Starting from the implications of the 9-11 massacre, I would like to look at the question of planetary consciousness, in the context of art practice, with its emergent moistmedia, and the constructive function of mixed reality technologies in both western and non-western cultures. In the present crisis of contesting ideas of reality, only new, creative metaphors can be expected to bridge the ideological divide. The artist is metaphor builder par excellence. A cultural shift has taken place which returns us in an important sense to much older world views, while enabling us to create structures and behaviours fitting the 21st century. The dematerialisation of art in the 20th century becomes a re-materialisation in our era, with the advent of nanotechnology and moist media. Our focus is on Art, technology and consciousness, from which a technoetic planetary culture could emerge , based on the Three VRs : Validated Reality: involving reactive, mechanical technology in a prosaic, Newtonian world; Virtual Reality: involving interactive, digital technology in a telematic, immersive world; Vegetal Reality:involving psychoactive plant technology in an entheogenic, spiritual world. To this end, collaborative and transdisciplinary research is needed for which entirely new organisms of learning and production must be engendered. In our search of an interactive paradigm, CAiiA-STAR and the Planetary Collegium are an initial response to this need.