My life – presence to the real and the unconscious; to persons, charisma, action and transformation… risk, give all, live fully
What Next – priorities: place, placement, grants, network, love, friends, persons, ideas for inspiration / journey… especially, now, experiments in transformation
Immediate action: health, reduce dissipation, minimize… brush up Journey in Being, minimize Design for a Journey in Being to essentials, resumes, website ® risk / change… one job application a week; practice presence and doing exactly what is essential; save, pay debt, place, roommates, love and friends
Preliminary: Experiments with Vision
and Limits
Approach: dynamics of being, presence and feeling work
Use aspects of: meditation, yoga, vision-quest, dreams
Means and catalysts: isolation from stimulus and attention to stimulus and stimulants such as caffeine, intense exertion, fast, altered sleep…
Sources: see §2.4, especially §2.4.3 of Journey in Being for details
Experiments in Actual Transformation
Objectives: [1] Learn, discover, enter into transformation; [2] Ultimate of absolute transformation… practically the second item is hypothetical
Transformations and means: the preliminary experiments with vision and limits are the first approach to what transformations are worthwhile and how to transform… the dynamics, presence and catalysts are important
Experiments: §2 of Journey in Being is about transformations: the fundamental and classical approaches; §2.4 has a logical catalog of kinds of experiments and §2.4.6 has a complete, minimal set. Possibilities: vision-seeing, animal being, physical accomplishment, identity with the ultimate
Review Journey in Being and the Prologue – use the Ideas document
Think about the nature of and possibilities for politics and influence
Open but not an emphasis this journey
Immersion: Being in wild places
Simply: endurance, and health; body-dynamics and nature-sense – this nature sense is, to a point, self-knowledge; hikes… the following detail is useful
Animal and primal experience… identity with the animal and animal spirit; and with the primal
Terrain, water, air, sky, weather, animals and plants
Body and sense attunement; flexibility and attitude; body dynamics especially in relation to terrain
Endurance and intense physical activity
Specific hikes and places, climbs, and routes; duration
Relax; enjoy sun, sky, clouds… nature, and health
Places. Trinity
Journey
1
Two weeks: begin Thursday,
September 25
Alternate: _______________________________________________
Objective: Primary objectives. Review objectives for the next Journey[s]
Alternate Objective: _____________________________________________________
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Journey
2
One / two weeks: begin Thursday,
October 9
Alternate: _______________________________________________
Objective: Primary objectives. Consolidate
Alternate Objective: _____________________________________________________
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Journey
3:
One weeks: begin Thursday,
October 23
Alternate: _______________________________________________
Objective:
Oh so serious objective: Placement: job, individuals, schools, grants, network; ideas; presence
Alternate Objective: _____________________________________________________
Immediate: clean, maintain gear and vehicle, laundry
Review and reintegrate: - ideas from the place
Next – Go: fundamental objectives for my life, above. One through 15 years and death+… Love, ideas and nature are most important to me; Charismatic, simple and powerful action and presentation: The Journey in Being is fundamental but changes in my approach [objectives again] are needed
Journals – writing up trip notes in separate journal documents is optional. The Objective: enter material into existing or new core documents suggested by the journey. Consider reconceptualization, reorganization of the core