August 28–29, 2026 · 1440 Multiversity, Scotts Valley
Two evenings in the redwoods, open to the whole campus. This one is finished. What happened there is below, and the next gatherings are coming together.
Held · complete
What was held
Friday
A guided session at a quarter past four, then the Kitchen Table dinner, then storytelling. The session was the one I had been building toward for a year: what a far messenger is, and what it costs a person to carry something across hard ground and arrive with it whole.
Saturday
Meditation at half past four, tapas from half past five, and storytelling at a quarter past seven. The meditation was meant to run forty-five minutes to a script. It did not stay on the script.
What came out of it
The abundance meditation became a crossing.
I had a script and I went past it. What came instead was a journey west — carrying gratitude as cargo, the way a runner carries what matters, out toward a coastal people where the winds and the clouds begin, a people who still hold the ways. There was a visit at a fire inside the journey. There was an outpost west of Flagstaff where the travelers were fed. There was a spring that had gone dry and was crossed anyway. And there was an arrival at a place where they were expected.
About forty-five minutes, improvised, in a room of strangers. It is now the master version, and it is the one being recorded — for the free ring on ancestralwatch.com, for Rancho La Puerta, and for the residency.
The table
Michelle and Henry Webster, a Diné family from Gray Mountain, Arizona, cooked both nights — frybread, blue corn mush with juniper ash, Navajo tea, sumac. Michelle had already trained 1440’s own chefs that July, so what came out of that kitchen was not a themed menu. It was the food, made by the people whose food it is.
That is the whole argument of the shared table in one evening: the work goes further when something is held in common that is not the work.
Told for the first time
Everyone left with the Far Messenger Lifeway Pocket Guide, twelve pages, the practices with nothing else around them.
Why it mattered beyond the weekend
This was milestone one of the Far Messengers Institute’s first year — the first time the curriculum was run end to end, at the 1440 gateway, in front of people who had not come for me. It is the proof the rest is built on.
Next
The Ring in the redwoods. A residency. Rancho La Puerta. None of them have dates I would publish yet, and I would rather leave this page honest than put a date on it to keep it busy.
If you want to know when one opens, leave an address and I will write to you when there is something real to say.
It goes straight to Tony. Nothing else will come unless you ask for it.
