World Future Society Orlando, FL, July 13, 2014

Terra Nova: The Religious Quest for Tomorrow

Download slides: http://www.jaygary.com/terranova14.pdf #WFS14 @drjaygary

World Future Society, Orlando, FL, July 13, 2014

Religious Futures: 34 year retrospect

1980 First Global Conference on the Future, WFS, Toronto 1980 1981 Religious Futurists’ Network (JSAC- NCC) 1987 The Future of Muslim Civilization, by Zia Sardar 1988 World Network of Religious Futurists 1992 The Temples of Tomorrow by Kirby & Brewer 1999 ChristianFutures.com, by Jay Gary & Todd Johnson 2002 Integral Futures, Richard Slaughter, Ken Wilber 2003 Futurizing the Jews, by Moshe Dror & Tsvi Bisk 2006 Regent University, MA & Strategic Foresight, DSL 2008 IFTF, Faith in the Future, Bob Johansen

To advance the knowledge & practice of • Futures Studies in Religion • Religious Studies in Futures

wnrf.org Rabbi Dr. Moshe Dror (1934-2011)

Rev. Dr. Richard Kirby (1949-2009)

Explore the Future of Religion

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@WNRFuturists

Terra Nova 2:00-3:15 pm Whether it is Teihard de Chardin's 'omega point,' Barbara Marx Hubbard's 'conscious evolution,' Ken Wilber's 'integral theory,' Ziauddin Sardar's 'Islamic science' or Pope Francis' exhortation to simplicity, the religious imagination continues to reframe our quest toward transformation. This panel will share how the spiritual quest for "terra nova" is expressed in their own futures work through…

* Mashups in Motown with rap and social entrepreneurs * Immersive storytelling in Hollywood that merges media platforms * Creation of new paradigms for a post-terrestrial world.

It is the Year 2149

IT IS THE YEAR 2149. Overpopulation and pollution have overtaken our world. In search of a better tomorrow, scientists stumble upon a temporal rift, allowing for waves of human pilgrimages back in time to reshape the world anew, 85 million years ago on Earth.

Terra Nova FOX TV

Terra Nova means New Land • The dream to recreate our world

and reframe our quest toward tomorrow, however, has been alive for millennia across our globe.

• We are only now beginning to uncover its spiritual roots in the human past.

Gobekli Tepe

Archaeologists have unearthed the world’s oldest Temple, 10,000 B.C.

It predated the Agriculture Age, the Wheel, and Domestication of animals

Gobekli Tepe

Was Gobekli Tepe our 1st Futures Observatory?

• Created by nomadic Hunter-Gatherers, and continued for 25 generations.

• We may never know all what happened, but we can say at Gobekli Tepe our ancestors so stretched their horizons so to transform all their tomorrows.

• They went onto create the Neolithic Revolution to bring about permanent human settlements across the Fertile Crescent.

Horizons of the Future • Immediate future (1 yr.) • Near-term future (1 - 5 yrs.) • Middle-range future (5 - 20 yrs.) • Long-range future (20 - 100 yrs.) • Distant future (100 - 1,000 yrs.) • Far-distant future (3 trillion yrs. out)

Toward the Year 3000

As we engage the 21st century…

• is the religious imagination for Terra Nova still strong enough to inspire us to create new worlds?

• Or has religion itself become so codified in declining empires and economies that it has lost its creative quest for Terra Nova and beyond?

Panel

Alex McManus

Lane Jennings Mang. Editor,

WFR

Ed Lantz

Kate McCallum

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Ed Lantz Vortex Immersion Media, Inc.

IMERSA, Inc. ed@vorteximmersion.com www.vorteximmersion.com

www.imersa.org

Kate McCallum c3: Center for Conscious Creativity

kate@consciouscreativity.com www.consciouscreativity.org

“Creating a Better Future Through Arts & Media”

The c3: Center for Conscious Creativity, founded in 2004, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research and education arts organization whose mission is to

support and catalyze the transformational power of arts, media and entertainment at a personal, social and global level.

The c3 fosters an ecosystem of positive change by bringing scientists, futurists and thought leaders

together with artists, storytellers, content creators and advanced media technologists in workshops, classes,

screening salons, think thanks, and an annual symposium. Resulting art and media projects benefit from c3's online community resources, grants, fiscal

sponsorship and partnerships such as The Millennium Project, a Global Futurist Think Tank. Projects are then showcased and disseminated by c3 and other arts and

media partners to influence lasting change on a personal, social and global scale.

c3 maintains offices and access to The Vortex Dome, a 50 foot immersive fulldome theater

at Los Angeles Center Studios

Kate McCallum c3 Founder &

Executive DirectorProducer, Writer

Transmedia Consultant @katemccallumc3

www.consciouscreativity.org www.bridgeartsmedia.com

Kate McCallum brings unique and diverse professional experience to her work as a media futures consultant, transmedia producer, writer, events producer and entertainment and arts professional. She spent 10 years at Universal Studios in television and feature production apprenticing with some of the top content creators in the business working in development and production on such primetime series as; EQUALIZER, MIAMI VICE, LAW & ORDER and sitcoms such as CHARLES IN CHARGE and GIMME A BREAK. Kate optioned a life rights story which became a TV MOW for NBC on which she served as producer called WHAT KIND OF MOTHER ARE YOU?

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TV Feature Films

Movies for TV

Music

Books

Visual Music

Music Videos

Magazines

Social Media TV360 Fulldome

Web Content

Opera

EventsImmersive

Cable

Future

Philosophical Research Society

c3 Maintains www.consciouscreativity.org Website

In 2004 c3 partnered with the SCWC to program and produce “New Story Paradigm and the Future of Content” as an LA

offering. We designed panels and brought in speakers who

addressed new trends in storytelling and also those

involved in using media and arts for personal and social

transformation.

Since 2006 the c3 has offered an online social networking platform, The c3: Creative Collective, free to artists, content creators, futurists and those interested in the mission of c3.

Currently over 1000 members worldwide.

Besant Lodge in Hollywood Through the generous support of Dr. Stephen

Hoeller, the c3 launched and produced a series of events

such as; concerts, talks, screenings, etc. called the “Second Saturday Salons”

in the Besant Lodge, Hollywood

July 2007 to December 2008

www.millennium-project.org

November 2009 Partnered with The Millennium Project to create a Global Arts & Media Node

June 2010 Los Angeles Center Studios

State of the Arts 2010 Launches with LA Opera

& RingFest LA

Kenji Williams presents “Bella Gaia” in the Vortex Dome

LeVar Burton & Artists Speak about the importance of art

Key SponsorHow can arts and media make a better world?

2010 Established the c3: LABS

c3: VisionLAB 2011 Chapter 13 the Future of...

State of the Arts 2011:

Tim Kring

FutureVision 2011 Award to Tim Kring

Fulldome Showcase:

Entertainment by League of Steam

Ken Kragen of We Are the World

Jerome Glenn, Executive Director of the Millennium Project with Producers Panel

Producing Change with the PGA: Producers Guild of America New Media Council

Panel Discussion and Think Tank

2011 Think Tank

Project

In 2012 c3 received acknowledgement of its official 501(c)3 status and its first major grant of $50,000 from the Charles

Evans Foundation to fund the creation of an original 360 immersive ballet themed around women’s rights which

premiered in The Vortex Dome during the STATE OF THE ARTS 2013 Symposium

c3: CreateLAB 2012

Choreographer, Stefan Wenta & Digital Artist, Audri Phillips

BLUE APPLE 360 Immersive Ballet

State of the Arts 2012

Fulldome Showcase:

Blue Apple Immersive Ballet

LA Metro and the Future of Los Angeles

FutureVision Award 2012 Mythic Challenges

EMA

AMPLIFY! with the Electronic Music Alliance

c3: MindLAB

State of the Arts 2013 The Future of Fulldome

with IMERSA: Immersive Media Education Research

Sciences and Art

FutureVision Award 2013 FUTURESTATES.tv

Fulldome Showcase

Presentations & Panel

TWO VISIONS ONE VOICE

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c3: CreateLAB AIR: Artist In

Residence Launches 2010

Incorporated images from

Clark Planetarium in live performance

www.theartofsoundgallery.com

360 Art & Music Label

Aaron Alexrod’s MELTING RAINBOWS

360 Fulldome Film

360 Live Performance

Amrita Sen & Anthony Marinelli

Premieres at SOA 2012

Pasion

CEREMONY 360 Visual Music Concert

c3: Center for Conscious Creativity Project Partner Program Launched 2013

c3 provides fiscal sponsorship and project support through the Project Partner program. Individuals apply for consideration then join the program up review and acceptance of c3

Board and Staff. c3 currently supports four projects to date and seeks to continue offering and growing out services to artists and relevant projects.

The House is Black A multimedia project inspired by the life and works of Iranian icon, poet and filmmaker, Forough Farrokhzad, presented at CAP UCLA created by Sussan Deyhim.

Nike DomeSuper Bowl 2012

Super Bowl 2013

Primary Sponsor

My Story

Artist /Writer/Inventor Hollywood, Florida

Masters in Engineering w/Quantum Physics Tennessee

Tech University

Aerospace Engineer Melbourne, Florida

Planetarium Engineer Cocoa, Florida

My Story

Immersive Theater Engineer Chadds Ford, PA

Cable Television Pioneer!Philadelphia, PA

Immersive Media Producer & Entrepreneur

Los Angeles, CA

My Story

Interfaith Minister Celebratory Drummer, Ritualist, Producer

Writer, Speaker Socially Beneficial Organizations, Networking and Events

Large-scale, real-time interactive group immersive environments

Immersive Cinema Digital Dome or “Fulldome” Theater

Digital Dome Growth Markets 1000+ Digital Dome Screens Worldwide

Digital Planetariums

Giant Screen Digital Cinema

Themed EntertainmentEvents Domes

Portable Planetariums

Shared Immersive Experience

Vortex Dome Los Angeles Center Studios

!Next-generation immersive cinema events venue and development studio !

Venue Specifications: Diameter External: 50’ Internal w/video screen): 45’ 9”Floor Area: 1,963 sq. ft.Standing Capacity: 280Theater Seating Capacity: 120

Digital Domes Worldwide

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Hayden PlanetariumRose Center for Earth and Space

American Museum of Natural HistoryNew York, NY

Bibliotheca Alexandrina Alexandria, Egypt

Papalote Museo del Niňo Mexico City

Sampling of Digital DomesShanghai

Science Center Shanghai, China

Sheikh Zayed #Grand Mosque#Abu Dhabi, UAE

Temple Mount#Haram al-Sharif #Jerusalem

Temples, Mosques and Cathedrals

Cathedral of Notre Dame Paris, France

Modern Cathedrals of Science and the Imagination ● Powerful Surround Visuals and Sound ● Experiential Storytelling Journeys ● SciVis combined with Art, Music ● Promotes Scientific and World View ● Secular and Multicultural ● Millions of Visitors Annually

Modern Digital Planetarium

Fulldome Planetariums allow Navigation through a Scientifically Accurate Model of the Known Universe

Images Courtesy SCISS AB www.scalingtheuniverse.com

Carter Emmart, Director of Astrovisualization at the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center for Earth and Space

Digital Planetariums

Immersive EducationOver 1200

digital domes in the world

c3: CreateLAB in The Vortex Dome

Las Vegas - Downtown Project

An experience that substantially alters a person’s “possibility space” or life path ● Discovering new facts, cultures, connections ● Epiphany, realization, revelation ● Spiritual, numinous, or “unity” experience ● Awakening to empathy, compassion, love ● Often triggered by new friends, social circles ● Trauma, loss, fear, etc. can also be transformative

transformed world view = transformed world

Transformative Media

● Art can be seen as the evocation or transmission of unique neural states

● The performing artist’s instrument is the audience’s nervous systems

● The conscious artist must therefore be mindful of the audience’s experience

● The artist cannot easily evoke a state of consciousness that they themselves cannot maintain

● Therefore the artist’s prime directive is to: a. Attain unique/useful/entertaining moods or states of consciousness b. Consciously evoke these neural states in their audience through

their craft

Conscious Creativity

Mindfulness Exercise In the Vortex Dome 2012

Seven Pillars Journey of Wisdom

Seven Pillars Journey of Wisdom

James Hood’s CEREMONY

Digital Spa

Vidarium by LivinGlobe

The Digital Spa’s Purpose is Simple:

Deliver Experiences that Make People Feel Better

and Promote Wellness !

How? !

Provide powerful immersive experiences that are: ● Soothing, relaxing, inspiring, healing ● Meditative, contemplative, beautiful ● Energizing, invigorating, awe-inspiring ● Transformative, uplifting

Digital Spa

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Thank You! !!

Ed Lantz Vortex Immersion Media, Inc.

IMERSA, Inc. ed@vorteximmersion.com www.vorteximmersion.com

www.imersa.org

Kate McCallum c3: Center for Conscious Creativity

kate@consciouscreativity.com www.consciouscreativity.org

Terra Nova as a spirituality

Terra Nova as a spirituality of the future can be defined as the concern of all who

feel drawn toward the fullness of humanity and, in tum, allow their lives to be

transformed by their relationship with the Absolute, however that may be defined.

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World Future Society Orlando, FL, July 13, 2014

Terra Nova: The Religious Quest for Tomorrow

Download slides: http://www.jaygary.com/terranova14.pdf

World Future Society, Orlando, FL, July 13, 2014