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Sanctuary image created by me with Midjourney and Canva Pro I want to share a quick update about my status with Black Stone Sanctuary. Due to personal and household health and work reasons, I'm no longer involved with the project. However, I still support founder Danica Swanson's dream of "a dark monastic incubation space." Also, the online home of the Sanctuary has been moved back to Substack from Paragraph. I hope you'll consider following the project there and supporting Danica's vision of "an interfaith URL-to-IRL monastic retreat project." I wish Danica and the Sanctuary nothing but the best. © Trish Deneen  

I'm honored to share with you my participation in the revival of the Black Stone Sanctuary. The Sanctuary is the brainchild of essayist Danica Swanson whose work appeared in the first of its kind anthology, Polytheistic Monasticism: Voices from Pagan Cloisters . From Danica's intro to the space : "The Sanctuary is a dark monastic incubation space inspired by animist pre-Christian Nordic and Germanic religious and folk traditions." When Danica moved to the web3 social media platform Farcaster , I followed her to keep up with her work as she had retired much of her Sanctuary material. After several discussions, we found that we shared a love of web3 and the Sanctuary (for her as a full-time living goal, for me with a retreat or sabbatical space in mind). This developed into a renewed interest to bring her work onchain . For now, this is a virtual Santuary where we are publishing Danica's previous and new work as well as accompanying art and videos. Danica's reca...