For eight months now, neoslife has been birthing itself into form in the energetic realm, existing through my sharing of the vision, my passion and commitment to the land that found its way to me and by sharing stories and experiences with its growing community - you.

The other part was its physical manifestation by working on it tirelessly and putting my financial assets into neoslife’s creation. This has not been easy as the fear of losing my shirt by ‘betting’ so big on this vision has been ever present throughout this journey.

So much has happened since the land found me in October last year. Negotiations, due diligence, architectural, urban and masterplanning, relationship building with the municipality, brand development, land regeneration, website, community building online, in-person and on the land, investor discussions…

As we are approaching its ninth month, neoslife both needs and invites you to help birth this vision. We are looking for up to eight founding investors that are passionate to bring this vision to life. You will be at the forefront of its development, with the option to be one of the first to build a house on the land and benefit from neoslife’s experiences and services for the rest of your life.

We are looking for investors for €111,111 or more. Below you find a few slides about neoslife’s journey ahead. If this resonates with you, please respond to this email and I will be in touch with more information.

I am eternally grateful to every one of you, for being with us on this journey and your support in whatever form it comes. I am fully committed to see this vision through with all I have got as I expressed in my previous article

With much love and gratitude,Vincent

a message from karen

Wouldn’t it be a beautiful thing for neoslife to exist? Can you imagine it for a moment? This beautiful village of light in Portugal, bringing healing, restoring hope, uniting people in their yearning for balance and unity, offering solutions and trainings, joy and connection. Can you feel and see yourself there, having contributed to its unfoldment, or perhaps even being in the heart of it?

I have explored many healing/eco-communities over the years, and each of them offer light into the world. They may have an approach or philosophy that I or you would contend with, but the resounding truth above all else is that the world benefits from such places. People need places to go, where they can be held by a healing infrastructure of compassion and inspiration, where the question of who’s right and who’s wrong is overshadowed by ‘What brings peace? What brings healing?’

Many argue that we are collectively on a precipice, and the earth cannot hold us much longer. It has always been clear to me and others who are tapped into the same transmission/data — that our best real hope lies in the power of village, of ‘joining the dots.’ There is an African proverb that says it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it certainly takes a village to raise a new earth.

In the case of neoslife, the vision is alive, and great plans and actions have already been fulfilled. And now the final village need is apparent — investment. Who will be the ones that bring this dream to fruition?

If you are reading this and feel a resonance to neoslife, and desire from your heart to contribute some of your financial good fortune towards leaving a legacy (in a way that is still financially smart, and comes with the joy of sharing this lifelong journey with us), then this is your call to get in touch with us right away.

In love and community spirit,Karen

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Meet Karen Aiyana Birch.

Three weeks ago, Karen and I met over a Zoom call.

There was something distinctly different about this call.

The conversation was easy, felt safe, open and vulnerable.

It was not about what was said but what didn't need to be said.

There was an instant recognition of each other, who we are being.

It’s hard to capture in words. It has to be experienced, that way of being.

a new way of being

I believe that this very experience captures what neoslife is about.

Yes, neoslife is a village project.

Yes, there will be a healing and well-being center.

Yes, it is about land regeneration, organic farming and autonomy.

Yes, there will be lots of personal development modalities, retreats and workshops.

But really what will differentiate neoslife from any other project that I am aware of is our way of being.

For neoslife to have the impact we are aspiring to, Karen’s and my responsibility is to embody this way of being.

This is the reason why until now I have not had a co-founder for this massive project, because it needed to be someone who truly understands what we are creating - not because I am explaining it or there’s a mental resonance, but because she has been embodying this same truth.

We share the recognition of what we believe is the next step in human evolution.

When I read her New Culture Eco-Village narrative ‘Experience Paradise’ I thought to myself, she is describing neoslife. You can read it here.

upholding the highest principle

I was about to be spending time on the land with a potential partner and investor.

I spontaneously invited Karen to join and she agreed.

Our time together further sharpened my understanding of the mission of neoslife and that for us to succeed, we cannot compromise on this very essence of ‘a new way of being’ which is at the core of neoslife’s vision.

Experiencing for the first time true alignment with another human being, in juxtaposition with experiencing friction and incomplete alignment with the investor-partner, brought clarity to me.

The New Earth that many of us are working towards and that I believe many more are yearning for needs ‘a new way of being’.

It is not enough to create an eco-village.

It is not enough to build an independent settlement.

It is not enough to regenerate the soil and grow our own food.

The change we need to bring forward is a fundamentally different way of being with each other because

unless we shift our state of being, everything we do will perpetuate the imbalances, conflicts and polarisation of the current paradigm.

This is what neoslife is meant to empower in us, through experiencing it.

All the other pieces are part of the vehicle to make it happen, but they are not the essence of it.

crystal clarity

Over the past months, I had a number of investors approaching me to bring neoslife to form.

None of them was a fit and I had to reject them in order to stay true to the mission.

This was not easy because without money this project will not see the light of day and all the work, sweat, and money that has been put into it over the last eight months will be lost.

Worse, it means the impact that neoslife is meant to have will not materialise.

However, I have full faith because just the way the land found me without looking for it, and Karen came to neoslife without me looking for someone, so will the right investor appear at the perfect moment.

divine perfect timing

Karen and I first connected on May 23rd at 2pm.

I met Marie who brought the land to me at the airport on October 23, 2023 at 2pm.

That’s exactly seven months apart to the hour.

Coincidence? I’ll let you be the judge of it.

Seven is a special number in spirituality.

Our week has seven days, we have seven chakras and our lives move in seven year cycles.

The ‘random’ encounter with Marie at an airport marked the kick-off of neoslife.

I will share this incredible story another time.

so who is karen?

Karen’s bio reads:

My work is about reuniting heaven and earth and thus creating paradise, within and without. This is not creating anything but what is inherently natural to us. It is a returning to our natural divine blueprint. It is our natural state to be a Master. It is our natural way of being to use consciousness, intention, energy, sound, voice, song, movement, dance, and sacred space to maintain balance, to heal, to create – to live this way. …

You can read her full bio here.

Karen has been on a profound spiritual journey, including a period of twelve years of daily meditation practice in devotion to awakening which lead to letting go of her marriage, home, work and social life in order to surrender completely.

At the same time, she’s a serial entrepreneur and founder of the The New Earth School, an educational community platform to facilitate the shifts we need to make in order to create a more beautiful world.

She also

* founded the Unified Coherence Coaching Academy

* was regional director of a European branch within the Global Ecovillage Network

* coordinated the holistic services at a London addiction clinic for four years

* co-produced the award-wining eco-village feature film, ‘The Blueprint’

* published Celestial Earth, the story of her awakening

Both The New Earth School and the Unified Coherence Coaching Academy will be merged into neoslife, as the starting point for our online offering and part of a wider family of ecosystem services.

With much loveVincent(and Karen says hi)

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A message to the neoslife community — in response to conversations in our WhatsApp group.

Thanks to all of you for being a part of and contributing to this community by sharing your insights, reflections and ideas. I am in awe of and grateful to the nearly 300 souls that have found their way here. I am reading and taking in every comment even when I cannot reply to every single one.

Fundraising

I’d like to add some specific clarity around fundraising: I used to be an investment banker and a tech startup founder. I am very aware of the fund raising processes available and currently, I spend most of my time on all the aspects that are required to make funding happen. I have personally invested more than €300,000 and continue to invest into this project. I am all-in with no back-doors and have committed everything I have to this project.

I am living in the stretch of any new startup and yet this is different in one major way. It is not just a beautiful idea, it is being created from a new way of being. I am really in my inner work and practicing walking the talk. I am not a guru or a messiah. I am someone who is answering a deep call. I am a listener and a student in many ways. In others, I have a foundation which the calling knows and draws upon.

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Alignment

The neoslife retreat last month has beautifully and painfully shown me that it is crucial that the people involved at the very beginning are fully aligned with the vision and mission of neoslife. There can be no shortcuts. The same applies to investors. neoslife needs investor(s) that want this project to succeed because they fully grasp the opportunity and necessity we have to lead a much needed shift in humanity and are competent to do so abundantly.

neoslife is still a very fragile flower but it has the potential and purpose to empower the journey of transformation by hosting and cultivating the current scientific best practices and the corresponding ancient wisdom that will support a quantum in moving up from the lower vibrations into the higher vibrations using all the chakras optimally and into full awakening.

Doing from being in the heart

There is no point in just creating another village. The vision is to become a model to the world and it can only do so if who we are “being” informs the right doing. The primary core pillar is centred in being and acting from the heart. I have spent a 1,000 hours with one of my hermetic teachers to understand the underlying principles. I am deeply committed and invested into embodying this alignment.

As it says in the Gene Keys:

“Before you begin anything new in your life you need to ask yourself ‘What is the true essence of this beginning?’ The majority of people don’t realise that most beginnings contain subtle traces of fear. If these grains of fear are present at the very source of your endeavour, you will have unwittingly planted the seeds of its eventual demise.”

Truly living a new paradigm

I am very intentional that neoslife needs to be grounded not in fear but in the aspiration of something higher. I am calling in supporters and investors that understand this so we can start building the new earth operating system for life (neoslife) rather than just something that looks like it.

Sadly, I have witnessed plenty of pseudo-spirituality: Using spiritual language, dressing ‘spiritually’, etc. and all the while unconsciously remaining grounded in the old paradigm. I did not spend 10 years full-time preparing for this project to then take a shortcut and thereby planting the project’s ultimate demise.

From Drama to Empowerment Triangle

I love all of the challengers "in here" and out there. The role of the Challenger is to help the Creator become a crystal clear visionary capable of strategy in this way: The most lovingly connected and authentic way of being present to the vision will generate a logical and obvious next step or "doing". 

I really encourage everyone who is interested in participating to look at the information around the Drama Triangle and the Empowerment Triangle (here’s a short video). It is life changing. 99.99% of the world lives in and is therefore stuck in the Drama Triangle. This is the reason why we still have all the wars and conflicts whether on a global level or within our very families. Make no mistake, it’s all the same. The universe is fractal.

neoslife village principles

The transformation of the roles of Victim/Rescuer/Persecutor to Creator/Coach/Challenger would be fantastic practical next steps in support of your own lives and for sure would be in support of one of the practical processes I am committed to modelling in the village culture being created. I am here to create the village before the village.  All villagers-in-the-making will be able to confidently step into village life and play full-out.

I see us as Stewards and Thought Leaders. We are connected and have many interconnections. We have shared values and concepts that can be innovated and leading edge. I invite everyone to lean in and be all-in. I read that Findhorn is divesting from the foundation model. I am committed to understanding the limits they came into. 

There are many other communities that have reached their upper limits and I am curious as to what needs to shift so that neoslife has blue sky success. I read the concerns of those worried about the luxury aspects as pricing out those who are here. I am keenly aware and neoslife’s mission is to to become a place that welcomes and can host a broad spectrum of people and income classes.

Funding stage one

However, there is a voice within me guiding me in these initial stages around patient capital and funding a foundation. I remain open to nearly all possibilities as we explore developing the property, however, due to the rapid nature of this first stage unfolding, time is a limit that is going to dictate capital. 

I know in my heart of hearts that just like the land found me through a then stranger, Marie, that stood behind me in the line to board a plane only to present me with this property days later. The only land I ever looked at — and it is the perfect land. What were the chances of this happening?

Such is the nature of higher unfolding. Magical. Miraculous. Just like that, I suspect that there is a specific investor out there looking to fund this very project and land.

Everything is unfolding

The Vision and the Land are working through me and all of you. I see it as you light up in your discussions. I am looking to meet that investor(s) who light(s) up in the same way. It will be a recognition rather than me selling or promoting the land. And of course, I am out there so that this opportunity is visible as widely as possible calling in the resonant and relevant people.

If you have not watched the 4 mins neoslife vision video yet, please do. See the end of this post.

I know this is long, however, I hope it inspires and gives us all permission to step up. I have no doubt that this group has embodied within it already the genius to take this vision to where it and we need to go.

Thank youI love youVincent

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neos·life’s vision is to create Heaven on Earth.

Yet Heaven is first and foremost an inner state. It is a place where we feel in harmony, satiated with joy, peace and love. This place is available to any of us anytime.

While we are not yet on the physical neos·life land, this

Tuesday, May 7 at 19h GMT / 20 CET / 11am PST / 2pm EST

I have the pleasure of partnering with my dear friend SKAI, a quantum healer from France, bringing you a unique Heaven on Earth live experience.

Skai spent 3 years in silence to master his energy. After helping many clients quickly reverse chronic diseases like Crohn’s, Sjogren, Cancer, Neuropathy, etc., he wants people to learn to heal themselves.

He has created a powerful energy work to Master Your Immune Force. You can try it for free here.

Skai will guide us through a 40-minute inner journey into Heaven using a blend of guided meditation, lucid dreaming and ZeroPoint energy work. We’ll see, smell, hear and feel Heaven on our very skin, remove obstructions to access this space within and discover a clear pathway to return to it at will.

Then we’ll explore what Heaven on Earth means for us and how neos·life is creating a blueprint to build villages, pockets of Heaven on Earth on this planet.

To join us on our Zoom on Tuesday, register here — it’s free:

And here’s neos·life’s new vision video featuring the land, our community day and reflections from participants and myself about our future village.

You can also see Skai in it at 2:05.

We are looking forward to experiencing a higher state with many of you.

With loveSkai & Vincent

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Love is the only answer to all our problems.

It transcends gender, race, politics, opinions, beliefs.

It transcends everything.

Thanks to some recent challenging experiences around the emerging community of neoslife, I have realised that neoslife at its core is really about one thing:

How much can I love.

How much can I love in the face of disagreement, ego, separation, judgement, conflict and adversity.

The question is not am I right.

The question is how much can I love.

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This is not an airy fairy spiritual idea but a very real day-to-day challenge to be fully embodied.

Talk is cheap.

If I truly want to change the paradigm, I have to love no matter what others think, say or do.

This is the challenge.

To unconditionally love all the time and everyone.

I don’t have to agree with you but I can always chose to respond with love.

Love transcends all boundaries.

It might be the hardest thing to ever ‘do’ and it’s also the most transformative.

I pledge that I will embody this to the best of my abilities.

I thank everyone that challenges me and shows me where I need to learn to love more.

You’re all my teachers and I bow to everyone of you for showing me my wounds so I can heal them.

I see you.

I love you no matter how much it hurts sometimes.

We can create a beautiful world, a world that the world has never seen before and cannot even imagine yet.

That’s how powerful we are.

All we have to do is to love a little more, a little more and a little more.

So that’s what I’ll do.

Every day a little more.

Thank you for being part of this journey.

Thank you for being patient with me.

I see you, I thank every one of you.

I’m deeply grateful.

I truly love you.

What does this mean?

After a magical retreat earlier this month, I had a number of challenging experiences with team members and participants.

Taking time to deeply reflect on these exchanges, I shared the above message in the neoslife WhatsApp group here.

My previous perspective was that all (individual and global) problems are due to a lack of consciousness, of self awareness.

However, these experiences have helped me see that there’s a simpler and clearer way to put this:

All problems are the result of a lack of love.

Whatever is seemingly done to me is a product of my perceptions, conditioning and ultimately my unhealed wounds and at the same time a product of the doer’s perceptions, conditioning and ultimately their unhealed wounds.

Whatever we say or do to each other is therefore never personal but simply a reflection of where we are at — both on the doing and the receiving end.

And where I am at is simply a function of how much I have come to be at peace.

As Rumi said:

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Therefore, all interpersonal challenges are a result of a lack of love for oneself.

And as I cannot give to others what I don’t have for myself, a lack of self love expresses itself in how I perceive, respond to and treat others.

This is what all great seers taught us:

Love thy neighbour, enemy and everyone as yourself.

Though we might look at it like a reminiscent of ancient times and only applicable to enlightened people, this timeless wisdom is as valid and as important today.

And it’s achievable by every single human being.

I believe all of you readers of this newsletter wish for a more peaceful, more harmonious and more loving world.

The good news: We have the power to create it any day just like I have the power to create a fit and healthy body.

The ‘bad’ news: I cannot wait for others to do this work for me.

I have to create it and it starts with how I receive, respond to and treat others.

There’s no running away or hiding from it. I have to do this (inner) work.

Life is providing an infinite amount of opportunities for me to do this work.

How I receive, respond to and treat others cannot be dependent on how they treat me because then none of us would ever be able to start being more loving and hence the world around us and in extension the world globally would never start to change.

Love is and has to be unconditional. And the power of such love transforms anyone it touches.

My only job is to do everything in my power to be more loving and soon enough everything around me will be more loving.

That is the power we all have:

To transform the world.

All I have to do is to start myself.

And if not me, who?

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In this newsletter:

* Signing the promissory purchase contract

* Another neoslife podcast

* New website

* First renders of the 34 bedroom neoslife hotel to open in 2025

* Meet Neo, the 4th resident of neoslife

* Last Call: Two spots left for the retreat next week. If you are an investor, supporter, influencer or future resident, we have two spots left for the most transformative journey of your life. Apply here: ir.neoslife.com

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On 2/4/24, five months after I first set foot on this beautiful land, we signed the contract to acquire the estate that is becoming neoslife.

It was the only land I ever looked at and I knew right away this is it. How the land found me and everything that happened after was nothing short of miraculous and full of synchronicities. Miracles are real if we allow ourselves to see and act on them.

Signing the purchase agreement turned out to be an emotional day for me. I’m full of gratitude for all who have supported me on this journey till now and to the many more to come. So many have messaged me, strangers and friends alike, from all corners of the world that want to live there, learn, contribute, participate or understand what it is.

It’s been an intense, beautiful, exhausting, fun, scary and humbling five months all at the same time. I learnt that nothing is impossible when we want something from the bottom of our hearts — and it activates huge resources and support. I cannot wait to see what we will all be creating there together starting this July. I know it will be magical.

The human story is yearning for a new paradigm, a new way of being in harmony with each other, nature and ourselves. Adversity, war, conflicts and diseases were all necessary for us to remember who we are not. We have played this game of fear and animosity long enough.

We’re ready to wake up to a new story and to bring paradise to earth. neoslife is intended to support us with that and that one day there will be many ‘neoslives’ and with all of us living in love, peace and harmony with each other, nature and ourselves. It might sound like a utopia but it really is the future we are creating.

We’ve been gifted such a beautiful world, let’s also make our human experience an extraordinary and beautiful one — because we can.

That today may be the day where we start writing a new chapter of the human journey. I know we will make it happen.

With all my love, thank youVincent🙏🏻💫❤️🚀

Another neoslife podcast

Where I talk about how the land found me at a random encounter at the airport, what neoslife is and why the world wants and needs it.

We also cover my journey from investment banking to Bitcoin and spirituality, loosing a fortune speculating, personal growth, society, technology, the upcoming retreat, the neoslife vision, the spiritual journey, psychedelics, awakening and purpose.

I hope you enjoy it!

You can also listen on Spotify.

We have a new website

Mobile friendly and more structured. Still a lot of moving pieces but its progressing.

Check it out at neos.life.

Fourth resident of neoslife

Please welcome Neo. On Easter Sunday, this eight week old face looked at me at a seemingly random encounter. I wasn’t planning on getting a dog just like I did not expect the land to find me at an airport encounter. She was gifted to me, literally and figuratively.

Life is magical when I get out of the way and let it take its course. Now female Neo is part of the family and will move with me onto the land in July.

neoslife hotel and retreat center

Another view of one of the future hotel guest rooms.

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neoslife on podcast

Recently I had the opportunity to share my journey from investment banking to Bitcoin, psychedelics, spirituality and neoslife on the Once Bitten Bitcoin podcast. If you enjoy this newsletter, you will enjoy this podcast. Here are the Spotify and Youtube links.

neoslife in development

This is an early-stage of what I am working on with a Shan, our 3D designer. It’s not a refection of the actual village but us playing with how to best display it:

neoslife on WhatsApp

The growing neoslife community has now a home: Join our 160 people strong WhatsApp chat to follow along.

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Earlier this week, I attended the ChangeNOW conference in Paris.

The conference website states:

WE ACCELERATE THE TRANSITION TO A SUSTAINABLE WORLD. We lead and amplify concrete actions that inspire and change norms, companies and individuals. Step into a sustainable world - THE LARGEST EVENT OF SOLUTIONS FOR THE PLANET.

It was a three-day conference but 24 hours after touching down I was back in Lisbon.

The conference was a full-on display why the world is not improving. None of the many incredible solutions will solve the problem of hunger, poverty, climate change, eco destruction or anything else.

Because none of them addresses the root cause of the problems we find ourselves in: Our way of being.

Here’s a 60 seconds video of me at the conference explaining.

The conference was heartless and many speakers inauthentic. The opening statements could not have been less inspiring. From the feel it could as well have been a banking conference.

What’s the problem?

The world we live in is a direct reflection of who we are being as a civilisation of eight billion people.

If I want to change the world so that I look better, become richer or more important I will not make a positive impact.

Neither if my solutions are focused on external, outside of me, solutions, no matter how brilliant or well intended.

When I create from ego or fear, what I create will be ego-driven and fear-driven and thereby amplify the problem not solve it.

What needs to precede any desire to change something is the desire to change oneself first.

Whatever I am doing is a function of who I am being.

The reason the world is not improving despite the millions of people trying to solve its problems and the trillions of dollars that are poured into the supposed solutions is simply because none are addressing the root cause:

Our separate sense of self.

As long as I believe my life is about me and I need to have more money, power or control to be safe or feel good, whatever I create will create more of the same.

Social media is a beautiful example. It was meant to make the world more connected but it really has created more silos, polarisation and separation. Not because there’s anything wrong with the technology but because technology simply amplifies who we are being.

AI will be the biggest amplifier of this and it will crush us if we don’t wake up from the illusion of being separate.

What’s the ‘solution’?

My primary job as a human is to evolve. This is the very purpose of life. If I am not evolving I am wasting my life because this is what I came here to do.

After I exit the body I am in stasis again and hence the opportunity to evolve is lost.

As a collective, we are meant to evolve from feeling separate from each other and therefore fighting and competing our way through life to remembering that we are individual expressions of one universal consciousness that simply uses the human life to experience itself and evolve.

We are this consciousness and we are playing with ourselves the human game of life.

How? By having forgotten who we truly are.

And the ‘job’ we came here to ‘do’ is to wake up from the dream of separation and to remember who we really are thereby returning to a state of pure love for life, the world, each other and most importantly ourselves. Because

We are one.

This return to love and oneness is what we are all secretly yearning yet what is for our separate minds so very difficult to understand.

The moment we remember and therefore act from a place of individually expressed oneness again, poverty, hunger, wars and the destruction of nature will all end at once because we understood that really we are one single organism of consciousness hurting itself.

No one in their right mind would hurt himself yet that is what we are doing.

That is, until we wake up from the illusion.

How can we ‘do’ it?

neoslife is the vehicle I am building to create a place for this new way of being, helping us to remember and experiencing again who we always were.

We have just forgotten.

A life in harmony, peace and love we are all yearning for can be created right now.

All it takes is that I let go of my idea of being a separate self by waking up from this illusion.

I ‘do’ this by living from the heart rather than the fear-driven mind.

Yes, Vincent has a separate body, mind and personality but the consciousness that is experiencing itself through this avatar called Vincent is the same as yours.

And it is eternal. I was never born and I will never die. Only Vincent was born and Vincent will die but not the consciousness that looks through his eyes.

It’s the same consciousness that looks through yours and hence when I hurt you or only think of myself it is simply the unevolved me who has forgotten that we are of the very same consciousness.

I am building neoslife to help us in the process of remembering our true nature allowing us to create heaven on earth again completing the human journey we came for:

To remember who we truly are: Consciousness or God as some call it.

How can you help?

By waking up yourself.

April 10-14, we are inviting eight potential investors for a life-changing experience where they will remember who they truly are beyond their bodies, minds and personalities.

We are providing this sacred experience unconditionally of any monetary exchange.

It is the most incredible and exhilarating adventure there is. It is tasting eternity.

It is an initiation into the best kept secret of the universe: Your truth.

If this could be you, please fill out this form: ir.neolsife.com.

We are looking forward to welcoming you home.

We thank you for following this invitation.

Beauty awaits you.

With loveVincent

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This April, I am inviting eight participants to a transformational retreat on the future neoslife estate in Alentejo, Portugal.

You will be guided by the best facilitators that have supported and catapulted me forward on my journey of growth.

Building on the retreats we started last year, in a first, all of us are joining forces to bring you the most transformative experience yet.

We will embark on two different journeys with the Toad and the Heart Protocol.

I have written about my profound experiences with both these medicines in previous newsletters.

Furthermore, we will dive into meditation guided by a master, connect with our bodies through yoga and energetic massages and be nourished with incredible food all while being surrounded by the magic of this very special land.

Fouad, Jeff, John and Sam are all flying in from different corners of the US especially to guide you through this life-changing experience.

A team of nine of us will look after you and I will personally support you in your process of integration in the weeks and months after.

This will be my gift to the selected participants.

You will never look at life the same way.

Who is this for?

We are inviting eight individuals to go through the most transformative experience of their lives allowing them to discover and unleash their own greatness.

And at the same time, to experience the magic of the estate, meet the neoslife team and learn about the vision to explore their financial support for the creation of a place for the world to transform.

For neoslife’s vision to flourish, we need investors to make it happen.

If this is you or you know someone who should be one of the eight, please respond to this message and I will share more about the retreat.

Following closing, I will move onto the land to oversee the development and operations with all my resources, mind and heart.

I already have invested more than €300,000 as well five months of full-time work.

Developing neoslife is and will continue to be my sole and exclusive focus.

I am all-in. To learn more about the project, visit neoslife.

I can’t wait for us to spend these days together and unleash true greatness.

Welcome to a new life.

With much loveVincent

If you have not seen the land yet, here it is:

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Our fiat money is, just like the systems we are part of (countries, governments, companies etc.) a collectively agreed upon imagination. Conversely to what we are told, since the $ has been decoupled from gold in 1971, fiat money is no longer backed by anything but our joint belief.

With the incessant money printing going on and the ever increasing government debt ($34,000,000,000,000 for the US alone, i.e. $100,000 for every US citizen), more and more people are questioning how much longer this house of cards can stand.

"I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can’t take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop." — Friedrich August von Hayek (1984)

Welcome to Bitcoin

The abuse of our money has been the very reason for the creation of Bitcoin. It was launched at the end of the financial crises with the following headline written into its genesis block: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.”

Bitcoin is this “sly roundabout way that they can’t stop.”

Why has Bitcoin gone from being worth cents to $60,000 and a market cap of $1.2 trillion in less than 15 years?

More and more people understand the value of Bitcoin in a world where central banks and governments are out of control.

What is money?

Money serves three purposes: 1) store of value, 2) medium of exchange and 3) unit of account.

A critical aspect of the quality of money is that it preserves its value. The issue with all fiat currencies is that central banks can create more of it at will. And especially in recent years they have done so increasingly and recklessly. Plainly spoken it’s legalised theft and an example that legal and ethical are two very different things.

Inflation in consumption items and asset values like stocks and real estate is a direct function of the creation of money. Yes, there are other factors but this is the main factor few economists and central bankers talk about because if they were we would realise that the rigged game they are playing with us.

Central banking is legal theft

Whenever a central bank creates more money it directly devalues all the existing money. Your $/€/£ are immediately worth less. And they call it inflation.

Imagine there were only $1 million in the world. Suddenly the central bank decides that its government needs more money and they create - with the push of a button - another $1 million. The amount of monetary units has doubled but nothing else has changed. Everything will increase in price because double the amount of units are now chasing the same amount of assets and goods.

This is how the system has been stealing from all of us since the money has been delinked from gold - a scarce asset. Why scarce? Because it costs a lot of energy to mine gold and the new supply is therefore limited.

Bitcoin — the best money

Bitcoin is the new, much improved gold because not only is it scarce and hard to create but it has absolute scarcity.

No government nor anyone else can ever create more Bitcoin. There will only ever be 21 million. It’s therefore the hardest/best money there is.

As more and more people understand this very core principle about the quality of money they buy Bitcoin and this pushes up the price - because of its limited supply.

This process has been accelerated with the recent launch of Bitcoin spot ETFs (exchange-traded funds) that make buying Bitcoin much easier for the traditional financial rails and institutions and everyone else. It has been the most successful ETF launch ever.

Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme

Bitcoin is not a ponzi scheme because existing investors are not paid by new investors. The price keeps going up because of its limited supply and the fact that the majority of Bitcoins are not available for sale.

70% of Bitcoins have not moved/been sold in the last year and 80% not in the last six months because holders increasingly understand Bitcoin continuously increasing in value. It’s the perfect store of money so why would you sell it if you don’t have to.

Bitcoin has been the best performing asset

What scares many people is the extreme volatility. The reason is that even today it is still very early days and most people don’t own any Bitcoin. Its total market cap is still less than 10% of that of gold. The market is still in its learning phase and therefore speculation is ripe which is reflected in the price. Don’t confuse price with its underlying value.

Despite its volatility, Bitcoin has demonstrated to be the best performing asset over the past decade even and especially when adjusted for its volatility/risk. While it goes down a lot, it goes up a lot more and will continue to do so. As Bitcoiners say: It’s just math.

With governments and central banks getting ever more out of control, there is no better time to hedge yourself and own some Bitcoin. There will ever be only 21 million so not even every current millionaire (56 million) nor every US millionaire (22 million) will ever be able to own a full Bitcoin. Far from it because the majority of Bitcoins are not for sale which creates even more upside pressure on the price.

And if you think Bitcoin is expensive at $60,000 wait until it’s $100,000 then 200,000. The question is not if but when.

Owning Bitcoin is owning a piece of the future financial system free from governments manipulation, control and especially devaluation.

Bitcoin is peace

By holding Bitcoin you are voting with your money. Governments would not be able to go to wars if they could not print money at will as they would need to raise taxes to pay for the wars - a very unpopular decision. It means we would enter wars only for defence or where the majority explicitly wants it and is willing to pay for it.

Just like the state and church are meant to be separated, so is money meant to be independent of governments’ control. And with Bitcoin we now have to technology to complete this separation. The world will be much better off for it.

Disclaimer: This is not financial advice but merely reflects my opinion. Bitcoin is highly volatile. Invest only what you are willing to loose.

And this is how welcoming the Bitcoin ecosystem is: Here’s nobody me discussing Bitcoin with Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, a public company that owns $12 billion worth of Bitcoin. We talked for 12 mins. I don't know of any other industry where that happens.

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Imagine putting on an Apple VisionPro headset and entering a virtual world. Now imagine never taking this headset off and believing that the virtual reality you are experiencing is Reality.

This is what life is. We put on the “headset” of being a person at birth and we take it off again at death. Yet we believe that we are the headset, our body and mind, when they are merely our interface to experience life.

What we really are is the awareness behind this headset. The awareness that is experiencing life through the mind-body headset.

This awareness is ever present and eternal and doesn’t know birth nor death. Birth is simply the moment we put on the headset for the human journey.

What’s the purpose?

You chose to put on the headset to evolve. The purpose is specific to you. It’s your tailor-made experience.

And there’s a higher purpose: To understand who you truly are.

We are awareness = consciousness = love = source = God = creator = everything = oneness.

(Pick whichever label you resonate with. They all mean the same. God has nothing to do with religion. It’s simply the spiritual word for consciousness.)

But how can I understand what I am if I am everything?

Rich is meaningless without poor. So is beauty without ugliness or light without darkness and love without fear. We need polarity to understand.

Therefore, to understand who I am I have to experience what I am not.

This is what the earthly experience is about: I experience myself as a separate self so that I can experience what I am not and therefore understand what I am (which in it’s ultimate step means everything / awareness / …).

How does it work?

Once I understand what I am not (separate, ego, personality, self), I can take the headset off and experience what I truly am. This is called “waking up”.

The ultimate purpose of life is to wake up from the illusion we have created. This is the purpose of this illusion: To wake up from it.

The practical consequence of this is that once I wake up (not to be confused with “being woke”) embracing the much larger reality I am, I start using my life for a higher purpose, in service to others, rather than what my security and pleasure-seeking ego self wants or craves.

Why? Because realising that I am not an individual self I start treating everyone “else” as if it was me. Now imagine if we were all to do that what a beautiful world we’d live in. This is the promise of waking up. It is the ultimate utopia. And it’s a real thing.

It’s a head twister and might sound crazy but who said life is straight forward.

Why should you care?

If I don’t realise who/what I truly am then it’s impossible to make the most of this life experience.

While that’s per se not a problem, why would I want to choose a less joyful experience and missing out on its purpose? That’s like buying a movie ticket and then covering my eyes and ears. It’s self defeating.

The consensus belief that our life is the ultimate reality is the single source of all the suffering and dissatisfaction we are trying to escape from throughout our entire lives. It keeps us trapped in the perception that we are separate from everything else.

And it keeps us grasping for more. Ironically, our very seeking of pleasure and trying to avoid pain is the very thing that keeps us locked-up in the prison of never finding the satisfaction we are yearning for.

The never-ending rat race for a better tomorrow that we can’t win — and then we die.

How do I wake up?

First, I need to fully grasp that I am (in) an illusion.

There are various ways to experience your true (soul) self: Death, a near-death experience, certain psychedelics and deep extended meditation or self inquiry, to name a few. It’s not a quick process. It’s developmental just as growing up is.

Second, I need to live it.

Understanding the illusion not just intellectually/by knowing but reflecting it in my way of being. I need to step out of the illusion and act accordingly. I need to follow my intuition, an inner calling rather than following my survival and ego-driven mind. This is much harder than the first step (which is already difficult).

Third, I need to remember why I came here.

To experience life was a conscious choice. We play in this game of identity, time and space with the purpose to evolve. I might have come here to learn forgiveness and hence keep experiencing seemingly unforgivable experiences. Whatever resistance I seem to be up against, that’s where my purpose lies and where transformation takes place.

Those three are not necessarily sequential steps. Waking up is more like an iterative, spiralling up process.

Waking up is hard

As I am writing these lines, I’m reflecting on my own process of waking up from the illusion. I have gained certainty through experiencing it that life and the person Vincent is is an illusion: It is a temporary construct through which I am experiencing myself (step 1).

However, embodying this in my every day life has been rather challenging. As Einstein said:

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

This is why I have been working on it for now a decade. My goal is to fully and permanently wake up and navigate life from that place of full surrender. It’s not an easy feast nor a fast one but I know it can be done and I am convinced I can do it (and everyone of us can). We are much more powerful beings than we think we are.

Humanity as a whole is going the opposite direction. We are getting trapped ever more deeply in the material illusion and our pain is increasing in the process. It’s not a coincidence that mental health is getting ever more worse — a reflection of our level of unconsciousness.

Let's make it easier

neoslife is the vehicle I am building to make it easier for us to wake up and live thriving lives. No one can do it for you just like no one can go to the gym for you but it definitely helps to have great coaches, environment and community.

For this purpose we are acquiring a beautiful piece of land to create a home and village for a new way of being. I just came back from my sixth visit shooting the below video. It’s an unedited/unfinished version but why not share it.

In April, we are holding a world-first transformation experience for up to eight potential investors. During this life-changing weekend you will not only experience neoslife and the estate but understand for yourself what all the fuss of waking up is about and why it will change the world. If that could be you, hit reply.

With loveVincent

NB. Yes, the ostriches, cows and sheep are all part of it. Because of previous heavy rains the water is brown rather than blue.

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