“The What”

What is the TAO Metaversity?

Meta means, in addition to, beyond.

Tao means, the way.

This is an environment that bridges what learning environments have represented up to this point in additional to what is opening up in each individual and the universe. The Arts Organization’s  Metaversity recognizes that each individual intrinsically holds what they spend their lives searching for. The curriculum’s focus is on coming to learn less and experiencing more. In experiencing more, we remember the knowing we have and begin the process of releasing external skills making room for internal realities. As we begin this recognition of internal knowing, we see the connection in all aspects of life regardless of the external venues they are represented through. Seeing the connection in all aspects of life is what is represented in the Tao.

The TAO Metaversity is an educational environment dedicated to the “additional”

University of Utah's architectural students Paul Nielsen and Justin Wallis' current vision of the TAO Metaversity

learning that is not included in K-PhD and beyond. The whole person is acknowledged and is encouraged to include the spirit, cultivate imagination, fuel the intellect and remind us that we are citizens of ecological communities. Spaces must cultivate vision, imagination, ascetic and spiritual sensitivity, gentleness, generosity, caring and compassion. With that at the forefront, the students and teachers integrate those values into education, environmental studies, inner dimensional studies, business, medicine, science and the arts. This educational environment is available to all ages to invite the wonder in each of us to be integrated into all areas of our lives.

The TAO Metaversity includes people that may have a college education but have realized that something is missing, that somehow their professional knowledge and even success is not good enough in terms of personal realization, social action, interdisciplinary integration and understanding, or spiritual growth. It is an educational institution devoted to assist students in developing ‘being’. The curriculum and pedagogy focus not on acquiring but on experiencing.

The TAO Metaversity pursues its mission thru the following academies and programs:

• The Academy Of Universal Family
• The Academy Of Co-Creative Sciences and Environmental Studies
• The Academy Of Co-Creation
• The Academy Of Arts
• The Academy Of Inner Dimensional Studies
• The Academy Of Entrepreneurial Studies
• The Academy Of Wonder and Imagination

Although these programs are usually organized in separate academic units, the TAO Metaversity brings together while acknowledging their particular foci and methods.

TAO Metaversity

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• Sacred Architecture