The Garden’s Values

The Garden’s culture is rooted in accountability, discernment, and intentionality. It rejects complacency, nihilism, and superficiality, prioritizing practices that deepen human potential and collective flourishing.

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⊳ Core Principles:

Radical Responsibility — Prioritizing personal and collective accountability over blame or victimhood.

Humane Technology — Using tools that enhance connection, creativity, and presence while rejecting socially addictive or extractive systems.

Iterative Excellence — Embracing mistakes as part of continuous refinement, with infrastructure that evolves alongside its community.

Discernment & Trust — Cultivating environments where trust enables vulnerability, and vulnerability enables authenticity.

Emergence Over Control — Balancing structure and freedom to allow spontaneous creation and novel coordination.

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Cultural Norms

• No Gossip: Address conflicts or critiques directly and privately.
• Depth Over Defaults: Avoid superficial interactions (e.g., “Where are you from?”); prioritize meaningful exchange.
• Contribution-Driven: Reward those who add value; not those who exploit generosity.
• Care for Future Self: For example: leaving shared spaces cleaner than you found them, for your Self and others’.
• Mindfulness in Practice: Prioritize embodied engagement over distraction or disconnection. </aside>

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Boundaries

• Not a Safe Space: Safety is subjective (to some extent), as everyone carries with them a unique past. Discomfort and friction are to be expected.
• No Astrology, Gene Keys or Akashic Records: Yes to exploration, but anchored in rigor; we reject organizational alignment with unsubstantiated claims/pseudosciences.
• Presence-Centric: No default/social smoking or drinking, nor psychedelic misuse.
• Temporary Engagement: Residents stay for limited durations, preventing stagnation. </aside>

The Garden demands courage, clarity, and a willingness to confront both internal and external limitations. It is a space for those committed to building—not just theorizing—a better cultural future.

The Garden’s Vision

The Garden aspires to be a transformative cultural ecosystem that redefines human collaboration, creativity, and connection. It exists as a proof of possibility— a prototype for ideas, systems, and cultural norms deemed impractical or stifled elsewhere. By merging interdisciplinary research, artistic expression, and intentional experimentation, it seeks to catalyze cultural evolution, reduce existential risks, and model a future where humanity thrives in harmony with itself and nature.

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⊳ Core Aspirations:

Cultural Renaissance — Create a new scene that transcends identity-based divisions, curating environments where trust, vulnerability, and realness enable radical collaboration.

Existential Impact — Reduce timelines for humanity’s existential risks through interdisciplinary research and partnerships with scientists, hackers, artists, and “livers of life.”

Sustainable Multidisciplinary Hub — Evolve into a self-sustaining campus integrating art, technology, science, and nature, while open-sourcing its model for replication.

Emergent Systems — Balance organization and spontaneity to allow novel social coordination, creative expression and solutions to global challenges.

Purpose-built Spaces — Design environments optimized to let quiet connection, retreat, grounding, immersion, crafting, movement, sound, release, or focus happen. They pull presence and energy into something real.

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Key Manifestations

• Proof of Possibility: Demonstrate that systems fostering agency, resilience, and meaning-making can thrive outside mainstream paradigms.
• Pilot Programs as Laboratories: Test experimental models (existential residencies, artist labs, alcohol & smoke-free events) to refine cultural and coordination practices.
• Open-Sourced Evolution: Share frameworks for replication while evolving into a self-sustaining campus integrating art, technology, and nature.
• Cultural Disruption: Intentionally disrupt default social patterns (e.g., banning small talk) to catalyze deeper human interaction and creativity.
• Thriving Land & Infrastructure: Prioritize ecological health and infrastructure that improves with each iteration, ensuring the land flourishes alongside its human inhabitants.
• Artistic & Technological Synthesis: Become a sanctuary for boundary-pushing artists and innovators, merging cutting-edge technology with raw creative expression.
• Value Beyond Profit: Generate value through transformative experiences, hospitality, and physical goods, while resisting extractive or transactional dynamics. </aside>

Ultimate Success

The Garden’s vision is realized when it becomes a self-sustaining, regenerative multidisciplinary epicenter where epic humans meets to solve humanity’s challenges (big and small), create beauty, and embody a culture of radical responsibility. Its model spreads globally, inspiring other prototypes that amplify its impact, while the original site remains a living testament to what becomes possible when humans design spaces for more—more depth, more courage, and more collective flourishing.