With life and the world around us changing faster and faster, something is stirring in us individually and in the collective, both 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. There isn’t a lot we can or have to take for granted. It is challenging to get one’s head around that, to make room for that much complexity, uncertainty and 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 – they follow the known ways and often worst aspects 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: I have started a story on Buzzword, a web-based word processor that allows people to work on a single document together. Any participant can change anything or add comments. Buzzword will record those changes, keep old versions available and make it all visible to the group.

What follows is an outline of the story’s main facets and characters, as we have to start somewhere. These are suggested sign-posts for the start of the story which all can be changed at any time. For further info about that, if you want to participate as a writer, please e-mail me at ulinagel at gmail dot com.

The year is 2030-2040. A group of scientists are touring the earth in order to investigate a seemingly obscure and mysteries surge in reported sightings of UFOs and extraterrestrial encounters in different cultures. There are 6 people:

• Addhi, a brilliant specialist in aero- and space-technology from India. He is in his late twenties, a nerdy type who is more at home with technological gadgets and discussions than real human exchange.
• Kera and Rico, a couple, both Brazilian physicists, who got together only a year ago and are struggling to keep their romance seperate from business.
• Jack, an 85 year old retired remote viewer and psychic, who used to work for the CIA before the collapse of the American empire. He now serves the World Government by predicting natural disasters and other potentially destructive events.
• Gemma, a British author and expert on consciousness development and author, who has developed a highly respected theory that UFOs 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.

To read the story where it’s at now, click here…

If you would like to participate in writing it, please e-mail me (ulinagel at gmail dot com) and we will invite you to access the document on Buzzword.

(image by L.E. Spry via flickr.)