This site is the successor to the Second Renaissance website. Why the new name

For all the
living beings
whose
hearts burn
to see
a
new world
emerge

Human civilization has always been a story of transformation – of old worlds dying and new ones being born. We are living through such moments. And as in every great turning, crisis carries within it the seed of rebirth.

We are a vision and movement for civilizational renewal.

We make a podcast, a magazine and essays, and we meet in calls, courses and local gatherings, to explore and practise what comes next together.

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Ninety minutes together for those who sense the old world is ending and want to help seed the new.

Next call: Thursday 29 October, 20:30–22:00 CET

New here? Start with one of these

Seeds of Renaissance podcast

Conversations exploring crisis and rebirth in this time between worlds. Each one stands alone, so pick whichever pulls you.

  1. Episode 16 · 1 h 49 min

    How the West Lost Its Mind

    With Iain McGilchrist

    The emissary takes the throne: how the modern world came to trust only one kind of knowing and what it cost us.

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  2. Episode 15 · 1 h 39 min

    Finding Practices That Build Meaning

    With John Vervaeke

    The meaning crisis in plain words, and something you can actually do about it.

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  3. Episode 1 · 58 min

    The Devil's Trick and Techno-Oligarchy

    Rufus Pollock and Sylvie Barbier

    Why we stopped believing politics and collective action can work.

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