The Novel Behind the Visioneers International Network
The Visioneers
A Courage Story About Belief in the Future
The story that inspired the Web of Good Work—and helped give birth to a global community of people choosing to believe in humanity’s future.
Written by Dr. Desmond BerghoferA story became a vision
The Foundation Stone
The vision of the Web of Good Work is inspired by a story.
At the heart of all great human achievements is a story that people tell themselves about something that can be done. The story of the Web of Good Work is told in Dr. Desmond Berghofer’s novel, The Visioneers: A Courage Story About Belief in the Future.
In this fictional account, a band of enterprising people from many different countries and backgrounds sets out to engage people around the world in envisioning a future of planetary cooperation and peace. Their journey culminates in a Congress of the Global Mind, filled with the resounding spirit of “Why Not?”
Why not create on Earth the wonderful world we all believe is possible?
A participatory novel
Enter the Story
The Visioneers is a new kind of novel: a participatory experience in which the reader becomes an actor in an adventure about the triumph of good over evil at the planetary level.
It carries an affirming message for those who search thoughtfully for a future of peace and caring. It is the foundation stone of a support structure strong enough to encircle the world.
The book invites us into a transformative learning experience that generates awe in human possibilities. It challenges us to understand new paradigms, while touching the heart with age-old truths about consciousness, spirit and the human family.
It opens doors for people in business, education, the arts, science and human development who seek to build enterprises, communities and learning places ready to meet the challenges of a twenty-first-century renaissance.
It also stands alone as a powerful story of romance, mystery and suspense—with a memorable cast of characters and a future vision to be cherished.
Answers from the book
Who Are the Visioneers?
“The Visioneers are citizen-activists, who seek to give power to ordinary people by awakening inside their minds the visions that are there—for themselves, their families, their communities, and the world.”Page 268
“The path of the Visioneers calls for all good men and women to step forward…in their intent to build a future that is good and true and decent.”Page 173
“The time has come for the idea that we can, by leading with our visionary minds, create the kind of world that we would choose to live in for ourselves, and for our children, and for their children after them.”Page 203
“For leaders of true greatness…the world can never ask too much. For such men and women are not shaken by the world. Rather they shape the world with their vision.”Page 352
“The supreme motivating concept of the future is synergy: men and women of all nations coming together under leaders of great vision.”Page 289
From the foreword
Not an Ordinary Reading Experience
“The book you are about to enter is not an ordinary reading experience. It is a journey which leads to a new country—a promised land in which, transformed and empowered, you will become a planetary citizen of a new and future time.”
The journey asks readers to suspend the paradigms and judgments that act as blinders to a wider world of truth. It brings together ancestral wisdom, evolving knowledge of human consciousness, the truth of the heart and a vision of humankind united in hope.
Written in the tradition of humanity’s great storytellers—and in the visual language of the cinema of the mind—it invites each reader to hold fire, think deeply and imagine what may yet become possible.
The story lives on
Belief in the Future Became a Global Network.
Continue from the founding story into the living Web of Good Work it inspired.
Enter the Web of Good Work