An invitation: Envisioning the future

Second try: A creative collective writing experiment

With life and the world around us changing faster and faster, something is stirring, in us individually and in the collective, conscious and unconscious. The very planet we are living on and the things we are inventing on it are changing rapidly and might do so beyond recognition. It is challenging to get one's head around that much complexity, uncertainty and potential change.

This in an invitation to invent our future in writing, to participate in creating a vision, through a story, together. To let ourselves go and go for it. Stories are powerful, and often reality will arise out of our imagination as much as reality is shaping it, and if those stories arise out of a collective, they will carry even more power and conviction.

There are many science fiction or future stories that take a fairly easy route - follow the known ways and often worst of human nature and take it to the next level of technological and cultural change. This story is meant to be something else. It's an experiment in stretching towards a new and deeper view and understanding of who and what we can be.

The way it could work is like this (always open for suggestions): I have started a story on a buzzword document, a software that allows people to work on a single document together. Any participant can change anything or ad comments. Buzzword will record those changes and again, make them visible to the group. Here on gaia, you will always find the latest updated version of the story to read.....

If you would like to participate in writing itself, please e-mail me through gaia and I will send you the password to access the document on buzzword. 

Outline (we have to start somewhere):
– these are suggested ’sign-posts’ for the start of the story
– They all can be changed at any time. For further info about that, if you want to participate as a writer, please e-mail me.

The year is 2030-2040

A group of scientists are touring the earth in order to investigate what seems to be a surge in possible extraterrestrial encounters in different cultures.

There are 6 people.

A brilliant specialist in aero- and space-technology from India, Addhi, he is in his late twenties, a nerdy type who is more at home with technological gadgets and discussions than real human exchange.

A couple ( Kera and Rico, both Brazilian physicists) who got together only a year ago and are struggling to keep their romance seperate from business.

An 85 year old retired remote viewer and psychic: Jack, who used to work for the CIA, before the collapse of the American empire, now serves the World Government by predicting natural disasters and other potentially destructive events.

A female expert on consciousness development and author, Gemma from Britain, who developed a highly respected theory that ufo’s and extraterrestrials are phenomena of consciousness rather than physics.

Senjo, a doctor from Japan who is also the clone of a famous biologist.

Through their travels we are getting to know life in different parts of the world.

The world is ruled by the ’World Council’, a chamber of elected leaders, representative of nations of every level of culture, social and economic development: Tribal, Feudal, Traditional, Modern, Postmodern and Integral.......

Sightings of the future:

„Okay,young man, Aikido lessons will be very good. You will have the best teacher in town and he will set you up with a routine that we can practice – how do you say – en route.“
Senjo smiled encouragingly at the lanky young man sitting across from him in the circle. “You will learn faster than you think and you will know you have a body!“ The others laughed. “And what it’s like to tackle actual people!“ Jack added. Addhi, hunched over and frowning, squinted at his colleagues, still not entirely sure what they were talking about. But, and this was the big change in this, their fifth team meeting on the trip, he was willing to give it a go. “Okay,“ he said, nodding his head sideways as only Indians can do.

„We’ve got it,“ Gemma slapped Addhi on the shoulder, almost making him topple over and leaned back to stretched her legs. She was much stronger than her slight built and delicate features might suggest. “Kera, you want to read out the notes to us, so we know we are on the same page?“

Kera nodded and sat up straight.
“Here goes: 1 – Senjo and Gemma will visit the young man Gemma just met, whose grandfather was a monk a long time ago and seems to know people who claim they had actual contact with Aliens. Due: tomorrow.
2 – Kera is going to write the report to the department head about the trip so far. Due: Tomorrow
3 – Kera and Riko are going to stick to general conversation or mission related talk only between themselves during the hours of 8am and 8pm every day.
4 – Addhi is going to take Aikido lessons while we are here in Kobe... in order to balance his brilliant mind“, she sent one of her georgeous Brazilian-beauty-queen-smiles to Addhi, “with physical and social development.
Any more comments?“ she glanced around the circle.
People shook their heads.
“Great.“ Gemma lept to her feet and pulled Jack up to standing. “Let’s go dance.“

The throbbing music in Kobe’s most popular night club had accompanied their meeting on it’s rooftop terrace on the 99th floor. Around them, behind large potted bamboos and flowering dogwood trees couples were audibly savouring the sexual revolution that had gripped Japan with a vengeance.
“I am ready,“ Riko put one arm around Kera and looked at her with the same fascination and disbelief he had been feeling ever since they met on a conference on extraterrestrial studies in Boston, a year ago.........