The World Future Society's 2014 conference in Orlando focused on the theme 'Terra Nova: The Religious Quest for Tomorrow,' examining the evolution and future of religious thought and its role in shaping humanity. Panels discussed the spiritual imagination and its potential to inspire transformative visions for the future, while highlighting historical references such as the ancient site Gobekli Tepe. The event also showcased the integration of arts and media in fostering social change through immersive experiences and collaborative projects.

1. World Future Society
Orlando, FL, July 13, 2014
Terra Nova: The Religious Quest for Tomorrow
Download slides: http://www.jaygary.com/terranova14.pdf #WFS14 @drjaygary
World Future Society, Orlando, FL, July 13, 2014

2. Religious Futures:
34 year retrospect
1980 First Global Conference on the Future, WFS, Toronto 1980
1981 Religious Futurists’ Network (JSAC- NCC)
1987 The Future of Muslim Civilization, by Zia Sardar
1988 World Network of Religious Futurists
1992 The Temples of Tomorrow by Kirby & Brewer
1999 ChristianFutures.com, by Jay Gary & Todd Johnson
2002 Integral Futures, Richard Slaughter, Ken Wilber
2003 Futurizing the Jews, by Moshe Dror & Tsvi Bisk
2006 Regent University, MA & Strategic Foresight, DSL
2008 IFTF, Faith in the Future, Bob Johansen
To advance the
knowledge & practice of
• Futures Studies in Religion
• Religious Studies in Futures
wnrf.orgRabbi Dr.
Moshe Dror
(1934-2011)
Rev. Dr.
Richard Kirby
(1949-2009)

3. Explore the Future of
Religion

4. WNRF.org
@WNRFuturists

5. Terra Nova 2:00-3:15 pm
Whether it is Teihard de Chardin's 'omega point,' Barbara Marx
Hubbard's 'conscious evolution,' Ken Wilber's 'integral theory,'
Ziauddin Sardar's 'Islamic science' or Pope Francis' exhortation to
simplicity, the religious imagination continues to reframe our quest
toward transformation. This panel will share how the spiritual quest
for "terra nova" is expressed in their own futures work through…
* Mashups in Motown with rap and social entrepreneurs
* Immersive storytelling in Hollywood that merges media platforms
* Creation of new paradigms for a post-terrestrial world.

6. It is the Year 2149
IT IS THE YEAR 2149.
Overpopulation and pollution have
overtaken our world. In search of a
better tomorrow, scientists stumble
upon a temporal rift, allowing for
waves of human pilgrimages back in
time to reshape the world anew, 85
million years ago on Earth.

7. Terra Nova FOX TV

8. Terra Nova means New Land
• The dream to recreate our world
and reframe our quest toward
tomorrow, however, has been alive
for millennia across our globe.
• We are only now beginning to
uncover its spiritual roots in the
human past.

9. Gobekli Tepe
Archaeologists have unearthed the world’s oldest Temple, 10,000 B.C.

10. It predated the Agriculture Age, the Wheel, and Domestication of animals
Gobekli Tepe

11. Was Gobekli Tepe our
1st Futures Observatory?
• Created by nomadic Hunter-Gatherers, and continued
for 25 generations.
• We may never know all what happened, but we can
say at Gobekli Tepe our ancestors so stretched their
horizons so to transform all their tomorrows.
• They went onto create the Neolithic Revolution to bring
about permanent human settlements across the Fertile
Crescent.

12. Horizons of the Future
• Immediate future (1 yr.)
• Near-term future (1 - 5 yrs.)
• Middle-range future (5 - 20 yrs.)
• Long-range future (20 - 100 yrs.)
• Distant future (100 - 1,000 yrs.)
• Far-distant future (3 trillion yrs. out)

13. Toward the Year 3000

14. As we engage the 21st century…
• is the religious imagination for Terra Nova still
strong enough to inspire us to create new worlds?
• Or has religion itself become so codified in
declining empires and economies that it has lost
its creative quest for Terra Nova and beyond?

15. Panel
Alex
McManus
Lane
Jennings
Mang. Editor,
WFR
Ed Lantz
Kate McCallum

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Terra Nova:The Religious Quest for Tomorrow
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Ed Lantz
Vortex Immersion Media, Inc.
IMERSA, Inc.
ed@vorteximmersion.com
www.vorteximmersion.com
www.imersa.org
Kate McCallum
c3: Center for Conscious Creativity
kate@consciouscreativity.com
www.consciouscreativity.org

17. “Creating a Better FutureThrough
Arts & Media”
The c3: Center for Conscious Creativity, founded in 2004, is a 501(c)(3)
non-profit research and education arts organization whose mission is to
support and catalyze the transformational power of arts, media and
entertainment at a personal, social and global level.
The c3 fosters an ecosystem of positive change by
bringing scientists, futurists and thought leaders
together with artists, storytellers, content creators and
advanced media technologists in workshops, classes,
screening salons, think thanks, and an annual
symposium. Resulting art and media projects benefit
from c3's online community resources, grants, fiscal
sponsorship and partnerships such asThe Millennium
Project, a Global FuturistThinkTank. Projects are then
showcased and disseminated by c3 and other arts and
media partners to influence lasting change on a
personal, social and global scale.
c3 maintains offices and access to TheVortex
Dome, a 50 foot immersive fulldome theater
at Los Angeles Center Studios

18. Kate
McCallum
c3 Founder &
Executive Director
Producer,Writer
Transmedia Consultant
@katemccallumc3
www.consciouscreativity.org
www.bridgeartsmedia.com
TV
Feature Films
Movies for TV
Music
Books
Visual Music
Music Videos
Magazines
Social Media TV
360 Fulldome
Web Content
Opera
Events
Immersive
Cable
Future

19. Philosophical Research Society

21. c3 Maintains www.consciouscreativity.org Website

22. In 2004 c3 partnered with the
SCWC to program and produce
“New Story Paradigm and the
Future of Content” as an LA
offering. We designed panels
and brought in speakers who
addressed new trends in
storytelling and also those
involved in using media and arts
for personal and social
transformation.

23. Since 2006 the c3 has offered an online social networking
platform,The c3: Creative Collective, free to artists, content
creators, futurists and those interested in the mission of c3.
Currently over 1000 members worldwide.

24. Besant Lodge in Hollywood
Through the generous
support of Dr. Stephen
Hoeller, the c3 launched and
produced a series of events
such as; concerts, talks,
screenings, etc. called the
“Second Saturday Salons”
in the Besant Lodge,
Hollywood
July 2007 to December 2008

26. www.millennium-project.org
November 2009 Partnered with The Millennium Project
to create a Global Arts & Media Node

27. June 2010 Los Angeles
Center Studios

28. State of the Arts 2010
Launches with LA Opera
& RingFest LA
Kenji Williams presents “Bella Gaia”
in theVortex Dome
LeVar Burton & Artists Speak about the importance of art
Key Sponsor
How can arts and media make a better world?

29. 2010 Established the c3: LABS

30. c3: VisionLAB 2011 Chapter 13 the Future of...

31. State of the Arts 2011:
Tim Kring
FutureVision 2011
Award to Tim Kring
Fulldome Showcase:
Entertainment by
League of Steam
Ken Kragen of
We Are the World
Jerome Glenn,
Executive Director of
the Millennium Project
with Producers Panel
Producing Change
with the PGA: Producers Guild of America New Media Council
Panel Discussion and Think Tank

32. 2011
Think
Tank
Project

33. In 2012 c3 received acknowledgement of its official 501(c)3
status and its first major grant of $50,000 from the Charles
Evans Foundation to fund the creation of an original 360
immersive ballet themed around women’s rights which
premiered in TheVortex Dome during the
STATE OF THE ARTS 2013 Symposium
c3: CreateLAB 2012

34. Choreographer, Stefan Wenta &
Digital Artist,Audri Phillips
BLUE APPLE
360 Immersive Ballet

35. State of the Arts 2012
Fulldome Showcase:
Blue Apple Immersive Ballet
LA Metro and the Future
of Los Angeles
FutureVision Award 2012
Mythic Challenges
EMA
AMPLIFY! with the Electronic Music Alliance

36. c3: MindLAB

37. State of the Arts 2013
The Future of Fulldome
with
IMERSA: Immersive Media Education Research
Sciences and Art
FutureVision Award 2013
FUTURESTATES.tv
Fulldome Showcase
Presentations & Panel

38. TWOVISIONS
ONEVOICE
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c3: CreateLAB
AIR: Artist In
Residence Launches
2010
Incorporated images
from
Clark Planetarium
in live performance

40. www.theartofsoundgallery.com
360 Art & Music
Label

41. Aaron Alexrod’s
MELTING RAINBOWS
360 Fulldome Film
360 Live
Performance

43. Amrita Sen &
Anthony Marinelli
Premieres at
SOA 2012

44. Pasion
CEREMONY 360Visual Music Concert

45. c3: Center for Conscious Creativity
Project Partner Program Launched 2013
c3 provides fiscal sponsorship and project support through the Project Partner program.
Individuals apply for consideration then join the program up review and acceptance of c3
Board and Staff. c3 currently supports four projects to date and seeks to continue offering
and growing out services to artists and relevant projects.
The House is Black
A multimedia project inspired by the life and works of Iranian icon, poet and filmmaker,
Forough Farrokhzad, presented at CAP UCLA created by Sussan Deyhim.

46. Nike Dome
Super Bowl 2012
Super Bowl 2013
Primary
Sponsor

47. My Story
Artist /Writer/Inventor
Hollywood, Florida
Masters in Engineering w/
Quantum Physics Tennessee
Tech University
Aerospace Engineer
Melbourne, Florida
Planetarium Engineer
Cocoa, Florida

48. My Story
Immersive Theater Engineer
Chadds Ford, PA
Cable Television Pioneer!
Philadelphia, PA
Immersive Media Producer
& Entrepreneur
Los Angeles, CA

49. My Story
Interfaith Minister
Celebratory Drummer,
Ritualist, Producer
Writer, Speaker
Socially Beneficial Organizations,
Networking and Events

50. Large-scale, real-time interactive
group immersive environments
Immersive Cinema
Digital Dome or “Fulldome” Theater

51. Digital Dome Growth Markets
1000+ Digital Dome Screens Worldwide
Digital Planetariums
Giant Screen
Digital Cinema
Themed Entertainment
Events Domes
Portable Planetariums

52. Shared Immersive Experience

53. Vortex Dome
Los Angeles Center Studios
!
Next-generation immersive cinema events
venue and development studio
!
Venue Specifications:
Diameter
External: 50’
Internal w/video screen): 45’ 9”
Floor Area: 1,963 sq. ft.
Standing Capacity: 280
Theater Seating Capacity: 120

54. Digital Domes Worldwide
0"
100"
200"
300"
400"
500"
600"
700"
800"
900"
1000"
1100"
1200"
1300"
1997" 1998" 1999" 2000" 2001" 2002" 2003" 2004" 2005" 2006" 2007" 2008" 2009" 2010" 2011" 2012" 2013"
Number'of'Theaters'
Year'Opened'
GS"Film"Theaters"
IMAX"Theaters"
Digital"Domes"

55. Morrison Planetarium
California Academy
of Arts and Sciences
San Francisco, CA
Hayden Planetarium
Rose Center for Earth and Space
American Museum of Natural History
New York, NY
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Alexandria, Egypt
Papalote Museo del Niňo
Mexico City
Sampling of Digital Domes
Shanghai
Science Center
Shanghai, China

56. Sheikh Zayed #
Grand Mosque#
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Temple Mount#
Haram al-Sharif #
Jerusalem
Temples, Mosques and Cathedrals
Cathedral of Notre Dame
Paris, France

57. Modern Cathedrals of Science and the Imagination
● Powerful Surround Visuals and Sound
● Experiential Storytelling Journeys
● SciVis combined with Art, Music
● Promotes Scientific and World View
● Secular and Multicultural
● Millions of Visitors Annually
Modern Digital Planetarium

58. Fulldome Planetariums allow Navigation through a
Scientifically Accurate Model of the Known Universe
Images Courtesy SCISS AB
www.scalingtheuniverse.com
Carter Emmart, Director of Astrovisualization at
the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose
Center for Earth and Space
Digital Planetariums

59. Immersive Education
Over 1200
digital domes
in the world
c3: CreateLAB
in TheVortex Dome

60. LasVegas - Downtown Project

61. An experience that substantially alters a person’s
“possibility space” or life path
● Discovering new facts, cultures, connections
● Epiphany, realization, revelation
● Spiritual, numinous, or “unity” experience
● Awakening to empathy, compassion, love
● Often triggered by new friends, social circles
● Trauma, loss, fear, etc. can also be transformative
transformed world view = transformed world
Transformative Media

62. ● Art can be seen as the evocation or transmission of unique
neural states
● The performing artist’s instrument is the audience’s
nervous systems
● The conscious artist must therefore be mindful of the
audience’s experience
● The artist cannot easily evoke a state of consciousness
that they themselves cannot maintain
● Therefore the artist’s prime directive is to:
a. Attain unique/useful/entertaining moods or states of consciousness
b. Consciously evoke these neural states in their audience through
their craft
Conscious Creativity

63. Mindfulness Exercise In the
Vortex Dome 2012

64. Seven Pillars Journey of Wisdom

65. Seven Pillars Journey of Wisdom

67. James Hood’s CEREMONY

68. Digital Spa
Vidarium by LivinGlobe

69. The Digital Spa’s Purpose is Simple:
Deliver Experiences that Make People Feel
Better
and Promote Wellness
!
How?
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Provide powerful immersive experiences that are:
● Soothing, relaxing, inspiring, healing
● Meditative, contemplative, beautiful
● Energizing, invigorating, awe-inspiring
● Transformative, uplifting
Digital Spa

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ThankYou!
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Ed Lantz
Vortex Immersion Media, Inc.
IMERSA, Inc.
ed@vorteximmersion.com
www.vorteximmersion.com
www.imersa.org
Kate McCallum
c3: Center for Conscious Creativity
kate@consciouscreativity.com
www.consciouscreativity.org

71. Terra Nova as a spirituality
Terra Nova as a spirituality of the future
can be defined as the concern of all who
feel drawn toward the fullness of humanity
and, in tum, allow their lives to be
transformed by their relationship with the
Absolute, however that may be defined.

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73. World Future Society
Orlando, FL, July 13, 2014
Terra Nova: The Religious Quest for Tomorrow
Download slides: http://www.jaygary.com/terranova14.pdf
World Future Society, Orlando, FL, July 13, 2014