The Unfolding: From Vision to Construction

At a recent gathering of the same name, we opened with a poem (found below) challenging us to become the frequency of the future we long for. In that spirit, we want to share how the project’s initial vision unfolded as we move into our construction phase.

In previous reflections, we’ve named an unsettling but necessary truth: within our lifetimes, we’ve witnessed the breakdown of three core systems. They are related to relationships with our health, our economy, and our planet.

Between 1985 and 2005, chronic health conditions in the U.S. grew from 11% to 56% of the population. Today, that number is over 70%. At the same time, our economy detached debt from productivity, with total debt-to-GDP now exceeding 400%, compared to 150% in the mid-1980s. And our ecosystems—once diverse and teeming with life—are unraveling. One measure: global vertebrate populations have declined by more than 70% since the 1970s, a quiet collapse that mirrors a disconnection at the root of it all.

But this isn’t doom for doom’s sake. We recognize that we are in a meta-crisis —and naming it allows us to face it— because something else is also emerging. Over the past two decades, a quiet convergence has taken root across fields as diverse as quantum physics, indigenous medicine, contemplative neuroscience, systems theory, and traditional faith.

A shared understanding has become visible: we are deeply interconnected by a consciousness that is not a byproduct of the brain—it is the underlying fabric of reality. Within this field is a “superintelligence” that animates all life. And our access to it is not reserved for the elite or ordained—it's available to all of us, and it’s asking to be honored: in how we live, how we build, and how we lead.

Wrestling with this polarity—doom on one side, superintelligence on the other—brought us to our north star question: What if it’s 2050, and the meta-crisis has become a meta-morphosis? How should we show up today to be part of that movement? 

And more specifically: What if we viewed our land not as an asset, but as a PARTNER? A beautiful square mile of Shenandoah majesty — just 90 minutes and 4.5 hours from the most powerful political and financial centers in the world — calling us to restore what's been broken within ourselves, between each other, and with the Earth itself.

Those questions became the heartbeat of our project over the past five years — guiding our mission to provide transformational experiences that serve the greater good — as well as shaping our team and informing our investments. While sometimes lacking clarity, it drew in an extraordinary group of partners. And despite periods of funding pressure and market uncertainty, it created the space for two Sponsors to emerge and grow alongside the vision:

• Wellmore Partners, a collective of conscious capitalists founded by Mike Marburg and recently joined by hospitality veteran Giulia Auricchio.

• Momentis, a large family office led by Omani Carson, backing conscious leaders with world changing ideas, including over 3,000 acres of wellness-focused real estate projects.

Together, we are using conscious capitalism for impact, and have reached a stage where it is resourced, real, and ready. As Omani Carson said at the gathering mentioned earlier, “This is not a project—it’s a movement. And the moment is now.”

Through this journey, we’ve also come to see that transformation is not a program—it, too, is a frequency. It’s harmonic, relational, and alive. And it’s joyful. Recreation comes from, and becomes, Re-creation. Laughter, food, and community become medicine. All while the heart opens—overflowing with love, truth, and a transcendent intelligence that can rise above today’s challenges.

So, we’re proud to share that we’re completing our design phase and will be conducting best-and-final bidding later this summer. Our target is to begin construction this winter and open our doors in late 2027.

As one saying goes, “We didn’t come this far just to come this far.” Every step has shaped what this is becoming. Thank you for staying on the path with us.

Dr. Julie Krull captured the spirit of this moment with a poem we shared at our gathering:

There is a question in the air right now—urgent, trembling, full of yearning:

What should we do?

Do we retreat into silence or rise into action?

Do we shield our peace or confront the pain?

Do we serve from the subtle or speak to the tangible?

The truth is not either/or.

The truth is not in the polarity,

but in the presence that can hold both.

We are not here to choose sides between action and stillness,

between politics and prayer,

between inner peace and outer response.

We are here to remember

that we are the field through which all things arise.

The world is not "out there."

It is not separate from our practice, our presence, our path.

The burning forests, the trembling democracies, the breaking hearts—

all of it moves through us.

But here is the paradox:

We cannot fight this fire with more fire.

We cannot meet chaos with a lack of coherence.

We cannot serve awakening by collapsing into the dream.

This is not a call to tune out.

Nor is it a call to armor up.

This is a call to become the frequency

of the world we long to see.

To embody the coherence of a future not yet visible

but already pulsing in our hearts.

To model a way of being that is rooted in love,

resonant with truth,

and grounded in action—not from fear, but from wholeness.

What is our responsibility?

To anchor, not argue.

To transmit, not preach.

To co-create, not react.

To be, not withdraw.

We do not move from separation.

We are moved by the Field.

The unitive field.

The One, the Sacred, the Divine, that breathes through us as presence,

and remembers that this world is not being destroyed—

It is being reborn.

And our coherence is midwifing it.

This is sacred activism.

We are not here to escape the world.

We are here to infuse it with something real.

Let us meet in the field of becoming…

Where our presence become the protest.

Our love becomes the legislation.

Our integrity becomes the invitation.

And, where we no longer ask, What should I do?

but instead whisper, What do I need to embody now,

that the world might remember its wholeness through me?