In 1993 I was working with the former CEO of a company called MathSoft. He was attempting to create an educational software start-up, and since I had worked for him at MathSoft and had the necessary qualifications (M.S. in Computer Science), I joined him for about a year in this part-time effort. The first thing I worked on was an interactive scenario that would take place in the future, and allow the students to learn about mathematics and science in this futuristic context. In imagining this context, I picked a time several decades past the start of the new millennium. What I imagined was an entirely new society that had arisen in the midst of the collapse of pre-millennial corporations and national governments. Not surprising as a prediction, since it was clear to me, even before 1993, that governments and corporations were not working for the benefit of anyone but those who derived power and wealth from such institutions. It was evident that the disparity and polarization within global societies and environment change would engender apocalyptic catastrophe if human societies did not radically change.

So, at that time, I imagined how human social order would have to change, in order to avoid mass destruction and death of billions, and also preserve the knowledge, skills and technology that existed before the collapse of the old order. In 1993, the best approach I could imagine, was for us as a human species to recognize that we had to reinvent ourselves as a global family, to become true stewards of the planet, honoring all human beings, all life, and planet Earth herself as One Whole. All sentient beings, sovereign as individuals and sovereign as groups within greater groups, up to Gaia herself, all inclusive. I imagined these individuals and groups within groups up to six levels, with the Individual first, then Individual grouped as Family, Family grouped as Clan, Clan grouped as Tribe, Tribe grouped as Nation, and Nation grouped as World. Then I imagined each level of group having a binding covenant with all of its direct members, guiding the behaviors between the members and between the members and their containing group. Further, I imagined the activity Guilds intersecting all individuals and groups as guild members: Fire Guild, Earth Guild, Metal Guild, Water Guild, Wood Guild. The idea of Tribe and Nation was based on interpretations of similar concepts from the indigenous people in parts of North America (or Turtle Island, as it was referred to by some of them). The Family idea was based on the modern concept of the nuclear family extended across a greater number of "nested" levels, each level representing a group of holons.

In 2023, (30 years later) I experienced a spiriual awakening. Subsequently, I realized that my imagining of a future (pre-collapse to post-collapse) society and culture had morphed into a goal to support transition of humanity's ascension into a trancendent state. What was a simple brief descriptive narrative in 1993 is currently a conceptual outline of  what I now call Corpus Lucis Terrae (Latin for: The Light Body of the Earth). I originally called it Pan Terra Carta (supposedly to mean Whole Earth Charter) and then more recently Pan Gaia. The number of groups went from six to eight levels of "nesting".  When the number grew to eight, I added the Bā Guà  (eight trigrams, one for each level), each one adding a descriptive quality to its corresponding level. Each level also requires a Covenant that declares the right relationships between the level and its containing level. The Wǔ Xíng were part of the original conception as defining the archetypical qualities of the Guilds. 

Wǔ Xíng -> Wǔ Bù  (5 Forms => 5 Steps)

Bā Guà -> Bā Mén (8 Trigrams => 8 Gates)

 Bā Mén Wǔ Bù -> Shísān Shì (8 Gates 5 Steps => 13 Dynamics)