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Seeds of Renaissance is a vision and movement for civilizational rebirth.

Seeds of Renaissance is a place for seekers who sense the impending death of old paradigms and long for the ideas, the practice, and the company to help birth the new. It is a movement and a space of belonging, offering mythos and language for what so many already feel.

Seeds of Renaissance is a place for seekers who sense the impending death of old paradigms and long for the ideas, the practice, and the company to help birth the new. We are living in a transition moment, the slow death of modernity, while the new world has not yet been born. There is disillusionment and a widespread loss of meaning, yet no coherent cultural vision powerful enough to guide what comes next. Seeds of Renaissance sets out to plant the seeds of a movement and foster a greenhouse for a new paradigm: not a return to the past, but a genuine rebirth drawing on all that has come before. It makes a podcast, a yearly print and online magazine, and papers and essays, and runs courses, online calls and gatherings, with local groups emerging in several countries. It was initiated by Life Itself in 2022 as Second Renaissance, formally launched in 2024, and took its new name in 2026. Its stewards are Sylvie Shiwei Barbier and Rufus Pollock.