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Fixing Future Hi Forums

Ok, this is another request for help to get the forums fixed. I was unable to find anyone who was able to fix them. I had many offers of various kinds, but most of these offers were not backed up with the knowledge and/or skill to actually restore them. So even though all the data of all the posts of the last year are still there, we still have nothing.

At this point I would be happy having any forums at all, with or without the old data. The important point is that we can get a forum installed that is not so easily hacked.

If you can help please contact me directly at: psidoc at gmail.com

Collective Empowerment and Entheogenic Freedom

I've been observing the optimism and "pronoia" espoused by upwinger and Chris in their posts, and the angst espoused by Ralph Metzner in his article, and in their own unique ways, by Paul and eventhorizon. I'd like to offer a perspective on how we can reconcile these divergent perspectives into a single worldview, and how we can "take charge of the situation" and proactively instigate the future of joy, ecstacy, freedom, and abundance that God has prearranged (but not preordained) via universal intelligence. I've been researching a "hyper-holism" that reconciles epistemological and ontological opposites — so that we can: a) see the world's political situation in its true context, and b) effectively reconcile religious and political opposites. What follows is the preface for a large paper/thesis that I am working on. Following the preface is a description of a special twenty-one page .pdf file that I have prepared, and a link to it. It is meant to offer a message of hope that is unbridled, yet grounded in the deepest Truth of our Reality. I can not think of a better forum in which to release this material, and hope you will find it to be both interesting and useful.

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Collective Empowerment and Entheogenic Freedom

This work is based on ten years of research at the point where science and the world's many religions come together without compromise. This research reveals a symmetry in the structure of human belief, as per the four cardinal paradigms of culture depicted below. As such, this paper draws insight with equal ease from: a) hard rational logic, b) the inspired appreciation of scripture, c) awakened subjectivity, and d) heartfelt ecological sensibility. This research also shows that the goals of collective empowerment and entheogenic freedom are closely related to each other, and to the securing of a unique destiny that is virtually unknown outside "psychedelic futurism." In particular, it shows why these twin goals can not be easily and fruitfully secured unless the quest to do so is made inseparable from a destiny characterized internally by communal, nanotech ecotopia, and externally, by a system of cosmic life that would eventually compare to this earth, in the same way that a towering oak compares to an acorn. It then maps out the way forward in detail.

Religious Monotheism
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...Mystical Pantheism --------.....-------- Scientific Materialism
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Paganism/Environmentalism

This paper cuts through mundane superstition to tackle the subject of time-symmetric causation head-on. The belief that cause always precedes effect is the most deeply ingrained superstition of the human race. Many are aware that time as we know it is an illusion. Few however, are aware that behind this illusion is a meta-reality in which objective forward in time processes, and subjective backward in time processes engage a holographic relationship of infinite depth. The paper introduces the nature of this relationship, and describes the primal challenge therein (and backs itself up with an appendix detailing the 12+ logical/philosophical arguments and 40+ pieces of empirical/observational evidence that overwhelmingly confirm the reality of time-symmetric causation). In this regard, it: a) presents the living destiny that has been prearranged, but not preordained, by the gestalt quantum-computational intelligence of Reality, i.e. God, and b) shows how the interaction of the real-numbered physical realm and the complex-numbered imaginal realm is rapidly bringing civilization toward an Eschaton characterized by a stark bifurcation of destiny.

This paper's goal is to give an overview of how we can help guide civilization through the lethal economic crisis that it will face circa 2010-2014 — while at the same time, securing freedom for entheogens in the context of specific group energy rituals. It is meant to offer a solid foundation for the challenge at hand. I hope it will be the starting-point for the wide-ranging discussions that will need to occur in these areas.

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Because this proposal touches on so many different aspects of culture, I have assembled bits and pieces of my work into the special twenty-one page file mentioned above. This file is designed to acquaint "psychedelic futurists" with the scope of my analysis, and the course of action that I am proposing. Because the new hyper-holism is so radical in its breadth, and the journey through and beyond the Eschaton even more radical, I have interspersed various charts with the text, and put everything in the order that I believe will be the easiest to follow. Included are the following:

1. A two-page chunk that contains the above preface and a high-level conceptual overview.
2. A two-page chunk that details the true role of the Divine Feminine vis a vis the Eschaton.
3. Two one-page charts that describe the four-fold symmetry of human culture in detail.
4. A detailed six-page introduction of how we may understand and navigate the Eschaton.
5. A two-page chart that describes "holographic libertarianism," an innovative political idea.
6. The three-page description of what life might be like in the "Millennium" and beyond.
7. A four-page list of experiments that should powerfully confirm time-symmetric causation.

This is obviously a work in progress, and some things may still be a bit rough (especially the list of experiments). Beyond that, the main six-page introduction contains a lot more information than would normally be there (to momentarily compensate for the unfinished paper per se). Please bear with it, for I feel that this research will prove to be accurate, and that the proposals based on it will ultimately be useful.

This file is intended to take people on a visionary journey. I hope Paul and the other people here experience it that way, and by this means, feel the living energy of an entheogenic future that is forever trying to get our attention. My suggestion would be to print out a copy, fasten your seat belt, and happy journeys!

http://home.earthlink.net/~thomaswinans/CollectiveEmpowerment.pdf

If people are interested in hearing more, I'll be happy to discuss the subject matter here, and/or post links to the various sections of the paper as I complete them. Please give me your feedback.

Sincerely,
Reverend Tom

The Minded Swarm

The Minded Swarm

Four artists collaboratively produce large-scale sculptural installation through science fiction-inspired “Communal Consciousness”

+ Exhibition opens Wednesday 29 June from 7 - 9 pm
+ Exhibition runs Wednesday 29 June – Sunday 4 September 2005
+ The Minded Swarm science fiction reading group – Friday 15 July at 7 pm

PRESS CONTACT – Matt Lipps 323-957-1777 x.17

Los Angeles, 1 June 2005 – Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) is pleased to announce The Minded Swarm, a collaborative, large-scale sculptural installation organized by Karl Erickson with Consulting Curator Irene Tsatsos. Science fiction (SF) enthusiasts and artists Andy Alexander, Kathleen Johnson, Jennifer Lane, and Halsey Rodman are attracted to the genre’s social and political models, and its exploration of the human condition. The artists have met for some years in a science fiction reading group, absorbing SF’s mode of fantastic speculation into their own practice. Assuming the model of a Gestalt Organism (Theodore Sturgeon, More than Human, Vintage, 1998.) where individual capacities merge to create a single distributed intelligence, the artists have enacted a state-change, adopting a communal consciousness (Olaf Stapledon, Starmaker, Wesleyan University Press, 2004 (1937), p. 271.) as a means of artistic production. Their resulting environment will comprise two zones or microclimates—the Zone of Encounter, a transitional domestic interior, and the Zone of the Superstructure, an unstable architectural form seemingly in flux and embodying the amorphous spirit of the Utility Fog ( Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Penguin Putnam, NY, 2000, p. 145.). The work reflects both the utopian, speculative impulses of SF and a celebration of the everyday reality of the existing built world. As these four superpowers merged, the subsequent hive mind has harnessed group energy to address the psychological, psychosexual, phenomenological and formal properties of materials and built form, both real and imagined.

As part of The Minded Swarm, the artists invite the public to join them for their regular July book club meeting. They have chosen Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan and invite all interested parties to read the book and join them for the discussion on July 15 at 7:30 pm in the LACE galleries. The artists will also publish the list of books the club has read to date on LACE's website, www.artleak.org.

All About Power, and the Three Ways to Topple It

Thanks to Bird on the Moon, I came across this rare and brilliant piece that expresses all that I try to, only much better. The article is by Dave Pollard. Below I've tried to excerpt some of the most salient points:

Part 1: All About Power, and the Three Ways to Topple It (Part 1):

Most of what has been written about change -- by political theorists as well as business gurus -- is about revolutionary change. It is about creating a sense of popular urgency for change. Writers on social and business innovation, by contrast, are (perhaps subconsciously) writing about change that incapacitates. Clay Christensen speaks candidly about 'disruptive innovation', the kind that catches successful businesses off guard, just like a virus or undetected parasite, and brings it to its knees. A huge amount of money and energy is being spent these days -- on so-called 'anti-terrorist' programs, on physical and computer security, on fighting file-sharing, on patenting anything even vaguely innovative to prevent a competitor bringing it to market, on the search for vaccines and cures for AIDS, BSE, Avian Flu etc., on anti-fraud measures like Sarbanes-Oxley -- all designed to fight incapacitating, rather than popular, revolutionary, enemies. Actions that are aimed to incapacitate are called guerrilla (meaning 'little war') actions. Since the Vietnam war debacle in the 1960s the very term has struck fear in the hearts of the power elite, because they know that, in today's heavily concentrated, centralized, interconnected, 'grid-locked' society, this is where they are most vulnerable, most powerless to defend themselves.

and introduce 'innovations' that make our world a better place to live. The focus will be on new technology, new infrastructure, new models and new processes that replace the vulnerable ones that are the causes of so many of today's global problems -- and ensuring that these replacements are Open Source, and stay in the hands of all the world's people.

Part Two - Free Information, Freedom from the Grid, and Peer-to-Peer Bio-Innovation:

In a brilliant and famous Wired interview with Freeman Dyson by Stewart Brand, Dyson identifies "a return to village culture" as the most important opportunity of the 21st century, driven by three technologies: global access to free information, local energy self-sufficiency, and biotech, which together could "gentrify" (bring affluence, population stability and ecological awareness to) the villages. Dyson predicts the "collapse of the market economy" will bring about this opportunity, in 'rising from the ashes' style. He's a great believer in technology, and impatient with and pessimistic about our political and economic systems, but he has faith in human ingenuity, and the power of multiple, coordinated small-scale experiments.

The first part of this guerrilla undermining of the corporatist-controlled 'market' economy -- the 'making free' of information -- is already underway. The war for free information between corporatists and people is occurring on multiple fronts: The attempt by large corporations to patent everything so it cannot be used by the people without paying an exorbitant and prohibitive fee; the attempt by large corporations to ban file-sharing without first paying extortion to the intellectual property 'owner' (little of which actually goes to the artist); the attempt to make more of the information on the Internet 'pay for itself'. But the people are winning this guerrilla war.

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The Coming Liesure Society
Counter Culture 2.0
Left Brain Revenge, Right Brain Liberation, Leisure Society

William Irwin Thompson: Visions of a Holistic Future

This is a follow-up post to Building a Robust Psychedelic Community

According to William Irwin Thompson, the founder of the Lindisfarne Association and author of many books on the future, humanity is passing through a collective spiritual initiation. This process has three phases:

1. The illumination of the shadow side
2. Discovery of the edge of sanity
3. Defeat of the ego

According to Thompson, these stages and changes will affect different sections of society at different times. The first will be teh various spiritual communities; next the artistic community; then the scientists and; finally the politicians.

According to Thompson, there are different cultural forces at work to reshape the planet. The first is an emergent sense of world community. The second is the decentralization of cities. The third is the miniaturization of technology. The fourth is the interiorization of consciousness.

These four forces are working to create a new model for living - what he calls the meta-industrial village. Such villages would be characterized by:

1. Energy self-sufficiency
2. Agricultural self-sufficiency
3. Cottage industries for production of salable goods
4. Education of body mind and spirit for village members.

My question: Does this make sense? Is such a future as outlined by Thompson viable? Are there any indications of the growth of any meta-industrial village in the western world?

Building a Robust Visionary Community

Ok, I might be pissing in the wind here, but over the last couple of years I've become more eager and passionate about community building - both online and off. I started Future Hi with the hidden purpose of bringing like-minded, progressive thinkers together under the banner of 'visionary futurism'. What exactly is visionary futurism?

If my experiences at Burning Man have taught me anything is that utopia is not only desirable, it is achievable. All that I have believed about the desirability of sustainable communities, alternative economics/currencies, the leisure society, accelerating technology, creativity, genuine freedom, authentic happiness and spirituality, I see embodied in some form at Burning Man.

What impressed me the most is that all these people come together with such passion and hard work to make this event possible. Although credit is due to its founders and organizers, the real magic happens on the playa itself... the unpredictable, the unexpected, the sublime. The real burning man is all the individual people and communities coming together the way it does… the Dionysian, spontaneous, orgiastic explosion of spirit becoming manifest on the blank canvas of the playa.

Why then can't this be re-created and sustained every day? Some would say politics, economics, the rigidity of the legal code, conservatism in our communities, lack of coordination, all of the above.

Despite these obstacles, I have come to believe that personal utopia is possible. For most people Burning Man is utopia for the short time they are there.

Here are my questions for you the readers:

1) What can Future Hi do specifically to get this idea going? Is the email list I just created a good start? I felt the blog format is too limited for this purpose. I created the email list so that anyone could start a topic. Would creating a wiki or forum be better? Does anyone know how to start a wiki? I think a Future Hi wiki would be a good idea anyway.

2) What specifically is needed to create sustainable communities that are not dependent on any kind of centralized commodity (i.e. petroleum, government issued currencies, Wal-Mart and other corporate goods, centralized agriculture, etc.)? I don't think this has to be a black and white issue, rather the more a community can depend on itself the more sustainable and stable it is. Is this correct or faulty thinking on my part?

3) What are the major obstacles from this happening?

4) is this whole idea flawed from its lack of global thinking? What I mean by this, is it too selfish to focus on community building that only assists those in this community who share similar goals, or is genuine transformation only possible by embracing and building global systems that support the same thing (i.e the internet, social software, the semantic web, alternative digital currency technologies, etc.)? In other words is our own personal utopia better built by staying within the mainstream culture and changing from within? Is working towards more personal goals in this regard doomed?

Future Hi Email List

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On a wim this morning I created a Future Hi email list. I though it might make a perfect venue for people here to communicate more easily with each other. More importantly it allows everyone to bring up their own topics for discussion.

The idealist in me is hoping that sites like this, and others like World Changing, can help foster and bring together like-minded people to create more sustainable offline communities that would culminate in the creation of, for lack of a better world, a "Burning Man" like lifestyle 365 days a year.

To join go here:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Future-Hi/about

Breaking the Veil

Ever since I was a small child I’ve had the most amazing dream life. Although I’ve also had my share of nightmares and even off periods, most of the time my dreams are always deeply satisfying and beautiful. Like most children I lacked the capacity to clearly distinguish between the dream world and reality. However, if you ask the Aborigini’s, such a distinction is meaningless anyway, with the dreamworld being the more "real" of the two. For me this is a belief I share with them and have carried into adulthood. My dreams have offered so many profound insights, and the lucidity of them has been so intense and real to the depths of my being, that to deny the veracity of these experiences would be to deny my very soul – the deepest meanings that guide my life. And it is here that people start to make value judgments that although the inner life of dreams might be significant, the external world is more important, because without it we die. In the West particularly this emphasis has been valued almost exclusively to the detriment to our inner lives. As Ghandi once said when asked what he thought of Western Civilization, he said, "I think it’s a good idea."

So what am I getting at? Quite simply, I have come to believe that dreams are actually quite real, more real the so-called “waking life” and that this waking life is simply part of what we must make authentic via this dream world. I can’t speak for others, but I am now quite certain (as certain as I can be about anything) that my dream life is trying desperately to become manifest here in the real world. This might sound too new agey for some people, but it all makes perfect sense to me. When things go right in my life, they have this unmistakable resonance with my dream life – the feelings, sensations, gestalts and so on. In my dream life all the answers are there, the solutions to our problems, to world peace, to sustainable society, to genuine happiness for everyone. It seems so obvious, so simple in my dream life, and yet so complicated here. I have speculated often about how I think there are “dark forces” that are conspiring in one way or another, perhaps merely out of greedy and banal self-interest to further their own ends, at the expense of everyone else. So as a result over the centuries we now have this overly complex, rigged system that benefits the rich and powerful at the expense of not only everyone else, but now the planet itself.

Bucky Fuller said way back in 1965 that right now we have the capability to feed, house and clothe everyone on the planet sufficiently that everyone would live like billionaires. So why hasn’t this happened? Because those at the top want remain the exlusive shareholders of such graces. To sacrifice their exclusivity would be to sacrifice power and control. Since fear ultimately rules these people, that fear will keep them stuck in this struggle for power. Unfortunately for them, their days of power and control are coming to an end. Despite the signs all around of us of increasing repression, surveillance and control, there is no way the system can sustain itself much longer. I have written about this lack of sustainability here and here.

I started thinking deeply again about all of this since I came back from Burning Man a few weeks ago. The evidence of a build-up towards some kind of cambrian explosion as Ming points out here is all around us. What amazes me these last few years is how much everything has changed from a 'potential' standpoint in terms of connectivity, collective intelligence, communications, smart mobs, internet, global network point of view, yet how much everything has remained the same.

How much longer can the old hierarchies, this old civilization keep hanging on amidst so much grass-roots intelligence burgeoning all around us? Burning Man is a good example of just how much energy and connectivity is there - so much that it was overwhelming... and until I went I had no idea! I could feel it everywhere, the social networks, the people all talking with each other, most of them all on this high vibratory wavelength. It's not a fluke, and it's not just because of Burning Man. It's already there. I compare it to the functioning of mushrooms, which are merely the sex organs of this vast underground mycellia network. This network grows, and grows, and it then reaches a critical point, where it then flowers. I see the same thing now in what I recently called Counter Culture 2.0. The connections are so thick and complex, that no manner of oppression can wipe it out now, except the end of life itself.

And since each day the technologies of connectivity continue to minuturize and grow smarter each day, there will come a point, soon I think, where this huge breakout will occur.

Those at the top are not stupid, they know this, sense this is coming, which is why I think they are so scared, and the global politic is getting so nasty and repressive, especially here in the states, where this connective freedom is greatest. That is no coincidence.

So rather than some smooth "controlled" evolutionary move upwards, its going to be a sudden out of control breakout. I suppose I was hoping for the former, but I'll settle for the latter over stagnation and death.

I'm more hopeful than ever.

Burning Man 2004: Moving Past the Singularity

I just arrived back from Burning Man fully transformed. I suspect it will take me several months to fully digest this most awesome experience... maybe just in time for next year. It was wonderful to finally give warm embraces to people I've known only online.

As the Official Burning Man Website says, this event is notoriously indescribable. When I was there it becomes quickly obvious that no amount of eloquent speech or series of pictures could ever do it justice. Quite simply, Burning Man has to be experienced. It is Utopia. One of the things that struck me about every 30 minutes or so as I wandered the playa is, "I can't believe this exists, it is beyond description". I would look out to the horizon in nearly every direction to find this immense amount of novelty. During the day, art installations of various kinds were scattered about - some within a few hundred yards, others some one or two miles away, as if a mirage. Certain structures like the Temple were over 100 feet tall and were noticeable from almost any distance. Nighttime was equally amazing, when many more art pieces come alive to join the spectacle. Nearly everywhere I went, looking in front of me and in every direction, there was some kind of dynamic activity. It's not the dense activity of an urban city with its rules and boundaries, but a vast unbounded playa stretching for miles in every direction, filled with light, fire plumes, neon floating caravans with distant yet pleasant volumes of lounge-techno music, and thousands of glow sticks representing and protecting people as they walked and rode their bikes across the playa. So imagine seeing thousands of these various colors randomly crisscrossing the desert, stretching for several square miles in every direction. The sense of freedom, joy, excitement and possibility filled my every cell. I danced and moved and rode my bike hither and thither for hours on end, stopping at different installations, spending time in distant planetarium, and then traveling further out into the playa, which this year represented the heavens. As I traveled further from the Esplanade (the main arced avenue), the further out into "outerspace" I was going. At about a mile and half beyond the Esplanade, I encountered an illuminated and pulsating star with alien creature blowing in the night winds. I took several photos of it, but my camera is very old and doesn't work well at night, so here is a day shot.

On a typical day I would spend some 14-15 hours wandering the interacting with the art and enjoying immensely the company of fellow burners, hanging out at center camp for some hot chai, dance for awhile at Solarhenge, and back to camp to hang out with friends at Prometheatrics. I was introduced to this wonderful bunch through Mark Pesce, who unfortunately was unable to attend this year.

I spent a couple of lazy afternoons hanging out at The Brane, home of the 2nd Annual Palenque Norte lectures. When I first came into the tent I met Carey Thompson whose Galactivation Art is so beautiful. About an hour later I ran into Dlight of Tribal Oasis, who spoke eloquently of creating this type of post-modern tribal community full time. His ideas are very compelling and he now has me convinced of their attainability. He went on to tell me that regardless of what we've been told, hierarchy has ended and we now need to get used to living without those rules. The technologies of liberation are expanding so fast, that hierarchy simply cannot survive, and so we as a species need to finish the job of deprogramming ourselves out of this primitive hangover. He also mentioned that the singularity is really just another form of misguided monotheism, another type of hierarchy. The future is not a singularity, but a Cambrian explosion of diversity and creativity heading out in every direction. Perhaps it was my own state of mind at the time (he he), but his words struck a deep chord, ringing true like few things do for me these days. His message was hopeful, positive and inspiring. LVX23's words ring true too when he says that out on the playa we are expanding the mythos or morphogenetic field of modern humanity. Burning Man is pioneering the cutting edge of possibility - not a counter to culture, but front-runners scouting out the frontier of what is possible. This might sound overly grandiose, but the feeling on the playa of genuine fast-forward evolution is palpable.

I feel like I could write a book on my experiences, like it's been every other year I've been. Burning Man is a super-condensified experience - a day can seem like weeks have passed. I never escaped the feeling that I had landed on some beuatiful alien planet filled with novel delights at every turn. This alien feeling was immediate and viceral and I didn't want it to end. No manner of sci-fi movie watching can prepare you for it. A cross between Barbarella, Mad Max and Tatooine might give you a hint, but that's all. I missed the last few years, and feel very sad now that the event has come to an end. I'm so looking forward to next year, and I'm just bursting at the seams with new creative ideas to make happen for next year’s event. With all the walking and riding bikes I did this year, and coming across so many wandering, tired people, we are planning on creating a playa taxi service for next year, which we're thinking of calling Trip N' Taxi. Great way to meet new people, and a lot easier to get around. It’s merely a single idea of many. Several members of Prometheatrics and I schemed a few more ideas, which will have to remain hush-hush for now. If you're interested in creating and collaborating on some art installation for next year, please get in touch with me at psiphius at yahoo.com

One last thing, LVX23 mentioned this year there was not enough deeply sublime art as last year. I found out today that a lot of regular artists skipped this year’s event because they're too involved politically with the coming election. From what I've heard the numbers are large enough that an impact on the playa art would be felt, and so it was. Having missed the last three years I didn't notice it and was instead just so grateful to be here again, and in turn was even more enthusiastically participatory and social this year, and even more inspired to make more art for next year.

Hope to see more of ya on the playa next year!

Stay tuned for more pics - I'm working on an entire section of photos.

This guy was towering over me and must have been 6'6.

Tribal Oasis & David Lightman

Earlier today, I became aware of some beautiful work being done by visionary artist and community builder David Lightman. It's difficult to describe the multi-faceted nature of everything he's doing, so here is some info from his website:

Dlight is an artist by accident, a revolutionary by intent. His art is strictly functional, springing from serious attempts to further what he terms the New Tribalism. He is dedicated to creating spaces, systems and structures designed to foster the development of a new breed of focused communities which act as artistic, economic and spiritual vortexes – cultural incubators for the 21st century.

His first architectural experiment was at Burning Man 1999. Two 30 ft reinforced mylar wings were attached to a metal ladder, creating a shade structure that kept people cool even in the peak of the searing desert heat. It resembled a bird attempting to take flight, with the wings alternately rising and falling. This structure was strong enough to withstand 60 mph winds surviving a week in this hostile environment. Although large enough to shelter 20 people comfortably, the whole structure weighed only about 30 pounds.

In February 2002 Dlight founded a project now called Tribal Oasis, (www.tribaloasis.org), a detailed plan for a self-sufficient eco-friendly arts village in the middle of Los Angeles. This pioneering project mobilized a large group of people to develop detailed architectural and financial plans to make this ambitious dream a reality. Dlight designed a community currency for this village called Ecos.

As a member of several communities that hold gatherings in harsh desert environments, Dlight has been fascinated with the idea of portable structures designed to be erected quickly and easily, yet providing a significant level of comfort, modularity and beauty. After learning about a new kind of structural mathematics called helical geometry, Dlight immediately realized that it might be the ultimate solution for the “movable city”. Although it was only a few weeks before Burning Man 2003, Dlight was able to create the first “Helix” in time. Later he erected a 23-panel Helix for the Solids show in December 2003.

Dlight studied physics and psychology at Cornell University. He was responsible for the computer graphics on the film “War Games”.

I really hope his group is successful in getting Tribal Oasis off the ground. There is no question that people are hungry for this type of community. I have hungred for it almost my entire adult life. The ideas are sound, and as always come back to economics. My thinking is if you can create a diverse and dynamic enough community it can become both economically and environmentally sustainable, whether it's in downtown LA like Tribal Oasis, or out in the country. If Dave and his group can make a go of this, it will become a prototype for other communities to emulate.

David's designs remind me a lot of of the stuff coming out of the late 60's in a book called, Arthropods by Jim Burns. I have an original signed and mint condition copy of this book. As revolutionary and radical as the ideas in this book were then, they are even more relevant and perhaps revolutionary today. I will definitely make a point of blogging about this book in the near future, and I will expand upon in it the growing archives section under Spaceship Earth.