A Future History That Looks Back from 9000 CE

March 28, 2015

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March 28, 2015 – Several weeks ago I became aware of a book called “The Zamora Texts.” Written in the form of lectures given in the year 9000 CE by Professor B. W. Yelita, of the Institute of Eschatological Studies, Guadalajara, Mexico, they tell the story of humanity’s travails beginning with the dawn of civilization to the 10th millennium. Revealed mysteriously on a CD to Bohdan W. Wojciechowski, editor of the texts, who came upon this unmarked disc while going through his personal collection, and published in January 2010, the text tells how in the third millennium of the modern era humanity fought its third world war which was followed in the middle of the millennium by a period called the Regression. Described as a “trial by fire” it led to a rationale and philosophical rethinking by leaders of our species and ultimately changed humanity for the good.

Wojciechowski, the revealer (author) was born in Poland before the outbreak of World War II. His family faced deportation to Kazakhstan in 1941. They survived this ordeal and eventually Wojciechowski ended up in Canada where he completed a PhD in chemical engineering in 1962. He is the author of several books including the five Zamora Texts covering the future of democracy, human society, space exploration, the Regression and the year 9000.

Wojciechowski describes how humanity has transcended Earth sending our descendants to neighbouring moons and planets by 9000 CE. We learn about how this outreach to the Moon in a mere 200 generations has led to the birth of a new human species, Lunarians. We learn about the terraforming of Mars and introduction of biological species capable of adapting to the planet’s changing conditions. And by the tenth millennium we find out about our quest to the stars.

Some of the details of the onset of the third world war are achingly familiar – the spread of nuclear weapons, conflicts between the largely Judao-Christian Developed World and a Developing World dominated by Islam, the consequences of climate change, and the pressures of population growth on energy, water and food.

The flashpoints of the early 21st century prove to be the igniters of this “war to end all wars” – Israel and Palestine, Pakistan and India, Sunni and Shia Islam, Russia’s overreach and disintegration, China’s power play for Asian predominance, North Korea as a rogue state, and the continued presence of non-nation actors like global terror networks.

The first shot comes when Iran drops three nuclear bombs on Israel in defense of its Palestinian and Arab allies. Israel retaliates. Shia populations revolt against Sunni-led governments. Muslims in Russia and Europe join the fray. Russia devastates its Muslim population centres with massive nuclear strikes wiping out millions. Pakistan and India once more renew their age-old conflict over Kashmir but this time go nuclear.

The United States and Europe attempt to protect Middle Eastern sources of oil but get drawn into the conflict in response to nuclear attacks. Europe expels its Muslim population to North Africa.

Then like the Spanish Flu of post World War One, a global influenza pandemic strikes killing hundreds of millions. When North Korea is infected it demands vaccines from its more prosperous neighbours in Japan and South Korea. When denied it fires its nuclear arsenal at the two countries who respond in kind. Both Koreas are devastated.

As Russia deals with its internal dissent, China makes it move to occupy parts of the Russian Siberia where it already is heavily invested. Russia responds with nukes and the Chinese reciprocate. Tens of millions more die.

By 2150 world population has fallen by 2 billion.

By 2250 global population has shrunk even further with hot zones wars springing up on a reduced scale. The outbreaks devastate Africa, Southwest Asia, India, Indochina, Russia and parts of China. Infrastructure breaks down, Diseases spread and human lifespan contracts. By the middle of the millennium the global war fades away into the Regression. There are no peace treaties. Just human civilization in tatters.

Out of the centuries of Regression a new humanity emerges. Political entities change. Ideologies like capitalism, communism, corporatism and democracy prove to be failures. Traditional mainstream religions in the aftermath of the war leave a legacy of ruins.

Regression is followed by a Revival with the invention of rational models for humanity based on sophisticated mathematics leading to the quantification of public policy and the emergence of a new global society. No longer are humans defined by a single ideological stance.

One cannot help but see parallels to the science fiction of Isaac Asimov and his famous “philosophe,” Hari Seldon, who is the inventor of psycho-history, mathematically predicting the future. After all it is Seldon who states, “it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.”

Wojciechowski describes the foundation of the Institute of Eschatological Studies beginning in the year 2567 CE. His Institute is the successor to the moribund United Nations. Its members are scientists and philosphes evolving mathematical principles to apply to the social model of humanity. Public policy, therefore, comes from mathematical principles, equations that quantify results and provide guidance for action.

In this new age no theorem is constant and scientific models cannot foresee all. Modeling predictability, therefore, includes parameters to anticipate constant change and produce multiple scenarios. The resulting society is a “peaceful, rational and purposeful world” capable of dealing with unforeseen disasters such as a global plague in the sixth millennium and a devastating North Atlantic tsunami in the year 7224.

One aspect of the Institute’s evolution is the creation of “The God Hypothesis.” The working premise that a supreme creator exists and that humanity has an important role to play in the evolution of the Universe. This anthropocentric notion seems a throwback to Medieval thinking and may be a reflection of Wojciechowski’s religious roots.

I particularly enjoyed Wojciechowski’s speculations on the future beyond 9000. Beginning with expanding our human frontier “thirty light years every twenty generations” he predicts the extension of humanity to the entire galaxy in less than two million years.

His lecturers yearn for first contact with another intelligent species. He describes how they struggle with evidence already found that suggests a non-human civilization millions of years older than humanity. He speculates on a future where we uncover intelligent civilizations not as advanced as ours and how we will or will not interact with them.

Through the “Zamora Texts” Wojciechowski attempts to answer the questions we face today. Can we solve our violent tendencies? Can we end ideological confrontations? Can we survive to the tenth millennium? Are we alone in the Universe?

I leave you with this quote from the Texts which sounds like us today:

“We are now entering the tenth millennium of our current era, and are as usual impatient to move forward. We have been clever enough to have colonized our Moon and two planets, thereby improving the odds of the continuity of our species, regardless of what may happen on any one planet we inhabit. We believe that we will go on to learn and explore and understand and marvel, that we are here to stay, that our whole galaxy and someday perhaps other galaxies will be ours to explore.”