THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
OUR APPROACH
UNDERSTANDING METATHEORY
In contrast to earlier forms of “old school” integrative metatheory (Metatheory 1.0, often aligned with modernist, positivist, and overly totalizing tendencies), Integrative Metatheory 2.0 is proposed as a framework fit for the twenty-first century and the unprecedented challenges of the planetary metacrisis. Recognizing that all metatheorizing carries an axiological dimension, this newer orientation embraces reflexivity and pluralism while retaining a commitment to rigor and realism. Integrative Metatheory 2.0 can be understood as a form of big-picture theorizing—concerned with theory about theory, or theory beyond first-order theory—emerging at the nexus of philosophy and science.
It is grounded in four interrelated principles: methodological transparency and judgmental rationalism; epistemic reflexivity and relativity; ontological realism and comprehensiveness; and integrative pluralism. These criteria provide both a critical safeguard and a constructive orientation for developing metatheory that is simultaneously integrative, rigorous, and responsive to the deep complexities of our historical moment.
Eudaimonia Institute is dedicated to cultivating and showcasing work in the spirit of Integrative Metatheory 2.0,
providing a venue where philosophy and science meet in service of addressing the metacrisis and fostering pathways toward more coherent, adaptive, and flourishing futures.
how we practice, explore, and research
metatheory
The Inquiry of Radical Flourishing
We envision a world where every being that incarnates has the opportunity to flourish in their fullest potential. An individual cannot flourish without others flourish.
Places for Emergent
Intelligence
We don't know the answers or have the solutions. We do know, innovation happens when we create the right conditions for groups of people to be creatively free and be in collaboration.
Cosmopolitan
Localism
We don't know the answers or have the solutions. We do know, innovation happens when we create the right conditions for groups of people to be creatively free and be in collaboration.
the metacrisis is not the end of the world,
but the first light of a new becoming - a world finding it's way into resonance with the living truth of reality, the sacred.
There is a deeper current moving beneath the cacophony of our time.
Even as the old forms strain and falter, something luminous stirs—
calling us not to despair, but to remember, to align, to participate in the great attunement of life.
We live in a time of profound dissonance.
The Metacrisis is not a singular event, but an interwoven crisis system—
ecological, geopolitical, economic, technological, ethical, and spiritual—
rooted in fractures of worldview, culture, and consciousness,
in the very ways we make sense of reality and generate meaning.
Yet even amidst the noise and confusion, something vibrant and unbroken hums just beneath the surface.
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The sacred note of existence has not been lost—it endures, awaiting our resonance.
It invites us to attune—to feel again the living truth that pulses through all things.
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The hero of this moment is not an isolated individual, but an emerging collective intelligence—
a weaving of hearts, minds, and souls seeking to bring our ways of life into harmony with what is real, what is sacred.
At Eudaimonia Institute, we are here to serve as stewards and guides
for this great attunement.
We hold a field where the pursuit of intellectual rigor meets the yearning of the spirit, where discernment and devotion are woven together, and where the journey of alignment with alethic truth is honored, nurtured, and cultivated.
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Receive support, practices, and companionship to actualize your deepest gifts in service to planetary flourishing
Step into the living field of collective alethic resonance
Participate consciously in the weaving of a culture and society grounded in truth, health, meaning, beauty, and evolving
We envision a future where false and fragmentary forms are steadily shed, and where life itself flows ever more freely in the rhythms of reality—
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where the free flourishing of each becomes the ground for the flourishing of all.
The threshold stands open.
The deeper call resounds beneath the noise.
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Will you answer?
Will you step into resonance with the becoming of the world?
