Introducing Meta-Visionary Fiction Part 2 – Gordon Kierle-Smith

In the first article introducing Meta-Visionary Fiction two weeks ago, we briefly presented the multiple facets of Meta-Visionary Fiction and how its precepts were initially applied in Genesis Antarctica (GA) and now fully developed in Revelation Antarctica (RA).

The concept behind the genre is to create works that are “as real as you need them to be”. This means adding additional “authentic” material to the multiple storylines presented as newspaper articles, website pages, interview transcripts and several other formats. These are supplemented by regular narratives, dialogues and verbatim transcripts as well as more than 180 documents, visuals or illustrations.

Revelation Antarctica begins with a two page article explaining “How to Read This Book” (see below). It summarises the key insights readers need to get the most out of the book and its 12 diverse parallel storylines. It is perhaps worth mentioning that fortunately, bringing this book together did not involve a great deal of pre-planning. “Items” (rather than “chapters”) came to mind in what seemed to be a largely random order. In view of this, it appears logical to give readers the option of experiencing the reading process in a similar way.

This is why the two page “How to Read This Book” guide was almost one of the last items to be written.

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Excerpt – Revelation Antarctica

How to Read This Book

You may find this a rather strangely titled preface to a book. How to read it? You just start at the beginning and carry on reading until you get to the end. Then, you close it and put it down, don’t you? All very linear. Like “time” itself.

You can do that, of course…

But you don’t have to.

The complex theories associated with quantum physics put forward over the years suggest the linear way we experience the procession of time may be an illusion. For everything we believe to have been, to be or to become may all “happen” at once. While every incident within each happening can also have an infinite number of origins and/or ultimate outcomes.

Understanding this is a key element in the changes we must all undergo to acknowledge our ability to shape reality as we define it. Accepting we are the gods of our own universes… setting our own agendas with everything we do and every thought we think.

Therefore, if we claim to defend the concept described above, it would surely be totally inconsistent to present a book requiring you to start at page 1 and read all the way through until you get to the last page.

Particularly when a whole book in itself is such a beautiful metaphor for the aspect of quantum physics that states everything happens at once. Just holding an unread book is like having a whole universe in your hand. Everything is possible. It is there, all at once, “sleeping” on those pages until you quicken everything, just by reading them.

Any attempt at representing the infinity of variations to every thread is, of course, impossible in a physical book with a finite number of pages. However, we can get a glimpse of the “time is an illusion” aspect of quantum physics and its “all outcomes are possible” potential by removing a book’s conventionally linear “one page after another” structure.

This allows you to create your own reality by drawing on its entire content and discovering what kind of revelation it generates. One thing is certain; it will have the potential of being highly individual and meaningful for readers as they discover the true meaning of the epithet “as real as you need it to be…”

How it works

In fact, there are 4 ways of reading Revelation Antarctica:

N° 1: Sequentially. This means reading the 99 Items one after another, from cover to cover.

N° 2: Storyline sequences. These are 12 sets of Items allowing you to follow the major storylines running through the books plus several additional “Background” items.

N° 3: Pick and Mix. This involves following your intuition and reading the Items in whatever order feels right for you.

N° 4: Random sequencing. This is the ultimate “quantum” experience. You can determine the order in which you read the 99 Items in a variety of different means.

The book explains how to do all this, but whichever approach you choose, it is rather humbling to bear in mind there are:

933,262,154,439,442,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000

End of excerpt