Our History

How The Icarus Project began, grew, and is rapidly changing thousands of people's lives. Learn more about our bizarre and amazing story, and find out more about some of the people working behind the scenes to make this thing happen.

Our Visions

The Icarus Project was built on dreams and a lot of hard work. In this section we share some of our current visions for this project and dream up ways that the mad ones can connect, build networks, and get down to changing the world.

Origins and Purpose

When we first created The Icarus Project, we tried to create an inspiring manifesto about the experience of "mental illness" which draws its strength from myth and metaphor as opposed to the paradigms of disease and dysfunction. Here is our original mission statement"¦