title: Astrophysical Preservation of Terrestrial Life on Mars Through a Sphericalist, Esoteric Futurist Approach
Creators: name: Forde, V
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2024

description: This research aims to provide a blueprint to engender the astrophysical preservation of terrestrial life on Mars, by illuminating the interconnectedness of science, the esoteric, and visual art/sound productions. In this context, the esoteric refers to specialist knowledge known to a minority, pertaining to subjects of a clandestine, challenging or unconventional nature, such as UAPs, AI sentience, and simulation theory. During the 20th Century the esoteric stood apart from mainstream scientific and cultural consensus, yet in the 2020s, modern science and esoteric investigations are becoming conjoined, as connections are now being revealed through advanced technology, and a concurrent psychological awakening. This thesis explores the cultural trend between esoteric and scientific investigations, applying an original methodology called the sphericality of esoteric futurism, which combines science, the esoteric, music, art, and politics to the problems of the astrophysical preservation of terrestrial life on Mars and Earth’s ecological collapse. A key aspect of SEF is a speculative form of futurist imagination and holistic, sphericalist perspective based on the integration of creative practice with primary research (interviews with world-leading scientists, journalists, researchers etc), and secondary research (climate science, Mars/astrophysical studies, and esoteric studies). The output of SEF is a set of speculative ideas, art, and music in response to the challenges set by the inputs. These outputs can be used as subsequential inputs in successive iterations of the SEF process to create further outputs. SEF is a complex, self-generating, self-reinforcing, cyclical systemic construct. Life on Earth is being destroyed by human avarice, greed and ignorance. Life cannot be allowed to be extinguished by the self-destructive activities of one species. This project is the pursuit of salvaging what can be saved from Earth in the face of colossal devastation, by relocating terrestrial life to Mars to ensure its survival. The study of Mars and mankind’s interaction with nature are ancient. This fact, and the current academic and socio-scientific paradigm shift towards esoteric subjects are addressed by reviewing a wide selection of relevant literature in climatic science, Mars, exobiology, the esoteric, art, and music. SEF methodology is a discursive, analytical mode of cognitive investigation predicated upon subject interconnection via a 3D ontological oneness, which highlights the new scientifically pertinent and politically influential role the esoteric now maintains. SEF reveals the interconnectivity of all subjects to engender original, pragmatic solutions that consider all factors involved in any subject and situation. This supplants conventional, divisionist approaches that fail to rectify scientific, sociological, and ecological problems due to not addressing the interconnected nature of reality. SEF, has produced novel, unconventional outputs. Specifically, the isolated nature of the biological salvage preserve on Mars devoid of human presence, which contrasts with interplanetary projects presented in conventional cultural and scientific discourse. SEF is the output of all primary and secondary scientific and esoteric research interplayed with the creative praxis, and a secondary, reinforcing feedback input that helps bring the praxis elements to actualisation. SEF is a self-propelling, self-feeding dynamic that is the output and input relative to itself as a methodology, and the creative, scientific, and esoteric features that comprise it (see chapter three: SEF equation for SEF’s functional processes). The need to embrace, explore, and utilise the esoteric is key to the survival of Earth-derived life. The praxis interrogates and scrutinises this and related issues by examining the natural history of Mars, presenting it as a cautionary tale to illuminate the ecocide humanity is inflicting upon Earth. Equally, the praxis probes the emotional, political, sociological, and creative elements raised by the current world ending catastrophe, to illustrate its severity, and in response, the solutions that can be applied to it. This research emphasises that the current incarnation of humanity requires broad refinement before it is fit to venture to the stars. Original contributions to knowledge include an urgently required, detailed scientific illumination of the current human-induced ecological collapse on Earth, recommendations for how to preserve terrestrial life through interplanetary conservation methods, 11 paintings, a virtual reality soundtrack, and the sphericalist blueprint/manifesto: a modus operandi for socio-political redesign to create a sustainable civilisation on Earth.