Proposal to Speak at the Science and Consciousness Conference

Science and Consciousness Conference 2008

Title: Building Sacred Arcology: Gaia Reverence and Science

Length: two hours

Doctress Neutopia will present her thesis that at its core the Gaia science theory has a religious dimension and a global ethic. Using a Powerpoint slide show, she will present the theory in terms of Gaia not only evolving into a “global brain,” manifesting throughout the Internet, but managed by what Buckminster Fuller called a world management committee. Gaia reverence/science (Gaia RS) calls for an archetypal shift in architecture moving us from a world that is being destroyed by urban sprawl to building a network of solar-powered, sacred arcologies (the fusion of architecture and ecology) on Earth and in Outer Space as a way to transcend our critical problems.

The second phase of the workshop morphs into a place of Gaia reverence as we collectively design a Gaia ritual to birth into existence the psychic, inner infrastructure needed to build sacred arcology. Applying Barbara Marx Hubbard’s Wheel of Cocreation, we will focus on the sacred arcology at the hub of the wheel of conscious evolution. We will visual sacred arcology founded upon patterns of sacred geometry. Galileo Galilei wrote, “You cannot understand the universe without learning first to understand the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its letters are triangles, circles, and other geometric forms.” Perhaps we will even discover that the mysterious geometric messages of crop circles are cosmic blueprints needed to build a remarked new civilization of sacred arcologies.

Our goal is to acknowledge the role Gaia reverence/science plays in human survival and evolution.

Three Learning Objectives:

1. We will examine Gaia science in terms of its social/political/ religious dimension.

2. We will describe the spiritual story of the planet that is evolving us to a shared consciousness, planetary spirituality, and a just economic order where human rights are triumphant over “corporatocracy.”

3. We will feel our connection with the magnetic force field of Gaia opening up our chakra system and healing us with a holistic vision of world peace through building a network of sacred arcologies.

One line bio: Doctress Neutopia aka Libby Hubbard is a visionary who sees the world transforming into a network of arcologies on Earth and in Outer Space.

Bio: Doctress Neutopia aka Libby Hubbard, Ed.D is a futurist who is working on a video documentary about visionaries that include Barbara Marx Hubbard, Bruce Lipton, Alex Grey, Elizabeth Kucinich, and others.u She produces a weekly TV show, Lovolution Village, that addresses similar issues in Tucson, AZ. She was the last student to graduate with a doctorate in Future Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she concentrated in utopian thought before the program was terminated. For a year and a half, she worked and lived at Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri’s model arcology. Her poetry, essays, artworks, and videos can be seen on her website: www.lovolution.net.

The Arcology Model and Global Warming

Hello Folks,

I thought I would share with you several recent emails I've written in my quest for getting the message out about how a human rights based arcology could be a way for us to survive global climate change. Making arcology and the lovolution part of the global discussion about what to do has been an ongoing struggle. I continue to have faith that someday these ideas will make their way through the gate keepers of the alternative culture.

This letter is address to the founder of TED

Dear Richard Saul Wurman,

I’m reading a memoir of Scott Davis and your name came up on the manuscript. He met you when he worked at Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti. I, too, lived and worked at Arcosanti. My dissertation from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst called for the building a new archetype in architecture, arcology, as a way to solve our global environmental crisis. [online dissertation]

Since that time, I have continued to refine my vision of “sacred arcology,” and to envision a social architecture, or psychic infrastructure, necessary to make arcology a realistic democratic solution. My newest essay “The New Urbanism vs Sacred Arcology” is on how the new urbanism only leads us into the black hole of urban sprawl, while building a revolutionary model—arcology--could lead us on a road of harmony with nature and with each other. My goal is to bring arcology into the global debate on what to do about global climate change.

As I write this email to you, I’m hearing the news reports that one million people in southern California are becoming environmental refugees because of the wild fires. In The Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore says that in the near future we could have as many as 100,000 million refugees. When it comes time to rebuild, shouldn’t humanity try a new pattern of development that works in harmony with nature? Isn’t it time to construct an arcology for one million people?

I have a passionate sense that arcology can transform our world for the better. What I am asking of you is for help in exposing this vision to the public. I am a member of TED, but my role there is limited. How would I go about becoming a teacher of arcology there? For the past year, I’ve been hosting a cable access TV show, Lovolution Village, in which I teach about the virtues of arcology.

Also, I am in the process of making a video documentary on visionaries featuring Richard Register, Elisabet Sahtouris, Jacque Fresco, Thomas Berry, and others. Our theme is building utopia combining the ideas of many people. We are inspired by Barbara Marx Hubbard’s idea on the Wheel of Cocreation. All the various intellectual, social, spiritual, technological, scientific and artistic dimension of life make up the spokes of the wheel. At the wheel’s hub, we have placed an arcology. We are looking for funding and technological support to help us evolve the video further. If you have ideas on where we might look, please let us know.


Sincerely,

Libby Hubbard

Aka Doctress Neutopia

Solar Gaia Messiah

We are searching for the Solar Gaia Messiah
within us shining the light of love to all.

Solar Gaia Messiah teach us
the way to planetary management
so there is happiness and food for all.

We have lost the way to collective glory.
We have forgotten how to live for
social freedom and inner truth.

We have misused the resources of Earth
and now the air and water are cursed
with exploding atomic particles
disrupting our genetic codes.

We are the same mythology in many languages,
the same myth of the rising rays of star light
Solar God and Gaia Goddess
bring your invisible union in sight.

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This week I continue to hear the famous quote by Mahatma Gandhi, “Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it”. The quote inspires me during the day as I work at saving the planet. It seems as though nothing I do makes a difference. I realize that most of the universe is invisible to us, so I might be having an effect and I just can't see it.