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Consciousness Research

Spoon Bending

After teaching over 1,100 people to bend spoons across 8 years and counting, Zenka Caro's Spoon Bending Lab turns the impossible into something you can hold in your hand. Learn to bend reality, break the spell of limitation, and step into lucid living.

Spoon Bending

The Spoon Bending Lab began with a simple invitation: what happens when ordinary people are given permission to test reality directly? No dogma, no guru fog, no distant theory, just a spoon in your hand and a question pulsing through the room: is matter as fixed as we were taught?

Over the past eight years, more than 1,100 people have participated in this experiment with Zenka Caro, often discovering that the most powerful bend is not in the metal, but in the mind that thought it already knew what was possible. Spoon bending becomes a doorway into lucid living, where limitation starts to look less like truth and more like old software begging for an update.

Snapshot
people
  • Lab Director (1)
  • Editor — part-time (1)
  • Social Media Manager (1)
  • Virtual Assistants (2)
  • Software Developer — part-time (1)
  • Press & Outreach (1)
  • Designer — quarter time (1)
  • Data Analyst — part-time (1)
  • Lead Coach (1)
  • Website Developer & Designer — quarter time (1)
places
  • Sedona, Arizona (lab base)
  • Online community + monthly Mind Over Matter parties
  • Workshops worldwide (touring program)
tools
  • Monthly Mind Over Matter spoon-bending parties
  • Research data platform (LightNet Leap Maps)
  • Coaching program (private 1:1 + cohort)
  • Press, outreach, and short-form media
  • 1,100+ participants across 8 years of teaching
Budget
$786,900
Year-1 fully-staffed program budget
income
  • Research division — 9 roles$632,400
  • Coaching program — 2 roles$154,500
expenses
  • Lab Director$142,500
  • Social Media Manager$110,500
  • Lead Coach$112,500
  • Editor (part-time)$85,000
  • Software Developer (part-time)$85,000
  • Data Analyst (part-time)$75,000
  • Virtual Assistants (2)$54,400
  • Press & Outreach$42,500
  • Website Developer & Designer (¼ time)$42,000
  • Designer (¼ time)$37,500
Salaries shown include 40% benefits on full-time roles, 10% performance bonus, and recruiting expenses where applicable. Currently fundraising — the Spoon Bending Lab is not yet fully staffed.
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