## First meeting on the 3rd of December

- what is the / is there already a question to answer?

- what would be the medium, writing?

https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/Specxcraft

New partners 
CVB (video)
natagora / Friche 
Jes (youth organization)
jessica Gysel (as participant/collaborator)

they need to make more concreate what is the reseaches and make some choices

## set up

5-6 people
- 9:30 → 12:30
- where? See U building R
- is there a table, board etc

- big size of paper (would be perfect if bord size paper)
- pens and markers
- beamer?
- print in copy shop
- 


## Possible methods for first approach

### welcome + introduction  ~ 15min 

### Question and appreciative inquiry ~ 15min 

### Time travel - self travel guided meditation  ~ 15min 

### Causal layered analysis (CLA) Iceberg + Scanning and forecasting → scenario/world building  
Possible questions:
- Crisis of imagination and crisis of the narration. How can we evade resignation? 
- Can we submit with the crisis of the imagination?
    - Can we submit with the crisis of the imagination?
    - What is the resilience we advocate
    Creative resilience?

CLA - Uncovering Causality - 40min (~ 10min per layer)
What is on the way of imagination to create deep changes, what stop us to evade resignation?

  1. identify litany (the issues)
    1. what is happening today that is standing in the way of imagination? Pick one issue that renonates the most for the group
    2. how is the issue described in public - trend, problems, words on the street, stories, events in media etc (exemple time→ high level of burnout)
  2. analyse the causes - what factors are infleuncing the issue? how are they related?
    1. social causes
    2. technological causes
    3. economical causes
    4. environemental causes
    5. political causes
  3. explore the woldview - what values or ideologies underlies the issue? - Focus on cultural value, languag, beliefs or mindset that perpetuate the issue (examples: efficiency, economic gain, time is money)
  4. Unveil the emotional dimension (myth, methatphors) - what images or archetypes arise?
    1. what gut feeling, emotional responses or bodily sensations crop us (frustration exhaustion,greyness, incessant noise)
    2. what value images, sounds, scents, or multi-sensory impressions emerge? (slave ship)
    3. Are there any myth, symbols, collective architypes or folk stories that come to mind? (american dream etc)

~ 5min break 


CLA - Discovering alternative scenarios - 20min (~ 5min per layer)
How could imagination help evade resignation?

  1. What could be new or different images, myth or methaphors? What could entice alternative emotional responses and give rise to different values? (swimming; floating in water, freedom)
  2. what woldviews do these images encourage? what beliefs would be strongly held? what would be miost valued? (wellbeeing, freedom, responsivity...)
  3. which systems and social structures would be shaped by this worlview?
    1. social causes
    2. technological causes
    3. economical causes
    4. environemental causes
    5. political causes
  4. What fact would be reported in the news? what would be the headlines in a major newspaper, the breaking news? ("O' clock terrorist strike again", "new marital vows include a new no time pressure clause"...)

### world building in 15min?

~ 10min break 

### wrap up and explaine world prototyping 10min

                                 imagination rules
                                        |
                 world 1                 |                 world 2                 
                                         |
more crisis/me resignation    <----------|---------- > less crisis, less reisgnation
                                         |
                 world 3                 |                 world 4                 
                                         |
                                 no imagination
                                 
                                 

### What don't you know yet 10min + automatic writing 10 min →→ 20-30 min

----------- end ---------------------

### grow, collapse, discipline, transform → in time travel ?
- what kind of transformation you are hopping to see ?
One of the better known (and simple to explain) methods uses four “Archetypal Futures” designed by Jim Dator at the University of Hawaii. The idea behind this method is that almost all of our images of the future tend to fall into one of four archetypal categories: Continue, Collapse, Discipline and Transform. To design a Continue scenario, we ask “What are the ways in which the current situation could continue as it is?” Say that the economy can continue to grow. Collapse explores the question “what are the ways in which the world as we know it could fall apart?” We are already seeing what happens when the growth economy reaches its limits and leads to economic and political crises. Collapse looks at what would happen when this scenario is taken to its extremes. In Discipline we look at different ways in which the situation could be directed by imposed rules or enforced self-discipline. Say if we know that growth economy can’t continue, how could we curb it through regulation towards a steady-state economy? Finally, the Transform scenario asks “What are the ways in which our situation could change altogether?” What would be a radically different type of economy that would, for example, be inclusive, based on principles of abundance and generosity for all including all beings on the planet and beyond?
These are of course extremes, or caricatures of possible futures. However, it helps to exaggerate in this stage, in order to illustrate that radically different answers can be given to the question you started with. This scenario method works well to test your understanding of a situation you’re faced with and to challenge the boundaries of your own expectations, without falling into the simple dichotomy of utopia and dystopia. Plausible futures usually happen somewhere in between, by incorporating elements of all scenarios. To map out the plausibility of the scenarios, the scenario method called the Futures Cone can be useful. The Cone fans out the further away from the present, making it possible to visualise the spectrum between the plausible and improbable aspects of a scenario.

Mental time travel without a world. Daily rituals, daily life details. 




================ mental time travel=============================
  1. has grown (more of a crisis, more of imagination) 
  2. has collapsed (the crisis has collapsed, so has everything else)
  3. has been diciplined (the crisis was diciplined and re-routed)
  4. has tranformed (merging, co-authoring, --- the transformations we wrote about)


Take a few deep breaths. 

See in front of you the oldest person you currently know. As you breathe in and out you imagine that you have traveled into the world where you would have reached their age.
Then try to think of the yongest person you currently know. 

With the next breath you are in a world where they have reached this same old age as the oldest person you know. You glance around in this world for a little second, but we don't stop there for long. With each breath you travel another year into the future. One year for every breath. In and out, in and out, further and further into the future. One more. And another. 

I invite you to make yourself comfortable: sit, lounge, lie down, - whatever feels right to be doing this morning in this room.
We’ll have a short 'closed eye visioning' session, a kind of mental time travel guided by a series of questions, where you’ll travel to different possible futures in your mind’s eye.
We won’t push to share what you saw later, so just relax and see what emerges - it doesn’t matter how incoherent, nonsensical or even embarrassing things you might encounter. They’ll be just passing thoughts. They don’t reflect on 'you' or your personality. Just observe them come and go as reactions to my questions. 

Take a few deep breaths. With each breath you travel a year into the future. In and out, we are now 5 years from now ... in and out,
further and further into the future. We are now about 15 years from now. We go a bit more, some few more breaths, maybe 20, 25 years from now. In and out. And when you’re ready, open your mind’s eye and land... you are in a world where every crisis of imaginiantion continued to grow as it does today. Everything continued to grow. There is more of a crisis, but also more imagination. There is more money, more waste, more work, more pleasure, more proposed solutions by authoroties, more multinational companie… Imagine waking up in this world. What do you do first? What wakes you up in the morning? You start your morning ritual, in this world of growth. Do you feel hungry? Look around the place you woke up. What do you see around you? Who is around you and how are they behaving? How have you been growing yourself in this world?
****
With your next breath, let go of the Crisis Grow world. Let it dissolve into the background. Just focus on your breath. In and out… in and out… With the next breath another world comes into view. A world of Crisis Collapse. The crisis of imagination has collapsed, but so has everything else. The economy collapsed, social structures collapsed, the climate is spinning out of control as all tender balances collapsed, the environment suffering a rapid mass extinction. You just woke up from taking a nap in this world. Where are you? What do your clothes look like? You get up. Are you waking up where you live? You try to get in touch with a person dear to you. How do you communicate in this world? What does technology look like? 
****
Then, when you are ready, let go of this world. Focus on your breathing and let each breath take you away from Crisis Collapse… And then breathe in and while exhaling open the gates of a Crisis Disciplined world. Here we imposed rules and regulations to cap unlimited, unhealthy growth. Some of us are disciplined and have transformed our lives to become more sustainable. Others have rules imposed on them, through an intricate system of monitoring and consequences. Which type of person are you? Disciplined or in need of disciplining? Or are you the person doing the disciplining, devising and implementing the rules? What does your work look like in this world? How do you live? Do you travel? And if you do, how do you do that? 
****
We’re about to leave the Disciplined world, so take a deep breath and one last big push towards a Crisis Transformed world. A world where everything is different from your life today. Nothing is the same. What does that look like where the crisis has transformed completely? What does it feel like? Go outside, what can you smell, taste, hear, touch? Someone is passing in the street, what do they look like, what are they doing? Now look at yourself? What do you look like and how do people look to you? Where do you live? What do you do in your life in a transformed world? What do you care about? Who do you care for? 
****
And finally, take one deep breath and close the portal to Crisis Transform. Focus on breathing and with every breath travel one year backward. Take your time.

Focus on breathing and with every
breath travel one year backward. Take as long as you need to come back to the present... And when
you arrive, slowly open your eyes, stretch out and make sure that all your bits have returned safely
to the here and now. Welcome back.

You find the time the youngest person you currently know is as old as the oldest person you know. You find yourself as old as the oldest person you know.  You are approaching the present… And when you arrive, slowly open your eyes, stretch out and make sure that all your bits have returned safely to the here and now. Welcome back. 

(END)


## intro with maya

Make yourself comfortable: lie down or sit comfortably. Assume a position that will allow your
body to be at rest while you’re off travelling to different possible futures, in your mind’s eye. It is a
kind of mental time travel guided by a series of questions. I’ll invite you to observe what bubbles up
in your thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations in response to these questions. We won’t share
what you saw, so just relax and see what emerges - it doesn’t matter how incoherent, nonsensical or
even embarrassing things you might encounter. They’ll be just passing thoughts. They don’t reflect
on 'you' or your personality. Just observe them come and go as reactions to my questions. Enjoy!

Take a few deep breaths. With each breath you travel a year into the future. In and out, in and out,
further and further into the future. When you’re ready, open your mind’s eye... you’re in lalaland.


In a resort of radical fairies. In a new age world filled with profitable feminine values. The world of
the triple bottom line and compassionate capitalism. Where you can do well by doing good. The
friendly universe provides. We have found ways to collaborate with Gaia, the mother goddess of the
planet. Where we breathe clean air and eat life-giving foods. Where we heal ourselves and heal the
Earth of the toxic fear and pride. Imagine waking up in this world. Look around. What does your
bedroom look like? What do you see outside? Imagine getting up and getting ready for the day.
What does your morning ritual look like? What do you have for breakfast? Who is around you?
Who do you collaborate with? What are you doing?

With your next breath, let go of Lalaland. Let it dissolve into the background. Just focus on your
breath. In and out... in and out... With the next breath another world comes into view. You sailed
into pirate bay. The federated anarcho-capitalist republic. You can feel the buzz of innovation
crackling in the air. The taste of freedom and infinite possibilities. New forms of sociality emerging
from human-computer interactions. In co-working spaces, in hackathons and augmented reality
meetups. Through blockchain co-operatives. You are in a hyperconnected megacity, surrounded by
rewilded landscapes tended to by environmental AI. Machine wilderness. On the horizon, the first
exobiology expedition to Mars takes off in a generational space ship. Where are you in this world?
What does your life look like? Where do you live? What technologies are you using? How do you
communicate in this world? What do you do? How do you collaborate?And then, when you are ready, let go of this world. Focus on your breathing and let each breath take
you away from the Pirate Bay... And then breathe in and open the gates to a different future. Above
the gates the world welcomes you with their motto. We have it harder. We imposed hierarchies,
rules and regulations to cap unlimited growth. There is growth, for sure, but only for those of us
who can handle it. We get rich while becoming more sustainable. We meet in exclusive clubs and
share the wealth of knowledge and resources amongst our brethren. We create rules for others to
follow. We impose the rules through an intricate system of surveillance and harsh consequences. We
keep the world in check through competition. Yet it isn’t easy. We cannot get rid of an annoying
itch. The collaborative underground that keeps exciting the masses with possibilities of social
change... Imagine your life in this world. What kind of person are you? Are you a member of a club,
or the underground? Or both? Are you devising and implementing the rules, or breaking them?
How do you live? Where do you live? What does your work look like in this world? How do you
collaborate and how do you compete? How could you thrive in this world?
We’re about to leave all those who think they Have it Harder... so take a deep breath and one last
big push towards the Care Core. A world where many things are is different from the world in
which you live today. A world where feminine values and federated media transformed society into
a place that is open and participatory. Where rhysomatic governance has superseded rigid
hierarchies and ineffective horizontal structures. The strength of our society comes acknowledging
interdependence, between everything and everything else. We thrive in multispecies kinship
networks that organically grow and dissolve, evolving through collaboration. We understand that we
are hydrogen ripped from its context, mixed with the dust of dead stars. That we are endlessly
recycled water and crystalising cyclones. That we are teeming civilisational hosts. Most
importantly, that we are capable of care. To care for humans and to care for the earth. To care for the
earth without humans and for humans without the earth. We know that There’s work to do. Star-
work, but earthbound all the same.” What does Care Core look like? What does it feel like? What
can you smell, taste, hear, touch? Look at yourself? What do you look like? Where do you live?
What do you do as a member of Care Core? What do you care about? Who do you care for?
Finally, take one deep breath and close the portal to Care Core. Focus on breathing and with every
breath travel one year backward. Take as long as you need to come back to the present... And when
you arrive, slowly open your eyes, stretch out and make sure that all your bits have returned safely
to the here and now. Welcome back.

                                   
## in confinement

 Closed eyes visionning / Tele- philia, les Hef's

Mettez vous à l'aise. Trouvez une position qui permet à votre corps d'être au repos pendant que vous voyagez dans différents futurs possibles, grâce à votre imagination, par l'oeil de votre cerveau. Peut être que vous devez desserrer votre pantalon, retirer vos bottes ou un tour de cou. Peut-être que vous devez aller chercher une couverture, une peau de bête, une bougie ou une lampe de chevet.

Nous allons faire une sorte de voyage dans le temps, guidé par une série de questions... je vous invite à observer ce qui éclot dans vos pensées, émotions et sensations physiques, en réponse à ces questions. 
Est ce que vous frissonnez ? Est ce que vous vous détendez un peu plus ? 
Nous n'allons pas partager ce que vous voyez alors contentez vous de vous relaxer et de voir ce qui émerge.
Peut importe si c'est incohérent, insensé ou même si vous rencontrez des situations embarrassantes. Ce ne sont que des pensées qui passent, qui défilent. Un courant d'air qui circule entre nous. Elles ne reflètent pas votre personnalité alors contentez vous de les observer aller et venir au fil de mes questions. (finissez votre installation)...
Et c'est parti. Nous allons dériver....Bon voyage
Prenez une large inspiration, une grande bouffée d'air. A chaque inspiration vous voyagez d'une année dans le futur. 2021, 2022... le décor se brouille autour de vous, 2023..., 24...
Inspirez, expirer de plus en plus loin dans le futur, quand vous être prêts ouvrez votre troisième œil : nous sommes en 2032, à TELEPHILIA, les Hef's.


Vous êtes en demi sommeil dans votre lit oversize en duvet d'oie. Une petite brise d'air assez pur vous chatouille les narines. Des sons d'oiseaux vous parviennent depuis la rue jardin : grive litorne, faucon crécelle, chardonneret élégant, roitelet huppé, mésagne boréale, fauvette à tête noire, pouillet véloce et même des chouettes : chevêche d'Athéna ou effraie des cloches....
Vous connaissez très bien tous leurs chants tout comme vous connaissez très bien chacune et chacun des plantes, mousse, fungi et microfungi qui ont grandi, puis proliféré près de chez vous au point de donner à votre vieille rue deux fois centenaires ce parfum de sous bois typique, cette odeur d'humus un peu musqué...car vous ne vous êtes plus rendu à plus de 10km de chez vous depuis 10 ans.
Imaginez votre vie dans ce monde. Quelle genre de personne êtes-vous ?
Où vivez vous dans ce monde ? A quoi ressemble votre vie ? Comment vous allez ?
Pouvez vous ressentir comme c'est agréable, réconfortant, de ne plus penser à la mort quand on regarde un arbuste, comme cela nous arrivait avant la coronale ?
Pouvez vous ressentir la sérénité qui naît quand tout instinct de conquête de l'espace quitte la ville ? Mais dans ce monde, vous n'avez pas le temps non plus d'y penser bien longtemps. Les phasmes que vous élevez par milliers vous ont déjà réveillés pour le petit déjeuner que vous prenez tous assis par terre dans votre appartement nid en discutant politique avec les lianes et les graminées. Cela fait plusieurs mois que vous êtes investis à leurs côtés, sans pour autant vous permettre de parler à leur place, dans la lutte qu'elles ont entâmée pour obtenir des droits civiques et gagner l'autodétermination ...et notamment la possibilité de choisir elles mêmes avec qui elles vont vivre et sur quels sols elles vont atterrir. Vos caméras sont déjà branchées car vous animez une matinale politique pro-life consacrée à la communication avec les plantes.
Au début, vous aviez commencé ça pour rigoler. Pour vous moquez du confinement et des nouvelles habitudes « mains vertes » qui s' installaient progressivement chez les uns et les autres, pour positiver l'enfermement.
Mais au fur et à mesure, des émissions, vous aviez constaté que vos pousses s'étaient fortifiées. Vos betteraves pesaient huit kilos : le poids de votre chien Hunky avant l'abattage. Et puis un jour, une plante vous a parlé.

Est-ce que cette nouvelle possibilité relationnelle vous a bouleversé ? Ou encombrés ? Vous êtes vous familiarisé pour autant avec les privations relationnelles,  la fin du voyage ? Avez vous encore une idée du goût de la vie d'avant ? 
(pause)
Quand vous êtes prêts, vous quittez cette belle journée. Concentrez vous sur votre respiration.

And let your breathing take you away from this apartment, and from this day. Breathe in, and out… And let the next breath open the door to a new place, in another apartment, on another day. Outside rain drizzles down, there are less bird-sounds on a grey day like this. Inside, you open the door to your bedroom. Your partner is nervously preparing the oversized bed for an important video-conference and throws a tense look at you. You open the wardrobe, stuffed with bathrobes instead of pants, shirts and dresses, and you quickly pick the bathrobe that you will wear today. But you’re too slow, because your partner really gets annoyed now and snaps at you. That meeting is about to start! You are chased out of the bedroom. 

Only now you see that the bathrobe you picked, is full of coffee-stains from an accident yesterday. Impossible to disturb your partner’s meeting, so you will have to do groceries like that. And as you move through your apartment, you try to remember what it was like in the old days, when bathrobes weren’t obligatory outside the house yet. 

You walk into the living room. Today it’s your turn to do home-schooling, but you also promised the yuca-plant in the living room to spend some quality-time together, and in two hours time, you have a deadline for work. You turn on the radio, because on the Federal Children’s Channel, the daily obligatory Forgiveness-Meditation has already started. The voice of the Federal Schoolteacher guides the kids to meditate on Unconditional Love and Forgiveness, but it’s clear that your kids can’t concentrate today. Instead, they insist on fiddling with the plants in the kitchen. You have already explained a million times, as empathically as possible, that it’s not allowed to tear out leafs, because it kills the plants. You try to make them concentrate on the meditation. Because if they miss 2 of these daily meditations, they will get reprimanded, and their empathy-score will go down on the internet. In the corner of your eye you can see that your Yuca-plant is sulking because you’re not giving it attention. You will have to take some time to excuse for your neglect later.

Try to imagine yourself leading this life, in this world. What does the rest of your day look like? Who else is in your apartment? What do you see when you straighten your bathrobe, and walk out of your apartment? What job is it exactly that you do? Do you have any rituals before going to bed at night?
(pause)
Try to concentrate on your breathing again. And with your next inhalation, leave this place... Let it slowly dissolve, and just focus on your breathing...

Inspirez, expirez, vous sentez votre ventre se gonfler puis se creuser, votre poitrine monte et descend et avec l'inspiration suivante  vous voilà dans un hôpital sanatorium. Vous êtes en tenue de combat, avec une visière et une combinaison hermétique. Vous êtes chargés de l'hygiène dans le cadre de votre service volontaire obligatoire santé. Vous êtes plutôt fier car l'hygiène est un domaine d'action économique phare, hautement stratégique et ultra-valorisé. Vous êtes en quelque sorte l'élite de la Nation et vous avez télé-travaillé ultra dur pour ça, depuis l'enfance, encouragé par votre mère, Jadwiga, une femme polonaise qui avait eu le nez creux en montant sa propre boîte de ménage à domicile avant que ça tourne mal. Elle avait donc mis la clé sous la porte mais vous avez refilé la bosse de l'hygiène avec en plus un petit brin de revanche sociale qui vous avez conduit aux premières marches du sommet.
Imaginez à quoi ressemblent vos journées dans cette hôpital sanatorium dernier cri , où se concentrent toutes les ambitions et les valeurs du nouveau monde ? Comment sont les chambres ? Comment sont équipés les membres du personnel et les jeunes volontaires ? Quelles sont les pathologies nouvelles de ce monde ? De quoi souffre-t-on ? Et quelles en sont les causes ? Sont-elles bien connues de tous ou étouffées ? Niées ? Quels sont les points positifs et les points négatifs de ce système de santé ?
Vous contemplez maintenant le nuage brumisateur de sérum hydroalcoolique se répandre partout dans les couloirs vitrées, puis s'écouler le long du réseau complexe des tuyaux translucides qui visitent chacun des chambres individuelles. Les maladies respiratoires ont quasi disparût. (vous vous souvenez maintenant de cette époque qu’on vous a relatée : la fin des a Les allergies aussi mais les patients autour de vous ont des tics bizarres, des mouvements nerveux incontrôlés, des problèmes de vue mais surtout des syndromes du tout début de la généralisation de l'électricité domestique . Certains sont vidés complètement de leur énergie, de leur jus et obsédés par leur image. Certains ont vu leur personnalité propre disparaître, comme absorbée ou coincée dans le circuit éléctrique... comme dans le syndrome de Cotard par exemple.  Ces patients pensent tout simplement qu'ils sont morts, ne se voient plus dans le miroir et n'ont plus aucune empathie. Tout cela est tellement présent, habituel que c'est admis avec fatalité.
(pause)
Nous sommes sur le point de quitter l'hôpital sanatorium…... prenez donc une inspiration très profonde en  laissant tous ces patients et leurs pathologies  dans leur monde. 

And with the next breathe, the hospital is gone. And when you breathe in again, you find yourself in your car. Or it’s a van actually, a high-tec van. Ass you open the door of your van, and step out into the street, you feel invincible. The kids passing by (wearing their bathrobes, face-shields and face-masks like everyone else), look up at you in absolute admiration.You are in full-protective suit, head to toe. It’s warm alright, but all the air you breathe is triple filtered, and you feel good in there, safe. This suit is the cherry on the pie of your rich, altruist career. Years ago you sacrificed your personal life to get your first elite-job, and started working as a warehouse stacker. Soon after, you were head-hunted by the Federal Monopoly Consortium (that’s the union of the companies previously known as Amazon, Apple and Facebook) and became a supermarket employee. You took so much pride in the Consortium’score-value of Altruism & Empathy, that you got promoted to the technical cable-crew. And today you are proud to risk your life to repair people’s cables and internet-connections. Because their life depends on it. These cables are what connects people across the globe, and they are the only means for the obligatory contact-tracing cameras to transmit their data. Your job is a crucial one.

You work hard but you are considered to be a hero – and you get paid like one. The whole of next year you will go on a holiday. You will actually travel, and go to another continent for a year. This exercise in empathy is something that only the super-rich can afford. But you deserved it, and the Consortium supports you. 

Imagine yourself in this life… What continent will you choose for your travels? Where will you get the best lesson in empathy? What is it like to take off your protective suit in the evening? Do you feel special because you don’t do any tele-work? Do you live alone? And what does your apartment look like?

Finally, take one deep breath and close the portal to this life. Focus on breathing and with every breath travel one year backward. Take as long as you need to come back to the present... And when you arrive, slowly open your eyes, stretch out and make sure that all your bits have returned safely to the here and now. Welcome back.









## at riga


Title: Mental Time Travel
Author: Anna
Tags: Futurology, Doing, Writing
Status: Draft

Rassemblez un groupe. 
Invitez le à s'allonger par terre, à fermer les yeux à se poser sur un tapis de yoga en mousse de plastique ou en laine.
Lisez leur ou faites leur écouter un enregistrement de votre voix, concentrée, calme les invitant à voyager dans le futur.
A chaque inspiration, le groupe voyage d'un an dans le futur.
Vous prodiguez des conseils pour se détendre, ouvrir son esprit, visualiser du mieux que vous pouvez.
Puis, vous guidez le voyage par une série de questions.
Vous dites : "nous sommes arrivés dans tel monde ou en telle année, qui êtes vous dans ce monde ? Vous êtes dans la ville. A quoi ressemble-telle ?Où allez vous ? Coimment êtes vous habillés et comment vous sentez vous dans ce monde".

N'oubliez pas de distribuer quelques consignes de sécurité. 
Vous pouvez par exemple  proposer un rituel pour ne pas rester coincé dans le futur, pour avoir envie de rentrer,  pour ne pas échanger son corps contre celui de quelqu'un d'autre.

Transmis par Maja Kuzmanovic, à Paf. Février 2019.

On a remoted plannet, humans managed to learn the language of the bears. On that plannet humans and bears talk to each other with words, share scientific researches, develop theories, philosphical discourses and culture based on language together. Bears experience life in a nonlinear way, through using language. Every word they use shifts them to another time zone, in a non chronoligcal way. it makes their lives special and satisfying, jumping from age to age, from adulthood to childhood and back... but it also consumes a lot of their power and makes their body decay relatively fast, till death.  Humans on that plannet always wanted to be able to do the same. What those humans dont realise, is that this capacity to jump into different time zones will bring to the extinction of the bears. As life is so fulfiling in a nonlinear experience of time, the urgency to procreate disappears and the bears do not produce new generations anymore. Humans on earth know that. in fact, humans on earth knew the language path to nonlinear experience of time thousands of years ago. But as they evolved, they understood that this paradise way of living is also the one that will make them disappear as a species and they tought themselves to unlearn this language. For many years after they could only experience time in a linear way and this was less exciting, but at the same time they are back to procreation and there is no threat on there existence . Sadly, the humans on that other planet dont know this history. If they will not unlearn the language of nonlinearity, they might have a great life, but with no followers....

(there are more important details to this story, but this is the summary...)

Closed eyes visionning / Salon des 4 mondes.
Mettez vous à l'aise. Trouvez une position qui permet à votre corps d'être au repos pendant que vous voyagez dans différents futurs possibles, grâce à votre imagination, par l'oeil de votre cerveau.  Peut être que vous devez desserer votre pantalon, . Peut-être que vous devez aller chercher une couverture, une peau de bête, une bougie ou un bonnet. Prenez un moment pour vous installez bien comme il faut et détendez vous. 
Nous allons faire une sorte de voyage dans le temps, guidé par une série de questions... je vais vous inviter à observer ce qui éclot dans vos pensées, émotions et sensations physiques, en réponse à mes questions. 
Frisson, peur, désir... 

Etes vous prêt ? 
Je vais réciter une formule protectrice, garantie d'un bon retour. Elle est très ancienne et dure à prononcer, pardon pour nos ancêtres. Je vous demande de fermer les yeux et d'ouvrir les oreilles et pour ouvrir vos oreilles, d'enfoncer un index dans chacune et des les ressortir vivement, comme un bouchon de champagne d'une bouteille un soir de fête. 

no Kiklopas sapņošanas acs līdz miesas samtainumam, Les belles et les belles atgriezīsies ar lidojošu paklāju.
de l'oeil cyclopéen de la rêverie au velouté de la chair,  Les belles et les belles reviendront en tapis volant. 

Nous allons dériver....Bon voyage
Prenez une large inspiration, une grande bouffée d'air. A chaque inspiration vous voyagez d'une année dans le futur. 2026, 2032... le décor se brouille autour de vous, 2037..., 2060...les lieux que vous connaissez se transforment puis disparaissent. Ayez une pensée pour tous ceux qui ont vécu avant vous et dont les joies et les peines sont arrivés jusqu'à vous puis ayez une pensée pour celles et ceux qui viendront, qui vous survivront et qui porteront la trace de peines et nos joies puis dispersez vos pensées en inspirant et expirant doucement.
Inspirez, expirer de plus en plus loin dans le futur, quand vous être prêts ouvrez votre troisième œil : nous sommes en 2111. 1
Et vous vous trouvez dans un marais cyclopéen, vous avez réglé votre Orange Boom Partout Pass extra Large en mode chromatique donc vous voyez en dominante orangée au milieux d'arbres centenaires à la poussée lente, très petits, fins : bouleaux blancs banzai aux feuillage tremblotant, pins parasols aux branches arthrosées comme des petites mamies japonaises depuis longtemps centenaires.
Vous avez un pied chaussé et un pied nu et vous suivez Sabine  à même le marais, vos pieds s'enfonçant dans une mousse épaisse, de qualité, joufflue, rebondie tantôt extrêmement douce et réconfortante tantôt humide, froide et même gourmande, vorace, aspirant vos pieds comme une goule affamée. 
Le marais Kemeri a deux visages : l'un doux et accueillant comme celui de Sabine, l'autre trouble et espiègle comme les petites eaux du marais. Prenez un temps pour sentir ce mélange de joie et de danger. Imaginez les grands bonheurs qui arrivent dans le marais mais aussi les malheurs secrets, cachés sous vos pieds qui suivent Sabine.
Nous n'allons pas partager ce que vous voyez alors contentez vous de vous relaxer et de voir ce qui émerge.
Peut importe si c'est incohérent, insensé ou même si vous rencontrez des situations embarrassantes. Ce ne sont que des pensées qui passent, qui défilent. Un courant d'air qui circule entre nous. Elles ne reflètent pas votre personnalité alors contentez vous de les observer aller et venir au fil de mes questions. 
Qui êtes vous en 2011.1 ? Dans ce monde semi lacustre et grignoté par une végétation en pleine forme ? Qu'êtes vous venu chercher dans ce marais avec cette grande sachante à mini canines ?
Un moyen d'échanger, de faire du genetic trading des chromosomes avec les plantes carnivores que Sabine connait bien, peut être ? Les os d'humains pré-hanséatiques comme le mythique Gargouillasmina Michel's broken arms bone, os dont la légende raconte que le cariotype est celui d'un humain ayant accès au voyage dans le temps comme les ours ? 
De quoi avait il l'air, ce Michel  ?
Peut être encore ête vous un vétérinaire des ours comme le docteur Vilani  fameux présentiste, méfiant de cette avidité contemporaine pour le changement d'époque ? 
Et cherchant auprès de Sabine des champignons qui pourraient calmer la gourmandise oursonne pour le time travelling ? Gourmandise dangereuse qui conduit leur espèce à la disparition ?
Peut être enfin êtes vous un ours ou une oursonne ?
Prenez le temps d'imaginez que vous êtes un ours ou une oursonne qui voyage dans le temps ….
quelle est votre époque de prédilection ? Etes vous accroc à un siècle en particulier ? Lequel ?
Ou alors êtes vous attiré par le changement ? Dans combien d'époque avez vous des amis ? Des amants peut être ? 
Sont ils ours ou humains ?

La scène se brouille lentement.
Le marais orange revient à la couleur et vous entendez maintenant autour de vous le bruit des vagues de la mer baltique, puissant, lent et détonnant comme la respiration d'une baleine ou d'un cat fish géant.
Vous êtes allongés sur le sable blanc et le bruit de la mer se mélange avec votre respiration. Vous inspirez et expirez lentement. Bienvenus en 2111. Le ciel est bleu et le sable est clair.  Des micro jelly fish adorables dodelinent (tremblotent) sur la grève pailletée. Des mousses roses sèchent dans les bras des algues noires.
Vous vous réveillez d'une petite sieste en ne sachant plus à quelle époque vous vous trouvez.  Vous êtes à la fois fatigué et enivré de soleil. Dans votre monde, on vit dehors et proche de la nature. Les maisons en bois sont soient abandonnées soient dédiées à conserver des objets et des costumes pour les sessions de reenactment. Vous avez les clés de la maison Vilani et il vous revient soudain en mémoire que vous avez laissé traîné un chapeau de feutre, probablement datant de 2011.1 et qui était porté pour les parades nuptiales.
Votre époque n'a toujours pas trouvé le moyen de voyager dans le temps comme les ours savent le faire mais vous n'êtes pas un présentiste pour autant.  Comme votre ami Mauritz, qui kiffe le douzième siècle avec toute la bande Dalva et qui vit en 2111.1 quand il travaille dans l'IT  et dans un reenactment du douzième siècle quand il rentre chez lui le soir, vous aimez vivre dans plusieurs époques à la fois. Enfant vous étiez couverts de bijoux car vous aviez la clé symbolique de plusieurs  monde, parfois c'était un peu tout much et il y avait cette grande controverse de l'incarnantion sur laquelle se sont bien activés les plot poet
Maintenant, avec la sagesse acquise, vous en avez choisi un seul qui vous semble adapté à vos aspirations et qui n'en finit pas de vous fasciner.  
Vous gardez toujours un petite carte azyme plottée ou deux de son symbole sur vous et quand vous vous y rendez,  seul ou avec des amis, vous en grignotez un petit morceau.
Soudain, coup de théâtre, un ours vient vers vous...
Qu'a t il à vous dire ?

…..............
Quand vous sentez que votre conversation avec l'ours est terminée, vous inspirez et expirez lentement, mais sûrement et quittez 2111.1
Vous flottez un instant entre les époques et les dimensions et passez doucement la porte d'un autre monde.
Nous sommes en 2111.1
Vous êtes à nouveau à la mer mais cette fois vous vous déshabillez pour vous désengourdir après cet orgasme  puissant et rigolo que vous vous êtes donnés avec une fleur jaune, de très grande taille, dont les fleurs veloutée, l'odeur boisée mais aussi les longues tiges texturées vous ont troublé toute à l'heure, après une séance d'inspiration présentiste de staring at a thing during a long period qui a un peu dégénérée.
Prenez le temps de vous rappelez ce curieux moment.
Vous tournez maintenant votre œil intérieur vers la mer, l'eau charrie des aphrodites. Une première femme nue arrive en courant depuis l'eau froide, sourire au lèvre et corps sculpté par la course. Puis une autre, puis une autre encore. 
La secret des ours a fini pas être découvert quand le Gargouillamini est sorti de l'étang et l'on revient maintenant des autres mondes en se jetant nu à la mer. 
Vous profitez de cette vision et méditez sur cette situation nouvelle.
¨*Il est facile de reconnaître les voyageurs dans le temps. Ils ressemblent aux gens qui reviennent de la mer, enivrés et fatigués par le soleil, la plante des pieds brûlées et lisse, la peau salée et les yeux chargés d’horizon.
Leurs vêtements humides sèment des grains de sable,comme des miettes de bonheur,qui marquent le chemin vers leur maison. *

Vous prenez une profonde respiration et vous fermez à votre rythme la porte de 2011.1 en vous concentrant sur votre respiration encore et encore et à chaque respiration vous revenez vers le présent.
Prenez le temps qu'il vous faut et quand vous êtes arrivés, vous ouvrez doucement les yeux en vous assurant que tous vos membres sont revenus en bon état : à l'ici et maintenant.
Welcome back.  Re bonjour. 

##ENGLISH VERSION                
Make yourselves comfortable. Find a position that allows your body to be at rest while you travel into different possible futures, through your imagination, through your mind’s eye. Maybe you need to loosen your pants. Maybe you need to get a blanket, a candle or a hat. Take a moment to settle in properly... and relax. 
We are going to leave on a kind of time travel, guided by a series of questions... I will invite you to observe what erupts in your thoughts, emotions and physical sensations, in response to my questions. 
Thrill, fear, desire... 

Are you ready? 
Before we start I will recite a protective formula, guaranteeing a good return. It is very old and hard to pronounce, sorry for our ancestors. I ask you to close your eyes and open your ears. And to open your ears, please push an index finger into each one and pull it out briskly, like a champagne cork from a bottle on a festive night.

no Kiklopas sapņošanas acs līdz miesas samtainumam, The beautiful and atgriezīsies ar lidojošu paklāju.

From the cyclopean eye of reverie to the velvety flesh, the beautiful and the lovely will return on a flying carpet. 

We will drift away now… Have a good trip.

Take a deep breath, a big breath of air. With each inhalation you will travel one year into the future. 2026, 2032... The scenery blurs around you, 2037..., 2060... the places you know change and disappear. Think of all beings who have lived before you and whose joys and sorrows have come to you. And then think of those who will come, who will outlive you and who will carry the trace of our sorrows and joys. And then disperse your thoughts by breathing in and out gently.

Breathe in, breathe out... further and further into the future. And when you are ready, slowly open your mind’s eye: we are in 2111.1

You are in a cyclopean swamp, you have set your Orange-Boom-Partout-Pass-Extra-Large in chromatic mode, so you see in dominant orange. In the middle of centenary trees with slow growth, very small, fine: white birches banzai with trembling foliage, umbrella pines with arthritic branches like small Japanese grannies long since centenary.

You have one foot shoed, and one foot bare... and you follow Sabine right into the swamp, your feet sinking into thick, chubby, bouncy moss that is sometimes extremely soft and comforting and sometimes wet, cold and even greedy, voracious, sucking at your feet like a hungry ghoul. 

The Kemeri Marsh has two faces: one is soft and welcoming like Sabine, the other one murky and mischievous like the small waters of the marsh. Take a moment to feel this mixture of joy and danger. Imagine the great joys that come to the swamp but also the secret woes, hidden beneath your feet that follow Sabine.

We won't share what you see so just relax and see what emerges. It doesn't matter if it's incoherent, nonsensical or even if you encounter embarrassing situations. It's just thoughts passing by. A draft that flows between us. They don't reflect your personality, so just watch them come and go as I keep on asking questions.
 
Who are you in 2011.1? In this semi-lake world, nibbled by a vegetation in full form? What did you come to look for in this swamp with this big know-it-all with mini fangs?

For a way to exchange, to do genetic trading of chromosomes with the carnivorous plants that Sabine knows well, maybe? The bones of pre-hanseatic humans like the mythical Gargouillasmina Michel's broken arms bone, a bone whose cariotype is said to be that of a human with access to time travel like the bears?
What did he look like, this Michel?
Maybe you are still a bear vet like the famous presentist Dr. Vilani, suspicious of this contemporary greed for time change?

And looking for mushrooms from Sabine that could calm the bear's greed for time travelling? Dangerous gluttony that leads their species to extinction?
Maybe you are finally a bear?

Take the time to imagine that you are a bear who travels in time ....
What is your favorite era? Are you addicted to a particular century? Which one?
Or are you attracted to change? In how many eras do you have friends? Lovers maybe? 
Are they bears or humans?

The scene slowly blurs.
The orange swamp returns to full colour and you now hear the sound of the waves of the Baltic Sea around you, powerful, slow and jarring like the breathing of a whale or a giant catfish.

You are lying on the white sand and the sound of the sea mixes with your breathing. You breathe in and out slowly. Welcome to 2111. The sky is blue and the sand is clear.  Adorable micro jelly fish waddle and shake on the glittery shore. Pink mosses dry in the arms of black algae.
You wake up from a nap not knowing what time it is.  You are both tired and intoxicated by the sun. In your world, people live outside and close to nature. The wooden houses are either abandoned or dedicated to keeping objects and costumes for the reenactment sessions. You have the keys to the Vilani house and you suddenly remember that you left a felt hat lying around, probably from 2011.1, which was worn for wedding parades.

Your era still hasn't found a way to travel through time like bears do, but you're not a presentist.  Like your friend Maurius, who loves the twelfth century with the whole Dalva gang and lives in 2111.1 when he works in IT and in a twelfth century reenactment when he goes home at night, you like to live in several eras at the same time. As a child you were covered in jewels because you had the symbolic key to several worlds, sometimes it was a bit much and there was this great controversy of incarnation on which the plotter-poet was very active.

Now, with the wisdom you have acquired, you have chosen one that seems to fit your aspirations and that never ceases to fascinate you.
You always keep a small edible card or two with you, and when you go there, alone or with friends, you nibble a little piece off the symbol.
Suddenly, a bear comes towards you...
What does he have to say to you?

.................
When you feel that your conversation with the bear is over, you breathe in and out ,slowly but surely and leave 2011.1

You float for a moment between times and dimensions and slowly pass through the door of another world.
It is 2011.1
You are back in the sea but this time you are undressing to disengage after that powerful and funny orgasm you gave yourself with a very large yellow flower, whose velvety blossoms, woody smell but also long textured stems troubled you earlier, after a presentist inspiration session of staring at a thing during a long period that got a bit out of hand.
Take a moment to remember that curious moment.
You now turn your inner eye towards the sea, the water is carrying aphrodites. A first naked woman comes running from the cold water, smiling and with a body sculpted by the run. Then another one, then another one again.

The secret of the bears was finally discovered when the Gargouillamini came out of the pond and you now come back from other worlds by throwing yourself naked into the sea. 
You enjoy this vision and meditate on this new situation.
*It is easy to recognize time travelers. They look like people returning from the sea, drunk and tired from the sun, the soles of their feet burnt and smooth, their skin salty and their eyes full of horizon.
Their wet clothes sow grains of sand, like crumbs of happiness, which mark the way to their home. *

You take a deep breath and close the door of 2011.1 at your own pace, focusing on your breath over and over again and with each breath you return to the present.
Take the time you need and when you have arrived, you gently open your eyes making sure that all your limbs are back in good condition: to the here and now.
Welcome back. Hello again. 











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