The Eleusis Project has as its mission the reempowerment of ritual and the rediscovery of ancient techniques for living in harmony with the Earth.

Goals

To provide a space for spiritual retreat, vision quests, a healing center, and wilderness sanctuary.

To foster interdisciplinary research and development in such fields as human potential, consciousness, clean energy technologies, and sustainable futures.

To disseminate this research to the public through the Internet, film and new media projects, festivals, fairs and performances.

To design architectual systems that are aesthetically exquisite, energy-efficient, and environmentally sound.

To provide fertile ground for cross-disciplinary and exploratory work in visual, musical, new media and experiential art.

To offer artists, musicians, writers and performers a setting of great natural beauty where they can generate new work and stage events.

Community

Imagine living in a beautiful nature preserve with like-minded friends. Instead of fighting traffic and spending 10 hours in front of a computer screen, you could spend a few hours working on a computer project, a few hours planting trees, a few hours in celebration playing, dancing or appreciating music. This weekend a circus might perform, or there may be a play, conference, fair or ritual.

We wish to create an oasis of peace, harmony and healing for those who need it, living as we do in an increasingly challenging world. This community will be a link in a chain of such communities all around the world.

The Bay Area is at the forefront of creativity and technology. Despite that, the alternative community of cultural creatives have almost no place to gather. There is a notable lack of affordable space in northern California for festivals, dance celebrations and performances.The artists, computer and multimedia wizards, event producers, musicians, and performers on the cutting-edge of technology and awareness need an incubator where they can develop new work and exchange ideas across cultures and professional disciplines.

Every year, a group of artists and urban planners move to the deserted playa of Nevada and create the festival called Burning Man. In only 6 months they are able to build Black Rock City completely from scratch: a thriving community with a newspaper, radio station, a café and over 20,000 citizens. People dedicate enormous amounts of time and money to build this temporary installation. Many of these talented builders want to create something new -- a green and sustainable city.

However, we feel strongly that roughly three-quarters of the land shall be set aside as pristine parkland for vision quests and wilderness restoration.

As well as artists, builders and event planners, our community also consists of architects, bankers, lawyers, landscapers, horticulturists, carpenters,and renewable energy specialists.

In addition to our local community, like-minded people from around the world will be invited to take part in workshops, conferences, residencies and retreats. Artists and thinkers across media will be able interact and synthesize ideas.

We plan to create a self-sufficient, ecologically-sound incubator for creative consciousness and human potential.

Public educational programs, events and installations will maintain our connection with the outside community. We will also encourage discussion and contemplation of environmental issues. As a wilderness retreat center, we will guide tours and educate the public about the local environment. Public offerings will include conferences, concerts, camping, theatrical performances, art & craft fairs, sculpture gardens and interactive art installations. We anticipate that musicians will come from all over the world to collaborate and to record music in our studio. Our record label will focus on the synthesis of musical genres such as electronic music, jazz, rock, and world music.

With this talent, we can create architecture, art and community structures that are human-friendly as well as in harmony with the natural environment. We will stay on the cutting-edge of sustainable food growing and energy production technology. Through workshops and knowledge-sharing we will enable other permaculture and local communities to benefit from our research.

Aligned groups

Frogwood
Damanhur
The Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
Cultureseed 
Conscious School of Living 
7th Mystery School
Evolutionary Pathwayves 
Kayumari
IONS
Avalon Springs