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Dream of Pier10


In 1999 I had a dream so powerfully inspiring that it changed my life, setting me on a mission to understand and help manifest the concepts within it. Keep in mind that at that time I did not use computers,the internet,or email at all, but the dream showed me web portals and avatars, so it was Quite bizarre for me.

In this dream (had and written down in bookjournal Thursday March 25th, 1999) I was glancing amusedly through a horoscope section of a magazine and catch the blurb for Sagittarius: "You may befriend a scientist...". This made me smile in anticipation for the rest of the horoscope. When I get to it, the photo lay-out shows a laboratory of some sort, a man looking at something in the foreground in labcoat, a woman in the background (not me- perhaps the Sagittarius?) with reddish upswept hair. I start to read the column of text that runs down the left side of the page...when suddenly I found myself reading what seemed to be very direct,specific and personal instructions. "This is not the time for socializing. You need to reread those science texts. You need to find out why _____ and _____ + ____ do what they do. (At that point the instructions were no longer just text but became beautiful and mysterious moving diagrams showing spherical particles that somehow became superimposed and holographic as the text 'narrated'.) I was to find out what would happen if everyone did something specific at the same time. (again mysterious diagram)

It then went on to show what would be possible with this understanding......strangely it was business ideas- huge- which I looked at cynically thinking that's the bias the magazine would have...having to promote this money wheel. It mentioned computer programs and a real store called Pier10 which would take all the ideas of certain stores/spaces (Pier1, body shop, nature company, discovery, barnes and noble, Disneyworld(!) 10 steps further.. A commercial space (both a social space and marketplace) to be launched in tandem with a huge immersive '3D web portal', graphically as beautiful and detailed as any of the best computer games I had ever glimpsed! Both these concepts were seen in elaborate detail and they were rich with novelty that I can elaborate on, but the important theme they shared was an emphasis on a 'new collaborative movement for a better world and inspiring the masses to participate'. Called Pier 10, they were set up in such a way that 10% of profits (including entry fees) were distributed to a network of charities and due to the volume of traffic this was a continually inspiring amount in itself. Secondly, they were both interspersed with interactive and informative activities and displays that were designed to inspire individuals about their positive roles and the feasibility of the goal of the movement. When I woke, I was dumbfounded by the vividness of all I had just seen and I tried to write down as much as I could. Over the next years I read anything I could get my hands on that seemed to relate to these ideas. And as I filtered through them, certain topics amplified:

  • ENTANGLEMENT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entanglement) seems to be what the diagrams were describing. (what Einstein termed 'Spooky action at a distance')
  • EMPATHY (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy) (Pierre Omidyar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Omidyar) mentions a "Reaching down into the very source code of humanity and changing a few critical lines" and I want to yell YES YES!I think there has to be a vision...so compelling...that it thwarts the natural tendency to selfishness...rewiring the pleasure-centers of the brain to connect to benevolent action strongly...a new vision of the self...as part of a benevolent organism....)
  • THE TIPPING POINT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_point) ( scale-free networks, hubs, etc as described in Linked (http://www.nd.edu/~networks/linked/), Emergence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence), Sync (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786887214/qid=1129065393/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-5144733-2544611?v=glance&s=books&n=507846))
  • THE GLOBAL BRAIN (http://www.peterussell.com/GB/Chap8.html) and greater problem solving capabilities
  • SYMBIOSIS in evolution (I am especially fond of Lynn Margulis' works (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/103-5144733-2544611) in this area)
  • VIRTUAL WORLDS as microcosms which affect the macrocosm
  • GIVING (10%) a voluntary vow to connect oneself to charitable causes as a tool for continuous empathy action

Serendipity sped things along as it tends to do.... I am a visual artist, and have been exploring the ideas in my mixed media materials as I've gone along, creating works which in their abstract way articulate more than I feel able to in words. (Feel free to visit my works online at my art website (http://www.darlenecharneco.com) ) Yet I have always felt that when the time was right, I would need to work amongst a team of people devoted to bringing this particular dreamvision to reality for the benefit of humanity and not just for corporate profit. I don't feel this dream was for 'me', it was just a glimpse at something that would evolve...but a strong feeling I had was that it was necessary to make sure it evolved as a 'benevolent and symbiotic organism'. For this I am willing and ready to work. I had peeked at the virtual worlds in the making over the years...could see the direction..yet never felt they were coming that close to the dreamvision until I explored SecondLife.com and it blew my mind with its potential. I think this is it. Over the years I have been watching it evolve and trying to be a part of that evolution towards what I saw in the dream. It is almost the time now. see Pier10

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nvnv (http://nvnv2006.com/)


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