Desert Island is an open exploration of the future of life itself.

It is an ongoing experiment accessed via the communal interphase of dreams (waking or otherwise) experienced by anyone who discovers this site.

  What does the future mean to us - as a cultural idea and a function of time?

The job here is for individuals to carefully articulate their most desirable futures and fix them as well defined points on the most distant horizon of our shared imaginary perceptual field for all to discover in the collective dreamscape.

As these visionary compass points are observed through various devices (cleared through sonambulant customs of course) they are then to be thoroughly discussed and debated in open telepathic amphitheater forums for their merits and flaws.

From these historic sessions will emerge a select pile of new paradigms and trajectories for life on earth. Further examination of overlaps and interplays of ideas will soon point to a single mutually agreed upon future worth inhabiting. This will spell out a clear direction to collectively point the ship of time and being.

The challenge is to picture life on Earth beyond the troubles we currently face.

The search for magnanimous futures calls for more than just intellectualizing. We should also ask ourselves, what might the right future feel like?

From a cosmic perspective, remember that “the future” is a non-issue. What we call “time” is a local thing, an illusion of earthbound consciousness. Glued to the present, the future isn’t quite real to us—a psychic spaghetti of possibility.

Because our imaginary future holds so much perceived value, powerful, self-interested forces have gone to great lengths to colonize it, walling us off from its potential with political and economic oppressions, soul-sapping business plans, addictive technologies, and numbing obligations that redirect the flow of life to lesser ends.

  Can we hunt for better storylines, better motivations and moods for life’s unwritten chapters, be they aesthetic, political, emotional, utopian, comedic, or cautionary?

Can we stakeout a temporary autonomous zone—a separate imaginary space where new myths, provocations, and plans can be hatched and released?

  Over time, Desert Island could become a seed bank of potential for life on earth.

  For now, we declare the future a precious resource, protected and allowed to thrive, unpolluted, unbranded, publicly owned, and open to all, like a national park of time.

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