OuR Teachers

Layman Pascal

Layman Pascal was incarnated on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. He used to be a meditation teacher, yoga instructor & public speaker—but he’s feeling much better now. He is a writer on themes of cultural philosophy, shamanism and organic spiritual development.

https://laymanpascal.substack.com/

Jeremy Johnson

Jeremy Johnson is an author (Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness), publisher (Integral Imprint), managing editor (Integral Leadership Review), podcaster (Mutations), senior research associate at Perspectiva, and integral philosopher. His academic research, writing, and publishing advocates new forays into integrative thinking and praxis—aligning the scholastic, poetic, and spiritual—as existentially crucial work for pathfinding in a time of planetary crisis. Jeremy is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy of Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His edited anthology, Mutations: Art, Consciousness and the Anthropocene and second book, Fragments of an Integral Future (Integral Imprint) are forthcoming in late 2023. Learn more about Jeremy’s work here: https://www.nuralearning.com/seeing-through-the-world

Website: https://www.nuralearning.com/seeing-through-the-world

alexander Bard

As a Philospher, Alexander Bard has a vision of and for the world, which is pretty unique. Blending new perspectives on the internet with a phallic vision on human behaviour, he sees our best chances for the future in a new understanding and utilization of the internet, where we can transform ourselves and the world. In his view, we live in a emasculated and over-feminized world; what we need is a concrete, strong and phallic vision where to go to, a vision which I very mich share

He is the author of books like Digital Libido. Syntheism, The Netocrats and much more. He was also a Swedish Popstar.

Brendan Graham Dempsey

Brendan Graham Dempsey is the writer behind the Metamodern Spirituality Series and the host of the Metamodern Spirituality podcast. His interest in myth and meaning extends back to his formative years, which inspired him to pursue intensive study of the Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman mythologies at University. In 2011, he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Vermont, where he double-majored in Religious Studies and Classical Civilizations. After graduating, he moved to Jerusalem, where he finished a monograph of comparative mythology titled The Combat Myth According to Mark: From Ancient Near Eastern Genre to Apocalyptic Gospel. In 2015, he finished his first major work, GOD, an epic poem about the death of the old traditional God-concept and the endeavor to birth a new, more complex notion of the sacred. Later that year, he began his master’s study at Yale University, where he earned a degree in Religion and the Arts (Literature concentration) as a member of the distinguished Yale Institute of Sacred Music consortium. His award-winning thesis there explored the fraught relationship of Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche as they wrestled with their own project of framing a new mythology for modernity. Brendan’s most recent book, Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World, attempts to translate the big history narrative of complexification into a mythopoeic register for a world still reeling from the meaning crisis.

Bonnitta Roy

Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded and over the last several years she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School.

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Luke Behncke

Raised in Christian communities in rural and outback Australia, Luke’s background in biomedical science and physical education, with diverse interests in philosophy, religion and art - ultimately drew him to Gurdjieff’s system where he has been a practitioner working with groups and individuals from around the world since 2000. Explorations related to Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way and Christianity can be found on his blogsite at 'Faith made Flesh’.

Max Borders

Max Borders is the author of The Social Singularity (2018) and The Decentralist (2021). His latest book is called Underthrow (2023). Currently, he is working on two major projects: a cosmopolitan constitution designed to open the era of open-source law, and a global fraternal society dedicated to the mission, morality, and meaning of the “Grey Tribe. Borders is founder and Executive Director of Social Evolution, an organization dedicated to liberating humanity and solving social problems through innovation. He is also co-founder of the event experience Future Frontiers, which succumbed to COVID in 2020 after eight years.

Zak Stein

Zak Stein studied philosophy and religion at Hampshire College, and then educational neuroscience, human development, and the philosophy of education at Harvard University. While a student at Harvard, he co-founded what would become Lectica, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to the research-based, justice-oriented reform of large-scale standardized testing in K-12, higher-education, and business.​

He is also a writer whose work has appeared in a variety of journals including American Psychologist, New Ideas in Psychology, Mind, Brain, and Education, Integral Review, and the Journal of Philosophy of Education.

O.G. Rose

O.G. Rose is a pen name consisting of Michelle’s maiden, middle, and their shared last name. While at the University of Virginia, Rose spent several years working collaboratively with other artists at Eunoia, a creative community Rose helped develop in Charlottesville, Virginia. Rose now lives on a farm, manages a wedding venue named Mead Lake, operates Frozen Glory Photography, and teaches piano using visuals from Rose's Pattern Method. To learn more, please check out their website. Also, those who sign up for the class will receive digital copies of all books by O.G. Rose. 

Marianne Costa

Marianne Costa, born 1966, holds a M.A. in comparative literature and is a renowned Tarot expert. She has published several books translated in various languages, among which : No Woman’s Land (novel, Grasset 2004), The Way of Tarot (with Jodorowsky, Inner Traditions 2005, German edition Windpferd 2008) and Metagenealogy (France 2011, USA 2014, a study of family as both a treasure and a trap, also with Jodorowsky).  She collaborates with institutions and museums as a symbology expert — most recently with the Guggenheim Collection in Venice and Accademia di Belle Arti in Palermo. Her last opus, an essay on Tarot’s history, symbolism and iconography Le Tarot pas à pas («Tarot step by step ») is already available in French, Spanish and Italian. Her polyfacetic carreer includes being a professional actress and singer, writing and translating poetry, novels and essays, and teaching groups worldwide in Tarot, transgenerational psychology and what she calls « healing fictions », an original technique that combine and surpasses therapy, self-development and artistic expression.