Eric Brown is the steward of Phoenix Culture and an all-around fascinating dude. He’s on the leading edge culture design, creating systems for embodied awakening, and truly doing what it takes to combat the meaning crisis.
We Talk About:
DAOs
top-down and bottom-up stewardship
Phoenix Culture
the call to action for those who are willing to play the biggest game
on designing and enacting a civilization-level transformation so that we can continue to play the human game
a collective co-collaborative fusion of the mind and heart
what does it take to show up and play the game?
the self-actualized man as the scaffold to steward the collective
what is stopping some people from showing up and playing?
ie: ecology of practices
artists as a way to steward the collective towards a bright future
to re-enchant life and the globe
to create compelling visions of the future
the neccessity of them
on re-aligning our collective with what we're actually trying to do
success?
being?
heart?
Top down control is unnatural.
Create Self-Sovereign individuals ready to become Cultural Architects.
Provide aspiring architects with thetools, technologies, training, culture, contexts, and support they need to continue their evolution and growth towards becoming Architects of Culture.
ecologies of practices
religious technologies
the psycho-technologies, repeatable processes to allow us to transcend our mind and move into being
these have been scattered and they are everywhere.
phoenix culture = holistic ecology of psycho-technologies
Hedonic Engineering: Building a Psycho-Spiritual Growth Stack
pheonix culture as the generative step towards the emergence of new religions
the religion of tomorrow - ken wilber
a decentralized religion based on a new shared metaphysics
the myth of the self made man
we are all part of systems so how could we individually be the ones that created all our success
what are we actually searching for?
heart
intuition
trauma is a lack of completion of an energetic cycle in the body
it's not conceptual whatsoever
Listen to what life wants to do next. Listen to the calling of my heart. Listen to the rhythm of the cosmos. So I answered the call. I went to a river, sat down, and listened.
on intuition and listening to the heart 👆
the fear of death / social exclusion
and this is entirely based on the definition that you have of yourself
creative evolution
on the fundamental nature of the creative evolutionary process
as the fundamental process of life itself
Emergence is not chaos. It’s creative evolution. 🧬
open-ended questions
what slowing down looks like?
how do you steward the collective intelligence towards creative evolution on the individual and collective level within a DAO
Becoming Cultural Architects w/ Eric Brown