Halcyon Imagines

Imagining reinventing humanity by reinventing time

 

"As a species, we can never know where our true potential lies until we confront the systems that keep us tied to the past. And that is where the true adventure will begin" - Thomas Frey

What if our current clock-centric systems are a major contributor to human health problems, meaning that we live shorter lives, produce less, and are involved in more high-stress and high-anxiety situations simply because of our rigid dedication to a time system that governs every single moment of our lives?

And what if we could change this?

Imagining drawing on three thousand years of wisdom...

"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth", so said Goethe, as quoted in Jostein Gaarder's philosophy primer-cum-mystery novel Sophie's World.

Like AC Grayling cutting across the "-ologies", Halcyon is convinced that our framework for making sense of the world is best underpinned by a strong grounding in historical narrative. 

One example: without such interdisciplinary curiosity, how could we appreciate why Tolstoy had Pierre felt that he must try and kill Napoleon, even while Beethoven and many of the 19th century Romantic intelligentsia were waiting in the wings in adoration of the little corporal?

Imagining the flow of history...

 

...passing by, empire by empire, until, Ozymandias-like, all empires crumble in the dust.

Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.