My name is Michael Garfield, and I am a paleontologist-futurist – a public thinker, artist, and musician dedicated to the healthy birth of new myths we'll use to make sense of our place in this Age of Transformation. I am here to help you get excited to participate creatively in what comes next.

The vision that I serve is one in which we've made it through the gauntlet and healed the rift between technology and nature, mind and body, self and other. My voice in this conversation weds an education in ecology and evolution with ten years spent writing, speaking, and painting live at festivals. I am devoted to creating things of genuine and lasting worth – not "making profit" but creating value, telling the new stories that will nourish us and future generations.

With the basic monthly income Patreon makes possible, it's so much easier to keep my promise to you to deliver novel, mind-expanding podcasts, essays, art, and music every week (at least). So thank you for your time and your support! It helps me bring you things like:

• My Podcast, Future Fossils, in which I travel all over the world recording interviews with amazing people that explore the ancient past and distant future. We go as deep as possible. They're smart-as-hell, free-roaming, weird, inspiring conversations. Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.

• My First Book, How To Live in the Future, in which I marry my twin fascinations with the ancient Earth and psychedelic science fiction. In it, I explain what evolutionary science has to say about the future we'll be living in, and how we can adapt. I publish every chapter as I finish it on Medium so you have the opportunity to comment, criticize, contribute, and appreciate as this nonlinear account of our origins and destiny unfolds online...

• My New Music, including regular live releases from choice concerts and my forthcoming studio LP – ecstatic, tender, virtuosic, and intense tunes fusing voice, guitar, and electronics into something greater than the sum of their parts. This is heart-and-soul work that expresses what I cannot say with words. I've been writing, improvising, and performing for nearly 20 years, and every year the songs get truer to the mark. (Here's one of my most popular live albums, free for you to download.)

• My Paintings, an ongoing series of pieces that build on twelve years as a scientific illustrator and live painter. I've created over 350 live paintings and nearly 200 painted hats in the last few years, everywhere from Burning Man to NASA to Australia, in my attempts to catalog the denizens of psychedelic hyperspace and render visions of a future in which nature and technology have merged in peace...

Huge gratitude to every one of you!

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