MetaNarrative Labs – Fusion of Storytelling, Research & Symbolic Intelligence

MetaNarrative Labs is a transdisciplinary initiative under the iViRTH Foundation that fuses speculative storytelling with research frameworks. Positioned at the intersection of science fiction, mythology, and strategic foresight, the lab produces integrated narratives that not only entertain, but also educate, simulate, and prototype future possibilities. It is the narrative core of VEDASHAKTIKA and the storytelling intelligence engine for ARTHA’s PUBLIKA and BLANK divisions.

Unlike traditional research labs, MetaNarrative Labs operates within a mytho-tech design environment. Each storyline is born from symbolic systems, cosmological frameworks, and urban-temporal simulations that are rooted in real-world research, academic theory, and technological prototypes. These narratives form the basis of motion comics, AI-assisted chronicles, policy games, academic thought experiments, and virtual reality modules.

The lab hosts VedaVyas – The Architect of New Dharma – as the central narrator, who, alongside SHUKA (an AI parrot consciousness), unravels the unfolding metaphysical universe through seven phases of cosmic evolution, from SH00NYA to EKAM. Stories such as the Pulse of SH00NYA, GOBERdhan Chronicles, and SHAKTIKA – War of the Seals emerge as both canonical myth and design prototype.

“In a post-data age, stories become code. The MetaNarrative is not fiction, it is framework. Each glyph, each seal, each plot arc — is a research hypothesis encoded in drama.”

Key focus areas of MetaNarrative Labs include:

• Story-Based Research Models – Research hypotheses embedded within narrative arcs and metaphysical drama.
• Symbolic Urbanism & Character Systems – Cities, civilizations, and characters are built on planning theories, glyph logic, and policy foresight.
• Foresight Storycraft – Creating alternate futures and world-building through policy-labs and scenario fiction.
• AI Chronicles – SHUKA as the narrative AI companion that adapts stories based on reader questions, linking data to dharma.
• Narrative Simulation Engines – Integrating AI, urban prototypes, and mytho-tech to simulate future ecosystems.

MetaNarrative Labs collaborates with urban planners, researchers, creative coders, philosophers, and digital artists to translate abstract visions into compelling media and research-backed narratives. These are published as graphic novels, academic codices, digital scrolls, and speculative cinema supported by AI-assisted storytelling interfaces.

From VEDASHAKTIKA Universe to the TRIVENI Masterbook, the lab has already birthed narrative blueprints that redefine how knowledge, identity, and civilization are co-imagined. It is not just a lab. It is the dream-core of the future’s mythos, powered by symbols, science, and soul.