Everything you see in this photo is created by a human-made Gameworld...

A 'Gameworld' is 'a field of Commitment with an agreed upon Purpose, Context, Codex, and Rules of Engagement'.

Why don't you already know about Gameworlds?

Think about that question for a moment...

If understanding Gameworlds is as important as we claim, why haven't you ever studied Gameworlds in a class at school, even at the graduate level?

If you were designing a modern educational curriculum, why would you avoid including such a powerful subject as 'Gameworlds'?

Possibly it is due to simple ignorance... "We never thought of it before..."

On the other hand... Gameworlds are social organisms. Like any organism they try to defend themselves against being messed with.

A University is a Gameworld... If you were a University, would you empower your own customers (the students) to be able to reinvent your traditions, rules, context, and purpose? Probably not...

Not knowing a Distinction does not mean that the Distinction is not seriously influencing your life.

'Gameworld' is a distinction. Let's dive into this.

We human beings interact with each other through social systems called 'Gameworlds'.

Each Gameworld has a context, distinctions, values, rules-of-engagement (how to play the game), and an intended outcome.

For example, one Gameworld in modern culture is called Post Office. The way to play Post Office is to bring your package to a Post Office building. There you stand silently in line until one of the government workers has time to help you. You fill out the address form in the proper way including the Postal Code, then pay what they ask, and "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" slows the couriers from delivering your mail. The purpose of the Post Office Gameworld is to make a profit. How do you know? Because if the Post Office delivers your mail on time but does not make a profit this governmental service must be shut down or privatized.

In the Post Office Gameworld you might want to pay with a credit card. But Credit Card is a different Gameworld! How do you play the Gameworld called Credit Card? You hand the person behind the cash register a plastic card with your name and account number on it, and a microchip inside. Then your bank transfers numbers from your bank account into the Post Office bank account. However, to play in the Gameworld of Credit Card you must already be playing in the Gameworld called Bank Account.

And to play in the Bank Account Gameworld you must first be playing in the Earning Money to Survive Gameworld. How do you play in the money Gameworld? It is a religion. To play in the money Gameworld you need to Believe that certain papers and coins, and more recently, digits in a computer program, have value. Then you have to acquire some of these papers or digits. How? One way is to make an agreement with someone else who already has money to give you a certain amount of it per hour if you do whatever they tell you to do, even if you do not like what you are doing. Other ways to get money include spending your time and attention trying to own properties whose 'value increases', or to win at gambling games such as trading stocks and options, or investing in digital currencies or Non-Fungible Tokens.

The Earning Money to Survive Gameworld has the purpose of making profit for the company stockholders Gameworld, and for paying taxes to the government Gameworld so that the government can pay people to work in the Post Office Gameworld.

Most Gameworlds in modern culture are win-lose games played with the intention to 'maximize profit' through 'externalizing costs' to future generations, third world countries, or Gaia.

It turns out that if you change even one rule-of-engagement in a Gameworld you create an entirely new Gameworld. For example, the Gameworld of soccer uses one ball and two teams. If you added one more ball, or if you allow players to use bicycles, or whips, or if you add that each team can bring in one camel, it would change the Gameworld entirely.

This means that all the players in a Gameworld must agree to play by the rules-of-engagement of that Gameworld or they are not allowed to play in the Gameworld.

Put a tennis player into a soccer team and you end up with a net across the field.

In the Gameworld of soccer, whichever team puts the most number of balls into a net at the other end of the field 'wins'. But who really 'makes a profit' from soccer are the corporate owners of the team and the media advertisers during soccer games.

Human beings make up a Gameworld and then step into its Rules Of Engagement, and within seconds we start behaving as if the Rules Of Engagement are true! Even though a moment before we arbitrarily created the Rules out of nothing!

If you do not know that a Gameworld is a 'Gameworld', then you think it is reality. (It is not.)

If you think a Gameworld is real then you behave as if you are imprisoned in the Gameworlds of society. (You are not.)

You support the values of every Gameworld you play in.

Either you consciously design each Gameworld you live in, or you are used as an unconscious pawn in someone else’s Gameworld.

It’s not bad, being a pawn. Psychopaths need pawns… millions of them.

Taking Radical Responsibility for consciously designing, building, and inhabiting the Gameworlds you live in gives you so much freedom of movement that you become a Possibilitator, an Edgeworker, a Riftwalker, a Gameworld Builder.

Don't be left behind playing in a stupid Gameworld.

Gameworlds provide a specific Possibility.

The Space determines what is Possible.

The Context determines the Space.

The Distinctions determine the Context.

The Spaceholder determines the Distinctions.

To update R. Buckminster Fuller's oft repeated observation, we say, "You never change things by fighting against the existing Gameworlds. You change things by cavitating and inhabiting new Gameworlds that make the existing Gameworlds irrelevant."

Mr. Fuller originally said that building new Gameworlds makes the existing Gameworlds 'obsolete'... but by now it should be nauseatingly obvious to you that existing Gameworlds are already obsolete!

You want to create a project where you can work, play, and be with a like-minded team of social entrepreneurs, edgeworkers and change agents?

You are not sure if it is a training center, an alternative school program, an unconference, a nanonation, an educational community, or a not-for-profit?

You've probably heard the phrase (from the film Field Of Dreams): "Build it and they will come."

What you might not have heard is: "If you don't build it, nobody even has a chance to come!"

By building a Gameworld you take a stand for what you have taken a stand when you were born.

Your Gameworld is a platform where other people can co-create, with you, the more beautiful world your hearts know is possible!

There is a high cost to introducing new jargon. One man recently wrote:

"I'm curious why you're choosing to use the word 'Gameworld' when the word 'institution' already exists?

It seems a bit problematic to me in some ways:

• Using different language to commonly understood words makes Possibility Management more 'other' and hence less accessible.
• The word "Gameworld" strongly associates PM with the geeky gaming subculture.
• It will sound immature or childish to many people, again potentially alienating some.
• It makes it seem to me that PM can't quite handle the hard reality of institutions, needing to 'gamefy' things instead

What about using the already-existing term 'institution' instead?"

Here are some ideas we consider about this:

Is WhatsApp an institution? Is a relationship an institution? A Marathon run? A family? A culture? A movie production team? A blues band? A SCUBA Diving club? A bicycle repair shop? A Permaculture project? etc. Each of these are just as much a Gameworld as modern culture's familiar banks, multinational corporations, armies, churches, public schools, governments, police forces, 'economy-realities', and Starbucks franchises. Each and every Gameworld is unique, yet each and every Gameworld is made from the same components, including a Context, the Rules Of Engagement, a Codex, the 4 Archetypal Lineages, and its semi-permeable membrane. Each Gameworld is just as arbitrary and no more 'hard reality' than a few children setting up a temporary 'cowboys and indians' playspace Gameworld. All Gameworlds are temporary.

Realizing that civilization's 'institutions' are mere Gameworlds is a wake-up call to realize that you have been giving your center and authority away to false assumptions, to habitual thinking, to imaginary constructs.

The capitalist patriarchal empire's Gameworlds have enslaved the minds and hearts of many human beings for thousands of years. Does this prove that these particular Gameworlds are the 'real' Gameworlds? No. It proves that uninitiated human beings are gullible and naïve.

You support the values of every Gameworld you play in, regardless of whether you play in a Gameworld consciously or unconsciously. By using the distinction 'Gameworld' you gain the power to choose wisely about the Gameworlds you play in. You also gain the power to build new Gameworlds that make existing Gameworlds irrelevant.

Who can create and own an institution? Only those holding power positions behind-the-scenes in the ruling regime.

Who can create and own a Gameworld? Any group of three or more Gameworld builders.

The power in using the distinction 'Gameworld' is that it makes the global playing field equal. Anyone who has the awareness and talent and commitment to build a Gameworld can build a legitimate Gameworld. Even if only three people in the entire world have ever heard of or participate in a particular Gameworld, it is still a legitimate Gameworld, as legitimate (or perhaps much more legitimate...) than any corporation or nation state.

Using the term 'Gameworld' for all the Gameworlds we humans build and interact with each other through, opens up tremendous possibilities for personal and cultural evolution. Right now, in this time in human history, we seriously need both personal evolution and cultural evolution. Building out and occupying new regenerative-culture Gaian Gameworlds could be your contribution and your bridge to next culture - Archiarchy.