The Venus Project has made an announcement about their participation in the Masterminding Eden conference, which will take place all of July 2025 in Switzerland!
We’ll break down what this event is really all about, headlined by indigenous shamans, and how the aliens are involved! (Yep, that’s right).
- About the event organized by a psychospiritual coach
- The venue is a conspiracy museum
- Headline: spiritual leaders and wisdom keepers
- The Venus Project's first statements
- A conspiracy alien backstage
- Ufologists and Jacque Fresco
- Pseudoscientific energy sources
- Bonus to those who read this far. Here's a $7,985 discount on the event
About the event organized by a psychospiritual coach
A 31-day summer camp that will bring together up to 300 participants, where in the end the “ greatest minds of the planet” will present an ideal plan to create a sustainable civilization, focusing on a new concept of cities (actually eco-villages). All this is presented outwardly in an allegedly scientific manner and with the most serious intentions to change our world.
Masterminding Eden is a freshly created event website, no history, no links to business registration. Nowhere to verify that it will take place for real. Social media of the initiative is empty or just starting to fill up.
Despite this, they charge a substantial fee even for a simple application for participation – $110. Participation in the conference itself will cost $2,500/week and $8,000/month. This does not take into account where you will live, as the center where all this will be held – supposedly on the reconstruction (in fact, no). You are given the choice of living in a tent, a campsite, or a sleaping pod. The amount increases depending on the chosen living conditions.
The event is directed and organized by Camara Cassin, a certified psychedelic psychospiritual coach from Canada (screenshots taken from her LinkedIn profile). An image search found Camara among the headliners at the New Age “Conscious Technology Symposium” held in the fall of 2024, featuring the popular pseudo-scientist who cures with $1,200 crystals, Nasim Haramien. It’s quite possible that this is the exact format of the event that we’ll see here as well. A webarchive of the website of Camara’s main business showed the provision of services in bioresonance treatment (the same story as crystals), as well as folk medicine, homeopathy and so on.
The entire event, the wording in the text on the conference website, or in the podcasts, is buzzing with consciousness and demonstrative environmentalism, grandiose in scale, that will change the whole world and save our civilization from the “6th extinction”.
Among the participants, there are companies with a spiritualist orientation. For example, I took from the very top of the participants, highlighted by large portraits, Juan Carlos Kaiten: his company Social Alchemy combines advanced collective intelligence and social synergy practices with ancient and modern spiritual knowledge. Or another, like HOLOS: specializes in psychedelic experiences and retreats (with the note that everything is legal under local laws). I met on the list those promoting “tribal wisdom” and Indigenous culture reconstructors. There are also dubious empty companies/failed startups, movements or think tanks with a focus on eco- villages, or plans to create different concepts of cities, unity with nature, etc.
// Not that they’re the greatest minds, but most of them seem to have their own beliefs that they’d be willing to defend to the last – and if only for the sake of making this spectacular show, it would already be worth it to gather them all under one roof for 31 days and launch a reality show, making some serious competition for Mr. Beast. I’d watch the entire season. Especially its finale.
The venue is a conspiracy museum
The conference will be held supposedly at the Next Gen Village innovation hub. Photo search leads to the Jungfrau Park amusement park.
Let’s get this straight. It is not an innovation hub at all – it is an amusement park, formerly a conspiracy museum on contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations (there is a chapter about it further on). Although it is repeatedly mentioned in presentations of the “Masterminding Eden” as an educational and scientific center. This park rents out space. But whether that space will be rented is also questionable.
In any event of failure with the park rental, as it became known from a recent podcast, a particular eco-village in Italy – a much more realistic alternative – is being considered as a backup option. Probably, the organizers are already realizing that it might not be possible to raise the necessary amount of money to rent a fancy location. And then the whole thing with brainstorming for a month – 12 groups of 12 people who will “constantly be intermixed” (whatever that means) – will take place in much more humble surroundings.
The choice of the 12×12 format, however, is thought-provoking in itself. It seems that numbers play a symbolic rather than practical role here. Such a construction reminds of an attempt to create an illusion of sacredness, initiation, and some exceptional knowledge. After all, in religions, secret orders, esoteric circles and New Age communities, the number 12 – and especially 144 – carry a special meaning. It seems that the event is based not so much on content as on ritualism and a sense of belonging to a “higher knowledge”.
When asked “why would we be there for 31 days?” – the host and organizer said that it had never happened before, and it would be a “Manhattan project for all mankind” – in general, a super megagalactic event.
Headline: spiritual leaders and wisdom keepers
The headliners at apparently esoteric camp and the backbone of the entire “Masterminding Eden” team are spiritual teachers and wisdom keepers from all continents.
A video snippet from the podcast:
– Yeah, so you would be amazed to hear that when we first launch our application process, the very first people to apply and come on board were more than 20 Indigenous wisdom keepers and spiritual teachers from around the world.
We have them represented from every continent.– It’s amazing.
Simon Michaux will take part at this event as well. And over a year ago, on one of his podcasts, he already told us all about it. So, it looks like everything’s going according to the plan:
“I want everything to feel like Sacred Femininity collabored with Sacred Masculinity.” Council of Elders – gather spiritually and philosophically awakened, socially and media conscious people from around the world and put them in one conference, feed them till they drop and let the ideas flourish, do this every year. Like a shaman from the Amazon jungle, Native American elders – anyone we can reach. Let’s learn from them.
From the summary of Simon Michaux’s podcast #1.
We’re also promised a full video report, and maybe even a documentary from there. We’ll see Nate and Roxanne smoking the peace pipe with representatives of the wisest from every continent. Well, isn’t this the beginning of The Venus Project?
The Venus Project’s first statements
In addition to including the event in an email newsletter, and several social media posts, one of the first podcasts on “Thinking through a Plan for Eden” featured a personal appearance by Nathanael Dinwiddie, who is on The Venus Project’s board of directors.
Yeah, so my name’s Nate Dinwiddie. I’m Vice President of The Venus Project and one of the members of the board.
And The Venus Project, it’s for a long time, I mean, it’s the creation of a guy named JacqueFresco and his companion, Roxanne Meadows. And for a long time, it WAS focused on these sort of ambitious solutions to the global problems primarily in the form of self-contained, self-sufficient, self-sustaining cities of the future. And Fresco had a big vision for a whole world redefined by those cities.
So naturally, Masterminding Eden kind of coincide with that whole vision of the future. It’s offering that ambitious path to these large-scale problems and trying to propose a way forward that addresses it and is a sort of scalable solution and trying to bring people together in a very interdisciplinary way to fulfill this whole vision of what’s possible. So it’s a natural fit for The Venus Project to be interested and want to help in some way. And primarily, we hope to sort of transfer or transmit some of the wisdom of Fresco to the project, a large body of work with many designs, thousands of sketches, and lots of lectures on the topic, and of course, many full designs of cities as well. So we hope to be able to bring some of that thinking and ideas and design work into the brainstorming process of conceiving what the next iteration, the next generation of designs might be. So that’s what we hope to bring to the table.
As it turns out, The Venus Project has been involved in the preparation of this event for over a year, since at least January 2024, and has been one of the leading participants. And the conference itself has already been rescheduled at least once.
A conspiracy alien backstage
The choice of the site for the conference is hardly accidental. Out of thousands of places on the planet, the organizers chose this park. In this “place of power” there is an unusual interweaving of New Age cults with similar stories, which plan to unfold to their maximum by 2030, with the tale of climate catastrophes, the end of the world in this period and the following post-apocalyptic world, where they eventually rebuild the civilization.
Judging by a lot of facts – we’ll end up with something like that with the new The Venus Project.
There’s a reason why The Venus Project is hiding their new program and the new direction being set by their new directors. Remember the notes from Simon Michaux’s podcasts, and that the new city in Peru will be the “Ark”, and after the apocalypse these guys, calling themselves Arcadians, the guardians of wisdom, will restore the entire civilization. Think about a couple of other cults, like AllatRA (Creative Society), and recall the pseudo documentary of all sorts of woo-woo, alternative history and conspiracys. They operate according to the same script logic: catastrophe, revelation, chosen ones, new era.
Jungfrau Park was built by Erich von Daniken, author of Chariots of the Gods: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past. He believed that our technology and knowledge were passed down by aliens, and that religions were based on contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. Different rooms of this park told of different “unexplained artifacts”. The park existed in this form from 2003 to 2006. It reopened in 2009 as a regular amusement park, although retaining some of the original program.
The park itself is designed as an exhibition space, where each pavilion is dedicated to one of the “great mysteries of mankind”. Visitors are shown theories about the Nazca Lines, the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, the Mayan calendar and even ancient Indian “vimanas” – supposedly flying machines described in Vedic texts. Inside the pavilions there is semi-darkness, light shows, holograms and a dramatic voice-over telling us that “we may have been visited in the past.” The central building is a giant sphere with an observation deck that contains exhibits steeped in the spirit of Erich von Daniken. All this creates the feeling of participating in a pseudo-scientific odyssey between ancient civilizations and galactic mysteries.
Ufologists and Jacque Fresco
Fans of flying saucers and contact with extraterrestrial civilizations have surrounded Jacque Fresco since the 1950s, when he was featured in Frank Scully’s book “Behind the flying saucers”, 1950, after giving an interview.
And all because Jacque Fresco once worked in the development department of Wright Field, now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which is closely associated with the famous Area 51. Jacques’ designs are full of saucer-like crafts.
Another notable crossover with ufologists was in the story of the name “The Venus Project,” which Millard Deutsch came up with, as he himself states in the six-page book “Naming the Venus Project: The Way I Remember It.”
Millard Deutsch writes how he knew Jacque and Roxanne through a friend’s recommendation (along with Millard, Roxanne, and Jacque was a member of DIVERSE CITY, an organization registered at The Venus Project address in the early 1990s) – before that, he notes, he was president of the World Brotherhood, a non-profit esoteric ufology organization. He first stayed in their guest house because of hard times, and then became a resident.
Millard was fast at typing on a computer, which pleased Jacque, and so they typed an article for the World Future Seciety magazine. Anyway, he was sitting at the computer one day, and during a break between typing the article, the three of them (Jacque, Roxanne and Millard) started discussing a more appropriate name than “Sociocyberengineering”, which had been used since the 70s. And then Millard suggested “The Venus Project” – and everyone went “Yes! That’s it!”.
But here’s the interesting thing, Millard’s associations were truly from another world, and the city called Venus just put the puzzle together. He cites here a story about an alien from Venus (he truly believes in this) “whose advanced civilization lives in the center of the Venus.” The alien visitor visited the Pentagon, offering technology and abundance in exchange for humans to stop killing each other, but the president and generals refused, referring to the destruction of the economy and the foundations of society. This is described in the book “Stranger at the Pentagon”. And this is exactly what he had in mind when he came up with the name “The Venus Project”.
Jacque Fresco in his speeches sometimes touched on the topic of UFOs and extraterrestrial contacts, sharply joking at the statements of ufologists, conspiracy theorists, and brought to light various esoteric charlatans and pseudo-scientists.
Pseudoscientific energy sources
Simon Michaux, who has taken Jacque Fresco’s place of authority at The Venus Project, has made explicit references to flying saucers in presentations, and that the government is hiding these technologies from us.
Simon believes in vortex engines and all sorts of other pseudo-scientific energy generation concepts that he plans to “independently test with The Venus Project at the new Prometheus Institute” and he even writing a book about these energy sources right now. According to the story, “official science” has been hiding and suppressing this knowledge for decades/hundreds of years in order to preserve the established order.
You can read the outline from Simon’s podcast on the topic of pseudoscientific energy here (podcast #4)
This is also now the new slogan of the revamped “The Venus Project” organization – “unconventional energy sources” is explicitly mentioned. By the way, after our criticism, “unconventional” was changed to “new”.
A slogan from the site’s archives, a year earlier, reflecting the main focus of the new The Venus Project:
The Venus Project explores unconventional energy sources, operating to a new resource management paradigm, to benefit human wellbeing and the environment.
Meanwhile, The Venus Project’s completely revamped website now explicitly includes one of the “global catastrophic risk scenarios” – contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. Yes-yes, in case you’re not aware, they think you and I are doomed. Forget the abundant future society: first comes the apocalypse. A whole set of threatening scenarios awaits us, often with a deep conspiracy overlay, after which humanity will supposedly bounce back in development for a hundred or two hundred years. This is what the current leaders of The Venus Project seem to believe.
And they intend to prepare not for a post- scarcity world, as Jacque Fresco promised, but for the fight for survival. The new slogan speaks directly to this. Instead of a techno-utopia, there is the harsh reality of scarcity, politics, money, and all the beauties of the system that Fresco spent his entire life trying to overcome.
Bonus to those who read this far. Here’s a $7,985 discount on the event
If you do want to attend this event, and you are feeling the price tag of $8,000 is to much to ask for. That is, tickets to this science-educational amusement park start from just $15 for the whole day. You will participate in performances about alien contacts with human civilization, shoot lasers at each other, play on slot machines and ride on bouncy castles, and there is even a small water park. All in all, the most appropriate place on Earth for such an event.
And the intergalactic conference with The Venus Project will be in one of the rented spaces, most likely near the food court area. You’re welcome 😉
So if you strip away the bright wrappings, the headlines, and the big promises, and read a little deeper, the difference between what The Venus Project of Jacque Fresco envisioned and what it is becoming under the leadership of Nathanael Dinwiddie and the ideological support of Simon Michaux has become quite shocking. It is not just a change of course; it is a complete U-turn, so abrupt that it boggles the mind of even its most loyal supporters.
We’ve already covered how they almost got involved in The Thorium Network crypto-coin scam with a fake research institute, which was later shut down by the court order, and warned about the Prometheus Nexus (formerly known as Venus Arantas) crowdfunding for a desert city, which has also been delayed for over a year and a half, only because of our heads up. Because of us, The Venus Project has changed the website, albeit technically, just for the sake of formality, introducing you to a new program – while still misleading you, keeping everything secret, acting behind the scenes, not answering questions, and denying everything we observe or hear on podcasts from their key team members. We are trying to preserve some of the reputation of The Venus Project and Jacque Fresco’s ideas, but the exposures themselves are not enough. The Venus Project is not turning off this path. It is on a steady course toward obscurantism, New Age beliefs, conspiracy theories, and the total oblivion of everything Jacque and the original The Venus Project stood for.
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I have organized the most successful and effective team of The Venus Project movement, now represented by Designing The Future, as well as the 1.5 million subscriber Jacque Fresco channel, small and large events, radio and TV interviews, working with universities and schools, organizing events, running a network of groups in 60 cities with regular meetings, and much more. Exposed and fought fraudulent companies and initiatives to protect The Venus Project’s reputation.
Organized and negotiated the construction of The Venus Project’s smart city, with the then living Jacque Fresco, which was their best chance. This has now evolved into a full-fledged smart city project and test site for the development of the entire industry of smart cities, called “Mission on Earth”, which will be launched soon, late 2024-early 2025, and we’re directly involved.
After the new directors of The Venus Project changed course, I strongly opposed it without hesitation, especially knowing the details of the gamble – taking the side of Jacque Fresco’s original ideas. Whatever the outcomes, I will continue what I have started, with the goal of giving humanity a chance to move toward a resource-based economy, or at least to point society in the right direction. I hope you will join us.