The afternoon
Without the night
Thursday 1:30 to 7 pm
- Talk & film with Jason
- A nature walk and a concert
€111
per person
Neos Center · Alentejo · With Jason Silva
Sacred Derangement
& Ecstatic States
A Manifesto for a New Mind
An afternoon, a dinner and a night with the filmmaker and philosopher Jason Silva.
Thursday 26 November 2026, from 1:30 pm
From€111
Limited.This is an intimate experience, with very limited spaces. Book early.
What if consciousness itself were a frontier, and the next territory to explore was not land, but experience?
Jason Silva makes films that are not meant to explain an idea but to induce a state. For one Thursday in November he brings that state to the Neos Center: an afternoon of ideas, film and conversation on creativity, awe and the expanding human mind.
His two books are the thread through the day. Sacred Derangement is a field guide to outrageous creativity and living in awe. The Ecstatic States of America is a manifesto for a new country of the mind, one with no borders because it never needed any.
Here they meet a place that is asking the same question with its hands: Neos, a village being built on 410 hectares of Alentejo cork oak land, with a lake at its heart, for people who want to live as if the future were already here. Stay for dinner with Jason, sleep on the land, and wake up to it.
Shots of Awe
Philosophical espresso shots for the attention age
Ecstatic Remembering, an ode to flow and creativity. A Shots of Awe film by Jason Silva. More films
Your host for the day
Jason Silva
Filmmaker, philosopher, futurist and author
Jason hosted five seasons of National Geographic's Emmy-nominated Brain Games, seen in 171 countries, and created Shots of Awe, the cinematic series on creativity and consciousness that has passed 100 million views.
He calls himself a performance philosopher: he takes the ideas of Huxley, McKenna, Buckminster Fuller and the great ecstatic tradition and turns them into an experience you feel in the body. He has done it on the stages of TED, Google, NASA and Cannes Lions. On 26 November he does it in a room in the Alentejo, close enough to talk back.
- 100M+
- views of Shots of Awe
- 171
- countries saw Brain Games
- 2
- new books
“Part Timothy Leary, part Ray Kurzweil, and part Neo from The Matrix.”
The two books
Field guides to aliveness
Two visual manifestos for outrageous creativity, radical self-expression and living in awe. You can add a copy of either, signed by Jason, to your booking and take it home from the day.
Sacred Derangement
A field guide to outrageous creativity, radical self-expression and living in awe.
On the holy madness of creation and the art of staying ecstatically alive.
The Ecstatic States of America
A manifesto for a new country of the mind. 148 pages, full colour.
Emerson, Whitman, Esalen, Apollo: the America that dreams, with the frontier moved inward.
“Wonder is a public utility. Ecstasy is a civic art.”
From The Ecstatic States of America
The day
From the afternoon to the morning
Thursday 26 November
- 1:30 pmArrivals
- 2 pmTalk & film with Jason
- 3:30 pmNature walk
- 5 to 6 pmConcert
- 6 to 7 pmSocial time
- 7 pmDinner with Jason, for those staying the night
- 8 pmFire
Friday 27 November
- MorningBreakfast on the land
- 11 amCheck out, or stay on for the Neos Experience Weekend
About the Neos weekend
A two-night weekend to connect, explore and be inspired by what it means to become a 'new human' in an extraordinary time.
- Accommodation (2 nights)
- Food: local organic shared meals
- Village building and 'new earth' discussions
- Land exploration
- Space to swim, meditate, walk, rejuvenate
Friday, arrival: 4-6 pm
- Relaxation, meet & greet
- Self-led movement · journaling · walking
- Dinner: local organic shared meal
- Fire Circle, songs and sharing
Saturday
- Breakfast, or fast until lunch
- Silent, slow morning: meditation on a rock or under a tree
- Guided movement practice in the event space, garden shala or yoga deck
- Lunch: local organic shared meal
- Afternoon land walk
- Dinner: local organic shared meal
- Evening: a spontaneous session on aspects of the Neos culture, practices and transformational content
- Sunset gazing
Sunday, departure after brunch
- Movement practice in the event space, garden shala or yoga deck · walk
- Brunch: local organic shared meal
- Goodbyes
An example weekend: outside mealtimes nothing is fixed.
Book your place
Come for the afternoon, or stay the night
Limited.This is an intimate experience, with very limited spaces. Book early.
Book
Afternoon, dinner & night
Shared room
Thursday 1:30 pm to Friday 11 am
- Dinner with Jason at 7 pm and the fire at 8
- A night at the Neos Center and breakfast
€244
per person
Afternoon, dinner, night & weekend
With the Neos Experience Weekend
Thursday 1:30 pm to Sunday 11 am
- The whole day with Jason
- Walking the 1,000 acres of land
- Getting to know the Neos project
- Meeting the founders
About the Neos weekend
A two-night weekend to connect, explore and be inspired by what it means to become a 'new human' in an extraordinary time.
- Accommodation (2 nights)
- Food: local organic shared meals
- Village building and 'new earth' discussions
- Land exploration
- Space to swim, meditate, walk, rejuvenate
Friday, arrival: 4-6 pm
- Relaxation, meet & greet
- Self-led movement · journaling · walking
- Dinner: local organic shared meal
- Fire Circle, songs and sharing
Saturday
- Breakfast, or fast until lunch
- Silent, slow morning: meditation on a rock or under a tree
- Guided movement practice in the event space, garden shala or yoga deck
- Lunch: local organic shared meal
- Afternoon land walk
- Dinner: local organic shared meal
- Evening: a spontaneous session on aspects of the Neos culture, practices and transformational content
- Sunset gazing
Sunday, departure after brunch
- Movement practice in the event space, garden shala or yoga deck · walk
- Brunch: local organic shared meal
- Goodbyes
An example weekend: outside mealtimes nothing is fixed.
From€634
per person
You can add a signed copy of Jason's books when you book. Full payment at booking; you'll receive an invoice and the travel details by email.
Friday 27 to Sunday 29 November
Stay on for the Neos Experience Weekend
Don't leave on Friday. The Neos Experience Weekend begins the same afternoon: walk the land with us, meet the people building the village, share the meals and the fire circle, and see what Neos is becoming.
Book the whole experience in one go, Thursday to Sunday, from the cards above, or add the weekend after you book your day with Jason, from €355 per person for the two nights, meals included.
About the Neos weekend
A two-night weekend to connect, explore and be inspired by what it means to become a 'new human' in an extraordinary time.
- Accommodation (2 nights)
- Food: local organic shared meals
- Village building and 'new earth' discussions
- Land exploration
- Space to swim, meditate, walk, rejuvenate
Friday, arrival: 4-6 pm
- Relaxation, meet & greet
- Self-led movement · journaling · walking
- Dinner: local organic shared meal
- Fire Circle, songs and sharing
Saturday
- Breakfast, or fast until lunch
- Silent, slow morning: meditation on a rock or under a tree
- Guided movement practice in the event space, garden shala or yoga deck
- Lunch: local organic shared meal
- Afternoon land walk
- Dinner: local organic shared meal
- Evening: a spontaneous session on aspects of the Neos culture, practices and transformational content
- Sunset gazing
Sunday, departure after brunch
- Movement practice in the event space, garden shala or yoga deck · walk
- Brunch: local organic shared meal
- Goodbyes
An example weekend: outside mealtimes nothing is fixed.
Where
The Neos Center, Herdade Batepé, São Geraldo, 7050-094 Montemor-o-Novo, in the Alentejo, Portugal. About an hour by car from Lisbon.
When
Thursday 26 November 2026. Arrive from 1:30 pm; the afternoon runs from 2 to 6 pm, with social time until 7. Dinner at 7 and the fire at 8. Overnight guests check out by 11 am on Friday.
Questions
Write to us at connect@neos.life. We're happy to help with travel and anything else.
A day with Jason Silva
Thu 26 Nov · from €111