In the late 1980s, our friend Renie Wiley offered to progress us hypnotically into the future. Renie was an artist, not a professional hypnotist, but had practiced hypnosis on family and friends. She also had a soothing voice and an infallible relaxation technique.
We were sitting at the kitchen table in Tony Grosso’s trailer. Tony was also a psychic, a friend of Renie’s, and Rob’s co-author for The Rainbow Oracle, a book on color divination.
As Renie spoke, Trish suddenly saw herself as a tall woman, completely bald, living in a domed city, and began to describe what she was seeing.
“Why are the people living in domes?” Renie asked.
“It’s safer in the dome,” Trish replied. “Outside, the air is bad, it’s a wilderness.”
“Do all people live in domes?”
“Only the lucky ones. We aren’t many. There are a few other domes.”
“How old are you?”
“Late twenties.”
“Why’re you bald?”
“Genetic. We’re all bald.”
“What year is it?” Renie asked.
“I don’t know.”
It went on like this for several minutes, with Renie asking questions, Trish answering, and Rob coming out of the place he had been to ask other questions. Then that was it.Trish was deeply unsettled by this progression. It felt real, she could sense the texture and reality of this young woman’s life.
Not long afterward, we ran across Mass Dreams of the Future by Helen Wambaugh and Chet Snow. Dr. Wambaugh , a past-life regressionist for nearly thirty years, discovered at some point that she could progress people into their future lives.She began a painstaking project in France and the U.S. where she progressed 2, 500 people. She passed away before the project was completed, but Chet Snow finished the work and published the findings.
Most of the individuals who were progressed agreed that the population of the earth was vastly diminished. The futures they experienced fell into four distinct categories; a future that was sterile and joyless, where most people lived in space stations and ate synthetic food; a future in which people lived in harmony with nature and with each other; a post-nuclear future of survivalists; and a future in which people lived in underground cities enclosed by domes. We were stunned by the parallels.
Snow explained the four different scenarios as probabilities only, potential futures that we’re creating through our collective consciousness. He subsequently released a map of what the U.S. would look like after the “earth changes” that he believed would occur between 1998 and 2012.
Yet, he recommends that people visualize a more positive future. As he wrote in Mass Dreams, “If we are continually shaping our future physical reality by today’s collective thoughts and actions, then the time to wake up to the alternative we have created is now. The choices between the kind of Earth represented by each of the types are clear. Which do we want for our grandchildren? Which do we perhaps want to return to ourselves someday?”
We certainly don’t want this scenario – or any of the scenes that Wambaugh’s clients saw. Let’s strive for something much better than any of this.
Interesting experience Rob and Trish. Frightful idea though thinking of having to exist within these., Correction, only some of us existing.
I will keep my mind tuned into the "at one with nature" option. I always wondered if maybe after many more years of evolution, or more like adaptation, the image that comes to mind when we talk about "aliens", large bald head, big eyes, short, is actually us (humans) in the far, far future. Creepy, "everyone is bald" comment in Trish's vision.
Any disasters on the planet are just reflections of conflicts of a higher order. Escaping this planet or this life is no escape from war or disaster. Heavenly sequels to this life are temporary, at best. As above, so below. That was part of the message of the Emerald Tablet.
We're only vaguely aware of the 'greater' battles going on, the ones we get glimpses of in our mythologies. Simplistically, it's good vs. evil, dark vs. light. It's all part of the action on the path to the Source.
R
Mankind tends to be a little ego centrical when it comes to believing that only 'they' can make or break the world.
The fact is, that nature can far out do us in either of these modes. Think BIG BANG theory… think dinasaur extinction … think the last glacial event where 30% of the entire earth was covered with sheets of ice miles thick…think massive volcanic eruptions…think Tsunami's… think colliding solar systems… think death of our sun. It is inevitable that each and every travesty that I have mentioned above will be faced by our own earth at some point, unless we become proactive.
These new modified geodesic dome homes can be brought into existence for the simple reason that it makes good sense given our greater view of our volatile world and universe.
Still, the truth is that we humans can also wreak a fair share of destruction. Fact is, we are outgrowing our womb world and need to make preparations for moving on.
Think of the domes as a futuristic Noah's Ark. These have the potential to save not only we humans but all life as we have come to know it. As such, if we do what nature intends us to do with our brains, then we, the Noah's of the future, will be at one with nature and all living creatures of our world.
When I was in elementary school, I used to fantasize about how cool it would be for cities to be in domes. Don't know where I saw an artist drawing of a domed city, but it looked cool.
However, as I learned more about the idea behind a domed city in my adolescence, it became less cool, because it would mean that these domes only exist because it was too inhospitable for humans to live outside the dome.
Thus, when I heard Gore's passionate plea to the audience to join the movement to solve our environmantal / climate change crisis and how he mentioned that doing nothing now because we expect to be able to adapt to the new situation or that we might be able to settle Mars is unrealistic.
Unfortunately, humans are too short-sighted and tend to kill the visionary leaders or ignore the wisdom of the prophets. I personally would not want to live on this planet anymore if humans had to live in domed cities and could not travel outside the domes because of radiation.
Jen – fascinating that you've had an interest since you were so young! Maybe you live with your heart and mind in a different time!
This is so interesting. I have been secretly obsessed with the idea of dome-living from an early age.
It THINK it started when I was in 3rd grade (roughly 20 years ago now) and there was an article in our weekly "Scholastic Reader" about how scientists hypothesized that we could relocate to Mars and grow crops in large domes while filling the current Mars atmosphere with some kind of "Fog" with massive fog-making machines.
The "fog" would cloud over the atmosphere and eventually seal in the oxygen so that the domes could eventually be taken off of the crops which would in turn add more oxygen to the atmosphere making it possible for humans to one day live on Mars without domes.
Anyway, I think about life in domes all the time. A lot.
interesting follow-up dialogue on this!
Interesting about Gore, Sansego. & what a perfect response to compare Katrina and an inhospitable planet. Katrina was when the previous administration could no longer hide their fundamental incompetence.
Interesting about Gore, Sansego. & what a perfect response to compare Katrina and an inhospitable planet. Katrina was when the previous administration rerally revealed their fundamental incompetence.
This is very interesting! On Wednesday, I attended Gore's lecture on his latest book "Our Choice." At the end, he made a heartfelt plea for people to really think about the future of our planet and what we are doing to it. He even said that if you don't believe climate change is real, to support alternative energy and any measures to protect our environment because this is our only home.
He poked fun at people who claim that we could just find another planet to settle on or live in a space station by saying: "We couldn't even save the residents of New Orleans after a hurricane, so how would we be able to rescue ourselves from an inhospitable planet?"
He's such a visionary person that I wonder if he's also "seen" in a vision or meditation a devasted future where we live in domed cities.
LOL! Thanks!
If I had that type of encouragement 30 years ago, I might have worked on it then. Your post brought it from my memoires but I doubt I have the passion for it, to spend the effort to build that story world. Of course it would be a whole different world now. 🙂 I might brainstorm it a bit, to see if it fires anything interesting before I get into storyboarding the projects I already have waiting to rewrite…
The domed city concept was already part of the collective unconscious back in the 1970's where I lived in Cleveland, Ohio, and even at 17 I was saying 'bulls..t' to the possibility. My story then was to blow a hole in the need for personal bomb shelters. At that time, the future included an expectation that women in their 40's were gray haired, wearing housedresses and aprons.
The story to me then was no more than a personal assurance that I'd find a way out of the illusions, and take my children and others – with me. Which I did 5 years later by moving to NJ, which at that time, Cleveland was one of the few places to come from – where NJ was a step up. 🙂
Of course, now when I visit Cleveland, and Detroit, I "see" the dome that has so many trapped within. So instead of creating another world of illusion in story, I see my memoir as being the secret rebellion I'll bring to Cleveland since that's where a wonderful love story took place.
My research these past few years has revealed that many find the horror of being trapped in a domed city, or the eternal death of being a vampire, as less horrible than being a quadriplegic. 🙂
I'd be interested if you know of an Jungian quotes that relate to the human condition being willing to embrace being immortal preditors instead of spending a few decades in a wheelchair. LOL!!
Wow, Terri. This sounds like a fantastic novel. Forget the short story! Do the novel.
My senior year in high school(1977), I wrote a short story about a mother and her grown son who were starting an underground rebellion to escape from living in a domed city. The premise was these two knew the need for the dome and protective clothing was an illusion.
In my first draft, my writing teacher had issues with me stating the mother and son were able to pass as looking of the same age because a woman in her 40's would never pass for someone in their 20's. 🙂
So I expanded on the original premise and made the mom as an infiltrator within the dome, having spent most of her life "outside" and she sneaks into the dome to lead the revolt after learning her son is alive and inside…
Those inside age faster with no fresh air or living in harmony with the land as those outside do. Actually, the mom had to go into a seclusion for weeks to look gaunt and pale enough to pass for an insider.
I had this image of a smaller population in the country with most living in communities along the southern coast, and wider expanses between settled areas. Those isolated domed cities were mainly in the midwest & great lakes area.
Now from Vanessa's story above, I immediately got the idea that when the prisoners and insurgents were sent out in new protective clothing, never to return, it was because those "outside" rescued them. But only during the warmer months because during the winter months they remained in their more friendly environments.
Gee, I'm starting to like this story, maybe I should write it up. Or, maybe it's recently been written by someone else and I'll read it soon or see it in the theatre. 🙂
Anyhow, even though I also had a domed city dream/idea 30+ years ago it was also under the premise that it was an illusion maintained and chosen by fear and repression. Not everyone was rescued or escaped from the dome in the end. But the seeds of revolt and promise were sown within the dome…
really interesting your posting this now – for several weeks i have thought of doing a post on this very subject – the impact of visualization/intention and our future – the current 2012 doomsday media frenzy is constant – day and night – and at some point it becomes so ingrained – just as any desensitization – that it becomes what we expect and ultimately what we will receive – and that is not the world into which i wish to awaken on december 22, 2012 – nor which i wish for my children and their children and yours – so it is more than time now for OUR VISION to begin to materialize and only we can do that – individually and collectively –
and on the dome, since i was a very young child, i have "seen" the future domed city as well – i can remember being no more than 5 or 6 and "seeing" such a city – life self-contained such as it was – these cities were built upon stilts above the earth – all transportation air-borne – anyway, i totally agree with nancy and that's my plan!
and jeff's postulation is a very neat twist!!
– in any event, very very thought-provoking post – and so intriguing the progression work – great work, you two!
You're right on target, Nancy.
Interesting speculations, Jeff. I was astonished that Vanessa's dream seemed to parallel what I saw. Living in a dome sure didn't seem like much fun!
I prefer the people living in peace, love, and understanding scenerio. That's why I'm working on the alternative lifestyles project. I want to use it for a chapter in my book. I do believe we should start making some kind of plans for future living. Whatever happens in 2012, I want to envision a way of life that is respectuful and inclusive.
Very interesting! I wonder if those are examples of potential futures. Perhaps futures based on the intents and perceptions of certain people? Or maybe they are different pieces of a future, from different periods of time? Then again, maybe different people will experience the future in different ways. The people in the space stations and domes may be deceived into thinking it's absolutely necessary to live in those space stations and domes…a sort of big brother type lifestyle…while the other people are aware it isn't necessary to live in domes, and instead live in commune with nature.
Or perhaps it's all just a message to ourselves to avoid going down one particular path and choose a more positive path.
Wow, Vanessa. That dream sure seems to correlate with what I saw. You remembered a lot of details, too.
Nonfiction is easier to sell!
Oh my heavens. I had a very similar dream in 2001, which I remember because I made notes for a possible short story. Here are my exact notes:
Future.
Corp I work for has engineered protective body wear so that people can safely go outside the “dome.” Body wear is mandatory because the dome can't last forever, and because the radiation (from the Sun?) has cleared enough for us to go outside again.
But there is no oxygen; we have to carry our own and not let it get too low. This is scary because we didn't have to worry about it in the dome. The whole thing is scary because it's the end of life as we know it. All we knew was the dome.
There are even special covers for our eyes! Like contact lenses. And the body wear is like a second skin, to be worn all the time, even in water. There is extra padding for the breasts (to avoid cancer), and most of the women are thrilled with this.
Criminals are used to test the new body wear; they swim in a muddy ocean and never return.
The sixth great extinction?
[end of notes]
Also, thank you so much for the comment you left on my blog. I started and abandoned two novels, realizing my passion lies in writing nonfiction. I'm working on a self-help book right now, which I'm excited about because there's nothing quite like it on the market.