Spring 2025 Updates
What's a Layman Pascal Doing Before the Summer Solstice?
Good question.
There’s a new article coming to this Substack soon. It is based on my observations of this year’s month-long Limicon event.
Particularly based on the Battle of Lore session that I hosted with Joe Lightfoot — in addition to my opening ceremonies speech, co-hosting an information session about ICON 2026, co-hosting an ecological storytelling session in support of the Eudaimonia Institute’s special California Metamodern Spirituality Lab this Fall, hosting a session on Plant Medicine in Liminal Culture that was chosen for me by public vote, being a commentator-supporter at Limicon Pitchfest, hosting the Metamodern Spirituality Says “What”? session, and participating in the 6-hour In-person Limicon Session in Toronto. Whew.
But in addition to all THAT stuff, what else am I up to at the moment?
I just narrated (I could probably use better equipment) the audiobook for Brendan Graham Dempsey’s recently released A Universal Learning Process: The Evolution of Meaning. It was fun. I will most likely do an audiobook for Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worlds next year — once my book on Nietzsche is completed.
I am presenting a deliberately chaotic History and Ethics of Spiritual Tricksters at the Clownvergence event. They tell me that my session will be April 12th from 3:15-4:45pm Eastern Time.
There are a couple openings left for the right people at the Spring 2025 Metamodern Spiritiuality Lab whose theme will be “The Subtle Realm” through a metamodern, integative & liminal lens. Here’s the video that Sky Meadow made:
In addition to ongoing Integral Stage podcast discussions, Bruce Alderman & I will be holding a special gathering to nuance the recent death of spiritual leader Andrew Cohen.
Cheryl & I have got Tom Habib & Steve March ready to add to the Soulmakers+ project (to archive wise lives and cultivate a new eldership culture among contemporary wisdom practitioners) in April.
And I’ll be presenting about Human General Intelligence at the Henriques/Vervaeke UTOK+ Consciousness Conference.
The SPECTRA project to cultivate a Metashamanics Institute with Endemic is moving forward.
I’m laying out the plans for a summer online course with Parallax called Integral Theory for Idiots — which will be for beginners, experts and critics all at the same time.
A new Xagick article on the “Law of Association” is prepped for release shortly.
And if you want to just throw money at me — I’ve got THIS exciting new option.
PS - For anything pertinent beyond the mid-point of the year, check in around then at laymanpascal.com — and thanks to C. Beasley for the image above.