Metaconsciousness: Mythology for a Post-Civilized World
Epilogue | Contents | III.1
The impulse behind Volume III is simple enough, being that if we wish to live in a different kind of world than the one we now inhabit, it is important that we imagine and visualize what that world should be like, and how we can imagine getting there. This is evidently how "reality" comes into being everywhere, all the time: it is first metaconsciously imagined, then it comes into manifestation. Accordingly, it was decided to broach a fresh volume, dedicated to imaginary yet plausible "future histories," ideally by as many different authors, with as many different points of view, as possible.
I find that one of the unavoidable "liabilities" of being a particular person is that, although I constantly strain to broaden my views, and expand my perspective, I still discover myself circumscribed by a painfully narrow and unique point of view, which prohibits me from imagining – or even having occur to me – perspectives and insights that might be transparently obvious to someone with a different slant on things. It just goes with the territory, I suppose, of being a particular person, and particularly not anybody else. Therefore, in order to accomplish its intended purpose of "telling stories" illustrating possible or plausible futures for humanity, it is desirable that such an anthology should have many contributors, with many different insights and points of view. That is what this volume is for, and you, dear Reader, are hereby invited to contribute to it.
Guidelines for contributions are simple: they should be stories or accounts of imaginary human events set in a time future to the final collapse of "civilization," illustrating a human way of life not blighted by the many self-destructive elements of dominator civilizations over the course of the past five thousand years. And ideally, they should describe or imply a plausible continuity from past to future. And naturally, any such contributions published here will appear with full attribution of their authorship.
Submissions may be of any length, and of any scope, e.g. from the vast sweep of Cosmic human history to the detailed minutia of individual human events in some future imagined setting – provided only that they illustrate some aspect(s) of a plausible "post-civilized" future for humanity.
Volume III may turn out to be the most enjoyable, or the most stimulating part of this project so far, as it invites the imaginative creativity of those who harbor dreams of "better worlds." The only limits imposed upon such an enterprise are those placed by the credibility of the vision; for the object of the exercise is to imagine a future the author actually believes to be possible, and is able to persuade her or his readers of its possibility as well. Thus, the pure "entertainment value" of fiction notwithstanding, there is a very serious purpose for the flights of fancy invited by Volume III; which need not in any way dampen the enthusiasm with which they are undertaken.
That's about it.
Metaconsciousness: Mythology for a Post-Civilized World
Epilogue | Contents | III.1