-year)
- [Deforestation of Brazilian Amazon surges to record high](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/04/deforestation-of-brazilian-amazon-surges-to-record-high-bolsonaro)
- [Brexit party tops Westminster election poll for first time](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/01/brexit-party-nigel-farage-lead-opinion-poll-conservatives-opinium)
- [Britain is in the grip of an existential crisis that reaches far beyond Brexit](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/29/britain-existential-crises-beyond-brexit)
- ['Lunch on the go' habit generates 11bn items of packaging waste a year](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/14/lunch-on-go-habit-generates-11bn-items-packaging-waste-year-uk)
- [Facebook plans to launch 'GlobalCoin' cryptocurrency in 2020](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/24/facebook-plans-to-launch-globalcoin-cryptocurrency-in-2020)
### The Independent
- [Freak summer hailstorm buries city in five feet of ice](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-hail-storm-today-ice-weather-guadalajara-climate-change-a8982091.html)
- [June was the hottest ever recorded on Earth](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/june-hottest-month-ever-earth-2019-weather-heatwave-hot-a8984691.html)
- [Mining of ocean floor five times bigger than the UK to cause irreversible harm to environment](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/deep-sea-mining-un-crucial-ecosystems-greenpeace-environment-a8986096.html)
- [Flying is more than twice as damaging to climate than previously thought](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/vapour-trails-contrails-planes-ice-clouds-co2-climate-change-emissions-a8979386.html#Echobox=1561737625)
- [The vegan meat revolution could help save the planet – and fast-food chains are finally taking notice](https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/vegan-impossible-burger-food-waste-environment-animal-rights-climate-change-fast-food-a8968656.html)
- [The rise of eco-anxiety and how to come to terms with climate change](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-extinction-eco-anxiety-ice-melting-sea-level-wildfire-a8968011.html)
- [Melt ponds open in Arctic as permafrost melts at levels not expected until 2090](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/climate-change-breakdown-arctic-frost-thawing-canada-environment-a8959056.html)
- [India's 'rubbish mountain' on course to grow taller than Taj Mahal](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/india-landfill-taj-mahal-rubbish-pollution-environment-ghazipur-a8943736.html)
- [Michael Bloomberg donates $500 to campaign to shutdown US coal industry](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michael-bloomberg-coal-plants-donation-climate-change-natural-gas-a8948276.html)
- [Bees have human-like ability to link symbols to numbers, study finds](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bees-numbers-symbols-maths-intelligence-research-study-rmit-a8944001.html)
- [Finland to become carbon neutral by 2035](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/finland-carbon-neutral-fossil-fuels-climate-change-global-warming-a8943886.html)
- [Green parties surge across Europe as 'Green Wave' hits EU elections](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/european-election-result-greens-green-wave-spd-germany-a8931351.html)
- [New Filipino law requires all students to plant 10 trees if they want to graduate](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/philippines-tree-planting-students-graduation-law-environment-a8932576.html)
### Elsewhere
- [Why a hipster, vegan, green tech economy is not sustainable](https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/hipster-vegan-green-tech-economy-sustainable-190605105120654.html) _aljazeera.com_
- [Arctic melt goes into overdrive](https://www.axios.com/arctic-melt-climate-change-canada-e83ec6a3-6061-402f-92c5-4c887aa603fb.html) _axios.com_
- ['There is no water. Why should people stay here?'](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48552199) _bbc.com_
- [In Science We Trust](https://charleseisenstein.org/books/climate-a-new-story/eng/in-science-we-trust/) _charleseisenstein.org_
- [Every Act a Ceremony](https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/ceremony/) _charleseisenstein.org_
- [Facebook created a 'gateway drug' to introduce billions to cryptocurrency, experts say](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/18/facebooks-libra-will-give-billions-access-to-cryptocurrency.html) _cnbc.com_
- [Washington becomes the first state to legalize composting of humans](https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/us/washington-human-composting-legal-trnd/index.html) _cnn.com_
- [The Best, Safest, And Most Reliable Bitcoin Debit Cards](https://coinsutra.com/best-bitcoin-debit-cards/) _coinsutra.com_
- [Devon voted the nation's second favourite destination](https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devon-voted-nations-second-favourite-3063099) _devonlive.com_
- [Map of the World in 2100](http://www.earthlymission.com/map-of-the-world-in-2100/) _earthlymission.com_
- [Police Tear-Gas Climate Activists in Paris on 'Hottest Day in History of France'](https://www.ecowatch.com/extinction-rebellion-pepper-sprayed-2639042841.html) _ecowatch.com_
- [Holonomic brain theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic_brain_theory) _en.wikipedia.org_
- [World Environment Day: This Is An Emergency, And We Have Run Out Of Options](https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2019/06/05/world-environment-day-this-is-an-emergency-and-we-have-run-out-of-options/) _forbes.com_
- [Will Coinbase's Visa Card Help Push Bitcoin Beyond $10,000?](https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2019/05/14/will-coinbases-visa-card-help-push-bitcoin-beyond-10000/) _forbes.com_
- [What exactly is Facebook's Libra Reserve?](https://www.ft.com/content/7884a51a-c3bf-3740-9739-9e933e2e8471) _ft.com_
- [A review of common characteristics of complex systems](https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/complexity-and-uncertainty/0/steps/1836) _futurelearn.com_
- [Satellite data shows shrinking reservoirs that may spark major water crisis globally](https://www.geospatialworld.net/blogs/satellite-data-show-shrinking-reservoirs-that-may-spark-major-water-crisis-globally/) _geospatialworld.net_
- [The Next Wave of Work Management Software](https://hackernoon.com/the-next-wave-of-work-management-software-81f392c728e3) _hackernoon.com_
- [Flux #26 - Junto Demo, New Fundraising Initiatives, and More](https://junto.substack.com/p/flux-26-junto-demo-new-fundraising) _junto.substack.com_
- [Psychedelic Communities, Social Justice, and Kinship in the Capitalocene](https://kahpi.net/psychedelic-communities-social-justice/) _kahpi.net_
- [The Rise of the Emergentsia](https://medium.com/the-abs-tract-organization/the-rise-of-the-emergentsia-60c392f990a9) _medium.com_
- [5 things that make you metamodern 31](http://metamoderna.org/5-things-that-make-you-metamodern) _metamoderna.org_
- [From Premodern to Metamodern Mind: a Brief History of Human Evolution](http://metamoderna.org/from-premodern-to-metamodern-mind-a-brief-history-of-human-evolution?lang=en) _metamoderna.org_
- [The Meaning-Enhancing Properties of Psychedelics and Their Mediator Role in Psychedelic Therapy, Spirituality, and Creativity](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5845636/) _ncbi.nlm.nih.gov_
- [Inside a Texas Building Where the Government Is Holding Immigrant Children](https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/inside-a-texas-building-where-the-government-is-holding-immigrant-children) _newyorker.com_
- [‘Food Doesn’t Grow Here Anymore. That’s Why I Would Send My Son North.’](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/opinion/guatemala-migrants-climate-change.html) _nytimes.com_
- [Bohm: A change of meaning is a change of being](http://ontoscopy.net/extras/bohm-a-change-of-meaning-is-a-change-of-being) _ontoscopy.net_
- [Extinction Rebellion and the new visibility of religious protest](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/extinction-rebellion-and-new-visibility-religious-protest/) _opendemocracy.net_
- [Why does ritual matter for social change?](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/why-does-ritual-matter-social-change/) _opendemocracy.net_
- [Morphic Fields and the Implicate Order: Rupert Sheldrake & David Bohm](http://perception.inner-growth.org/2017/03/25/morphic-fields-and-the-implicate-order-rupert-sheldrake-david-bohm/) _perception.inner-growth.org_
- [Moving Into the Sacred World of DMT, by Nick Sand](http://psychedelicfrontier.com/moving-sacred-world-dmt-nick-sand/) _psychedelicfrontier.com_
- [Just a Wee Bit More About DMT, by Nick Sand](http://psychedelicfrontier.com/just-wee-bit-more-dmt-nick-sand/) _psychedelicfrontier.com_
- [Behold Libra, the global cryptocurrency masterminded by Facebook](https://qz.com/1645838/facebook-unveils-libra-its-new-global-cryptocurrency/) _qz.com_
- [Minimum Viable Airtable](http://sirupsen.com/minimum-viable-airtable/) _sirupsen.com_
- [Wild camping to be legalised across parts of England and Wales in new scheme](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/wild-camping-england-wales/) _telegraph.co.uk_
- [Sudan crisis: What is happening, and where does it go from here?](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/16/sudan-crisis-what-is-happening-news-latest/) _telegraph.co.uk_
- [Microplastics found in water, food and air the equivalent of eating a "credit card a week"](https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/microplastics-found-in-water-food-and-air-the-equivalent-of-eating-a-credit-card-a-week/12/06/) _thelondoneconomic.com_
- [If Everyone Tripped on Psychedelics, We’d Do More About Climate Change](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5w49p/if-everyone-tripped-on-psychedelics-wed-do-more-about-climate-change) _vice.com_
- ['Unprecedented' Wildfires Are Burning Across the Arctic Circle](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qv79b5/unprecedented-wildfires-are-burning-across-the-arctic-circle) _vice.com_
- [Extreme weather is pummeling the Midwest, and farmers are in deep trouble](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/05/30/extreme-weather-is-pummeling-midwest-farmers-are-deep-trouble/) _washingtonpost.com_
- [5 reasons to be more cheerful about the future of the oceans](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/world-oceans-day-hope-sea-water/) _weforum.org_
- [China is building a floating train that could be faster than air travel ](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/china-floating-train-faster-than-air-travel/) _weforum.org_
- [Sweden has invented a word to encourage people not to fly. And it’s working](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/sweden-has-invented-a-word-to-encourage-people-not-to-fly-and-it-s-working/) _weforum.org_
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# In Correspondence #5, 2019-08-05T16:45:22.482Z
Welcome to the fifth instalment of _In Correspondence!_
## **What I’ve been up to**
[](https://www.facebook.com/groups/theborderland/permalink/2654679537884796/)
_The Borderland_
- I moved into my new apartment in Totnes. It was totally unfurnished, so I’m in the process of kitting it out.
- I put myself forward to South Devon Green Party as a [potential candidate](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2914906495250916) for the Totnes parliamentary constituency
- I had a great time at [Noisily Festival](https://www.facebook.com/pg/noisilyfestival/photos/), [Stir to Action](https://www.facebook.com/events/975884439280972/) (which enabled me to explore [Frome](https://www.discoverfrome.co.uk/frome/) for the first time) and especially [the Borderland](https://www.facebook.com/groups/theborderland/permalink/2654679537884796/)
- I released a [new podcast with Alnoor Ladha on Mystical Anarchism](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2853620471379519)
- I made a whole load of updates to [Autopia](https://autopia.co/)– it now includes Habits, Places, Rooms, Dating and Groups. I’m rather proud of it, please do [check it out](http://autopia.co)! (Most of it is pretty straightforward but it’s a priority of mine to make some tutorial videos for the less obvious features, particularly the Groups feature which is geared towards real-life co-created gatherings.)
- I started a crypto fund on [ICONOMI](https://my.iconomi.com/register?ref=YGnZy) (a platform for investing in managed crypto funds) called the Decentralised Cooperation Fund. Right now it’s invitation-only: let me know if you want one.
- I released a [new t-shirt design: TRY LSD](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2904204152987817)
## **My plans**
[](https://autopia.co/a/totnes-new-moon-gathering/apply)
- **14 Aug:** The Psychedelic Society’s [DAOstack Community Onboarding](https://www.facebook.com/events/473250970167834/)
- **20 Aug:** [DAOfest](http://daofest.io) (I probably won’t make it, but I expect it will be great!)
- **22-25 Aug:** Conversation with Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion on Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change on the Imaginarium stage at [Shambala Festival](https://www.shambalafestival.org/)
- **29 Aug - 1 Sep:** [Totnes New Moon Gathering](https://autopia.co/a/totnes-new-moon-gathering/apply) (a decentralised co-created gathering to mark my first new moon in Totnes)
- **3 Sep:** [in conversation with David Luke](https://www.facebook.com/events/635383580290874/) at Juju’s
- **14-20 Sep: ** [ISTA Level 1 in Devon](https://www.ukista.com/)
- **21-24 Sep: ** [The World Transformed 2019](https://www.facebook.com/events/488447481923468/) (probably)
- **27-29 Sep: ** [Metamodern Arts Festival](https://www.facebook.com/events/1955720227872179/) (perhaps… it’s a long way…)
- **4-6 Oct: ** [Green Party Autumn Conference](https://www.greenparty.org.uk/conference/)
- **7-19 Oct:** [Extinction Rebellion’s International Rebellion](https://www.facebook.com/events/350862888939201/)
- **24-27 Oct: ** [Apple Land Festival](https://www.facebook.com/events/574937116274601/) at Three Pools Permaculture Farm
- **1-3 Nov: ** The Psychedelic Society’s 5th birthday celebrations
- **29 Dec - 3 Jan: ** Nettlecombe
## **What I’ve been reading, watching & listening to**
### YouTube
- [Deep Code: Jordan (Green)Hall Documentary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j3cCrpXERg)
- [Future Thinkers & Rebel Wisdom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYg5-PKiz_g)
### Spotify
- [State of the DAO Panel Discussion](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1iUbrOP80MP3560qK2p7CF)
### The Guardian
- [Labour’s best tactic to beat Boris Johnson? A popular front](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/02/labour-boris-johnson-progressive-pact-greens-lib-dems)
- [Ethiopia plants 350m trees in a day to help tackle climate crisis](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/29/ethiopia-plants-250m-trees-in-a-day-to-help-tackle-climate-crisis)
- [Greta Thunberg to sail across Atlantic for UN climate summits](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/29/greta-thunberg-to-sail-across-atlantic-for-un-climate-summits)
- [Carbon calculator: how taking one flight emits as much as many people do in a year](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/jul/19/carbon-calculator-how-taking-one-flight-emits-as-much-as-many-people-do-in-a-year)
- [True cost of cheap food is health and climate crises, says commission](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/16/true-cost-of-cheap-food-is-health-and-climate-crises-says-commission)
- [Sadiq Khan calls for new powers to impose London rent controls](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/19/sadiq-khan-calls-for-new-powers-to-impose-london-rent-controls)
### The Independent
- [Huge swathes of the Arctic on fire, satellite images show](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/arctic-circle-wildfires-climate-change-greenland-alaska-siberia-photographs-a9015851.html#Echobox=1563822346)
- [Costa Rica to completely ban polystyrene due to environmental impact](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/costa-rica-polystyrene-styrofoam-ban-environment-microplastic-law-a9011531.html)
- [Cigarette butts causing ‘serious damage to environment’, study on impact to plant growth reveals](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/cigarette-butt-filter-environmental-damage-plant-growth-study-a9011616.html)
### Elsewhere
- [Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48964736) _bbc.com_
- [Green Swedes shun holiday flights for lure of the train](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47805990) _bbc.com_
- [The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust](http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth) _bbc.com_
- [Which darknet sites are online?](https://dark.fail/) _dark.fail_
- [UN rights chief ‘appalled’ by US border detention conditions, says holding migrant children may violate international law](https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/07/1041991) _news.un.org_
- [Healing Crystals and How to Shoplift Them](https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/healing-crystals-and-how-to-shoplift-them) _newyorker.com_
- [With Boris Johnson, the Rules Have Changed. Now Labour’s Leadership Must Step Up](https://novaramedia.com/2019/08/02/with-boris-johnson-the-rules-have-changed-now-labours-leadership-must-step-up/) _novaramedia.com_
- [The Weird, Mystic Pull of Southwest England](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/travel/southwest-england-avalon-tintagel-totnes-weird-spiritual.html) _nytimes.com_
- [Bitcoin Is Smarter Than Politicians And Central Bankers](https://offthechain.substack.com/p/bitcoin-is-smarter-than-politicians) _offthechain.substack.com_
- [Taking mushrooms for depression cured me of my atheism](https://theoutline.com/post/7367/taking-mushrooms-for-depression-cured-me-of-my-atheism) _theoutline.com_
- [Red-hot planet: All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the past week](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/07/03/hot-planet-all-time-heat-records-have-been-set-all-over-the-world-in-last-week/) _washingtonpost.com_
- [This is how trees could help solve the climate crisis](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/trees-reforestation-climate-change-crisis/) _weforum.org_
- [In India, toddlers are already coding](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/in-india-toddlers-are-starting-to-write-computer-codes-before-they-can-talk/) _weforum.org_
- [A 550 km-long mass of rotting seaweed is heading for Mexico's pristine beaches](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/a-550-km-long-mass-of-rotting-seaweed-is-heading-for-mexicos-pristine-beaches/) _weforum.org_
- [This image of how the world has warmed is so effective it's appearing on clothing](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/this-image-of-how-the-world-has-warmed-works-so-well-its-appearing-on-clothing-and-even-cars/) _weforum.org_
- [Rise of the Emergentsia(2): Feeling ‘Gobschmacht’ Yet?](http://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/rise-of-the-emergentsia-2-feeling-gobschmacht-about-the-phase-shift?fbclid=IwAR0Y8V8qrSVS9M7b4QnLs2a9oz64wMt_xdIIHqVX1xmc7ASXv0w1PqGFCf0) _whatisemerging.com_
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# In Correspondence #6, 2019-09-10T16:33:23.221Z
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## **What I’ve been up to**
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_Tapeley Park, location of the XR South West Rebel Rising_
- I really enjoyed the [XR South West Rebel Rising](https://www.facebook.com/events/425386821647033/) where I gave a packed talk on the topic Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change (video soon)
- Gail Bradbrook (Extinction Rebellion) and I were in conversation on the Imaginarium stage at [Shambala Festival](https://www.shambalafestival.org/)
- [David Luke (Breaking Convention) and I](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3003086623099569&set=a.234018423339750&type=3&theater) were in conversation at [Juju’s](https://www.facebook.com/events/635383580290874/)
- I proposed an [XR Meditators](https://www.facebook.com/groups/488966111892082/) block for the Extinction Rebellion actions in October
- I visited [Embercombe](https://embercombe.org) for the first time and hope to run a retreat called [Elemental Wholeness](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2994802980594600&set=a.234018423339750&type=3&theater) there in spring
- I attended the launch event of the Psychedelic Society’s [Psychedelic Ecology](https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/activities/psychedelic-ecology) series
- I did my CBT moped training and bought a [NIU NGT electric moped](https://urbanebikes.com/products/niu-n-gt-45mph)
- I’ve been nominated as a potential Green Party candidate for the Totnes parliamentary constituency
- Switching to a plant-based diet? I made my [most successful meme](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2994365407305024&set=a.234018423339750&type=3&theater) in some time
## **My plans**
- **14-20 Sep: ** [ISTA Level 1 in Devon](https://www.ukista.com/)
- **27-29 Sep: ** [Metamodern Arts Festival](https://www.facebook.com/events/1955720227872179/) (I’m almost certainly not going now as I’ve done a lot of travelling this summer but I’m sure it will be great)
- **4-6 Oct: ** [Green Party Autumn Conference](https://www.greenparty.org.uk/conference/)
- **6 Oct:** Speaking at [Fungi Fest](http://fungifest.uk)
- **7-19 Oct: ** [Extinction Rebellion’s International Rebellion](https://www.facebook.com/events/350862888939201/)
- **24-27 Oct: ** [Apple Land Festival](https://www.facebook.com/events/574937116274601/) at Three Pools Permaculture Farm
- **9-10 Nov: ** [The Psychedelic Society’s 5th birthday celebrations](https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/events/the-psychedelic-society-festival-sat-9th-nov-2019-773)
## **What I’ve been reading, watching & listening to**
### Books
- [Alien Information Theory](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2957791360962429) by Andrew Gallimore
### Films
- [wetheuncivilised](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/2997577486983816? __tn__ =-R)
### The Amazon
- [We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/02/amazon-destruction-earth-brazilian-kayapo-people) _theguardian.com_
- [Amazon fires: the tribes fighting to save their dying rainforest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upU1hlPXBpY) _youtube.com_
- [Wildfires are burning around the world. The most alarming is in the Amazon rainforest](https://www.vox.com/world/2019/8/20/20813786/wildfire-amazon-rainforest-brazil-siberia) _vox.com_
- [Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest - space agency](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49415973) _bbc.com_
- [Climate crisis: More fires burning across central Africa than Amazon as global deforestation rates approach record high](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-crisis-amazon-fires-brazil-congo-rainforest-africa-bolsonaro-nasa-macron-a9080741.html) _independent.co.uk_
### DAOs and blockchain
- [Aragon Fundraising & the return of the commons](https://blog.aragon.black/aragon-fundraising-the-return-of-the-commons/) _blog.aragon.black_
- [Introducing Aragon Fundraising](https://blog.aragon.org/introducing-aragon-fundraising/) _blog.aragon.org_
- [dOrg Founders Have Created the First Limited Liability DAO](https://www.coindesk.com/dorg-founders-have-created-the-first-limited-liability-dao) _coindesk.com_
- [What is a DAICO, Explained](https://cointelegraph.com/explained/what-is-a-daico-explained) _cointelegraph.com_
- [DAICO vs ICO. What is DAICO? How DAICO better than traditional ICO?](https://medium.com/@huyencrypto/daico-vs-ico-what-is-daico-how-daico-better-than-traditional-ico-77de394eaac6) _medium.com_
- [The Dai Stablecoin is a Game Changer for Ethereum and the Entire Cryptocurrency Ecosystem](https://medium.com/@james_3093/the-dai-stablecoin-is-a-game-changer-for-ethereum-and-the-entire-cryptocurrency-ecosystem-13fb412d1e75) _medium.com_
- [Explanation of DAICOs](https://ethresear.ch/t/explanation-of-daicos/465) _ethresear.ch_
- [Decentralized Autonomous Initial Coin Offering](https://www.theabyss.com/daico#overall) _theabyss.com_
- [How Blockchain Could Create Incentives to Protect the Environment](https://hackernoon.com/how-blockchain-could-create-incentives-to-protect-the-environment-7x2b72cvy) _hackernoon.com_
- [The Blockchain Will Do to the Financial System What the Internet Did to Media](https://hbr.org/2017/03/the-blockchain-will-do-to-banks-and-law-firms-what-the-internet-did-to-media) _hbr.org_
- [Regen Network 1-Minute Product Overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z_yLSqYnDk)
### YouTube
- [Haka at a Funeral Service](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Qtc_zlGhc&feature=youtu.be)
- [Using the Debt Collective Platform to Dispute Your Debt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojgn6l2APfQ)
- [STORMZY - SOUNDS OF THE SKENG](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IHSlLIP24E)
- [Rebel Wisdom’s Collective Intelligence Series: Introduction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PldNSp3tpU)
- [I Meditated Every Day & This Is What Happened To Me... | Russell Brand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Zyj2P6sig)
### Spotify
- [Max Semenchuk | DGOV | Commons Stack | EthSignals](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5SfMbllG77Dw95hqDA1vKp)
- [Daniel Schmachtenberger - Utopia or Bust: Designing a Non Self-Terminating Civilization](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1UN936BkEy3RBnVrXXPTPH)
### The Guardian
- [Dominic Cummings’ meme-generating media outrage strategy is working](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/08/dominic-cummings-meme-generating-media-outrage-strategy-is-working)
- [The real reason we should fear the work of Dominic Cummings](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/07/smash-and-grab-dominic-cummings-democracy)
- [Queensland extinguishes native title over Indigenous land to make way for Adani coalmine](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/31/queensland-extinguishes-native-title-over-indigenous-land-to-make-way-for-adani-coalmine)
- ['Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-recycling-myth-what-really-happens-your-rubbish)
- ['Ecological grief': Greenland residents traumatised by climate emergency](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/12/greenland-residents-traumatised-by-climate-emergency)
- [Arctic wildfires spew soot and smoke cloud bigger than EU](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/12/arctic-wildfires-smoke-cloud)
- [It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/12/raining-plastic-colorado-usgs-microplastics)
- [Buy organic food to help curb global insect collapse, say scientists](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/13/buy-organic-food-to-help-curb-global-insect-collapse-say-scientists)
### The Independent
- [Hong Kong withdraws extradition bill as China bows to protesters](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/hong-kong-extradition-bill-china-carrie-lam-protests-latest-a9090966.html)
- [Public underestimates how bad global warming really is, study finds](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-crisis-global-warming-plastic-pollution-uk-study-environment-a9092601.html)
- [Second person dies from mystery vaping-linked illness amid growing concern over safety](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/vaping-death-e-cigarettes-safety-respiratory-illness-marijuana-oil-oregon-a9092456.html)
### Elsewhere
- [Why this activist is calling for the mass ingestion of psychedelics](https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/psychedelics-civil-disobedience) _bigthink.com_
- [The Remain alliance that could spoil Boris Johnson’s party](https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/the-remain-alliance-that-could-spoil-boris-johnsons-party/) _blogs.spectator.co.uk_
- [Between the Devil and the Green New Deal](https://communemag.com/between-the-devil-and-the-green-new-deal/) _communemag.com_
- [What is The Debt Collective?](http://debtcollective.org/) _debtcollective.org_
- [Dominic Cummings's Blog](https://dominiccummings.com/) _dominiccummings.com_
- [Canada Now Has Psilocybin Dispensaries](https://doubleblindmag.com/canada-psilocybin-dispensaries-dana-larsen/) _doubleblindmag.com_
- [Dynamicland](https://dynamicland.org/) _dynamicland.org_
- [Fantastic Fungi film](http://fantasticfungi.com/) _fantasticfungi.com_
- [This Revolutionary Blast Furnace Vaporizes Trash and Turns It into Clean Energy (Without Any Emissions)](https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/revolutionary-blast-furnace-vaporizes-trash-and-turns-it-into-clean-energy/) _goodnewsnetwork.org_
- [Instagrammers Love It, But This Russian Turquoise ‘Lake’ Is Actually Toxic](https://www.konbini.com/en/lifestyle/instagrammers-love-it-but-this-russian-turquoi-lake-actually-toxic/) _konbini.com_
- [Europe’s Meat Consumption Has Dropped 20% In 3 Months](https://www.livekindly.co/europe-meat-consumption-dropped-20/) _livekindly.co_
- [I Will If You Will](https://medium.com/@richdecibels/i-will-if-you-will-3086587a03ce) _medium.com_
- [The ‘Political Anarchist’ Behind Britain’s Chaos](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/opinion/sunday/dominic-cummings-brexit.html) _nytimes.com_
- [Sierra Energy raises funding to develop FastOx gasification technology](https://www.power-technology.com/news/sierra-energy-fastox-gasification/) _power-technology.com_
- [Britain’s Reichstag Fire moment](https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/britain-prorouging-boris-johnson-parliament-suspension-richard-evans-weimar) _prospectmagazine.co.uk_
- [How a game of musical chairs can help explain our broken economy](https://qz.com/1694174/charles-eisenstein-explains-the-economy-using-musical-chairs/) _qz.com_
- [Indigeneity and Belonging, By Charles Eisenstein](https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/blog/indigeneity-and-belonging-by-charles-eisenstein) _schumachercollege.org.uk_
- [Becoming Indigenous](https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/blog/becoming-indigenous) _schumachercollege.org.uk_
- [Fraudsters deepfake CEO’s voice to trick manager into transferring $243,000](https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/09/02/fraudsters-deepfake-ceos-voice-to-trick-manager-into-transferring-243000/) _thenextweb.com_
- [We should all be reading more Ursula Le Guin](https://theoutline.com/post/7886/ursula-le-guin-carrier-bag-theory) _theoutline.com_
- [Living in Two Worlds: Capitalism Pretends All Is Well While the World Is Burning](https://truthout.org/articles/living-in-two-worlds-capitalism-pretends-all-is-well-while-the-world-is-burning/) _truthout.org_
- [Workers Seize the Shipyard That Built the Titanic to Make Renewable Energy](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwanz/workers-seize-the-shipyard-that-built-the-titanic-to-make-renewable-energy) _vice.com_
- [Meet Alice, the battery-powered plane that could herald the age of electric air travel](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/aviation-electric-planes-climate-change/) _weforum.org_
- [NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air - and it could feed billions](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/nasas-idea-for-making-food-from-thin-air-just-became-a-reality-it-could-feed-billions/) _weforum.org_
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# In Correspondence #7, 2019-11-04T15:50:30.858Z
## **What I’ve been up to**
- I participated in the [Extinction Rebellion](https://rebellion.earth/) International Rebellion, where I spent most of my time [livestreaming](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3100509880023909? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARAuS6qRXZugDRXt5XLh1vfYtkTJM4M8WFX0QoKsqN-qpw8urhe0TW0_aYzrpSd1dEIRZlbjafsnHKHDuzthryZ0otQu3u4gmzaWP7zSiMe6b0Le7kFyx6lzDztWV30eDOruEFfMYo0DtaGgjIrwZeJIXknctVzLQNLrMn8GFvwWgMnGarLf1fY-dWxfXRWMLujmDiRPlThu80sXcE3BSM2p9z3XJCD8kb0M_ZVpAV8rGJ_5S1Mh8yuWEQ2s7KPmE2uD5Qm7rg0sIEpajKRlgH1HidGYR9aRbw7SauiBXXRr373D2DZisgooq3wmSPAZUyueoXyCJgbPfRj1slXNI50EqNzEAjZA4z7T& __tn__ =-R), [meditating](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3104098049665092&set=a.144396775635249&type=3) and singing the [songs of the Extinction Rebellion Song Carriers](https://medium.com/@stephenreid321/xr-song-carriers-song-e275d0e138b6). Here’s a couple of photos that made the press:
- [I completed the ISTA Level 1 training in Spiritual, Sexual, Shamanic Experience](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3049615445113353? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARCj62Gh1kj2OMRfB3XZCpcmUn_FFRcfYJDKivqdMZBpp2KaCewQ7HV6uDZKA8R7JrhIKwCRA6e7Qpsr6Nq8fxeIUlhJFvXXBC0k0VbLu8LlzYPWuAbDOTdkkhCEEPD06VwJSPQFlR4nFEDMNS48cDhcA3L_zssEmL0PY5P45Obqlz_lkyOXqOUhv024b41F9sagqmZbGx7-XMP8& __tn__ =-R) which I highly recommend to anyone who desires to radically improve their relationship with love, sex and gender. (I published a [blog post](https://medium.com/@stephenreid321/the-safer-sex-conversation-ff8ae226f4f9?source=---------3------------------) on the Safer Sex Conversation and Wheel of Consent that feature in the course.)
- I was [profiled by Emerge Magazine](http://www.whatisemerging.com/profiles/stephen-reid?fbclid=IwAR3rj1Qul7qoc4WOYURsWNvLZoFI2MwoyAqUZe6WyFCQUk3Qj-eSZBltJ7o)
- I released a [new podcast with Andy Letcher on Psychedelic Druidry](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid.net/posts/115632506529849? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARD8tG5yw5qJ2Uxs4UC-1CwDGXgQqXGdsf-UmLOXvvNdvyo_ahVsm3j-YkFILBFjQAdUnJ167 __19GXGGA11KGJse7LdR8bGbLg9prtW5LR-ruypigAM4j0ZEXoML25uZA2z8mHZvsU4ZdXtG0OwlKxAH0FlMIkKvk_A0PlHqYV_AaBXPIkSnJ1CCJ98ng6jNXt4aFE5tGQQGHAXWJ6bnHp5Zht7mIvHOsJIoR2DWHKwHZW0qcG3C5PnbX9h1quFWtIC6M_91Zr8t1p9g2DQZFrLRUdFenWCTFnrm7Q9YYiCjcoGcAO3im-FJwOYuGQfnb4ZA9k-QJL4BD8ngN_HK5kg&__ tn__=H-R)
- I gave a talk at Fungi Fest on Psilocybin Mushrooms for a Regenerative Society ([audio here](https://anchor.fm/stephenreid321/episodes/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-for-a-Regenerative-Society-e817d4?v=1&fbclid=IwAR1qWlzTbhl7ffUib8FqQ_hJwClj_LObT8Cs2W_kMXeWz69YinLlwft1GPY))
- I attended the [Redecentralize Conference 2019](https://redecentralize.org/events/2019-conference/)
- I joined [School Farm Community Supported Agriculture](https://www.schoolfarmcsa.org.uk), a membership farming scheme on the Dartington Estate
- I created a public Google Calendar for the [Wheel of the Year](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3021383514603213&set=a.234018423339750&type=3)
- I did some research on [matched betting](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3058289600912604&set=a.234018423339750&type=3), a clever (mathematically risk-free) way of turning the free promotional bets offered by betting companies into real cash
- I started an [XR Metamodernists Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3077482015660029)
- I attended the [Green Party](https://www.greenparty.org.uk/) Autumn Conference and have been involved in local negotiations of the [Unite to Remain](https://unitetoremain.org/) Remain Alliance
- I witnessed the [Birth of Death](https://embercombe.org/the-birth-of-death/) by Joanne Tremarco at [Embercombe](http://embercombe.org/)
- I attended Jamie Wheal’s talk [Recapture the Rapture](https://www.facebook.com/events/1136365059906075/) and a reception with Jamie and others the following evening on the [corporatisation of psychedelics](http://aurynfund.org/pala)
- Books I read:
## **My plans**
- **9-10 Nov: ** [The Psychedelic Society’s 5th birthday celebrations](https://www.facebook.com/events/451219298812103)
- **11 Nov:** I'm running a [participatory workshop on sigil magic](https://www.facebook.com/events/1052624631735689/) in association with House of Hackney
- **12 Nov:** I’m giving a Q&A on The Mind, Meditation and Psychedelics at the University of Exeter, 7pm in the Amory Building
## **New content-focused homepage**
In previous newsletters I’ve included a list of links to content that I’ve been reading, watching & listening to. This carefully curated content is now available on [my new homepage](http://stephenreid.net/) (complete with images and summaries), [my new Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid.net), [my Twitter feed](https://twitter.com/stephenreid321) or via [RSS](https://stephenreid.net/feed.rss).
(‘What magic is this?’, I hear you ask! The answer: [Feedly](https://feedly.com/) & [Pocket](https://getpocket.com/) & [Integromat](http://integromat.com/) & [Airtable](https://airtable.com/) & [Airrecord](https://github.com/sirupsen/airrecord) 🤓)
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**Quality content curation takes time.** Inspired by [Charles Eisenstein](https://charleseisenstein.org/donate/), I offer this work as a gift. If you appreciate my efforts, please consider making a donation via [crypto](https://stephenreid.net/donate), [Paypal](https://www.paypal.me/stephenreid321) or [my new Patreon page](https://www.patreon.com/stephenreid). You could also take a look at my [recommended products](http://stephenreid.net/products) page (I receive a small commission for most products featured there).
Until next time, with love,
Stephen
# In Correspondence #8, 2019-12-16T22:56:33.643Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to my latest update. _Feel free to hit reply and let me know what you find useful/introduce me to someone/make me a recommendation._
[](https://stephenreid.net/search)
I created a very cool [live network view](https://stephenreid.net/search) of the content I share. The nodes are tags, and the edge weights correspond to the number of articles that include both tags. [Check it out!](https://stephenreid.net/search)
[](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid.net/photos/a.105907754168991/120338439392589/?type=1&theater)
I was [selected as the Green Party parliamentary candidate for Totnes](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid.net/photos/a.105907754168991/120338439392589/?type=1&theater), before [stepping aside](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid.net/photos/a.105907754168991/120590132700753/) as part of the nationally-negotiated #UniteToRemain alliance. I made my first public appearance for the Green Party at the event [How Should Totnes Greens Vote?](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid.net/photos/a.105907754168991/134647284628371/?type=3&theater), presenting the Green manifesto and holding the candidates to account on the climate and ecological crisis in front of an audience of ~300 people.
[](https://stephenreid.net/blog/totnes-convergence)
I’ve started plotting a public event in Totnes called [Totnes Convergence](https://stephenreid.net/blog/totnes-convergence), almost certainly Thursday 4th - Sunday 7th June 2020, for around 300 people. More on this soon.
[](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid.net/photos/a.106347297458370/121681769258256/?type=1&theater)
I gave a couple of workshops on sigil magic, at the [Psychedelic Society’s 5th Birthday Festival](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid.net/photos/a.106347297458370/121681769258256/?type=1&theater) and House of Hackney.
In other news:
- I finished the brilliant [Nordic Ideology](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46147242-nordic-ideology) by Hanzi Freinacht/Metamoderna and published a couple of extracts on my [new blog](http://stephenreid.net/blog) ([Introduction](https://stephenreid.net/blog/nordic-ideology-political-metamodernism), [Relative Utopia](https://stephenreid.net/blog/relative-utopia)). I also republished [this excellent article on the worldview of David Bohm](https://stephenreid.net/blog/bohms-gnosis)
- Summer 2020: I booked my place at the [ISTA Wild Love Festival](https://ista.life/events/berlin-germany-ista-wild-love-festival-jul-2020) and [Waking Life](https://wakinglife.pt/)
- I noticed Ethical Superstore is currently offering a free £40 voucher if you [switch to Triodos Bank](https://www.triodos.co.uk/ethicalsuperstore)
If you appreciate my work, you’re welcome to make a donation via [crypto](https://stephenreid.net/donate), [Paypal](https://www.paypal.me/stephenreid321) or [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/stephenreid). You could also take a look at my [recommended products](http://stephenreid.net/products) page (I receive a small commission for most products featured there).
Until next time, with love,
Stephen
# In Correspondence #9, 2020-02-01T11:16:01.771Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to my latest update. Somehow, it’s February already.
## What I’ve been up to
### Totnes Convergence
[](http://convergence.so/totnes)
[Totnes Convergence](http://convergence.so/totnes) is a participatory event in Totnes and Dartington, Devon, UK for 300 people, Thursday 4th - Sunday 7th June 2020 that I initiated and am curating alongside [Hana Wolf](http://hanawolf.photography/about-1), [Phoebe Tickell](http://phoebetickell.com/), [Tarn Rodgers Johns](http://www.whatisemerging.com/about), [Daniel Hernandez and Chloe Wykes](https://www.facebook.com/groups/divine.ridiculous/).
Themes include: _complexity, ecology & regeneration · decentralised organising · entheogens & consciousness · magic, witchcraft & indigeneity · metamodern politics, new economics & Game B · movement, touch & play · music & performance · the great transition_
If you appreciate my work/this newsletter, you’re going to love Totnes Convergence. [Read more](http://convergence.so/totnes) and [apply via Autopia](https://autopia.co/a/totnes-convergence/apply)
### Totnes visitors
I’ve had the pleasure of hosting many fine friends in Totnes over the past weeks, including [Richard Dennis Bartlett](http://richdecibels.com/) and Natalia Lombardo ([Enspiral](https://enspiral.com/)/[The Hum](https://www.thehum.org/)), [Ronan Harrington](https://www.ronanharrington.co/) ([Alter Ego](http://alterego.network/)), [Gaia Harvey Jackson](https://www.gaiaharveyjackson.com/) and the [Psychedelic Society team](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/media_set?set=a.3418061661602061&type=3).
[](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3349403275134567)
_Gaia, Ronan and me communing with the sea at Prawle Point_
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_[Hana](http://hanawolf.photography/about-1), Kyle, Bibi and Simon on Mel Tor_
In other news:
- I shared two of my superpowers by publishing curated lists of [key software](https://stephenreid.net/software) and [key Facebook groups](https://stephenreid.net/groups)
- I initiated and participated in a 5-day, 110-person gathering at a beautiful property in North Somerset that was co-created on [Autopia](http://autopia.co/), an open source app I built and continue to work on
- I was accepted onto the [Karuna Institute's Foundation Course in Core Process Psychotherapy](https://www.karuna-institute.co.uk/foundation-training.html), a 5-day residential training at the Institute's manor on Dartmoor
- From July I'll be studying a 1 year apprenticeship in [Contemporary Animism](https://embercombe.org/contemporary-animism/) led by Colin Campbell and Angharad Wynne, featuring Sharon Blackie, David Abram, Stephan Harding and Andy Letcher, including two residential retreats at [Embercombe](http://embercombe.org/)
- [I helped plant over 1,000 trees at the beautiful Pondfield site](https://www.facebook.com/events/1017197835294160/)
- [Need a facilitator?](https://stephenreid.net/facilitation) This year I'm open to stepping more into paid facilitation/consultancy/speaking work, if it's asked of me.
- Ethical Superstore is still offering a free £40 voucher if you [switch to Triodos Bank](https://www.triodos.co.uk/ethicalsuperstore)
- My [knowledge graph](https://stephenreid.net/search) continues to grow as I share content on a near daily basis
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## My plans
- **5 Feb:** [Convergence Listens: Bayo Akomolafe on For The Wild](https://www.facebook.com/convergence.so/posts/134705931346879)
- **20 Feb:** Hosting a [Members’ Social](https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/events/members-social-with-stephen-reid-fri-21st-feb-2020-927) at the Psychedelic Society
- **21-23 Feb:** [Divine Ridiculous: Lupercalia](https://www.facebook.com/events/2482399778746614/)
- **8-13 Mar:** [Karuna Institute Foundation Course in Core Process Psychotherapy](https://www.karuna-institute.co.uk/foundation-training.html)
- **14-17 May:** [Alter Ego?](http://alterego.network/)
- **4-7 Jun:** [Totnes Convergence](http://convergence.so/totnes)
- **16-21 Jun:** [Kiez Burn?](https://talk.kiezburn.org/d/lha3QHKo/location-finalization-meeting)
- **1-5 Jul:** [ISTA Wild Love](https://www.ista-festivals.com/)
- **20-24 Jul** : [Contemporary Animism](https://embercombe.org/contemporary-animism/)
- **28-31 Jul:** [European Ecovillage Gathering?](https://ecovillagegathering.org/)
- **12-17 Aug:** [Waking Life](https://wakinglife.pt/)
- **20-23 Aug:** Enspiral Europe gathering?
- **27-31 Aug:** [Medicine Festival](https://medicinefestival.com/)
## Reciprocity
Some ways you can reciprocate if you appreciate this newsletter:
- Come to [Totnes Convergence](http://convergence.so/totnes)
- Make a donation via [crypto](https://stephenreid.net/donate), [Paypal](https://www.paypal.me/stephenreid321) or [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/stephenreid)
- Check out my [recommended products](http://stephenreid.net/products) page (I receive a small commission for most products featured there)
- Hit reply and let me know what you found useful/introduce me to someone/make me a recommendation
Until next time, with love,
[Stephen](http://stephenreid.net/)
# In Correspondence #10, 2020-03-23T15:56:26.504Z
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_[Image via Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/FuK9tVXBFoI)_
> We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness, and strength so we can help transform the situation. The ocean of tears cannot drown us if karuna [compassion] is there.
— [The Four Qualities of Love](https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2015/02/15/the-four-qualities-of-love-by-thich-nhat-hanh/), Thich Nhat Hanh
## People I recommend you pay attention to at the moment
- Jordan Hall ([Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/phonomancer), [Medium](https://medium.com/@jordangreenhall))
- Daniel Schmachtenberger ([Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/geosol114), [Medium](https://medium.com/@danielschmachtenberger))
- Bonnitta Roy ([Medium](https://medium.com/@bonnittaroy), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/bonnittaroy))
- Russell Brand ([Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/RussellBrand/), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/russellbrand))
- Bayo Akomolafe ([Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/bayoakomolafeampersand/))
- Tomas Pueyo ([Medium](https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo))
- Phoebe Tickell ([Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/phoebetickell), [Medium](https://medium.com/@phoebetickell))
- Richard Dennis-Bartlett ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/RichDecibels))
- Rebel Wisdom ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQ6Gptuq-sLflbJ4YY3Umw))
- and… me? ([Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid.net), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/stephenreid321), [web](https://stephenreid.net/))
## How I recommend you pay attention to them
[Feedly](https://feedly.com/), using [FetchRSS](http://fetchrss.com/) to turn Facebook pages/Twitter feeds into RSS, and Facebook’s Get Notifications feature for Facebook profiles:
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## Staying focused
I've found that accessing my Facebook newsfeed on mobile is sufficient, and that I don't also need it on desktop. The best solution I've found:
- Install the [Stylus](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne?hl=en) extension for Chrome
- Create a new script applying to 'URLs on the domain: [facebook.com](https://facebook.com/? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARCgijDrLICDaGGwZwqMmWn7TIdIEgP2rznKcDUP39ej--C-JJi-MfJceM5qQyc9ffh3LLxrB9w6gDnaN_trWEoVAd8er8oDLLM0ec3XN5T3KTwZ7ul-oqi1CeYdfLaUz0yepeMG2TvO9eFnRFpCWorW7cTQY3TTX7mlAdxBrzSQm8dzf_F0X8EfhDGSzymCyyny4c4pW0xTxbomQaMQP-VRgHUEVfTNpxccQqHKpUym4wR3oryrrifXSpC8T4gTuuDP6mGwWjz9Xvoar91tCbZCzMqWyxdbl6vhHW8Im10FrMlihF5yyDa8taX4TSvEZUokNYlUuI6_FobxQhsx& __tn__ =-UKH-R)': [#contentArea](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/contentarea?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG& __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARCgijDrLICDaGGwZwqMmWn7TIdIEgP2rznKcDUP39ej--C-JJi-MfJceM5qQyc9ffh3LLxrB9w6gDnaN_trWEoVAd8er8oDLLM0ec3XN5T3KTwZ7ul-oqi1CeYdfLaUz0yepeMG2TvO9eFnRFpCWorW7cTQY3TTX7mlAdxBrzSQm8dzf_F0X8EfhDGSzymCyyny4c4pW0xTxbomQaMQP-VRgHUEVfTNpxccQqHKpUym4wR3oryrrifXSpC8T4gTuuDP6mGwWjz9Xvoar91tCbZCzMqWyxdbl6vhHW8Im10FrMlihF5yyDa8taX4TSvEZUokNYlUuI6_FobxQhsx& __tn__ =%2ANKH-R) \> [#stream\_pagelet](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/stream_pagelet?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG& __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARCgijDrLICDaGGwZwqMmWn7TIdIEgP2rznKcDUP39ej--C-JJi-MfJceM5qQyc9ffh3LLxrB9w6gDnaN_trWEoVAd8er8oDLLM0ec3XN5T3KTwZ7ul-oqi1CeYdfLaUz0yepeMG2TvO9eFnRFpCWorW7cTQY3TTX7mlAdxBrzSQm8dzf_F0X8EfhDGSzymCyyny4c4pW0xTxbomQaMQP-VRgHUEVfTNpxccQqHKpUym4wR3oryrrifXSpC8T4gTuuDP6mGwWjz9Xvoar91tCbZCzMqWyxdbl6vhHW8Im10FrMlihF5yyDa8taX4TSvEZUokNYlUuI6_FobxQhsx& __tn__ =%2ANKH-R) { display: none }
Your Facebook homepage on desktop will then look like this:
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7ca7a3f-f136-4bfe-abf2-e396879b282a_1025x355.png)
Consider also [downgrading your phone](https://amzn.to/38UA2Fq) (or at least having a dumbphone as an option when you leave your home)
## Remote income
Matched betting is a clever (mathematically risk-free) way of turning the free promotional bets offered by betting companies into real cash. On average people make around £15/hour for 12 months. (At some point the betting companies realise what you're up to and 'gub' you – stop offering you free bets – but most people get at least 6 months out of it.) [Read more](https://www.profitaccumulator.co.uk/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=8902)
## Ditch the old financial system
Let’s take this opportunity to move beyond our unfair, unsustainable, centralised financial system. Make the switch to crypto: I recommend [Wirex](https://wirexapp.com/r/stephenreid321) for day-to-day spending and [ICONOMI](https://my.iconomi.com/register?ref=YGnZy) for savings/investments.
## In other news
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F249f8993-f40e-4d2d-a263-1e34b3e7b6ad_1024x436.jpeg)
_Ayrmer Cove_
- I visited beautiful [Ayrmer Cove](https://escapetobritain.com/ringmore-ayrmer-cove/) for the first time
- I appreciated this [Imagined Letter from Covid-19 to Humans](https://www.facebook.com/kristin.flyntz/posts/3020095601354571)
- I finished [Seeing That Frees](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid.net/posts/198720514887714? __xts__ %5B0%5D=68.ARCv79zy4lGdrblUaWWlItuUFlHQ9xP662OFQon6aICNme5Flz4jf_F8148ciw5uARFMGjda32TWBYKMaDI6o3N2JS8iM5lvbX-Ih7klO_Hhy6fojHRYhB037-pknOhiXI5r0uB8PFiG-gZAwNVwwjDznvy0jU2DvIkneYkPTOy4SPcuKckGdtR8gbajlOXcGaekfwv4oIQ8qablEEydut1AWf2BlyTQZCi--lxJAJ0EzzTsjrXzJ7l3j9KWiM6qEBC7oRkoqsuUR7_udnsfsAWgMPtrT20TMxpGRPNyslYuu0yDt5BuHqaux_ThxqJ8J_rJ6LyOhac7U-nhLtgia95l& __tn__ =H-R) by Rob Burbea and am now reading [Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World](https://stephenreid.net/books) by Tyson Yunkaporta
- I completed the [Karuna Institute's Foundation in Core Process Psychotherapy](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3596131560461736) and shared a piece on my [life journey](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3618739714867587) that I wrote as part of the application
- I embodied [The World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_(Tarot_card)) at [Divine Ridiculous: Lupercalia](https://www.facebook.com/events/2482399778746614/)
- Totnes Convergence is unlikely to go ahead; a final decision will be made over the coming weeks.
## Hire me
The coronavirus has freed up 2-3 days per week of my time, and I'm currently open to offers of paid work. Check out my [bio/training](https://stephenreid.net/about) and [get in touch](mailto:stephen@stephenreid.net) if you think I can help you/your organisation.
Some other ways you can reciprocate if you appreciate this newsletter:
- Make a donation via [crypto](https://stephenreid.net/donate), [Paypal](https://www.paypal.me/stephenreid321) or [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/stephenreid)
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- Hit reply and let me know what you found useful/introduce me to someone/make me a recommendation
Until next time, with love,
Stephen
# In Correspondence #11, 2020-05-01T09:39:03.886Z
Dear friends,
I hope you are keeping well. I’m hosting an online meetup by donation for readers of this newsletter on Wednesday 6th May, 6pm – 7pm. [Register here](https://dandelion.earth/events/5eabe5084960250009774516)
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff8e6cfd-df6d-4194-8492-d6fa7423c820_960x547.jpeg)
## Autopia is now Dandelion
[](https://dandelion.earth/organisations/5ddfa9559009af00069c5132)
The not-for-profit company behind the Psychedelic Society has been renamed from PsychedelicsUK Ltd to Dandelion Collective Ltd, and we are in final stages of registering Dandelion Collective as a worker co-op with Coops UK.
In addition to the Psychedelic Society, Dandelion Collective will host a number of other projects, including what was Autopia and is now simply called [Dandelion](https://dandelion.earth/) (at [dandelion.earth](https://dandelion.earth/)), a mapping-focused social and events platform.
I’m the lead developer (yep, amongst other things, I’m a Ruby developer ☺️). It’s been my main lockdown project and I’m feeling really pleased with it. Soon we’ll be encouraging all 65,000 supporters of Psychedelic Society to start using it to connect with people locally. Check out the [Psychedelic Society organisation on Dandelion](https://dandelion.earth/organisations/5ddfa9559009af00069c5132) for a sneak peek and [get in touch](mailto:stephen@stephenreid.net?subject=dandelion.earth) if you’d like to use it as your ticketing or organising platform.
## What else I’ve been up to
- [Totnes Convergence has been cancelled](https://www.notion.so/convergencepad/Totnes-Convergence-f626871dbf94407aa7bbeac742b13832)
- I hosted an [excellent panel discussion](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=276035140062487) with Alex Grey & Allyson Grey, Rick Doblin, Françoise Bourzat, Sam Gandy, Bia Labate and Dr. Gail Bradbrook for the Sacred Solidarity online festival on Bicycle Day (starts around 18:09)
- I’ve been [paying more attention to my dreams](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3648434898564735)
- I recorded a [cover of Red Mouth by Boe Huntress](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/videos/3683136705094554/)
- I published the [Temple Nights #1 playlist](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3760707640670793) for a deep and/or sexy evening
- I’m looking forward to the [Wilds Beyond Climate Justice gathering](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3746967102044847) featuring Bayo Akomolafe, Charles Eisenstein, Alnoor Ladha and many others, 31 May – 4 June
## What I’ve been reading & listening to
Since my last newsletter, I’ve shared a total of 94 links that you can read via [my website](https://stephenreid.net/) ([RSS](https://stephenreid.net/feed.rss)), [Facebook](https://facebook.com/stephenreid.net) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/stephenreid321). Some of the highlights:
### Books & essays
- [Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25172403-seeing-that-frees) by Rob Burbea (I published a list of [key concepts](https://stephenreid.net/blog/paticcasamuppada) to whet your appetite)
- [Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45449501-sand-talk) by Tyson Yunkaporta (Get a taste by reading the [guided mediation/'dream walk'](https://stephenreid.net/blog/sand-talk-dream-walk) featured in the book or watch a [video of Tyson](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3703174626424095))
- [I, Coronavirus](http://www.emergencenetwork.org/icoronavirus/): an essay by [Bayo Akomolafe](https://www.facebook.com/bayoakomolafeampersand/)
- Now reading: [The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17804355-the-falling-sky) by Davi Kopenawa
### Podcasts
- [Charles Eisenstein talking to Russell Brand](https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/russell-brand-395/under-the-skin-with-russell-brand-luminary-exclusive/d55de7eb-6f34-48e6-aee4-48703f8fb675?_branch_match_id=557447430721597292&country=GB)
- [Richard Dennis Bartlett talking to Jim Rutt](https://s.coop/23srk)
### In other news
- [DMT Researchers Advise Maintaining 6-Foot Distance From Own Body](https://www.theonion.com/dmt-researchers-advise-maintaining-6-foot-distance-from-1842866042)
- [U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion](https://www.theonion.com/u-s-economy-grinds-to-halt-as-nation-realizes-money-ju-1819571322)
- Want to energise yourself? Got 30 minutes? Try this [dynamic meditation](https://s.coop/23srf) ([instructions, times based on 60 minutes](https://www.oshodynamic.com/five-stages.html))
- Check out this beautiful [timelapse of a dandelion](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/videos/3738385442903013/)
## Recommendations
[](https://stephenreid.net/p/hum)
- Natalia Lombardo and Richard Dennis Bartlett of The Hum/Enspiral have released a new online course on [Patterns for Decentralised Organising](https://stephenreid.net/p/hum)
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6c30efa4-11f8-491c-8999-f76bbf9ae064_800x448.jpeg)
- [Celo](https://celo.org/) is a new cryptocurrency that counts Charles Eisenstein as one of its advisors. I’m planning to participate in the auction over the coming days; if it interests you, please register for the auction via [this link](https://coinlist.co/celo-auction?referral_code=7D4FCH) and I will receive a small referral bonus.
- The most clicked link in my last email was [matched betting](https://www.profitaccumulator.co.uk/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=8902)
- Bitcoin is up 20% in the past week. [ICONOMI is my preferred way to trade](https://my.iconomi.com/register?ref=YGnZy)
- If you appreciate my work, you’re welcome to make a donation via [crypto](https://stephenreid.net/donate), [Paypal](https://www.paypal.me/stephenreid321) or [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/stephenreid). You could also take a look at my [recommended products](http://stephenreid.net/products) page (I receive a small commission for most products featured there).
Until next time, with love,
Stephen
# In Correspondence #12, 2020-06-28T09:42:00.134Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to my latest update.
## What I’ve been up to
[](http://dontgobacktonormal.uk/)
Phoebe and I launched [Don’t Go Back To Normal](http://dontgobacktonormal.uk/). You can [watch the video from the launch event here](https://www.facebook.com/events/266396601239739/permalink/274867123726020/?ref=1&action_history=null).
[](https://guide.dandelion.earth/Organisations-in-Dandelion-4b3c3efcabb142e1896c2e877d20370f)
I continue to put a lot of time into Dandelion ([dandelion.earth](https://dandelion.earth)): a platform for events/ticketing/local groups/co-created gatherings that is the amalgamation of/successor to the Psychedelic Society and Autopia codebases. I [outlined some of the key features in this post](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3870940496314173) and started making this [guide](https://guide.dandelion.earth/) including [this introduction to organisations in Dandelion](https://guide.dandelion.earth/Organisations-in-Dandelion-4b3c3efcabb142e1896c2e877d20370f). If I do say so myself, it really is shaping up to be an awesome platform. Please consider using it for your next event/gathering – get in touch if you need any advice or support!
[](https://stephenreid.net/tao-te-ching)
Having finished going through the meditations in Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising by Rob Burbea, I'm going back to the beginning and meditating chapter-by-chapter on the book that was such an important portal for me into the mystical – Jonathan Star's translation of the Tao Te Ching. I'm posting each verse the day I meditate on it (usually 30 minutes sitting in the morning) in an [album on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/media_set?set=a.3949934421748113&type=3) and on a new [Tao Te Ching section of on my website](https://stephenreid.net/tao-te-ching).
[](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3836027839805439&set=a.234018423339750&type=3)
One of my proudest moments to date: Dandelion Collective Ltd, the not-for-profit company behind the Psychedelic Society and dandelion.earth, is now a [worker cooperative](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3836027839805439&set=a.234018423339750&type=3). Meanwhile, the Psychedelic Society’s Experience Retreats, which I co-founded and were the first psilocybin-assisted retreats of their kind, are branching off to become a new, independent organisation, [Alalaho](https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.tessler/posts/10158025672511144).
[](https://www.facebook.com/hanariverwolf/posts/10157505299221279)
I [moved house](https://www.facebook.com/hanariverwolf/posts/10157498116546279) and [wild camped on Dartmoor for Hana’s birthday](https://www.facebook.com/hanariverwolf/posts/10157505299221279).
- I published a [list of recommended books by BIPOC](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3906461902762032) (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) that I have read over the past months.
- I’m speaking with Adah Parris about [Cyborg Shamanism](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3921706207904268) on Tues 30th June.
## **What I’ve been reading & listening to**
Since my last newsletter, I’ve shared a total of 73 links that you can read via [my website](https://stephenreid.net/) ([RSS](https://stephenreid.net/feed.rss)), [Facebook](https://facebook.com/stephenreid.net) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/stephenreid321). I also finished two books:
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd3bb101d-94d7-4bd7-90bd-e703953ad517_331x499.jpeg)
[The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, as told by Davi Kopenawa to Bruce Albert](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3862166453858244)
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb00d35c2-efbc-441b-8f54-8cb35768004d_1080x1080.jpeg)
[Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3992199124188309)
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d6b3a5a-9ee1-4843-9d36-9142ae16d7b7_1920x1080.png)
Hana introduced me to a [bunch of anime films](https://stephenreid.net/organisations/IMDB), my highlight of which was [Princess Mononoke](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119698/).
## And finally…
- The most clicked link in my last email was the [Temple Nights #1 playlist for a deep and/or sexy evening](https://www.facebook.com/stephenreid321/posts/3760707640670793) . This month I’ve been enjoying the [Womb Alchemy playlists by Bryonia Melissae](https://open.spotify.com/user/briocheandtea?si=CecfQUuJQ5WsWOmMEqk_UA) and [Hana’s Temple playlists](https://open.spotify.com/user/hanathewolf?si=TerqbUsgRAuYvEd6xsC2FQ)
- If you appreciate my work, you’re welcome to make a donation via [crypto](https://stephenreid.net/donate), [Paypal](https://www.paypal.me/stephenreid321) or [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/stephenreid). You could also take a look at my [recommended products](http://stephenreid.net/products) page (I receive a small commission for most products featured there).
Until next time, with love,
Stephen
# In Correspondence #13, 2020-08-17T09:50:50.354Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to my latest update. I’ve just got back from a friend’s birthday at a house in the middle of Dartmoor after 5 days almost totally offline, joy! My love of Dartmoor and the River Dart keeps growing.
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadfd4e17-c894-448e-bf74-9375a35bdf15_915x515.jpeg)
## Monthly news review videocall for paying subscribers
I’m starting a **monthly news review** videocall for paying subscribers of this newsletter, where I’ll offer deeper commentary and analysis on content I’ve shared to my [knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/knowledgegraph) and other items mentioned here.
The first call will take place on **Wednesday 9th September at 6pm-7pm UK time** , with a link sent to paying subscribers earlier that week, and a recording sent afterwards.
The investment I’m asking for is $10/month (or $100/year), with the option of a $300/year Founding Member plan if you particularly appreciate my work and would like the option of being featured in this newsletter.
Your support would mean a lot to me, and will enable me to keep seeking out and connecting quality content in these strange times.
[Subscribe now](https://stephenreid.substack.com/subscribe?)
## Tao Te Ching
[I meditated on and added images for chapters 9–31 of the Tao Te Ching](https://stephenreid.net/tao-te-ching).
[](https://stephenreid.net/tao-te-ching/26)
Image: [Verse 26](https://stephenreid.net/tao-te-ching/26)
> Something formless, complete in itself
> There before Heaven and Earth
> Tranquil, vast, standing alone, unchanging
> It provides for all things yet cannot be exhausted
> It is the mother of the universe
> I do not know its name
> so I call it "Tao"
> Forced to name it further
> I call it
> "The greatness of all things"
> "The end of all endings"
> I call it
> "That which is beyond the beyond"
> "That to which all things return"
Text: [Verse 25](https://stephenreid.net/tao-te-ching/25)
## DeFi 📈
The value of my cryptocurrency (mainly [DeFi](https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/354018)) investments has more than doubled in the past month, partly thanks to some code I wrote to compare the performance of funds on ICONOMI, a great platform for managed crypto funds that I’ve been using for a few years now.
- [Sign up to ICONOMI via my referral link](https://www.iconomi.com/register?ref=YGnZy)
- [Book a 1-hour advice call with me on this topic](https://calendly.com/stephenreid321/crypto-advice-videocall)
- Learn more in the news review videocall for paying subscribers on Wednesday 9th September. [Subscribe here](https://stephenreid.substack.com/subscribe)
[](https://www.iconomi.com/register?ref=YGnZy)
## Knowledgegraph
Since last time, [I’ve shared 46 articles to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2020-06-28), including podcasts with [Daniel Thorson/Terry Patten](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0afFyWRPoDrKoIeM2GWbVY), [Alnoor Ladha/Charles Eisenstein](https://charleseisenstein.org/podcasts/new-and-ancient-story-podcast/alnoor-ladha-oppression-interconnection-healing-e48/), [Martin Shaw](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nwhS1bL2ktPLhYMLOLwk4), [Bayo Akomolafe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqCMQjdV1iA) and [Rupert Sheldrake/Mark Vernon on David Bohm](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6RRG9ve8tExR4g50z6ZBPo).
[](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2020-06-28)
## **Medicine Festival**
[](https://medicinefestival.com/)
I’m delighted that [Medicine Festival](https://medicinefestival.com/) is going ahead on 27th–31st August. I’ll be participating on panels on ‘Tech for Good’ and ‘The Corporatisation of Medicine’.
## And finally…
- My partner Hana Wolf has just launched her new design studio [Studio Wolf](https://studio-wolf.co/), offering branding, photography, video and web design.
[](https://studio-wolf.co/)
- In case you missed it, I’m now offering [technology & co-operative business coaching, consulting, coding & facilitation](https://stephenreid.net/services). Previous clients include:
[](https://stephenreid.net/services)
Stay tuned for details of my online course _Decentralisation Deep Dive 🐙_ and a new retreat series _The Art of Co-Creation_ ✨
Until next time, with love,
Stephen
# In Correspondence #14, 2020-09-26T22:26:31.420Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to another edition of _In Correspondence._ Last weekend I was camping in Cornwall where I had the pleasure of visiting [The Lost Gardens of Heligan](https://www.heligan.com/) and [The Eden Project](https://www.edenproject.com/):
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc54a92f-5dc4-4b0d-8315-0f4455d6fa01_961x640.jpeg)
_The Lost Gardens of Heligan_
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ff47d51-9fde-4f4f-b067-b2b43df0d322_1020x765.jpeg)
_The Eden Project_
## Introduction to Crypto & DeFi
[](https://dandelion.earth/events/5f6c9225a7863c0018cdd7b3)
I’m running a course **[Introduction to Crypto & DeFi](https://dandelion.earth/events/5f6c9225a7863c0018cdd7b3)** (Decentralised Finance) on Thursdays in November. The course is suitable for absolute beginners but will also be of interest to those with some expertise in the area seeking to connect with like-minded others. [Read more and sign up](https://dandelion.earth/events/5f6c9225a7863c0018cdd7b3)
## Tao Te Ching
[I meditated on and added images for chapters 32–48 of the Tao Te Ching](https://stephenreid.net/tao-te-ching). The page also has a new and rather pretty wide layout, [check it out](https://stephenreid.net/tao-te-ching) on a large screen.
[](https://stephenreid.net/tao-te-ching)
## Knowledgegraph
[](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2020-08-17)
Since last time, [I’ve shared 49 articles to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2020-08-17). Some highlights:
- [The Social Dilemma](https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224)
- [The End of Emerge (For Now)](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0MbYh2CBk9XHmejcvKrgfs)
- [The Bull Case for DeFi](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Di29Ot41kkUlRMseSRDRk)
- [The Fastest Unicorn of All Time](https://bluekirby.ghost.io/yfi-unicorn/)
- [The Ecology of Perception – David Abram](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0I2ZtjUGvVE4LSwHaoFmew)
## Monthly news review videocall for paying subscribers
I run a **monthly news review** videocall for paying subscribers of this newsletter, where I offer deeper commentary and analysis on content I’ve shared to my [knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/knowledgegraph) and other items mentioned here.
The next call will take place on **Wednesday 14th October, 6pm-7pm UK time** , with a link sent to paying subscribers earlier that week, and a recording sent afterwards.
The investment I ask for is $10/month (or $100/year), with the option of a $300/year Founding Member plan if you particularly appreciate my work and would like the option of being featured in this newsletter.
Your support means a lot to me, and will enable me to keep seeking out and connecting quality content in these strange times.
[Subscribe now](https://stephenreid.substack.com/subscribe?)
Until next time, with love,
Stephen
# In Correspondence #15, 2020-11-03T11:09:15.254Z
Dear friends,
Since last time, I’ve had the pleasure of attending the [Dandelion Collective](http://dandelion.coop/) team retreat at [Ayrmer Cove](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ayrmer+Cove/@50.2940898,-3.9095476,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x64e03627cafd29a2!8m2!3d50.2940898!4d-3.9095476)…
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6dff56bb-3b36-422c-8d8f-05d77da2e491_800x533.png)
…and I’ve just returned from a weekend of embodied Tarot at [Hexworthy, Dartmoor](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hexworthy,+Yelverton+PL20+6SD/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x486cfbc80171f207:0x36e3fcd19fd331bf?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJlfDFi-bsAhVPThUIHWDwCLoQ8gEwFHoECBUQAQ) where I explored the [Judgement](https://tarotx.net/tarot-card-meanings/marseilles/le-jugement-tarot.html) card.
## Introduction to Crypto & DeFi
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fafeba170-80d8-4715-af62-d1c6e8e84c51_1500x572.jpeg)
Last call for the [Introduction to Crypto & DeFi](https://dandelion.earth/events/5f6c9225a7863c0018cdd7b3) (Decentralised Finance) course I’m running on Thursdays in November, starting this week. 24 people signed up, 6 spaces remaining. [Read more](https://dandelion.earth/events/5f6c9225a7863c0018cdd7b3)
If you can’t make this one, [I’ll be repeating the course in December](https://dandelion.earth/events/5fa133692fa741000d40acb8).
## Other upcoming events
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf7dfc0c-0b1e-4abd-abd4-3b9fd3655e8a_1500x572.jpeg)
The Psychedelic Society's **Psychedelic Futures ** series investigates not-for-profit, co-operative and community-led alternatives to the corporatisation of psychedelics.
For our first event on Wed 2nd December I’m delighted to be in conversation with Bennet Zelner, pioneer of the Pollination Approach. [Read Bennet's article on the Pollination Approach with my highlights](https://stephenreid.net/blog/2020/10/15/pollination-approach.html) and [register for the event](https://dandelion.earth/events/5f8d80bab55941000deacb52)
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ac40401-4833-494f-b110-529525749e8d_1500x572.jpeg)
On Wed 9th December, I’m in conversation with [Martin Winiecki](https://www.tamera.org/martin-winiecki/), leader of [Tamera](https://www.tamera.org/)’s Institute for Global Peacework, on Martin's essay [Searching for the Anti-Virus: Covid-19 as Quantum Phenomenon](https://stephenreid.net/blog/2020/10/19/searching-for-the-anti-virus.html). [Read it here with my highlights](https://stephenreid.net/blog/2020/10/19/searching-for-the-anti-virus.html) and [register for the event](https://dandelion.earth/events/5f8f02a7a5554100166143aa)
## Platform Co-ops Now!
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb251e65-949b-4936-ac61-2de732ecb96a_2001x835.png)
I’ve started studying on the [Platform Co-ops Now!](https://platform.coop/blog/platform-co-ops-now-2nd-edition/) course, a 3-month “practical and theoretical online program to learn about and incubate platform co-ops” where I will be seeking to develop the [Dandelion](http://dandelion.earth/) web platform as a not-for-profit co-operative alternative to corporate ticketing platforms such as Eventbrite.
The course is a collaboration between the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at the New School (NY, USA) and Mondragon University (a Basque not-for-profit co-operative university, part of Mondragon, one of the largest worker co-ops in the world with 80,000+ workers). [Read more](https://platform.coop/blog/platform-co-ops-now-2nd-edition/)
## SEEDS
SEEDS is [a payment platform and financial ecosystem to empower humanity and heal our planet](https://www.joinseeds.com/) (check out the [alpha constitution](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C4w9Ol8VGabCIcQDVPDrwcTRoJXBqhrb7VjslwQbUGU/edit?_hsmi=98547818&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8jrfSePHqKVNceWqIQIfDWjnS6P-XUvVkRAJ6JN0lEF9wVDH7EN8-sy5rgVOYVY9_PtqhhUo1RNp2MCwRvUuxAfK3YRA#heading=h.ewczjkfub89l) for more).
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0aedcf56-c6ce-4bb8-b8e7-3035ab39653a_2000x1550.png)
Every lunar cycle, the SEEDS community vote on grant proposals from organisations seeking to further the Regenerative Renaissance. [Dandelion’s SEEDS Alliance proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jkESL82KD8c3ZLRJfpqEGIGb55y2jev3MHAYBPnR7QY/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=102982136084858811312) was recently passed and funded with 1.5m Seeds (about $20k at current prices).
I am now also a member of the [Hypha DAO](https://dho.hypha.earth/#/assignments) (or DHO, ‘Decentralised Human Organisation’ as it’s known in SEEDS) in a [Movement Weaver](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-S-eRulZuLMNtRGAc6FmbJ_WcgOyiPLYPlwLq0GDZQw/edit) role, where my current focus is working with Rieki Cordon and Phoebe Tickell to launch a 6-week better-than-free course in the Regenerative Renaissance - watch this space for more details on that soon!
## Psychedelics, Meditation & Enlightenment podcast
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b041633-d35c-4ce5-a476-eb265b4d5be2_1280x720.jpeg)
I had the pleasure of speaking to Amir Giles on the new Adventures in Awareness podcast. [Listen here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuXfuc5-PbU&feature=youtu.be)
## Tao Te Ching
I meditated on chapters 49–64 of the [Tao Te Ching](https://stephenreid.net/tao-te-ching). I haven’t yet found the time to select images for these chapters, I promise I will soon! In the meantime, here’s a passage from verse 64:
_Begin your task before it becomes a burden
Put things in order before they get out of hand
Remember,
A tree that fills a man’s embrace grows from a seedling
A tower nine stories high starts with one brick
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step_
_Act and it’s ruined
Grab and it’s gone
People on the verge of success often lose patience
and fail in their undertakings
Be steady from the beginning to the end
and you won’t bring on failure_
## Knowledgegraph
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F459b91ea-a15f-45cb-b2c1-f0e6b740aab1_601x474.png)
Since last time, [I’ve shared 20 articles to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2020-09-27). Some highlights:
- [Charles Eisenstein’s Conversations with Orland Bishop](https://charleseisenstein.org/program/conversations/orland-bishop/)
- [War on Sensemaking V, Daniel Schmachtenberger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v5RiMdSqwk)
- [My Octopus Teacher](https://www.netflix.com/title/81045007)
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc440150a-8b69-426b-b732-613f6650bb68_1800x800.jpeg)
_Orlando Bishop and Charles Eisenstein_
## Monthly news review videocall for paying subscribers
I run a **monthly news review** videocall for paying subscribers of this newsletter, where I offer deeper commentary and analysis on content I’ve shared to my [knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/knowledgegraph) and other items mentioned here.
The next call will take place on **Wednesday 11th November, 6pm-7pm UK time** , with a link sent to paying subscribers earlier that week, and a recording sent afterwards.
The investment I ask for is $10/month (or $100/year), with the option of a $300/year Founding Member plan if you particularly appreciate my work and would like the option of being featured in this newsletter.
Your support means a lot to me, and will enable me to keep seeking out and connecting quality content in these strange times.
[Subscribe now](https://stephenreid.substack.com/subscribe?)
Until next time, with love,
Stephen
# In Correspondence #16, 2020-12-15T13:05:26.930Z
Dear friends,
Happy Solstice (for next week)! Last weekend I had the pleasure of visiting the stunning and stirring Glastonbury Tor on my way to a retreat:
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ebe640d-36a4-4214-ad4b-6b4c38aa67fa_1000x667.png)
## Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F570924c8-7ffc-4989-accf-2b2615c96c47_1000x450.png)
I am delighted to say that the proposal from Phoebe and me (supported by Rieki) for 2.64m Seeds (approx $52,000) to run the Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance six-week, better-than-free course was passed by the [SEEDS](https://joinseeds.com/) community! Due to a slight delay with the proposal, the course will now start on the new moon in February and take place on consecutive Wednesdays (10 Feb, 17 Feb, 24 Feb, 3 Mar, 10 Mar, 17 Mar), 6pm UK time/7pm CET.
**Applications are now open.** Successful applicants pay a registration fee in Seeds (S500/1500/3000 low income/standard/abundant, approx $10/30/60). Those who complete all assignments receive a reward of 15,000 Seeds (approx $300, ~$50/session) at the end of the course!
[Read more](https://dandelion.earth/events/5fd23eae6824a9000d43006e) and [apply now](https://dandelion.earth/activities/5fd2491c6f5d6d0012dd0ce1/apply)
## Autopia Token
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51bded8c-b00c-469d-b05e-8260e977a1c1_1150x257.png)
The Autopia Token (AUT) is a cryptoeconomic experiment in community and co-creation. I am minting 10,000 AUT, and airdropping 51% to subscribers of my newsletter who [register via this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUnLxvkMhjsV8TsV_meH2gHdleT2HrRQL_SlVFkHxGfFKdoA/viewform) by **11.59pm on Winter Solstice, 21st December 2020** , in proportion to the number of links clicked in past newsletters (people registering who have never clicked a link will be included as if they had clicked one link).
You can now [check how many tokens you're in line to receive](https://autopia.co) at [https://autopia.co](https://autopia.co) (updated daily).
[Read more](https://autopia.co) and [register for the airdrop](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUnLxvkMhjsV8TsV_meH2gHdleT2HrRQL_SlVFkHxGfFKdoA/viewform)
## Intro to Crypto & DeFi: last chance for now
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fafeba170-80d8-4715-af62-d1c6e8e84c51_1500x572.jpeg)
Following two sold out courses and several five star reviews, I’m teaching another [Introduction to Crypto & DeFi](https://dandelion.earth/events/5fc95592a0c5bd000d2be52b) course in January, which is already one-third full and will probably be the last one for a while.
## **Crypto investing: a very short introduction**
Having received a number of similar questions, I created a page on my site [Crypto investing: a very short introduction](https://stephenreid.net/crypto-investing) which, amongst other products, features my new strategy on ICONOMI, [Metastrategy](https://stephenreid.net/metastrategy).
## Seeking talented facilitators
[The Psychedelic Society](https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/events) is seeking more talented facilitators to expand its range of online offerings. If you have a course or event that fits with our [multidisciplinary programme](https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/events), [get in touch!](mailto:stephen@stephenreid.net)
## **Knowledgegraph**
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d1136f2-f96f-4647-b82c-1fbcc83c6c58_657x404.png)
Since last time, I’ve shared 35 articles to my [knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/knowledgegraph). Some highlights:
- [Is It Love? Or Is It Fear? — Frank Mondeose on the ISTA podcast](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2enQUfTscy6jWXSUtjb3a1) (incredibly lucid and highly recommended)
- Rieki’s series on SEEDS: [part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZh_r6c6G1s&feature=youtu.be), [part 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xwvGbzoUX0&feature=youtu.be), [part 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGmNjyP6M2U&feature=youtu.be), [part 4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSaZ9qFS1Cg&feature=youtu.be)
- [Ancient DNA link connects Australians, South Americans](http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2015/07/22/discovery-change-view-human-history/)
- [Bitcoin Is the Biggest Big Short](https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-is-the-biggest-big-short)
- [JOANNA MACY on the World As Lover And Self ⌠ENCORE⌡](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3juaIFX7d8zUNhH3c3JpTi)
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca14b643-c566-442b-947d-2a6bf29b6c56_923x1000.jpeg)
_[Frank Mondeose](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2enQUfTscy6jWXSUtjb3a1)_
## And the rest…
- I spoke to the Cambridge Psychedelic Society on the topic Psychedelics and the Living Planet. [Check out my notes here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oz55NNRzOyNFHH-jz87G9PaPJhfief00rsHE3QsTojM/edit#)
- I wrote [An Introduction to Platform Co-ops](https://stephenreid.net/blog/2020/11/22/an-introduction-to-platform-coops.html) as my essay for part 1 of the [Platform Co-ops Now!](https://platform.coop/blog/platform-co-ops-now-2nd-edition/) course
- I talked to Bennet Zelner about the Pollination Approach, an approach to psychedelic wellness based on locally and co-operatively owned and run wellness centers. [Watch the replay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehYPlMinE9Y&feature=youtu.be)
- I’ll be speaking to Amisha Ghadiali, host of the The Future Is Beautiful podcast, about her new book _[Intuition](https://dandelion.earth/events/5fd7959f1fb4aa0017a88dda)_ on Sunday 10th January
## **Monthly news review videocall for paying subscribers**
I run a **monthly news review** videocall for paying subscribers of this newsletter, where I offer deeper commentary and analysis on content I’ve shared to my [knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/knowledgegraph) and other items mentioned here.
The next call will take place on **Sunday 20th December, 6pm UK time** , with a link sent to paying subscribers earlier that week, and a recording sent afterwards.
The investment I ask for is $10/month (or $100/year), with the option of a $300/year Founding Member plan if you particularly appreciate my work and would like the option of being featured in this newsletter.
[Subscribe now](https://stephenreid.substack.com/subscribe?)
Until next time, with love,
Stephen
# In Correspondence #17, 2021-03-12T15:55:36.126Z
Dear friends,
It’s been three months since the last _In Correspondence_. Much of my time has been taken up with preparing for and teaching the _Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance_ course. The first run of the course finishes next week and I am delighted to say we will be open-sourcing the extensive course notes; watch this space!
## Charles Eisenstein on the Regenerative Renaissance
At 5pm UK time on Saturday 13th March, Charles Eisenstein will be speaking to the current cohort of the [Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance](https://dandelion.earth/events/5fd23eae6824a9000d43006e) course, and **you’re invited to tune in live. ** You will be able to ask and upvote questions alongside the course participants.
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNBjjGVZypw)
[YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNBjjGVZypw) · [Facebook event](https://www.facebook.com/events/2697690590543753)
**I am pleased to say we have received funding from SEEDS to run the Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance course a second time.** [Sign up here](https://dandelion.earth/o/renaissance-u) to hear when applications re-open.
## Tao Te Ching
[](https://rarible.com/tao-te-ching/)
I finished meditating on and finding images for all 81 chapters of the [Tao Te Ching](https://stephenreid.net/tao-te-ching), and made my first foray into the crypto art world by creating NFTs for each chapter.
[The NFTs are available on Rarible for 1 ETH each.](https://rarible.com/tao-te-ching/) 51% of the first sale price of each NFT will be donated to GiveWell's [Maximum Impact Fund](https://givewell.org/maximum-impact-fund). (The first chapter has already sold, and I’m keeping the last one for myself.)
## (The final?) Introduction to Crypto & DeFi course
I’m running the [Introduction to Crypto & DeFi](https://dandelion.earth/events/6030d61305f41500177900f4) course (4.8/5 from 29 ratings) again in April for the fifth and possibly final time.
## Autopia blooming
The launch of [Autopia](http://autopia.co/) has meant I’ve been sharing more there and have felt less need to write here. There are now 182 holders of the AUT token, 117 members of the (very active) Slack group, and 16 members of the Autopia DAOHaus DAO. The token has increased in price by 625% since the launch 2 months ago (from $1 to $7.25).
Each full moon, anyone who has become a top 150 AUT holder will be added to the Slack, and anyone who is no longer a top 150 AUT holder will be removed. [Read more in the Codex](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k4zHK4odbqsZtE4bC1bJ94NQdxCDbvQlZd-SfG_3BGk/edit)
## Studio Wolf
[](https://studio-wolf.co/)
My partner Hana Wolf has relaunched [Studio Wolf](https://studio-wolf.co/), her branding, photography & web design studio, and is now taking bookings for the coming months.
## Books
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd20fe621-d999-412e-8acf-133cec039aac_682x475.jpeg)
I finished [Scatterlings](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57195435-scatterlings) and [Treading Lightly](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111701.Treading_Lightly) and am now reading [The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55162140-the-journey-of-soul-initiation) by Bill Plotkin.
## Knowledgegraph
[](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2020-12-16)
Since last time, I’ve shared [65 articles](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2020-12-16) to my knowledgegraph. Some highlights:
- [Richard D. Bartlett and Natalia Lombardo from The Hum on going from a domination to a partnership society](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1QEgjNq09P39qaAFvkXwNq)
- [Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10022158/)
- [Slaying Moloch | Ameen Soleimani & Kevin Owocki](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5fTDZFn6xZYhICnFmTWxyX)
- [Bill Plotkin – The Descent to Soul and the Journey of Initiation](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vpDbj5IbK3LWL113kVkTg)
- [David Holmgren on a Quiet Boycott](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sheDC3SI24rH5chc7X8Bf)
- [Daniel Christian Wahl – Designing Regenerative Cultures](https://open.spotify.com/episode/06aiatabh0DETdMmsesjdN)
- [Celo Values with Sep Kamvar](https://youtu.be/Fm68ws1_71Y)
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Stephen
# In Correspondence #18, 2022-01-01T14:03:09.608Z
Dear friends,
It's been a while since the last _In Correspondence_, 9 months in fact, over which time I’ve experienced some significant ups and downs. Here I share my highlights.
[](https://www.instagram.com/p/CWEcT-wpHye/)
_Photo taken at [Brave Earth](http://braveearth.com/) by [Phoebe Maria Montague-Warr](https://www.facebook.com/phoebe.montaguewarr)_
## Key processes
- A [Wild Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16000440) Intensive led by [Sage Magdalene](https://sagemagdalene.com/) and [Sara McFarland](https://www.saramcfarland.com/), hosted by [Soulcraft Baltic](https://www.soulcraft.eu/), the European sister organisation of Bill Plotkin’s Animas Valley Institute
- A profound Shipibo plant medicine dieta with [Maestras Ynes, Laura and Lila](https://niweraoxobo.com/project/healers) (dieting Guayusa; 5 ceremonies across 10 days, mostly alone, mostly in silence, eating a very restricted diet)
- The excellent [HER men's retreat](https://www.braveearth.com/experiences/her20-dp5h6) led by [Alain Lagger](http://www.alainlagger.com/bio-2) at [Brave Earth](http://braveearth.com/)
- [The Courageous Heart](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2021/the-courageous-heart/) meditation retreat at [Gaia House](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/) led by [Laura Bridgman](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/retreats/about-the-teachers/) and [Kirsten Kratz](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/retreats/about-the-teachers/), a friend of the late Rob Burbea, author of the masterful [Seeing That Frees](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25172403-seeing-that-frees)
## Books I read
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e1fdae8-1fa4-4cab-bbfa-6951cc353efc_920x160.png)
- [The Lost Spells](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/49358272) by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris
- [The Art of Receiving and Giving](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57129176-the-art-of-receiving-and-giving) by Betty Martin
- [Siddhartha](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52036.Siddhartha) by Hermann Hesse
- [We Will Not Cancel Us](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55608932-we-will-not-cancel-us) by adrienne maree brown
- [The Ministry For The Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998056-the-ministry-for-the-future) by Kim Stanley Robinson
- [Recapture the Rapture](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46205669-recapture-the-rapture) by Jamie Wheal
- [The Journey of Soul Initiation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55162140-the-journey-of-soul-initiation) by Bill Plotkin
- [A Thousand Mornings](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588404-a-thousand-mornings) by Mary Oliver
## Knowledgegraph
Since last time, I’ve shared [207 items](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2021-03-13) to my knowledgegraph.
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e5fc9eb-89ee-4837-a165-0e931a2f9372_477x241.png)
Two of my favourite thinkers of the past months: [Kevin Owocki](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=kevin+owocki) ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/owocki)) and [Clementine Morrigan](https://www.instagram.com/clementinemorrigan/) ([Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/clementinemorrigan/), [website](https://www.clementinemorrigan.com/), [podcast](https://fuckingcancelled.libsyn.com/)).
## Courses
I taught the courses [How to DAO](https://dandelion.earth/events/60deda020a7fd500113e9296) ([here’s a tweet with the notes](https://twitter.com/daoist321/status/1449178528562532359)), [The Promise of Decentralisation](https://dandelion.earth/events/605f1caeed084e000d44e844) and [Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance](https://dandelion.earth/events/606dd3e63acbbf000ddaf497) (alongside Phoebe Tickell).
**In February I’ll be teaching [Introduction to web3, Crypto & DeFi](https://dandelion.earth/events/61ad29373d9e26000f67acb9) (an updated version of my celebrated Introduction to Crypto & DeFi course). [Read more and book your place](https://dandelion.earth/events/61ad29373d9e26000f67acb9)**
## Metastrategy
ICONOMI is a social trading platform similar to eToro, and [Metastrategy](https://www.iconomi.com/asset/DECENTCOOP) is my strategy there. Metastrategy is up 460% in the past year (outperforming Bitcoin by 8x) and ranks in the top 15% of all strategies. **[Read my step-by-step guide to investing in Metastrategy](https://stephenreid.net/metastrategy)**
## Tao Te Ching NFTs
[](https://rarible.com/tao-te-ching)
I gifted [Tao Te Ching NFTs](https://rarible.com/tao-te-ching) to [@matthewmutual](http://twitter.com/@matthewmutual), [@auryn\_macmillan](http://twitter.com/@auryn_macmillan), [@santisiri](http://twitter.com/@santisiri), [@owocki](http://twitter.com/@owocki), [@gregory\_landua](http://twitter.com/@gregory_landua), [@spengrah](http://twitter.com/@spengrah), [@austingriffith](http://twitter.com/@austingriffith), [@RichDecibels](http://twitter.com/@RichDecibels), [@divine\_economy](http://twitter.com/@divine_economy) and [@jgreenhall](http://twitter.com/@jgreenhall). **The remaining NFTs (which contain a link to a secret Telegram group) are on sale for [0.25 ETH each via Rarible](https://rarible.com/tao-te-ching).**
## Plans for 2022
- Attending my little brother’s wedding 💒 🎉
- Learning [CosmWasm](https://cosmwasm.com/) (the smart contract language of the [Cosmos ecosystem](https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/cosmos-ecosystem))
- Learning Spanish via [Preply](https://preply.com/) and [Italki](https://italki.com/)
- Participating in my first [sprint triathlon](https://www.triathlete.com/events/what-you-need-to-know-about-every-triathlon-distance/)
- [The Boundless Heart of Metta](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2022/the-boundless-heart/) at [Gaia House](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/) with Zohar Lavie and Jake Dartington
- [Betwixt ~ Exploring the Threshold between Worlds](https://naturewisdom.life/event/betwixt-exploring-the-threshold-between-worlds/) with [Rebecca Card](http://naturewisdom.life/) and [Bell Selkie Lovelock](https://www.bellselkie.co.uk/)
- [ISTA 2](https://ista.life/events/county-louth-ireland-ista-level-2-apr-2022) with [Elaine Yonge](https://ista.life/profile/elaine-yonge), [Laurie Handlers](https://ista.life/profile/laurie-handlers) & [Eugene Hedlund](https://ista.life/profile/eugene-hedlund)
- [Permaculture Design Course](https://www.apricotcentre.co.uk/courses-2021-1/permaculture-design-course-with-marina-oconnell-bob-mehew-xtx9s) at the [Apricot Centre](https://www.apricotcentre.co.uk/)
- Festivals: [Buddhafield](https://www.buddhafield.com/buddhafield-festival-2021), [Boom](https://boomfestival.org/boom2022/), [Medicine](https://medicinefestival.com/), [Primal](http://primalgathering.co/) (With insight from dieta, I plan to no longer attend UK festivals that serve alcohol.)
## Offerings by friends
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc756b207-d41d-4600-8009-918ea04414a3_2157x354.png)
Check out a more detailed view on the **[new events page on my site](https://stephenreid.net/events)**
- [Women's Leadership & Facilitation Training](https://dandelion.earth/events/60bf583b0a741c0011483ee6): a four-month training in authentic connection, ritual and embodiment with [Gaia Harvey Jackson](https://www.gaiaharveyjackson.com/)
- [Bernardo Kastrup – With Reality in Mind](https://dandelion.earth/events/61b73d3c2f6877000c1321b8): a five-week course with one of the most articulate and rigorous defenders of metaphysical idealism, facilitated by [Amir Giles](https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/team/amir-giles)
- [Introduction to Metamodernity](https://dandelion.earth/events/614a3977131406000c6cf9a9) and [Advanced Metamodernism](https://dandelion.earth/events/6160255e02cacc000c8e5fa4) with [Emil Ejner Friis](https://www.facebook.com/emil.e.friis)
- [Soul Play](https://dandelion.earth/events/615ee1489fb8bc001148afeb): a six-week psychosynthesis-inspired coaching journey into play, pleasure and possibility with [Bonny Tydeman](https://www.soul-beam.com/)
- [The Artist Within](https://dandelion.earth/events/617bfcff2bf0cb001127dc78): a four-week journey to discover the courage, the confidence and the tools to express your inner world with [Jade Wade](https://www.jadewade.co.uk/)
- [Soulful Masculinity](https://dandelion.earth/events/61b750592f6877000c1323c9): a weekend retreat exploring what men can be at their best with [Conor Cregg](https://conorcregg.com/)
And finally, here’s a [playlist based on the DJ set I played at my 36th birthday celebrations](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6l4Sl9bHs2dj23KEvhJiXI).
Until next time, with love,
Stephen, [@daoist321](https://twitter.com/daoist321/)
# In Correspondence #19, 2022-04-01T14:39:12.894Z
Hi friends,
I’ve spent six weeks of this year in Sweden, including a trip to the Arctic:
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAcFUVKdyiA)
Mostly I was in Stockholm, staying in these beautiful apartments:
[](https://www.dezeen.com/2015/10/06/bjarke-ingels-group-big-79-park-residential-development-architecture-stockholm-sweden-cedar-wood/)
In other news:
- I travelled to Snowdonia/Eryri for [Betwixt ~ Exploring the Threshold between Worlds](https://naturewisdom.life/event/betwixt-exploring-the-threshold-between-worlds/) with [Rebecca Card](http://naturewisdom.life/) and [Bell Selkie Lovelock](https://www.bellselkie.co.uk/)
- I sat my second retreat at [Gaia House](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/), [The Boundless Heart of Metta](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2022/the-boundless-heart/) with Zohar Lavie and Jake Dartington
- I spoke to [Rufus Pollock and Rich Bartlett on web3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBP5cKAbAug) for [Life Itself](https://lifeitself.us/)
- I gave a presentation to Google’s DAO Club on [DAOs and the future of co-operation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pv4sB-s-co35x9FGAOaAnWYbHGDi-Hh0APMj2bv7Zt4/edit)
- I started working with my first coaching clients as part of my training towards becoming an [ICF-certified transformational coach](https://stephenreid.net/coaching)
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61a8f89e-f21c-4b3b-afdb-7267c4f1f827_2048x1365.jpeg)
_Happy Valley, Snowdonia/Cwm Maethlon, Eryri_
## Lunarpunk Dreams
[](https://stephenreid.net/lunarpunk-dreams)
I’m soon launching a new podcast: [Lunarpunk Dreams](https://stephenreid.net/lunarpunk-dreams).
Lunarpunk is what happens when the sun goes down in a Solarpunk village/town/city. It's still oriented towards regeneration, community and freedom, but perhaps there's a little more space for the weird, the mystical and the personal.
The Lunarpunk Dreams podcast will ask the questions: Who do we need to be, and in what ways to we need to grow, to usher in a Solarpunk future? What is the culture we're creating around Solarpunk technologies, both silicon and psychospiritual?
Watch this space for details of the first episode. (My [website](http://stephenreid.net/) has also had a lunarpunk makeover!)
## Introduction to web3, Crypto & ReFi
[](https://dandelion.earth/events/623c3fccf9cf930011212aa1?cohost=stephen-reid)
I'm running another [Introduction to web3, Crypto & ReFi](https://dandelion.earth/events/623c3fccf9cf930011212aa1?cohost=stephen-reid) course in May (the seventh time I'm teaching the course due to demand). [Read more and book your place](https://dandelion.earth/events/623c3fccf9cf930011212aa1?cohost=stephen-reid)
## Books I read
[](https://stephenreid.net/books)
- [Radical Dharma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29429650-radical-dharma) by angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens & Jasmine Syedullah
- [Man’s Search for Meaning](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning) by Viktor Frankl
- [Pleasure Activism](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40549668-pleasure-activism) by adrienne maree brown
- [The Four Agreements](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386482.The_Four_Agreements) by Miguel Ruiz
You can see all these and more on my [revamped Books page](https://stephenreid.net/books). I also have a new [Maps](https://stephenreid.net/maps) page.
## Knowledgegraph
Since last time, I’ve shared [65 items](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2022-01-01) to my knowledgegraph.
[](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2022-01-01)
Some highlights:
- [An Initiation to Game B](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_cyCuCKQhs)
- [How to DAO with Tracheopteryx | GreenPill #5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L54lcwjUYzM)
- [ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN on Writing Our Future | For The Wild](https://open.spotify.com/episode/34VUX2dJJwOx8MtJgYOEHe)
## Metastrategy
[Metastrategy](https://stephenreid.net/metastrategy) is my strategy on ICONOMI. It's an automated strategy with daily rebalancing that is always an intelligent mix of the current top performing strategies. It's a great 'set-and-forget' option and is my top recommendation for those new to crypto investing.
At the 1Y time frame, Metastrategy ranks in the top 10% of all strategies (up 117%), and it is currently the #15 most copied strategy on ICONOMI (by value). Of the 14 larger strategies, Metastrategy is outperforming 10 of them. [Read more](https://stephenreid.net/metastrategy)
## Plans for the future
- [Schelling Point Amsterdam](https://schellingpoint.gitcoin.co/) by [Gitcoin](https://gitcoin.co/), 21st April 🌱 ✨ ☯️
- [ISTA 2](https://ista.life/events/county-louth-ireland-ista-level-2-apr-2022) with [Elaine Yonge](https://ista.life/profile/elaine-yonge), [Laurie Handlers](https://ista.life/profile/laurie-handlers) & [Eugene Hedlund](https://ista.life/profile/eugene-hedlund)
- Participating in my first [sprint triathlon](https://www.triathlete.com/events/what-you-need-to-know-about-every-triathlon-distance/)
- Festivals: [Buddhafield](https://www.buddhafield.com/buddhafield-2022), [Boom](https://boomfestival.org/boom2022/)/[Borderland](https://talk.theborderland.se/main/), [Medicine](https://medicinefestival.com/)
- [Permaculture Design Course](https://www.apricotcentre.co.uk/courses-2021-1/permaculture-design-course-with-marina-oconnell-bob-mehew-xtx9s) at the [Apricot Centre](https://www.apricotcentre.co.uk/)
- [Devon School of Yoga Foundation Course](https://devonyoga.com/yoga-foundation-course/)
- [Liberating Ways of Looking](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2022/liberating-ways-of-looking/) at Gaia House
## Offerings by friends
[](https://dandelion.earth/activities/5e413a436a864b0004af0231)
From [Gaia Harvey Jackson](https://www.gaiaharveyjackson.com/) and [Alana Bloom](https://www.regeneratingrhythms.org/):
- [The Wild Woman's Way: A Week Initiation On Dartmoor](https://dandelion.earth/events/61df435138fa5e000c735c42)
- [Awakening the Wild Woman: Autumn Retreat](https://dandelion.earth/events/61f3c7f3769bec0011739017)
From [Amir Giles/Adventures in Awareness](https://dandelion.earth/activities/5e413a4b6a864b0004af024f):
- [Doors of Perception: Four Week Online Course](https://dandelion.earth/events/61f01461fa24370010d4c31b)
- [Adventures in Awareness Weekend Retreat](https://dandelion.earth/events/61d5e2494d0bcb0011855f82)
- [Bernardo Kastrup - With Reality in Mind, A Five Week Exploration, with special guest Rupert Spira](https://dandelion.earth/events/62436932e837290011d66ce5)
Check out [Dandelion’s full event listings](https://dandelion.earth/events) for more.
Until next time, with love,
Stephen, now [@lunarpunk\_0x](https://twitter.com/lunarpunk_0x)
# In Correspondence #20, 2022-05-24T14:19:30.539Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to another _In Correspondence_! This time I’m writing from south west Portugal, which looks something like this:
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6008bad9-a3ad-4c07-b8f3-4959777da199_1800x1080.webp)
_Lagos, Portugal_
## What I’ve been up to
- I gave the talk [Teaching ReFi: Insights from a Web3 Educator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u041rA9bPQ4) at [Schelling Point Amsterdam](https://schellingpoint.gitcoin.co/), where I spoke about my experiences teaching close to 1000 students about web3 and regeneration over the past 2 years – I thought it went pretty well ☺️
- I travelled to the underworld and back at [ISTA 2](https://ista.life/events/county-louth-ireland-ista-level-2-apr-2022) with [Elaine Yonge](https://ista.life/profile/elaine-yonge), [Laurie Handlers](https://ista.life/profile/laurie-handlers) & [Eugene Hedlund](https://ista.life/profile/eugene-hedlund)
- I visited a dear friend in the beautiful [Wicklow Mountains](https://www.google.com/search?q=glendalough&sxsrf=ALiCzsbE76ACBhNC_ut89VMEICYlqfKNkg:1653401559686&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRiovlqPj3AhWngc4BHQaGAXAQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1440&bih=735&dpr=2) in Ireland
- I danced at the first [Dancefloor](https://www.facebook.com/events/796587561714823), a new event series by the talented Ro Greene
- I spent a night [Singing With Nightingales](https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/singing-with-nightingales/) with Sam Lee and friends in Sussex
- I celebrated the marriage of my brother and new sister-in-law where I had the pleasure of reading [Silent Noon](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45009/the-house-of-life-19-silent-noon) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti at their request
- I participated in [heart:magika](https://magika.fm/heartmagika/) at the [Traditional Dream Factory](https://traditionaldreamfactory.com/) in Portugal featuring [Antara Dakini](https://www.liberationdance.com/) and [Alma Omega](https://www.alma-omega.world/), and explored [Lagos](https://www.google.com/search?q=lagos+portugal&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiy2bSx0vf3AhUvxoUKHd7vBJYQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=lagos+&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQARgAMgQIIxAnMgQIABBDMgQIABBDMgQIABBDMgQIABBDMgQIABBDMgUIABCABDIECAAQQzIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEUKACWKACYIUJaABwAHgAgAGaAYgBqgKSAQMwLjKYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ&sclient=img&ei=PY2MYvLGNK-MlwTe35OwCQ&bih=735&biw=1440) and [Aljezur](https://www.google.com/search?q=arrifana%2C+aljezur%2C+portugal&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiYyZXfnPj3AhUSjxoKHXXSDqwQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=arrifana%2C+aljezur%2C+p&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQARgAMgQIIxAnMgQIABAeMgYIABAeEAg6BQgAEIAEOgYIABAeEAc6CAgAEB4QCBAHOgYIABAeEAVQFVihF2CtHmgCcAB4AIAB_gGIAf4SkgEGMC4xMy4zmAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=NtuMYpjWApKeavWku-AK&bih=735&biw=1440) ([some](http://www.restauranteosargo.pt/) [highlights](https://www.praiadocanal.pt/))
- I taught the seventh edition of [Intro to web3, Crypto & ReFi](https://dandelion.earth/events/623c3fccf9cf930011212aa1?cohost=stephen-reid)
- I showed my Stockholm-based partner Laura the best of Devon, including [Bovey Castle](https://www.boveycastle.com/), [Gara Rock](https://www.gararock.com/) and celebrating [Bonny’s](https://www.soul-beam.com/) birthday with a psychedelic treasure hunt in the gardens of [Dartington Hall](https://www.dartington.org/)
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbcefe71e-586c-4183-8eed-847734f7866a_1080x1033.jpeg)
_Glendalough, Wicklow Mountains_
## Plans for the future
- Completing my ICF-accredited training in Transformational Coaching ([read more about coaching with me and join the waitlist](https://stephenreid.net/coaching))
- Participating in my first [sprint triathlon](https://www.triathlete.com/events/what-you-need-to-know-about-every-triathlon-distance/)
- Co-creating solstice gatherings in the UK and Sweden, and a camp at [The Borderland](https://talk.theborderland.se/main/)
- Attending [Medicine Festival](https://medicinefestival.com/line-up/) where I’ll host a panel on Web3 and the Radical Imagination
- [Permaculture Design Course](https://www.apricotcentre.co.uk/courses-2021-1/permaculture-design-course-with-marina-oconnell-bob-mehew-xtx9s) at the [Apricot Centre](https://www.apricotcentre.co.uk/)
- [Devon School of Yoga Foundation Course](https://devonyoga.com/yoga-foundation-course/)
- [Liberating Ways of Looking](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2022/liberating-ways-of-looking/) at Gaia House
- Further episodes of [Lunarpunk Dreams](https://stephenreid.net/lunarpunk-dreams)
- Reading [Cloudmoney](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53239405-cloudmoney) by [Brett Scott](https://twitter.com/Suitpossum) and [The Network State](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60643059-the-network-state) by [Balaji Srinivasan](https://twitter.com/balajis)
## Dandelion
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ea35ffa-3655-42cd-ab58-b1302f872ce3_1476x692.png)
I’m the lead developer of [Dandelion](http://dandelion.earth/), an open-source platform for ticketed events and co-created gatherings that operates on a donation/gift economy basis.
Close to £1m worth of tickets have been sold via Dandelion, which is certainly now a mature and highly functional platform (if still rather under-documented – better documentation and explainer videos are a priority). [Give it a spin for your next event](https://dandelion.earth/)
## Knowledgegraph
Since last time, I’ve shared [17 items](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2022-04-01) to my knowledgegraph. Some highlights:
[](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6710474/)
- [Everything Everywhere All At Once](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6710474/)
- Several episodes of the [Green Pill](https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd) podcast
- A couple of podcasts with Cosmos co-founder [Ethan Buchman](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=ethan+buchman)
## Offerings by friends
[](https://dandelion.earth/events/622a81135156f800119c0fc6)
- This Friday, London: [The Unseen World: A night of medicine music with Ora Dea](https://dandelion.earth/events/622a81135156f800119c0fc6)
- [Power Play - Submission and Domination Reframed](https://dandelion.earth/events/62613b324ac01d000c8161d2) (London)
- [Talking the Taboo: this is not like other talking circles](https://dandelion.earth/events/6274f2d7da0d1600112be827) (Bristol)
- [Dancefloor #2](https://www.facebook.com/events/1010339632924597) (Devon)
- [Bernardo Kastrup - With Reality in Mind, A Five Week Exploration, with special guest Rupert Spira](https://dandelion.earth/events/62436932e837290011d66ce5) (Online)
- [Wild Earth Solo in the Belgian Ardennes](https://dandelion.earth/events/6254929d2c707a000cc4b5ad)
Women’s work with [Gaia Harvey Jackson](https://www.gaiaharveyjackson.com/) and [Alana Bloom](https://www.regeneratingrhythms.org/):
- [Awakening the Wild Woman: Autumn Retreat](https://dandelion.earth/events/61f3c7f3769bec0011739017)
- [The Wild Woman's Way: A Week Initiation On Dartmoor](https://dandelion.earth/events/61df435138fa5e000c735c42)
- [Psychedelic Women's Circle: 6 Week Archetype Course](https://dandelion.earth/events/627131afde6edd000c829303)
Men’s work with [Conor Cregg](https://conorcregg.com/):
- [Magician, Warrior, Lover, King: Men's Weekend Retreat London](https://dandelion.earth/events/626b05cd124a2a0011c763f4)
- [Soulful Masculinity: Men's Weekend Retreat London](https://dandelion.earth/events/626afc3f0cb184000c00c6d1)
Until next time, with love,
Stephen, [@lunarpunk\_0x](https://twitter.com/lunarpunk_0x)
# In Correspondence #21, 2022-07-09T17:40:00.345Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to another _In Correspondence_! This time I’m writing from a summerhouse on Lake Mälaren in Sweden, where I’m staying with my partner Laura and her family.
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa037a346-a36d-4fb6-a4e5-c79e2bcc4c47_1052x737.png)
_Lake Mälaren_
## What I’ve been up to
- I completed my first sprint triathlon in [1h38m](https://www.timingmonkey.co.uk/results/Bustinskin/WeymouthClassic22/) 🎉
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ddbca6e-58ea-491d-b3b4-334afec028ec_920x610.png)
_The start of the Weymouth Sprint Triathlon_
- I was part of two wonderful co-created solstice gatherings in the UK and Sweden 🌅
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d28ad04-f44e-4188-bfd1-2717336d6ba5_920x515.png)
_Solstice sunrise over Dorset (credit: Paul Powlesland)_
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8dd3cd0b-7a7d-4fb6-aaa5-bc48381d3aae_1600x1066.png)
_Laura and me after a clay workshop (credit: Gaia Harvey Jackson)_
- I completed a Swedish A1 language course at [Folkuniversitetet](https://www.folkuniversitetet.se/kurser-utbildningar/sprak/svenskaswedish/) (Nu kan jag prata lite svenska! 🇸🇪)
- I spoke to Rufus Pollock about [worker co-ops and DAOs](https://web3.lifeitself.us/notes/on-worker-cooperatives) on the Life Itself podcast
- I completed the taught part of my ICF-accredited training in Transformational Coaching. [Read more about coaching with me](https://stephenreid.net/coaching)
## Plans for the future
- Co-creating the Inner Cartographers’ Club at [The Borderland](https://coda.io/@einarmagnus/survival-guide)
- [Natural Voice Camp](https://www.unicornvillagecamps.co.uk/voice-camp-information)
- [Medicine Festival](https://medicinefestival.com/line-up/), where I’ll host a panel on Web3 and the Radical Imagination
- [Liberating Ways of Looking](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2022/liberating-ways-of-looking/) at Gaia House
- An integral facilitation training in Sweden with [Diane Musho Hamilton](https://www.dianemushohamilton.com/)
- [Life Itself’s Embodying Collective Transformation](https://lifeitself.us/embodying-collective-transformation/) November residency
- [Fritjof Capra’s Fall 2022 Capra Course](https://www.capracourse.net/) on [The Systems View of Life](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18554985-the-systems-view-of-life)
## Host your next event on Dandelion
I’m the lead developer of [Dandelion](http://dandelion.earth/), an open-source platform for ticketed events and co-created gatherings that operates on a donation/gift economy basis.
Over £1m worth of tickets have been sold via Dandelion, and a further round of development is currently being sponsored by [ReFi Spring](https://twitter.com/RefiSpring). [Give it a spin for your next event](https://dandelion.earth/)
## Knowledgegraph
Since last time, I’ve shared [18 items](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2022-05-25) to my knowledgegraph including these two episodes of the delightful [Emergence Magazine](https://emergencemagazine.org/) podcast:
- [Navigating the Mysteries – Martin Shaw](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3jFT4zfB6GRiBEdlpNp3Nx)
- [Ancient Green: Moss, Climate, and Deep Time – Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Dytbz5LGMdV4OVSyTawtv)
[](https://emergencemagazine.org/print/emergence-magazine-vol-3/)
## Offerings from friends
[](https://dandelion.earth/events/62972c38f2058b001194f3e3)
- [Tawai: A Voice From The Forest - An Exclusive London Screening, Live Interview & Q&A with Award-Winning Documentarian Bruce Parry](https://dandelion.earth/events/62972c38f2058b001194f3e3)
- [Wild Earth Solo in the Belgian Ardennes](https://dandelion.earth/events/6254929d2c707a000cc4b5ad)
- [Bernardo Kastrup - With Reality in Mind, A Five Week Exploration with guests Rupert Spira & Federico Faggin](https://dandelion.earth/events/62971505f2058b001194f1d8)
Offerings from [Gaia Harvey Jackson](https://www.gaiaharveyjackson.com/) and [Alana Bloom](https://www.regeneratingrhythms.org/) including their first [all-gender retreat](https://dandelion.earth/events/62baedf5584570000c8332dc):
- [Awakening the Wild Woman: Autumn Retreat](https://dandelion.earth/events/61f3c7f3769bec0011739017)
- [Psychedelic Women's Circle: 6 Week Archetype Course](https://dandelion.earth/events/627131afde6edd000c829303)
- [Waking the Wild Ones](https://dandelion.earth/events/62baedf5584570000c8332dc)
Men’s work:
- [The Menspedition Day Immersion | London | Sweatlodge & The Work That Reconnects](https://dandelion.earth/events/62c4a6ef8a0bd0000cafe5a4)
- [Magician, Warrior, Lover, King: Men's Weekend Retreat London](https://dandelion.earth/events/626b05cd124a2a0011c763f4)
- [Soulful Masculinity: Men's Weekend Retreat London](https://dandelion.earth/events/626afc3f0cb184000c00c6d1)
Until next time, with love,
Stephen, [@lunarpunk\_0x](https://twitter.com/lunarpunk_0x)
# In Correspondence #22, 2022-08-10T13:10:23.466Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to another _In Correspondence_! This time I’m writing from Cassia in Bradford-on-Avon, during the midweek break of [Natural Voice Camp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZd1bdCOphM) 🎶
## What I’ve been up to
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8cac9d1-69e2-443f-8f91-35fe1db53d5b_2048x1365.jpeg)
_One of my favourite venues at the Borderland, The Church. Animateria’s DJ set here_
- I co-created the Inner Cartographers’ Club at [The Borderland](https://www.facebook.com/groups/682069748479128) (the Swedish Burn), where I led [workshops](https://www.facebook.com/groups/theborderland/posts/5728318160520903) on Exploring the Light/Dark Masculine/Feminine and Wild Mind 🗺
- I finished Balaji Srinivasan’s [The Network State](https://thenetworkstate.com/) (provocative/highly recommended) 📕
- I was accepted into the KB7 cohort of [KERNEL](https://kernel.community/) 🌱
## Life as Practice
[](https://dandelion.earth/events/62cea5c3c7a7960010781eb3)
> “If you take care of the small things,
> the big things take care of themselves.
> Gain more control over your life
> by paying closer attention to the little things.”
>
> – Emily Dickinson, poet
[Life as Practice](https://dandelion.earth/events/62cea5c3c7a7960010781eb3) is my next live, online course: a four-week group journey in cultivating wholeness and developing the habits to become our best selves, taking place Wednesdays in September. Join the 10 people who have already signed up: [read more and book your place](https://dandelion.earth/events/62cea5c3c7a7960010781eb3)
## Knowledgegraph
Since last time, I’ve shared [15 items](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2022-07-10) to my knowledgegraph. Some highlights:
- [Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) talking to Lex Fridman](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zcT7fUeArhjU8J7weCzvG)
- [Balaji Srinivasan (The Network State) talking to Kevin Owocki](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5dpcADMDo8rCaVknJnEXax)
- [What it means to be a good coach](https://stephenreid.net/blog/2022/08/04/coach-maturity.html) ([read more about my coaching practice](https://stephenreid.net/coaching))
## Lua: Dating with depth
[](https://www.lua.earth/)
Lua is a new dating app from people in the ISTA community.
> Lua’s purpose is deepening intimacy, connecting people to Love. Skip small talk and connect deeply with like-minded people from conscious communities.
>
> Designed by intimacy and relationships experts, Lua helps you go deep with your match. The intentional and swipe-free design makes online dating feel more like a playful mystery and less like online shopping.
I’m proud to say I’m an investor. Give it a spin: [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lua.android&hl=en_GB&gl=US) · [iPhone](https://apps.apple.com/il/app/lua-dating-with-depth/id1532204217)
## Plans for the future
- [Medicine Festival](https://medicinefestival.com/line-up/), where I’ll host a panel on Web3 and the Radical Imagination at the Liminal Lake stage on the Friday at 6.30pm
- [Liberating Ways of Looking](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2022/liberating-ways-of-looking/) at Gaia House
- An integral facilitation training in Sweden with [Diane Musho Hamilton](https://www.dianemushohamilton.com/)
- [Life Itself’s Embodying Collective Transformation](https://lifeitself.us/embodying-collective-transformation/) November residency
- [Fritjof Capra’s Fall 2022 Capra Course](https://www.capracourse.net/) on [The Systems View of Life](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18554985-the-systems-view-of-life)
- Applying for Swedish residency! 🇸🇪
Until next time, with love,
Stephen, [@lunarpunk\_0x](https://twitter.com/lunarpunk_0x)
# In Correspondence #23, 2022-09-06T16:36:16.903Z
Dear friends,
I’m looking forward to the first session of my new course [Life as Practice](https://dandelion.earth/events/62cea5c3c7a7960010781eb3), starting tomorrow – here’s a [sneak peak](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aCa3eAs-jVzvkSj3NXT9MdB8KdIChEdKRzrPR6EBLr0/edit#) of the notes from the first session (there’s still time to [sign up](https://dandelion.earth/events/62cea5c3c7a7960010781eb3)! 📝)
## **What I’ve been up to**
- I had a wonderful time at Medicine Festival where I hosted a panel on Web3 and the Radical Imagination featuring [@MontyMerlin](https://twitter.com/MontyMerlin), [@solarpunk\_girl](https://twitter.com/solarpunk_girl) and [@franzallmayer](https://twitter.com/franzallmayer) (great photos of Medicine [here](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.437024831807349&type=3) and [here](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.437040355139130&type=3))
- I attended the [Participatory Design Conference 2022](https://pdc2022.org/) in Newcastle where my favourite talk was [“On Participative Intimacies and Other Invisible Achievements” by Prof. Ann Light](https://schedule.pdc2022.org/session/f950e4e3-570a-497f-ac93-411d347411bc)
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79bb1922-99b0-448d-aa39-e9711b7a4b42_2048x1463.jpeg)
_Mose performing at Medicine Festival (Photo by Bluesky Pixels)_
## **Integral facilitation intensive with Diane Musho Hamilton**
[](https://www.dropbox.com/s/rmdqj5by3xm8klc/Real%20LIFE%20Facilitator%20Intensive%20AR%20Skills%20Info%20REV-SR.pdf?dl=0)
I’m really looking forward to this three-day workshop from Oct 12–15 near Stockholm with **celebrated Zen and integral teacher [Diane Musho Hamilton](https://www.dianemushohamilton.com/)**. There are a few places left if you’d like to join us: [read more](https://www.dropbox.com/s/rmdqj5by3xm8klc/Real%20LIFE%20Facilitator%20Intensive%20AR%20Skills%20Info%20REV-SR.pdf?dl=1) and [book your place](https://twoarrowszen.app.neoncrm.com/eventReg.jsp?event=2137&) ($100 discount for registering before 14th Sep)
## **Dandelion**
[](http://dandelion.earth/)
I continue to enjoy working on [Dandelion](http://dandelion.earth/), an open-source platform for ticketed events and co-created gatherings created by the not-for-profit worker co-operative I work with. Dandelion operates on a donation/gift economy basis: you just pay processing fees via [Stripe](https://stripe.com/gb/pricing) or [Coinbase Commerce](https://help.coinbase.com/en/commerce/getting-started/fees) (or choose fee-free crypto payments via [Celo](https://celo.org/) and [Gnosis Chain](https://www.gnosischain.com/evm)). **My favourite part of Dandelion is the Gatherings feature** , originally developed to support camps at European Burning Man events Nowhere and the Borderland, and since used for several standalone microburns, along with online-only unconferences.
- [Check out the new 1-minute video on how to add an event](https://dandelion.earth/docs/events/)
- [Add Dandelion to your Gitcoin GR15 basket](https://gitcoin.co/grants/564/dandelion)
- We’re open to sponsorship and affiliate arrangements from aligned organisations – reply to this email to discuss.
## **Knowledgegraph**
Since last time, I’ve shared [23 items](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2022-08-11) to my knowledgegraph, including a bunch of AI-related content. Some highlights:
- [Professional AI whisperers have launched a marketplace for DALL-E prompts](https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/2/23326868/dalle-midjourney-ai-promptbase-prompt-market-sales-artist-interview)
- [Impact Hyperstructures with Kevin from Gitcoin](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0qjOJgndqYlFNFA3TOsMGU)
- [In Search of the Third Attractor, Daniel Schmachtenberger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCOfUYrZJMQ)
I finished the book [Small Arcs of Larger Circles](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32828546-small-arcs-of-larger-circles) by Nora Bateson, and started [The Children’s Fire](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42608605-the-children-s-fire) by Mac Macartney.
[](https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/2/23326868/dalle-midjourney-ai-promptbase-prompt-market-sales-artist-interview)
_PromptBase, an AI prompt marketplace 🤯_
## **Offerings from friends**
[](https://www.tickettailor.com/events/primalgathering1/746294/?utm_source=Primal&utm_campaign=c03dc341c0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_18_02_37_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d3cfd4bd7b-c03dc341c0-396107773)
- [Primal Reforestation Gathering 2022, Nov 17–20](https://www.tickettailor.com/events/primalgathering1/746294/?utm_source=Primal&utm_campaign=c03dc341c0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_18_02_37_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d3cfd4bd7b-c03dc341c0-396107773)
- [ReFi/SolarPunk Autumn Residency, Sep 15 – Dec 31](https://dachverband.notion.site/dachverband/ReFi-SolarPunk-Autumn-Residency-499b505a7024488d8910cd822885a31b)
Upcoming events on Dandelion facilitated by me and/or people I recommend ([full view on my site](https://stephenreid.net/events)):
- Tomorrow: [FREE Soulful Leadership Workshop](https://dandelion.earth/events/62d6e4f127ce19000b7f9e44) with Bonny Tydeman
- [Magician, Warrior, Lover, King: Men's Weekend Retreat London](https://dandelion.earth/events/626b05cd124a2a0011c763f4)
- [Awakening the Wild Woman: Autumn Retreat 2022](https://dandelion.earth/events/61f3c7f3769bec0011739017)
- [Deep Dive into Nature and Self: a four week online guided journey](https://dandelion.earth/events/6299d209799f58000c99d66a)
- [Soulful Masculinity: Men's Weekend Retreat London](https://dandelion.earth/events/626afc3f0cb184000c00c6d1)
- [Feminine Archetypes: A Five Week Women's Course](https://dandelion.earth/events/627131afde6edd000c829303)
- [Waking the Wild Ones](https://dandelion.earth/events/62baedf5584570000c8332dc)
- [Bernardo Kastrup - With Reality in Mind, A Five Week Exploration](https://dandelion.earth/events/62971505f2058b001194f1d8)
- [IGNITE: Wild Woman's Spring Retreat 2023](https://dandelion.earth/events/62e2726ae7f8c9000b3dc3ab)
- [EMPOWER: Embodied Facilitation Training](https://dandelion.earth/events/63109977725f870010f96728)
## **In Sweden? Hire me! 🇸🇪**
Having a Stockholm-based partner, I’m putting it out there that I’m open to work opportunities in Sweden, especially roles that come with residency – hit reply and let’s talk!
Until next time, with love,
Stephen, [@lunarpunk\_0x](https://twitter.com/lunarpunk_0x)
p.s. [here’s a version of Grace Kelly by Mika that my group sang at Voice Camp](https://www.dropbox.com/s/lx6talnglllojnt/3.%20Grace%20Kelly%20%28Mika%20arr.%20W.%20Sergeant%29%20-%20Suus%27s%20Group.mp3?dl=0) 🎶
# In Correspondence #24, 2022-10-20T12:10:57.395Z
Greetings from a sunny Stockholm 🌞 🇸🇪
## What I’ve been up to
- My brother, sister and I scattered the ashes of our parents, 16 years on from their passing, at a beautiful woodland close to where we grew up in South London. I read [these](https://poets.org/poem/children-1) [chapters](https://poets.org/poem/death) from one of my mother’s favourite books, [The Prophet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2547.The_Prophet)
- I wrote a new blog post to expand lunarpunk lore: [Beyond Privacy: The Seven Darknesses of Lunarpunk](https://stephenreid.net/blog/2022/09/30/beyond-privacy-the-seven-darknesses-of-lunarpunk.html), on the Darknesses of Privacy, Attention, Suffering, Eros, Plants, Soul and Light
- I attended the [Liberating Ways of Looking](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2022/liberating-ways-of-looking/) retreat at Gaia House with Kirsten Kratz and Yahel Avigur, based on the teachings of the late [Rob Burbea](https://tasshin.com/blog/rob-burbea-ordinary-guy-werewolf-eternal-wanderer/) in the brilliant [Seeing That Frees](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25172403-seeing-that-frees)
- I participated in an [integral facilitation intensive](https://www.dianemushohamilton.com/event/active-and-receptive-skills/) with Zen teacher [Diane Musho Hamilton](https://www.dianemushohamilton.com/)
- I completed the excellent [Rust course on Educative](https://www.educative.io/courses/learn-rust-from-scratch) in preparation for learning [CosmWasm](https://academy.cosmwasm.com/)
- I’m half way through the [Capra Course](https://www.capracourse.net/) on the Systems View of Life and [KERNEL](https://kernel.community/) KB7
- I continue to enjoy working on Dandelion. 33 organisations sold 3547 tickets worth £185,594 in the last 3 months – [use Dandelion to host your next event](http://dandelion.earth/)
## Life as Practice course notes and retreat
I finished teaching the first [Life as Practice](https://stephenreid.net/life-as-practice) course 🎉
The course notes are in a rich, commentable Google Doc. You can [view a rough import of the doc for free](https://stephenreid.net/life-as-practice), with comments and links disabled. Pay £99 and receive:
- Lifetime access to the full, linked and continuously updated Google Doc with 700+ links
- Membership of the Life as Practice Telegram group
- A coupon for £99 off any future live edition of the course (i.e. your money back if you end up taking the course)
[View the Life as Practice notes](https://stephenreid.net/life-as-practice)
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9418727b-d5fe-401c-bd50-d3c45f2b031d_5000x1668.png)
I am also delighted to say I have confirmed a fantastic venue in Cornwall, UK for the first in-person Life as Practice retreat, 28th April – 5th May 2023. Save the date for now, and expect another email soon with more details.
## Books I read
[](https://stephenreid.net/books)
I finished three excellent books:
- [Unbound: A Woman’s Guide To Power](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51205436-unbound) by Kasia Urbaniak (highly recommended for anyone interested in the topic of power)
- [Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50915816-existential-kink) by Carolyn Elliott
- [The Children's Fire: Heart song of a people](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42608605-the-children-s-fire) by Mac Macartney
I’m now reading Alan Watts’ [The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/551520.The_Wisdom_of_Insecurity).
## Knowledgegraph
[](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2022-09-07)
Since last time, I’ve shared 34 items to my [knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2022-09-07). Some highlights:
- Films: [The Last Forest](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14029622/) and [The Art of Life](https://youtu.be/7gUh8j5ui0o)
- [What’s The Difference between Utopia, Eutopia and Protopia?](https://metamoderna.org/whats-the-difference-between-utopia-eutopia-and-protopia/)
- [Jeremy Lent on Interconnection & Shifting Worldviews](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7bwwToweVhsFgnFEv3azRc)
- [55 Tufton Street and the people who crashed our economy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRDLIOME47c)
- [Moonbeam: AI writing assistant](https://www.gomoonbeam.com/)
## Plans for the future
- [Life Itself’s Embodying Collective Transformation](https://lifeitself.us/embodying-collective-transformation/) November residency
- I’m hosting an event on Panvala’s new [Stamps](https://dandelion.earth/events/635106dfcf4822000b0050f1) initiative on 17th Nov, on redirecting billions of dollars of advertising revenue to communities
- On 6th Dec, I’ll be in Bristol to speak at the [Psychedelic Research Society](https://www.facebook.com/PsySocUob) (details TBC) and attend the UK’s first [ReFi Spring event](https://dandelion.earth/events/63286097b3e2fa000b28d63d?cohost=refi-spring)
- [The Tent of Seven Doors: The School of Myth Summer School](https://schoolofmyth.com/summer-school/) with [Dr. Martin Shaw](https://drmartinshaw.com/)
## Offerings from friends
[](https://open.spotify.com/album/75qyT6Fr7gCOgxfW0gVkCA?si=oX7VPa0iS5e_EglIqVOCMg)
- [Anna Ling released her beautiful first single ‘Nothing is Lost’ from her upcoming album](https://open.spotify.com/album/75qyT6Fr7gCOgxfW0gVkCA?si=oX7VPa0iS5e_EglIqVOCMg) and [The Odd 910 (Jade Wade) released their first album](https://open.spotify.com/album/2ehRDCZKKkHRsZ76faCl3N?si=TmWGSNYjQX6ATjMkiqO9Sw)
- Hannah Close is running a crowdfunder for [Islandness in the Anthropocene: A Documentary](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/islandness-in-the-anthropocene-a-documentary), exploring islandness, ecology, identity and belonging
- Cami and Jamie relaunched the site for [Digitalis](https://digitalis.ca/) web design and development. I can also highly recommend [Studio Wolf](https://studio-wolf.co/)
- See [upcoming events on Dandelion](https://stephenreid.net/events) facilitated by people I recommend
- [Primal Reforestation Gathering 2022, Nov 17–20](https://www.tickettailor.com/events/primalgathering1/746294/?utm_source=Primal&utm_campaign=c03dc341c0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_18_02_37_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d3cfd4bd7b-c03dc341c0-396107773)
- [ReFi/SolarPunk Autumn Residency, Sep 15 – Dec 31](https://dachverband.notion.site/dachverband/ReFi-SolarPunk-Autumn-Residency-499b505a7024488d8910cd822885a31b)
With love,
Stephen
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# In Correspondence #25, 2022-12-07T22:58:56.284Z
Welcome to another edition of _In Correspondence!_ As an experiment, [I’ve created a Telegram group for readers of this newsletter, which you’re welcome to join here](https://t.me/+vSmZWZGvcDg1NGI0).
## What I’ve been up to
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62fd9b17-c205-4e74-b4ba-8479fcbc3b2a_1024x773.jpeg)
_Upper Hamlet, Plum Village_
- I attended [Life Itself’s Embodying Collective Transformation](https://lifeitself.us/embodying-collective-transformation/) November residency and spent a day at the nearby [Plum Village](https://plumvillage.org/) where I heard a Dharma talk on the [Five Mindfulness Trainings](https://plumvillage.org/mindfulness/the-5-mindfulness-trainings/)
- I was in Bristol to speak to the [University of Bristol Psychedelic Research Society](https://www.facebook.com/PsySocUob) on Psychedelics and the Regenerative Renaissance, and appear on a panel at the first event of [ReFi Spring Bristol](https://dandelion.earth/events/63286097b3e2fa000b28d63d?cohost=refi-spring) on Crypto, Climate and Regenerative Finance
- I completed the excellent [Capra Course](https://www.capracourse.net/) on the Systems View of Life and started the [Practical Deep Learning for Coders](https://course.fast.ai/) course by fast.ai
- I continue to enjoy working on [Dandelion](http://dandelion.earth/): 38 organisations sold 4,355 tickets worth £198,794 in the last 3 months – [use Dandelion to host your next event](https://dandelion.earth)
- My crypto strategy [Metastrategy](http://stephenreid.net/metastrategy) is in the top 1% of all strategies on the ICONOMI platform over the past month and in the top 3% over the past three months. Since inception in Nov 2020 it’s outpeformed Bitcoin by 10x
- I’m enjoying Farcaster as an alternative to Twitter: [fcast.me/stephenreid](https://fcast.me/stephenreid)
- Here’s the [playlist from a DJ set I played at a recent co-created gathering](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7nw3jGBfItugS8Dm18nOQR?si=f2d0b05eba8a4c11) (organised using Dandelion’s [Gatherings](https://dandelion.earth/docs/gatherings) feature, of course!)
## Books I read
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff36e9393-f4d8-4de1-ad4e-564ee4efeffb_1302x475.png)
- Solarpunk fiction: [A Psalm for the Wild-Built](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864002-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built) & [A Prayer for the Crown-Shy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864030-a-prayer-for-the-crown-shy) by Becky Chambers
- [The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57820121-the-red-deal)
- [The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/551520.The_Wisdom_of_Insecurity) by Alan Watts
I’m now reading [Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55814319-holding-change) by adrienne marie brown.
## Knowledgegraph
[](https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/webinar/nonduality-and-postcapitalism-creating-life-centric-realities)
Since last time, [I’ve shared 34 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2022-10-20). Some highlights:
- [Nonduality and Postcapitalism: Creating life-centric realities with Alnoor Ladha & Lynn Murphy](https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/webinar/nonduality-and-postcapitalism-creating-life-centric-realities) on their new book [Post Capitalist Philanthropy](https://www.postcapitalistphilanthropy.org/)
- [Nora Bateson & Daniel Schmachtenberger in conversation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi5-90TnI3Y)
- [Daniel Schmachtenberger at Norrsken House](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbg8nHuNggU)
- [Ethan Buchman (Cosmos) on the Ownership Economy podcast](https://open.spotify.com/episode/188Pyalvm5uxQ3Nz5VatPl)
- [What “Work” Looks Like](https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/what-work-looks-like/) & [The Case Against Collaboration](https://paulitaylor.com/2022/05/06/the-case-against-collaboration/)
- [Gratitude Revealed](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21235684/) (Louie Schwartzberg’s new film)
## Futurecraft Residency
[](https://dandelion.earth/e/futurecraft-residency)
Applications are rolling in for the [Futurecraft Residency](https://dandelion.earth/e/futurecraft-residency) that I’m facilitating alongside Anna Ling, Laura Gottlieb and special guest facilitators at a stunning coastal venue in Cornwall, UK for a week across Beltane, 28th April – 5th May 2023.
[Read more and apply](https://dandelion.earth/e/futurecraft-residency) (Use the code **solarpunk2023** before the end of the year to receive a 10% discount)
## Plans for the future
- [Seeing Through Dualities, Deepening in Emptiness](https://dharmacourse.org/seeing-through-dualities-deepening-in-emptiness/) online course with Yahel Avigur and Susy Keely
- [The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2023/the-eye-of-the-heart/) at Gaia House
- [The Tent of Seven Doors: The School of Myth Summer School](https://schoolofmyth.com/summer-school/) with [Dr. Martin Shaw](https://drmartinshaw.com/)
## Offerings from friends
[](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/anna-ling-recording-my-first-album/x/6123785#/)
- [Support Anna Ling’s debut album on Indiegogo](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/anna-ling-recording-my-first-album/x/6123785#/)
- [Create the Life you Desire](https://dandelion.earth/events/63616361c7a6fb000bb5f792), a free workshop with Bonny Tydeman
- [The Body Knows](https://dandelion.earth/events/627e6b9c9338d80011f2ec95), a weekend workshop in Bristol with Dani Tonks
- [Magician, Warrior, Lover, King](https://dandelion.earth/events/633bf5cacb4276000b87eed5): a men’s weekend retreat in London with Conor Cregg
- Many fantastic offerings from Gaia and Alana’s new organisation, [True Nature](https://dandelion.earth/o/true-nature)
Until next time, with love,
Stephen
_p.s. A reminder that you’re welcome to join the new [Telegram group](https://t.me/+vSmZWZGvcDg1NGI0)!_
# In Correspondence #26, 2023-01-27T12:53:21.992Z
Greetings from the Impact Hub in Stockholm, and welcome to another edition of _In Correspondence!_ A reminder that [I’ve created a Telegram group for readers of this newsletter, which you’re welcome to join here](https://t.me/+vSmZWZGvcDg1NGI0).
## What I’ve been up to
[](https://twitter.com/Glastomichelle/status/1615642329938903040)
- I completed the Animas Coaching [Accredited Diploma in Transformative Coaching](https://www.animascoaching.com/coach-training-course/) (ICF Level 2). [Read more about my coaching practice](https://stephenreid.net/coaching)
- I created a guide to Daniel Schmachtenberger’s thinking on the metacrisis with the help of AI. [Check it out](https://stephenreid.net/metacrisis/) and [read the tweet thread](https://twitter.com/lunarpunk_0x/status/1612088097356877829)
- I spent a few days after Christmas in the strange and wonderful Glastonbury
- I celebrated New Year at a new co-owned community home where several friends are living on the west side of Dartmoor
- I started the [Seeing Through Dualities, Deepening in Emptiness](https://dharmacourse.org/seeing-through-dualities-deepening-in-emptiness/) online course with Yahel Avigur and Susy Keely
- We at Dandelion Collective had our first in-person retreat in a long time. Keep an eye out for a new [Psychedelic Society](https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/) venue in London, the [True Nature launch event](https://dandelion.earth/events/63cabd6279ffaf000be555d5?cohost=true-nature) and more mind-melting events from [Adventures in Awareness](https://dandelion.earth/o/adventuresinawareness/)
## Post Capitalism & Psychedelic Colonialism
[](https://dandelion.earth/events/63ce91be3d389e000b5f5469)
Join Alnoor Ladha, Lynn Murphy and me on 22nd Feb 2023 from 3pm – 5pm UK time for a discussion on [post capitalism and psychedelic colonialism](https://dandelion.earth/events/63ce91be3d389e000b5f5469) based on Alnoor and Lynn's new book [Post Capitalist Philanthropy](http://postcapitalistphilanthropy.org/knowledge) and Alnoor and Rene Suša's recent article [Why the “Psychedelic Renaissance” is just Colonialism by Another Name](https://doubleblindmag.com/colonialism-by-another-name/).
## Futurecraft Residency
[](https://dandelion.earth/e/futurecraft-residency)
We’ve now had more applications than there are spaces to the [Futurecraft Residency](https://dandelion.earth/e/futurecraft-residency), 28th Apr – 5th May, so if you’re thinking of attending, I recommend putting an application in soon. Receive a 10% discount with the code **solarpunk2023** when booking by 2nd Feb.
## Knowledgegraph
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzrzS1Ag_g)
Since last time, [I’ve shared 46 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2022-12-08). Some highlights:
- [Toby Shorin on the GreenPill podcast](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5WDe74imalrLfSjCA0UvkG)
- [Jamie Wheal interviews Daniel Schmachtenberger](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rLMrUQkVZsWwlyectyZ0M)
- [Nick Cammarata On Jhana](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/nick-cammarata-on-jhana)
- [Sanity 101: Living Fully in an Age of Decline](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeDcreVILTE)
- [OpenAI’s New and Improved Embedding Model](https://openai.com/blog/new-and-improved-embedding-model/)
- The trippy video for [Tame Impala’s The Less I Know The Better](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzrzS1Ag_g)
## Plans for the future
- [Navigating the Mysteries](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigating-the-mysteries-tickets-506580254177) with [Dr. Martin Shaw](https://drmartinshaw.com/)
- [The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2023/the-eye-of-the-heart/) at Gaia House
- [Medicine Festival 2023](https://medicinefestival.com/)
## Offerings from friends
[](https://dandelion.earth/events/63cabd6279ffaf000be555d5?cohost=true-nature)
- [True Nature Launch Party & Ecstatic Dance](https://dandelion.earth/events/63cabd6279ffaf000be555d5?cohost=true-nature)
- [Primal Gathering UK Regenerative Retreat](https://primalgathering.co/primal-gathering-uk) at [42 Acres](https://www.42acres.com/)
- [Power Play - Submission and Domination Reframed](https://dandelion.earth/events/63c432c6f9ed20000b52324d) with Roisin Green
- [The Body Knows A Six Week Immersion: The Gift of Somatic Resource](https://dandelion.earth/events/6399ecf7887553000b83b3de) with Dani Tonks
- [The Call: Meaning, Purpose and Direction Weekend Men's Retreat](https://dandelion.earth/events/63a46191ed476d000b7e3d1f) with Conor Cregg
- [Ways of Looking: A 6-week Meditation Course](https://dandelion.earth/events/639c8ce04cdd85000bcf00fc?cohost=adventuresinawareness) with Mark Ovland, based on the work of Rob Burbea
- [Vocal Odyssey with Nessi Gomes](https://dandelion.earth/events/63c54f3f59f9b4000b9ea4bd)
Until next time, with love,
Stephen
# In Correspondence #27, 2023-02-26T15:14:51.335Z
Welcome to another edition of _In Correspondence!_ I recently returned to springtime Devon after a month of Swedish winter, and the contrast is strong ❄️ 🌷
## What I’ve been up to
[](https://stephenreid.net/k)
- Following my knowledgegraph of Daniel Schmachtenberger’s thinking on the metacrisis, I created further knowledgegraphs for Alnoor Ladha, Bayo Akomolafe, Jamie Wheal, Jim Rutt, Jordan Hall, Nate Hagens, Nora Bateson, Richard Bartlett, Sophie Strand and Vanessa Andreotti. [Check them out](https://stephenreid.net/k)
- Using a similar technique, I created an [Obsidian-based wiki for MetacrisisDAO](https://wiki.metacrisisdao.com/) and [this sheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M6jTrCyBRgpLt2UD-x8HwuQafaGmhw7heHiMcr9-OI8/edit#gid=688288687) exploring the intersection of web3 and the metacrisis using the amazing [GPT for Sheets](https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/gpt_for_sheets_and_docs/677318054654)
- I’m now working on a live knowledgegraph for [RADAR](https://radardao.xyz/), a decentralised global collective discovering and validating emerging trends in culture
- I had a fun meeting with [Regens Unite](http://regensunite.earth) about a promising collaboration with [GreenPill](https://greenpill.party/)
- I hosted an event on Post Capitalism & Psychedelic Colonialism with Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy. [Recording available here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIjGYPmJIDo)
- In a couple of days I’ll begin studying the 6-month [UC Berkeley Professional Certificate in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence](https://em-executive.berkeley.edu/professional-certificate-machine-learning-artificial-intelligence)
- Over £1.5m worth of tickets have now been sold via [Dandelion](http://dandelion.earth/). If you’re curious about using it for your next event or gathering, you’re welcome to join the next [Dandelion Organisers’ Forum](https://dandelion.earth/events/63ecbdfa5c7f4300022d6f51) on 16th March
- My first Spotify appearance… Hana Wolf released her first track, [In The Garden](https://open.spotify.com/album/7llicFogBz1Ledmb2JytAT?si=8RtAQkBVSRmZcdMVEvbn6w), which I play guitar on 🎶
## Books I read
I read [Atomic Habits](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378-atomic-habits) by James Clear, [Holding Change](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56415144-holding-change) by adrienne maree brown, [Post Capitalist Philanthropy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64660069-post-capitalist-philanthropy) by Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy and [The Seven-Day Love Prescription](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63109943-the-seven-day-love-prescription) by John and Julie Gottman.
[](https://stephenreid.net/books)
I’m now reading [Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57335928-wetiko) by Paul Levy.
## Futurecraft Residency
A few places still remain at the [Futurecraft Residency](https://dandelion.earth/e/futurecraft-residency) at this stunning coastal venue in Cornwall, UK from 28th April – 5th May 2023. Join me, Anna Ling, Laura Gottlieb, Gaia Harvey Jackson, Ronan Harrington, Roisin Green and David Basak for a week of _cultivating wholeness & crafting regenerative futures_ through nature connection and wellbeing, exercise and embodiment, connecting with others, self-expression & creativity, and theory, dialogue & discussion. [Read more and apply](https://dandelion.earth/e/futurecraft-residency)
[](https://dandelion.earth/e/futurecraft-residency)
## Knowledgegraph
[](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3dHthDnT5oaFBNbc7cqBMa)
Since last time, [I’ve shared 32 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2023-01-28). Some highlights:
- [SOPHIE STRAND on Myths as Maps /312](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3dHthDnT5oaFBNbc7cqBMa)
- [Rob Burbea : This Matter of Emptiness](https://dharmaseed.org/talks/player/15324.html)
- [Robots that plant trees](https://www.unlimited-robotics.com/post/robots-that-plant-trees)
- [Ren - Hi Ren](https://youtu.be/s_nc1IVoMxc)
## Plans for the future
- Hosting the [Coaching for Collective Transformation launch event featuring Richard Bartlett, Jocelyn Ames and Karl Steyaert](https://dandelion.earth/events/63fa6e9087af880002db0e6d)
- [True Nature Launch Party & Ecstatic Dance](https://dandelion.earth/events/63cabd6279ffaf000be555d5?cohost=true-nature)
- [Navigating the Mysteries](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigating-the-mysteries-tickets-506580254177) with [Dr. Martin Shaw](https://drmartinshaw.com/)
- [Weymouth Triathlon 2023](https://bustinskin.fullonsport.com/event/weymouth-classsic-triathlon-2023/profile)
- [Somewhere 2023](https://www.facebook.com/events/669430068267296)?
- [Boom 2023](https://boomfestival.org/boom2023/)?
- [Medicine Festival 2023](https://medicinefestival.com/)
- [The Pleasure Journey](https://www.elaineyonge.com/tpjuk) with [Elaine Yonge](https://www.elaineyonge.com/)
- [The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2023/the-eye-of-the-heart/) at [Gaia House](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/)
## Offerings from friends
[](https://dandelion.earth/events/63cabd6279ffaf000be555d5?cohost=true-nature)
[Full listings on my site](https://stephenreid.net/events):
- [Primal Gathering UK Regenerative Retreat](https://primalgathering.co/primal-gathering-uk) at [42 Acres](https://www.42acres.com/)
- [The Body Knows A Six Week Immersion: The Gift of Somatic Resource](https://dandelion.earth/events/6399ecf7887553000b83b3de) with Dani Tonks
- [Spring Equinox Dance: True Nature Launch](https://dandelion.earth/events/63cabd6279ffaf000be555d5) with Gaia Harvey Jackson and Alana Bloom
- [The Call: Meaning, Purpose and Direction Weekend Men's Retreat](https://dandelion.earth/events/63a46191ed476d000b7e3d1f) with Conor Cregg
- [Deep Dive into Nature and Self: a four week online guided journey](https://dandelion.earth/events/63c5c49ee05705000b89d91c) with Carolin Goethel and Jenny O’Hare
- [Power Play - Submission and Domination Reframed](https://dandelion.earth/events/63f629c3a2f0dd0002c0be97) with Roisin Green
- [Bernardo Kastrup - With Reality in Mind, A five week exploration with guest Patrick Harpur](https://dandelion.earth/events/63d7bd3a8640a5000bae349c) with Amir Giles
- [A Farewell to Screen Addictions - A Four Week Course](https://dandelion.earth/events/63cad0b779ffaf000be55e04) with Boe Huntress
- [Rebel With A Cause: 6 Week Soulful Leadership Course](https://dandelion.earth/events/63dd013bd9dca60004e38b27) with Bonny Tydeman
Metta 🧡
Stephen
[Since you got this far, why not join the Telegram group for readers of this newsletter?](https://t.me/+vSmZWZGvcDg1NGI0)
# In Correspondence #28, 2023-03-29T11:22:04.022Z
Dear friends, welcome to another edition of _In Correspondence_. I’m writing from my home in Totnes, Devon, UK, where now it’s a bit warmer, I’ve started swimming in the sea again (one of my favourite things!) 🌊
## What I’ve been up to
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a89a240-a462-4084-ae17-066df91099be_2596x832.png)
- I visited the Helford Passage, the area where the (now sold-out!) [Futurecraft Residency](https://dandelion.earth/e/futurecraft-residency) will take place, to do some scouting 👀 Photos above from [Trebah Garden](https://www.trebahgarden.co.uk/)
- I created an interface where you can [ask an AI version of me to write a blog post on any topic you like](https://stephenreid.net/ai). Posts are written in the first person and integrate my interests and expertise
- I finished the [Seeing Through Dualities, Deepening in Emptiness](https://dharmacourse.org/seeing-through-dualities-deepening-in-emptiness/) online course with Yahel Avigur and Susy Keely based on Rob Burbea’s [Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25172403)
- I created [two further knowledgegraphs](https://stephenreid.net/k) for Iain McGilchrist and Rob Burbea, and a new index with photos all featured thinkers
- The results of a [research study](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218949120) where I and others received intravenous DMT in an MRI scanner were published: “This placebo-controlled multimodal human neuroimaging study offers the most comprehensive view of the acute brain action of psychedelics to date….”
- I had a wonderful time at the [True Nature Launch Party & Ecstatic Dance](https://dandelion.earth/events/63cabd6279ffaf000be555d5?cohost=true-nature)
- I attended two events with the enigmatic [Dr. Martin Shaw](https://drmartinshaw.com/): [Navigating the Mysteries](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigating-the-mysteries-tickets-506580254177) and the [Bardskull](https://unbound.com/books/bardskull/) book launch
- I spoke to [Kevin Owocki](https://twitter.com/owocki) on the GreenPill podcast about [metacrisis.xyz](http://metacrisis.xyz) and red/green-teaming web3 tech, with case studies on bioterrorism and nuclear disarmament:
## Books I read
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61226688-d3ca-4fd4-9ad6-8b728fe08828_950x450.png)
- [Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57425775-hospicing-modernity) by Vanessa Machado De Oliveira
- [At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66054459-at-work-in-the-ruins) by
- [Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57335928-wetiko) by Paul Levy
I’m now reading [Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34272565-life-3-0) by Max Tegmark.
## Knowledgegraph
[](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3e5bkfY8mCsdhb9H39dHmy)
Since last time, [I shared 16 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2023-02-27). Some highlights:
- [The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3e5bkfY8mCsdhb9H39dHmy) by Joshua Michael Schrei on The Emerald (highly recommended)
- [Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6rAOusZcsuNtCv8mefmwND)
- [Attention as a moral Act: Iain McGilchrist & Jonathan Rowson in Conversation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHUGuUhB1c4)
- [Jamie Wheal on going beyond alpha burner party crowd spirituality](https://youtu.be/XG89xUm8Hz0)
## Plans for the future
[](https://dandelion.earth/events/63fa6e9087af880002db0e6d)
- Tomorrow, 30th March, I’m co-hosting the [Coaching for Collective Transformation launch event featuring Richard Bartlett, Jocelyn Ames and Karl Steyaert](https://dandelion.earth/events/63fa6e9087af880002db0e6d)
- [Weymouth Triathlon 2023](https://bustinskin.fullonsport.com/event/weymouth-classsic-triathlon-2023/profile)
- Festivals:
- [The Pleasure Journey](https://www.elaineyonge.com/tpjuk) with [Elaine Yonge](https://www.elaineyonge.com/)
- [The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2023/the-eye-of-the-heart/) at [Gaia House](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/)
## Dandelion
[](https://dandelion.earth/)
Dandelion has a new homepage, and as you can see, 51,507 tickets worth over £1.6m have now been sold there. [Use it for your next event or gathering](https://dandelion.earth/) or [browse upcoming events I recommend](https://stephenreid.net/events)
Until next time, with love,
Stephen
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# In Correspondence #29, 2023-05-09T19:14:04.178Z
Dear friends, welcome to another edition of _In Correspondence_. I’m still buzzing from the Futurecraft Residency, which was even better than I hoped 💫
## What I’ve been up to
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0bff1f6a-ccee-4a79-98db-fd21a2c19237_940x564.jpeg)
- I co-facilitated the Futurecraft Residency! Thanks to my co-facilitators Anna Ling, Laura Gottlieb and jae spencer-keyse and all the wonderful participants. Some early feedback:
- I co-hosted the [Coaching for Collective Transformation](https://collectivetransformation.coach/) launch event featuring Richard Bartlett, Jocelyn Ames and Karl Steyaert
- I visited the west coast of Ireland for the first time to mark the marriage of a couple of dear friends. (Pictured below: the Cliffs of Moher)
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7d075b2-493d-47e5-9375-b2507c1639ce_1920x1500.jpeg)
## A taste of the Futurecraft Residency
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf494b73-8a3b-40ba-8be1-06cc70a2db41_1060x610.png)
- [history of the entire world, I guess](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs)
- [Jamie Wheal - Unpacking the Metacrisis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s5n0wh8yME)
- [Meditations On Moloch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeohwQls2GE)
- Seeing Wetiko [short film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBV9-YdxX0M) and [interview with Alnoor Ladha](https://gaiafoundation.org/seeing-wetiko-an-interview-with-alnoor-ladha/)
- [Post Capitalism and the Five Elements Mandala](https://stephenreid.substack.com/p/post-capitalism-and-the-five-elements)
- [You are the Big Bang - Alan Watts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEunth9YCgo)
> To have eyes and not see—to be blind—is an unmistakable symptom of an occlusion to the call of the creative spirit. The figure of the artist is the one who opens humanity’s eyes, teaching us how to see. The black-hole aspect of wetiko is a creativity-destroyer by its very nature, so we need to generate and mobilize as much ingenuity as possible in order to contend with it. Paradoxically, wetiko both spurns and spurs our creative impulses. The blazing fire of a soul set aflame with its own destiny, burning with the passion of following its deeper calling, fulfilling its mission in life, puts a stake through the heart of the inner vampiric figure of wetiko. **The more we pursue what we love, what gives meaning to our lives, the more we allow our creative nature to express itself and the more we “kill” the inner figure of wetiko.**
– [Epilogue from Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World by Paul Levy](https://stephenreid.net/blog/2023/03/04/wetiko.html#toc-wetiko-healing-the-mind-virus-that-plagues-our-world)
[Sign up for the waitlist for the next residency](https://dandelion.earth/e/futurecraft-residency)
## Books I read
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96b30a54-d911-4d9b-b86f-967dbaa3de8f_974x694.png)
- [Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34272565-life-3-0)
- [15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23275060-15-commitments-of-conscious-leadership)
I’m now reading [Reality Switch Technologies: Psychedelics as Tools for the Discovery and Exploration of New Worlds](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62927799-reality-switch-technologies) by Andrew Gallimore.
## Plans for the future
[](https://www.enchanted.org.uk/)
- [Enchanted](https://www.enchanted.org.uk/): 6-9 July, Devon, UK. Use the code SR10 for a 10% discount
- [Weymouth Triathlon](https://bustinskin.fullonsport.com/event/weymouth-classsic-triathlon-2023-wmd/profile)
- [Microsolidarity EU Summer Camp](https://www.microsolidarity.cc/eu-summer-camp-2023)
- [Somewhere](https://dandelion.earth/e/somewhere)?
- [Medicine Festival](https://medicinefestival.com/)
- [The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2023/the-eye-of-the-heart/) at [Gaia House](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/)
- [The Pleasure Journey](https://www.elaineyonge.com/tpjuk) with [Elaine Yonge](https://www.elaineyonge.com/)
## Offerings from friends
[](https://dandelion.earth/events/6401d5761f604d000271a3f9)
- [The Artist Within](https://dandelion.earth/events/6401d5761f604d000271a3f9): a two day journey to break through fear and self-doubt and find the courage and confidence to express your inner world, with Jade Wade and jae spencer-keyse
- [Singing with Nightingales](https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/singing-with-nightingales/): Step silently into the night and listen as the finest musicians in the land duet with the sweet song of the nightingale
You can view more [recommended events](https://stephenreid.net/events) on my website.
Until next time, with love,
Stephen
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# In Correspondence #30, 2023-06-16T11:32:56.599Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to another edition of _In Correspondence_, where once again I’m writing from sunny Stockholm.
## What I’ve been up to
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e1fac35-870c-439a-b574-bf36db85d264_1039x479.png)
- I participated in the [Weymouth Classic Triathlon](https://bustinskin.fullonsport.com/event/weymouth-classsic-triathlon-2023-wmd/profile), my first Olympic distance event, which I completed in 3h26m 🏊♂️🚲🏃♂️
- I spent a weekend in the beautiful Green Man Yurt at [Yurtworks](https://www.yurtworks.co.uk/) in Cornwall where I wrote a new song 🎶
- I worshipped all night at [The Church](https://cobudget.com/borderland/dreams-2023/cli4c4iye668408jo9jb6qurn)’s Borderland pre-party 💒 🍄 🌅
- My partner Laura successfully defended her PhD 👩🎓 🎉
## Books I read
I read the fascinating [Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/584226.Tantric_Quest), and skim-read [Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125082585-breaking-together) and [Reality Switch Technologies: Psychedelics as Tools for the Discovery and Exploration of New Worlds](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62927799-reality-switch-technologies).
I’m now reading Iain McGilchrist’s [The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58955313-the-matter-with-things).
## Plans for the future
- [Enchanted](https://www.enchanted.org.uk/), Devon, UK, July 6-9. Use the code SR10 for a 10% discount
- [Funding the Commons](https://fundingthecommons.io/), Paris, July 15-16
- [Microsolidarity EU Summer Camp](https://www.microsolidarity.cc/eu-summer-camp-2023), Berlin, July 18-23
- A medicine retreat with Maestras Laura and Lila from [Niwe Rao Xobo](https://niweraoxobo.com/)
- [Medicine Festival](https://medicinefestival.com/), Berkshire, UK, August 17-21
- [The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2023/the-eye-of-the-heart/) at [Gaia House](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/)
- [The Pleasure Journey](https://www.elaineyonge.com/tpjuk) with [Elaine Yonge](https://www.elaineyonge.com/)
## Knowledgegraph
[](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NRCHpmqjNb8)
Since last time, [I’ve shared 22 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2023-05-10). Some highlights:
- [Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 5: Gesturing Towards Post Capitalist Realities](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NRCHpmqjNb8)
- [Indigenous knowledge, bravery, vigilance: how four siblings survived in Colombia’s perilous jungle](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/12/colombia-plane-crash-how-four-siblings-survived-jungle)
- [Ginsberg's Moloch - AI Nightmare Edition](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GtZg-LY-5Uo&feature=share9)
## Dandelion
[](https://dandelion.events)
I continue to enjoy working on [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/), which has moved from .earth to .events and now features a much improved mail editor. [Give it a spin for your next event](https://dandelion.events/)
## Offerings from friends
Residencies:
- [Cohere](https://www.cohere.network/) is now accepting applications for its [Summer of Social Impact at Moos in Berlin](https://www.cohere.network/communities/berlin-germany)
- [Newspeak House](https://newspeak.house/): The London College of Political Technology is still accepting applications for its [2023-24 residency programme](https://newspeak.house/residency)
True Nature:
- [Awakening the Wild Woman: Summer Retreat 2023](https://dandelion.events/e/sfklo)
- [Waking the Wild Ones Retreat: Dartmoor](https://dandelion.events/e/k0vn8)
- [The Wild Woman's Way: A Week Initiation On Dartmoor](https://dandelion.events/e/h3kqm)
Adventures in Awareness:
- [Zen Meditation Colive: A Month of Coliving By The Coast of Portugal](https://dandelion.events/e/m4knu)
- [Headless Way Retreat with Richard Lang Oct 26–30](https://dandelion.events/e/h32r4)
- [Bernardo Kastrup: With Reality in Mind](https://dandelion.events/e/r06b8)
Conor Cregg:
- [Magician, Warrior, Lover, King: Men's Weekend Retreat London](https://dandelion.events/e/ig91w)
- [The Call: Meaning, Purpose and Direction Weekend Men's Retreat](https://dandelion.events/e/sx5vt)
With metta,
Stephen
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# In Correspondence #31, 2023-08-05T23:28:37.818Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to another edition of _In Correspondence_! I’ve had an exciting few weeks in Paris, Berlin and Portugal that I’m looking forward to sharing with you.
Several people have let me know recently how much they enjoy this newsletter. I plan to keep all the content free, but I’ve re-enabled paid subscriptions as a way you can express your appreciation 🙏
[Subscribe now](https://stephenreid.substack.com/subscribe?)
## What I’ve been up to
[](https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/42obwi/sunset_over_cabo_da_roca_portugal_3207x1401_oc/)
_Sunset over Cabo da Roca, Sintra Mountains, Portugal_
- I was at Selgars Mill for [Enchanted](https://www.enchanted.org.uk/), and in Paris for [Funding the Commons](https://fundingthecommons.io/) and [Autonomous Ecologies](https://autonomousecologies.xyz/). I particularly appreciated hearing from/meeting:
- I attended the [Microsolidarity EU Summer Camp](https://www.microsolidarity.cc/eu-summer-camp-2023) outside of Berlin where I had the pleasure of hanging out with Jonas, Jocelyn, Nicki, Diana, [Rich](https://twitter.com/RichDecibels), [Nati](https://twitter.com/LombardoNati), [Bilal](https://twitter.com/bilalghalib), [Anne-Lorraine Selke](https://twitter.com/AnneSelke) and [Joe Edelman](https://twitter.com/edelwax) from the [School for Social Design](https://www.sfsd.io/), Nathan Vanderpool from [Respond Network](https://rspnd.network/) and many other fine folks
- I stuck around in Berlin and spent some time at [Imago Space](https://www.coopspace.net/), the Lazy Lake co-living house, the [Moos](https://moos.space/) community dinner and [Vabali Spa](https://www.vabali.de/en/home/), and also saw the incredible [Fanna-Fi-Allah](https://fanna-fi-allah.com/) Sufi ensemble. Thanks for your hospitality Caro, Claudia, Anja, Laurine, Andre, Alex R, Ann-Chris, Adam and Liza!
- I helped co-create the [fabulous wedding](https://www.instagram.com/p/CuWgGGQo4pe/) of two of my best friends, Gaia and Ronan
- I sat a 6-day medicine retreat with Maestras Laura and Lila from Niwe Rao Xobo at [Madreselva](https://www.instagram.com/p/CqqLVFcMddH/) in the Sintra Mountains 🌿✨
## Intro to AI
[](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai)
The next online course I’m teaching is [Introduction to AI](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai), a highly practical, four-week deep dive into the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence and machine learning 🦾 It’s 2 hours live per week + pre-reading and homework, from 28th Sep – 19th Oct. [Read more and book your place](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai)
## Plans for the future
- [Medicine Festival](https://medicinefestival.com/), Aug 17-21. I’ll be co-facilitating a session on Medicine Circles, Medicine Festival's 216 new local groups spanning the UK. Come along to start the conversation on how you can be the medicine for the place you live, including clean-ups of rivers and green spaces, tree-planting, song circles, potluck meals and more
- [The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2023/the-eye-of-the-heart/) at [Gaia House](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/), Sep 2-10
- [Planet Local Summit](https://planet-local-summit.localfutures.org/), Bristol, 29 Sep - 1 Oct
- Hosting the next [Futurecraft Residency](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-brave-earth) at [Brave Earth](https://www.braveearth.com/) in Costa Rica, Dec 12-19 (sneak peek, dedicated email soon!)
A few other great events I unfortunately don’t think I’ll be able to make it to:
[](http://regensunite.london/)
- [Regens Unite London](http://regensunite.london/), Aug 25-26
- [MetaFest](https://metafest.wtf/), Croatia, Aug 11-24
- [Crypto Commons Gathering](https://crypto-commons.org/crypto-commons-gathering-2023), Austria, 26 Aug - 1 Sep
I also hope to read [Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125078090-blockchain-radicals) and [The Bigger Picture: How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62664342-the-bigger-picture).
## Knowledgegraph
Since last time, [I’ve shared 22 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2023-06-16). Some highlights:
- [So You Want to Be a Sorcerer in the Age of Mythic Powers](https://open.spotify.com/episode/22QF1duMlwvws0QbMFJVLA): another incredible episode of The Emerald, this time on AI
- [Reforge the Ring #1: Accumulation, Extraction & Abstraction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDCOZfKdOvE&t=535s): Andrea Farias, Sam Hall and me on some of Daniel Schmachtenberger’s early work on a new economic system
- [Discovering Harry Mack For The 1st Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slXJD7NfG7c): incredible freestyle rapper
- [The Swimmers](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8745676/): based on a true story, from war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics
- [GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy](https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/)
- [3 BS Traps when Working with Hipsters, Hippies and Hackers](https://medium.com/@hanzifreinacht/3-bs-traps-when-working-with-hipsters-hippies-and-hackers-ea020d90ed5f)
- [jokerace v3: welcome to the post-token future](https://joke.mirror.xyz/btwtFJKw8tEWGXuZ9rcJiGnldV8-LLUiC0h_Xvu2aSw)
## Offerings from friends
Over £2m worth of tickets have now been sold via [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/), the platform for regenerative events and co-created gatherings, of which I’m the lead developer. Here are some of upcoming events there I can recommend:
- [The Metamodern Academy: A Masterclass in Metamodernism](https://dandelion.events/e/z7yp6): a new, graduate-level course on metamodernism with ‘Hanzi Freinacht’ (Emil Ejner Friis and Daniel Görtz)
Women’s work with True Nature:
- [Awakening the Wild Woman: Summer Retreat 2023](https://dandelion.events/e/sfklo)
- [The Wild Woman's Way: A Week Initiation On Dartmoor](https://dandelion.events/e/h3kqm)
- [EMPOWER: Women's Facilitation Training 2024](https://dandelion.events/e/m49n7)
- [Voice of the Womb Retreat: Cae Mabon](https://dandelion.events/e/qawim)
- [Waking the Wild Ones Retreat: Dartmoor](https://dandelion.events/e/k0vn8) (all genders)
Men’s work with Conor Cregg:
- [Magician, Warrior, Lover, King: Men's Weekend Retreat London](https://dandelion.events/e/ig91w)
- [The Call: Meaning, Purpose and Direction Weekend Men's Retreat](https://dandelion.events/e/sx5vt)
The Body Knows with Dani Tonks:
- [The Body Knows: Taster Workshop](https://dandelion.events/e/g4124)
- [The Body Knows: Weekend Workshop Bristol](https://dandelion.events/e/haogv)
- [The Body Knows A Six Week Immersion: The Gift of Somatic Resource](https://dandelion.events/e/u1hlz)
Soulful Leadership with Bonny Tydeman:
- [Soulful Leadership Workshop](https://dandelion.events/e/v2iq7)
- [Soulful Leadership: 6 Week Coaching Journey](https://dandelion.events/e/s8ybu)
Adventures in Awareness:
- [Zen Meditation Colive: A Month of Coliving By The Coast of Portugal](https://dandelion.events/e/m4knu)
- [Headless Way Retreat with Richard Lang Oct 26–30](https://dandelion.events/e/h32r4)
- [Bernardo Kastrup: With Reality in Mind](https://dandelion.events/e/r06b8)
And the best of the rest:
- [Slow Dating Bristol](https://dandelion.events/e/y5hrg)
- [The Return: Rose Immersion & Mary Magdalene Pilgrimage](https://dandelion.events/e/o7xas)
- [Deep Dive into Nature and Self: A four week online journey through individual wholing and radical reconnection](https://dandelion.events/e/d6fnx)
With love,
Stephen
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# In Correspondence #32, 2023-09-12T12:25:38.230Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to another edition of _In Correspondence_! A reminder that I love to hear from readers - if something tickles you, hit reply or drop a message in the [Telegram group](https://t.me/+vSmZWZGvcDg1NGI0).
[Share Stephen Reid In Correspondence](https://stephenreid.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share)
## What I’ve been up to
- I got handfasted to my partner Laura at [Medicine Festival](https://medicinefestival.com/), committing to each other for a year and a day (at least!) 🎗 (photo below)
- At Medicine, I also made mischief with [Witch Clown](https://www.instagram.com/witchclownrave/) and helped launch the Medicine Circles local groups initiative. [Find your nearest Circle](https://tinyurl.com/medicine-circles-map) then [join the Telegram forum](https://tinyurl.com/medicine-circles) 🗺
- I sat [The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2023/the-eye-of-the-heart/) retreat on the Brahmaviharas and [Soulmaking Dharma](https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/online-programs/soulmaking-dharma/) led by the brilliant Catherine McGee and Yahel Avigur at [Gaia House](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/). It was my deepest week of silence yet, I plan to write more about it soon 🕉
- I completed the UC Berkeley [Professional Certificate in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence](https://em-executive.berkeley.edu/professional-certificate-machine-learning-artificial-intelligence?advocate_source=dashboard&coupon=STEPH%3A11-8ICI43C&utm_campaign=incentivized_referrals&utm_content=SO+-+Berkeley+Professional+Certificate+in+ML+%26+AI&utm_medium=personal_url&utm_source=referral#referrals-email-capture-modal) 🎓
- I was blown away by the freestyle rap savant [Harry Mack](https://www.youtube.com/@HarryMack) live in Bristol 🎤
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6c21c9c6-b81c-4f8b-bcea-aa4fe79929db_1110x1474.jpeg)
_We got handfasted!_
## Introduction to AI
[](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai)
Last call for the [Introduction to AI](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai) course I’m teaching, which starts on 28th Sep: a highly practical, four-week deep dive into the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence and machine learning. It’s 2 hours live per week + pre-reading and homework. [Read more and book your place](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai)
## Futurecraft Residency
[](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-brave-earth)
Join me, Laura, Anna Ling, jae spencer keyse and special guest facilitators for the next Futurecraft Residency, this time taking place at the stunning [Brave Earth](https://www.braveearth.com/) in Costa Rica from 12th – 19th December 2023. [Read more and apply](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-brave-earth)
## Plans for the future
- [An evening with Nora Bateson & Daniel Schmachtenberger](https://nav.confetti.events/nora-daniel/), Stockholm, 15 Sep (It’s [Stockholm Impact Week](https://www.impactweek.se): Nate Hagens is also in town)
- [Svampfestivalen](https://www.facebook.com/events/953523665800351) (The Mushroom Festival) at [Blivande’s Frihamnstorget](https://www.blivande.com/frihamnstorget), 16 Sep
- [Planet Local Summit](https://planet-local-summit.localfutures.org/), Bristol, 29 Sep - 1 Oct
- Possibly the [Hermes Amāra](https://hermesamara.org/) Annual Retreat, 1-8 Dec
## Knowledgegraph
[](https://flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com/)
Since last time, [I’ve shared 19 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2023-08-06). Some highlights:
- [I Want a Better Catastrophe Flowchart](https://flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com/)
- [Jamie Wheal: Canaries: 0, Coal Mine: 3](https://jamiewheal.substack.com/p/canaries-0-coal-mine-3)
- [“QBism”: The most radical interpretation of quantum mechanics ever](https://bigthink.com/13-8/qbism-quantum-physics/) (resonates with Buddhist teachings on emptiness)
- [Cursor: the AI-first Code Editor](https://cursor.so/)
## Offerings from friends
Over £2m worth of tickets have now been sold via [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/), the platform for regenerative events and co-created gatherings, of which I’m the lead developer - give it a spin for your next event!
- [Soulful Leadership: 6 Week Coaching Journey](https://dandelion.events/e/s8ybu) with Bonny Tydeman, starts 18 Sep
- [Roadmap for Relationships: 4 Week Course](https://dandelion.events/e/w40qu) with Gaia Harvey Jackson, starts 1 Nov
- Shamanic healing inmersion at [Madreselva](https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?e= __test_email__ &u=92a1657d92d19d2085bf3b427&id=5bab752463), 2-5 Nov
- [The Metamodern Academy: A Masterclass in Metamodernism](https://dandelion.events/e/z7yp6): a new, graduate-level course on metamodernism with ‘Hanzi Freinacht’ (Emil Ejner Friis and Daniel Görtz), starts 6 Nov
- [The Garden Lab.s](https://labs.thegarden.pt/), residencies in northern Portugal
Mettā,
Stephen
[Share](https://stephenreid.substack.com/p/in-correspondence-32?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share)
# In Correspondence #33, 2023-10-17T18:02:38.664Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to another edition of _In Correspondence_! Newsletters are great and all, but I really hope to see you in person at the [Futurecraft Residency](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-brave-earth) in Costa Rica, 12-19 Dec 🥭🦜🥥🌴🙊
## What I’ve been up to
- I attended the [Planet Local](https://planet-local-summit.localfutures.org/) summit in Bristol where I particularly appreciated [Lyla June Johnston](https://www.lylajune.com/), [Rutendo Ngara](https://www.dancingwithmountains.com/people/rutendo-lerato-ngara), [Alnoor Ladha, Lynn Murphy](https://www.postcapitalistphilanthropy.org/), [Iain McGilchrist](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/) and [Jeremy Lent](https://www.jeremylent.com/), and also recorded a podcast with [Ma Earth](https://maearth.com/) (out soon)
- I attended the [Inner Development Goals](https://innerdevelopmentgoals.org/) summit in Stockholm where my highlights were [Indy Johar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0O7tloOgi0&t=30210s), [Phoebe Tickell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0O7tloOgi0&t=3990s) and the closing party with [Louisana Avenue](https://www.instagram.com/louisiana_avenue/)
- I saw [Daniel Schmachtenberger and Nora Bateson in conversation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYWozFWbwGk) and had the pleasure of meeting Daniel in person for the first time
- I joined the [Stockholm Zen Center](https://www.stockholmzencenter.se/) ○
- I open-sourced the notes from the [Life as Practice](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DIiTAPJzC0_Bn0Zd8zbBkWo0jHNpT9xKGiy8m2UyGgE/edit) course I taught in Sep 2022
[](https://planet-local-summit.localfutures.org/lineup/)
_Alnoor Ladha, Lyla June Johnston and Rutendo Ngara_
## Futurecraft Residency
[](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-brave-earth)
I am really looking forward to the Futurecraft Residency that I’m co-facilitating at the inspiring Brave Earth in Costa Rica, 12-19 December. Join us for a week of exploring regenerative and resilient futures, individual and collective, through embodiment, song, dialogue, technology and imagination. [Mention this newsletter when applying for a $100 discount, applications close 12th November](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-brave-earth)
## Introduction to AI
[](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai-jan-2024)
My sold out [Introduction to AI](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai-jan-2024) course will take place again in January 2024. Take a highly practical, four-week deep dive into the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. [Book your place](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai-jan-2024)
## Knowledgegraph
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htiu1oZsRAM)
Since last time, I read the brilliant [I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60881728) and [shared 39 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2023-09-13). Some highlights:
- A great [introductory presentation on the metacrisis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htiu1oZsRAM) by Joshua Williams
- [The Possibilities of Regeneration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3akNyklB1fM): short film narrated by Lyla June Johnstone
- [Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnWMRR6ZCgU): free-to-view feature film accompanying the book by Local Futures founder Helena Norberg-Hodge
- [Reforge The Ring #2: Distribution, Contextualization & Instantiation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZQDUB28ucs) on the foundations of a positive-sum economic system
- [Transformers Are Secretly Collectives of Spin Systems](https://mcbal.github.io/post/transformers-are-secretly-collectives-of-spin-systems/): A statistical mechanics perspective on transformers in machine learning
## Plans for the future
[](https://www.earthed.co/earthed-summit-2023/)
- [Come Together](https://ekskaret.confetti.events/come-together-ekskaret-okt) on [Ekskäret](http://ekskaret.se/), Stockholm, 19-22 Oct
- [Earthed Summit](https://www.earthed.co/earthed-summit-2023/), London, 11 Nov
- [Hermes Amāra](https://hermesamara.org/) annual retreat, Devon, 1-8 Dec
- [Futurecraft Residency](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-brave-earth), Costa Rica, 12-19 Dec
- [Soulmaking Dharma retreat with Catherine McGee & Juha Penttilä](https://nirodha.fi/retriitti-02-24/), Finland, Feb 2024
- [ÖTILLÖ Sprint Utö](https://otilloswimrun.com/race/otillo-swimrun-uto-sprint/), Stockholm, June 2024
## Offerings from friends
Over £2.2m worth of tickets have now been sold via [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/), the platform for regenerative events and co-created gatherings, of which I’m the lead developer - give it a spin for your next event!
- [Make It Rain](https://collectivetransformation.coach/make-it-rain): An 8-week coaching journey to get support in making a meaningful impact and thriving collaboration with Jocelyn Ames and Jonas Gröner, starts 24 Oct
- [Epic Love](https://dandelion.events/e/w40qu): 4-week course on cultivating empowered relationships with Gaia Harvey Jackson, starts 1 Nov
- Shamanic healing immersion at [Madreselva](https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?e= __test_email__ &u=92a1657d92d19d2085bf3b427&id=5bab752463), 2-5 Nov
- [The Call: Meaning, Purpose and Direction Weekend Men's Retreat](https://dandelion.events/e/sx5vt) with Conor Cregg, 4-5 Nov, London
- [Power Play - Introduction to Loving Domination](https://dandelion.events/e/f15em) with Roisin Green, 10 Nov, London
- [The Body Knows A Six Week Immersion: The Gift of Somatic Resource](https://dandelion.events/e/u1hlz) with Dani Tonks, 9 Jan - 13 Feb
- [Meditation & Movement Colive Experience](https://dandelion.events/e/h00ix), 13 Jan - 10 Feb, Portugal
- [The Garden living lab.s](https://labs.thegarden.pt/), residencies in northern Portugal
Mettā,
Stephen
p.s. since you made it this far, why not join the [Telegram group](https://t.me/+vSmZWZGvcDg1NGI0)?
# In Correspondence #34, 2023-11-21T12:27:17.382Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to another edition of _In Correspondence._ Want to watch something wholesome? [Check out the new Films page on my site.](https://stephenreid.net/films)
## Futurecraft Residency: 1 room left!
[](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-brave-earth)
We have 1 room remaining at the [Futurecraft Residency](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-brave-earth) taking place at the stunning Brave Earth in Costa Rica, 12-19 December. I’m also pleased to say that philosopher [Jules Evans](https://www.philosophyforlife.org/) will join us to deliver a session on Ecstatic Literacy. [Read more and apply](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-brave-earth)
## What I’ve been up to
- I participated in [Come Together](https://ekskaret.confetti.events/come-together-ekskaret-okt) on [Ekskäret](http://ekskaret.se/) in the Stockholm Archipelago
- I attended the [Earthed Summit](https://www.earthed.co/earthed-summit-2023/) at the [Barbican Conservatory](https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/event/the-conservatory-x-ranjani-shettar) where I particularly appreciated hearing from [John D. Liu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDgDWbQtlKI) of [Ecosystem Restoration Communities](https://www.ecosystemrestorationcommunities.org/)
- I visited the wonderful new [Mycelium Space](https://dandelion.events/o/mycelium-space) co-working space in Frome
- My crypto fund [Metastrategy](https://stephenreid.net/metastrategy) is up 50% this month
## Books I read
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4eaff47-010a-49cb-893c-d804a00466b3_3673x2560.png)
I read [Another Life](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117681537-another-life) (solarpunk fiction) and the thought-provoking [Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75560036-technofeudalism) by Yanis Varoufakis ([interview here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VatYrw0uqjU)). I’m now reading [The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60138088-the-flowering-wand) by [Sophie Strand](https://sophiestrand.com/).
## Knowledgegraph
[](https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/the-planetary-egregore-passes-you)
Since last time, [I’ve shared 25 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2023-10-18). Some highlights:
- [The planetary egregore passes you by](https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/the-planetary-egregore-passes-you)
- [Living in the Metacrisis with Jonathan Rowson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTHj1Im3q4)
- [Should you meditate, and also, what is even meditation](https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/should-you-meditate-and-also-what)
## Plans for the future
[](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai-jan-2024)
My [Introduction to AI](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai-jan-2024) course will take place again in January 2024. Take a highly practical, four-week deep dive into the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. [Book your place](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai-jan-2024)
- [Hermes Amāra](https://hermesamara.org/) annual retreat, Devon, 1-8 Dec
- [Soulmaking Dharma retreat with Catherine McGee & Juha Penttilä](https://nirodha.fi/retriitti-02-24/), Finland, Feb 2024
- Planet.Health summit at [Feÿtopia](https://feytopia.com/), March 2024
- Futurecraft Cornwall, 19-26 April 2024
- [ÖTILLÖ Sprint Utö](https://otilloswimrun.com/race/otillo-swimrun-uto-sprint/), Stockholm, June 2024
## Offerings from friends
Over £2.3m worth of tickets have now been sold via [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/), the platform for regenerative events and co-created gatherings, of which I’m the lead developer - give it a spin for your next event!
- [How To Self-Love](https://dandelion.events/e/i1mfb): A free workshop for fast, effective nervous system regulation with Dominique Antonina (online, 5th Dec)
- [Psychedelic Experience Retreat with Alalaho](https://dandelion.events/e/alalaho-retreat) (Netherlands, 7-10 Dec)
- [Soulful Leadership: 3 Month Group Coaching Journey](https://dandelion.events/e/u5t8y): An intimate journey of learning and self-discovery with Bonny Tydeman (online, Jan-Apr 2024)
- [The Call: Meaning, Purpose and Direction Weekend Men's Retreat](https://dandelion.events/e/y3d0x) with Conor Cregg (London, Feb 2024)
- [Awakening the Wild Woman: Spring Equinox Retreat 2024](https://dandelion.events/e/k6c4r) (Dartmoor, Mar 2024)
Mettā,
Stephen
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# In Correspondence #35, 2024-01-02T13:41:33.388Z
Dear friends,
Happy new year! Since last time, I co-faciliated the [Futurecraft Residency](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-brave-earth) at Brave Earth and spent a couple of weeks exploring Costa Rica. I also delved deeper into [the mysteries of emptiness](https://dandelion.events/books/seeing-that-frees) at the [Hermes Amāra](https://hermesamara.org/) annual retreat.
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F00d7b71a-6860-40cc-8dc7-246fc3100d07_1574x1106.png)
_Sunset at Playas del Coco_
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbb42949a-a07d-42d5-93f1-e69105b06669_1154x1018.png)
_Playa Cuevas, The Tree House in Nosara, Mistico Hanging Bridges and La Fortuna Waterfall_
## Introduction to AI (starts Thurs 11th Jan)
[](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai-jan-2024)
Generative AI is a big deal. If you want to get up to speed, I’m running my celebrated [Introduction to AI](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai-jan-2024) course again this month. [Read more and book your place](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai-jan-2024)
> A comprehensive and thoughtfully prepared course... I'm particularly impressed by the extensive notes, providing numerous avenues for further research. ★★★★★
## I Want A Better Catastrophe (Tue 16th Jan)
[](https://dandelion.events/e/i-want-a-better-catastrophe)
Join Andrew Boyd, author of[I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60881728) and me for an evening contemplating the end of the world (as we know it), and what comes after. Described as "an existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers", Andrew's book has been described as “a profound meditation on how to live in a world on the brink of collapse”. [Read more and book your place](https://dandelion.events/e/i-want-a-better-catastrophe)
## Building Our Regenerative Future
[](https://www.theliminalinstitute.com/building-our-regenerative-future-volume-2/50mvl)
I’m speaking on the Liminal Institute’s [Building Our Regenerative Future](https://www.theliminalinstitute.com/building-our-regenerative-future-volume-2/50mvl) course on _AI and our Regenerative Future_, exploring the ways AI could support regenerative futures, ways it could detract and distract us, and what's needed to ensure it's a net positive for planetary regeneration. Hosted by Daniel Pinchbeck, the course also features Douglas Rushkoff, Jamie Wheal, Alnoor Ladha, Yael Marantz and many others. [Read more and book your place](https://www.theliminalinstitute.com/building-our-regenerative-future-volume-2/50mvl)
## Metastrategy
[](https://stephenreid.net/metastrategy)
My crypto strategy [Metastrategy](https://stephenreid.net/metastrategy) is up 106% in the past three months and almost 500% since inception in Nov 2021. It’s consistently outperformed BTC by between 2-4x. Having said that, don't invest more than you’re prepared to lose completely. [Read more](https://stephenreid.net/metastrategy)
## Knowledgegraph
Since last time, [I’ve shared 26 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2023-11-22). Some highlights:
- Jamie Wheal on [tackling the meaning crisis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhJ3KkNlhaM) and [why psychedelics change everything (and nothing)](https://jamiewheal.substack.com/p/salt-acid-and-light)
- Vitalik Buterin on d/acc (defensive, decentralization or differential acceleration): [article](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html) and [video presentation](https://app.streameth.org/devconnect/progcrypto/session/dacc)
- Blindboy on [Greek Mythology and Simulation Theory](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2OKAA163UFt9ifc0yKoSii)
## Offerings from friends
- [Soulful Leadership: 3 Month Group Coaching Journey](https://dandelion.events/e/u5t8y): An intimate journey of learning and self-discovery with Bonny Tydeman (online, Jan-Apr 2024)
- [The Call: Meaning, Purpose and Direction Weekend Men's Retreat](https://dandelion.events/e/y3d0x) with Conor Cregg (London, Feb 2024)
- [EMPOWER: Women's Facilitation Training 2024](https://dandelion.events/e/m49n7) with Gaia Harvey Jackson (Mar-Jun 2024)
- Join [Cohere](https://www.cohere.network/) in [Ayampe in Ecuador](https://alistairlanger.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bffa7d7c86b1083e231fc2fed&id=b7f868c1eb&e=8addbfee06) or [Iquitos in Peru](https://alistairlanger.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bffa7d7c86b1083e231fc2fed&id=d999c1dcef&e=8addbfee06) (Jan-Mar 2024)
Mettā,
Stephen
# In Correspondence #36, 2024-02-05T17:49:58.724Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to another nutrient-dense edition of _In Correspondence_! I’m writing from near Málaga in Spain where I’m [learning to dive](https://intothebluediving.com/) for the first time before heading to the [Microsolidarity](https://microsolidarity.cc/) gathering.
New this year: I’ve started offering services in [AI consulting](https://stephenreid.net/ai-consulting) and [group facilitation](https://stephenreid.net/facilitation) (read more below).
[](https://www.freepik.com/premium-photo/with-sun-hidden-last-lights-illuminate-rock-crow-malaga-spain_51141677.htm)
_Peñón del Cuervo, Málaga_
## **What I’ve been up to**
- I interviewed Andrew Boyd about his excellent book [I Want A Better Catastrophe – recording available here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XgrDjytHNU)
- I spoke on the Building Our Regenerative Future course on [AI and our Regenerative Future – notes available here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d8fo8QGW1-la6-NrD5Tg0Q9k_jUlrHbjF5wscBQRjqI/edit)
- I completed the second run of my [Introduction to AI course – purchase the notes and recordings here](https://dandelion.events/e/intro-to-ai-jan-2024)
- I spoke at a Big Education Conversations event on [AI and the Future of Education](https://dandelion.events/e/u4zup)
- I participated in a beautiful Imbolc ceremony at [the Glade in Dartington](https://thewoodland.co/the-glade/)
- I completed a Swedish A2 language course 🇸🇪
## AI consulting
[](https://stephenreid.net/ai-consulting)
Does your organisation need help understanding the potential of AI or implementing it effectively? As a certified AI professional and experienced teacher, I’ve recently started offering **AI consulting** services. [Read more](https://stephenreid.net/ai-consulting)
## Group facilitation
This year I’m also offering my skills in **group facilitation**. When teams get stuck, external facilitation can be the catalyst for breakthroughs and renewed momentum. I'll work with you to discover what's really important and plan a way forward. [Read more](https://stephenreid.net/facilitation)
## Third Attractor
[](https://www.instagram.com/thirdattractor/)
Andrea Farias, Sam Hall and I (who met via the [metacrisis.xyz](https://metacrisis.xyz/) community) published the first posts of the Third Attractor project. Read about three possible futures for London and follow for more scenarios via [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/thirdattractor/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ThirdAttractor).
## **Knowledgegraph**
Since last time [I’ve shared 17 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2024-01-03). Highlights:
- AI is getting close to real-time. Check out near-instant AI-generated [text](https://chat.groq.com/) (Groq), [images](https://sdxlturbo.ai/) (SDXL Turbo) and [voice chat](https://persona-webapp-beta.vercel.app/) (Persona).
- [Gliglish · AI Language Teacher](https://gliglish.com/)
- [ChatGPT and the Future of the Human Mind](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/chatgpt-and-the-future-of-the-human-mind)
## **Plans for the future**
- A Swedish B1 language course
- [Planet.Health week](http://tinyurl.com/planethealth24) at [Feÿtopia](https://feytopia.com/), France, 25-31 March
- Futurecraft Together, Cornwall, UK, 19-26 April – now a private, co-created gathering for those with some experience of such things. [Get in touch](mailto:stephen@stephenreid.net) if you’re interested.
- [ÖTILLÖ Sprint Utö](https://otilloswimrun.com/race/otillo-swimrun-uto-sprint/), Stockholm, 8 June
- [The Psychedelic Society](https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/)’s 10th birthday celebrations
- Possibilities: [The Borderland](https://theborderland.se/), [Medicine Festival](https://medicinefestival.com/), [Practices of the Heart](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2024/practices-of-the-heart/) at Gaia House, sailing from Scotland to Norway ⛵️
## **Offerings from friends**
Over £2.5m worth of tickets have now been sold via [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/), the platform for regenerative events and co-created gatherings of which I’m the lead developer, and it has a [new Substack, which you can sign up to here](https://dandeliondotevents.substack.com/).
[View all recommended events](https://stephenreid.net/events)
- [Embodied Psychedelic Journey: 4-week course with Ciara Sherlock](https://dandelion.events/e/journey)
- [Unearthing Soul - How the living world reveals our deepest selves](https://dandelion.events/e/unearthingsoul)
- [With Reality in Mind: Bernardo Kastrup with guests Michael Levin & Christopher Wallis](https://dandelion.events/e/w91sz)
- [The Body Knows, A Six Week Immersion: The Gift of Somatic Resource](https://dandelion.events/e/thebodyknowsfeb2024)
- [Power Play - Submission and Domination Reframed](https://dandelion.events/e/z4f5k)
- [Magician, Warrior, Lover, King: Men's Weekend Retreat London](https://dandelion.events/e/d67pk)
- [How To Self-Love: 5 weeks on the most important relationship of your life](https://dandelion.events/e/x46cr)
Retreats for women:
- [Rooted Woman Retreat](https://dandelion.events/e/e831r)
- [EMPOWER: Women's Facilitation Training 2024](https://dandelion.events/e/m49n7)
- [Awakening the Wild Woman: Spring Equinox Retreat 2024](https://dandelion.events/e/k6c4r)
- [Wild Woman Camp Out: Nature Immersion and Beltane Sit Out](https://dandelion.events/e/u7428)
[](https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/346207625039567/)
Finally, the Ridiculous House, a wonderful communal house on the west side on Dartmoor, has space for a couple of new residents. [Read more](https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/346207625039567/)
Mettā,
Stephen
_p.s. I love to hear from readers! If you appreciated something here, hit reply and let me know. You’re also welcome to join the [Telegram group](https://t.me/+vSmZWZGvcDg1NGI0)._
# In Correspondence #37, 2024-03-03T19:46:12.982Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to another edition of _In Correspondence_! I’m writing from my home in Stockholm where this morning Laura and I hosted a sunflower seed ritual and potluck brunch: a dozen friends each planted a sunflower seed in a pot along with a dream for the coming year 🌻 Amongst other things, I am dreaming of an end to war, starting with the reported [six-week ceasefire in Gaza](https://www.perplexity.ai/search/gaza-ceasefire-o_o4jLfpRiOXe25c5cxvwg) 🕊
## **What I’ve been up to**
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F69033b08-523b-4887-aea5-39254055ffef_1200x798.jpeg)
- I completed my [PADI Open Water Diver](https://www.padi.com/courses/open-water-diver) course and met an octopus for the first time 🐙
- I attended the [Microsolidarity Winter Retreat](https://microsolidarity.substack.com/p/microsolidarity-network-newsletter) near Málaga in Spain
- I'm half way through a Swedish B1 course at [Folkuniversitetet](https://www.folkuniversitetet.se/) and in training for the [ÖTILLÖ Sprint Utö](https://otilloswimrun.com/race/otillo-swimrun-uto-sprint/) swimrun, getting used to a pair of [Vivobarefoot Hydra ESCs](https://www.vivobarefoot.com/uk/hydra-esc-mens)
## **Knowledgegraph**
[](https://www.theverge.com/23912922/scavengers-reign-review-max)
Since last time, [I've shared 29 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2024-02-06). Some highlights:
- [Scavengers Reign captures the beauty and terror of a truly alien world](https://www.theverge.com/23912922/scavengers-reign-review-max) – highly recommended animated series
- [Lunarpunk and memetic engineering](https://dark.fi/insights/memetic-warfare.html) – “Lunarpunk wishes to define a forward path, to express freedom positively as a _freedom to_ rather than a _freedom from_”
- [The Novelty Famine - Why nothing feels fresh in 2024](https://beiner.substack.com/p/the-novelty-famine)
- [Moloch - AI & The Deadly Force Driving Us To The Brink](https://youtube.com/watch?v=F62prbQAj7U)
And a couple of podcasts I haven't got to yet, but I’m looking forward to:
- [Andrés Gómez Emilsson (@algekalipso) from the Qualia Research Institute on the DemystifySci Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjWDURKNe2Q)
- [Josh Schrei from The Emerald in conversation with Alexander Beiner](https://beiner.substack.com/p/a-dialogue-with-josh-schrei-of-the)
I also finished reading the unusual and thought-provoking [The Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50537823) by Christian mystic [Cynthia Bourgeault](https://www.cynthiabourgeault.org/).
## **Plans for the future**
- [Adama presents: ODES TO THE WILD with Hana Wolf, Hanna Leigh & Mike Gilpin](https://dandelion.events/e/j9mfy), Totnes, 17 March
- [Planet.Health week](http://tinyurl.com/planethealth24) at [Feÿtopia](https://feytopia.com/), France, 25-31 March
- [Jhourney Jhana retreat](https://pages.jhourney.io/spring-retreats), online, 6-14 April
- Futurecraft Together, Cornwall, UK, 19-26 April – now a private, co-created gathering for those with some experience of such things. [Get in touch](mailto:stephen@stephenreid.net) if you’re interested.
- [ZuBerlin](https://www.zuberlin.city/), 27 May - 9 June
- [The Borderland](https://theborderland.se/), 22-28 July. You can [express your interest](https://dandelion.events/g/camp-2024) in joining the camp I'm involved with
- [Radical Free-ness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2024/radical-free-ness/) with Martin Aylward at Gaia House, 10-15 September
- Possibilities: [Somewhere](https://dandelion.events/e/somewhere2024), [Medicine Festival](https://medicinefestival.com/), [The Pleasure Journey](https://www.elaineyonge.com/tpj), sailing from Scotland to Norway
## **Offerings from friends**
[](https://www.alexmlod.art/)
Over 76,000 tickets worth £2,700,000+ have now been sold via [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/), the events platform of which I'm the lead developer. Why not [list your next event](https://dandelion.events/) there?
- [EMPOWER: Women's Facilitation Training 2024](https://dandelion.events/e/m49n7), starts 19 March
- [Rooted Woman Retreat](https://dandelion.events/e/e831r), 22-24 March
- [Awakening the Wild Woman: Spring Equinox Retreat 2024](https://dandelion.events/e/awwspring24), 21-25 March
- Psilocybin retreats with Alalaho: [Returners](https://www.alalaho.org/retreat/returners-retreat-5-day-april/) (Spain, 20-24 April) and [Core Retreat](https://www.alalaho.org/retreat/core-retreat-4-day/) (Netherlands, 25-28 April)
- [Magician, Warrior, Lover, King: Men's Weekend Retreat London](https://dandelion.events/e/d67pk), 27-28 April
- Lon Dubh harmony trio in [Cambridge](https://dandelion.events/e/c98q2) (21 May) and [Frome](https://dandelion.events/e/l7ok8) (29 May)
- [The art of Alex Mlod](https://www.alexmlod.art/) - “it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye”
[View all recommended events on my site](https://stephenreid.net/events)
Until next time, mettā,
Stephen
_Hire me for [AI consulting](https://stephenreid.net/ai-consulting), [group facilitation](https://stephenreid.net/facilitation) or [coaching](https://stephenreid.net/coaching)_
# In Correspondence #38, 2024-05-03T16:02:03.809Z
Dear friends,
Greetings from the wonderful [Blivande](https://www.blivande.com/) co-working/events/makerspace in Stockholm. _Did you know_ that each edition of this newsletter takes me up to 2 days to curate and prepare? If you find my writing helpful, I would be very grateful if you’d become a paid subscriber, which aside from the financial element, acts as an important encouragement to me.
[Subscribe now](https://stephenreid.substack.com/subscribe?)
[](https://www.blivande.com/)
## **What I’ve been up to**
- I co-hosted Futurecraft Together near Falmouth, Cornwall (Futurecraft website and dates for our next events coming soon – likely 5-7 July in Devon and 19 Aug - 1 Sep in the Stockholm Archipelago)
- I co-facilitated an off-site for ‘soulful hospitality’ company [edyn](https://www.findingedyn.com/) on AI. You too can hire me as an [AI consultant](https://stephenreid.net/ai-consulting)/[group facilitator](https://stephenreid.net/facilitation)
- I got to experience the wonderful [Feÿtopia](https://feytopia.com/) for the first time and participated in the [Planet.Health week](http://tinyurl.com/planethealth24)
- I attended a [Jhourney Jhana retreat](https://pages.jhourney.io/spring-retreats) (which wasn’t quite my cup of tea, I plan to stick with [teachers qualified by Rob Burbea](https://hermesamara.org/teachers))
- I spent a day in Venice during a family holiday and was reminded of its majesty
- I attended [Laura’s PhD graduation ceremony](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zt5m3iznxtufkxfq015ya/WhatsApp-Image-2024-04-05-at-19.18.34.jpeg?rlkey=6fbhfzcx474ao9598w8zynnyf&dl=0)
## **Emptiness and Metamodernism, 9th May**
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d2db984-b79f-483e-97fc-b958de9e078d_1536x930.png)
I’m co-hosting an event on Emptiness and Metamodernism as part of a [series of events](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zjik18rv0crwr8w5c7a2i/Stephen-Reid-Mail-Rob-Burbea-Memorial-Events-2024.pdf?rlkey=075dtxtt3oojkvfy8ecshbbh0&dl=0) commemorating the fourth anniversary of the passing of [Rob Burbea](https://hermesamara.org/).
**Emptiness and Metamodernism: Exploring the Resonances Between Rob Burbea and Hanzi Freinacht**
Hosted by Stephen Reid and Jem Stopes
Thursday 9th May
6pm - 8pm UK
[Zoom link](https://hermesamara.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=15492b0f164680ab3907ea24e&id=2cd11e1352&e=d411cc4057)
Join us for a group discussion delving into the parallels and contrasts between the teachings of Rob Burbea on emptiness and the emerging philosophy of metamodernism, particularly as articulated by Hanzi Freinacht. We will explore how Rob's approach to deconstructing and reconstructing our perceptions of reality resonates with the metamodern emphasis on holding multiple perspectives and playfully navigating complexity. Whether you are new to Rob's work or Hanzi's ideas, this session will provide an accessible introduction to both, revealing the transformative potential of integrating their insights to develop greater resilience, empathy, and joyful participation in shaping our shared future.
Recommended watching for those new to metamodernism: [8 mins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BzD3wUEMaQ) + [14 mins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl0caFRFoms)
Recommended listening for those new to Rob's work: [23 mins](https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2013-09-07-the-wonder-of-emptiness-seeing-that-frees-introduction)
## More metamodern events
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4edef78-c2e5-4a2e-ac7d-a3f0c831cf6f_3908x1080.png)
I can also highly recommend these two events run by Daniel and Emil from [Metamoderna](https://metamoderna.org/), one entry-level and one advanced:
- [A Dramatic Introduction to Metamodernism and the Philosophy of Hanzi Freinacht](https://dandelion.events/e/a-dramatic-introduction-to-metamodernism), 10-14 June
- [The Metamodern Academy: A Masterclass in Metamodernism](https://dandelion.events/e/the-metamodern-academy), 1-26 July
## **Knowledgegraph**
[](https://websim.ai/)
Since last time, [I’ve shared 40 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2024-03-04). Some highlights:
- [websim.ai: This World Does Not Exist](https://www.latent.space/p/sim-ai)
- [Manufacturing Bliss - Rediscovering the Jhanas](https://asteriskmag.com/issues/06/manufacturing-bliss)
- [An Introduction to Extitutional Theory](https://medium.com/berkman-klein-center/an-introduction-to-extitutional-theory-e74b5a49ea53)
I’m looking forward to listening to [Joshua Schrei on Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I.](https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/219) and reading [First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on Cosmoerotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come](https://www.amazon.com/First-Principles-Values-Propositions-Cosmoerotic/dp/B0CS85WYVX#customerReviews).
## **Plans for the future**
- [ÖTILLÖ Sprint Utö](https://otilloswimrun.com/race/otillo-swimrun-uto-sprint/), 8 June
- [ZuBerlin](https://www.zuberlin.city/), A two-week immersive residency bridging humanity and technology, 10-14 June
- Midsommar in Gotland
- [Buddhafield](https://buddhafield.com/buddhafield-festival-2024), 17-21 July
- [The Borderland](https://theborderland.se/), 22-28 July
- [Radical Free-ness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2024/radical-free-ness/) with Martin Aylward at Gaia House, 10-15 September
- [The Pleasure Journey](https://www.elaineyonge.com/tpj), 19-25 October
## Gitcoin GG20
[](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/?utm_source=grants.gitcoin.co&utm_medium=internal_link&utm_campaign=gg19&utm_content=program-rounds#/round/42161/36/33)
Donations are open for the [20th edition of Gitcoin Grants](https://grants.gitcoin.co/). I donated to:
- [Brave Earth](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/?utm_source=grants.gitcoin.co&utm_medium=internal_link&utm_campaign=gg19&utm_content=program-rounds#/round/42161/36/33), [Château du Feÿ](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/?utm_source=grants.gitcoin.co&utm_medium=internal_link&utm_campaign=gg19&utm_content=program-rounds#/round/42161/36/41) and [Traditional Dream Factory](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/?utm_source=grants.gitcoin.co&utm_medium=internal_link&utm_campaign=gg19&utm_content=program-rounds#/round/42161/36/10) in [Ma Earth’s](https://maearth.com/) [Regenerative Land Projects](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/?utm_source=grants.gitcoin.co&utm_medium=internal_link&utm_campaign=gg19&utm_content=program-rounds#/round/42161/36) round
- Breadchain Cooperative in the [Hackathon Alumni](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/?utm_source=grants.gitcoin.co&utm_medium=internal_link&utm_campaign=gg19&utm_content=program-rounds#/round/42161/23/22) and [Token Engineering](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/?utm_source=grants.gitcoin.co&utm_medium=internal_link&utm_campaign=gg19&utm_content=program-rounds#/round/10/9/19) rounds
## Offerings from friends
- [Primal Gathering](https://dandelion.events/e/primalgathering2024), 14-19 May
- [Embodied Psychedelic Journey: 4-week Course with Ciara Sherlock](https://dandelion.events/e/embodiedjourney), 14 May - 4 Jun
- [Quantum Burlesque](https://facebook.com/events/s/divine-ridiculous-weekend-quan/283073584598215/), a weekend-long immersive experience in exploring a theatrics of the erotic basis of life, 24-26 May
- [Introduction to Conscious Release](https://signup.lebensweise.net/conscious-release-workshop), 26 May
- [Somewhere '24 [Portuguese Burn]](https://dandelion.events/e/somewhere2024), 30 May - 5 Jun
- [Rave Ritual with Witch Clown](https://dandelion.events/e/raveritual), 31 May
- [Edge Esmeralda](https://www.edgeesmeralda.com/), a month-long gathering for people building the future, 2-30 June
- [Shipibo Healing Retreats with Maestras Laura and Lila](https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?e=0ccf430684&u=92a1657d92d19d2085bf3b427&id=fbfec61974), Aug 2024
- [Soulful Leadership: 3 Month Group Coaching Journey](https://dandelion.events/e/a1fsd), 23 Sep - 9 Dec
- [The Call: Meaning, Purpose and Direction Weekend Men's Retreat](https://dandelion.events/e/o0smf), 19-20 Oct
- [Awakening the Wild Woman: Autumn Retreat 2024](https://dandelion.events/e/n93il), 24-28 Oct
- [The Mythic Body](https://www.themythicbody.com/courses/), Nov 2024 - Sep 2025
Until next time, mettā,
Stephen
p.s. here’s that link again to become a paid subscriber 🙏 :
[Subscribe now](https://stephenreid.substack.com/subscribe?)
# In Correspondence #39, 2024-06-03T09:33:35.028Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to the latest edition of _In Correspondence_, featuring several exciting launches… 🌊 🎧 🍞
## **Futurecraft**
We’ve launched the website for [Futurecraft](https://futurecraft.life/)! Check it out at [futurecraft.life](https://futurecraft.life/):
[](https://futurecraft.life/)
We’re also happy to announce the next [Futurecraft Together](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-together-orno) gathering from 20th-27th August in the beautiful Stockholm Archipelago 🇸🇪 A week to explore and embody the futures we desire for...
🌍 ourselves, our community, our planet
🧘🏼♀️ body, mind, soul
🤖 technology, humanity, nature
‘Futurecraft Together’ is our more co-created format, aimed at those already familiar with participatory events. Each day we'll hold a morning circle to hear what workshops/activities people are dreaming of, before inviting people to offer their skills and expertise to meet the desires of the group. [Read more and apply](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-together-orno)
[](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-together-orno)
## **Dandelion**
There’s a new [Dandelion podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@dandelion.events.321) 🎧 So far I’ve interviewed:
- [Gaia Harvey Jackson and Alana Hyde Bloom from True Nature](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8YGA9Idhzs) (Want to work with Gaia and Alana? [True Nature are seeking an event coordinator](https://dandelion.events/pmails/66506c2555671e006bd3737e))
- [Osara from Ecstatic Dance Bristol and Ace Collectiv](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCgFqKaqy9k)
- [Conor Cregg on Soulful Masculinity and Sex Club](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHE2mguc7M0)
Subscribe to the [Dandelion Substack](https://dandeliondotevents.substack.com/) to hear about future episodes.
There’s also a [new Library section on Dandelion featuring our favourite books and films](https://dandelion.events/books) 📘 🍿
## **Breadchain**
[](https://breadchain.mirror.xyz/fLKH6ZolteMHosvdAjtJOcDn8Y1rBxcWsG0-peuO9YY)
Symbiota, the worker co-op I work with that includes Dandelion, is a member of [Breadchain](https://breadchain.xyz/), a blockchain-based currency supporting post-capitalist futures.
The [launch event](https://breadchain.mirror.xyz/fLKH6ZolteMHosvdAjtJOcDn8Y1rBxcWsG0-peuO9YY) (attended by Vitalik Buterin) took place at Moos Space during ETH Berlin, and whilst I couldn’t be present in person, I created a [short video intro to Symbiota for the Breadchain community](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EH6S-2Zt0k).
## **Knowledgegraph**
Since last time I’ve shared [23 items](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2024-05-04) to my knowledgegraph. Highlights:
- [Vanessa Andreotti and Nate Hagens on Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kQ7_IZ8YI)
- [Daniel Schmachtenberger: Game Theory, False Narratives and Survival](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSx8j8lSewA)
- [Joshua Schrei and Michael Garfield on Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I.](https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/219)
- [Zone of Scenius](https://www.edgecity.live/zone-of-scenius): Zuzalu, popup villages, and building at the edges
- [Second Renaissance](https://secondrenaissance.net/): From the old paradigm of modernity to a new paradigm of interconnectedness, wisdom and inner growth, beyond capitalism
I also hosted an event on Emptiness and Metamodernism as part of a series of events commemorating the fourth anniversary of the passing of Rob Burbea ([notes here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rFId0_LvD6sqH3ZI_hqhaIQtZNyxS2ICaeWgoxUrWDY/edit)) and finished [The Flowering Wand](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74754916) by Sophie Strand.
## **Plans for the future**
- [ÖTILLÖ Sprint Utö](https://otilloswimrun.com/race/otillo-swimrun-uto-sprint/), 8 June
- [ZuBerlin](https://www.zuberlin.city/), A two-week immersive residency bridging humanity and technology. I’ll be there 10-15 June to offer morning meditations and a session on Technological Metamodernism
- Midsommar in Gotland
- [Buddhafield](https://buddhafield.com/buddhafield-festival-2024), 17-21 July
- [The Borderland](https://theborderland.se/), 22-28 July
- [Futurecraft Together: Ornö](https://dandelion.events/g/futurecraft-together-orno), 20-27 August
- [Radical Free-ness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear](https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2024/radical-free-ness/) with Martin Aylward at Gaia House, 10-15 September
- [The Pleasure Journey](https://www.elaineyonge.com/tpj), 19-25 October
I love to hear from readers – why not hit reply and let me know what you appreciated? [I’m also currently taking on new coaching clients](https://stephenreid.net/coaching).
Mettā,
Stephen
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# In Correspondence #40, 2024-06-26T12:37:15.247Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to the latest edition of _In Correspondence_, and happy midsummer 🌞
## What I’ve been up to
- I completed the [ÖTILLÖ Sprint Utö](https://otilloswimrun.com/race/otillo-swimrun-uto-sprint/) swimrun in 2h56m 🏊♂️ 🏃♂️
- I attended a week of [ZuBerlin](https://www.zuberlin.city/), where I gave a presentation on Technological Metamodernism ([slides here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OrSSnlO-8M-MhrREjCOC_v5beNXOGtEVwNs0lxLkMaM/edit?usp=sharing)). **Stay tuned for details of an upcoming 4-week course** on the topic featuring Alexander Beiner, Michael Garfield, Ellie Hain, Rufus Pollock & Hanzi Freinacht.
- I visited the lovely Gothenberg for the first time, and celebrated Midsommar with Laura and friends on the enchanting island of Gotland in the middle of the Baltic Sea (pictured)
## Ma Earth interview on AI and the Metacrisis
Ma Earth released the conversation I had with Matthew Monahan at the Planet Local summit, and I think it turned out pretty well. [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb9PVNqVCkY), listen on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/0Fkf8ZqPx5RRkeXTbuojCJ) or [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-regeneration-will-be-funded/id1706728107) or [read an AI-generated summary](https://stephenreid.net/posts/recKfZcRwXeltW4ty).
## Knowledgegraph
Since last time, I’ve shared [24 links](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2024-06-04) to my knowledgegraph. Some highlights:
- [A Paradigm for AI Consciousness](https://opentheory.net/2024/06/a-paradigm-for-ai-consciousness/) by the fascinating [Michael Edward Johnson](https://opentheory.net/)
- [John Oliver’s devastating summary of 14 years of Conservative rule in the UK](https://youtu.be/NP8IWBOmc_g?t=1217)
- [Existential Hope Worldbuilding](https://www.existentialhope.com/existential-hope-worldbuilding) by the [Foresight Institute](https://foresight.org/)
[
Foresight Institute
Three Concrete Positive Visions of the World with Advanced AI in 2045
Step into the future with us and explore the possibilities of 2045 with advanced AI! In this post, we're excited to unveil the top three imaginative visions from our recent Existential Hope Worldbuilding course. Participants were tasked with envisioning positive yet realistic futures with advanced AI, offering glimpses into what our world could become i…
Read more
8 months ago · 11 likes · Foresight Institute
](https://foresightinstitute.substack.com/p/three-concrete-positive-visions-of?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web)
## Upcoming picks on Dandelion
List your next event on [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/) and it could feature here (now £3m+ tickets sold):
- [The Metamodern Academy: A Masterclass in Metamodernism](https://dandelion.events/e/the-metamodern-academy), online, 1-26 July
- [Wild Soul Walk: a Pilgrimage to Rekindle your Authentic Self](https://dandelion.events/e/z37ml), Devon, 9-12 Aug
- [Soulful Leadership: 3 Month Group Coaching Journey](https://dandelion.events/e/a1fsd), online, 23 Sep - 9 Dec
- [The Call: Meaning, Purpose and Direction Weekend Men's Retreat](https://dandelion.events/e/o0smf), London, 19-20 Oct
- [Awakening the Wild Woman: Autumn Retreat 2024](https://dandelion.events/e/n93il), Devon, 24-28 Oct
Until next time, mettā,
Stephen
_[Hire me as an AI trainer or strategist](https://stephenreid.net/ai-consulting) for your organisation_
# In Correspondence #41, 2024-08-01T10:43:59.837Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to the latest edition of _In Correspondence_, and happy [Lughnasadh](https://www.perplexity.ai/search/lughnasadh-WHzdvmYqQSe9gaq0bTDgiA)! I’m writing from my home in Stockholm having recently returned from the Borderland. Tomorrow morning I will be on an early boat to the island national park of [Gotska Sandön](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gotska+Sand%C3%B6n+National+Park/@58.2638423,17.7685635,7.08z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x46f682525de8d323:0x33ec79054346be34!8m2!3d58.3499529!4d19.2177024!16s%2Fg%2F121cgmxt?entry=ttu) for the weekend 🏕️
## What I’ve been up to
- Laura and I took our summer holiday in the UK, mostly in and around dreamy Totnes
- I attended the [Symbiota](https://symbiota.coop/) team retreat (the worker co-op I work with that’s the home of [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/), [True Nature](https://truenature.org.uk/), [Adventures in Awareness](https://adventuresinawareness.com/) and [The Psychedelic Society](https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/))
- I thoroughly enjoyed [Buddhafield](https://buddhafield.com/buddhafield-festival-2024) where highlights included [Billie Maree](http://billiemareemusic.com/), [Anna Ling](https://www.annaling.co.uk/) and [Zuma Puma](https://www.clownlife.org/)
- I joined camp Hyperstition for [The Borderland](https://www.facebook.com/groups/theborderland/media/), where amongst much magic and mischief I co-facilitated a workshop _Sincerely, Yours? The Metamodern Art of Ironic Sincerity_ with [Raven Connolly](https://x.com/spiral_virus), heard [Andrés Gómez Emilsson](https://x.com/algekalipso) speak in person for the first time and attended [Nicki and Jocelyn’s wedding](https://x.com/ames_for_joy/status/1818604302971105482)
## **Upcoming courses in September**
[](https://futurecraft.life/technological-metamodernism)
[](https://futurecraft.life/technological-metamodernism)
Join me and special guests Hanzi Freinacht (Emil Ejner Friis), Ellie Hain, Alexander Beiner, Michael Garfield & Rufus Pollock for a four-week deep dive into Technological Metamodernism, 17th Sep – 8th Oct 2024, online. [Read more and book your place](https://futurecraft.life/technological-metamodernism)
[](https://dandelion.events/e/practical-ai)
And/or, join me for my upcoming four-week Practical AI course, designed to get you comfortable using the latest AI tools, 16th Sep – 7th Oct 2024, online. [Read more and book your place](https://dandelion.events/e/practical-ai)
## Knowledgegraph
Since last time [I’ve shared 15 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2024-06-27). Some highlights:
- [The Wide Boundary Impacts of AI with Daniel Schmachtenberger](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1NFuddEAi5s?si=iPXFrBsFgexJRxuS)
- Ethan Mollick on AI: [Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold](https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/gradually-then-suddenly-upon-the) & [Confronting Impossible Futures](https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/confronting-impossible-futures)
- [Bo Burnham: Inside](https://www.metacritic.com/tv/bo-burnham-inside)
I’m also looking forward to finding the time to digest these:
- [Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/vitalik-buterin-techno-optimism/)
- [The Consilience Project: Examining the concept of progress at the heart of humanity’s story](https://consilienceproject.org/development-in-progress/)
- [Andrés Goméz Emilsson on Psychedelic Computer Science & The Mathematics of Consciousness](https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/222)
- [Moving Beyond Polarization in Service of Life: Reality Roundtable featuring Nora Bateson, Vannessa Andreotti and Daniel Schmachtenberger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDtn0eEas7c)
and watch the films [Water is Love](https://www.waterislovefilm.org/) and [Where Olive Trees Weep](https://whereolivetreesweep.com/).
## Upcoming picks on Dandelion
Dandelion has now been used to sell almost 90,000 tickets worth over £3,000,000. [Start listing your events there](https://dandelion.events/)
- [Myofascia Breathing](https://dandelion.events/e/o967r), 24-28 August
- [Caress The Earth: A Dartmoor Medicine Walk](https://dandelion.events/e/caresstheearrth) with Alana Bloom, 8-10 Sep
- [Epic Love: 5 Week Course](https://dandelion.events/e/s8cj7) with Gaia Harvey Jackson, 11 Sep - 6 Nov
- [The Call: Meaning, Purpose and Direction Weekend Men's Retreat](https://dandelion.events/e/o0smf) with Conor Cregg, 19-20 Oct
- [Awakening the Wild Woman: Autumn Retreat](https://dandelion.events/e/n93il), 24-28 Oct
- [Winter Warmer Contact Improvisation Festival](https://dandelion.events/e/festival2024), 28 Nov - 5 Dec
Until next time, mettā,
Stephen
_p.s. I love to hear from readers. Hit reply and let me know what you found interesting._
# In Correspondence #42, 2024-08-30T09:41:21.955Z
Hi friends,
Welcome to another edition of _In Correspondence_. This weekend I will be participating in my second swimrun race, the [ÖTILLÖ Sprint Final 15K](https://otilloswimrun.com/races/otillo-sprint-final-15k-sweden/) – possibly during a thunderstorm! 🏊♂️🏃♂️⛈️
In the past month, I’ve continued to explore Sweden with Laura and friends, visiting the secluded desert island of [Gotska Sandön](https://www.sverigesnationalparker.se/en/choose-park---list/gotska-sandon-national-park/), the cute [Fjäderholmarna](https://www.kungligaslotten.se/vara-besoksmal/kungl.-nationalstadsparken/fjaderholmarna.html), the pilgrimage destination of [Vadstena](https://stbirgittaways.se/), and the elemental [Gålö nature reserve](https://www.naturkartan.se/sv/stockholms-lan/galo).
On Wednesday I’ll be co-hosting the first [Futurecraft Film Club](https://www.facebook.com/events/886188243567790/886188256901122) at Blivande in Stockholm, a new, free event series where we’ll be screening [future-flavoured films to feed the imagination](https://futurecraft.life/films). _Why not start a film club where you are?_
## What do you really want, and how can you move towards it? 🤔
If you’d like some help answering this question, I have some [coaching](https://stephenreid.net/coaching) slots available. I trained in a coaching style called _transformative coaching_, which has a particular focus on exploring the inner world of beliefs, assumptions, values and expectations. [£495 for 4 sessions – read more](https://stephenreid.net/coaching)
You might also enjoy contemplating this [list of questions from Daniel Schmachtenberger](https://civilizationemerging.com/dharma-inquiry-2/).
## **Technological Metamodernism & Practical AI**
[](https://futurecraft.life/technological-metamodernism)
I’m running a four-week online course on [Technological Metamodernism](https://futurecraft.life/technological-metamodernism), 17th Sep – 8th Oct 2024 featuring special guests Hanzi Freinacht (Emil Ejner Friis), Ellie Hain, Alexander Beiner, Michael Garfield & Rufus Pollock. [Listen to me discussing the course on the Buddhist Geeks podcast with Vince Horn](https://stephenreid.net/posts/receXzIO4UxLwn0gN)
I’m also running a four-week [Practical AI](https://dandelion.events/e/practical-ai) online course, designed to get you comfortable using the latest AI tools, 16th Sep – 7th Oct 2024. [Read more and book your place](https://dandelion.events/e/practical-ai)
**A special offer to subscribers:** [sign up as a Founding Member of this Substack](https://stephenreid.substack.com/subscribe) and receive a free place on either of the courses above.
## Knowledgegraph
[](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2024-08-02)
Since last time, I’ve shared [49 items](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2024-08-02) to my knowledgegraph. Some highlights:
- [The QRI Guidebook to Superhappiness](https://superhappiness.xyz/)
- [The good hacker: can Taiwanese activist turned politician Audrey Tang detoxify the internet?](https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/17/audrey-tang-toxic-social-media-fake-news-taiwan-trans-government-internet)
- [Bonny Tydeman on Soulful Leadership on the Dandelion podcast](https://stephenreid.net/posts/recxNbz3ZlYlf13Lt)
I also finished the books [Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59133062-impact-networks) and Ivan Illich’s [Tools for Conviviality](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19318541-tools-for-conviviality), and started [UNUM: AI — God or Servant?](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212115783-unum).
My to-watch list includes:
- [Unreasonably Effective AI with Demis Hassabis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZybROKrj2Q)
- [How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth | TED](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6MVJm9ElMA)
- [Michael Johnson | Jhanas, Awakening and Vasocomputation](https://themetagame.substack.com/p/26-michael-johnson-jhanas-awakening)
## Upcoming picks on Dandelion
- [Soulful Leadership: Free Workshop](https://dandelion.events/e/g21i2) with Bonny Tydeman, online, 4 Sep
- [Caress The Earth: A Dartmoor Medicine Walk](https://dandelion.events/e/caresstheearrth) with Alana Bloom, Devon, 8 Sep
- [Ink Alchemy: The Art of Sacred Skin Marking](https://dandelion.events/e/b6o3a) with Alice Boydell, Devon, 10 Sep
- [BETWEEN WORLDS | the philosophy, psychology and culture of decentralization](https://dandelion.events/e/k651u), with Raven Connolly, Max Borders, Alexander Bard and friends, London, 11 Sep
- [Epic Love: Free Event](https://dandelion.events/e/epiclovetaster) with Gaia Harvey Jackson, online, 11 Sep
- [Fool Expression Introduction](https://dandelion.events/e/l4pwq) with Christine Animas, London, 28-29 Sep
- [The 6 Hidden Patterns of History: A Sneak Peak and an Overwhelming Cascade of Facts and Fictions](https://dandelion.events/e/6-hidden-patterns) with Emil Ejner Friis (Metamoderna), online, 2-24 Nov
Until next time, mettā,
Stephen
p.s. I’ve turned on [Substack’s chat feature for this publication](https://open.substack.com/pub/stephenreid/chat) and will be using it for paid-subscriber-only updates on more sensitive and speculative topics... 🤫🔒
# In Correspondence #43, 2024-10-30T21:57:31.625Z
Welcome to the latest edition of _In Correspondence,_ after a 2-month hiatus mainly due to my attention being on the courses I was teaching. I’m writing from Carvoeiro in Portugal where I’m doing an SSI Advanced Adventurer scuba diving course, and I’m still buzzing from playing with an octopus earlier 🐙
## What I’ve been up to
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61e51737-f778-418d-9d15-5a1b9df667e6_864x864.png)
- Laura and I completed [Elaine Yonge](https://www.elaineyonge.com/)’s [Pleasure Journey](https://www.elaineyonge.com/tpj), and then got handfasted for the second time at the mystical sea cave at Sagres Fortress
Course things:
- Thanks to further generous donations (with particular thanks to Matthew Monahan), I’ve raised the $20k I was seeking for the [Technological Metamodernism book project](https://stephenreid.substack.com/p/technological-metamodernism-the-book)! I’m happy to accept further sponsors of the project, crediting you/your organisation in the final text – get in touch by reply if you’re interested.
- The notes and recordings from my 4-week [Practical AI](https://dandelion.events/e/practical-ai) course (rated 4.8/5) are now available for £99. Use the code SUBSTACK for a 10% discount
Stockholm things:
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda02af2f-2755-4d95-b695-f6cc31a8a38f_800x487.png)
- I finished the [ÖTILLÖ Sprint Final 15K](https://otilloswimrun.com/races/otillo-sprint-final-15k-sweden/) swimrun in 2h09m
- I’ve now hosted two events in the monthly [Futurecraft Film Club](https://www.facebook.com/events/886188243567790/886188250234456/) series ([Kiss the Ground](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8618654/) and [Symbiotic Earth](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6932282/)). Next up is [The Art of Life](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7608016/) and two other short films on Wed 6 Nov at Blivande in Stockholm
- I continued to explore the nature around Stockholm - my favourite discovery since last time is [Björnö](https://www.alltrails.com/trail/sweden/stockholm/bjornoslingan)
- I’ve been spending some time at the new [Emerge Lakefront](https://emergelakefront.confetti.events/) residency project in Stockholm and I expect it to be awesome
- I completed the Swedish [Memrise](https://memrise.com/) (2719 phrases) and am now working on [SwedishPod101](https://swedishpod101.com/)’s Intermediate (B1-B2) course 🇸🇪
## Plans for the future
- Returning to Sweden via Barcelona to catch [Alex](https://www.alexmlod.art/about) whilst she’s in Europe
- [EA Sweden Annual Meeting Weekend 2024](https://www.effektivaltruism.org/blogg/amw2024)
- [Elevate 2024: Hibernate](https://ekskaret.confetti.events/elevate-2024-hibernate/) at Ekskäret in the Stockholm Archipelago
- A weekend with [Diane Musho Hamilton](https://www.dianemushohamilton.com/) in Stockholm
- Christmas and New Year in the UK including a celebration of [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/) selling 100,000 tickets
- [Soulmaking Dharma retreat](https://nirodha.fi/retreat-03-25/) with Catherine McGee and Juha Penttilä in Finland, Mar 2025
Upcoming Futurecraft residencies (save the dates, more details shortly):
- Futurecraft at Feÿtopia, France, 17-23 Feb 2025
- Futurecraft in Cornwall, UK, 9-16 May 2025
It’s also [The Psychedelic Society’s 10th birthday celebration](https://dandelion.events/e/g9cz7) at &Soul in London on Sat 30th Nov – if I was in the UK at the time I would definitely be there 🌈
## Books I read
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86e20641-8fad-4e69-87c7-e8427ba1d1ed_1374x500.png)
- [UNUM: AI — God or Servant?](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212115783-unum) by Fredrik Forss
- [Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198678736-co-intelligence) by Ethan Mollick
- [The Mountain in the Sea](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62856957-the-mountain-in-the-sea) by Ray Nayler
- [Playground](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205478762-playground) by Richard Powers (probably my favourite of the three fiction books here)
I’m now reading [Right Story, Wrong Story](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199122606-right-story-wrong-story) by Tyson Yunkaporta.
## Upcoming picks on Dandelion
_Did you know…_ I’m the lead developer of [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/), which has now been used to sell almost 100,000 tickets worth ~£3.5m. You’re welcome to [start listing your events there](https://dandelion.events/docs/events) too!
- [The 6 Hidden Patterns of History: A Sneak Peak and an Overwhelming Cascade of Facts and Fictions](https://dandelion.events/e/6-hidden-patterns) with Emil Ejner Friis, online, Sat 2nd Nov 2024
- [Unearthing Soul: Rites and Rituals of Nature Connection and Soul Revelation](https://dandelion.events/e/unearthingsoul2) with Carolin Goethel and Jenny O’Hare, online, Wed 6th Nov 2024
- [Contact Improvisation - A Relational Journey](https://dandelion.events/e/z8g08) with David Basak, Totnes, Sat 9th Nov 2024
- [Open Q&A with Michael Levin](https://dandelion.events/e/z925v) with Amir Giles, online, Mon 18th Nov 2024
- [The Way Of The Witch: Embodying The Witch Archetype](https://dandelion.events/e/truenaturewitchescircle) with Boe Huntress, London, Thu 21st Nov 2024
- [Questpass - A solo adventure in nature followed by a fireside feast](https://dandelion.events/e/questpass) with Amelia Parisian, UK, Sat 23rd Nov 2024
- [Inhabit Your Voice: A Singing Workshop For Womxn](https://dandelion.events/e/truenatureinhabityourvoice) with Anna Ling, London, Sat 23rd Nov 2024
- [Speed Friending: Ladies Night](https://dandelion.events/e/speedladies) with Gaia Harvey Jackson and Maya Bahoshy, London, Wed 27th Nov 2024
- [Winter Warmer Contact Improvisation Festival](https://dandelion.events/e/festival2024), UK, Thu 28th Nov 2024
- [The Psychedelic Society 10th Anniversary Celebration](https://dandelion.events/e/g9cz7), London, Sat 30th Nov 2024
- [Winter Solstice Portal Retreat](https://dandelion.events/e/u80rd) with Laura Reeves and Joshua Swords, UK, Fri 13th Dec 2024
- [The Body Knows A Six Week Immersion: The Gift of Somatic Resource](https://dandelion.events/e/thebodyknowscourse) with Dani Tonks, online, Tue 14th Jan 2025
Nicole also launched her [new site](https://trustyournature.co/) for her Authentic Relating & Somatic Experiencing practice.
## And finally…
May all beings be well 🕉️
Stephen
# In Correspondence #44, 2024-12-02T20:40:12.417Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to the latest edition of _In Correspondence_! I’m writing from my home in Stockholm where I recently returned from a wonderful co-created retreat on the island of [Ekskäret](https://ekskaret.se/).
## Futurecraft at Feÿtopia
[](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-feytopia)
_Are you feeling called to explore a different way of creating change—one that honours the wisdom of the body, invites play, and encourages human connection? Are you ready to discover what becomes possible when we transcend tired polarities and embrace both/and thinking? How would your life change if you centred presence, emergence, and wholeness?_
You’re invited to join me, Anna Ling, Laura Gottlieb and jae spencer keyse for the third [Futurecraft Residency](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-feytopia), this time taking place during [Feÿtopia](https://feytopia.com/) at the inspiring Château du Feÿ near Paris, France from 17th - 23rd February 2025.
Featuring:
🔮 Technological Metamodernism with Stephen Reid
💡 Radical Reimagination with jae spencer keyse
🧘🏼♀️ Yoga and singing with Anna Ling
👫 Dialogue and authentic relating with Laura Gottlieb
🔥 Wood-fired sauna
🌳 Huge private forest
🕺 Time for co-creation and emergence
[Read more and apply](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-feytopia)
You can also save the dates for Futurecraft Together in Cornwall, UK, 9-16 May 2025.
## What I’ve been up to
[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb97ee64-badf-4d86-8667-0af0443f67a0_1992x671.png)
- I was a co-creator of [Elevate 2024: Hibernate](https://ekskaret.confetti.events/elevate-2024-hibernate/) on the beautiful Ekskäret in the Stockholm Archipelago
- I celebrated my 39th birthday at the new [Emerge Lakefront](https://emergelakefront.confetti.events/) property in Sköndal
- I spent a few days in Barcelona where after more than a decade I returned to the inspiring [Can Masdeu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_Masdeu)
- I attended the [EA Sweden](https://www.effektivaltruism.org/) Annual Meeting Weekend 2024 where my favourite session was on [Cooperative AI](https://www.cooperativeai.com/)
- I spoke to Tucker Walsh about [Community Weaving](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-fl4l79o34) on the Illuminating Life podcast
I’m looking forward to watching the recordings from the [d/acc Discovery Day](https://app.devcon.org/schedule?text=d%252Facc) at Devcon.
## What I’ve been reading/watching
[](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199122606-right-story-wrong-story)
- I read [Right Story, Wrong Story](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199122606-right-story-wrong-story) by Tyson Yunkaporta and started [What We Owe the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59802037-what-we-owe-the-future) by William MacAskill
- I’m really appreciating [Daniel Kazandjian’s podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@dkazand) where I watched [Jhanas, Awakening and Vasocomputation with Michael Johnson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVbeB_HVSNk) and [A gentle introduction to Qualia Research with Andres Goméz-Emilsson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGtHhHVHhDs)
- I watched several of the touching [Something Beautiful for the World](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLye1JIzaiQ6rKe40SkcSWqoC_sn4v_vIY) short films, a collaboration between Reflections of Life, Campfire Stories and Happen Films “exploring how small acts of kindness have the potential to ripple out and change the world”
## Plans for the future
- [Futurecraft Film Club: 2040](https://www.facebook.com/events/886188243567790/886188260234455/?event_time_id=886188260234455) at Blivande in Stockholm, this Wednesday 4th Dec
- A weekend with [Diane Musho Hamilton](https://www.dianemushohamilton.com/)
- Christmas and New Year in the UK including a celebration of [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/) selling 100,000 tickets at [Pip Farm](https://www.pipfarm.co.uk/retreats)
- [Soulmaking Dharma retreat](https://nirodha.fi/retreat-03-25/) with Catherine McGee and Juha Penttilä in Finland, Mar 2025
## Upcoming picks on Dandelion
Over 100,000 tickets have now been sold via Dandelion 🎉
[List your next event there](https://dandelion.events/)
- [Bernardo Kastrup | Jay Garfield: Tibetan Buddhism & Non Duality](https://dandelion.events/e/f3myp) with Adventures in Awareness, Online, Wed 4th Dec 2024
- [Winter Solstice Portal Retreat](https://dandelion.events/e/u80rd) with Laura Reeves, Glastonbury, UK, Fri 13th Dec 2024
- [Contact Improvisation - A Relational Journey](https://dandelion.events/e/z8g08) with David Basak, Totnes, UK, Sat 14th Dec 2024
- [The Body Knows A Six Week Immersion: The Gift of Somatic Resource](https://dandelion.events/e/thebodyknowscourse) with Dani Tonks, Online, Tue 14th Jan 2025
- [The Artist's Way](https://dandelion.events/e/h2kjx) with Boe Huntress, Online, Thu 16th Jan 2025
- [Living Deep Ecology: Awaken to Nature’s Cyclical Wisdom and Our Ecological Belonging](https://dandelion.events/e/livingdeepecology) with Jenny O’Hare and Carolin Goethel, Online, Tue 4th Feb 2025
- [Magician, Warrior, Lover, King: Men's Weekend Retreat London](https://dandelion.events/e/g7bkw) with Conor Cregg, London, UK, Sat 15th Feb 2025
- [EMPOWER: Facilitation Training 2025](https://dandelion.events/e/y7yam) with Gaia Harvey Jackson, Dartmoor, UK and online, Tue 4th Mar 2025
## And finally…
Do you need more Swedish jazz in your life? (featuring new friend Ida from the Hibernate retreat)
Until next time, mettā,
Stephen
# In Correspondence #45, 2025-01-01T19:14:35.256Z
Dear friends,
Happy new year from Devon, UK! Laura and I have been here for a couple of weeks to spend Christmas and New Year with friends, after seeing family in London and marking the solstice on Glastonbury Tor.
_Glastonbury Tor on the Solstice, and dear friends [Hana Wolf](https://www.hanawolf.co.uk/) and [Gaia Harvey Jackson](https://www.gaiaharveyjackson.com/) and me at Teignmouth_
## Plans for 2025
- A co-created gathering at Pip Farm in Devon including a celebration of [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/) selling 100,000 tickets
- A Swedish B1+ course at Folkuniversitetet, Jan-Feb 🇸🇪
- [Futurecraft @ Feÿtopia](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-feytopia), near Paris, 17-23 Feb 🇫🇷
- [Soulmaking Dharma retreat](https://nirodha.fi/english/) in Finland, March 🇫🇮
- The next [Elevate](https://ekskaret.confetti.events/elevate-2024-hibernate/) co-created retreat on Ekskäret, March 🇸🇪
- A trip to Japan with Laura (introductions/recommendations welcome!) 🇯🇵
- Futurecraft Together in Cornwall, UK, 9-16 May 🇬🇧
- [Edge Esmeralda](https://www.edgeesmeralda.com/)(?), May-Jun 🇺🇸
- A three-month stay at [Emerge Lakefront](https://emergelakefront.confetti.events/)(?), Jun-Aug 🇸🇪
- [Swimrun races](https://otilloswimrun.com/) on Åland, Utö and Ornö, Jun-Aug 🇸🇪
- One of the summer festivals at [Ängsbacka](https://www.angsbacka.com/) 🇸🇪
- The Consciousness & AI gathering at [Hollyhock](https://hollyhock.ca/), Cortes Island, British Columbia, 19-23 Oct 🇨🇦
Projects:
- Writing the book on [Technological Metamodernism](https://stephenreid.substack.com/p/technological-metamodernism-course)
- Co-creating a book on Creature Communities, bringing together the experiences of the Totnes Otters, the Berlin Bees and the Stockholm Starlings, inspired by the process behind the [How to Semi-Nomad](https://michalkorzonek.com/semi-nomad) book
- Seeking further good advice on growing Dandelion, with a goal of hitting £5k/month in donations (currently £1.5k)
- Restarting a personal podcast, and/or contributing to a podcast for the [Emerge Lakefront](https://emergelakefront.confetti.events/) project
- Keeping up my good [Anki](https://apps.ankiweb.net/) habit
- Continuing to host Futurecraft Film Club at [Blivande](https://blivande.com/)
- Offering [coaching](https://stephenreid.net/coaching) to a few carefully selected clients
- Getting more involved with the [Qualia Research Institute](https://qri.org/)(?)
## What I’ve been reading/watching
[](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11680642/)
Since the last update on my knowledgegraph, [I’ve shared a further 63 items](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2024-08-31). Some highlights:
- [Pantheon](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11680642/): fantastic animated series on AI/’UI’ (‘Uploaded Intelligence’). Up there with [Scavengers Reign](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21056886/) as my favourite series of 2024
- [Life Guilds](https://lifeguild.earth/): “A living pattern for collective growth and action”
- Qualia Research Institute’s [High Energy Awareness Research Team](https://heart.qri.org/index.html) (HEART)
I finished [What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62292177-what-we-owe-the-future) by Will MacAskill and started [The World We Create: From God to Market](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52773080-the-world-we-create) by Tomas Björkman.
I also created a [Treasure Map](https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1QWAa8AYdFShGu6AgvK0ePUkgogGFEl8) of some of the places and projects that are most interesting to me and friends right now.
[](https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1QWAa8AYdFShGu6AgvK0ePUkgogGFEl8)
## A few crypto things
- You can support post-capitalist web3 projects by minting some [BREAD](https://breadchain.xyz/). [Listen to my Breadchain buddy Joshua Dávila explain the idea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1oiG2gnAjQ)
- I’m pretty sure [ai16z](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ai16z) is going to be a really big deal (associated with [elizaOS](https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza))
- I’m also hyped about the new version of [Circles](https://aboutcircles.com/), live soon
- Get a Gnosis Pay Card [via this link](https://gnosispay.com/oginvite?rcc=c762cfc8a233&utm_source=referral&utm_campaign=cluaa83it03casojjphe293au) to spend your crypto like you spend cash and get up to 5% cashback plus a one-off €10 bonus
## Upcoming picks on Dandelion
Over 100,000 tickets have now been sold via Dandelion 🎉 [List your next event there](https://dandelion.events/) or [check out my full recommendations](https://stephenreid.net/events)
- [We Circle on a Sunday](https://dandelion.events/e/r7shn) with Einar and Mareike, Stockholm, Sun 12th Jan 2025
- [The Tantric Way](https://dandelion.events/e/d4hof) with Gaia Ma, Ometepe, Nicaragua, Jan-Feb 2025
- [Harness Your Creative Practice](https://dandelion.events/e/m17b1) with Zuma Puma, online, Jan-Feb 2025
- [Power Up](https://dandelion.events/e/e3s91) with Alana Bloom and Gaia Harvey Jackson, online, Tue 14th Jan 2025
- [The Body Knows: Taster Workshop](https://dandelion.events/e/bodyknowstasterjan) with Dani Tonks, online, Tue 14th Jan 2025
- [The Artist's Way](https://dandelion.events/e/h2kjx) with Boe Huntress, online, Jan-Apr 2025
- [Living Deep Ecology: Awaken to Nature’s Cyclical Wisdom and Our Ecological Belonging](https://dandelion.events/e/livingdeepecology) with Jenny O’Hare and Carolin Goethel, online, Tue 4th Feb 2025
- [Magician, Warrior, Lover, King: Men's Weekend Retreat London](https://dandelion.events/e/g7bkw) with Conor Cregg, London, 15-16 Feb 2025
- [EMPOWER: Facilitation Training 2025](https://dandelion.events/e/y7yam) with Gaia Harvey Jackson, Mar-Nov 2025
- [Awakening the Wild Woman: Spring Retreat 2025](https://dandelion.events/e/awwspring25) with Alana Bloom and Gaia Harvey Jackson, Dartmoor National Park, United Kingdom, 27-31 Mar 2025
Retreats at [Selgars Mill](https://www.selgars.org/), new to Dandelion:
- [Food is Medicine - Transform Your Relationship With Food](https://dandelion.events/e/foodismedicinespring), 7-11 May
- [Enchanted - A Co-Created Gathering About Regenerative Living](https://dandelion.events/e/enchanted), 9-13 July
- [SOMOS - Rewire Your Nervous System for Success](https://dandelion.events/e/somos), 17-20 July
See also Rachel Rose Reid’s [The Cottage in the Woods](https://www.yelala.co.uk/cottage-in-the-woods) online offering featuring marginalised folklore and ritual practices of femme folk from antiquity to the present day, amulet craft, and handicraft as sacred act.
## And finally…
[](https://tokipona.org/)
[Toki Pona](https://tokipona.org/) is an “attempt to understand the meaning of life in [120 words](https://lipu-sona.pona.la/en/dictionary/)” and one of the [most popular constructed languages](https://tokipona.org/largest_conlangs.html).
tenpo pi sike suno sin o pona!
Stephen
# In Correspondence #46, 2025-02-05T13:14:47.874Z
Dear friends,
Welcome to the latest edition of _In Correspondence!_ Jag har precis kommit ut från min svenska B1+ klass på Folkuniversitetet (ja, jag förstår allt mer på svenska) 🇸🇪
## What I’ve been up to
- Celebrating [Dandelion](https://dandelion.events/) selling 100,000 tickets 🎉 [List your next event there](https://dandelion.events/)
- Attending the launch of the unique [Andetag](https://www.andetag.museum/en/) in Stockholm
- Participating in a couple more lovely gatherings at [Emerge Lakefront](https://emergelakefront.confetti.events/), including hosting [Secret Chord Collective](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLTY0YTcD6o) (you can now [apply](https://emergelakefront.confetti.events/residential-experience) to stay at Lakefront for between 3 months – 3 years)
- Doing further research for my upcoming book on [Technological Metamodernism](https://stephenreid.substack.com/p/technological-metamodernism-course)
## What I’ve been reading
Since last time, [I’ve shared 66 items to my knowledgegraph](https://stephenreid.net/search?q=after%3A2025-01-01). Claude’s one-paragraph summary:
> Your interests span artificial intelligence (with particular attention to its philosophical and societal implications), metamodernism (including critical perspectives on its theoretical frameworks), spiritual approaches to technology design, and broader questions about civilisational change and progress. You seem to be exploring how emerging technologies, particularly AI, could either enhance or challenge human development, while maintaining an interest in alternative social structures and the potential for profound systemic change. Articles about Buddhism, psychedelics, and consciousness suggest you're also interested in examining these technological and social shifts through contemplative and experiential lenses.
Some highlights:
#### Co-ops and decentralisation
- [Mondragon as the new City-State](https://www.elysian.press/p/mondragon-as-the-new-city-state) (highly recommended)
- [The Revolution Will Be Decentralized](https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-revolution-will-be-decentralized/)
- [ZKP2P](https://zkp2p.xyz/) - buy crypto directly from your peers using brand new zero-knowledge tech (zkTLS) (and then convert it to [BREAD](https://breadchain.xyz/) to support post-capitalist web3 projects!)
#### Metamodernism
- [The 6 Hidden Patterns of History](https://metamoderna.org/the-6-hidden-patterns-of-history-introduction/)
- [The Living Philosophy’s critique of metamodernism](https://www.thelivingphilosophy.com/p/metamodernism-critique-introduction)
#### Recent ~metamodern takes on technology
- [The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization](https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/the-cosmo-local-plan-for-our-next?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2002020&post_id=153396779&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=whsj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
- [Alignment at Large](https://welf.substack.com/p/alignment-at-large)
- [d/acc: one year later](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html)
If you’d like to see links I post to my knowledgegraph in real time, you can follow me on [Farcaster](https://warpcast.com/stephenreid.eth) or [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/stephenreid.net) (still no API for Substack Notes).
## Plans for the future
- Futurecraft Film Club - [at Blivande, this evening!](https://www.facebook.com/events/603214798754341/)
- [Futurecraft @ Feÿtopia](https://dandelion.events/e/futurecraft-feytopia), near Paris, 17-23 Feb
- [Soulmaking Dharma retreat](https://nirodha.fi/english/) in Finland, March
- The next [Elevate](https://ekskaret.confetti.events/elevateinitiate2025/) co-created retreat on Ekskäret, March
- A trip to Japan with Laura (introductions/recommendations welcome!), April
- A retreat with [Daniel Odier](https://www.angsbacka.com/product/the-body-temple-of-the-devine-with-daniel-odier/) at Ängsbacka, May
- Possibly [Edge Esmeralda](https://www.edgeesmeralda.com/), Jun
## And finally…
My friends at Alalaho run Europe’s original therapist-led psychedelic retreats. [Get €150 off their Feb 22-26 retreat in the Netherlands or March 14-18 retreat in Spain with the code SR150](https://www.alalaho.org/upcoming-dates/) (applies after deposit).
Mettā,
Stephen