The Imaginal Institute

 

 

Charles Cameron
Founding Fellow

 

Charles Cameron is a cultural analyst, poet, virtual explorer, community builder, imaginer, and philosopher king.

He has worked as an analyst at a number of institutes, including The Arlington Institute, where he assisted in the design of TAI's high tech Fusion Center ("war room") for retrieval and display of open source intelligence on a wide variety of potential future surprises, with a mandate to understand potential social fall-out of the Y2K computer event and related millennial events; as well as the Center for Millenial Studies at Boston University. His particular area of expertise in these contexts is in apocolyptic/messianic violence.

He has taught as a Visiting Lecturer at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, at Old College in Reno, and Sierra Nevada College in Tahoe; was an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Southern Oregon University, where he co-created and co-taught courses with Wallace Black Elk; and served on the faculty of Bruchion School in Los Angeles, where he taught classes in creativity, imagination and "mythologic."

He is a writer and editor, serving as editor for Barry Green's book, The Mastery of Music, among others. He served as the Document Architect for Nile, a Simon and Schuster Interactive / Metropolitan Museum egyptology game featuring Kelly McGillis and Brian Eno, and wrote and edited all of the supporting text for an interactive multimedia version of As You Like It, starring Lawrence Olivier.

He is also the architect of the Hipbone Games and Analytics, an extraordinary game/process to explore and connect ideas based on Herman Hesse's Nobel Prize winning novel, The Glass Bead Game.

www.beadgaming.com