Book Announcement
A Transformation Journey to Creative and Alternative Planetary Futures
by Victor Vahidi Motti
Advocacy of a planetary-level consciousness
M
y new book, A Transformation Journey to Creative and Alternative Planetary Futures, presents
a counter trend against nationalism, religious extremism, xenophobia, and racism. It will be
published in 2019 in the UK. It advocates an alternative base
for globalization. Rather than trade, the economy, and politics,
globalization should be based on humanity’s transcendence to
a collective consciousness. My book is inspired by a pantheist
worldview and I take an integral perspective on strategic foresig-
ht and anticipation at a planetary scale. Controversial, disappe-
aring, and emerging binary oppositions are explained within the
framework of the mythology of the Lord of Wisdom versus the
Ignorant Mind. Our anticipatory planetary era addresses the deep
questions of identity and job attachment, discipline, ethnic group,
nationality, language and religion. The detachment might be cha-
racterized by the recognition of our zero knowledge, as measured
in the ocean of all disciplines; zero center for identity; and zero
existence (as we have known it) as humanity merges into some
higher and enriched complexity.
Moreover, we need a balanced framework to integrate Eastern and Western thinking to reinterpret and
reinvent ancient mythology-theology. Science fiction has a critical role in this reinvention according to
futurist thinking. Science fiction shapes the evolution of the human mind and human society. As Tom
Lombardo, a fellow member of the WFSF, has stated in his newest book, Science Fiction: The Evolu-
tionary Mythology of the Future (2018), “science fiction is modern mythology informed and inspired by
contemporary science, technology, and thinking.” In our books respectively, we argue that humanity
needs inspiring storytellers of the future that are informed by contemporary cutting edge theories and
knowledge. Along with the facts and figures, we need psychologically engaging stories of the future,
suitably grounded in modern science and modern thinking. This is the special role of science fiction,
as we both see it.
My book is a vision of a preferable future where all humans have a planetary sense of identity—a
“placeless” and “colorless” identity—and a heightened level of future consciousness. They embrace a
mindset of open transformation and evolution, rather than a closed dependence on a glorified ancient
mythology-theology.
We will be able to creatively build alternative futures, rather than being ideologically locked into one
dominant vision. We should be in search of balance in our collective good future using an interconnec-
ted fabric of many binary oppositions—a transformation journey through different valleys to achieve
wisdom.
My book is a vision of a preferable
future where all humans have
a planetary sense of identity—a
“placeless” and “colorless” identity—
and a heightened level of future
consciousness.
My primary focus in the book is to advocate for a planetary consciousness as a whole. Although hu-
manity is divided by many cultural differences, we need to collaborate to create a good future for the
planet. Members of the WFSF are already familiar with this vision. Although they come from distant
locations and backgrounds, they are learning and practicing such a planetary consciousness.
As well as taking large-scale perspectives, humanity should also take views over long time periods for
deeper and more imaginative reflection on the alternative futures. The multi-disciplinary approach of
futurists is essential in stimulating such a consciousness. There is no excuse for ignoring fascinating
research in evolution, science, and technology on the one hand, nor culture, psychology, and philo-
sophy on the other.
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