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Exactly ten years from now, I invoke thee!

When Alchemy calls me in 2020 I'll wear a wry smile, remembering this moment -- right now.

I'll also be surprised that we haven't managed to prevent the disaster through collective play, from 2010 until that time.

In 2020 I'll be adumbrating various collaborative ways of spreading the word about what I feel to be a forthcoming human physiological revolution. By the way, 2010, if you haven't heard, the current state of our planet is characterized as the "Anthropocene" era. It's the phase of geological history in which humans and their tools become the major shapers of earth's physical stuff -- metals, rock, plants, animals. We re-arrange earth's surface so rapidly that we get a geological epoch named after us!

Well, in my opinion, the Anthropocene will be divided into at least two phases, of which we in 2010 are living in the Lesser Anthropocene, as distinguishable from the Greater Anthropocene, of which I'd like to say a few words.

One thing I've been intrigued by through surveying the Evoke Agents' profiles and blog posts is the linguistic fluidity of my fellow gamers. Lots of people speak three and four languages, which provides us with tremendous capacity to forage for information from all areas of the globe. Not only this, but we can communicate our social innovations at the ground level fluently -- a matter of no little importance.

In the Greater Anthropocene we will utilize our linguistic fluidity to truly discover revolutionary precious gems lodged within our existing cultural landscapes. We'll speak to the hearts of the billionfold in a language they can hear.

In 2020 I'll be heralding the onset of the Greater Anthropocene, as will hundreds of thousands of tremendously wonderful, extraordinarily creative social innovators. Individuals will naturally group themselves in social innovation nodes, weaving a globe-sized array of "noetic communities" of collaborative social innovation. William Irwin Thompson coined this term "noetic communities" through his Lindisfairne Project. The idea is that human behavior will experimentalize itself in the near future. Popular movements to experiment with living arrangements and communal behavior will arise. The overarching menagerie of social innovation networks is what we point to with the term Greater Anthropocene, and it will show itself in the coming decades. Simply put, there will be a MAJOR shift in the resource allocation of earth's physical stuff that will signal the transition from the Lesser to Greater Anthropocene. This major shift is the result of a collective realization that almost seems like an earth-sized rite of passage.

Mega-corporations will add a new executive leadership position; witness the rise of the CSO -- Chief Shamanic Officer. The global mega-CSO will scout market trends, predict the inflow of capital, and provide the rest of the executive force with transformative experiences that will provide direct perception of the holistic, interdependent nature of all systems and endeavors. In 2020 I'll be honing my Chief Shamanic skills.
Who knows? We might start lining Tokyo's highways with fourth-or-fifth-generation solar panels. These next-gen solar panels might have built-in air conditioning properties that can reduce the Heat Island effect of urban centralization. Enormous public works projects will offer us models of collective endeavor in a spirit of sustainability. We'll explore the opportunities of Cube Satellites like those launched by Alchemy's Evoke Network. By 2020 we'll have the capacity to impact crop yield safely through inducing a brush discharge phenomena -- turning the nitrogen of the atmosphere into nitrate fertilizer without pesticides or intensive farming. (see JA Burke, http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/jburke.htm -- at about the 10 minute mark of the interview, Burke describes how the great pyramid at Giza was designed to feed a wildly expanding population through utilization of the Khamseen wind -- very interesting.) The richest people in the world will strike us as suspiciously similar to benevolent, enlightened sages as they heed Alchemy's call.

What will my "noetic community" be doing to express this Anthropocene transition -- to assist Alchemy in Japan in 2020? While I can't speculate on the geographical location of our holy enclave, we'll be proving to ourselves and to our social networks around the globe the undeniable fact that the human organism for thousands of years was like a caterpillar that didn't know butterflies existed.

Imagine a world of caterpillars in which every single caterpillar dies before they are able to become butterflies. If this happens for thousands of generations, the caterpillars will deny the link between caterpillar and butterfly. They will claim butterflies are supernatural. It would take a linguistic revolution and a tremendous data-mining operation to discover the "imaginal cells" latent in the caterpillar genome that generate the butterfly metamorphosis. In my estimation, this is precisely analogous to the spiritual crisis of humanity. The Greater Anthropocene will be catalyzed by revolutionary research into the latent capacities of human physiology. In 2020, we'll solve Japan's Food Shortage and use the global audience to explain some of our hidden Evoke powers.

In 2020 I'll be working on elucidating this revolutionary view of human physiology.

In April 2010 I'll attend the biennial meeting of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. I'll listen to the latest research regarding the role of microtubule information processing in the magical phenomena of consciousness. I'll speak with the Center's director Dr. Stuart Hameroff, co-author of the Orchestrated Objective Reduction model of Quantum Physics with Sir Roger Penrose. Hopefully the Center for Consciousness Studies will offer a world-class Ph D. program in Consciousness Studies by 2015. By 2020 I'll already have taken advantage of the University's excellent job placement services. My research will focus on the practical dynamics of human physiological transformation. We'll be investigating the transformative core of millenia-old cultural institutions. We'll be opening a dialogue in the public sphere about human potential. We'll cool the Heat Island of Tokyo with super-powerful next-generation solar panel machines. These low-cost solar cells will line the highways and the skyscraper facades, and they will have air conditioning effects to reduce the surface temperature of Japanese urban environments. This research will be well-received and eminently plausible, not to mention timely.

In 2020 I will be poised to answer Alchemy's call.

Peace!

Postscript:

When I graduated college in 2006 my first job was with the Conscious Media Network as a transcriptionist. I transcribed an interview with solar energy expert Rheinhold Ziegler. http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/rziegler.htm Ziegler points out that the Dutch in the 1700s built huge ships using wind power. They got funding from Dutch bankers based largely upon the promise of their wind power technologies. They came to America and set up wind power generators. New Amsterdam was build almost exclusively through this revolutionary technological innovation! I think this shows how a new technological capacity can in a short time frame lead to large-scale funding opportunities and literally a transformed cultural landscape. I think this lends support to my idealized notion of air-conditioning solar panels. I don't know how it would work, but I think it's a bright idea, and I really HOPE it's possible!