In Correspondence #45
Plans for 2025, Pantheon and Toki Pona
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 and Gaia Harvey Jackson and me at Teignmouth
Plans for 2025
A co-created gathering at Pip Farm in Devon including a celebration of Dandelion selling 100,000 tickets
A Swedish B1+ course at Folkuniversitetet, Jan-Feb 🇸🇪
Futurecraft @ Feÿtopia, near Paris, 17-23 Feb 🇫🇷
Soulmaking Dharma retreat in Finland, March 🇫🇮
The next Elevate 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(?), May-Jun 🇺🇸
A three-month stay at Emerge Lakefront(?), Jun-Aug 🇸🇪
Swimrun races on Åland, Utö and Ornö, Jun-Aug 🇸🇪
One of the summer festivals at Ängsbacka 🇸🇪
The Consciousness & AI gathering at Hollyhock, Cortes Island, British Columbia, 19-23 Oct 🇨🇦
Projects:
Writing the book on Technological Metamodernism
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 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 project
Keeping up my good Anki habit
Continuing to host Futurecraft Film Club at Blivande
Offering coaching to a few carefully selected clients
Getting more involved with the Qualia Research Institute(?)
What I’ve been reading/watching
Since the last update on my knowledgegraph, I’ve shared a further 63 items. Some highlights:
Pantheon: fantastic animated series on AI/’UI’ (‘Uploaded Intelligence’). Up there with Scavengers Reign as my favourite series of 2024
Life Guilds: “A living pattern for collective growth and action”
Qualia Research Institute’s High Energy Awareness Research Team (HEART)
I finished What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View by Will MacAskill and started The World We Create: From God to Market by Tomas Björkman.
I also created a Treasure Map of some of the places and projects that are most interesting to me and friends right now.
A few crypto things
You can support post-capitalist web3 projects by minting some BREAD. Listen to my Breadchain buddy Joshua Dávila explain the idea
I’m pretty sure ai16z is going to be a really big deal (associated with elizaOS)
I’m also hyped about the new version of Circles, live soon
Get a Gnosis Pay Card via this link 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 or check out my full recommendations
We Circle on a Sunday with Einar and Mareike, Stockholm, Sun 12th Jan 2025
The Tantric Way with Gaia Ma, Ometepe, Nicaragua, Jan-Feb 2025
Harness Your Creative Practice with Zuma Puma, online, Jan-Feb 2025
Power Up with Alana Bloom and Gaia Harvey Jackson, online, Tue 14th Jan 2025
The Body Knows: Taster Workshop with Dani Tonks, online, Tue 14th Jan 2025
The Artist's Way with Boe Huntress, online, Jan-Apr 2025
Living Deep Ecology: Awaken to Nature’s Cyclical Wisdom and Our Ecological Belonging with Jenny O’Hare and Carolin Goethel, online, Tue 4th Feb 2025
Magician, Warrior, Lover, King: Men's Weekend Retreat London with Conor Cregg, London, 15-16 Feb 2025
EMPOWER: Facilitation Training 2025 with Gaia Harvey Jackson, Mar-Nov 2025
Awakening the Wild Woman: Spring Retreat 2025 with Alana Bloom and Gaia Harvey Jackson, Dartmoor National Park, United Kingdom, 27-31 Mar 2025
Retreats at Selgars Mill, new to Dandelion:
Food is Medicine - Transform Your Relationship With Food, 7-11 May
Enchanted - A Co-Created Gathering About Regenerative Living, 9-13 July
SOMOS - Rewire Your Nervous System for Success, 17-20 July
See also Rachel Rose Reid’s The 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…
Toki Pona is an “attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words” and one of the most popular constructed languages.
tenpo pi sike suno sin o pona!
Stephen