Afrofuture World-Build: Embodied Eternal
In Embodied Eternal, we explore a future where immortality is not about escaping death, but about transforming our relationship to time, memory, and the body. Rooted in Afro-Indigenous cosmologies, this worldbuild reimagines eternal life through spiritual technologies, intergenerational consciousness transfer, cellular memory preservation, and ritual embodiment practices passed down and evolved over millennia.
In this future, immortality is not granted by machines alone, but by deep ancestral connection, embodied wisdom, and collective care. Ancestors live through us—digitally, biologically, and spiritually. Time is circular, not linear; bodies are vessels of eternal memory, not disposable tools. People choose how they continue: through dream inheritance, story encoding, quantum DNA archives, or ritual reincarnation into collective neural fields.
This Afrofuture World-build asks:
What does it mean to live forever when your legacy is embodied, not outsourced?
How do African diasporic traditions already hold the codes to eternal life?
What becomes possible when immortality is a practice, not a product?
Embodied Eternal invites participants to imagine a future where living forever is not about defying death, but about being fully, eternally, alive.
Afrofuture World-Builds are the creation of futures researcher and curator Ingrid LaFleur, who founded The Afrofuture Strategies Institute. Each world-build is three hours of fun. We engage in mythical storytelling and futures research exercises, culminating in a narrative day-in-the-life scenario. For more about The Afrofuture Strategies Institute and our world-builds, visit afrofuturestrategies.com.
*Tickets are non-refundable but transferable to another person or can be used for an upcoming world-build.