Living Paradise is the synthesis of many inter-related goals of the Theurgy Foundation, and the culmination of years of planning and work. It's focal point is the Living Paradise Living Center to be opened in Seattle, Washington on Winter Solstice 2004.

The Living Center will be a community gathering place in the truest sense – a nexus for healthful living, an education center, a networking hub, a creative outlet for visionary arts, a comfortable healing space, an opportunity for empowerment, and a source for inspiration and spiritual growth. With a focus on sustainability, peacefulness, and abundance, it will encourage a return to harmony with your self, your body, your community, and your world. The Center will promote a new way of living, a new way of doing business, and a new way of being in this world. It will be a dynamic and fluid creation, encouraging change, growth, and expansion on personal as well as societal levels. And, it will serve as a haven for sustainable, environmentally conscious living in the midst of a major North American city.

The Living Center will offer an organic, vegan live foods restaurant and deli, an organic juice bar, a visionary art gallery, a yoga studio, a sustainability store, a performance venue, class and workshop areas, healing rooms, meditation and sacred spaces, and free wireless broadband internet, all under one solar panel covered roof. This consciously created, non-toxic environment will also be home to the Living Paradise line of prepared live foods to be sold in stores and markets, and our live foods catering business.

The Center will bring together many diverse communities for networking, communication, education, activation, cross-pollenization of ideas, and sharing of energies. These will include our local neighborhood community, the raw/live foods community, the health-conscious community, the artistic/creative community, the spiritual community, and the modern tribal community, as well as people simply seeking entertainment or a fresh, new dining experience. This coming together will inspire greater innovation and manifestation, and work to further the Living Paradise approach to living.

Educational opportunities will abound, including classes and workshops, flyers and informational handouts, on the job training for employees, volunteer training, and the education that occurs through simply being immersed in the energies of Living Paradise – experiencing the food, the environment, and the people. A wide range of topics will be covered such as live foods preparation, the live foods lifestyle, yoga, dance, sustainability, environmentalism, non-violent communication, spiritual growth and evolution, and artistic techniques and creation.

The Center will be a venue for visionary arts offering gallery, live music and performance spaces, with an environment always open to the creation and sharing of art.

Healing on all levels will be a top priority, supported by the organic and healthy food, the non-toxic environment, deep interpersonal connection, classes and workshops, yoga, dance, and on-site practitioners of the healing arts. Various healing modalities will be available including massage, Reiki, Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Naturopathic medicine, counseling, belief re-patterning, breathwork, and re-birthing.

Our focus on sustainability will include minimizing negative impact of all kinds, ultra-efficient use of energy and resources, liberal use of recycled materials, use of innovative technologies, and sharing and teaching concepts of sustainability with others. All of this will be focused on building a better future rather than creating more waste and introducing more disposable goods into the world.

The physical environment of the Center will be carefully designed to ensure that it is as non-toxic as possible. There will be no smoking. We will use organic materials throughout the building, such as organic paints and bamboo flooring, and limit the use of petroleum-based products and materials. Water and air will be filtered, energetically balanced, and charged with comforting negative ions through the use of the latest highly sophisticated filtering technologies. The Center will be filled with lush, green, growing plants for their healthful benefits. And, of course, all food served will be 100% organic, vegan, live, and non-GMO.

Imagine arriving at Living Paradise. Your first impression will be the unusual, artistic hand-made awnings that resemble vines growing and flowers blossoming, with lots of lush plants and flowers hanging from the awnings and all around the entrance to the building. You enter into a peaceful, inviting environment filled with beautiful, shining people, music, plants, and life energy. The ceilings are high and wooden, the floor is beautiful bamboo with lots of rugs, visionary artwork is everywhere, and the room is filled with light streaming through the extra large windows. The environment feels peaceful, fresh, and healing. People are milling about, eating delicious food, interacting, sitting at tables or relaxing in big comfy chairs. Many of them have laptops and are connecting with the world via the free wireless broadband internet. The counter is to your right, where people are ordering their food, or getting a fresh organic juice. Some people are grabbing a quick bite to go from the glass-front refrigerators before continuing on their way. You might want to sit down, have something to eat, and relax a while, or perhaps peruse the information in the education corner, or spend some time shopping for healtful products in the sustainability store. If you continue on deeper into the building, you will come across the yoga studio, a large room with a bright bamboo floor, an abundance of plants, and a large saltwater aquarium filled with live coral and fish along one wall. Upstairs you find the Temple area for meditation and worship, visionary artists' studios, a wet/dry sauna, and rooms for massage and healing. Returning to the main room, you discover that a four-piece quartet has begun playing live music, and even more people have arrived. You get a cup of organic, herbal tea and a delicious raw dessert, and sit down to relax into the experience. Welcome home.