Elementals Gathering 2026 Recap — Terrain Science, Electroculture & Biofield Dynamics | Biocharisma
The 2026 Elementals Gathering is a wrap: 17 speakers, two panels, three days on 100 acres in Missouri. Topher Gardner of Biocharisma and I jumped on a live stream to decompress and dig into what actually happened.
We cover the group energy dynamics that emerge at intentional gatherings and why they mirror altered states, a synesthesia moment where my sense of self physically expanded, the surprising coherence between speaker topics that weren't coordinated, Kyle Denton's herb walk and what you need to know about hemlock, Chris Crutchfield's documentary-level research on how every industry connects through banking, Chris Winters and why electroculture may be the most underestimated agricultural revolution happening right now, Marty's Gnostic sermon and the Two Towers musical finale, consciousness as electrical capacitance, and a live wrist circumcision. Elementals Gathering 2027 is already in the works for Mother's Day weekend, late April into early May.
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Core themes
Three Days, Seventeen Speakers, One Long Livestream
Chance Garton and Topher recap the first Elementals Gathering, seventeen speakers and two panels across three days on Big Bear's Missouri land, affectionately nicknamed Topher Palooza after the LLC that carries the event. Chance, who has been to every gathering held on that property, says it was the first festival he had attended with a genuine conference vibe, and that MCing it felt like hosting a three day livestream where he introduced friends instead of interviewing them and they talked for forty five minutes to an hour. Topher traces the genesis to Mari and Rebecca pitching him in New York the previous October.
The Talks That Caught Them Off Guard
Asked what surprised him, Chance names Chris Crutchfield's preview of an unreleased documentary, reporting Crutchfield's argument that every arm of industry connects at the core through banking, material Chance calls adjacent to Sabrina's presentation but delivered with Hollywood level production and butt jokes. Topher first heard Crutchfield on Alec Zeck's The Way Forward and later discovered the man had contacted him two years earlier asking about domes. Chance's other surprise was herbalist Kyle Denton, whose stage presence he rated near Big Bear's for entertainment, and Mike Wilkerson of Stellium Seven, whose material he says has been alchemically distilled since he last dug through it.
EMF Smog, Monitoring And Black Helicopters
Topher recounts going to Tesla Tech in 2008 with Dr. Moshe Daniel, a 2026 presenter, selling an invention called the mojo cell among people he describes as spooks, and claims that after they created a scalar standing wave a helicopter was overhead within six hours. He reports Sabrina's contested position that there is a molecular level saturation of specific frequency ranges used for monitoring, an EMF smog that heart coherence briefly clears. Chance offers his own account of a black helicopter hovering over an Arkansas house around 2017 during a recording, and cites Nathaniel Gillis on the phenomenon morphing to fit whoever observes it.
A Family First Festival With No Drugs In It
Both men keep returning to the culture Big Bear enforces on the property, an environment where mothers and children are safe and, as Topher puts it, nothing is going on beyond nicotine. Chance, who says he used to be the guy who thought he was brilliant while stoned, calls the sober version far cooler, and credits the playground and the constant passing around of his eighteen month old Gracie among the women, Mari included. He reports Gracie came home from three days of novelty saying several new words unprompted. John the bodyworker, Chance says, worked on people from the gates opening until they left.
What They Are Building For 2027
Rebecca corrects the schedule live in the chat: the second gathering lands the weekend before Mother's Day 2027, Friday the thirtieth through Sunday, piggybacking nearby dates so the international crowd need not fly home and back. Topher already has Mike Winner, Alec Zeck, Emily Moyer and Chris Crutchfield confirmed, is buying materials for a bathhouse he says will carry Missouri's first reciprocal roof, and reports the first year turned a profit and paid its MC. Chance plugs the rebuilt InnerVerse site, InnerVerse Plus, and an elementals coupon for thirty three dollars off a biofield tuning session.
Quotes
“It was like my sense of smell led into my sense of how large my body and my field was.”
“All my paranoia died that day, because he and I cleared it, created a scalar standing wave with his technology, and dude, within six hours we had a whoop whoop chopper over us.”
“This is just like a podcast for the most part. It's really about the vibe that you demonstrate more than about getting a ton of information jam-packed into your hour.”
“We actually turned a profit, which was kind of cool.”
“I speak it as someone who used to be that guy that thought he was really smart and was stoned. It is so much cooler to be at the sober festival.”
“If a person gets too much current running through them at any one given time and they haven't built up their capacitance, they get fried.”
“When I tell you that that man is a genius, what he is bringing to the world from an electroculture perspective is so next level.”
“I wave tuning forks around in my living room while I'm on a Zoom call with you. That sounds weird, but we figure a lot of shit out that way.”
Topher Gardner hosts the BioCharisma Podcast, blending permaculture, alternative construction, and body work in his exploration of resilience and wellness.
See all Topher episodes→Kyle and Serena Denton are community herbalists creating wild-crafted and organic plant medicines out of Milwaukee since 2015. I have used their teas and tinctures on an almost daily basis for years now. Kyle is a great friend of InnerVerse and has appeared on the channel more times than I can count. These products work, not in the allopathic "pharma-medicine" way, but in a terrain-support, consciousness bolstering plant-teacher sort of way.
