SoulSmugglers Stories is an experimental field of stories, metaphors, narratives and scenarios exploring possible paths of transformation and inspiring aspiration. It moves between possible futures, identity, civilization, intelligence, Life, the Best Possible, Zero and Spiral Evolution, using fiction as a space for exploring possibilities rather than predicting what will happen. Characters, worlds and scenarios can become laboratories for questions, tools and experiments that may also develop within Spiral Civilization.

Free Flow is a record of a stream of thought as it appears — associative, nonlinear and moving between ideas, images, concepts and different levels of meaning. Although many Free Flows in SoulSmugglers Stories are spoken using English words and partly English grammar, they are not written in standard English. The language can be understood as both simplified and innovative English, created spontaneously in the movement of thought. This can make the texts challenging to understand. For this reason, each Free Flow may be preceded by a short editorial note and a map of its topics, helping the reader understand what is being explored without replacing or rewriting the original voice. The Free Flow itself is preserved as closely as possible to the way it emerged, with corrections limited mainly to obvious transcription errors and misspellings.

A Note on This Text

This text is a free-flow spoken reflection on the origins of SoulSmugglers and on the ideas that have grown from them.

English is not my native language. When I speak in this mode, I do not first formulate my thoughts in Polish and then translate them into correct English. In a sense, I continue thinking in Polish while using English words. I deliberately do not stop the flow to search for perfect grammar, vocabulary or sentence structure.

This is important to the method.

Free flow allows associations, memories, images and ideas to appear before they are organized into a finished argument. Some of them may later become concepts, research questions, stories or tools. Others may remain metaphors, intuitions or simply traces of the thinking process.

For publication, only serious linguistic errors have been corrected. The rhythm, repetitions, unusual constructions and spontaneous movement of thought have been preserved as much as possible.

The text should therefore not be read as a scientific paper or as a set of factual claims. It is a record of speculative thinking: part personal history, part mythology, part artistic scenario, and part laboratory for imagining possible futures.

It begins with the accidental birth of the name SoulSmugglers at a Warsaw cemetery on 14 July 2016, around twenty-two past twenty-two.

What followed from that accident is still evolving.

Genesis of SoulSmugglers

SoulSmugglers was discovered on 14 July 2016, around twenty-two past twenty-two in the evening, while a group of friends, in some distant part of Warsaw, after a great concert, decided to go somewhere to celebrate Johan’s, my husband’s, birthday. But there was no cafeteria or restaurant nearby where everyone could easily move to. But there was a cemetery. So in a nearby shop everyone bought what they needed, and we started to celebrate. A one-of-a-kind birthday party in the cemetery.

And there was born the idea of SoulSmuggling.

Somebody started a discussion about smuggling, and I said: “If I were to smuggle, I would smuggle something really meaningful, like soul. I could be a SoulSmuggler.”

And my husband, Johan, said: “Gosh, that’s a topic for a pop song.”

If he had not enjoyed the name so much, it might have faded away. But it didn’t.

And then I started to think about what it really means.

That’s how I understood that there are two reasons why the concept of smuggling soul might be operational: to smuggle soul into the empty demons’ hearts, and to smuggle a new dimension of soul, which, in an evolving universe, is also evolving, and plant it here and now, to start the process of crystallization among those who are ready.

So that’s the birth certificate: emerged in a Warsaw cemetery, 14 July 2016, around twenty-two past twenty-two.

The concept came right on time, while I was working hard to transfer my mentality from worries about how we are doing as a civilization of intelligent people to something positively oriented. I was exhausted, for my mind was flooded by examples of how unfair we are to plants and animals and other human beings. There is a great dying on Earth, comparable to the losses after great catastrophes on Earth. Optimizations of corporations, politics, those who choose to be really strong and go over dead bodies to prove that they can achieve great goals.

I was worried that if we finally find out that we are not alone in the universe, we might not be proud to present who we really are as a civilization.

If we show them the chicken farms, pig mothers, cows that have never seen green grass and the open sky, we will be ashamed. We are creating hellish solutions which we might not be proud to present in the civilized world of multiverse civilizations.

If there is a way to solve the problem, it’s by focusing on what will solve it.

So I started to imagine a civilization I would love to be part of. I would be proud to be one of its members and to co-create it.

And that’s actually quite true for intelligent and sensitive people: luxury and power do not really give the joy, happiness and fulfillment which you can feel deep in the heart. They do not give you inner light; they do not illuminate your life and who you are. They do not count as the meaning of life, as a meaningful life.

So what might?

That is the question.

And I think it’s very healthy to think about that, even if we never get a satisfactory answer. The question itself is already good in this situation.

My life experience and activity were very much connected to art. Since I was 14, I was in art schools: first the Art Lyceum, later the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. And then I was very much linked to artistic life in Warsaw, both mainstream and off.

I was friends with musicians, performers, painters, architects, philosophers, writers, poets. And everyone, or many of us, liked to do something. There was always something happening because somebody was sharing their own creativity. And we invited each other to participate in performances and events, to create new ways to join our skills, resources and creativity and have fun.

So I know, I have experience of how an ecosystem of elements can create new value, something that’s really joyful, fun, generating friendships and excitement. I was doing performances, creating MultiArtLab to provide a platform for cooperation. I know it’s possible.

In the SoulSmugglers world I have to just expand this experience, imagine what I can imagine, and think about how it might happen.

In my work I was creating scenarios for my performances, the stories I wanted to tell, the problems I wanted to dig into. And as a performer I had this freedom to choose the topic and the way to dig into it, how to express it, how to share it.

So I was thinking about scenarios, futurology, in an opposite stream to Matrix, Terminator, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

We know, we can imagine what might go wrong.

Could we start imagining how it could be if we do it well?

How could it be if we make a masterpiece civilization?

And that’s how I started to think about patterns, about orders which are already in nature. Because the universe is evolving, and it will evolve with us or without us.

And actually life is extraordinary, the highest treasure of the universe known to me. If any of us humans have real respect for the God we believe in, or for the genius which creates such a complex universe, even if we are atheists, we could see this masterpiece.

Don’t we owe the source of this creation respect for its creativity, and for how, over billions of years, the circumstances for life were created, mastered and protected, rebuilt after catastrophes?

Couldn’t we see that life and its intelligence, and the complex strategies of survival, procreation and evolution, are the real database of intelligent solutions, intelligent strategies, intelligent designs of the universe’s creator, creation?

So the universe has already evolved through some stages and will evolve for as far as we can assume. We might have a couple of billion years ahead of us. And certainly it’s possible that life forms will continue to evolve for millions of years on Earth, like they have for millions of years already.

Will humans still be in the picture in, say, 3 million years — 3 with 6 zeros?

The pattern which we can use as a measurement of evolution is the Fibonacci spiral. A spiral which Fibonacci described, a progression of complexity.

There is, in the Manifesto, my explanation of how one, one — emptiness and potential — are, in the binary system of true and false, both true.

So we have one, one. Truth, truth.

Two: two characters, a subrelation, as a coexistence.

And three: two characters and the fruit of their relation.

And then there is five: the beginning of the universe, the Big Bang, and boom, the chemical evolution of five elements.

And then there is eight: the complexity of life, the new level, a new order of complexity.

And then it becomes intelligent life, creative intelligence which creates civilization.

And there is 13, which I understand as the fields of the 12 zodiac signs and 13 – Eris at the Olympic wedding, who came uninvited with the golden apple for the finest in the myth.

Do you have this finest quality?

Check what it means to be finest.

Quality check.

Now is the time to know what the next level is.

After 13 is 21.

That is the minimal optimum: 21 qualities required to successfully navigate a higher-complexity reality.

So how do we evolve?

What are these new 21 Departments?

If you know them, you know how to navigate. You know how to make a master plan for a masterpiece. Because you know where you’re going.

You’re going to the complexity of 34, and then to 55, and it goes on to infinity.

The universe wants to develop beautifully, extraordinarily, super-intelligently.

There is a theory that, in endless potentiality, there are endless scenarios of this universe. But here is this one where you find yourself living. How this quantum wave of probability collapses is a very interesting question. But the fact is that somehow it collapses, and where it collapses reflects who you are, your choices, your energy, your vibration.

So here you are, and where are you going?

And a timeline is not a straight line; you need two points to determine it.

Here we have a spiral.

And on this spiral you need three points to navigate.

You have the past, you have now, and you anticipate the future.

So what is the future the universe will choose?

What will it be delighted to unfold in this approximation to perfection?

Because there are three spirals.

Fibonacci is an approximation. Because the universe has to begin somewhere. And a real spiral does not have a beginning, does not have an end. This is an embedded pattern of evolution. And its proportion is created by the infinite number Pi.

And there is a third trajectory between those two, or around those two.

It’s your life timeline. It’s the actual appearance of reality.

How to create a trajectory which will be a masterpiece?

Maybe it’s not that difficult?

We know where we were, we know where we are, and we assume, anticipate where we want to go.

And as a SoulSmuggler, I have a concept of bringing samples of soul from the future, which actually, in the real universe of expanding light from the beginning of space and time – inside the beam of light, there is a zero.

So in this frame, all space and all time are within this zero, in the presence.

So through this wormhole you can travel wherever you want in the future or in the past, and entangle yourself with your future or past self.

And my future self is three million years — 3,000,000 years — in the future, approximately, at the greatest party in the multiverse, because Earthians win the prize for the best multiverse civilization, again.

And I’m invited there.

I have the invitation.

Because I started this myth, I started the perception of such a possibility.

And I got entangled.

This reality is happening to me through mental entanglement.

Do you want to be at this party too?

Do you want to be worthy of being invited as part of the initiators’ team of this fantastic future?

Because to be there means we were doing really well.

The Earthians developed really vastly.

And you know, looking at the timeline of evolution on the spiral, from 5 to 8, it takes billions of years for the universe. From 8 to 13, all the life spent on Earth, a vast ocean of time. From 13 to reach the threshold of 21 is also thousands of years.

But from 21 to 34 might be hundreds; from 34 to 55, a hundred or ten years.

So at this party, complexity and evolution might be really very, very extraordinary and sophisticated.

Just try to imagine what you will need today to enter this threshold so perfectly that you will fly high and far and find yourself exactly where you really want to find yourself.

Just choose the way you are, the way you evolve, the way you evolve your identity.

Because you are no longer an alpha in the jungle.

You cannot organize yourself according to outgrown orders of reality, within the rules of the jungle.

You have to grow up to the higher level and organize yourself according to an even higher order, and then anticipate even higher ones!