June 2026 Newsletter
Get your copy of Issue #2: Mythos - Second Renaissance Magazine plus updates from Over The Mountains and reflections on the UK gathering.
The Second Renaissance Magazine - Issue #2: Mythos
An independent cultural beacon for a new era of art
Issue #2: MYTHOS - the newest issue of the Second Renaissance Magazine is yours to order today. Our yearly publication weaves the art and voices of an emerging cultural paradigm. Marrying the artistic, political and spiritual world.
Sylvie has been curating essays, poetry, visual art, and rituals into a vessel of vision, beauty, and becoming now available to purchase through our website.
In a time of polarisation and confusion, MYTHOS offers a timely pause and an invitation to examine the stories shaping our world. We could all use a reminder to pause and engage with those inviting wisdom and connection.
Settle on the sofa and leaf through its delicate pages filled with artists, thinkers, and seekers of the Second Renaissance sharing their deepest thoughts, emotions, and insights.
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Over The Mountains
Listen now to the latest Episode #15 of the Over The Mountains Podcast featuring a conversation between Rufus Pollock and John Vervaeke that goes beyond Vervaeke’s diagnosis of the ‘meaning crisis’ into the kinds of practices that can bring meaning back into our lives, particularly a new form of pilgrimage. Listen below:
UK Midsummer Gathering
Share the joy of coming together
Members of the Life Itself community gathered in Bath, UK, for three days of connection and discussion in celebration of the summer solstice.
We are so grateful for these opportunities to come together in nature, in community, and in ritual. We shared many unexpected and inspiring moments and look forward to the next get-together.
Keep an eye out in our newsletter for the next gathering. We’re excited for you to join.
Coming Soon: Praxis Ecology Course starts in September
Discover an ecology of practices to structure your community life
After running the Riverside Hub for over 5 years (and other co-living spaces before that), Valérie Duvauchelle experienced all the beauty and the grief of building community and fine-tuning our secular monastic approach. She is now graciously offering her wisdom through her upcoming Praxis Ecology Course.
This course is perfect for community builders looking for guidance on how to structure the mechanics of community beyond mindfulness and into practical action you can tailor to your groups’ specific needs. She will be sharing a framework to help you discover and build the practices to turn your community’s values into practice.
Through 6 online sessions, she will share her practices and learnings while creating a space for community builders to come together, share their insights, and have the resources to build the Second Renaissance spaces that will bring about a wiser, weller world.
Stay tuned for more information coming soon.
In case you missed it
Manda Scott spoke to Sylvie on the Accidental Gods podcast about the role of art, ritual, and the sacred in this moment of Second Renaissance. Listen to the whole conversation below.
At the UK gathering, artist and contributor Nick Todhunter interviewed Sylvie about the Second Renaissance Magazine for The Lives of the Artists podcast. Listen below.
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