March 7th, 2023 Simone and Malcolm Collins from Pronatalist.org visit The Stoa to discuss the pronatalist movement … “Birth rates are falling precipitously around the world in both developed and developing countries. If we don’t take action, we will witness the extinction of entire societies, growing authoritarianism, and an unchecked rise of tribalism.” More: https://pronatalist.org […]

February 27, 2023 Nadia Asparouhova visits The Stoa to present on “tribe mapping,” a methodology to understand how different viewpoints are shaping and will shape the world. You can read her excellent mapping of the “climate tribes” here: Mapping out the tribes of climate Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other,

February 27th, 2023 Dr. Hans-Georg Moeller visits The Stoa to discuss topics from his book, You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity “More and more, we present ourselves and encounter others through profiles. A profile shows us not as we are seen directly but how we are perceived by a broader public. As we observe

February 12, 2023 Those who have loved unrequitedly know: unrequited love hurts! What’s more, it tends to hang around. This being the case, what ought the unrequited lover do? In this talk, I’ll argue that the unrequited lover has good reason to embrace their love, adopting an “attitude of affirmation” toward it. This is because

February 10th, 2023 River shares a trajectory of practice that begins with grounding in the body, moves towards metabolizing the emotional and imagistic patterns we find in somatic meditation, and continues on to working directly with unconscious myths and archetypes that show up in the somatic-imaginal. Usually, River talks about his work experientially and granularly,

February 3rd, 2023 Is there any real magic in meta-modernism? Is it a distraction (and a dangerous one) from genuine engagement with change? Is it a sophisticated form of Gas Lighting in an age that requires material engagement with reality? Are the links with Adult Development triggering a form of closet Eugenics? More from Dave:

January 26, 2023 “Over 30 years, San Francisco’s underground art scene developed techniques to create magical, impossible, life-changing experiences. Today big corporations are trying to figure out how to spend millions of dollars to do what these artists and anti-artists did using nothing but time, space, and imagination. It was “a movement without a manifesto,”

January 24th, 2023 Join Joe Edelman and Ellie Hain for a Q&A session on the launch of their new movement, Rebuilding Meaning. You can watch their presenting talks on how to “Exit the Void” and how to “Align Social Systems with Meaning” here: Exit the Void: https://youtu.be/BqB-1ABZJSM Rebuilding Society on Meaning: https://youtu.be/TGZs_1-4izI Check out their