The Liminal Quest

Here we gather the pioneering voices who are inquiring into the potential for human advancement and evolution in this time at the threshold of the unknown.

Could we now be at the advent of a new renaissance for human consciousness? Over the last few decades this territory has been limned by the explorations of the Integral and metamodern movements, pushing at the frontiers of what is newly possible as the old operating systems disintegrate before our eyes. The Liminal Quest seeks to help map this terrain. 

Religion and the Esoteric w/ Brendan Graham Dempsey

Is it possible to appreciate the life of Jesus Christ in a real way that embraces the universal message and mystery, but also finds harmony with a fundamental approach to logic and reason?

The Goddess Arising

What would the divine feminine or Goddess nature want to ask or expect of a man today? If you were a man representing the divine masculine, and had the chance, what would you want to ask or say to a woman at this moment? Can we even imagine ourselves and each other as different expressions of a divine source, more than merely a personality?

God: An Evolving Revelation with Brendan Graham Dempsey

How can a forward-looking, evolution-inclined spirituality, not tied to dogma or history, offer us a sense of meaning and purpose in a time of cultural upheaval powered by AI? Can a metamodern spiritual path also include a new perspective and appreciation of Christianity and the many faces, or dimensions, of Jesus Christ?

Normalizing the Extraordinary: In the Metamodern God Lab with Layman Pascal and Brendan Graham Dempsey

A laboratory is where we’d expect to find a safe space of discovery and purpose; an environment that supports experimenting with diverse ideas and mysteries in the search for truth.

The Time Between Worlds with Layman Pascal

How do we reckon with a reckoning? We can look around at the many crises engulfing the planet and think that, yes, humanity is facing its day of reckoning, a time of consequences for many forms of unsustainable behavior throughout the modern era.

A Conversation with Layman Pascal, Part 1 – Protecting the Sacred

At a time when cultural and existential crises threaten the wellbeing of our global community, shouldn’t the search for wisdom and a more enlightened path forward embrace all sources of insight and new intelligence? Twenty-first century technology,

A Conversation with Layman Pascal, Part 2 – Pursuing Integral Wisdom

We’re living in a time where increasingly we see what’s happening in the world around us and have to wonder how, or even if, we can find deep truth in the age of the “deep fake”. Artificial intelligence can distort or manipulate many forms of data and information we take in through our physical senses.

The Next Renaissance, Part 1: The Art of Metamorphosis

What would it take for us to see the ecological and cultural crises sweeping the planet as possible harbingers of a higher transformation and metamorphosis, a second global Renaissance? Big economic and political change can be traumatic

The Next Renaissance, Part 2: Seeding Cultural Change

What if we paraphrase a popular saying about the devil* and think “The greatest trick the modern world ever pulled was getting humanity to believe there aren’t any options”?

In Search of Wholeness

Isn’t it curious the only species on the planet that appears concerned about or pursues the notion of “wholeness” is the human? Other highly intelligent and social animals — such as dolphins and elephants — show no evidence of feeling an inner fragmentation,

Rebel Wisdom and the Trauma Myth

Many news platforms today still at times refer to the struggles of life in 2023 as residual pandemic trauma — directly influenced by the painful events beginning in 2020. Is it really fair and accurate to connect today’s behavior and attitudes to a three-year-old ‘trauma’?

A Metamodern Solarpunk Regenerative Vision

At Portals we're seeing more and more that emerging and potentially world-changing ideas and perceptions are arising at points all over the planet. In this conversation we speak with Joe Lightfoot, a creative and dynamic thinker, writer (A Collective Blooming)

Falling Upwards: A Healing Journey

This Portals conversation continues our discovery of new intelligence and awareness emerging through the people we describe as next-generation leaders, the men and women who are the new entrepreneurs and pioneers in social, developmental and spiritual change.

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