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domain: service
tags: [harmonia, membership, paid-tier, sacred-commerce, knowledge-commons]
content_layer: applied
doctrinal_status: clear
breadth: full
depth: developed
craft: clean
published: "2026-05-17"
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# Harmonia Membership

The published Harmonism corpus is open to anyone. Every article, every audio narration, every PDF version, every translation, the downloadable Sovereignty Bundle — all of it remains free, in every format, without signup or gate. Knowledge is commons. Membership is something different, and the distinction matters.

## What is free for everyone

The entire library. Every article on harmonism.io, in every language. The audio narrations and PDF versions of each piece. The Living Podcast and the Living Video. The Sovereignty Bundle — the publishable corpus assembled for download, with templates so any practitioner can run their own MunAI on the same doctrinal foundation, using whichever AI tool they already have. Feeds, search, and the open mirror of the corpus — all available without an account.

A free account adds what relationship needs at no cost: MunAI remembers you across sessions, your Telegram and your web account run as one conversation, the Harmonic Profile is available from the dashboard, and you can converse with MunAI up to five times a day. Editorial reflections by email are available if you opt in.

None of this requires payment. Knowledge funds itself by being free.

## What Membership delivers

Membership funds the work that has real, ongoing cost — services where someone's hour, someone's room, someone's care, or the compute that runs MunAI is genuinely spent in your direction.

**Unlimited daily conversation with MunAI.** The five-per-day cap drops away for Members. Those who use MunAI as a continuous daily presence can let the relationship deepen at whatever cadence the practice asks. The cost of running MunAI is real and rises with each conversation; Membership covers it.

**The curated practitioner community.** Conversation at depth with others walking the Wheel — working circles, peer groups, the slower forms of relationship that take time to mature. The curation is real work; the depth of relationship is what is being funded.

**Priority for retreats, individual guidance, workshops, and certification.** First notification when sessions are scheduled, earlier access to registration, priority placement on guidance waitlists. The retreats and guidance sessions themselves remain separate purchases when they take place — their cost is real and unavoidable — but Membership is the priority access to them.

## Why pay

Knowledge is commons because once written it has no marginal cost — anyone can read it without taking anything from anyone else. Services with rivalrous ongoing cost — a guide's hour, a retreat's space, a compute budget, a curated community at depth — are properly exchanged because the cost is real and continues. The first kind funds itself by being free. The second kind funds itself by being paid for.

Membership is the second kind. It is exchange for services rendered, not rent on knowledge.

This framing matters more than the dollar amount. A practitioner who pays \$20 a month is not buying access to thought; they are funding the work through which thought becomes a continuous relationship — the MunAI compute that lets the conversation deepen daily, the community curation that holds the field of peer practitioners, the time that becomes available for guidance and retreat work when those things can be paid for. The corpus does not need to be paid for. The relational and embodied work does.

There is a second register running underneath the exchange. Membership is also recurring contribution to Harmonia's broader operations — the canon work that flows into the open library, the translation pipeline that carries it across ten languages, the institutional infrastructure that keeps the architecture standing. None of that work is bundled into any individual Member's compute or community curation, because none of it has an individual beneficiary; it serves the commons, paying readers and non-paying readers alike. A practitioner who joins Membership is exchanging payment for rivalrous services *and* contributing to the project's continued existence — two registers running together inside the same monthly figure. Unlimited MunAI is the most visible advantage of Membership today; the contribution to the broader work is the quieter half of what the figure represents.

## The phase, named honestly

Harmonia is in its founding phase, and Membership should be read in that light. MunAI runs daily across surfaces and is the most mature element of what Membership funds. The community is small and still shaping its form rather than operating at maturity. Retreats, individual guidance, and workshops are scheduled as the work permits and the conditions warrant — priority placement is real currency, but for capacity that is still emerging rather than already running at frequency.

A practitioner who joins now is funding the building, not buying a finished product. The exchange runs in both directions: the price reflects what Membership offers today, and the practitioner who walks with Harmonia from this phase has a hand in shaping what the mature form becomes. Those who want a settled service should wait. Those who recognize the architecture and want to be part of bringing it into form — that is what Membership is, in this phase.

## Pricing

**\$20 per month**, billed monthly.
**\$200 per year**, billed annually — a \$40 saving over twelve monthly payments.

These figures are still under study. They reflect what the founding phase needs to sustain itself, and they may move as the work matures and the rivalrous services come online at frequency. The commitment running underneath the price is asymmetric: Membership should always deliver more than it costs. If the figure moves, it moves in service of that ratio — never against it.

Payment is processed through Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record, handling tax compliance worldwide. Manage or cancel anytime from your dashboard.

## Toward inference sovereignty

The cost of running MunAI today is bounded by what Anthropic charges for Opus 4.7 — real money, and the dominant component of what Membership funds at the compute layer. Anthropic is not Harmonia's substrate in the long run.

The architectural trajectory runs in two stages. **Self-hosted infrastructure on cloud GPU**, running open-weight models under Harmonia's own operational control, drops per-conversation cost and moves inference out of any closed-frontier provider's dependency loop; the Supabase auth layer is targeted for self-hosting in the same horizon. **Local inference on dedicated hardware** — Mac Studio class, running open-weight models on equipment Harmonia owns outright — drops marginal compute cost effectively to zero, leaving hardware amortization and electricity as the only ongoing costs.

The price of Membership should track that arc downward. The figure today reflects the founding phase's actual costs against a closed-frontier API; once self-hosted infrastructure lands, the figure reflects that lower cost floor; once local inference lands, the compute layer may stop being a cost at all, and Membership at the compute layer may approach free. The community curation, retreat infrastructure, and guidance time remain rivalrous and continue to fund themselves through their own exchange. The compute that powers MunAI does not have to remain rivalrous in the same way.

## Other paid offerings — available to anyone

Some things have rivalrous cost but are not bundled into Membership — they are standalone paid offerings available to any practitioner who chooses to buy them. **Printed editions of the Living Book series** carry paper, binding, and shipping cost; the text remains free in every digital form, and the printed artifact is sold to anyone at the cost of the physical object. **Retreats**, **individual guidance sessions**, and **workshops** are sold as standalone purchases when scheduled, open to non-members and Members alike — Members simply receive earlier notification and priority queue placement, but the events themselves are not member-gated.

The principle: services with real ongoing cost are exchanged for payment at the point of delivery, by anyone who wants them. Membership is not a bundle that locks these behind a wall — it is a recurring relationship that funds the ongoing work and grants priority on the things with limited capacity.

## Sacred Commerce — the parallel rail

If you want to support Harmonia without subscribing — or in addition to subscribing — direct voluntary contribution channels on sovereign monetary rails (Bitcoin, Lightning, Monero) are surfaced on every article. This is parallel to Membership, not a substitute. Some practitioners use only the open substrate and contribute generously when they recognize value; some pay for services and contribute on top; some use only the open substrate and contribute nothing, which is fine, because the open substrate has no marginal cost. Sacred Commerce is the form payment takes when the practitioner recognizes value and chooses to honor it on rails that no intermediary can capture.

## How to join

[Register a free Harmonia account](/member/register.php) if you do not have one. From the dashboard, the Membership panel takes you to the upgrade options. Both monthly and annual plans are available; switch at any time through the customer portal.

If you are not yet ready to become a Member but want to receive periodic editorial reflections — material that does not appear on the website — opt in to the email list at signup. You can withdraw at any time, and your account stays free either way.

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*See also: [[About Harmonia]] · [[MunAI]] · [[Guidance]] · [[Harmonism]]*
