5th Wheel IN the Wagon

The fifth wheel refers to something very real: a Onewheel. Unlike the four regular wheels on your car, this single wheel behaves as if it has fallen into a pot of magic potion. It balances you. It carries you. It gives you the immediate impression of floating effortlessly, magically, and peacefully through the world. This is the wheel anyone would want to carry IN the wagon—valued, essential and even magical—rather than a superfluous spare hanging ON the outside.

This fifth wheel symbolises the people at the heart of this project. They are the frontrunners of our society. They step off the predictable, rigid tracks of modern life to tap into a different, more vibrant and advanced energy field.

What does that energy field look like? Eckhart Tolle describes it perfectly. Fifth-wheel energy is the profound capability of feeling at home within yourself, precisely where you are. It stands in stark contrast to the modern, 'normal' state of consciousness—a state defined by a persistent, background unease. [Link: Watch Eckhart Tolle define this background unease]

Indeed, in our current Western, capitalist world, we are often led to believe that we sit at the absolute pinnacle of human development because of our economic and technological success.

But in reality, when it comes to the level of consciousness, we are very much still in our infancy and far from the top; living in a collective unease, constantly striving to 'get home'—chasing a destination that is, by definition, always located somewhere we are not.

Even though this deep sense of feeling at home is apparently exceptional in our current day society, I got a taste of it during a trip with a VW van in Arctic Sweden, and earlier on a Onewheel. It’s exactly those experiences that are at the heart of this project in an effort to further spread that energy.

And because moving to the Arctic didn't happen, I did the next best thing: I imported the Arctic frequency to Belgium in the form of this van, hosting this entire project directly inside the rolling sanctuary where the deep stillness originated. 🚐

But rather than talking about my own experiences, I want to begin by talking with other people who somehow have been crafting their own particular way.