2024 will be remembered as a year of experimentation and foundation here at SpiritDAO. Over the past year our community has expanded, our purpose clarified, and our infrastructure has taken shape. SpiritDAO is a Church of Temporal Naturalism, the first fully decentralized on-chain (non-religion) religion focusing on transforming our approach to becoming more and furthering the Eight Dignities.
2025 will be about expanding our community and fundraising to further our efforts. More meetups, more retreats, and more progress towards realizing the acquisition of physical space for us to congregate. Our decentralized roots aren't going anywhere, but to stay true to our mission of furthering the Eight Dignities we must have a place where we can enact them. Together our community is co-creating this experience.
If Temporal Naturalism is still a bit new, consider that everything about our community, structure, and philosophy is subject to change (it is the single truth after all!) We're looking for contributors of all shapes and sizes to help guide humanity towards a spiritual alternative that most adequately strengthens our capacity to become more together!
If you have not already, please consider making a donation to SpiritDAO before the end of the year!
We've redesigned Sensemaker AI from the ground up and are so excited to share it with you!
🧠 Trained on:
51 Buddhist texts
Christian/Catholic/Mormon bibles/addendums
Torah
Quran
Various Hindu Texts
TaoTeChing
And of course, collective works grounding Temporal Naturalism from Lee Smolin, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, and Self-actualization in the Age of Crisis
+ Full SpiritDAO Docs
If you're interested in better understanding Temporal Naturalism and how it might better orient you towards your ideal or compares to other religious beliefs it is a much more powerful tool than our previous version.
"The process of building is to break new ground, make new discoveries and find new relationships. This has been my deeply meaningful experience building SpiritDAO in 2024 and it pales in comparison to the building that will be done in 2025."
- Steph Macurdy, SpiritDAO Member / Executive Pod
📘 The DAO collectively edited a chapter of Self-Actualization in the Age of Crisis (Chapter 4: SpiritDAO)
🧘♀️ We shared space 104 times! These spaces often focused on philosophical/spiritual discussion as well as DAO operations, SpiritDAO's trajectory, and ideations of the possible!
🏛 We formalized our incorporation structure, applied for our 501c3, and were formally granted nonprofit church status.
💰 We received in-kind grants from Google (advertising grants) and Canva (free pro-subscription). From this we also launched a robust ads campaign that has been driving significant traffic to our web assets.
🌐 www.spiritdao.org received a redesign!
We began work on the SpiritDAO community App - migrating our efforts into a communal on-chain application that is mobile first and abstracts away much of the tedious experience associated
Organized our first Community Retreat at which took place in Vermont at the Skymeadow Institute
💰 Setup our Donations Portal (Donate now!)
💸 Entered into our first Fiscal Sponsorship partnership with Artizen Fund - a service we will expand in 2025.
SpiritDAO represents an opportunity to free the present from the influence of the past. A collective organizing around reframing of meaning, value, and purpose to help free the latent imagination trapped within the world today.
Ron Rivers, SpiritDAO Member / Executive Pod
- Meta-Spirituality Podcast with Tori Madison
- SpiritDAO Lectures at University of South Florida and the New School
- Featured in New Frontiers: The Intersections of AI, Blockchain, and Social Impact whitepaper including a custom Case Study
- Limicon 2024
- Psychotechnologies Live w/ Eliot Red & Daniel Tabakman
- Explorer Poet Podcast w/ Josh Mortensen
- And You Too Will Die Podcast w/ Brittany Baize
- NFTs for Social Impact Infrastructure – NFT NYC 2024
- World that Works for All Summit
The members of SpiritDAO have become far-flung friends. Much of 2023 and 2024 featured the most challenging days of my life. In moments when I struggled with confidence and self-worth, the community offered respectful conversations and a space to uplift one another.
- JP Miller, SpiritDAO Member / Dev Pod
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