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It's the start of the Neos Village Reservation Program, a multi-step application process to reserve a unit in Neos Village in Portugal's Alentejo, covering the vision, land, community, houses, and registration.

It's a reflective piece marking the successful land acquisition for Neos, sharing the emotional 'Hero's Journey' behind it and the key lessons learned over the past year of fundraising and negotiations.

It announces that Neos Village has raised over €2 million in pledges in two weeks, introduces the new Funding Codex document answering community questions, and invites people to become Founding Members before the 23 May 2025 funding deadline.

It's an urgent call to action following the 'Last Call' newsletter, updating the community that €2.2M has been pledged toward the €3.1M needed to secure the neos·village land, and outlining the next steps to finalize pledges, sign contracts, and transfer funds before the deed signing.

This is an urgent last-call appeal explaining that neos·life is about to lose its chosen land to a competing buyer unless the community can help raise a significant downpayment and show a clear path to completion within days, while the founders remain calm and open to whatever outcome is meant to be.

Yes, the land was acquired in 2025 and Neos Center has been operating on it since, running retreats with a committed team and community. The village itself is currently in the permitting stage, with its licence expected in Q2 2027.

Yes — a week before this newsletter, Karen and Vincent signed the deed and moved onto the Neos land, marking the completion of Phase 0 of the project.

Not yet — as of this issue, at least €2.2M of the €3.1M needed has been pledged by 23 people, but funds still need to be transferred to the sellers and the deed signed before the land is secured.

No — as of this issue, neos·life is on the verge of losing the land next week because a competing buyer is ready to close if a significant downpayment and clear completion plan aren't provided in time. Three independent valuations put the land's worth at least €4.4M, while the remaining amount needed is €3M (at €0.75/m2).

You can become a Founding Member by reserving a lot, with contributions ranging from €50,000 for a tiny house site up to €500,000 for larger units. Funds need to clear by 23 May 2025 to be part of this Founding Member round, and over 25 of the 200 homesites have already been reserved.

Send a direct message to connect@neos.life confirming your pledge intention and amount, sign the Pledge Letter (docusign link to follow), join a WhatsApp group or 1:1 call to define a simple contract, and then transfer funds, ideally by Tuesday.

The team is asking community members to reach out ASAP (within the weekend) if they can contribute funds, invest, or partner in any way; they also suggest someone could acquire the land for the remaining €3M and allow 12-18 months of collaborative exploration, or contribute toward a future home secured by the land via the poll in this issue.

Vincent is seeking seed money to complete the land purchase, begin planning, hire an architect, and refurbish existing buildings for retreats by summer. Interested investors can reply to the email or contact vincent@neos.life, and there's also a retreat, 'Awaken to Beauty,' on December 8 or 9 to experience the vision and land firsthand.

Neos Village will have 144 houses across three clusters (Lakeside, Community, and Meadow) built around a shared village center, on 158 hectares of oak groves, lakes and meadows. It sits alongside the adjoining Neos Center, a wellbeing, retreat and educational hub with space for 500 guests.

The village is designed as three clusters with paths leading to fire circles and shared kitchens, natural rewilded play spaces instead of standard playgrounds, and a dedicated Sociocracy Circle managing shared childcare and educational sessions.

Planned components include a healing center led by Dr. Nader Butto, a co-working/creation center, a meditation center, a school, an academy on mind-body-soul integration, a resort and residences for about 1,000 people, and a regenerative/permaculture farm that sustains the village with its own water and energy.

Neos is located in Alentejo, Portugal, about one hour from Lisbon, spanning 158 hectares for the village plus 1,000 acres total including the adjoining Neos Center land, with 410 hectares of Montado (cork oak) landscape being stewarded.

It's a 410 ha (with existing buildings measured at 420 ha) piece of land in Alentejo, Portugal, about 75 minutes from Lisbon airport. It's 2km wide and 3.1km long, with hill chains, a dam, and an altitude difference of 100m from peak to river valley.

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It takes at least 15 minutes; you can step away anytime and pick up where you left off via a sign-in link emailed to you after registering. Applications are processed in the order they're completed, so finishing sooner holds your place.

Neos requires one shared language so everyone can genuinely understand each other in daily life, decisions, disagreements, and shared training and practice, and that shared language is English.

Yes, the current pricing is valid until 31 August, after which prices increase by 5%.

Neos combines private home ownership with shared land, farm and community spaces, self-sufficiency in food, water and energy, wise self-governance with no guru, and a full ecosystem pairing a residential village with a world-leading center for transformation next door. It's designed as daily life for committed residents, not a retreat or commune.

It covers the whole child's journey from earliest years through teenage rites of passage, with teenagers eventually training alongside adults at Neos Center through real internships in healing arts, facilitation, operations and land stewardship.

Neos builds children's education around the same Self, Relational, and Environmental framework used for adults, blending forest-school, Montessori and Steiner-inspired hands-on learning with a thread of age-appropriate self-knowledge and consciousness work.

Neos plans to start with home education, which is regulated by Portuguese law: each child registers with a host school, is supported by a designated tutor, and sits national exams, while also exploring creating its own licensed school as a multi-year project.

They learned to trust and act on what's core to the vision without being held hostage by perceived limitations, to follow intuition even against advice, to be radically honest and vulnerable (like writing a heartfelt letter to sellers), to ignore unhelpful critics, and to surround themselves with a small, deeply aligned team rather than a large one.

Their core team included lawyers and advisors who navigated legal hurdles, architects and content creators who helped communicate the vision, and mentors like Lisa Margulies who kept them spiritually grounded throughout the journey.

Full details are laid out in the Neos Village Funding Codex, which covers land ownership, development costs, the 'Neos Coin', legal aspects, residency, and more; you're encouraged to read it before joining a live Q&A call.

It's a comprehensive document created in response to community questions, covering Land & Development, Funding & Financials, Legal Considerations, Living in Neos Village, and the Neos Center, capturing everything currently known (and unknown) about the project.

Investors get a homesite as co-owner on the village land south of the lake, discounted or free lifetime access to the retreat and event center's offerings (spa, festivals, workshops, healing sessions), and recognition as a Founding Member of the project.

Karen and Vincent explain that the sellers have a competing buyer ready to finalize the sale if neos·life doesn't secure a downpayment and a clear road to completion within days — they literally only have that weekend to bring something concrete together.

As of December 2024, there are a final two more months to complete securing 'the promised land.' An ideal investor was found and a signing was expected in December, but circumstances beyond their control prevented it from concluding, so the team continues in trust and patience.

Neos aims to be a place where each individual is supported to fully actualize into their I AM state of being, fostering awakening leaders through practices like radical self-enquiry, journaling, and intention setting.

Neos is rooted in the unification and balancing of polarities—light and dark, feminine and masculine, earth and spirit—as core to what is called the 'New Time' on Earth. The culture emphasizes radical self-enquiry, shedding illusory beliefs, and awakening to one's true 'I AM' state as a path to real unity.