Maybe seeing this through the logics of markets and the current paradigm refracts attention from the underlying truth that the sacred is already scaled? And I'm reminded of Bayo Akomolafe's invocation "The times are urgent: let's slow down". Lest we continue an amplification of spiritual bypassing.
What if the sense of scarcity, of spiritual access, of meaning, of deep Earthian and kincentric connection... isn’t a problem to be solved with hi-tech solutions and 50x'ing, but a symptom of forgetting? A forgetting of how to be in right relation with what is already here in land, breath, story, grief, song, circle and silence.
I appreciate the intent to respond to the meta-crisis with inner work. But I sense familiar residues. The patterns that in doing so through the lens of VC, product-market-fit, and sector-building, we risk re-inscribing the very dynamics that created the crises themselves. That of separation, extraction, commodification. What if the most sacred role isn’t to scale in the logics of markets, bits & bytes, but to help deconstruct hi-techne itself after the remembering? Maybe if we built tools with sunset clauses to dissolve their own fabric when we sense the medicine had worked?
There are already lo-tek, regenerative, ancestral pathways of remembering in abundance. Let’s not bulldoze them in the name of benevolent hi-tech innovation. Maybe that is the deeper role the Spirit Tech Collective could play... as thrutopian stewards of gentle unlearning?
I feel this tension daily. Thank you for flagging and naming it. Action and stillness. Tech and nature. We already have all the tools we need. It is about slowing down. The question I ask, is how do we bring people along that journey. Excited to dive in with you in our call tomorrow
Love this broader vision, Eddie. The technology & communities we build in this next chapter will follow the developmental views of the founders that build it — excited to learn about some collaborations with teachers like Shinzen underway, and excited to see how the people & products in the space continue to evolve…
We are spiritual and practical beings. As you say, we have always innovated in how we connect to the divine; ritual, medicine, scripture, practice. We need to commit to fully leveraging digital and agentic technologies for the benefit of our spiritual needs.
The anxiety and malaise of these times may be a result of asymmetric progress. We have accelerated the pace of material innovation but neglected the spiritual. That will change in the coming years. Let’s create that change!
Maybe seeing this through the logics of markets and the current paradigm refracts attention from the underlying truth that the sacred is already scaled? And I'm reminded of Bayo Akomolafe's invocation "The times are urgent: let's slow down". Lest we continue an amplification of spiritual bypassing.
What if the sense of scarcity, of spiritual access, of meaning, of deep Earthian and kincentric connection... isn’t a problem to be solved with hi-tech solutions and 50x'ing, but a symptom of forgetting? A forgetting of how to be in right relation with what is already here in land, breath, story, grief, song, circle and silence.
I appreciate the intent to respond to the meta-crisis with inner work. But I sense familiar residues. The patterns that in doing so through the lens of VC, product-market-fit, and sector-building, we risk re-inscribing the very dynamics that created the crises themselves. That of separation, extraction, commodification. What if the most sacred role isn’t to scale in the logics of markets, bits & bytes, but to help deconstruct hi-techne itself after the remembering? Maybe if we built tools with sunset clauses to dissolve their own fabric when we sense the medicine had worked?
There are already lo-tek, regenerative, ancestral pathways of remembering in abundance. Let’s not bulldoze them in the name of benevolent hi-tech innovation. Maybe that is the deeper role the Spirit Tech Collective could play... as thrutopian stewards of gentle unlearning?
Sharing as a gentle perturbation - with heart.
I feel this tension daily. Thank you for flagging and naming it. Action and stillness. Tech and nature. We already have all the tools we need. It is about slowing down. The question I ask, is how do we bring people along that journey. Excited to dive in with you in our call tomorrow
Fantastic work
Love this broader vision, Eddie. The technology & communities we build in this next chapter will follow the developmental views of the founders that build it — excited to learn about some collaborations with teachers like Shinzen underway, and excited to see how the people & products in the space continue to evolve…
I’m in.
We are spiritual and practical beings. As you say, we have always innovated in how we connect to the divine; ritual, medicine, scripture, practice. We need to commit to fully leveraging digital and agentic technologies for the benefit of our spiritual needs.
The anxiety and malaise of these times may be a result of asymmetric progress. We have accelerated the pace of material innovation but neglected the spiritual. That will change in the coming years. Let’s create that change!