Evolution of a Vision

Several people have asked recently, “Where did your vision for the magazine come from?” Where does a vision come from? I hadn’t really thought of it as having “come from” a “where” exactly. Fleeting visions, lingering visions, ah-ha visions, what-if visions, and then all those that beget new and expanding visions. I’ve always believed that humans are visionaries by nature, and like everyone else, I can only speculate on the possible sources of our inspirations.

But I do know that visions are the most extraordinary creative venue we have — and they’re absolutely safe. We can climb the tallest mountains, save the world, be the richest and most important guy in the room or the belle of the ball, break a world record, and cure cancer with as little or as much drama as we want — securely, without fear, and without risk, in the private spaces of our visions, which are, after all inner sanctuaries of total freedom in an otherwise uncertain world.

At what point, though, do visions evolve into reality? And what compels someone to make that move? Maybe something happens to visions when we begin to ask questions: Why not? Who? How? Perhaps we live in a quantum multiverse where our visions are not mere visions at all, but rather reality options sharing the same plane. Some we choose to recognize and bring to reality, while others we keep close, tucked away only to remain as visions.

The GV Magazine moment of singularity for me — that moment when the vision took its first breath in this world — was when I recognized the core team of talented people whose own visions could connect not only with mine, but with one another’s. And one by one, more and more amazing people connected, in ways we never imagined.

GV exists and will continue to evolve as a culmination of countless networks of visions-turned-reality through a common singularity: the extraordinary symmetry that results with honest collaboration.Maybe reality is merely a stage in the evolution of a vision. Or maybe vision is but a stage in the evolution of reality. Or perhaps they’re really just one and the same?