BEAMING REGEN~ERA - Pilot Episode 1 on March 21st 2021

Saturday.

Oh, come on. So, so here's— so I do know that we are going to be actually sharing and beaming the art tour, which is now starting a little bit later than planned, if anybody was planning on going through that. And we'll be— they'll be beaming into one of our windows here, and we'll be able to see what's going on. So they'll be going into MORA, the Museum of Regenerative Art. And that's been a fun project to work on. I know I have put in a lot of energy into my exhibit there, as well as a number of artists that are showing lots of different types of projects. And because it is a 3-dimensional virtual space, a lot of potential in how to play in that space became available to us. So we're looking forward to— I have yet to see the final exhibit, so all of this is new to all of us as we Venture together into Regenera. Bret, are you with us?

I'm just getting— I think we're on Facebook Live somewhere. I need someone to maybe check.

We are. I'm seeing— I just got a notice, live on Facebook. We're coming to you live on Facebook to who knows where, but many nodes in the Noosphere.

To who knows where at this point now. Oh, typical.

So, so let's talk about the noosphere here for a moment because we're all bumping into each other. And, uh, you know, as I told my daughter, there's no there there, but they're all there. And that's— and he was like, that's the noosphere, right? That's where, that's where it all hangs out. That's where our sense of mind— where— that's where the in goes out to. What do you think, Bret? We met in the noosphere, didn't we?

Well, yeah, I mean, do you mind if I just say a minute to set the stage a little bit just because we just went live now?

All right, let's go. We're here.

And I just wanted to shout out to everyone who might be listening at the beginning. Um, this is Beaming Regen Era, uh, hosted by myself, R. Bretminster Fulavitt, and the Aleppo Khan, Mark Smith. And we are part of something called the Design Science Studio, which is launching a 10-year initiative today, right now happening. And we are going to be broadcasting— it's a little bit The schedules are a little bit off right now, but we are broadcasting 2 hours or more actually every day this week, uh, from 12 PM to 2 PM Pacific during the week and 1 PM to 3 PM Pacific on the weekends. And we are here to actually bring you the story and the narrative and to weave all of the things that are going to be going on this week with this Design Science launch. And I'm going to tell you a little bit more about that in a minute. Um, But this is a bunch of evolutionary revolutionaries getting together to help create a world that works for all of life. And that's what we're here to do. And we're going to be backcasting from the future or from the timeless space to help this planet and this species and all of life get there. And we're going to be celebrating all of the different artists and visionaries who are part of this week-long festivities. There's 3D artists, there's spoken word artists, there's innovators. All different kinds of artists. So Mark, why don't you share what you wanna share and bring us into the space? We're gonna be hanging out for 2 hours. Some of the people you see on the screen are actually doing live art in co-creation with the Design Science Studio and this actual broadcast. And then we're gonna turn them into some NFTs and we're gonna fund the Regenissance through artwork.

Bret, thanks for that. Thanks for that. You know, one of the things I really like to do is to get to know people. people directly. And it's been a challenge in all these kind of technologies as we've been separated through the challenges of the last while. And, and yet I feel this coming together that I've been anticipating for years to come. And I went looking for it a number of years ago, and in the sense of backcasting, um, I ran into you because I was wandering in the noosphere. I was looking into what that meant to to connect in ways that we had never done before, and to cooperate and collaborate and co-create, that was put into motion, you know, back in the '60s and '70s, and all the technologies and all the effort that was put into play, and the ideas of Bucky, and the first design science decade that he launched back in '65 to '75. That brought us to this point in time to have this just be a part of our life and have this be a thought that is provoking enough to pull us forward to that future that we, that we know is possible. And I think I found you out in something else, like a neural map or something. And let's talk about the word nous, like nous. Is that— that's mind, isn't it? Isn't that what that word The etymology is mind. So noosphere is that sense of a place of mind. Hmm, there you go, we're launched.

Yes, yes, the noosphere was coined— the word noosphere was actually coined simultaneously by a Russian named Verdansky, I believe. Please forgive me everyone if I get names not 100% right. In the '20s, and a French Jesuit priest whose name I have trouble saying, which is Teilhard de Chardin. And they saw the coming of this noosphere coming online. And one of the definite— so you have the hydrosphere, right? And the biosphere. So the idea is the noosphere is like a thinking layer around the Earth. You know, it's like almost like our collective consciousness, you might say. I think it's more than the thinking layer personally. And one of the beautiful definitions of the noosphere is a proposed stage of evolution where mind, consciousness, and interpersonal relationships dominate. And I use the word— it actually says dominate. I don't mind because if interpersonal relationships and consciousness consciousness and mind are going to dominate. That doesn't really bother me so much. So the noosphere has a few different derivatives. There's a guy named José Argüelles who was a Mayan expert, calendar expert, who also talked a lot about the noosphere. So it's a beautiful, beautiful concept, this idea of this consciousness-thinking mind layer, you know, around the planet, so to say, which is much more— less tangible than a hydrosphere, so to say, or a biosphere.

Yeah.

So, so what was it? Where were you when I found you? Let's backcast a little bit with you. You were— how'd you get here? You were— I think you were in Rotterdam. You were in— when you were engaged in that. And what launched you into this realm?

That's a very good question. I was in Rotterdam, yes, circa 2016, when I think we first crossed paths. And I was on a journey since 2013 with a guy named Chris Larcombe and my wife Andrea Harding. And we had built a prototype software called Noomap, talking about N-O-O-M-A-P. So this noospheric map, and it really wasn't about a mind map that we're all used to. It was a map of perception, a map of consciousness and interaction. And it was supposed to be a platform for co-creation. But little did we know when we started out in 2013, we were gonna have to spend 7 or 8 years in research and development and what I call embodiment, learning the things we wanted to bring into the world. So like, if we wanna ask people to step out of capitalism, we have to do that. If we wanna ask people to step into unity consciousness. We have to learn how to do that. We have to learn how to share. We have to learn how to trust life and trust— and we are life, right? To trust life to bring us the things that we need, which might be the actual true definition of abundance, getting what you need when you need it compared to getting what you want. So in 2016, we had a big space gifted to us with part of our co-creators. It was actually a former elderly home in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. 30,000 square meters. We have this amazing building, 100 of us or so living on 2 of the floors, sharing bathrooms and sharing space, really observing what it means to self-organize. Almost like I call it alien anthropologists, right? Observing what it means to follow your passion, observing what it means to live in a gift paradigm or a gift economy where the bills are paid. And our beautiful host, Anthony, and Robert from the Netherlands. Oh my God, these guys are angels and saints. And they arranged this thing to happen, and we all had this amazing experience. And that was 2016, New Map started. And Chris, God bless him, he came to our original partnership with a very primitive prototype of New Map. And I'll show some screenshots later, some videos of actually, of a beautiful 4-minute video of Synergy Hub we can show for a commercial break. actually. And he brought this idea of that because he was more of a technologist and evolutionary adaptive systems and AI, and he was inspired by zeitgeist and all that. So he brought a very primitive version of NuMap into the space with Andrea and myself. And Andrea specialized more in energetics and co-creation, and I was trying to create a gift economy platform of co-creation. So the 3 of us went on a journey, and I'm still here now to this day. Sadly, the partnership between the 3 of us has dissolved, but everyone's carrying on the work in our own ways and evolving, which is all stuff I'll share about during the week. So, uh, thank you for asking, Mark. And why don't you— I'm gonna ask the artist to check in in a second and Mel to check in a second, but let's finish this loop with— why don't you share at least a little story about maybe what brought you here? I mean, you've got a longer story than I do, but if you want to at least give a snippet about what you're— you've always seen that you feel is actually even manifesting to a greater degree now. I, I mean, just not to put words in your mouth.

Yeah, you know, it's, it's, it's curious to me. I'm actually really working hard to not feel overwhelmed in the, in the presence of mind of being here now from where I came, to turning that prism to look from a different perspective, to look from this place of being more like a refractionary, you know, to refract what I'm seeing and see it in a different light, which is what I learned from Bucky. And I learned that in the late '70s while working with somebody and living with a very dear friend who had helped produce the World Games in 1976. And I was immersed in Bucky-ness, and I came across this project that I needed to work with an idea of Bucky's of how to make the invisible visible. And Bucky had this idea that the electromagnetic spectrum was that tool for us, that tool of our abilities to tune in and to sense. And his idea was that as we developed our tools to be able to tune in better and to enhance our senses, that we would actually be successful inhabitants and evolutionaries. And so that idea was put in my head, and I had to produce this thing. It was all before the internet, and it was before email and I had to go to the library and wander around to find the books and the things that interest me, which was great because it's a physical place and you can pull the books, you know, that you needed or the things that interest you. And I was all over the place. I came back with stacks and I was in my studio for a week on end and working on trying to illustrate this idea. I see so many art— there's so much artwork going on. I love it.

Oh, it's brilliant.

Yeah, yeah, um, and I got this poster going, and on my drawing board I've had all these notes, and this word arrived, a new word that presented a story, and that story, um, was gifted to me, and I thought I was here at that time to tell that story, and it was so overwhelming. I was a very young man, I was in my early 20s. I had called my mother, we, we had our design studio, it was called the Dolphin Farm, it was right on the ocean. We sat out in overlooking the water, and she just put her arm around me and said, it's okay, don't feel overwhelmed. I had all of humanity's stories coming through me in this moment. And what I realized years later, after being a little frustrated that I thought I was supposed to tell that story, I realized I'd been given a glimpse that something was coming at us. It was an ideal that humanity held closely, and they were not going to let go. And I bore witness to it here 40 years later, to the fact that the leprechauns, the leprechaun kin, have jumped on board Regenera, have anchored in the future, and are going to take us there. And That was the gift that was bestowed upon me to share now that story as we go throughout the week. I look forward to doing more of that with you, Bret. Thanks for the offer.

Right on. So I'm going to— thank you so much, Mark. I'm gonna check in with Arie. Are you able to, to say hello, or do you want to just keep working? You can give me a thumbs up if you want to say hello. Yeah, yeah, put on— oh no, you're going to keep working for now? Right on. Okay, cool. Janika, do you have any interest in saying hello? You want to keep working? You can give me a— yeah.

I'll say hi.

Hi there.

You can hear me? My name is Janika. I'm in Colorado and I'm a painter, and I'm just very much— I'm happy I came across your post on Facebook. Someone shared it on the Visionary Art Train page.

Oh, nice.

And I followed the link, and just as soon as I started reading and saw Buckminster Fuller Institute, I thought, this is a great opportunity, and I happen to have this chunk of time in the afternoon. So I have 2 kids and have been a little scattered this crazy year, and, uh, looking forwards with this kind of collaboration and, uh, is like the only way, the only way out. So thank you guys. Thank you for doing that.

Thank you so much for showing up, and thank you for creating some art. It's really, you know, I'm usually on Zoom calls where we're just talking and all that, right? Or screen sharing slides. We're literally watching you create something while we're talking. You know, it's, it's absolutely brilliant. Thank you for taking the time to show up. You're more than welcome throughout the week. One time is great. Everything else is icing on the cake. But thank you so much for being here. And if at any moment you want to like share an inspiration or anything, or share something you've created here, just raise your hand or, you know, or give a shout out or something.

Sounds good, thank you. I might as well, since I'm on now, I'll just share what I started. And if I make it to 1 or 2 more days and finish it, then it'll, um, kind of abstract watercolor for now, but it's gonna become a sort of dreamscape Like there's usually a horizon amongst all the doodles. So the— what you— the material you guys are already providing in terms of listening to a podcast or whatever options I have, it's so great. Thank you for providing it. So I'm going to tune in. And my mom's a painter. She wanted to tune in as well, possibly tomorrow. So you might have us both on board.

Wonderful.

We look forward to having you.

That's excellent. Thank you so much for spontaneously just Just being a part of it. It's brilliant. It's brilliant.

It's an honor, actually. It's so great. It's an honor.

And by the way, if you later on, if you have a website or any kind of thing you want to like heart market, I call it heart marketing. It's not about you. It's about your, your joy and what you do and sharing your gifts. You're more than welcome to. And send it to me anyway, because next time I make a post, I'll put it out. But during the call, you're more than welcome to share something like that.

Thank you. I'll send you something, a slide. You had mentioned a slide in the messages.

Cool.

Brett, I see we have Julian's beamed in with us. Julian, come in.

Hello, hello. How wonderful to continue on this creative beaming jam session from the first opening ceremony all the way here. Uh, thank you, Mark, and thank you, Brett, for creating this space. This is beautiful.

So Julian, what did you just come from? Where, what, what did you just bear witness to? If you can share with us for a moment.

Of course. I was at the, the Science Signs Studio opening gala or opening ceremony, um, for the Regenera Rising. So Regenera or Regenera is basically the beautiful name that we all came up with together, or that, you know, was, was, was launched as, um, the, the beginning of, of this, this whole week of art exhibits, creative art workshops, Presence Foundations workshops, broadcasts, you know, people making art live on screen, all kinds of different things that are happening within the, you know, the regenera, the era of regeneration, the regenescence. And so we were just on a 3-hour Zoom that was also streamed all over the place. Lots of different projects we got introduced to, different NFTs, different community projects, different ways to, you know, not just envision a future but act on it. And Yeah, honestly, a lot of information and a lot of desire to step forward.

I was going to say, Julian, do you know if the Regenera link— I don't want to say— is that live yet? The one that we received with the amazing artwork and the onboarding and all that, is that now live?

I don't think it's quite live yet.

Okay, good. I didn't say the link yet.

This is what's happening on the screen behind Mark. So if you see—

Okay, cool. This is like one of the most beautiful pieces of interactive art that I've ever seen. We got a sneak peek as cohorts, so I'm super excited when we're able to share a screen and show people what they've done there. It's absolutely breathtaking, in my opinion. Absolutely breathtaking. Mel, are you able to check in and say hello?

Yes. Um, uh, so yeah, I've been having a good time. I went to the opening, the opening Enclave cohort thing this morning, uh, and I thought that, uh, it was really kind of really a good introduction, introduction to things. I, I have a project called Cruise Ship Earth, and it's, it's kind of a, it's It's not a satire, but it's kind of a— it's kind of an orientation to the whole design science idea. And I, I'd be performing every afternoon this week between noon and 5 PM, I think. Some are, uh, Pacific time, it's 12 to 5 Pacific, uh, Pacific time, every Monday through Friday, and each day with a different character. And those characters kind of mirrors the sensibilities of the people on Spaceship Earth, the Design Science Studio cast and crew and captains and so forth. My characters have a little bit more capricious solutions for themselves on— and they're based on historical characters who come find themselves in a suddenly changed landscape where they're not ego-driven or fame or fortune— driven by fame and fortune. They have to try to— They have to try to align themselves with new sensibilities of the 20th century. I just— my parakeet just landed on my head. Um, anyway, the parakeet is the parakeet, and, and many other characters are part of the, are part of the, um, uh, the, the trip that I'll be doing all, all week. And then I have the evenings free and the mornings, and I can Wander the landscape. Here's— this is Birdie. All right, that's what we're doing tomorrow.

Thank you.

Tomorrow I'll be the Captain No Account. He's the, he's the captain of cruise ship, uh, Earth, and he will give a little orientation to how, how the project came about and things like that during tomorrow afternoon between 12 and 5 Pacific time. All right.

Thanks a million for checking in, Mel. I love, I love your whole vibe, man. I feel like I'm hanging out with Sergeant Pepper, actually, or one of your characters, Sergeant Pepper. This is always finished. I'm gonna ask you later another time to, to tell us a little bit about that, but your energy is awesome, Mel, and we appreciate you. And we're gonna find a way to— if you're live broadcasting yet during the week, we'll see if we can share a screen and, you know, check in on you and And cut to you, basically, if I can learn how to use Zoom or find, or find a producer-director, really is what I'm better off doing. But thank you for being here, Mel. It's super appreciated.

So, Bret, I'm wondering, do we have any other artists from the Design Science Studio in here with us, or anybody who sat in on the opening ceremonies and wanted to share any retrospective perspectives. And you yourself, Bret, what'd you think? How'd you feel doing that little intro there and kind of letting it all out for the first time like that?

Let me just look around and see where— I mean, obviously we're trying to help people get in the room and looking at the chat, so it's a new experience for me, to be honest. So Christopher is here, hopefully his internet will work up. Hey, Christopher. Just to let people who might tune in or people that have come in now, To let you know what's going on, we've got people creating live art. Number one, because it's awesome, plain and simple, and because the Design Science Studio is really about this confluence of art and science and comprehensive design. And I'm going to bring up some slides a little bit later that help me really name what the Design Science Studio is about more specifically and more deeply. Some of the material is new to me in a sense to have off of memory, so I'm I'm gonna take some time in a bit to share that, but I just wanna mention something real quick, Marc. I put out a call. So talk about co-creation, right? And community and uplifting each other. I put out a call on Facebook for artists who would come and, you know, gift or donate some time creating pieces of art. It could be drawings or music. It doesn't have to just be drawings or paintings. In response to whatever they hear and see during some of these calls. And then furthermore, I invited them to really have us all actually be co-stewards and co-owners, for lack of a better word, of the art that they create. So they still have creative authorship over their pieces, but the agreement, the intention we have is that no one just takes the piece of art and goes off in a silo and shares it or sells it or something. What we're going to do Is we're going to all get together and make these things called non-fungible tokens or some version of that, which is a new technology and a new way to create value and a new way to really fund ourselves and our projects in this temporary time, by the way, where money is still being used in such a way and we have these ideas of value. So it's a really, really beautiful experience, Mark. I haven't caught up with you on this, but I've asked people who are doing this, are you a yes? You know, to sharing your art in such a way that is actually co-stewarded. You know, we're all going to co-steward this and we're going to get together after this event and figure out what that kind of means and to just trust me. And we're going to— this is really the start of what I call the existential prize. There's something out there called the X Prize, but the existential prize is going to be a way of generating resources. So it's not just money also, it's like resources. It could be buildings or vehicles or equipment, anything. People's time, people's love and energy, all these different resources that people can give. And the people who share the existential prize will actually share the resources in bringing their gifts and inventions to the world instead of competing for them like they do in the Shark Tanks and the entrepreneurial world. So the only competition that's going to happen is us striving together, which by the way is the etymology of competition, is to strive together. So the planet is going to strive together to fill the existential prize. With billions and trillions of dollars and assets and resources. So all of us whole systems artists and visionaries and humanitarian do-gooders can take those resources and flow them amongst ourselves to make the world work for 100% of life. And all of these artists have signed up for being a part and a contributor to that. And I think something amazing is going to happen. So I wanted to share that because I think it's important for people to know.

Sounds preposterous to me, Sidharth. It sounds preposterous.

Preposterous. That's my favorite word, by the way, folks. The idea of preposterous is going out into the realm of the impossible and making it possible. So we're in the realm of the preposterous. Absolutely. Because all good things, all radical ideas start in the realm of the preposterous. And if it's not ridiculous, it's not really a good idea. So that's what we're here to do, to make the preposterous possible. Thank you for that, Mark.

Yeah, well, like I keep saying, I kid you not, I can't even believe the story myself. And it's just so wonderful to be here with you, Bret, and find the playtime come to life. You know, we've done a number of different things where we just tossed around ideas and ideals, and to see how so many have stepped into this space here, into Regenera, and have joined in that quest, as you say. How is it going? There's got to be a question in your off-tune.

How was that?

There's a quest— there's a question in the quest, or the question—

Well, there's always a question when there's a quest, or for there to be a quest, there must be a question.

Yeah, yeah. So I just always went with the fact that I was just always related to question mark.

Yes, you are question mark.

I love that. Exclamation mark, or whatever. So who else is with us?

Anybody else joined us in the Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna bring some peeps in and try to— I'm gonna try to make some introductions and see. Jenny, are you able to, to say hello? What's your, what's your internet status and all that?

I, I am. Can you hear me?

Yeah, one second. I'm just gonna add you to the spotlight here. Let me just do, let me just do like a brief, uh, Bretminster Fuluvit introduction for you.

Okay.

Yeah, so this is my friend Jenny, and just like for— just like Forrest, Forrest and Jenny, we're peas in a pod.

Yeah.

So Jenny is a really good friend of mine, and she's doing fantabulous work in the world. She's actually one of the first people to really— so no, I shouldn't say that. One of the first people to really understand what I was trying to do with my project called Togetherland that I've brought to the Design Science Studio, which I'll share more about over the week. And Mark, to answer your question about what I— in the other room. So Jenny, there's gonna be a million chances to talk, so I'm gonna ask you to like do like 2 minutes or whatever, you know, it doesn't have to be, but give us like a shot of Jenny and like what you love to do, you know, what makes you come alive.

Oh, thanks, Bret. Hey everyone on the call, my name is Jenny. I also go by Jenny Meatballs or Baby J depending on what I'm doing. In 2019, I walked across America to raise awareness about climate action and really radical collaboration on climate action, because collaboration is the, the peace, the compassion, the human element that's going to get us to tackle these issues. My background, just really briefly, is in human development and social intervention. So I take what we know about the mind and I use it to translate into designing community systems, integrated community systems, because what we know is that the solutions are already out there. Scientists have great solutions. The problem is that they're not being applied quickly enough. So I've dedicated my life to using music, art, painting, and culture infusion to bring the solutions from the sciences to the people. And so I met Bret, got really inspired by Togetherland, and meshed it up with my brand, We Are Mother Earth, which is championing the Earth brand products and services, which are all Climate smart, closed, controlled ecological environments, you know, regenerative practices. So we've been working side by side for about 7 to 8 months now. And that's me in a nutshell.

This is you in a nutshell, as Austin Powers said, actually.

Actually, this is me in a nutshell. I'm actually outside on one of our Togetherlands. We're at Togetherland Thomaston, Bret.

Right on. Awesome. So Jenny, thank you first of all for who you are in the world. Thank you for showing up today to support us. And, and I hope you can stop by, like, stay here and stop by during the week, and we'll get deeper on some of the stuff you're into. And I hope at some point— Jenny also creates music, so hopefully she'll get inspiration and maybe make a mashup David Bowie style, right? Make a mashup of some things people say and create a song by the end, by the end of the day, right? No, maybe by the end of the week.

Well, I've been working on it, I'll tell you that. I've been working on it. I was on the, um, thank you, Brett, again for inviting me. And yes, I'll be listening in, so make sure you get your key phrases and buzzwords, people, because I'm writing a rap about it.

We've got, we got plenty of that going on here.

Right, right, right on. All right, let's see, um, Uh, Stephanie. Stephanie is one of our cohort. Yeah, is that you, Stephanie? Yeah, okay.

That's me.

I'm, I'm just working the Zoo TV. This is like the Zoo TV thing. I went to see U2 in 1992 or whatever. It's like all the, all the things up there. So let me get you up here on the spotlight, Stephanie, before you, before you rock it. I'm sorry, I just muted you. You'll have to unmute yourself and All right, I'm getting the hang of it. So Stephanie, lay it on us. Just share something, whatever is inspiring you at the moment.

Okay, what's inspiring me at the moment is that I am like at the epicenter of what's going on here, uh, with the, the crew that are launching it right upstairs. So I've been able to witness that and document what's happening with that. And I have a project called Tuning the Vessel And it's about, like Buckminster Fuller talked about, integrity. And I came into the Design Science Studio with the project of wonder, and I realized that in order to get to wonder, people really need to get in tune because we have a lot of disharmony going on. And so I am, like other people in the Design Science Studio, kind of culling and gathering the information of people whose work can really help us make that bridge and make that bridge mainstream. And so bringing it to others is what's important to me so that it's building and growing. But I have a pilot in Tennessee that we are going to use as a feedback loop system with kids and with multigenerational stuff going on down there. And we're going to bring the information, the books that are published, and all the stuff down there into that hub so that we can then watch and sort of spread it out. So that's another thing. It's with 13 voices and that's really cool. And so one of the, one of the people that I'll be highlighting is actually here today. Right here is Patricia Rivasio, who actually wrote a book called The Girl from Spaceship Earth. And so the thing about that book is that when I read the book, I realized that everybody I was meeting, either younger or older than me, The younger ones had no idea who he was, and the older people, it's a household— he was a household name. So I tried to figure out like, what is going on here? And I started asking kids in schools if they heard of him, and nobody had. I just found it fascinating that Patricia here in the book, she had a— she had met him as a girl, and then again later in when she was a young adult as a journalist. And so she has so much to share because he actually spent a lot of time with her. Gave her a lot of information, a lot of things. Yeah, so she's here and she's gonna be on actually at 4 o'clock. Um, there's tickets for Girl from Spaceship Earth and we're gonna hear her speak then. And, um, I put it out so late, so I hope people join in and, uh, and listen to her and we, we could play it again and stuff like that. But she is here, so thank you.

Thank you so much, Stephanie. Mark, I'm gonna invite you to make a bridge to Patricia from this, from your, you know, from your experience and being one of these pioneers, you know. Um, and before I got into Bucky the last 10 years, I remember I did the World Game when I was in kindergarten, you know. A couple years ago, I had the, like, the lost memory. Wait a second, I was in the gymnasium on a big map, and I had totally forgotten about that. So Mark, please take it away, and then, and, and bring Patricia in and have her share some of her brilliance. Thank you, Stephanie.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Hi, Patricia.

Hi.

Thank you for joining us. Stephanie, thank you for opening this portal. One of the things that we're doing here is we've called this program Beaming Regenera. The word beaming came to me actually as BAM when we were doing a future building session with the Design Science Studio at the beginning of the year. BAM, Being the Backcasting Alliance mediums. And it evolved into beaming because the E word is so important, and it feels like we're beaming here. And whenever we get together, I see beaming smiles like on you, Stephanie, right now. And so this beaming that we're doing, this sharing, this backcasting, this being Backcasting Evolutionary Alliance mediums— here we are. We are forming the first ever Backcasting Evolutionary Alliance mediums. As McLuhan said, the medium is the message. Now we get to be the medium. So Patricia, with that in mind, backcasting to how the heck did you get here to sit with us in this very moment to share something so wonderful? I'm just— I want the whole story, but I'm sure we're going to hear a lot of it as it unfolds. If you could just give us a sense of what you want to share in that sense, that what comes to mind.

I actually self-published this book in 2017 in desperation after Donald Trump was elected. I decided I was not going to wait for an agent who would find a publisher. I was just going to do it. And but I spent the money to do it right. I hired a top-notch editor. and I— and a top-notch book designer. And so we crafted a book that I think is designed to bridge the big gap that Bucky was really worried about, which is the gap between the really brilliant scientists and the everyday person has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. And so now that it's just an unfathomable difference— a distance, and— What I set out to do was figure out a way to make Bucky appeal to the mainstream, and that's what my book tries to do. It's all, it's all the same information about Bucky that you've read everywhere else. I don't want to say it's the same, but it puts it in a narrative, a story about a girl discovering this information and then, um, has to figure out what to do with it. Suddenly she realizes that the world is not what she seems it to be. and she has to figure out how she can reconcile that. And the result is I'm, I'm here right now with my published book, finally talking about Bucky, just like I promised him I would. And now I'm going to stop talking till 4 o'clock, if, if, unless you have any— I'm happy to answer any questions now, but—

Well, sure it is. Well, thank you. It's such a, a pure sense of omnidirectional communication that you set out with yourself to backcast and say, I'm going to get there and here's how I'm going to do it. And but on top of it, You've shared it through the perspective of a child. A child. And that to me is like, that's where we're the most raw, the most willing and open to the world. And that's something I think that Bucky really bestowed upon me. And I am trying to live this backcast at this very moment through my 14-year-old self to remind and remember and rejoice in. that kind of discovery. Thank you for doing what you're doing and sharing that.

Bucky always said that all children are born geniuses and the process of life itself de-geniuses them.

And yet it shouldn't.

Yeah, we need to teach them what we needed to know when we were their age in order to get along in the world, when in fact they need to learn a whole new set of things that they're going to learn anyway despite our efforts to not backcast, but, but teach them old notions, old specious notions of scarcity and all kinds of crazy things.

Wonderful.

This is a wonderful group. Can I just hang around and listen?

Oh, you can hang all you want. We want to hang with you.

Thank you.

I know, we want to hang with you. Hey, Patricia, I was— I just realized I hadn't changed my name. So I've been going by the name R. Bret Minster Fullivant. as homage to Bucky, because my name is Bret, my given name is Bret. So I came up with this, I love words, and one day I was like, I'm a visionary, I'm Bret Minster Full of It, because I'm really full of it as well on all levels. What do you think Bucky would have made of our Bret Minster Full of It?

I think he would think you were fabulous, that derivations of things are brilliant too. And he also thought that artists were always in the lead, which is what I see here. And when I've been attending quite a few of the Buckminster Fuller Institute space camps and things like that, and I've run into this amazing tribe— I'm not allowed to say tribe anymore— amazing cadre of humans who have crazy wonderful skills and are ready to start something new. And it feels so affirming to see. All of these people here, but, but they all tend to be scientists or engineers or mathematicians, or they come from the very elite part of our society. And we somehow got to get Bucky real to the mainstream. And so my book tries to be— you all saw the movie Legally Blonde?

Yes, yes.

Okay, so it's Legally Blonde meets anticipatory design science.

Beautiful. We're gonna rock it.

We're gonna—

Patricia, I hope I can message you. We're gonna be doing this, these live broadcasts, you know, for the rest of the 10 years. I hope we can have you someday just for A long and extended, yeah, extended promotion interview and all that good stuff. Thank you so much for being here, making this possible.

You want to hear something really funny? I'm here today because Bucky told me to. Yes, I hear his voice in my head often saying, uh, you should be doing this. And I'm here today even though it's my birthday, so I'm so thrilled to make this my birthday present to myself.

Happy birthday!

Thank you so much.

I've got a very special birthday song for you that I actually wrote for Bucky on his birthday.

What?

What are you talking about?

No, seriously.

Seriously.

The DJ's gonna hit this song right here.

That's preposterous. We need your music for you.

Here it goes.

Happy birthday to you. One idea led to two. Now we're left with a slew of inspirations from you.

Happy birthday.

Aw.

Beautiful.

Thank you. Stephanie, thank you. Stephanie, thank you for bringing me into this wonderful group.

I was definitely led by him too. I mean, Patricia's actually in the next town from me.

It's crazy. We're neighbors.

Yep.

And she has so much to talk about floating, floating, helping us with dealing with the water rising situation locally.

So real life opportunity in the town of Corta Madera. Where we have a 26-year-old mayor who is totally open to all these ideas. And we also have sinking land and rising seas. So it's so ripe for a new floating community. So whoever wants to be an engineer of a floating community in Corte Madera, I mean, they do it in Sausalito. They do it in Greenbrae. There's a boardwalk in Greenbrae, some kind of boardwalk, something really advanced, something Bucky, a few floating breakwaters to—

Yeah, we're gonna take you up on all that, Patricia. I can't wait to tell you On a selfish note, I can't wait to tell you about this Togetherland thing and the Regenera City. So, Marc, by the way, so Patricia, are you feeling complete or is there anything else you'd like to say?

Yes, I'm complete.

I'm going to hang around and listen though, if that's okay.

Well, of course it's okay. If you don't, I'll be insulted. Marc, I'm going to go back to gallery view so we can all see each other, number one, and then I'll go back to spotlights and blah, blah, blah when it's When it feels like a good idea. I just want to see everybody.

Yeah, and while you're doing that, let's invite Julian back in. He's been popping around, keeping abreast and attuned with what's happening out there in Regenera, and maybe he has a little something to share with us as he comes back from his journeys.

Julian?

Yeah, sure. I mean, I've just been in the broadcast itself that you— that we're all sending out to the Facebook world and other, you know, shares that have been out there. So I'm just— I think it would be great to set a bit of context for everyone who's new to the beaming era or the regen era. And, um, so, you know, a lot of people in this call are totally aware of this. Um, this is part of the Design Science Studio, and the Design Science Studio is a developmental incubator for art inspiring a regenerative future that works for 100% of life, or all of life. And so This is our kickoff today. We were just in the main session that happened, and Damien can maybe tell us a little bit more about all the offerings on Presence in a little bit. The main session was on, on Presence, with presence.co, and just ended on Zoom and also broadcast all over the place where we did like an opening ceremony to kind of like the Olympic Games, but very much the regenerative games. And so When I say we, there is 144 incredible crew members of evolutionaries aboard of this first cohort of the Design Science Studio. And the Design Science Studio, the developmental incubator of art or for art, is part of a Design Science Decade. So that's when Bret talks about the 10 years that we're in. We're in year 1 of that journey. And as you, you know, if you have something with numbers, magical numbers, you'll know that— 144 is 12 teams of 12, and so there's, there's so many more than 144 people involved. And this was really just the first cohort of people coming together, but many, many other teams are supporting, are, you know, stewarding this. And, um, maybe to just get a little bit of a first touch of, of a context here, and I think it will make sense in this beaming broadcast to every now and then set the context. And maybe one last sentence from my side before, you know, I'll throw it back to all of you. The idea of the Design Science Studio is to unite artists, creators, scientists, teachers, practitioners, people with a worldview that is really already embodied action of and for a world that works for all of life. And so very often the first step is that we have to challenge what do we even mean with 100% for all of life, right? And to challenge this is part of the mission because we don't claim to know the way forward. We just know we are so wildly committed to this path that this is why humanity is on Earth, that this is our free and sovereign birthright and yours. And so as we are stepping into this clarity, into this birthright, into our, you know, this prophecy, these times of prophecies, these are the humans gathering, creating, sharing, perpetuating, you know, as a keystone species within the ecology of all of life. And so with these words, I hope I set a bit of context. And Bret, I'll throw it back to you.

Thank you so much, Julian, for bringing your eloquence and elegance and always just peaceful, chilled-out vibes to the space. Thank you so much. For being my friend, first of all, and being all of our friends. That's actually the— and Julian, by the way, we'll talk about maybe later in the week. He's going to be back a couple of times during the week to sort of co-host with us. He's got a podcast. He did 12 interviews actually with 12 of the cohort members. I mean, I'll let you talk about that, but he's going to be debuting that. So before you go, in case you do go, Julian, let's have you at least share what you do.

I'll hang around a little bit longer right now. It's, you know, it's a joy to hang in this space with all of you, and I'll introduce the series a little bit later. So I'm, you know, I do a lot of different things, and I think best— the word— the best word that describes it, I'm a superconductor for regenerative efforts on the planet, within teams, for individuals. I, you know, I work with people one-on-one, but what you just mentioned is I am a host and a producer of a podcast called Green Planet, Blue Planet. Or in a different way to say it, for a new Earth, or Earth that is in alignment with what we just shared here, that works for all of life. And so I've hosted, I think up to date, something around 270, 280 interviews with game-changing individuals, many of whom are connected to the webs of life of the Design Science Studio here. And just recently I finished a small little interview series that I'm launching this week. with some of the stewards of this Design Science Studio. But I really want to make sure to mention that every single person in this cohort and everyone who's feeling that call is worth mentioning. And so that's where, you know, it starts getting difficult because maybe I can't do an interview series with every single one of them. And so there's the next person picking up another project and highlighting that person. And this is why we have this beautiful room right here, right now, so that everyone from all angles and from, you know, so many diverse perspectives of life can share, can shine, and can, and can be seen. And so I'll close that loop by saying one more time, the podcast is called Green Planet, Blue Planet. Check it out. It's also on Facebook. It's also on Apple and Spotify. And I'll be sharing more about it later this week and maybe show a little teaser of it. Brett, maybe that's a good idea.

Super awesome, thank you so much, Julian. I'm going to just call on a couple people in a moment. Janika, I was wondering if you'd be able to turn your camera down at all when you're ready to show us what you're painting, if you don't mind. Would that be possible? Yeah, okay, at some point.

So yeah, I can do it now. Is now okay?

Yeah, yeah. Just to let people know, we're gonna have in the spotlight here, um, off and on, that we have friends of ours, some also very new friends, actually some people we've all just met through the— through going through this process, who are working on live art, um, as we, um, as we go through this process. So, Christopher, I'm going to bring you in in a few minutes if you've got a good connection. I'm just gonna at the moment, uh, Bring Mark back and see if Damien is still here. I don't know if he's still here at the moment.

There he is.

There's Damien. Damien, you cool with shouting in?

Yeah, sure. I was just hanging out, but yeah, happy to answer any questions.

Well, let's see, just to keep it light and simple, why don't you tell us something that makes you come alive in regards to your work? I mean, not just, you know, tell us something that's exciting right now with the Design Science Studio and your platform. So, Damian, and I don't want to put too many words in your mouth, Damian, you can fill it in. Damian is basically hosting with his platform called Presence all of the coordination of all of these events. So I'll just leave it at that because I don't want to say what it's not. So Damian, yeah, just share something related.

Thank you. Well, I'll answer the first part. What's most exciting for me right now? And I'm actually in text with Roxy, is I'm on Presence and I'm looking at all of the experiences and the events and everything, and I'm just going through and I actually have been popping from one room to another. So I was like looking at Eva's walkthrough of the metaverse as well, and then I popped over here. And for me, what's really exciting about that is Just being able to create a space in the virtual where people can come into rooms, whether that's Zoom or YouTube or Facebook Live or whatever, but there's real people and real conversation, good conversation that is happening. And it's just like a really good vibe and a good energy. And I feel like we need a lot more of that in as many places as possible, virtual, physical. Metaverse, whatever. We need all— we need as many of these spaces as possible so we can come into connection with each other. And so, yeah, I can definitely share the Presence link. I'll drop it in here right now. Someone just asked for that in the chat. And I'll also screen share what I'm seeing. So, because we want to talk a little bit about Presence.

But—

Perfect.

This is the Regenera Rising channel on Presence. And we've been working really hard last week to get it working in a certain way that is good for DSS and really helps Roxy with the operations of this massive event that is the studio that is happening over the next 8 days, right? And so how Presence— what Presence did for DSS is we have the ability for Roxy and the rest of the DSS team to invite 144 creators to the channel and submit their own experiences. What that actually does, it decentralizes the intake process. For the what, where, when information for all of these experiences, which I'm now going to scroll down. So, as you can see, this is quite a bit, and there's more. And so, yeah, it decentralizes, makes it easy for the team to pull together this massive event and organize all of these creators and all of this content. And then it also makes it very simple for people to purchase a ticket to one experience and essentially unlock all of the other events and experiences in the channel. So just from an operations standpoint, I wanted to share that and say that ultimately what Presents is doing is our mission is to scale human connection. And in order to scale human connection, I We see it as an operations challenge for creators of live events and experiences. So what we're doing is building the tools to help producers and creators like Roxy and like the Design Science Studio to more efficiently operate what they're doing so they can scale much easier and much faster. And so the way I think about it is if we're able to scale the type of experiences and the type of creators that is in Design Science Studio, then the more spaces we can create in the virtual and in the physical to bring people together and bring people into connection and to learn more about regeneration and what is 100% of life mean. So yeah, that's a little bit about what's exciting and what I'm working on.

Thank you, David. You know, I'm just curious, with, with your platform and with where this is all going right now, it's all virtual. We're all here in Zoom. We all became Zoomers very quickly over this last year. And but how is this going to see that when we are back out co-creating together face-to-face? How will your platform work for that as well? Is that a question? Yeah, I think that's a great question. going to integrate?

Yeah, it's going to integrate. We're definitely supporting IRL. In fact, Presence started with the focus on in-real-life events and experiences, and the last year and a half occurred, and so we adapted. And so the future will be hybrid. So what that means is that we'll see a combination of physical and virtual. Right now, I think Design Science Studio has created their model or their template for doing virtual events and experiences. So in the future, they will be able to do both. They'll do the physical, but then they'll also be able to do the virtual, which allows for scale. Scaling is, I think, quite important because oftentimes we create in our bubbles. And we, like, we have these communities and these communities become pocket bubbles or pocket universes that we don't really explore or get out of. Virtual has the ability to bring new people into the community and take new types of content and experiences out into the world. So I think we're definitely huge advocates for hybrid model. Nothing is going to replace IRL. IRL is IRL. But we will have another way and another opportunity to connect in different spaces like virtual.

And what do you think about the acceleration of the virtual and how we are learning and using these tools?

It's crazy. It's super fast. It's really, really fast. Like, basically the pandemic, it accelerated us 5.3 years, I think, into the future. So it really accelerated almost every single industry. Was accelerated and virtual was present, but it wasn't really a thing. But now it has become a thing because more creators are creating for it, brands are creating online, people are generating revenue in these spaces. So it's now, yeah, being accelerated to the whole concept of the metaverse that we hear being referred to a lot. That was something that, you know, that was literally like 5 years out. Like no one would be talking about it, but now we're all talking about it. And companies are like, we have Roblox, we have Fortnite, we have Topias of the new incomers like Topia and Gather Town. So yeah, I think we're just going at a really fast pace. And my only hope is that we're able to be mindful of these technologies and the behaviors that it generates. And this is why I think it's important for artists and creators to be in virtual spaces and to create in virtual spaces. Otherwise, these things can become sort of like the technology that cultivate behaviors that we don't really want or we don't like. We've seen that with social media. So we just want to be mindful of like, what is it that we are creating and designing for?

That is, I think, the essence of anticipatory design science. It's having that if-then filter on. It's that rethinking about what you might be doing If it has implications that— but the challenge with that is always, you know, as Bucky said, making the invisible visible. It's how do you know? How do you know it's going to have those repercussions? And that's when we get into future building, right? And then we backcast and we find that path. And that's what's happening here with the Design Science Studio.

Yeah. And, you know, with future casting and backcasting, I know we referred to that and we mentioned it a lot in in design science studios, future casting is something that I did a lot for corporates. I worked at Singularity University and DX Labs. So I spent a good amount of time doing future casting. One of the things that future casting never really did when we were doing it is that future casting looks a lot of like, it looks for problems and it looks like for how we can solve those problems in the in the future, but it does it through an economic lens. And I think what is required with future casting and backcasting, or we call it retrocasting, what is really required with those things is actually to look at it through the context of a sociocultural impact on society. And that is to say, when you think about that, it really comes down to Looking at behaviors. So if something is going to be created, there's the concept of ontological design, which posits that what we design designs us. We're constantly being created by our environment. But now humans are 100% dominant over its environment. So we're constantly creating things that is in turn creating us. It's a feedback loop. And so if we accept that as a fundamental truth in our creative and design process, then it really means that we need to be looking at the behaviors that are generated when we create some things. And when we identify the behavior that is generated on an individual level, then what we need to do is actually scale it up. Okay, we have people who are constantly— what happens when someone— when you create a feed? That is never-ending. People are always scrolling. Okay, great. Now scale that up to 300 million. What is the impact of that behavior at that scale? Those are the— that's how I think about it. That's how we need to be looking at our design process. Because when we look at the behavior at scale, then we'll get a sense of the culture that it will create. And that is important because culture is the operating system of our society. Whatever culture that exists, that's what we will operate in. Yeah.

Really cool. I didn't know that you had been into the Singularity University and all that. So it's a really insightful experience you would have had with these different, what I would call status quo to me. They might seem pioneering and they probably were at some point. To me, all things kind of get stale if you don't move on to the next. Like, for me, the innovation and co-creation is about emergence and novelty and really staying on the wave of openness and curiosity, first of all. So I'm quite fascinated that you were in those spaces because there's a particular, I think, energy and a particular perspective, like you're saying, that comes out of— and I'm not an expert, I'm speaking more just from observation, you know, that out of Silicon Valley and even the California space when it comes to backcasting, futurecasting. Yeah, because it always seems to be tied into popular tech and corporate and all that. And by the way, I know, you know, Elon Musk has the Neuralink, right?

Mm-hmm.

I've created the Nerdle Link, and well, Arboretum Mr. Full of It has. So in case you know Ray Kurzweil, I was hoping he would try the Nerdle Link. What does it do? Well, the Nerd-a-Link, it goes beyond backcasting or futurecasting. It's a co-creation tool, you know, it's for emergence. So it puts a whole new spin, or it's an ontological tool, really.

Nice.

So yeah, yeah, no, clearly, you know, Ray, I think, would benefit from the Nerd-a-Link. So in case we can make that happen in the future, that would be awesome. But thank you. Mark, do you have any actually intelligent questions? Because I'm just having fun, and I really appreciate you, Damien. And I've only just begun to realize all the work you've done in the world and all these experiences you've had. And really, I'm just happy to know that I've got 10 years to catch up, to catch up with you and learn from you. So thank you so much. And thank you for showing up here as a contributor because it makes our space and it makes our 2-hour event and it makes it better.

And it makes it— I think I love this. So when you told me about the concept, that of what you guys are doing throughout the entire event. I was like, that's super cool. That, that it gives it like this really like, it brings in this like, such as like an official level to it. Like, oh, we've got our own show going on here that's covering all of the things and meeting all of the people. Like, that's how, that's how dope this is, you know, that's going on. And I love that. I love what you guys are doing. I love the energy that you're bringing.

Thank you.

So thank you for having me, and thank you for doing this. I'm gonna— I'm definitely gonna come hang out throughout the week.

Yeah, we'll get better at it. I mean, it's a first step, but it's a short lot of fun. Go ahead, Mark.

Yeah, well, I was just gonna say this was only thought of a week ago, so this whole show, this whole idea, you know. And, and, you know, as we say, uh, well, I think it was, um, Jürgens— hopefully he'll join us soon, um— but he was talking about feeling like, you know, The artists, like a lot of us who aren't quite that good at filling out forms and didn't keep up with all the activities that were put upon us to be part of this, we felt that, that there needed to be a place for the wayward troubadours of Regenera and a place to weave this story. And what I'd like to do here is— To introduce Natalia.

Who—

it's a little hard to see, but I think she is actually weaving as we speak. Is that right? Welcome, Natalia.

Hello. Yes, I am. I'm just going to take off my screen here.

And clearly, Mark, you and I are not graphic designers or VR artists.

What are you talking about? I'm reporting directly right from the field, dude.

That's true, you are in the field.

Beautiful.

Okay.

Hi, Natalia.

Hello.

Thank you for having me.

Beautiful. There she is in, in person, in live, weaving the story as we speak.

What does it mean to weave? What's the warp and the woof all about?

Wow.

Well, most people would probably say that weaving is the oldest way of creating fabric, but in fact felting is actually the oldest way of creating fabric. Before we built machines and looms to pass the yarns of fiber over each other to to accumulate in a textile, we would pay attention to nature and we would observe and we would learn. And we observed that sheep's hair has a tendency of catching on to itself and it basically glues itself together with just enough agitation and water. So I'm totally going off on the— off here, but I guess I just would like to start, since I will be visiting with you every day of this week, I would like to plug in a little bit of fabric education because we don't really know enough about it. I feel like the industry doesn't really educate us enough about it, and as the natural fibers are getting more and more extinct from our production because it might be not cost-effective and so on, I think more than ever we need to understand what fibers do for us and how magnificent construction of fabric is and how much integrity is in it. So felting, you don't need anything. You just need some cat or dog hair. You need some hot water, and you just want to work it to create its shape. Eventually, we also paid attention, I think, to nature and saw how nature weaves with roots and how it creates these complex networks that are able to to perform as a fiber. And eventually we created this technology that passes 2 sets of yarns perpendicular to each other. So all woven fabrics essentially are built with 2 yarns going like this, and that creates the personality of the fabric. That means that it will have certain tendencies of pulling. It will have a certain axis of strength. It will, for example, since we're bringing Bucky into here, the weaving always happens at a perpendicular angle, which we know is not that stable, which is why all woven fabrics, when they're cut on diagonal, will actually stretch because this is where you find the triangulation, and this is where the space kind of really comes alive. Would you guys ask me some more questions so that I'm not flying all over the place?

I like the pencil in your hair.

Oh, thank you. Yeah, it's a pencil and a pen. You know, these last—

yes?

So before you take it to the loom, it has to be spun, and right, and I just— a quick little story. I went to Tangiers. I was by myself, and I was walking through the old Market and very narrow streets, and I came around and I felt like I was caught in a spider web. I was like, what, what did I just walk into? And I looked one way and I could see all of these colorful threads, and they were all tied to like doorknobs up one end of the path. And then I looked down the other way and there were all these children doing this. Spinning that thread and they just kept walking further and further and further away from where they had started, right? So it starts somewhere. Yeah, there's a good place to start.

That's beautiful. I haven't done that much spinning, and that really just comes down to the fact that I can't house all of my passions. In one studio room. However, I do work, I do do a little bit of spinning with the roving, the raw wool fiber that you can just manipulate and sculpt into anything. But I think the whole process of weaving is a really beautiful feedback and anticipatory design loop because You know, as you are in this real-time relationship with the fiber and then the construction, it truly is a relationship, and you start anticipating what might happen when you do this and/or that, and you— it changes you. I've personally learned so much about myself through every project that I do, and in a way, it It's stepping back and looking at my work that gives me the best reflection and perspective of like, and the essence of who I am. That's really when words don't come to me as easy, but there's nothing compares to that feeling when you look at the end result of a journey and you remember all the choices that you made or decided not to make, all the anticipation that was part of it and all the learning and all the self-discovery that happens with it. And so weaving is such an easy thing to do. I have made my own loom out of a broken mirror frame. All you need is just some nails and to pass thread perpendicular to each other. And that's when the fun starts.

So are you gonna— so are you gonna be making something all week that you can check in and show us?

Yes, actually, I was really ambitious thinking that I would be able to take this particular piece off my loom and start something new. You know, talking about getting to know myself more and more, not such a big surprise there. But this is an interesting piece because this was part of my process and part of my development for Design Science Studio and the Living Systems Collaboratory. And this is when I was getting really big into the tensegrity concept within the fibers and the fabric because, you know, the way we construct everything, it has a natural push and pull of the elements. And so as I was going really deep into this, At some point I realized, oh, I love this experiment I'm doing, but also I want to make it more accessible. So what I'm weaving here is actually I'm combining a copper knit roll and I'm weaving it into the weaving. So I'm totally experimenting here and making up my own thing, but what I find interesting is that I'm combining 2 different ways of constructing fabric. And when I take it off, because right now it's really stretched and full, it's gonna find— it's gonna play with gravity in a way that I can't really anticipate right now. I mean, I think I can anticipate, but I'm really looking forward to the surprises that will follow. And so I'm almost done with this piece, and then I realize I want to figure out how to bring my ideas into things that are too commoditized in our life. So how can I think of the same concept but bring it into something that maybe is closer to us, more accessible? And that brought me into thinking about denim. And things like that. So stay tuned and I can tell you more next time.

Oh snap, she left us with a cliffhanger.

There you go.

She's an entertainment veteran. Thank you, Natalia, for stopping in. Yeah, thank you for sharing your gifts and your brilliance and for being part of the inaugural pilot episode. I guess pilot goes good, Mark. Yeah, with vessels and trim tabs and and ships and looms and weaves and, and all that good stuff. So this is certainly our pilot episode. Yeah, thank you, Natalia.

Thank you, such an honor. I'm so glad you're doing this.

All week with you. Yeah, all right, so Bret, what's up next? Who's, who's on first?

Well, what's up next is who's on first, what's on second, I don't know who's on third. Um, I wish I knew the whole thing. I love Abba Costello. Um, so what I want to do is I want to— I'm going to actually go back to gallery view. I want to check in, I want to check in with some of the artists to see if anyone— it's— I want to, first of all, I want to thank all of you who have been listening for your patience and for hanging out and just letting things flow as we go through this learning curve as well. So I'm gonna do that, and then I've got awesome links from the Design Science Studio. I've gotten the, I've gotten the okay for Regenera Link, and when you guys see the artistry on this website, the whole world It's freaking phenomenal. Um, and I've got our Topia instance, so I'm gonna try a screen share. I have no idea if Topia is gonna freeze my entire laptop and this whole broadcast. I probably really shouldn't— I probably shouldn't do it. Maybe I can find someone else on the call who could actually try to get— try to do the Topia, because I have a feeling it might crash my— might crash my system.

We're showing, Bret. Let's, let's kind of like, um, give a moment here. We've got a lot of people Beaming in. We are part of the Design Science Studio, Design Science Decade. This is the launch, the premiere, the first day, and we are beaming to you from many parts of this planet, this beautiful Earth that we all are here to nurture in the best way that we can. That's where we're anchoring ourselves in the future, and we're backcasting with you live. From all over the place, and we are in Regenera, the heart of the Regenescence. Bret, what do you got to share with us? Let's see if we can do this without breaking it.

No, I'm not going to show you. I want to check in with some of the artists. So, Christopher, do you have the— did you want to say hello? Are you, you good with that, or you want to keep doing— yeah?

Yes, I can. Can you hear me?

I can hear you. Hey, Christopher, where are you from?

Oh, good. That's good.

Hold on.

Where are you calling?

We're calling in from Sudan, actually. Yeah, we're in Port Sudan right now on the on the east coast of the country, just on the Red Sea, and it's it's about it's after eleven o'clock at night, and it is warm, super super warm.

So Christopher, so Christopher is a new friend of mine. Christopher responded through a friend, I believe. The magic of. networking and the good, the good side of Facebook, right? Christopher got tagged on—

Yes, it was.

Christopher got tagged by a friend on my post about creating NFTs, these non-fungible tokens, in a way that would uplift each of the individual artists and uplift the collective of us as well. So it's kind of a possibility of this group crowdfunding and a new way of creating prosperity and resources for, for the Regenissance and for all of us to be able to bring our best selves. And also just the pure joy of watching people create art live. I mean, that's the number one, let's be clear, the number one benefit. I've been showing you screenshots of people actually working live and creating these pieces of art. So Christopher, why don't you tell us a little bit about your art and like what you love about art and why you care about art and what, you know, if you want to, or you can just—

Oh yeah, yeah, just, uh, man, like I've been, I've been an artist my whole life. Like I've, I was drawing on the walls when I was like 4 years old and my mom was giving me hell for that kind of thing. And like, I should— I can't say she was giving me hell, but you know, it was— it wasn't the best thing to do either way. So I started drawing comic books and cartoons for up until about my teen years, and I eventually started to learn how to draw portraits. So I got into that for a little while, and then when I was 20 years old, my aunt bought me a tattoo machine for my birthday, and I started doing tattoos. And I still do tattoos, I just don't use the machine anymore. I do it the traditional style, just like hand poke with the needle, and it takes a bit longer, and I typically do smaller pieces these days, but I still do them. Currently what I do now, like, pretty much if I'm not painting or doing a tattoo, which are pretty much the only 2 actual physical types of art that I make, I do everything digital. And I've been actually working on a graphic novel for a while now. I actually had it started when I was about 20 years old, but then, you know, life gets in the way and things get kind of sidetracked. So after— basically after me and my wife unplugged ourselves from regular day-to-day society, I actually found that I had time to remember all the things that I actually had started ages ago.

Beautiful.

And now I'm focused on the graphic novel pretty much.

Excellent, my friend. We have so much more to talk about over the coming days, weeks, months, and this 10 years. I'm really looking forward to getting to know you better and, and, and working on all sorts of stuff with you. Thank you so much for taking— answering the call, man.

No worries.

Spontaneously, generously answering the call. I hope you can keep drawing and chill out and then come back later. I hope you can come back during the week and tell us a little bit about what you might have been hearing. or seeing that has been giving you inspiration. Obviously, we want to start talking to all of you to get some of your process, like what have you heard or what words or people, you know, that might have inspired something that you've, that you've been working on during these calls. So thank you so much, Ron.

Yeah, no worries.

Right on. Thank you.

Yeah, thanks. Thanks for being here.

You're welcome.

Dan Sutton from the Design Science Studio, model builder extraordinaire. Dan, where are you beaming in from?

San Antonio, Texas. Now, if you like, and there's some time for me, I'll post my link again like I did the other day. First of all—

Well, Dan, do a, do a quick, do a quick hello and intro now, because I just wanted to still finish this, this, this go-around of talking to some of the people who have been working for the last 2 hours on their art. So we'll come back to you, but present, present who you are right now, what you love to do, and what you'll be showing us.

I love kids, and I'm all about 3-dimensional geometry and models. And everybody should at least copy down the link I just put in the chat and look at it later, not now. Don't click on it now. And if there's time, I'll show a couple of my little videos.

Cool.

Sign off. I'll drop back.

Well, how long are your videos, just so we know? Do you have any like a couple 2 or 3 minute videos, or how long are they?

I would show the intro placard, which is about 30 seconds or so, and then I would show something that's a minute and 28 seconds.

Cool.

Perfect. We'll come back to you.

Is that cool?

Yes, I'll be right here.

Right on. Right on. Let me just Let me check with, uh, X. Are you available to talk, or would you like to just continue?

Continue.

I'm available.

All right, let me, let me just get my, uh, my— I thought I wanted to be a filmmaker, but all this directing and editing, I realize I just like to talk, don't I? Let me, let me, let me just— let me find you. There you are. I mean, it's kind of fun to actually kind of direct it, just Wish I wasn't doing everything at once. There you are, X. All right, let me just get this up here.

Birdie's here with us and Patricia. Everybody's here.

All right.

Yeah, there we go. I run around the houses to make you in the spotlight. So X, say, tell us something about yourself and what you've been up to, or, or, or, or tell us something different. I don't know.

Yeah, I'm happy to. Well, I'm really honored to, you know, be a part of this cohort and this launch and I was really inspired by the illuminated notes workshop that was given, and then your invitation, and that inspired me. I was like, oh, I have, you know, rekindling that part of myself because my project for Design Science Studio was a lot of writing, videography, you know, stills, and I didn't get as much into my, you know, pencil-on-paper practice. So I feel like this was a wonderful invitation to synthesize a lot of the inspirations that are coming through from other people's work into a particular medium. So this was the piece that I started during the opening ceremony. And interestingly enough, I was, I was so fascinated My eco-regulation project talks about nervous system nourishment and how things like, as we did, you know, OMing in the initial opening ceremony and shaking and body movements and visualizations can all help nourish the nervous system toward a state of peace and presence. and rest and digest and recovery of the body. And so I wrote down nervous system nourishment as in the middle as my first note. And I was really— I like the phrase neuro nourishment, which I heard for the first time in the opening ceremony, and that feels like even more concise encapsulation. So I love that we're all working on similar themes and we can help each other iterate different vocabularies for those themes. And then I started this piece when you were talking, Bret, Minster, full of it. And I really like what you said about life play, and that was my seed that I started with here. And then there was just this kind of oscillating planetary atomic explosion of energy that came from that, and that's like leading to all this creation on the page. And I call this the Cosmic Infinity Zipper. It's this sort of shape that I hadn't seen very frequently before, but it's like kind of like positive and negative mushrooms that also look like a zipper throughout time, which is sort of how I conceptualize creativity coming from the void. Yeah, and so I'm just really excited.

This is—

it feels so good to show our work and to— I really, for me, what I've loved about the studio is the collaboration that has emerged, and I feel like some of it's only just starting, but I thank you for creating a space of collaboration here.

Thank you, thank you so much. You know, that burst of You know, like creativity that you said was there that came out of that, that's what we call a full of it box instead of a Pandora's box.

Mm-hmm.

So a full of it box is like the most positive, like, I'm gonna use a word that nobody likes 'cause I'm radical. It's a weapon of mass co-creation, right? I know everyone's got issues with the word weapon, don't get me wrong. But if we were ever going to have a weapon that was good, it would be a weapon of mass co-creation, unleashing the full of it box and all of the creativity and nourishment. X, I cannot wait to go deeper with you over the months, days, weeks, and years. The, the backbone of my Togetherland project was created by a group of people. It's called the Together Life System, and we coined a word for us called organomics, right? Organomics is what transcends And includes economics. And the foundations of organomics are what you're talking about. We must nourish the soul. We must nourish the body. We must be whole people that create whole systems. So when we uplift people's nervous systems and our basic needs, for lack of a better word, and we uplift everyone around the planet, to me, this is one of the first steps to actually making it work for 100%. Of life, to have an ergonomic system where we don't focus on the production of something, we focus on the freaking producers of the stuff, because we are that, and we are more important than any physical external— and this is my opinion, of course— we are more important as living beings than any tech, uh, material-based technologies that we can create. Even if going to the moon— I know it's excellent— going to Mars, right? Colonizing colonizing Mars, it's all wonderful. But what does it mean if we keep killing each other on this planet and we keep treating each other poorly and we keep working 80-hour weeks and not eating right and people are in poverty, blah blah blah? So I love your spirit, X. Thank you for showing up. Thank you for contributing. I hope you can come back. As they say, I guess, in show business, right? I hope you're here all week. But, uh, Mark, over to you.

Wow.

Yeah, thank you for sharing your work. And the whole— I love the blend of electrons and protons and mycelia and mushrooms and how all that kind of meshes together in what you're doing. And Bret, you know, you just put me into a backcasting loop here, and I feel like I'm just— beautiful.

Wow.

I'll give you another Fullerism, a Fullervitism, right? The future is recursive. Clearly.

Yeah, yeah. You know, um, you talk about creation and destruction, and that's what happened to me. That's, that's what caught me off guard. I wasn't expecting it, but I was open and I was raw. I'd gone to Japan, uh, at 14 years old. It was 1970. I went on a school trip. It was the middle of the design science decade, and in Osaka, Japan was the Expo, and it was about harmony and creativity and progress of humanity. And it was quite something to be there and witness that. And actually, I think the precursor to what we're doing was there in the EAT exhibit, the Experimenting with Art and Technology that happened. They brought in Rauschenberg and other artists to play with technologists. And the thing is, is that aside from going to that exhibit and to that expo, And seeing how amazing humanity can be when we co-create and put our minds to it, the technologies and everything. I went to Hiroshima. I went to Ground Zero, and I saw the utter destruction that was echoed in the exhibits there. And that tugging between our ability to create and destroy at such a young age is what got me here with you all now, because it's that notion of intent. And I wanted to be with those whose intent was pure and whole. And each of us hold that. But when we get together and we co-collaborate and share, it's just the most beautiful thing there is. And I just want to thank you all for, for being here with us. It's Nothing more than I could think of other than being with my beautiful daughters than to be here with you all. So that's it, just a bit of the heart singing out. Thank you.

Thank you. So I'm gonna, before we get to the fireworks of some of the creativity of this Design Science Studio and this RegeneraCity website and the Topia instance, I'm gonna invite some of the cohort members who are here. So there's going to be plenty of opportunities, by the way, for all the cohort members, just so you know, to share your projects and all that. So I want to invite you to first step into the space and share about what's been so valuable for you, for, you know, to be part of this Design Science Studio. You know, let's step in with a gratitude, you know, like celebrating something you saw today or celebrating some kind of gratitude. You know, for this experience you've had. I see— I think— is that you, Harlan? Where's Harlan? I saw Harlan there.

Amber's here. Who else is here?

Okay, I'll go to Amber. Are you around? We'll just take our time and see if Amber might be around. Yeah, I thought I saw Harlan here.

I think his audio is connecting. I can see him connecting. He's beaming in, but—

Oh right, he's literally—

Hello, come in Amber, come in Amber.

All right, let me check. Aria, did you want to share anything about what you're up to? Yeah, you ready? All right, let me put you on the spotlight here, my friend.

Here we go.

All right, this is one This is Ari. I'm gonna— you pronounce your name the proper way. I call you Arya.

Yeah, just call me whatever you all like. The reason is, if you want to give me a new name, I don't care. The reason is, what I care about is an expression of love from each one of you in whatever ways you want to express. So I just wanted to share quickly what I've been up to. I've been just doodling, uh, the, the conversation that's going on, and what is coming together for me Firstly is this girl over here, that she's coming, uh, and then she's coming out from Spaceship Earth and a lot of other beautiful things that are coming together. And not to mention the, the floating city that we started from, right? That's what we are all working towards, that floating city. So personally, I have my own gift city vision, and, uh, I don't know how it will all come together, but I'll work towards it. So meanwhile, I just wanted to say something very beautiful, that this, this thing itself that's happening right now in front of us is a currency being minted. It's a current. See, we can see this current, current of a lot of energy, a lot of intent, and a lot of co-creation. And as Full of It says, right from the Full of It box, that this is the weapon of mass co-creation and activation. And that's what is gonna happen. So that the ground zero That's the realization that the young gentleman had, can help us all awaken and enlighten to a beuter and brighter and much more beautiful future. Because we have been able to see further than we have ever been able to see in our, like, say, humanity's civilization, by burning the resources of millions of years worth, uh, in just mere a decade— oh, not decade, century or so. So it's a question to ask for all of us to see where can we go next.

Oh man, so I've only just gotten to know— I'm calling you Aria. My brother-in-law's name's Aria, so I've got a soft spot, I guess. So bear with me, I actually have weird, weird dissonance with, with names. Um, thank you so much for coming on short notice. We've only just met In a group of people who are investigating co-creation, especially these NFT, non-fungible tokens. And just to put it out there, people, non-fungible tokens are the tip of the iceberg. There's a lot of big bubbles going on and hype with these NFTs, but the underlying technology and the currencies that Aryeh was talking— like, just touching upon is a whole nother story. And you, Mr. Aryeh, I hope, are going to be one of the people— That helps me take all of the art that gets created this week that I've said earlier in this call that everyone is trusted to co-create and co-steward. And we're going to go into something some people call a decentralized autonomous organization, but in homage to Mr. Bucky Fuller, we are going to create the world's first unnamable universal united fractal organism.

Sounds like a place.

Right? A UFO.

Oh, wow.

A UFO. Spaceship Earth has become a UFO in the, in the preserve, transcend, and include of the wonderful Bucky in Spaceship Earth. You know, once the Earth was flat, then it was round, and now we say it's holonic. It's holes and parts. It's fractal. It's a living organism. So we are going to start a whole new trend on this planet. Who wants a decentralized autonomous organization when you can be a united fractal organism? And have a UFO to boot. I mean, what's better than building a UFO altogether and a bunch of other little UFOs? So we have a fleet of Regeniscence, you know, vehicles. So, Aria, I really hope you're going to be one of those people that help us take all of this artwork and turn it into that UFO with the NFTs. And, you know, we launched this existential prize and we use this art to attract and magnetize and inspire Trillions of dollars, actually, because I don't play small. No way. Full of It doesn't play small. We need a Full of It box. We need a Weapon of Mass Co-Creation. Clearly, we need to organize for peace as those who organize for war. So thank you so much, my friend, for hopping in and being, and being a new friend. I'm so happy to have you here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah, I just wanted to say, uh, just hold on to the relationship. Because, Bret, I don't know any of these people, but they are amazing. I can see that you have this amazing thing going. So I just need those relationships. I'll help you out with all the other pieces.

Yeah, thank you.

I'm very happy.

Right on. Um, I'm just gonna bring you back in, Mark, and do my little— do my little film directing, my little live broadcasting directing here.

I think this is right about the time that you say, welcome to the greatest hole on earth, but I'll let you go ahead and do that.

No, you do it.

Yeah, it's so fun, so fun to do this with you, my friend, and to hear from everybody from around the world how they're showing up and the presence of mind that they're bringing.

All right, I'm just gonna— I'm bringing us back into the gallery view. So we can all see, so we can all see each other. Um, as Mark said, I, I've coined a term for me, which is welcome to the greatest whole, W-H-O-L-E, on Earth, inspired by the idea of P.T. Barnum and the circus, which was the greatest show on Earth. And I just get excited by wholeness, undivided wholeness, as David Bohm said, and this idea of co-creation and interconnection. So This Togetherland project that I've seeded is really the greatest whole on Earth. And really, we're all called to be ringmasters and clowns and the talent of the greatest whole on Earth. So there's something actually in the world called alternate reality games, and they use puppet masters. So we're just gonna throw that out of the way. We don't need alternate reality games and manipulation and puppet masters and hidden veils.

That's right.

We're going right into the infinite reality No, the infinite reality gamification, the infinite reality play, the, the conscious life play, all the different words where we actually have ringmasters. And ringmasters, what they do is what Mark does, what I do, what most of us do. We celebrate. The ringmaster puts attention on all of the different parts of that whole, of that circus, of that tribe, of that fractal. And we call attention to all the different amazing things. Over here in this ring is this. Over here is Natalia weaving. Over here is X drawing. Over here is Topia. Over here is the, uh, the New Art City 3D virtual reality, all of it. So I'm always inviting all, all of you to become ringmasters as part of, as part of Togetherland and help, and help birth this whole renaissance. Um, let me just see if Harlan— let's see, Mel. Mel, would you want to tell us what you're doing, what you got there?

What's going on there, Mel? Got a magician going on.

Well, uh, I've been playing around with, with, with drawing on green screen and, and then drawing on green panels with white chalk. And, uh, so I can kind of do my own transparencies, uh, you know, in, in a way. And, uh, sure, you can use my camera if you like. Um, anyway, the, the, the idea, my idea, and that's explaining that sign called This Is Always Finished. Drawing is a— Buckminster Fuller said, I seem to be a verb, and I see drawing as a verb, not a noun. I don't see it as a finished product. I see it as an activity. And, and so, so it's a little hard for me to do an NFT because it would be a, it would be a video form of something because it would be demonstrating the process of making a drawing. a drawing, and I was just, I was just drawing with a—

Don't you worry, Mel. Don't you worry, Mel. You are epic. We'll figure it out. Don't worry.

This is the opposite of it. This is drawing with green paint on a whiteboard.

Oh, that's awesome.

And then using it, then containing, you know, you kind of can see through it. And those ideas are interesting to me. And then I also have that black in the back where I paint on it with water. And the water makes the drawing— the paint— the water looks like a line. But then as it evaporates, the line clouds up again, and it heals the surface. So it's a drawing that can only be seen in the process while it's happening, while it's in the process of disappearing. The making of the line is one thing, but the line is always changing for it. So my company is called the Perform— the Drawing Legion, and we always think of it in painting and drawing in terms of the verb nature of it and that— and how, uh, it's, it's important because artists will tell you that. Artists will say, oh, the real, the real experience was in the making of this. Well, then why don't you share it with people? Why isn't that what you're doing instead of, you know, instead of the, you know, focus, so focused on the product of the, you know, of that activity? And I'm trying to find ways to create a kind of narrative line through the making of drawing, drawing pictures, deconstructing them, constructing them. Like, I used to go to a church camp and they would have a chalk talk artist who would you know, do these drawings, and he would draw a lighthouse and then beams of light going out in either direction. And then while someone played hymns and did things, he'd quickly move it around, or she would, and make it Christ on the cross from those beams of light. And then people would go up afterwards and they'd say, oh, do you sell those pictures on black velvet there? And he said, no, I just vacuum them off. Uh, and that was such a shock to people that there was an idea of doing a drawing that was only for the sake of the performing of it, the performing of it. And that started me on lots of different ideas. Okay, that's enough of a little lecture.

Like a mandala. Mel, I find, I find that stuff you just shared with us, the words and the art shimmering like that, absolutely thrilling. Absolutely thrilling. And the whole NFT thing, who cares? You're an NFT. We're making you an NFT, by the way. You clearly are a ringmaster. Clearly you and I need to get together in the physical and get some outfits going. I need way more Mel in my life. And the technologists will also figure out how to do some of that. And I think this very video itself, the video footage of you holding it, is, like you said, a piece of art that we can create an NFT out of. This whole— by the way, this whole broadcast will have enough art and moments to actually fuel this whole existential prize I'm talking about. Because the beauty of technology is I mean, when we apply like artificial intelligence for the good, when we apply this blockchain-type technology for the good, for the win, for all of life, there is, you know, Arthur C. Clarke said sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Let's just sit with that for a second. Sufficiently advanced technology technology is indistinguishable from magic. Now let's take a cue from Ada Paris. I hope I'm saying— I don't know if she pronounces her name Ada or Ada Paris, one of our cohorts, the Cyber Shaman. She wrote an article which called Escaping from Plato's Cave, which talked about how technology, the etymology of that, really means that, you know, there are such things as emotional technology, organizational technology, Indigenous technologies, physical technologies, spiritual technologies. So technology is a much broader thing than we've come to know. Just like mediums— I use this word transmedium. You know, economics is a medium for exchanging products and goods and services, so to say. Education is a medium for sharing wisdom and insight. All of these things are actually mediums. They're the materials that we use to create our art. So it's just absolutely fantastic when all of these cross-disciplines and mediums and technologies and what they can do in the hands of lovers and artists. And this broadcast itself is going to actually create at least 1,000 NFTs at minimum because of the technology available that we can make use of for our For our heartfelt intentions. So I just wanted to share that because I know some people feel a little bit of adversity towards technology, but I want to broaden that understanding of technology. And I want to assure people that we will crack this idea of the blockchain using too much energy. There's something called Holochain out there, friends of mine, but even if they weren't friends of mine, it's a massive upgrade. It will make things, as Bucky said, it may just make Ethereum obsolete. It may just make EOS obsolete. And I'm not saying that because I'm anti-EOS or anti-Ethereum. I'm talking about progress and evolution and what Bucky said, which is we don't need to fight the existing reality. We need to create new models. I'll add new systems, new ways, new stories, new realities that make the ones that are not serving us obsolete. So that's coming, and we don't have to necessarily worry about the problem of energy consumption because we're more ingenious than that. We're more capable of that. We can create free energy and alternative energy devices if we need more energy. We don't always have to fall back to the problem and the woe is me victimhood. I'll throw another one out. Bucky said, right, we are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. And I just want to say, Patricia, look, seeing you there back on the screen, I actually have a hard time understanding Bucky's words, like in his book Synergetics. I don't have the kind of mind that visualizes tetrahedrons and all that. So over the years, I've really felt like he's just been on my shoulder. I don't know his voice though, which is interesting. But I always feel like he's in the room with me from the energetic, like emotional, you know, his story about wanting to commit suicide. Because I was, I was diagnosed with bipolar in my 20s. I went through all that. So his story about that and his quotes that I've read, I just felt such a kinship with him, even though I don't actually understand some of the deeper stuff he's kind of famous for. I've really felt a kinship with him. And one of the mentors I thankfully was able to work with was Barbara Marx Hubbard. And she actually knew Bucky as well. And kind of, he passed the baton to her a little bit.

Yes.

In one of his books, he mentioned her. So Barbara was my way of kind of contacting. She hung out with Timothy Leary. and, and Bucky. So I, I like this continuity of consciousness and the lineage of the counterculture. So she was a real blessing for me to have that actual experience, to, to tap into the pioneers that have been carrying a lot of this energy, like you, Patricia. Do you have a moment? Do you actually have a moment to share a little bit more about Bucky?

I do.

On the side of that part of it?

I have family here and there.

Okay.

And they have needs, but I'm— I should be sequestered now successfully.

Yeah.

Would you be able to share a quick story about that side of Bucky?

Oh, I've been writing down. I've just, I've really enjoyed listening because every time there's an iteration of Bucky and it all comes back, it brings up more and more memories.

Beautiful.

And yeah, his talk to me on the day that— so I was a young reporter in Chicago, and I had seen him when I was a young girl, and, um, I saw that he was coming to town to, uh, put out his new book, uh, Critical Path. And you're right, the question you asked I think was about his writing. I'd love to address that. Yes, I don't have the math mind either. My brain doesn't go there. But what I do know is that What he said, and I don't know exactly where I read this, some biographer got these words from him, I did not. He said that when he saved himself from suicide on that dock in Chicago and decided he would make a deal with himself, that he would allow himself to live if he devoted the rest of his life to all of humanity with no regard for money. He had proved to be a terrible businessman, so he's like, I can't be focused on money, I'm going to go away and focus totally on doing the best I can for humanity. And then the result of that, looking back on his life, was he said that what he left behind was nature's own design principles. So, so the Synergetic Geometry, a 1,400-page book that is free on my blog site, anybody can just go get it anytime. Um, sorry about that. Um, it really does capture how nature designs and builds. And the fact that we're always in movement, that we're always in flux, that there's absolutely nothing that's still, is the tensegric or the synergetic part of his geometry. And so his—

this—

and the discovery, the discovery in 1986, 3 years after he died, of the actual what was called the Buckminsterfullerene, you know, the carbon-60 ball, is Is proof to— according to this, so there's only one person I know who claims to totally understand Buckminster Fuller's math, and she is Amy Edmondson at Harvard. I bet I'll see some head nods on that. She has written a book called A Fuller Explanation. Oh, you see, oh, we've lost a leg here. She wrote a book called A Fuller Explanation, and she really does decipher the math and and, and, and cross that bridge between the math and the, the bigger thinking that, that makes it all hold together. But to me, it's simple. To me, I, I go to more of the— uh, I love his integrities. You know, I would love to see the word integrities as a thing become more prevalent in our culture. You know, he talked about the need to be a trim tab and all of those things, but there were, there were many others. Um, but when he spoke to me, his talk was titled His Urgent Warnings for Humanity. And, um, the long arc of my story is that I was so blown away by him, it really screwed up my brain. I mean, I was always kind of a mental kid anyway. I was always the one who wanted to speak out all the time and, and, you know, uh, I don't know, truth speaker, whatever. Um, and so— After meeting with Bucky, he kind of blew my brains. I didn't know whether he was being for real or not, but I took really good notes, and he was saying crazy things. And I would love to— and so when I do my book talk at 4, it's only 3:19, I have to save my book. But I'm going to read from what he said to me on the second day. So after he interviewed— I interviewed him for about 4 and a half hours at the top of the John Hancock Building. Looking out over Lake Michigan, where he pointed down into Montrose Harbor and showed me where he nearly committed suicide. And then took me cosmic surfing. Have you guys gone cosmic surfing yet with Bucky? Have you seen his videos where he takes kids, takes people cosmic surfing?

I don't think I've actually seen that.

Well, I will take you cosmic surfing.

Yeah.

Wanna go?

And— You better believe it. That's at 4 o'clock though.

What kind of question is that, Patricia? Of course I want to do that. Absolutely. I wanted to ask you, Patricia, on the note of the— this, because this has been an interesting topic— on the note of funding, I read that he, you know, he kind of just went into the space of like, what I need will show up when I need it, right? And I'll give, I'll give most of it to the causes I care about or to create the next thing. Is that basically the case?

He just trusted that the next thing would come and the next thing would So supposedly, as he told me, after he went back home after not committing suicide, he hated himself. He thought he was a terrible loser that he couldn't even accomplish that. And he sequestered himself for 2 years, that he was only going to apply himself for the good of all humanity. He was not going to do anything related to business. He just told his wife, fine, you have a new baby coming, too bad. I'm going to the basement. I'm going to work on something, and he went to work on his synergetic geometry to understand how nature builds because he was already hating our cookie cutter, you know, cubist world in a in a in a natural ecosystem that values the triangle in its construction. He understood that nature was something that humans. needed to become part of. If we were going to make it in the future, we had to realign ourselves with nature. He spoke often about how we had cocooned ourselves in our clothing and in our cars and in our houses. And the fact that we don't develop a love of nature early on in our lives, most of us.

Yes.

Unless you're lucky enough to live in Marin County like I am, and we put our babies out in the clover and let them sit in the sun all summer long.

But, and a love of nature, right, Patricia? A love of nature really is— this is where I go. I just naturally— it's just my natural proclivity, uh, especially with my project. But a love of nature is really a love of ourselves, isn't it? Because really, when you go beyond the dichotomies and the polarities of actual oneness— and I'm not really talking about woo-woo here, by the way, or some abstract oneness— just the idea that we we share this one being. It's hard to put into words. It's kind of unnameable, but we are nature. Yeah, it's like we are nature. Nature is us. So the, the, the misuse, the misunderstanding, or the abuse and the unrecognition of nature is really also a reflection of not loving ourselves as beings. And that separation is, you know, reflected in that.

Yeah, you, you mentioned Barbara Marx Hubbard, and basically she picked up on one of Warshawsky's really nice talks about, um, the need for us all to lean into our own conscious evolution.

Yeah.

And by that, he specifically meant— it was sort of 2 things. It was both the evolution of our consciousness and our awareness of our own path within the evolution of humanity. And the thing that he said that was— that blew my that, that made me so happy in a way, um, but still left me thinking I wasn't going to be able to do anything with all this information because it was so esoteric, was that he said humanity has no idea how remarkable the human brain actually is. We are only at the early stages of understanding the capabilities of the human brain. There's a great press conference that he did with the Maharishi And, uh, they, they both— I think they either dropped acid or mushrooms or something, and they decided to get on national television and announce that there was another level of consciousness that we could all explore if we only decided to, and it would prove to you that the human brain had this capacity. So, you know, the idea that the human soul is a semi-permeable membrane, that the, the quantum physics shows that interaction between the human soul as it extends beyond the body with an aura or whatever you want to call it. It's like, just because we don't understand it doesn't mean it's not there. It's not woo-woo. You know, people would have called electricity woo-woo 100 years ago. So the woo-woo, oftentimes those, those woo-wooists are the ones that are on the leading edge of our thinking.

Absolutely. And we can certainly see that Barbara took the baton of conscious evolution ran with it, huh? I mean, that was—

She did. She took one aspect of Bucky, she took one aspect of Bucky and she made it his. And my goal is to make Bucky mainstream. I don't care who does it. You don't— you can just have my— the first movie maker to come along, you can take my book and do whatever you want with it. I don't need any money.

I'm not looking for any money.

Well, don't go there. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna all talk about that. I wanna talk about that. Yeah.

We're in it.

This is live. This is that happening, right, Bret? Here we are.

Let me find you, Mark, and put you— oh, there you are.

I'm always here.

Yeah, Patricia, let's definitely—

So you know what, I actually do— I want to go find a couple of visuals for you guys. So I am going to check out and do a little bit of work online and then should rejoin you right around 4 o'clock.

Cool.

I think I come back to this spot? Or go somewhere else?

Yeah.

Yes.

Come back to this spot.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

I think I was going to start my own Zoom, but, uh, I don't know if I still need to do that. Is Stephanie on here?

I don't see her right now.

I'll tell you, I'll tell you what, Mark, I actually would have to go at some point because I'm in the UK and like I've been absent with my whole life and wife for like 2 weeks. Although I could stay on for 8 hours, I think I don't— I think I'll save my energy. So Patricia, if you actually needed— maybe Mark, you want to— maybe you'd want to go into the bonus coverage with actually— I mean, maybe I don't.

Maybe I do this instead of the 4 o'clock.

Well, I don't know. That's up to you.

I'm just saying, like, let me, let me see if I can text Stephanie and find out if that's okay with her, because I'd rather just do it now and, and be done. So I'm going to dinner with my family for my birthday.

So, so come back and let us know. And Mark and I will, uh, We'll also figure it out.

Yeah, just take a moment.

Okay, all right, I'm just gonna shut myself down for a second.

I'll come back.

All right, thank you.

Happy birthday.

Yeah, happy birthday. So Mark, you can think about that if you want. I was gonna tell you at some point, I actually, although I could obviously stay on for some 8-hour crazy Epithon, I don't think I want to today. Although it's gonna be super hard, to be honest. I don't think I'm gonna be able to sleep or anything like that. I wanted to bring Dan back in to play a couple of his videos. I wanted to, Mark, also give you a chance to weave in some color commentary here and maybe do a little bit of cohering of what we've all heard for the last few— I mean, come on, Patricia, just— I mean, are you kidding me? I mean, you must have some thoughts about that. So let me turn it over to you for that. Then we'll go to Dan for his videos. Then I think we'll show off some of that stuff. And then we'll decide if we go on or if you want to stay on and I'll just leave my Zoom on or whatever.

Cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hey, you guys, can I interrupt? Sorry.

Yep.

Hi, real quick. I gotta get up. I want to just stay here and draw all day. I'm so grateful to you guys for this.

Thank you.

And I just created this.

I'm going to work on it next time I come on. And it's just a beginning. I don't know which way is up or down.

Nobody does.

There is no But I'm so thankful to you guys.

Oh, thank you so much for being a part of it. Hey, hey, yes, wait, Yanika. Yeah, one, one second. Let me read this one quote by Buckminster Fuller I wanted to read. Mark, check this out, compare it to what you said. Never forget— this goes out to everybody— never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if it weren't— if it— sorry, let me start over, actually. Never forget—

sorry.

No, it's not you, it's me. I'm trying to read something. Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person. Thank you, Janika. That's, that's for you and your, and your little one.

Thank you so much. And my mom just walked in to hear that too.

Beautiful.

That's for mom too.

Hi. Thank you. We'll see you guys next time.

All right. Take care of yourself.

You too.

Thank you.

Over to you, Mark.

Yeah, well, that was, that was beautiful. Thank you for that, that transition. You know, we're here, we're here, Bene Regenera. We're here at the heart of the Regenescence, the beginning of a 10-year project that was launched by the Design Science Studio and backed by the Buckminster Fuller Institute. And have ritual and a whole bunch of people that are behind the curtain. And it's quite amazing to be here and to bear witness to this launch as we enjoy— enjoy, I say that deeply. The word joy is something that I don't know how to express the sense of that other than what that pulsing that I get. I know I feel it. when my children are near me or when I've heard from them lately, and I just feel it. It's something that pulses from here. And that was the sensation that I felt when I had this epiphany. And that had something to do with the fact that we are just, just beings that are vibrating from energy that are just made up of, like, waves and frequencies. And, and that came from working on that electromagnetic spectrum poster. That brought me to this whole idea of leprechauns and this idea that one day we would be so attuned and our senses so refined that we would be able to do all of this that we're doing now without all these silly tools that cause so much havoc in our natural environment. And so we're perplexed. We're, we're pondering how to, to transition from one flow to the other. And that's what you might call reportaging, you know, to portage, to carry your vessel from one place, from one river to the next. That transition in between, you might call the liminal zone. I think that's where we're at right now. But we are on path to fulfilling our deepest dreams and desires. That each of these different artists that have come to the Design Science Studio to share their story, their work, their intention. Who here is with us right now that can speak to their intention from the Design Science Studio? Harlan, Harlan, are you here? Harlan, beam on in with us. I'm here, but I got my buddy M1 who just rolled into town.

M1, Hey, how you doing?

Me, M1, and Harlan. Nice.

I thought you were gonna— is that Mini Harlan or no? Is that yourself? Anyway, what, uh, weren't you just gonna show one of Dan's videos?

We heard you say that. We are gonna get to it, but we just— I saw you pop in and I just want to make sure that we acknowledge and recognize everybody in flow. And so if you got a moment to say hello, that's what we wanted to do. Well, I do, I do.

And then, uh, let's see, I'm looking at the camera.

It's so hard to—

okay, so yeah, I'm here. I just Zoomed. I just tuned back in. It's—

this is so overwhelming.

I've been on—

I went on Ivo's art tour in the—

I can't even remember the platform or even how I found it.

Roxy gave me the link.

And of course I was in the other Zoom. a little bit with other people, then I'm back here and beaming with you guys.

And I just sent Mark— I sent you the link to my website which has my video.

My video is 2 minutes and 46 seconds long, and if you haven't seen it yet, wait till you see it. I, I even impressed myself.

It came out way better than I would have hoped.

You got—

you caught me. I saw it.

All right. Okay, but, uh, but I, I got M1 here. I said, M1, you got to see this guy Dan's work. It's going to blow your mind. Dan spends years making these things, and so I'm excited to see what Dan's up to. I love it when people— I love it when people impress themselves. That is epic. All right, if you're complete, we'll go over to Dan. Yeah, Mark?

Yep, here we go.

All right, let me just get you up there.

Okay, so first I'm putting the link to my project back in. Everybody should copy the link so they have it, but don't click on it now. I will click on it now, and hopefully I'll get to do a share screen. Okay, now let me go down to share screen.

I'm just going to inform our viewing audience that are beaming in. We are onboard Regenera, heart of the Regenisonics. In case you're wondering, art is about regenerative thought.

Here we go.

Dan's got something for us.

Okay, go full screen, Dan, when you're done, after you hit play. Yep, cool. Yeah, okay, there we go. Let's see.

All right, is it playing yet? Yeah, okay.

Yeah, give it a chance.

The real venue in San Antonio, Texas. There I do presentations and activities with kids 8 to 88 years old. It extends to displays and activities, uh, okay, here we go, that I do at other places local and far-flung. There's also a curriculum that parents and teachers can use so that I do not have to be Thank God. Or even virtually. There's a series of large geometric models called Octatetra City, variations of Fuller's octet truss. They're on exhibit in all places from San Antonio to Little Falls, New York, to yet to be determined. I think there's one Finally, for almost 2 years as a part of Octetetra City, I've been working on the Kepler Ring of Monuments Pentagon. Well, I said it backwards. A walk-intoable structure that needs an interior space about 30 by 30. I have to come out of full screen because it's giving me a problem. And this is a little bit of the Kepler Monument. It was only just getting started. And what I want to do is pause this. How do I get out of full screen? Maybe Escape? Yeah, work with that because I want to go to the rest of this. Here they are. Okay, they're down here. Hang on, hang on.

How long you been working on these?

I've been working 2 years on this big one.

Yeah, but no, I'm making models.

I'm going to show you, and at another time you can watch all these. I'm going to show you what I did in November.

Uh, where are we?

Here we go.

Yeah.

Little Falls, New York. Okay, so I piled everything up in a U-Haul truck, the modules of 3 models. We drove 2,000 And it starts out my display with— oh crap, let me try again. Oh crap. Oh, I hate when this happens. This is not what I want to show you. I, I, let me see if I can get back to what I want. Not that. Here we go. Okay. All right, so this is a little placard. No thanks. Which starts out with about the Octet Trust. All right, here's three models there. This is in a learning space that's just getting started. It'll be sometime next year. There'll be a bunch of other stuff in here, and kids will come in here, and they'll learn stuff, and they'll make stuff. So that's one of my models: Il condominio pentagonale. Here's 92 excavated dodecahedra and 120 icosahedra configured as a rhombic triacontahedron. And here is the ico-octa-tetra quasi-rhombic triacontahedron.

Are these all made of paper?

And these are little models that I set them up that the kids can make.

Are these all made of paper?

Yeah, the big ones are made out of 1/16 corrugated cardboard that I get from various places. Some are recycled and some are not. And so those 3 make that exhibit, and that's about 2 years' work altogether, the 3 of them.

So Dan, can I ask you a question?

Yeah.

Yeah, so, so what do you hope people who experience your work, your artwork, your models, what do you hope they take away from that?

Okay, for that I will show you my mission statement. The vision mission statement: to inspire future architects, engineers, designers, artists, and mathematicians to pursue educations and careers in those fields. To advance the understanding that the above-named fields of endeavor are not mutually exclusive, but rather that they may overlap significantly. And to celebrate creativity in all the arts. So the idea is it's all about kids, as you'll see in the next little slide. And I want to inspire the future designers and engineers. And making these models and being immersed in them and all that will help them do that. Now the next slide says, it's not about me, it's about the kids whom I impact and with whom I interact. I love how they respond when I take them on a voyage of discovery into 3D geometry. I love watching them make the models that I give them kits for to assemble. I love knowing that I'm contributing to the development of future designers. The magic only happens when the kids are there.

Beautiful.

That answers your question, right?

Yeah, you know what, that speaks right to— hey, Bret, you know, we were just talking the other day, you know, since we've come from the future, the future has asked us to come and visit and address this idea of backcasting and the idea that we are actually recruiting backcasting camp for kids counselors, Dan. Welcome. We'd love to have you as one of the counselors in the Batcasting Camp for Kids.

Was that virtual or real?

It's gonna be whatever you apply in every moment of your life going forward.

All of it, Dan. Dan, it's going— it's going to be the greatest hole on earth for the next 10 years, my friend. We're going live, we're going virtual, going alternate reality, infinite Reality, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, real reality. It's all good. We're gonna do all of it.

All right, I have one quick question. First of all, have I stopped my— I'm gonna stop my screen share.

It's good, we're live with you.

All right, and, uh, my question is, some of us made these little short videos and sent them to Brittany answering the question of what A world that works 100% for everyone. What happened to those things? Did they put them together into one video? Is it going to be shown, or is there a link to it?

Anybody?

They're working on that, I think.

Yeah, all sorts of surprises happening along the way. We've got a, we've got a long week, a lot of assets, a lot of content, a lot of shares that will be beamed out. We'll be digging stuff up and finding them along the way right here, and I'm sure they'll surface.

All right, I've sent all these messages trying to find out about that video.

I know.

Get any answers?

There's a lot going on, a lot going on for everybody right now.

Yeah, I know, I know, they're very busy.

Yeah, they are.

All right, that's all I'm showing today. All right, the time I will show you different things as I feel led at the moment.

All right, thank you, Dan Sutton, one of the DSS cohorts and probably the elder of the camp counselors at the backcasting camp for kids in Togetherland, right?

I'm pushing 77.

It's so good, it's so good, it's so good.

I already am 77.

There you go.

You guys are timeless, ageless.

Okay, Mel got me beat.

Love it. All right, where are we going from here? Are we still on board? Everybody's still with us? We're still beaming? I think we're well past your bedtime there, Mr. Bretminster Fodick.

Not really, but like at some point, I don't— I mean, it's not above me to stay on for 12 hours or something, but I just, I think I'm gonna save some of that for during the week so I can hang out with Andrea and stuff. But I'm not ready yet to Not yet though. I'm not ready to go yet. Lights are not out on me yet.

All right, well, let's, let's do a little bit of a reset as we, um, kind of power down slowly, as you might say, and remind people what we're doing, where we are, what's happening. I'm gonna let you rev up the, uh, the engine and, uh, get us going on that. Why don't you clue us in? Where are we? What are we doing?

All right, do you see my screen share?

Yeah.

Yeah?

Yep.

Okay, cool. I put a few slides together to help me out here so I didn't have to do everything from memory. So what we're doing today really is launching this thing called Regenera, or Regenera, or Regenera, depending how you pronounce it. But really, it's a global confluence for creators of regenerative futures. It's a virtual summit. It launched at 11 AM today, Pacific time. And Mark and I have been broadcasting for the two— well, since that ended, it was 11 to 1, and we started at 1 Pacific. And what we're doing is we're kind of covering the week's festivities as if we were like sports broadcasters and a late-night TV show and backcasters and broadcasters and a bunch of misfit band of merry anchoring futurist or something like that. So that's what's going on. It's Regenera Rising. It's basically coming out of something called the Design Science Studio, and that is a developmental incubator for art inspiring a regenerative future that works for 100% of life. And we're supporting art that empowers global creators to imagine a regenerative future. Our first cohort actually started about 8 months ago now in August, and this is the launch. This is the kind of culmination of this iteration of what is actually a 10-year project. We have an incredible crew of actually 144 revolutionary evolutionaries aboard this first cohort. And if people are digging what we're doing, please look up the Design Science Studio. There should be links in the Facebook broadcast. They're going to do a cohort every year, I think once a year, maybe twice, but at least once a year. And every year that cohort's going to come in and do their own original thing. Each cohort will learn from the previous cohort what to do, what we can do more, what we can do better, more efficient, more fun. And this, this first cohort is kind of laying some foundations and some seeds and some soil for the rest of the 10 years to really build upon and integrate with. So that's what the Design Science Studio is. And it's kind of going by a little bit of this premise, this regenerizing of the future is always first an idea. And this slide obviously has too much for me to read. But it's about, it's about this Regenera, which is a story universe that was created by the Design Science Studio. And really today what we launched, what Regenera is, is actually a world and a story about a floating city that appeared on Earth today, I guess in 2021, to show us what was possible. And the arrival of the city will come along with an entire week of celebrations, talks, and workshops. And art that showcase the importance of what's occurring. And that's what Mark and I are covering with Beaming Regenera. We're covering this entire week of celebrations and talks and workshops. We're bringing in all of the creators to do interviews and to be spontaneous and to bring music and all that. So here's another quick graphic. There's 8 days of celebrations, 100+ live events, interactive worlds, workshops, and Art and design, nourishing spaces for integration. So there's a lot going on. And here we go, we'll finish it off here. On the right, you see some of the people who really, really were the foundational anchors for this event. You've got Roxy and Nico up top there, you've got Faith in the middle, and Amanda down at the bottom. This was a screenshot from earlier today. And we're going from a Renaissance to a Regenescence. And since we've been celebrating Buckminster Fuller today, here was one of his quotes. Okay, I'm going to stop sharing the screen.

Thanks, Bret. Nothing like being attuned, right? Yeah, taking away the noise and finding that, that, that signal. that rings so true. That's what it feels like for me. It's a signal, it's a thread, it's a metaphor, it's an archetype, it's a way of being, it's a way of story living. And I am just so honored to be here in RegenEra beaming with you all, very first day. We'll be back tomorrow and the day after, the day after, the day after. And not only that, but we'll be beaming In Clubhouse right afterwards in the weekdays, and we'll have Jurgis who will be just mixing it up with his magic, his alchemy of music and weaving ideas and song. There's a whole bunch of stuff going on, but really I think what I'd like to do— and Bret, I'm going to put you on the spot because I like to do this when you're hopefully like ready for it. All right, so there you go. That was your warning.

I'm ready.

Here we go, here we go, because there's a lot of wordplay going on.

You ready?

Leprechaun, ye leprechaun, tell me an age-old secret. Ye leprechaun, ye leprechaun, where do you hide and keep it? You started with a word, this I have heard, and now I intend to seek it. Bret, give me A word that you feel right now, you feel deeply right now. What's that word?

Revival.

Revival?

Revival.

Nice. It's a reword, and I had no idea that you were going to do that, but isn't that how it works? And I got to tell you all that when you come and you listen to Jürges come and play his music, We're going to be doing a whole song that's called The R-Word, right?

Yes.

There you go. That's how that happens. That's because of backcasting. That's because Bret and I came from the future to help share this information with you so you can get on board and be part of this journey as we head on into Regenera and the heart of the Regenescence. And don't forget, art is about regenerative thought. Art is about regenerative thought.

Speaking of, can you see the screen share, Mark?

Yes, you're— yes, you're all clear there.

This is Regenera City website. I don't even know what's on this yet. I have not seen it. I just know it is so freaking beautiful. So we're gonna— if everyone is— are you up for it, Mark? We'll just take a little 5-minute tour.

This is what we're here for.

Yeah, let's see, let's see what's here. I mean, it says Home, Onboarding, Training, and Launchpad up on the menu items, and it's telling me to scroll down. I mean, but what— is that just not beautiful? I mean, just—

God, I wonder— I know there's animation. Are you seeing that yet?

Whoa, no, I'm just— I'm stuck here.

It's so beautiful.

It's a— I mean, clearly it's like a portal, right, into something. And it reminds me of islands.

They look like whales, don't they? The islands up there.

Those are clearly flying whales in the floating city of some kind. Oh man, this is so beautiful. The, the people that put together this stuff are just absolutely phenomenal. Let's see if it just needs a little moment to load. Look at this. This is a website. By the way, I mean this is a website. If I could do this for my Togetherland project, I would be—I might be the most famous person in the world. This is beautiful. This is stunning. All right, I'm gonna actually read this because this is important, Mark. As you're saying, as we get deeper into this week, as Beaming Regenera actually goes live, you know, probably weekly like I call what we'll call it. Hey, Mark, by the way, we'll call it Friday Nights Live instead of Saturday Night Live because. We preempt that. We're futuristic. Yeah. And backcasting will be Friday Nights Live and will be plural instead of Saturday night because it's always Friday nights. So Friday Nights Live, you know, we're going to do this all the time for the next 10 years. Mark and I are, are, what is it called? Strange bedfellows or whatever. Like we're, we're now, we're attached at the hip like Abbott and Costello and we're going to be doing this on some level. So let's read this. Mark, can you actually read any of this? Can you see well enough to take, take turns with me?

Yeah, but you just gotta give me give me to the top so I can get up to see the the top of it there.

Are you scrolling? Oh, maybe it's not scrolling enough down. I'll read it. I'll read it. No problem. No problem. Okay, so it says in 2021, a movement that had been growing underground for decades started to emerge. It was carried on by all of those. who are tired of hearing, that's just the way things are. Like every revolution, evolution, it started with a story, because stories are our tools to model reality. The future is always first an idea. What is unfolding in front of our eyes is a social and systemic change. We're about to embark on the biggest adventure of our lives. What happens in the next decade will change the course of our species forever. At the Design Science Studio, an educational incubator for art that empowers creators to imagine a regenerative future that works for all life, we decided to create a space that could contain all the stories that this emergent movement will bring to life. We called this space RegenEra, a floating city that came from the sky to show us what was possible and the movement that it brought. The Regenissance. So allow yourself to get lost into this story universe. Forget the lines that separate reality from imagination. We will create the future we want together, and it all starts here. Welcome to Regenera, the heart of the Regenissance. Look at this fantastic clouds and everything. Mark, what do you make of that copy? I mean, just a beautiful invitation. Yeah.

Well, yeah, and, and what I find so beautiful about all of this is that This is a co-creation, a collaboration, a commingling. You know, there's just so many ways to put this, but it's a dance of many that isn't coming from one person. And that's what's so beautiful about all this. There are the hands, there are the hearts, you know, there are the tools and technologists that are making it happen, but it is a sense of communion. I think I could say, actually. Yeah, that's what it feels like to me.

It's just beautiful. I'm floating through the clouds right now, making my way further down the page. Oh, look at this! There's some grandmothers. Are they popping up on the screen share for you? They're coming into focus, like—

They're there.

Oh, they're there! Oh, look at this! It's like a comic book meets like, like graphic novel, like I can't believe they did this among all the things everyone's been doing.

Yeah, there's all these secrets that are starting to be shared.

Look at this, it's all coming through the background, like, and then here it comes. Let's see. Hello, human. Welcome. And we'll get you— we'll get everybody a link for this. I'm kind of covering it now. I'm not sure if it's live or if we're supposed to be sharing it. I know I was told I could share this. I don't know about the link. Let's see, I'm sure it's fine. Welcome to— welcome to Regen Era. I am Ava and she is Gloria. Since we landed on Earth on March 21st, so many of you are coming to visit us. It's an honor, that's for sure, but also what a tremendous responsibility. So they're creating the story world right here. This is what it's all about.

This is the portal. This is the entry to Regen Era, the heart of the Regenoscience, and they've created these characters. Let's see what, uh, her sister— oh no, no, no, don't be so humble, Ava. These humans have a lot to learn. A lot, a lot, a lot. It's really good they are coming.

And she says, don't mind her, she was always a grumpy. I was saying, welcome to Regenera, dear. You will discover many things in this floating city, but first I want to make sure you understand what to do.

This is great. So they're giving you instructions, they're helping you on the path into Regenera. So that you can hop on board, meet the characters, and along the way you'll be discovering, um, there's the training and, um, of what you need to know to get around, and then the launch pad where you'll be able to take the different ships to the different lands. Because Regenera and the Regenescence is happening in many different environments across the Noosphere here. So that's how you're going to Gosh, this is so beautiful.

Um, I'm going to now portal us into what's called Topia, which is another online platform. Mark, let's see what we've got going on there.

I think we're beating Topia, actually. I haven't been there yet in the new version. I was in the prototype and we had some work in there that was really fun. So Topia is a 2-dimensional social environment where you get to create the world yourself. And so you're going to see a lot of artwork from a lot of different artists in the Design Science Studio that have contributed either their art, their assets to be referenced there. You can click through and go on into what the world is about. You can actually— the other cool component of this is like us here in Zoom. When you're in Topia, as you're moving about, you can see Bret Minster Full of It showing up right there, and you get closer to others, you'll Have their screen come up and you'll be able to hear them, and then you'll be able to engage with each other through this aspect of proximity in the environment. So that's Topia. That's the aspect of Region Era. There's a number of different worlds in there. In Topia, there's the Region Era deck, there's the village, Natura, the art district, and Agora. I've yet to go there. I know we've got some banners for Beaming throughout the environment there, and I think we've got 2 birds rummaging around in there somewhere. And let's see what else. Where are we going, Bret? Are you headed—

I don't know where I'm going. I'm wandering around, but I do—

Zoom out. It's a very easy kind of platform, like a simple old Atari system, I think, or something. I don't know.

Oh, there we go. Yeah. Oh yeah, let's get a big look at this.

Yeah, so you can zoom out and you'll see the whole environment that you can wander around, like I said, meet others. I think that's called the Loop that you're in right now, Bret. You see there's signage down there.

And music will start playing as well, right, if I get close to an installation that actually has things?

will have sound that will, as you get closer to it, will get louder. If there's somebody speaking, there's places where people may be talking. There's environments to hang out and listen to music. There's the cafe down at the bottom there. I know there's a meditation area. There's really quite a lot going on in Topia. It's going to take me a while to get familiar with it. But I think you're zooming out so we can kind of see that whole world from afar.

Yeah, just to see the beauty, yeah, the beauty of it, yeah. I mean, look at this, like looking at a Salvador Dalí, you know, like—

Yeah, it's a co-creation, that's the thing, it's so— it's all these different artists that have participated in this, in this, and so that's why it has such a variety of sensibilities to it. Really fun to look at and explore. So that'll be available.

Yeah, there's— I'm sorry, I was just saying, like you said, yeah, I'm just gonna— it's taxing my computer, so I think it's better to come out before it gets, before it gets, uh, too, uh, crazy.

All right. Um, wow, we're closing in on the, uh, 4 o'clock here. What time is it there by you, Bret?

11 o'clock. Yeah. So what we'll do is we'll check in with Patricia in a moment, and whenever you're ready. Patricia, don't hurry. You can— you don't—

I'm here. I'm sorry. It's been a little crazy here today, but I'm so determined to hang with you guys. This is so wonderful. Every time I come back here, I'm like, don't leave again. Thank you.

Are you gonna be able to share with us, or did you have to go for a 4 o'clock call.

So no, I— well, so what originally happened was Stephanie was going to have me start a Zoom and then try to get people to come to that Zoom. Right. But I'm assuming— I don't know, is she here now? I don't— I think I can just do it here. I'm not— oh, she's— she says here. Okay, so I guess she's here. Is Stephanie here? Uh, she wrote here, but I don't know where here is. There's a Bucky conundrum right there. Oh man, none of us know where here is.

Yeah, she's sending you a cone there. I don't know, she's fucking messing with you.

So I'm happy to do it now because I— no offense, but I really need to get it over with because my family is really demanding my time today. They're being good though, they're being great.

Well, thank you.

So should I— do you want me to go ahead and tell you about my book?

Can you give me one minute?

Yeah.

Yeah, just let me— so Mark, I'm gonna just do a little thank you because I don't know if I'm gonna be able to stick around, although I actually want to hear Patricia, but I might turn my camera off and start to listen more than be on camera. So I'm just gonna say thank you. To everyone, thank you to the 144 cohorts. Thank you, Mark, for being my, my best friend on this Beaming Regenera mission. Thank you especially to some of the cohort members who held down the space for 8 months, and I'm sure working 20 hours a day and not receiving tons of compensation and all that kind of story stuff, and that they've done incredible things, and every single person is incredible. I want to thank all of the artists who showed up today to do live art. It's going to be super crazy. Oh my God, expeditious, expolash, super fantabulous, amazing what, what unfolds from this point onward. I want to thank everyone for having patience with Mark and myself, or especially me, for this is the first time we've done this. And if we haven't called on you, or if we haven't done— we've done a good job. I mean, I'm not trying to be self- Whatever, but obviously we can. We'll just keep getting better and better and better. But if we haven't called on you or we haven't been able to bring you in, my sincere—I wouldn't say apologies—but my sincere acknowledgment that I'm working on figuring out how to be the best host I can be. Gosh, there's a million things I want to say. I can't believe I'm actually going to get off this call at some point and not and miss something. Like I've got the FOMO fear. missing out now, big style. Patricia, thank you for, for what you're about to present. I'm, I'm gonna have to watch some of it on video possibly after this whole time, but I also have to go. So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, whole world. I hope people have been watching because this is freaking awesome.

Thank you, thank you very much. Is this already being recorded so I don't have to record it from here?

It's being recorded, and the live broadcast also means It's actually recorded as well. And Mark, you'll have to keep an eye out for people who are coming in.

You know, can I record it? Can I record it also? Just because I'm a techno boob and I don't know how to go get it somewhere else.

You don't worry about that, Patricia. You don't worry about that. You tell Stephanie request permission for the recording.

I need the meeting host needs to give me permission to record.

Let me look. How do I? Let me see where I do that. But Patricia, by the way, you don't have to worry. Like you just tell Stephanie to talk to me and I will get you a recording.

Oh, you're great.

I'll do whatever. I'll. I've got it. We've got it covered. We'll take care of you. All right, Mark, I'm gonna leave it to you. Mark, I'm gonna just ask you to at least do like some kind of intro, you know, like a short one for Patricia in whatever way you like, and then make her the featured speaker. Yeah.

Okay, let's see if I have that capability.

You should have. Are you co-host or whatever? You would just click on the 3 dots under her name and put like, or remove your Yeah, that's here. Okay, well, let me just— let me make it easy for you. There you go. Oh wait, hold on. Yep. So, all right.

I don't mind being off screen. That's the way I like it. So again, I'm going to reset. Thank you, Bret. Good night. Good luck. Hasta mañana. We're with Patricia Ravasio. Ravasio. Yeah. And Patricia was invited to the Design Science Studio, to share with us a book that she has written that already in the short while that we've spent together, I feel comes from the heart. And I'm not going to go any further than that because what emits comes from you. So please share what you have.

So what you just said made me totally change how I'm going to begin this. I think love was really at the core of all of Bucky's messages, that he really did realize that only through compassion and empathy and a more feminine paradigm of leadership, which he wrote about often— those of you who've read a lot of his writings know— he thought that, um, that kind of energy would— Oh, it's Stephanie calling. Well, I'm not I'm not going to take that, sorry. Anyway, so she wants me to just focus on my book because I always want to talk about other things and what's happened since, but my book was really strategically created to bridge that big mainstream gap between what Bucky was saying about design science and nature and our need to realign with it and how and why this synergetic geometry was really important to the future of humanity and that math students and scientists need to really go dig in because there— there's still a lot of questions that aren't answered about it, um, and bridge that with the average American reader which is in 6th grade right now. I think maybe it's even down to 5th grade and I really want Bucky to be mainstream and I think that he can be mainstream because I'm just a mainstream kind of person. I'm not a genius. I'm not a math student. I'm not a scientist. And I think Bucky's thinking was the absolute most brilliant thing I've ever heard in my life. And the book tells the story of a girl who gets blown away by Bucky when she's 11 years old. She's at his world game show in, uh, Carbondale, Illinois at Southern Illinois University, and her dad has taken her. This is me. I'll— I guess I'll just do this in first person, but as you read it, it's, it's, um, a story about a girl who gets totally blown away when Bucky looks right at her and says that children now are going to be called upon to step up and lead, and women especially were going to need to find their voices. There weren't very many women in the room. It was mostly men in suits, and here I was, a young girl, and I felt like this weight just went on my shoulders, like, oh my God, you mean— wait, I'm the one who's supposed to save the world? And so I really did always take that as like this crazy thing that he said to me, that I really had to focus on that kind of thing. And— So it moves forward to 1982 Chicago when Buckminster Fuller is in Chicago introducing a new book of his, his— one of his greatest books, Critical Path, in which he really does lay out the options for humanity in a way that really brilliant people can understand. I don't go all the way there, but at the time Bucky saw in me and He saw in me, he called me an empty vessel. And that's exactly what I was. And that's why I want Reese Witherspoon to play me in a movie, because I was a little daffy, just like she was in Legally Blonde. And yet here I had this opportunity to talk to this genius, this man who at that time was the celebrity of unfathomable proportions. He had whole specials done about him. Walter Cronkite and he were buddies, and he talked— Walter Cronkite I talked about him all the time. And when he spoke, there would be thousands of people who would show up and just listen. I mean, he was Justin Bieber and, you know, great celebrities all in one. And yet he spent 4 hours the first day talking to me. And then the very next morning, after me just being so blown away, I didn't know what to do with myself, the phone rang and it was Bucky.

Hi.

Bucky's assistant saying, oh, well, there were a few things that Mr. Fuller forgot to tell you about, and he would like to see you again. And I had to go to work. I was actually an advertising copywriter at the time working on McDonald's, of all things, french fries. And I had to say no. And so I saw him that evening for dinner. And I'm gonna, I'm gonna read just a little section from here. that explains why he brought me back. Well, first of all, I walked in and I said— so we were at the Conrad Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, black and white checkered floors, you know, red vinyl seating, and Bucky's sitting there all in his shirt and tie looking so professional with his legal pad and his 5 colors of pens, which he kept in his pocket depending on what he was thinking. He would write in a different color. so it made it easier for him to organize his notes. And I realized that I had no ability to do anything like he was hoping I would do. He'd given me these urgent warnings for humanity and said, you must pass them on. And then here he was seeing me again. And I thought, I have to level with him. I'm only an advertising writer. I'm not a great writer. And so I told him that. And he said, well, I'm not concerned about now. I don't care what you do with this now. But what I know is that you will be breathing this sweet earthy air long after I am gone, and you're taking really good notes, and I like your notes. So that's why I wanted to talk to you today about what you really need to know about that I actually forgot to talk to you about yesterday. Bucky held up his knife and fork and prepared to tackle his steak. Yesterday, he said, I mentioned we were entering into a dark age. This is what I want to talk about, especially how so much of it stems from the energy conundrum. My first bite of chicken cordon bleu reminded me that there was still plenty of good in the world. I took tiny bites to make it last. The dark ages reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence Of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. We are caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes driven by the human ego. Both warden and prisoner attempt.

You got mute, uh, Patricia.

Sorry, you just went on mute.

I did? Oh, I'm so sorry. Wow. Fossil fuel industry interfering much? No, I'm kidding. Anyway, so what— so I'm sorry, is there a question?

No, you were at misorientation when you went on mute.

Oh, okay. So I will— would you like for me to go back? I will. Sorry. Misorientation. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. We are caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes driven by the human ego. Both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these dark ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. I put down my fork. Well, but who is creating this misinformation? And, and why? And how? Well, first of all, corporations, especially the oil companies, are now working hand in hand with our government to stop environmental progress. Reagan, which we had talked about the day before, is not just deregulating corporations, he's inviting them into the henhouse by asking them to help write the new laws that will protect them, not the people, and definitely not the environment. They have decided not to allow a transition to clean energy. Even though they know it is both entirely feasible and absolutely necessary for our long-term survival. And he went on that day to talk about how we were being bamboozled, we had been conditioned. He gave elaborate evidence to how all of the business schools in America had been transformed to free market educators that the right wing had really gotten capable of directing curriculum at all the big universities. And so they were teaching the trickle-down theory and Adam Smith's magical hand, that the corporations would protect the people because the corporations needed the people in order to survive. And so we could trust the corporations and we'd all be millionaires. And I got disgusted then, and I'm still disgusted now, and my hand shakes when I think about it. But going on in the book, here's the basic narrative arc of the book. So I have this amazing 2 days with Buckminster Fuller that changes my life, but I can't do anything about it. I'm— I try to get a story published, nothing. Nobody wants to write about Bucky at this time because Bucky's old news now. And sure enough, he died a year later. And a lot of things happened with the discovery of the Buckminsterfullerene in terms of the scientific community, and Buckminster Fuller's memory is greatly carried forward because of the discovery of the Buckminsterfullerene. But the general public grew to know him less and less because we grew to know many things less and less, and Buckminster Fuller was one of them. And in 1999, at the height of Y2K fever, Stanford University purchased Buckminster Fuller's archives. A family member was having trouble, had needed money, and Stanford University, which is arguably the brain trust, the head brain trust of the fossil fuel industry, purchased Buckminster Fuller's archives. And since that time in 1999, I can't find evidence that there was ever a single course taught at Stanford about Buckminster Fuller. That all of the people who were Buckminster Fuller kinds of people who were very excited to have the archives arrive in the year 2000, they were like, oh my gosh, we're going to get to teach Bucky. They proposed courses, they weren't accepted. The collection was put back in the Green Library and the progressive liberal educators who wanted to teach Bucky ended up leaving and going to places like Harvard and Cal. So Stanford University, run a search of Buckminster Fuller, maybe they've finally done something for him, but you could get zero results searching Stanford. This is all in my book. And at Berkeley, at Berkeley, 107, 107 professors mentioned the name Buckminster Fuller in their syllabus or their description of their course that they teach the ideas of Buckminster Fuller. So it's political, and we need to recognize that it is political, and we need to be ready to understand that the fight is deeper and darker than we thought. But wait a minute, back to the book. So Stanford buys— anyway, that's just history. But what happened to me was I forgot all about Bucky. I had— I fell in love. I got married to this wonderful Italian guy who cooks, who's— well, you're not cooking tonight because we're going out. But he— and I fell in love and got married and thought, well, the Bucky stuff, I remember he always said, I don't need you to do anything right now. Just hang on to it. Just don't do anything. And so there was one awful thing that happened. And that is that there was a flood in Chicago when we were still living there. And my notes, all of my Bucky notes were lost. And so that is why it took me so long, because what happened was, on 9/11, 2001, I'm sure everybody can remember where they were at that moment if you were old enough. I think we have some young people here, but at 9/11, that's when Bucky's voice first came back into my head. And he said— the memory of his voice was, future wars will not be fought by nations, but by rogue individuals and groups that we have oppressed. and that it's America's bullying sense of nationalism and jingoism that would be our undoing, that we would begin to anger the world and the world would turn against us. And I thought, holy crap, he predicted 9/11 to me. So that's when my research started. I started going back to Stanford and reading. So I've read everything that Bucky— well, I've read, I think, almost everything I can find that has been written about Buckminster Fuller. There isn't a lot. I'm happy to be a resource For anybody who wants to know biographies, you know, easier to understand books, there's some that are much easier to understand than others. Those that recorded his written, his vocal word, are very much more accessible because he spoke as he, when he was talking to me, I'm a 24-year-old, you know, writer, and he was trying to make sure that I understood it, and I did. And I, you know, so as he and Einstein both said, if you can't come— if you can't explain it to a kindergartner, then you really don't understand it. So his voice came back to me then, and I spent many years having— feeling very inadequate to take up this task because I had lost my notes. And— but what I realized is I could go back and reconstruct everything by reading everything else he was writing about at that time and everything else that he was speaking about at that time. And by doing that, I mean, he didn't tell me anything that he didn't tell anybody else, but it was just that I had promised to carry it forward, and here I had dropped the ball big time. And my working title for this book was Oops, I Forgot to Save the World. Um, so what's happened now, I think, since Trump— so Trump was the reason I self-published and why it's, it's a sleeper, okay? It's getting a very slow start, um, because I haven't had time to market it. I actually, I actually self-published the book with great help. This is one thing for anybody who's trying to publish a book. I think it's, it's, it's wearing well and it's getting better and better reviews and more and more attention. And I think one of the reasons why is I invested in really doing quality work. Like, I got a good cover designer and I got a good editor who'd worked for Random House before. And I said, look, I want to make this a commercial success. I want to make this something big. You have to be hard on me and make this happen. And she loved Bucky. And so did my art— the artist for the COVID was a Bucky guy from Scotland who I found online. And then the gal who actually laid out the book and the ebook is a book midwife who if you're trying to publish a book, she's awesome. And she too loved Bucky, so I think they gave me a good— they gave me a good deal, a good rate. So now I have this really quality book that seems to be holding its own even— well, I published it in 2017, so it's on— it's on its 4th year, and it feels like it's still, still growing a little bit. It just got chosen as the curriculum for an honors program at, uh, at Bucky's alma mater, Southern Illinois University. They're offering it just to their— I was trying to get my friends in on it, but they're offering it only to their students. And I guess I get to kick it off with a sort of an overview of who Buckminster Fuller is. And I don't, I don't really know my audience here, so I want to open it up to questions because I feel like I could win a trivia contest on Bucky. That's what, that's what the Buckminster Fuller Institute should do is a trivia contest on Bucky. Because I think I would win.

I'm sure you would. Wow.

His quotes and things. So anyway, I don't know if I've done a very good job with that. Oh, I want to say one thing about where we are right now. Number one, the word apocalypse, which we all feel like we've been living through this last year— apocalypse, the root word of that is unveiling. And that's what's happening now. When I read from Bucky saying that we had been locked in chains, Those chains are breaking off now, and you're seeing it with— excuse me— you're seeing it with racial conversations. It's really wonderful. You know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go on mute, take a cup of tea, and be right back.

So thank you so much. You know, we have Stephanie on the call. Stephanie, can you join us? Because you've brought this wonderful gift to us to share Patricia, her book, her sense of being, this story. And, um, you're okay? So, um, and Bret Minister, I hope you're still there so we can— let's see if I can switch over the view. Um, does that help? Is everybody seeing?

I still see Patricia.

You still see Patricia?

And myself.

Okay, yeah, there you go. All right, so please. Hi, welcome. Good evening. Hi, hi everybody.

I can't see a thing because I just see Patricia, but, uh, yeah, I, you know, I came across this book and I just— it was such a fast and easy and beautiful read to me. And I had known about Buckminster Fuller, but I can say that I really didn't understand very much. But my dad, like, my dad knew someone who worked with him, and I just remember him as a household name, you know, and the domes. I just love the domes, and I went to a university that had a dome, so I just felt connected in some way. But when I read this book, I had such an immediate, real human connection, like the way she describes being at the World World Games, and having him look at her as a little girl looking up at the stage, like, it was such a painted— it just painted him to me. And like, if you read the book, actually, in the end, it's like this, you know, the way that she actually wanted to bring him through should be made into the most gorgeous play I've ever seen in my life, the way she describes it. But, you know, it came through as the book first, but I personally really believe that because, I mean, I read that book a couple years ago, so I probably read it right when it came out, and, you know, if people— I believe that if that was spread out and people started to hear that, then this is kind of the seeds that started sprouting the interest in a lot more people now, because as we're spreading it, it's also spreading. Like, we're starting to be able to speak a language that, like I am anyway, that people are starting to understand when I've been speaking the same language all along and most people don't get me. And most people, like a lot of people I know, the same thing. Like I have friends who we can talk about vibration and frequency and things and they play it in all different, different ways. People sensorially feel it and all these kind of things, but it's sort of been hidden and also shut down from the left, left way of teaching. Like we've been taught flat earth thinking, and now we have to get back to dimension. And that's what you know that's what Buckminster Fuller talks about. And for me, I have like people in the collab in the collaboratory and in the design science studio that I can go to to kind of like to kind of get a feedback on my my personal research with my study of nature in realizing that like if we don't get this at the base, then you know, it's like it has to be— it has to be an equilateral triangle because otherwise it's a hierarchical and it won't stack. And no matter what you do, the pressure will break it apart like it's already done. So if we're creating a future 10 years from now, and I hope we get there even faster because we can— like, I feel like we can quantum leap with all of us coming together like this. But, you know, if you don't put it into the base and Stroopy, like, we sit and we can talk about this stuff, but I know that he understands. And I connected him up with Patricia. Those 2 can talk all day. I actually want to have a Beam channel whenever they're— well, Patricia, whenever you're available to get on it with Stroopy. He will just keep talking about it, and he's such a deliverer of the information in one way. But, you know, I'm taking this stuff down to Tennessee, and like, I can see that these kids will probably love to just sit down with some sticks and beads and And put them together and make it. Because when you start making things, then you start understanding. Like, I have one photograph, and it's a soap bubble and the space between two soap bubbles. And I have it all through this time because that taught me from looking at it that one plus one equals three. And like schools will never teach you that. But like if two soap bubbles come together, there's a third. Or our two eyes. Come together and they make a whole new field. That's a third. 2 humans come together, they make a baby. It's a third, but we've left us out of the equation. And the rest of nature hasn't. The rest of nature understands the equation. So like Struppi and Patricia, like these folks can explain it in a way, and myself, because I can explain it through showing it in imagery. But like when we hear it and we see it, the thing about Buckminster Fuller's work and those who understood that we were on a dimension sphere is that the information actually didn't have time to absorb into the system before it was cut off. So basically that stream didn't go all the way through. So we're like, we're re-bridging, we're reconnecting, we're clearing because the information can go through now and we're all feeling it. It's like we're getting the sense of more aliveness and connectivity and like, so we're really making this bridge. So for me, that's what I'm calling Tune in the Resto because this whole experience for me has been me tuning myself and like how to— and then how do we tune because we know that if we're out of tune from the beginning, if we go in with the same way we already went, it's not going to work. So there's all these ways like we've already backcasted. I almost feel like we've come— I feel like I'm coming from the future back and going like, you didn't do it right before, we got to do it differently now. And really, and so that's what I love about The Living Systems Collaboratory, because I don't know, I think a lot of people don't know this, but the way that they chose who was in that Collaboratory was the more nonlinear thinking people, because they would come up with a new way of seeing and thinking that was already done before, because we've already done it that way before, and obviously we haven't gotten there. And incredibly, most of the people are incredibly brilliant people, but they're still brought up in a linear system. That, you know, I know that like Bruce Lipton, who, who like, he was the one who taught epigenetics. He taught genetics and then he taught— and you can stop me anytime, I can go on forever, so like please stop me so someone else can step in— but he taught epigenetics, he taught genetics, and he came to understand that was the environment was shaping, was shaping the genetics. And like, like It doesn't sound— sometimes people think like I'm all over the place, or I don't know what I'm talking about. But if you understand me, you'll know that I'm not really all over the place. It's just that I'm bouncing around in a nonlinear field of spheres. And like most linear people won't follow me and find it, you know, it's like in one world I like don't fit, and another like people really understand me. So like basically— He taught the epigenetics, and then he understood it was epigenetics. But basically, he couldn't go outside the system. Like, they got rid of him at the university because he was ahead of his time. I mean, then Europe came out with the same thing, and then people kind of listened. But still, he's like kind of out there. We got to pull him into this thing because he's like out there continually trying to— and showing the simplicity of things in a beautiful way about love. Because if we don't come with love— yep, you're on— then it's like, that's the glue. Love is the glue that will keep this thing together in its integrity. And we're here to pull it together. And now Patricia is going to keep speaking. Thank you.

Well, I just, I just promised that I was going to take you all cosmic surfing. And, and to me, Stephanie already does. She takes me cosmic surfing all the time. I'm like, I want God, she makes so much sense. And it's a little bit like listening to Bucky. There were people who would go and listen to Bucky for hours, and they would walk out of there and they would say, oh my God, that was the most amazing thing I ever heard. Now, what did he just say? Right. So this is, this is on the top of the John Hancock Building. Bucky has taken me out to show me. He wanted to point down Montrose Harbor. That was what he wanted to show me. at the beginning, point down Montrose Harbor to the place where he nearly killed himself. He wanted to look out and see it. And then we stayed up on the rooftop for a while.

And—

Oh, let's see where I'm going to cut in. The heat overwhelmed me. It was warm that day. I took off my jacket and slung it over the railing. A cool breeze washed some relief over my arms. Buggy went on to explain that humans had been conditioned especially recently, to believe in false outdated notions. He said our language must become more precise to assure that we were not mistakenly accepting lies as truth. For instance, there is no up or down in Universe, he said, which should always be capitalized and used without an article like the, the, because there's only one of them, Universe. And he said we must take more care to speak accurately, that it was critical to our success. We should not talk of going up or down, but rather in and out from the Earth's center of gravity. And instead of the sun rising or setting, which of course it did neither, we should call it what it really is: a sunclipse in the evening and a sunsight in the morning. When we tell our children to watch the sunrise or enjoy the sunset, we are replacing their natural-born genius with conditioned ignorance. He stopped for a moment to let me finish writing. My hand had cramped up. Was he becoming impatient with me? The ideas were shooting out of him with the force of a fire hose, and it was my job to capture every drop. The old Newtonian world, he said, will soon be replaced by a true grasp of Einstein's principles. Newton said the first law of motion, that a body persists in the state of rest except when it is affected by other bodies, And normal was at rest. Well, we know now there is no such thing as at rest. Einstein flipped it all on its head. Everything is moving, always. Well, I thought, of course the Earth is always moving, both rotating and orbiting around the Sun, but what difference did that make to the future of humanity? At this rate, I was pretty sure I was never going to be able to write convincingly about anything since I didn't really understand what he was talking about. He seemed to sense my bewilderment. Would you like to try a little cosmic surfing? he said. I nodded enthusiastically, relieved at the chance for any change of subject, even though I was pretty sure cosmic surfing was what we were already doing. He told me to put my notebook aside and stand straight and tall, but to relax my shoulders, which I realized were scrunched up around my ears. He had me face west and told me to close my eyes and hold my arms straight out at my side. I invite you to join me if you'd like. You can turn off your camera, but no one will be looking. Find your balance, he said. I took a low, slow, deep breath. It is as if you are standing on a surfboard, because that is exactly what you are doing all the time. You are on a continually moving spaceship called Earth, and you are cruising through universe at about 1,000 miles an hour as the Earth spins on its axis. I peeked out to see that Bucky's arms were also outstretched, his eyes also closed. An older couple with a camera eyed us curiously, but I didn't care. I closed my eyes again and sensed myself spinning on spaceship Earth, the sun warming warming my face. He gave me a moment, then his voice grew softer. Now, with your eyes still closed, sense that while you are spinning around Earth's axis, you are also simultaneously sailing around the sun at a rate of about 67,000 miles per hour. My arms were splayed apart, and I forgot all about the onlookers and had a momentary awareness of myself as a tiny speck in a huge universe, one small human body fully conscious of itself. I was a goosebump-covered cosmic surfer in the full light of day, gliding through the galaxy, feeling the magic of my own radically profound existence. This was the education I had been waiting for. Uh, I could go on, but, um, so yeah, I just wanted to share that little cosmic surfing thing. And then I ended up doing that for the kids at SIU when I went there to talk. I took some kids down by— there's a pond that, uh, there's a little place called Bucky Haven if you ever go to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. And all of you Bucky people, anybody who who wants to teach Bucky or talk Bucky, I can put you in touch. You feel free to email me, patrovazio@gmail.com, take out the Patricia, patrovazio@gmail.com. And I'm happy to hook you up with resources, reading suggestions. For those of you who are new to Bucky, I can help you find more accessible texts and recommend a couple of biographies. And yeah, there's And then the other thing I'll leave you with, I think I'm out of time here, is please help pressure. If anybody has contacts at Stanford University, the files of Buckminster Fuller should be digitized. And they blame it on the family. They say, well, the family has said they don't want it. And I think that's poppycock, as my mother would have said.

Poppycock.

Because I think if the files were digitized, they would not— they will not be lost. And I believe that Buckminster Fuller is and was the Leonardo da Vinci of the 20th century, that most people, majority, vast majority of people do not understand his significance, but yet it will— the significance of his discovery. And this is what I could talk about later in the week is the Fullereen, the Buckminster Fullereen, and what it might mean. I love all that kind of conversation. But I'm happy to serve as a resource for any of you. I should be going pretty soon, but does anyone have any questions about the book or about Bucky or about— Thank you so much, Patricia.

Thank you so much. You've gifted us so much. We do have an opportunity if anybody would like to chime in and ask a question while Patricia's here with us on Being in Regenera, part of the Design Science Studio launch into the Regenescence. Our man Bucky. Yeah. If anybody— I'm gonna share something with you because what I've heard repeated in this talk and with Stephanie is this idea of missing information. And again, it goes back to making the invisible visible. And I think that's what Bucky really helped me see, was to turn the prism and to refract, to look at things differently. And I hope you come back and visit with us throughout the week during—

I would love to. I would love to. Yeah, that would be super fun. This is the best birthday present. Happy birthday, Vicki. Happy to, happy to be here. Happy to share what I know about Bucky and, and what were the important things. Again, I don't focus on the math. I'm more about the individual integrities. There's a list of 8 in the back for his humanity success. I broke it down. I don't know if they're still the right ones, but it's—

You can share those with us next time, okay?

I will. I would love to. Yeah, and I'm sure that he would love that.

Yeah, and I'm sure that he, he would be of course wishing you this kind of birthday because we are stepping off right now and we have that bridge and we're just, we're going across it now and it's a weave and we're already there.

So—

Well, let's just say he's still calling the shots.

He's still calling the shots. I feel like it. I'm being like a little connected, connecting people. So I'm connecting lots of people and I'm glad we can connect you to Thank you.

Thank you so much, Stephanie.

Absolutely. Thank you.

Wow. Christopher, did you have a question?

Namaste.

All right, everybody, I think we've gone for almost an hour and a half longer than our original beaming time, and that is the gift of being present. And accounted for. I thank you all for joining us for Being Regenera. Um, there's a question, how to get the book? Patricia, how do we get the book?

Oh, that's, that's my favorite question. Um, it is on Amazon, and, uh, there is in a lot of libraries also, but, um, on Amazon, if you just do bit.ly/BuckyLove, that's the link to Amazon. Or just, just input on Amazon, The Girl from Spaceship Earth, and it'll pop up.

Was it Bucky who said love is metaphysical gravity?

He did.

Love is metaphysical gravity. And the reason why I've been married for 34 years to the same man is what he also said, which doesn't get quoted as much. And that is, and love is Progressively exquisite. The longer you are in it, the bigger it becomes.

Yes.

And it's so true that if you stay around, you stick it out, the onion has many layers and you go deeper and deeper. And it's beautiful. Yeah, his, his, his imagery around love was really beautiful. And read about women. Are there any women here? Are they mostly men except me and Stephanie? How many women are here? I'd love to hear from the women. Are they all men? Is it all men? Wait, we're 42.

No, no, we have Tashka and X-Raz. And yeah, there's lots of people in here, a lot of women.

Yes, I hope the women will take time. So my, so my blog is called, um, buckyworld.me or buckyideas.com. I own them both. I never know which one's better, so I use them both. Um, and look up, just, just search women. And you will read— he wrote an article in McCall's magazine in 1968 called Why Women Will Rule the World, and it explains why women are the natural-born leaders. Because in a world that really needs love and compassion, only women— because only women reproduce— only women, he says, are hardwired for empathy. And because of that hardwiring, we are the ones who have the power and the fire to bring humanity through this, out of this dark phase that we're in. And I know all the women here are probably speaking up, uh, and thank you for doing that. And that's one of the— one of his main integrities was you have to look for the truth. You have to really disregard these specious notions. specious notions like scarcity. You know, we're convinced there'll never be enough for everybody, so there's always going to be battles. The poor are always going to be poor, the rich are going to be rich. There's always going to be this disparaging situation, and that's not the case. If we simply realize that scarcity is a specious notion and instead embrace abundance, we can break out of that unconditioned thinking. So he said you have to seek the truth and only go along with it truth. And then once you understand the truth, it is your responsibility to speak it. And women don't do that. Women zip their lips. They see something and they're like, oh my God, but if I speak out, if I post it on Facebook, if I, if I say something in a comment when somebody, you know— and, and he really called upon us to have courage in that regard, at the very least. Even if you're not an actual, you know, stepping up to lead, at least have the courage to speak up so that you, by your speaking up, you enable those who also want to speak up. So, hang in there, women. We can do this. We can do this.

I gotta tell you, my 19-year-old daughter is right there. So—

The young people are there. The young people. So, the New Jersey— no, not New Jersey. Staten Island. Staten Island librarian said this was an excellent book for the reluctant young reader. So if you have young people who are not happy with life, who are struggling, it really was created to inspire and give hope by, by teaching them about this genius and about his wonderful utopian ideas. He said very clearly, we have an option. This is my—

this is actually my favorite book.

This is my favorite. Other than mine. You can read this one next. So, Prospects for Humanity: Utopia or Oblivion. And, um, as he said, there's not likely to be a middle ground. We're going to be choosing one or the other. And what's great about this book is that these are mostly the spoken words of Buckminster Fuller translated, and he would always speak to be able to connect with his audience. So he— I'm not saying he dumbed it down, but he also didn't go off the rails with the intellectualizing and math part. So this talks about, for all of you who are doing the Design Science Decade moving forward, this is— a lot of this is about the 1965 kickoff of the Design Science Decade, where he brought together an amazing consortium of world leaders and architects that spoke about the future and came up with all these great plans for, you know, moving off onto clean energy and all those good things that we all thought we were going to— all thought was going to happen in the '70s. But I really recommend this if you're looking for, like, the inspiration for the previous Design Science Decade, which is exactly like this one from what I understand. It's Moving that ball forward and really embracing the science.

Thank you for sharing that.

Thank you, thank you. I'm sorry if I'm rambling on. I keep saying I'm gonna go and you keep letting me talk longer.

And, you know, I just, I just like, I have a feeling your family's on the other side of the door like waiting for dinner or something for your birthday.

We have, we have reservations at 5:30. We're good.

Okay, they're already at the cake by now. Again, thank you so much for Thank you. What a wonderful way to start the day on this very launch of Regenera into the heart of the Regenescence and the sharing of story, this co-creation of mythos, this mythic operating system that we are growing into and learning about and opening our hearts to. What a beautiful thing to have happen. And I gotta tell you, I don't want to leave. And I we we're I'm still here if you're still here. Strupi just arrived. Hi, Strupi.

Strupi's here, Patricia. Hi, Strupi. It's Patricia's birthday today, Strupi. Yeah. Birthday. Happy birthday. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, it took me so long to get here. I don't know. I was lost and oh sorry about that. Yeah. problem. But I, I, I got the last part, and I'm glad you, uh, you got this opportunity here to share your book.

I'm still waiting for it in the mail. So, you know, we had, uh, Struppi—

we did a—

with Struppi and, um, A few others with Bret. We did a little test yesterday that was just beautiful. I hope we'll, we'll be doing that going forward. We were playing music together and telling stories through the weaving of the threads that were tugged through the music. And we're going to carry that on throughout the week. We've got Jurgis coming to join us on this journey of Regenera Rising. And we've got everybody painting and creating and just stepping into this space. It's been so lovely. But I am going to have to sign off. If anybody has anything else that they would like to share with us— Natalia, Esma, anybody—

Yeah, Patricia. I'd like to share the first time I've ever heard about Bucky. It was from my neighbor who was in the same program with Amanda Ravenhill. And she mentioned Bucky because I was continuously really frustrated that I think the fact that I have so many interests, and I'm like such an amalgam of passions that it absolutely adds to my overall genius, I would say, because it's a relationship that I can take from one discipline to the other. And I remember graduating art school and feeling like everyone was trying to push me into a category, into a specialization. And I felt like everyone was overwhelmed with a portfolio that had a range beyond my specialty. And this is when my friend Aubrey said, well, you need to read Bucky's work because this is what he's talking about. This is exactly just— this is you bumping against the world. So interesting because I've always been a participant, and I used to I used to show up for the world in such a in a way that to meet the expectations of it. But more journey that more self-discovery that I have gone on and through mostly art because it really put me into presence with myself and to the moment of. Being with my material, I just realized that it's really— it's beyond specialties and it's beyond focuses. We all kind of just go into that place where we apply our sense of curiosity and our ability to stay in present and create a relationship with what we are making in order to invent something new. And I— and in a way, I really feel like that spun the entire journey of me ending up here today. So thank you, Patricia, for your talk. It's just so inspiring. And every time I hear Bucky's quotes and his ways, it just makes me so inspired to be alive. And to be part of this world.

Thank you. Thank you. Yes, he did say that we were entering our final examination. So I think we all get to be here at crunch time. And, and of course, the reincarnationists would say that we all chose to be here. So let's strap on the— and actually, one thing I want to say, the whole battle thing about like weaponizing us with the creative, with the co-creation thing. We need to lose the weaponizing part and really either get people to embrace the word livingry. So we're talking about— he talked about, yes, stop investing all this money in weaponry and instead invest in livingry. You know, have those military ships filled with food and vaccines and cargo and turn our military into a living reservices organization. How would that be as a way to win friends around the world?

Yeah.

Hey, one other thing can I say? Can I just take one more minute? I promise I'll be fast. But if there's anybody working on floating homes specifically, or how to make ocean rise and sinking lands work in a community— I'm in a very progressive Northern California town Uh, we have a 26-year-old mayor who's looking to make his mark in the world and a climate action plan which called for a big wall, called for a huge seawall. And the residents who would be looking at the seawall absolutely flipped out and threatened lawsuits saying, you're going to cost us our property values. So we're ripe to have somebody come in with a beautiful vision for a floating community, not unlike maybe Sausalito, or there's a Greenbrae Boardwalk as well. So anybody who wants to really try to put Bucky's ideas to work in real life, send me an email and I will put you in touch with our super mayor, our 26-year-old kid who's trying to, you know, lead the world on climate adaptation. And I'm in Marin County, north of San Francisco, and we do have, you know, we have the resources here. We've got the financial capability to do some cool stuff.

It'd be a good prototype. Yeah, excellent. So thank you for that invitation. I'm sure it will echo in the world out there throughout the Unisphere and will be heard if it's not already being worked on.

And I am going to take off for now. I promise to come back. Stephanie, let me— so I know you're here, and I actually signed on as a registrant, so I'm also a student, and I will be checking in at every available time. It is kind of a busy week for me. I also sell real estate, and the market's booming, so I am going to be moving around a lot, but I will check in when I can. And Stephanie, if you want to set me up for a specific time again, I'll be glad to to do that too. Thank you all so much. Thank you. You, you made my birthday. Thank you for listening.

What a treat for all of us to have this.

Thank you.

All right, Patricia, take care. Thank you for joining us.

Oh, your email. Can you just stick your email back in there one more time?

Oh, on the chat thing?

Yeah, yeah. Thank you so much.

So while Patricia's doing that, I just want to again thank you all for hanging out Beaming and just like, look at the smiles. I just love it. It just feels so good to be together and to have experienced this time together and to reimagine what our hearts know is possible together. I'm going to say good night and thank you from Regenera. Till next time, tomorrow we'll see you all again. Love you. Bye.

Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Thank you. Bye. Take care.

Thank you all.