Transformative Metafiction – Writing Reality into Existence
Living the Parable of the Rosebush and rEvolution Z
What if a story wasn’t just a story? What if, instead of simply observing the world, fiction could change it—mold reality itself? Welcome to Parable of the Rosebush: rEvolution Z, a unique journey where narrative meets reality in a groundbreaking form of storytelling: Transformative Metafiction.
What Is Transformative Metafiction?
Transformative metafiction is more than just speculative fiction or visionary fiction. It’s more than just a novel. It’s a living, breathing manuscript that exists not only to tell a story but to create one in the real world. This isn’t the kind of fiction that lets you sit back and consume passively. This is participatory, urgent, and real. It’s a story that acts as both a blueprint and a catalyst, writing reality into existence as it unfolds.
The Vision Behind Parable of the Rosebush
In the spirit of Octavia Butler’s prescient works, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, my story picks up in 2024 and continues through the decade, and beyond, capturing the current of change as it happens. Butler’s protagonists taught us that “God is Change” and that we have the power to shape Change. In Parable of the Rosebush: rEvolution Z, I take this idea and expand it to the collective scale. This is not just one person’s journey—it’s our journey, your journey, weaving fiction and reality into a single thread.
“We are crew, not passengers, strengthened by acts of consequential service to others”
Kurt Hahn, founder of Outward Bound.
A Story That Transforms Reality
rEvolution Z is more than a story about rEvolution; it is an active step in the rEvolution itself. As readers, you are participants, not spectators. The narrative challenges you to think beyond the traditional hero’s journey where one savior conquers all. Instead, this story brings us to a new model—a Collective Hero’s Journey. In this journey, the hero is not an individual but humanity itself, rising as one global tribe, what I call Geotribal Consciousness.
The Parable of the Rosebush: rEvolution Z aims to:
Illuminate the forces of Moloch (S.C.I.M.—scarcity, competition, misaligned incentives) that manifest in the interconnected crises of the Metacrisis—climate change, political instability, systemic inequality, and environmental destruction—that define our present.
Write into existence the reality of overcoming Moloch by shifting toward a new paradigm rooted in abundance, cooperation, and aligned incentives (A.C.A.I.).
Showcase the power of conscious evolution, where we actively choose to "come from the future we want"—a future defined by collaboration, innovation, adaptability, and regeneration.
Engage you, the reader, in participatory storytelling that shifts mindsets and spurs real-world action.
Why This Story, Why Now?
Today’s world is teetering on the edge of systemic collapse and potential renewal. This isn’t news; it’s the reality we face. But we don’t have to be passive witnesses to this unraveling. We can choose to be active participants in shaping what comes next. rEvolution Z is an urgent response to this moment, blending the power of storytelling with real-world action to create a map for navigating the coming transformation.
In the words of Butler’s protagonist, Lauren Olamina: “All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you.” The world is changing, and so are we. With this transformative metafiction, we touch reality and invite it to change with us.
How You Can Be Part of rEvolution Z
This story invites you not just to read but to reflect, act, and create alongside it. Each chapter is a stepping stone on our shared journey toward a post-capitalist, post-monetary world—a world that transcends outdated hierarchies and embraces a new, regenerative paradigm. Here, we return with the elixir of new understandings, only to ascend to a higher plane: Geotribal Consciousness, where humanity thrives as one interconnected whole.
What’s Next?
Over the coming weeks and months, I will be releasing chapters that will challenge and inspire you to think, act, and evolve. This isn’t just a literary experience; it’s an invitation to co-create the story of our time—a story that does more than document history. It writes the future into being. Are you ready to be part of the rEvolution Z story? Are you ready to help write reality into existence?.
"If you do nothing, nothing will change. If you think we can't change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will". Jacque Fresco, The Venus Project,
The Antidote to Dystopia
Drawing from the urgent warnings of Octavia Butler and the ruptures we face in today’s world—powerfully captured in Umair Haque’s recent article The Rupture—rEvolution Z emerges as an antidote to dystopia. Instead of resigning ourselves to a narrative of decline, this project embodies syntropia: the natural movement toward harmony, complexity, and interconnectedness that sustains life.
Haque’s article outlines a stark vision of the dystopian path we risk treading if we remain passive—a world of collapse, fragmentation, and perpetual despair, feeding on itself as a self-fulfilling prophecy. It’s a sobering reminder of what happens when we allow narratives of decline to dominate our collective consciousness.
But we can choose a different path. The Parable of the Rosebush: rEvolution Z stands as a powerful call to action, reminding us that we hold the pen to write our own story. This story is rooted in syntropia, the principle that life, when nurtured, moves toward cooperation, harmony, and regenerative growth. It embodies what our world could look like when we consciously commit to fostering these qualities and moving beyond mere survival to a state of thriving interconnectedness.
We can’t wait for tomorrow or rely on existing systems to shift on their own. We must begin writing—and enacting—that story of syntropia in real time, today. This isn’t just an act of hope; it’s an act of creation. It’s the choice to steer away from dystopia and craft a future rooted in abundance, cooperation, and shared resilience.
The rupture exists, yes. But so does the opportunity to mend, to heal, and to rEvolutionize the way we live together on this planet. The story we choose to tell and the actions we take now will determine whether we succumb to dystopia or rise together in syntropia.
So, let’s “Say No to Dystopia” and get involved. Let’s start being part of rEvolution Z and write our way to the world we want to see—a world that we can begin building, one step, one story, and one collective action at a time.
Welcome to rEvolution Z and the more beautiful world we know is possible.
