Why I love Pan

Who are you going to be today? A member of the patricians in the eternal city, walking through the piazzas of philosophies and political intrigue, hearing vague rumbles and rumors of wild hordes of magical barbarians? Perhaps you will wish to drift lazily in dreams along the serene stately Nile before the colossus at Karnak contemplating eternal life with the sun? Who are you going to be, and when?

Stephen Hawking expands our universes and concepts of physics through the use of imaginary time, draws out long complicated equations to fill the voids and spaces between the stars, and seeks a grand unifying theory of understanding. And we, here at Pan Historia, exist as member in our own imaginary time and space, populating the spaces and gaps in history, philosophy and art creating a grand unified theoretical existence of our own. If Hawking is correct in his postulations of multiple universes, than we can inhabit one (or more) of those universes, all at our beck and call. All we must do is choose who we are going to be today.

H.G. Wells filled our imaginations with thoughts of time travel, to go and see for ourselves the past histories, and to look ahead to the future histories. Jules Verne placed us upon the moon, and took us to the unfathomable depths of the seas, and Pan Historia has permitted us to virtually populate the imaginary with characters. We live along the margins, within the spaces, and upon every page written, and proceed to write our own.

Characters come to life in interactive roles, expanding the possible, examining the probable, and reaching out to the impossible, a dream reality overcoming the distances, spanning time. Role-play to cloak ourselves in aspects hitherto unimagined, escaping the day-to-day
existence and stepping out upon the world stage and expanding both the mind and the enjoyment of life. All at the beck and call of answering "Who are you going to be?"

Who are you going to be today? Philosopher, King, slave, Emperor, poet, God? As children we played freely taking on the roles of heroes, actors, and life models exploring each and incorporating into our characters the aspects which we chose. And once again we are invited, enticed to play amongst friends in the roles of our own choosing, to grasp further into the realm of the imaginary, to seek out the answers to questions, to reach further then we individually dream, and to dare dream again.

It is from the dreaming, the daring, and the audacious chances of attempting that we reach to the heights and limits, and then beyond into the realm of the unknown. What I love about Pan Historia is the opportunity to reach beyond, to lay my hands upon the unreachable and bring it on home.

Who am I going to be today?

Who shall I not be?

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