We are closer to The Abyss than we wish to admit. But it is fortunate that we have an insight into the fact that we are the Abyss. Each of us must have this insight in order to prevail over The Abyss, at the very least in the hour of our death; and if such insight is not gained until then, this hour will be one of bitterness and terror.

- Jean Gebser, The Ever Present Origin

Formscapes is an independent project intended to provide education and facilitate dialogue regarding Metaphysics, Consciousness, Mythology, Esotericism, History, Cosmology and Natural Science.

Institutionalized education in contemporary society orients itself primarily towards the transformation of human beings into professional employees with monetizable skills. As such, academic education - despite its strengths and prestige - often fails to facilitate the forms of thought and dialogue which are most crucial for the furthering of human understanding and human development. Independent education projects such as Formscapes provide an opportunity to move beyond such institutional limitations, in a manner that is conditioned primarily by the aims of cultivating human flourishing and disclosing the beauty of our reality, rather than merely financial or institutional aspirations.

Our Seminar Courses provide in-depth, guided explorations of specific texts or subjects which we believe are immensely significant within the context of such aims, but which remain largely obfuscated or marginalized within the world of academic education.

Learning to think in different ways is learning to see in different ways, and is therefore learning to see further and deeper into the depths which reside within all things. A spirit of adventure has ever been the animating force which has driven human beings to traverse such depths, and it is this spirit of adventure which our work here is intended to invigorate - within ourselves, and within those who share in this journey with us.

- Gregory Kehlan Morgan