Metamodern Spirituality Spring Retreat

The first metamodern spirituality retreat, hosted at Sky Meadow in Stannard, Vermont. 

FEATURED SPEAKER: Layman Pascal

SPECIAL GUESTS: Bruce Alderman, Gregg Henriques

Come for a weekend of fascinating insights and direction from Layman. Connect in-person with friends from the community. Learn, share, grow, be. 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FRIDAY, MAY 13

4:00 PM Arrival

6:30 PM Welcome Dinner

8:00 PM (Around Dance Pavilion Firepit [weather permitting])

Talk: The New Indigeneity

(planetary shamanism, ecologically-oriented spirituality, embodiment and somatic focus, flow states, psychedelics, imaginal shapeshifting, ritual, etc.)

SATURDAY, MAY 14

8:00 AM Breakfast Bar

9:00 AM

Talk: What is Meditation?

(styles, neural correlates, practical concerns, how to be postmetaphysical without being a material reductionist)

10:30 AM

Talk (w/ Bruce): Metamodern Praxis

(basic wisdom and development proto-skills for Integral Postmetaphysical Spirituality and the Religion that is not a Religion)

12:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM

Talk (Gregg): UTOK: Toward a Religion that is Not a Religion

2:30 PM Free Time (hike, swim, etc.)

5:00 PM

Talk: States

(evolution and states of consciousness, "domains" vs states, mysticism vs integration, languages and practices for basic alternative modes of consciousness, trans-material postmetaphysics, states vs stages, flow, trance, etc)

6:30 PM Dinner

8:00 PM

Talk: Dark Hearts

(working with death, remorse, loss, environmental catastrophe, civilization disruption, grieving as spirituality in the face of the metacrisis)

9:30 PM Bonfire

SUNDAY, MAY 15

9:00 AM

Talk: The Endzone

(coming together around a generalized integrative pluralism with complex developmentalism, working with different histories and cultural codes, holding space for the truly radical "trans-justificatory" possibilities, sudden vs gradual enlightenment, Zen and paradox, Kierkegaard)

12:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM Depart