What is Patreon?

Patreon is a service that helps artists like me afford to keep inspiring people and forge better, more rewarding relationships with my audience. Become a patron, and you get front row seats and the best of all my new work – and you help me guarantee I'll always have the time to pour more love and creativity into what I do.

Why am I on Patreon?

Our lives are gorgeous, complicated, brief, and perfect. How can I not communicate this beauty?

My name is Michael Garfield, and I'm a public thinker, artist, and musician helping midwife the new myths we'll use to make sense of this Age of Transformation.

The vision that I serve is one in which we've healed the rift between technology and nature, mind and body, self and other. I'm 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.

The basic monthly income Patreon makes possible helps me deliver novel, mind-expanding work to you each week:

• Podcasting: 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 and have, free-roaming, weird, inspiring conversations. (You can also subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play.)

• Writing: including my serialized first book, How To Live in the Future, in which I marry my twin fascinations with the ancient Earth and psychedelic science fiction. What does evolutionary science have to say about the future we'll be living in? And how we can adapt? You are invited to weigh in as this nonlinear account of our origins and destiny unfolds online...

• Music: both live releases and studio tracks – ecstatic, tender, intricate tunes fusing voice, guitar, and electronics into something greater than the sum of their parts. I've been writing, improvising, and performing for almost 20 years, and every year I inch a little closer to expressing that transcendent Sound-Beyond-The-Sound...

• Paintings: inspired by four years as a scientific illustrator and nine years as a live painter at festivals and concerts. I've painted over 350 pieces and 200 custom hats, 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...

That's what you empower by subscribing here on Patreon. You give a little and you get a lot. Seems fair for helping me live as an uncompromising light in the lives of others!

Thank you so much for reading! If you cannot make a monthly contribution, I hope you will still help yourself to all the free work in the archived posts here.