Layman Pascal leads the Metamodern Spirituality Labs, hosts The Integral Stage & Soulmakers+ podcasts, and provides unique online courses, is a founding member of several think tanks in the developmental psychology and spirituality space, senior editor of Emerge online & is allied to numerous institutes across the field. In addition to may journal and anthology articles, he is the author of “Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worlds,” “Sex, Death & the Occult,” as well as an upcoming book about Nietzsche. Layman is known for his philosophical work on the metaphysics of adjacency, complex nonduality, coaxial developmental stage theories, sacred naturalism, archaic futurism, embodied spirituality & the “integration-surplus model of religion and spirituality” for a post-postmodern civilization facing numerous accelerating and converging crises. He refers to all his work as the Serious Playground.