TRAVELS AND EXPERIMENTS IN WILD PLACES
OBJECTIVES AND TRAVEL
PLANS
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My life – presence to the real is the fundamental inspiration; define it; include the unconscious; presence to death and pain and, so, to life; every moment to opportunity, being itself, persons, love, charisma, action and transformation – and status and success… risk, give all, live fully
What Next – review short list. Food, health: prep variety of food, reduce drinking; practice presence and doing what is essential; exercise; sun, adth, counseling. Design: minimize to essentials. Cash: no cash to work, roommate, alt living arrangement. Place: fundamental and other options; Journey and experiments. Time: go to sleep early… Citizenship and green card. Friends, love and roommates: list possibilities
Emphasis: physical experiments, being physical
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: dynamics; 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 and order J05, J04, J03 and the Journey
Open but not an emphasis this journey
Think about the nature of and possibilities for politics and influence
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 Alps. Alternates: Marble Mountains, Russian Wilderness, Carson-Iceberg Wilderness, Kings Canyon, the San Juan Mountains, Barranca del Cobre
Destination and objective: Trinity
Alternates:
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Return:
Destination and objective:
Placement: job – UW, WWU, BOEING, MICROSOFT, other colleges and companies, individuals, grants, network; ideas
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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
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