Metamodern Spirituality Lab: Sacred Ecology
SEPT. 4 - 7 - Metamodern Spirituality Lab: Sacred Ecology (or "Ground" Zero) is a collaborative, embodied and integrative exploration of sacred ecology & metamodern spirituality.


Time & Location
Sep 04, 2025, 8:00 AM PDT – Sep 07, 2025, 3:00 PM PDT
Eudaimonia Private Retreat, Nevada City, CA
About the Event
"GROUND" ZERO is a special event partnering the Metamodern Spirituality Lab (MSL) with the Eudaimonia Institute in California to explore the exciting and ambiguous overlap between metamodernity, spirituality & ecology.
How do we cultivate viable communities and philosophies of spiritual practice for the “liminal” networks of developmental, transformational, and regenerative culture?
How do the emerging post-postmodern sensibilities and new complexity-based metanarratives connect (a) the practical work of existential development, soulfulness, and depthiness to (b) the needs of the biosphere?
And how do we use deep contact with local landscapes to anchor our collaborative production of a shared sacred spirit that is authentically transrational (rather than naively pre-rational)?
Layman Pascal and Brendan Graham Dempsey, who host the Biannual MSL events at the Sky Meadow Institute in Vermont, will oversee a flexible four-day retreat featuring a rich blend of psychotechnologies, movement practices, friendship building, service to the land, metamodern community, leading-edge intellectual inquiry, anomalous surprises, and…