人間クラフト Archive

Resources for becoming.

A how-to manual for meaning.

We are more technically advanced than any civilization in history, but we have never been more collectively unmoored from wisdom.

There is a demon in the White House, billionaires hasten a techno-feudal state, immense resources are pouring into robot farms.

But where does all this leave us?
How are we to live amidst the plunderings of end-stage capitalism?
The corruption & cruelty of aspiring authoritarians?

How are we to find meaning and purpose in our lives?
How do we climb off the treadmill of following paths laid out by people we don’t want to be anything like?
How are we to shape lives of beauty and sovereignty against the backdrop of the dumpster fire of the modern world?

These are some of the questions the Craft of Being archive embraces.

We are interested in the artisanal crafting of real human beings in an era unmoored from values, a moment marked by greed, selfishness, and institutionalized stupidity.
By a turning away from the Sacredness of Life herself.

We are interested in building beauty & meaning in a world that’s lost its fucking mind.

Craft of Being is a translation of the Japanese words ningen(人間) & kurafuto(クラフト).
‘Beingness in the human realm’ & ‘artisanal craft’.

We are interested in resuscitating the guild structures of apprenticeship to master craftspeople in the art & science of becoming a real human being.

Join us.

At a practical level, the archive contains nearly 400 films, dialogs, interviews, and practices of wellbeing networked together into a tapestry of meaning. Every piece of content is a node in this network, threaded with every other piece of content to which it is related. You find something that is important to you, and you can follow it indefinitely, pulling on the strands of meaning that resonate. A grand choose-your-own-adventure with both precise and amorphous filtering tools.
Discover teachers, practices, perspectives, and wisdom to live by.

Teachers in the Craft of Being archive are vetted across two primary dimensions: they must be masterful in their craft, and true to their values as a way of being. No performative bullshit here. No profiteering. Just unfiltered quality & ethical behavior. As a collective we share the proceeds from this site to feed our families, strengthen our work, and support new talent.

We are Craft of Being.

This is what we stand for.

We are trying to keep the price of the archive as low as possible.

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