This is not a book about worldbuilding, or how to make your fantasy novel more credible. It's a book about Worlding. It's about re-enchanting our complex times by creating futures you can believe in, over and over again.

Your belief in a World drives your actions toward giving a World expression in physical, verbal, and thought form. In return, you are rewarded with getting closer to a future you want to live in. Later, you are rewarded by others for whom the World is also a future they can believe in.

human beings cannot ever know what is “really real.” We participate more deeply than we imagine in shaping the world that we perceive.

An important feature of this definition of a World is its double promise: when a World can "survive its creator," that means it has achieved sufficient stability to regulate and safeguard its potentiality without authorial intervention.