The Geirangerfjord-Mother Nature and Father Time Are Effing Special

Geirangerfjord Field Notes · The Elixir

Mindless Purity

Putting the odd back in God, one fjord, one epiphany, and one random kayak stroke at a time.

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Ordinary World

The Call

Answer the Call

Foreign Land

Trials

The Elixir

Narrow Road to the Interior 4 Seasons in One Day Mother Nature Laughs Out Loud Life Is Forever

I’m past the point of no return. I’ll just concern myself with the best way of moving forward.

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Mindless Purity

Putting the odd back in God.

Before Norway, Earth Goddess was just a yuppie salad dressing you could buy at Whole Foods. I never thought people died. They just went to organic health food stores... and that Japanese guy who always wins the hot dog eating contest is the anti-Christ.

As I get a glimpse of the deeper, random, chance encounters of my three-pound universe — brain — with Mother Nature and Father Time being demoted from actual reality to my mere subjective experience of consciousness, I feel immortal.

The epiphany being: old-school selfishness says, I am the center of the world. New World Order says, I create the world. Space and time are not objects — they are my brain’s tools for putting everything together. Without me, they do not exist.

Today, as I kayak in the fjords and observe the sun, the water, the green and everything in flow, I say to myself: “Yes indeed, all this belongs to me.” And more than that, I play a role in its appearance.

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Father Time Simply Reboots

Reminds me of the joke: if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

We carry space and time around with us like turtles with shells. Without mind, matter does not matter. It hovers in waves of probability. Thus, there is no absolute grid we live in where things occur independent of our own thinking about it.

Although our body may self-destruct, the twenty-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain does not go away at death. Father Time simply reboots. The universe is in our head, and not out there separate from us. What the bleep?

The Elixir

The old story says I am the center of the world. The upgraded story says I participate in creating it.

In the fjords, Mother Nature and Father Time stop being distant authorities and become part of a living exchange with consciousness, memory, motion, and wonder.