Terracon ECO-FUTURISTIC VILLAGE documents: EARTH COLONY ONE: THE DYNAMIC UTOPIA The Eco-Futuristic Village as an Engine of Escape into Viability and an Instrument of Planetary Metamorphosis. 0. TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. ANNOUNCEMENT: Introduction. The Restoration of Paradise. Seed Crystal publishing plans. Illustrators needed! 2. EXPLANATION: Proper names and trademark symbols used by the project. 3. PRELUDE: Quotations. History Lection. An Indictment of Mundania. Pagan Millenial Mythos: The Advent of the Warriors of the Rainbow. The Triumph of Non-Conformity. Practicality and Desirability of Utopian Experimentation. 4. DESCRIPTION: Defining "Eco-Futuristic Village." Describing the prototype Eco-Futuristic Village: Earth Colony One. 5. ANALYSIS: Why a village? Why an Eco-Futuristic one? Why a Neo-Pagan one? Why a special interest in confederation around the Starwood festival? Personal reflections on the project. 6. SIZE: The Eco-Futuristic Village as a Complete Micro-Society. Optimal population size and property size for the prototype. 7. LOCATION: The Eco-Futuristic Village as a Safe Haven in a Troubled World. Siting considerations amidst a civilization that is falling apart and a biosphere that is being pushed to the brink of ecological apocalypse. 8. NEIGHBORS: The Eco-Futuristic Village as a Good Neighbor. A statement of intent for friendship and offer of mutual aid to residents of the area in which we settle. 9. ARCHITECTURE: The Eco-Futuristic Village as an Architectural Masterwork of Comprehensive Integrated Innovation. Community layout. Building a joyous world of our own design. 10. SUSTAINABILITY: The Eco-Futuristic Village as an Endlessly Turning Cycle of Renewable Resources Powered by the Sun. Alternative energy, regenerative agriculture and 100% recycling. 11. DIET AND DINING: The Eco-Futuristic Village as an Epicurian Culinary Cooperative. Growing, buying and preparing abundant, wholesome, nutritious food as a community. 12. TRANSPORTATION: The Eco-Futuristic Village as a Vehicular Cooperative. Making optimally efficient transportation available for all our members. Utilizing alternative fuels. 13. CYBERTEK: The Eco-Futuristic Village as a Headquarters for a Gaia Intelligence Agency. Outfitting our media production facility with state-of-the-art gear in the mid 1990s. Intelligent buildings. Taming the information glut. Global networking and outreach from a remote location. 14. CHILDREN: The Eco-Futuristic Village as a Paradise for Children. Growing up in an intentional extended family of mellow free folk. Creating a child-friendly society. Reducing needless intergenerational conflicts through increasing teen independence. 15. EDUCATION: The Eco-Futuristic Village as an Alternative Educational Institution. Transcending the failings of the school system and cultivating creative genius. Raising, training and grooming a team of 21st century Gaian avatars. 16. HEALTH CARE: The Eco-Futuristic Village as a Center of the Holistic Healing Arts. Operating a rural medical clinic and a primary health care cooperative. 17. GOVERNANCE: The Eco-Futuristic Village as a Biocentric Libertarian Sanctuary. Practical approximation of the Anarchical ideal. Freedom, decision making, membership and dispute resolution. 18. ECONOMICS: The Eco-Futuristic Village as a Shared Platform for Success. Setting up a profitable Third Wave institution that can pioneer the transition to a Fourth Wave dynamic equilibrium Leisure Economy. The abolition of unnecessary work. Creating entrepreneurial opportunities together. Mutually Assured Survival. 19. SPIRITUALITY: The Eco-Futuristic Village as a Complete Reification of Neo-Pagan Culture. Living the Pagan Wheel of the Year. Celebrating the stages of life. Refining and deepening Neo-Pagan theology. Crafting a sophisticated system of comprehensive self-development. 20. EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS: The Eco-Futuristic Village as an Evolutionary Catalyst. Creating an ethical and scientifically valid instrument for accelerating human evolution through selective attraction and voluntary association. A discussion of the Leary-Wilson Eight Circuit Brain model, the noetic mutant phenomenon and our interpretation of the Elven mythos. 21. INVOKING THE STARCHILDREN: The Eco-Futuristic Village as a Tool for Harvesting Millenialism. Triggering a renaissance of utopian experimentation around the dawn of the 21st century. 22. GETTING THERE FROM HERE: What it will take to build the prototype and replicate additional Eco-Futuristic Villages. 23. SUBSEQUENT RELATED PROJECTS: Arcadia, a Neo-Primitive colony. New Avalon, a Renaissance Medievalist colony. Seabase, a marine Eco-Futuristic Village. 24. SPACE MIGRATION: The Eco-Futuristic Village as a Temporarily Grounded Space Colony. Bringing about the fulfillment of S.M.I.2L.E. "First on the Earth, next on the Moon, onward to Mars!" 25. PLANS AND PROJECTIONS ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE CYBERGENETIC AGE: Futurological speculation. Setting the Eco-Futuristic Village into a broader historical context. Gaia theory. The coming of the cybergenetic Meta-Human, the Cybergods and a nanotechnological SuperNature. Documents will be posted on computer bulletin boards with eight character filenames as "TERRAN" followed by their number. The first twenty-five will appear as "EFV:" followed by their short name on computer boards with room for a descriptive phrase. Files were composed on Word Perfect and spaced for page numbers. Due to the volume of material being prepared, these essays will be posted a few at a time in sequential order as soon as editing is completed. The last file posted will end with a date when you should expect the next set of files. Coming this spring... 26. TERRAN CONSCIOUSNESS: A NATURE RELIGION FOR THE SPACE AGE. Terracon as an incorporated organization. Position paper. 27. MEMETICS AND THE COUNTERCULTURE OF THE NINETIES. Exposing defeatist "Trojan Memes" that hobble the Counterculture. Propagating "Excalibur Memes" that will bring us success. 28. YOUNG RAINBOWS AND THE QUEST FOR COUNTERCULTURAL VIABILITY. A survival guide for our counterparts in the Nineties and Millenial crops. Dead ends to avoid, new roads to travel. 29. AN ANDROGYNIST MANIFESTO: Putting a hedonic end to the gender wars. Making the Gaian Counterculture a sanctuary of sexual satisfaction and implicit equality. 30. ENGINEERING THE PROSPERITY OF THE RAINBOW NATION THROUGH ECOLOGICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Rethinking the prevailing attitudes towards money and how we support ourselves here. 31. TOWARDS THE TRIUMPH OF NATURE AND THE ATTAINMENT OF THE DEMIGOD CONFIGURATION. Exploring metaphysical premises. What forces are jiggling with events here? What are we? 32. OPENING THE INTEGRAL GATE: Speculations on the apotheosis of a team of Gaian avatars as the intended culmination of the Rainbow People phenomenon. Coming in 1994, for the tenth anniversary of the Convocation of the Magi... Project Alternity: A Season of Wonders. (1984) Project Alternity: A Corridor Derailed. (1984-1985) Project Alternity: Worlds in Transition. (1986-1988) Happy International Year of Thelema! (c) 1993 Cary G. Robyn / 1440 East 14th St. / Brooklyn NY 11230