Soul Cultivation Now
Start Your Own
Village
The village is the most proven unit of human civilization. Ten thousand years of evidence. Scott Sherman has built two of them — and spent a lifetime studying what makes them work. Now that knowledge is packaged, portable, and ready to go anywhere.
Take it. Build it. Launch it.
The world is ready for villages again.
Isolation is at epidemic levels. Institutional trust has collapsed. The nuclear family is overburdened. People are hungry for something they can't quite name — and what they're hungry for is the village.
Not a commune. Not a co-housing project. Not a Facebook group. A real village — small enough to know each other, structured enough to hold the full range of life, ritual enough to mark what matters.
Scott Sherman built the Abalone Village in Ukiah, California in the 1980s. It ran for seven years. When he moved, it didn't end — it gave birth to a second village. That is what a real village does. It propagates.
This kit is the distillation of that experience — 40+ years of shamanic practice, community building, ritual design, and living research — packaged so that you can take it and go.
Choose Your Level of Support
From a free starter kit to full consulting — every path leads to the same destination: a real village, in your community, running on deep principles.
Take It & Go
Free Starter Kit
Free
For the self-starter who is ready to begin
- ✓The Village Blueprint — core framework document
- ✓Village Roles guide (Neophyte → Elder)
- ✓Ritual Calendar template (solstices & equinoxes)
- ✓Talking Stick Protocol guide
- ✓Recommended reading list
- ✓Getting-started checklist
Email us — we send it directly to you.
Full Village Kit
Complete Package
$197
Everything you need to launch a real village
- ✓Everything in the Free Kit
- ✓Extended Village Design Workbook
- ✓Ceremony & ritual scripts (seasonal + rites of passage)
- ✓Conflict resolution & the Talking Stick framework
- ✓How to find and hold your founding circle
- ✓The Village Economy — sliding scale, contribution, reciprocity
- ✓Soul Cultivation Game templates (tokens, milestones, roles)
- ✓Research participation framework
- ✓1 live Q&A group call with Scott
Contact us to purchase — Scott responds personally.
Kit + Scott
Full Kit with Consulting
Custom
Scott walks with you as you build
- ✓Everything in the Full Village Kit
- ✓3 private consulting sessions with Scott (video or phone)
- ✓Custom ceremony design for your community
- ✓Elder mentorship — Scott as your village's founding guide
- ✓Ongoing email support through your first year
- ✓Priority access to the Council of Elders
Sliding scale available. Contact to discuss.
Beyond the Kit
Two Ways to Go Deeper
Available to all kit purchasers — free or paid.
Join the Research Project
Soul Cultivation Now is an active living research project — documenting what happens when villages re-form in the modern world. Village founders who opt in contribute their experience to the collective record: what worked, what didn't, what emerged. Your village becomes part of the data. Your story becomes part of the evidence.
Learn about the research →Council of Elders — Global Decision Making
Any village that launches using this kit — that actually gets going, that holds its first ceremony — earns a voice on the Soul Cultivation Council of Elders. This council will make decisions about activating Soul Cultivation villages around the world, in many languages, across many cultures. The village that gets going gets a vote. This is how the movement governs itself.
Read about the Village →What you are actually building
A founding circle
4–12 people who say yes. This is your village nucleus. The kit shows you how to find them, hold the first gathering, and establish the culture from the start.
A ritual heartbeat
Seasonal gatherings — solstices and equinoxes — give the village its rhythm. The kit provides ceremony templates, talking-stick protocols, and facilitation guides.
A role structure
Neophyte. Participant. Wisdom Keeper. Elder. Every village needs the full range of human experience. The kit gives you the framework and the language.
A culture of contribution
Not a service to consume — a living organism to feed. Work parties. Potluck spirit. Co-created knowledge. The kit shows you how to build this from day one.
A living experiment
Your village, once running, is proof. Proof that this is possible. Proof that people are hungry for it. The research project documents what you learn.
Who Made This
Scott Sherman — 86 years of lived wisdom
Shamanic practitioner for 40+ years. Trained under Michael Harner. Clinical Supervisor for the Pomo Nation. Co-creator of the Abalone Village. Practitioner of Tai Chi for 40 years, yoga for 50. NLP master practitioner. Living sociological researcher on AI and human consciousness.
This kit is not theoretical. It comes from someone who has actually done it — twice — and studied why it works.
Meet Scott →The world doesn't need a new app.
It needs a village.
Start with the free kit. Or go all-in. Either way — begin.
Every village that launches earns a seat at the global Council of Elders — the body that will help activate Soul Cultivation villages around the world, in every language, on every continent.