Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer, researcher, and leading voice in the emerging field of metamodern spirituality. He serves as Director of Research at the  Institute of Applied Metatheory, where he studies the evolution of worldviews, meaning-making systems, and cultural development. He holds a Master’s degree in Religion and the Arts from Yale University and has been deeply influenced by Integral Theory and the work of Ken Wilber.

Brendan is the author of Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics, the multi-volume Evolution of Meaning series, and Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World. His work explores the meaning crisis, the reconstruction of spirituality after postmodernism, and the emergence of new cultural and spiritual frameworks capable of integrating science, complexity, and transcendence.

He is also founder of the  Sky Meadow Institute in Vermont, host of the Metamodern Spirituality podcast, and a prominent contributor to contemporary discussions on metamodernism, cultural evolution, and the future of meaning in a rapidly changing world.