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What if the most radical thing you could do right now is build something small, real, and deeply alive?

We are in the very early stages of the Second Renaissance. What do communities need to form, survive, and eventually transform the narrative?

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"If these stories no longer resonate with us, it may be because they have been fixed as knowledge, detached from the vibratory ground from which they once arose." - Valerie Duvauchelle

Read the full essay in the Second Renaissance Magazine. Link in bio.

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Sing to me, O Muse, of the Feminine Divine

Homer's invocation, reborn for a different tale: the gods and men are listening and conspiring with the Divine Feminine as she returns to her rightful place.

Read the full poem in the Second Renaissance Magazine: MYTHOS edition.

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"We are not the most beautiful animal. We are the dream of the animal — and the dream isn't finished."

This creation story traces the arc from light to stone to flower to tree to whale to us.

Read the full story in the latest Second Renaissance Magazine (link in bio)

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"The way you attend to the world makes it what it is."
— Iain McGilchrist

Listen to the full conversation with Dr Iain McGilchrist on the latest episode of the Over The Mountains podcast: https://t.co/WUsi34RptE

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A Prayer for the Reconsecration of Eros in the new edition of the Second Renaissance Magazine.

This publication gives voice to this emerging paradigm: a liminal network of artists, thinkers, and seekers sensing a new future as it begins to take shape.

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"Put on my tombstone: neither nostalgia nor utopia. We can't go back before the scientific revolution and we can't go back from global awareness."
- @DrJohnVervaeke

Listen to the full podcast episode on YouTube:
https://t.co/g9X0rAuE9Z

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"The tyranny of metrics makes us insist on measuring things that are not important — and misunderstand the things that are."
— @dr_mcgilchrist

Dr McGilchrist draws on Jerry Muller's book The Tyranny of Metrics in this podcast episode:
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Michael Lerner discusses 50 years of quiet, radical impact, from closing down one of the largest youth prison system in the US to helping write the first global treaty banning toxic chemicals.

🎧 Listen to the full podcast episode with the founder of Commonweal (link in bio).

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Every civilization that ever collapsed thought it was fine.

A Second Renaissance doesn't mean nostalgia or utopia. It means conscious cultural evolution — becoming aware of the water we're swimming in, and choosing something wiser.

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"It wants to become the master. But it only knows a fraction of what the master knows."
- Iain McGilchrist

Dr Iain McGilchrist explains how AI mimics the left hemisphere, collecting data and making decisions without real understanding.

Listen in full: https://t.co/kcuDOvaKz2

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What hides in the shadow of our collective sexuality?

Sylvie Barbier explores this shadow in the new edition of the Second Renaissance Magazine and offers a prayer to transform and transcend the pain.

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How did the switch to silent, solitary reading, starting with the Protestant Reformation, shift our interaction with knowledge from transformative to merely informative?

Listen to the full podcast episode with @DrJohnVervaeke on our channel: https://t.co/g9X0rAu6kr

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In this episode of Over The Mountains, Iain McGilchrist explains AI through his lens, makes the case for imagination as a serious pathway to truth, and asks what we owe to the gift of being alive.

🎧 Full episode on YT ⤵️ https://t.co/WUsi34QRE6

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"There is no meaning without the cultivation of wisdom."
— John Vervaeke

We spoke to @DrJohnVervaeke for the Over the Mountains podcast about meaning beyond just the individual level.

Listen to the full podcast episode ⤵️ https://t.co/KtzdMDCitS

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What makes a text or story sacred?

Jim Palmer reflects on this question in MYTHOS, the new edition of the Second Renaissance Magazine.

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Manda Scott spoke with Sylvie Barbier about ritual art, death and rebirth, becoming good ancestors and much more in the latest episode of the Accidental Gods podcast.

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https://t.co/Nzj7oZd8hr

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MYTHOS: The new edition of the Second Renaissance Magazine is here.

An independent cultural beacon for a new era of art. What stories are we now ready to reclaim, renew, or leave behind?

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Myth is not the opposite of truth — it is truth's oldest language.

Second Renaissance Magazine ISSUE #2: MYTHOS releases June 11.

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