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Hello, friend. My name is Stella R. Magnet, and I have always been dreaming of futurist worlds that are more peaceful, synergetic, and free. I connect dots through intuition and cryptic symbolism to get closer to this dream, while helping others reach conjoined realities faster.
I deeply align with the Seven Hermetic Principles and believe in the interconnected nature of consciousness with spacetime. I also align with Carl Jung's philosophy in relation to the collective unconscious and the shadow. I believe we each carry timeless souls working toward the same fundamental purpose: the evolution of consciousness itself. Whether we realize it or not, every human experience - every challenge, breakthrough, and moment of awareness - contributes to our species' gradual awakening to who we truly are.
Reincarnation, and karma seem like accurate game rules. I recently became initiated into a Kriya yoga lineage of Jedi Masters, as I intend to dedicate the rest of my life toward elevating my level of consciousness and increasing my perception of the unknown, so I can approach my life mission from a place of power, belonging, and increased connection. I actively participate in the emerging renaissance where ancient wisdom, modern science, esoteric knowledge, and under-explored realms intersect.
Navigating multiple dissociative episodes over the past 17 years has required deep introspection and inner work. While these experiences have been pathologized as bipolar, schizoaffective, or psychotic, others recognize them as part of the natural spectrum of human consciousness. These altered states can reveal patterns and insights typically hidden from ordinary awareness. I've come to see them as instruments I have access to for perceiving reality's deeper layers.
I deeply align with the Seven Hermetic Principles and believe in the interconnected nature of consciousness with spacetime. I also align with Carl Jung's philosophy in relation to the collective unconscious and the shadow. I believe we each carry timeless souls working toward the same fundamental purpose: the evolution of consciousness itself. Whether we realize it or not, every human experience - every challenge, breakthrough, and moment of awareness - contributes to our species' gradual awakening to who we truly are.
Reincarnation, and karma seem like accurate game rules. I recently became initiated into a Kriya yoga lineage of Jedi Masters, as I intend to dedicate the rest of my life toward elevating my level of consciousness and increasing my perception of the unknown, so I can approach my life mission from a place of power, belonging, and increased connection. I actively participate in the emerging renaissance where ancient wisdom, modern science, esoteric knowledge, and under-explored realms intersect.
Navigating multiple dissociative episodes over the past 17 years has required deep introspection and inner work. While these experiences have been pathologized as bipolar, schizoaffective, or psychotic, others recognize them as part of the natural spectrum of human consciousness. These altered states can reveal patterns and insights typically hidden from ordinary awareness. I've come to see them as instruments I have access to for perceiving reality's deeper layers.
A Lifelong Raison d'Être
I believe in taking bold risks to consciously alchemize our dreams into shared reality, operating from a foundation of hope and optimism to unfold more beautiful possibilities. This vision manifests through Black Sky Society – a confluence of thinkers, artists, mystics, and technologists united in creating Skylabs: experimental spaces where research and art flow together to transmute dystopian currents into cosmic harmony.
I lead our inaugural Skylab, Aetheria, which is located in Crete. I am accepting applications for an experimental cohort that explores transcendence through the lens of Black Sky's seven tenets and seven topics. This initial cohort requires deep comfort with openness, vulnerability, and reflexive awareness: those ready to transmute beyond trauma bonds into deeper, authentic, reflective, and honest connections. My current phase of existence calls for nothing less.
I believe in taking bold risks to consciously alchemize our dreams into shared reality, operating from a foundation of hope and optimism to unfold more beautiful possibilities. This vision manifests through Black Sky Society – a confluence of thinkers, artists, mystics, and technologists united in creating Skylabs: experimental spaces where research and art flow together to transmute dystopian currents into cosmic harmony.
I lead our inaugural Skylab, Aetheria, which is located in Crete. I am accepting applications for an experimental cohort that explores transcendence through the lens of Black Sky's seven tenets and seven topics. This initial cohort requires deep comfort with openness, vulnerability, and reflexive awareness: those ready to transmute beyond trauma bonds into deeper, authentic, reflective, and honest connections. My current phase of existence calls for nothing less.
From Bitcoin to Black Sky
My decade-long exploration (2014-2024) into the wild west of cryptocurrency has been centered on two interconnected potentials: its power as a technology for liberation and its capacity to fund ambitious engineering projects typically dependent on government spending, such as space exploration and futuristic cities. This path eventually led to the creation of the Post-Web initiative, to ensure that software and coordination technologies that future societies leverage support and extend freedom. While Post-Web is still situated deeply within my heart, I'm currently casting my psycho-magnetic net to attract a passionate, energetic, and optimistic leader that feels inspired to carry the vision forward, as the majority of my energy has transitioned towards activating the weird science, wilder side of Black Sky.
How did this path all start? Well, first, I learned of Bitcoin in 2014 when I met Ryan Singer at 20mission, a co-living community that I was occasionally hanging out at. I installed a Bitcoin wallet and bought a Bitcoin. Through this community, I discovered Ethereum in early 2015 after attending Vitalik Buterin's talk at the Internet Archive, where I also met a Krakenite (Kraken employee).
During those years, I didn't fully understand where cryptocurrency fit into my life, but the pieces came together eventually. In late 2016, I co-founded Space Cooperative (Space Co-op), a worker-owned cooperative which had a mission to create a citizen-led crowdsourced and crowdfunded space program. In early 2017, the Krakenite put an idea into my head: why doesn't Space Cooperative create a Space DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)? I remembered reading an article by Giulio Prisco a few weeks before this conversation, where he was putting forward a similar vision as Space Co-op, with a crypto flair.
I reached out to Giulio, and we decided to combine our forces: he joined Space Cooperative, and we made Space Decentral our central project. The DAO never really officially launched, and there will be a story about what happened at some point. But someone did write their master's thesis about us, and many others with more money eventually copycatted our mission statement (like Consensys or Spacechain). That era of thinking was ahead of its time and naive. Years later, people eventually launched more pragmatic Space DAOs (like MoonDAO).
In some sense, Black Sky Society is an evolution and continuation of the ideas that Giulio and I were trying to bring to life with Space Decentral. Of the many Space Co-op founders, we are the two that remain and carry our space torch forward with Black Sky, while tapping into high quality weirdness now. I also now totally welcome billionaires like Joe Lubin in becoming a mystical space weirdo: bring it on, let your freak flag fly.
My decade-long exploration (2014-2024) into the wild west of cryptocurrency has been centered on two interconnected potentials: its power as a technology for liberation and its capacity to fund ambitious engineering projects typically dependent on government spending, such as space exploration and futuristic cities. This path eventually led to the creation of the Post-Web initiative, to ensure that software and coordination technologies that future societies leverage support and extend freedom. While Post-Web is still situated deeply within my heart, I'm currently casting my psycho-magnetic net to attract a passionate, energetic, and optimistic leader that feels inspired to carry the vision forward, as the majority of my energy has transitioned towards activating the weird science, wilder side of Black Sky.
How did this path all start? Well, first, I learned of Bitcoin in 2014 when I met Ryan Singer at 20mission, a co-living community that I was occasionally hanging out at. I installed a Bitcoin wallet and bought a Bitcoin. Through this community, I discovered Ethereum in early 2015 after attending Vitalik Buterin's talk at the Internet Archive, where I also met a Krakenite (Kraken employee).
During those years, I didn't fully understand where cryptocurrency fit into my life, but the pieces came together eventually. In late 2016, I co-founded Space Cooperative (Space Co-op), a worker-owned cooperative which had a mission to create a citizen-led crowdsourced and crowdfunded space program. In early 2017, the Krakenite put an idea into my head: why doesn't Space Cooperative create a Space DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)? I remembered reading an article by Giulio Prisco a few weeks before this conversation, where he was putting forward a similar vision as Space Co-op, with a crypto flair.
I reached out to Giulio, and we decided to combine our forces: he joined Space Cooperative, and we made Space Decentral our central project. The DAO never really officially launched, and there will be a story about what happened at some point. But someone did write their master's thesis about us, and many others with more money eventually copycatted our mission statement (like Consensys or Spacechain). That era of thinking was ahead of its time and naive. Years later, people eventually launched more pragmatic Space DAOs (like MoonDAO).
In some sense, Black Sky Society is an evolution and continuation of the ideas that Giulio and I were trying to bring to life with Space Decentral. Of the many Space Co-op founders, we are the two that remain and carry our space torch forward with Black Sky, while tapping into high quality weirdness now. I also now totally welcome billionaires like Joe Lubin in becoming a mystical space weirdo: bring it on, let your freak flag fly.
Cryptocurrency Liberation Archives
As an early contributor and volunteer to AssangeDAO, I helped drive strategy, war room ops, governance, and community initiatives that led to raising over $50M for Julian Assange's legal defense. Our fundraising success played a key role in the broader campaign for his freedom, while establishing new precedents for DAO-powered activism.
While living at a DarkFi hacker house/commune for a few months in 2022, I helped redefine the UX & information architecture of their homepage (dark.fi) – work that remains live today. During this period, I also contributed to early brainstorming sessions for their AnonDAO initiative.
At Radicle (2023-2024), I served as lead author of the user and protocol guides for Radicle 1.0, and also conceived of the initial alien-themed AI art that established the aesthetic of the Radicle universe. I also lead an initiative towards organizing a product roadmap, and contributed to strategic projects across social media marketing, community communications, and event production.
I've dabbled in other corners of the cryptocurrency realm, and have made contributions to projects like Namada (Reviewing/copyediting community mission statement), MolochDAO (DAO stewardship), BrightID (Early UX design), and Althea (Router Dashboard UX).
As an early contributor and volunteer to AssangeDAO, I helped drive strategy, war room ops, governance, and community initiatives that led to raising over $50M for Julian Assange's legal defense. Our fundraising success played a key role in the broader campaign for his freedom, while establishing new precedents for DAO-powered activism.
While living at a DarkFi hacker house/commune for a few months in 2022, I helped redefine the UX & information architecture of their homepage (dark.fi) – work that remains live today. During this period, I also contributed to early brainstorming sessions for their AnonDAO initiative.
At Radicle (2023-2024), I served as lead author of the user and protocol guides for Radicle 1.0, and also conceived of the initial alien-themed AI art that established the aesthetic of the Radicle universe. I also lead an initiative towards organizing a product roadmap, and contributed to strategic projects across social media marketing, community communications, and event production.
I've dabbled in other corners of the cryptocurrency realm, and have made contributions to projects like Namada (Reviewing/copyediting community mission statement), MolochDAO (DAO stewardship), BrightID (Early UX design), and Althea (Router Dashboard UX).
Strengths, Skills, and Past Lives
My core strengths combine strategic vision with systems engineering – from architecting DAO governance and crafting handbooks, to product roadmapping and information design. I also excel at sculpting the essential human touch-points that define a project: naming, aesthetics, positioning, and user experience.
While I'm fluent in graphic design, technical writing, AI art, and community building, my energy is best channeled into partnership with founders to establish foundational direction that teams can build upon. As a founder myself, I can also provide insightful review of contributor work within my domains of expertise. My sweet spot is co-creating project DNA – helping birth new initiatives into form rather than maintaining ongoing operations.
I also thrive at orchestrating transformative events – weaving together creative direction, curation, aesthetics, and narrative to craft dynamic experiences where knowledge cross-pollinates and new worlds emerge. This vision manifested in the creation of Autonomous Ecologies (March '23, July '23) and Ephemeral (Nov '23).
In my past life (2008-2016), I navigated the corporate realm as a hybrid product manager and UI/UX designer, culminating in a Senior Product Manager role at Oracle. My foundation in systems thinking comes from my BS in Mechanical Engineering (UC Berkeley, 2008), while my passion for the cosmos led to an Astronautical Engineering Certificate (UCLA Extension, 2016). Because space is, indeed, the place.
Strengths, Skills, and Past Lives
My core strengths combine strategic vision with systems engineering – from architecting DAO governance and crafting handbooks, to product roadmapping and information design. I also excel at sculpting the essential human touch-points that define a project: naming, aesthetics, positioning, and user experience.
While I'm fluent in graphic design, technical writing, AI art, and community building, my energy is best channeled into partnership with founders to establish foundational direction that teams can build upon. As a founder myself, I can also provide insightful review of contributor work within my domains of expertise. My sweet spot is co-creating project DNA – helping birth new initiatives into form rather than maintaining ongoing operations.
I also thrive at orchestrating transformative events – weaving together creative direction, curation, aesthetics, and narrative to craft dynamic experiences where knowledge cross-pollinates and new worlds emerge. This vision manifested in the creation of Autonomous Ecologies (March '23, July '23) and Ephemeral (Nov '23).
In my past life (2008-2016), I navigated the corporate realm as a hybrid product manager and UI/UX designer, culminating in a Senior Product Manager role at Oracle. My foundation in systems thinking comes from my BS in Mechanical Engineering (UC Berkeley, 2008), while my passion for the cosmos led to an Astronautical Engineering Certificate (UCLA Extension, 2016). Because space is, indeed, the place.
Alchemize with Black Sky Society
Black Sky Society has been a bit under the radar for the past few years, but it's more refined vision will finally be launched this year. Based on what you know and understand of it now, if you or your project wants to consider aligning with Black Sky Society, send me a message on Signal: stellarmagnet.77
Note: Due to a very large list of research and creative pursuits that are in the works, I am unable to accept most volunteer positions in this instantiation of spacetime.
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Black Sky Society has been a bit under the radar for the past few years, but it's more refined vision will finally be launched this year. Based on what you know and understand of it now, if you or your project wants to consider aligning with Black Sky Society, send me a message on Signal: stellarmagnet.77
Note: Due to a very large list of research and creative pursuits that are in the works, I am unable to accept most volunteer positions in this instantiation of spacetime.
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