Planning a book, a graphic novel, and a TV series (in process).
Worldbuilding is the process of constructing a world, originally an imaginary one, sometimes associated with a fictional universe. Developing an imaginary setting with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, and ecology is a key task for many science fiction or fantasy writers. Worldbuilding often involves the creation of geography, a backstory, flora, fauna, inhabitants, technology and often if writing speculative fiction, different races. This may include social customs as well as invented languages for the world. — Wikipedia: Worldbuilding
On Saturday morning, I was considering how I could turn my eureka moment or epiphany last Wednesday into a plan for The Book of Soul, a story about Luna Solterra. David Vandas once said to me, “Clarity is kindness.” This is a brief summary of the theme, setting, characters, and plot of the story.
Luna Solterra and the Book of Soul
His Dark Materials meets The Little Mermaid.
Theme
The wonder of being alive and the possibilities of imagination:
Spirit as the medium for connecting mind with time: cognition.
Soul as the medium for connecting heart with energy: emotion.
Senses as the medium for connecting body with matter: action.
Self as the observer (senses, spirit, and soul) and participant in reality (time, energy, and matter): perception.
The puzzle about the disconnect between gravitational physics and quantum mechanics is solved by recognizing the disconnect between opposing forces in the universe, symbolized by the separation of male and female and the conflict between feminine and masculine energies, known as yin and yang in Eastern philosophies.
Searching for love in all the wrong places: in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, researchers are surprised to discover that the call is coming from inside the house.
Theory of Everything
Discovering the theory of everything is the domain of a world dominated by men who are focused only on enhancing, accelerating, and amplifying the mind and escaping the body. They are single-mindedly focused on building a world of hyper-rationality that seeks perfection in absolute truths and the rule of law.
Wonder of Being Alive
The wonder of being alive transcends this myopia of self-imposed, willful blindness by reconnecting people to the full experience of multiple senses, reintegrating mind, heart, body, and soul with the joy of living and connecting in the playground of love.
Setting
A conversation between the Earth and the self, represented by one’s inner children: Luna Solterra (light feminine, senses, perception, mermaid), Theodore aka Ted (dark masculine, mind, cognition, otter), Nueva (dark feminine, heart, emotion, octopus), and Circ (light masculine, body, action, dolphin). They live in the spheres of light radiating from stars and the waves of gravity holding the universe together, swimming in an ocean of love.
Characters
Theodore (mind), the time-travelling otter (time)
Nueva (heart), the world-weaving octopus (energy)
Circ (body), the magical dolphin (matter)
Luna Solterra (spirt, soul + senses), the astrophysicist mermaid (universe)
Plot
What happens when you bring together a time traveller, a world weaver, a magician, and an astrophysicist? What happens if they are an otter, an octopus, a dolphin, and a mermaid? What if this is the vivid imagination of a lucid dreamer, Luna Solterra, who discovers herself in a world that connects time, energy, and matter with the possibilities of imagination and love? Somehow, everything is connected. The water they are swimming in is the same water that everyone else is swimming in, but they cannot see it. Why is the water invisible to everyone else, but visible to her?
The fate of the world depends on humans being able to connect to this invisible world of the possibilities of imagination and love.
Qualis
Experiencing the wonder of being alive by connecting to the full range of senses.
Life as an Interface
Integrating mind, heart, body, and senses with time, energy, and matter to create life.
Inner + Outer Architecture
Luna Solterra is connecting and co-creating with a community of artists, designers, and architects to form an Institute for Inner and Outer Architecture. This logo concept integrates the symbol phi and embodies the solar system and a thirteen-moon calendar (13 months of 4 weeks = 364 days) that integrates the 108 forms of metaphysical gravity that we know as love and that we can sense with the body, mind, and heart through senses, spirit, and soul to fully experience the wonder of being alive.
The physical is a metaphor for the metaphysical. The solar system is a map of the heart. The Sun, Moon, and Earth have been communicating with us the whole time. It took some time to learn the languages that they are speaking: the language of the senses. As with the course of the Earth around the Sun, it just seems like we are going around in circles, not really going anywhere. The journey is the destination. The community is the project. We are designing our own experience, co-creating by growing new senses and learning to fully embody the wonder of being alive.