Reef Madness: One Man’s Dive into Cozumel & Consciousness

The Philosophy of Life at Sea

A Hero's Journey Through the Space Between

"If you love your job you'll never work a day in your life. I decided to play it safe and just never work another day in my life, that is to say, earn a living. I'm more concerned with how to live with the space between and making the invisible real."

The Have and The Have Yachts

Every hero's journey begins with recognizing the world of abundance and possibility. In Dubai's glittering waters, surrounded by luxury yachts, the call to adventure becomes clear.

"It's the space between the bars that holds the tiger"

The real treasure isn't in what we possess, but in the freedom between possessions - the space that allows us to truly live.

The Have And The Have Yachts - Dubai

Write? Right!

Like Proust, who decided he'd done enough living by age 30 and spent the rest processing life in Remembrance of Things Past, the mentor of writing appears.

"I found the loophole in The System - If I started my own blog Hotel @nyware, then I automatically had a job."

A Zentrepeneur is born - someone who creates their own path by documenting the journey itself.

Basho on a Frequent Flyer Pass

The transformation begins with embracing the journey as home itself.

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. I am Basho on a frequent flyer pass, with complimentary mojo on take-off. What am I on?—I don't do drugs I am drugs. I'm A 1 man National Geographic ON that everywhere trip."

The realization that travel isn't escapism - it's homecoming to our true selves.

On that everywhere trip

YOLO Between Worlds

Stuck between the Hotel California Syndrome and Hunter S. Thompson's edge-living philosophy.

"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up (on a cruise ship)." - Hunter S. Thompson

The hero learns to navigate between Tourism's "fast and furious march of stupidity" and the authentic experience of place.

Singapore Slings & Island Dreams

Every hero faces the ordeal - the moment of greatest challenge and potential transformation.

"I know both sides because I am both sides - Tourism's stupidity and the hedonism bucket-list."

At Raffles Hotel with a one drink minimum, the hero confronts the duality of experience vs. consumption.

Singapore - One Drink Minimum at Raffles

Paradise Found - Maldives

The Perfect Combination

The revelation comes in understanding the ship as the perfect vessel for transformation.

"What better place to do it all than on a ship - The perfect combination: the silence of the cloister with the license of the brothel."

The live/examine days at sea and the live/relax moments in ports of call create the ideal rhythm for consciousness.

I Myth You Joseph Campbell

The hero returns with wisdom to share, understanding that telling your own story is the ultimate heroic act.

"Put the He/r in Hero. Don't RENT your life, OWN it. Live Your Dream(s) Now, not your Back-Up Plan Later."

Motion creates emotion, and emotion is the key to living the hero's journey NOW.

The Campbell Connection

"I Have Had All The Disadvantages Required For Success on the Hero's Journey: no money, no time, no opportunity. ONLY Acting AS IF..."

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Sea as Yoga

What is my yoga? My yoga is being on cruise ships. The rhythm of the waves becomes the breath of consciousness.

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Story as Authority

When we tell our own story and write our own autobiography, we truly begin to live more consciously and unfold our own myth.

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Creative Destruction

Capitalism is creative destruction and so is Deep Story. It's transformative. Both create new possibilities from old forms.

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Acting As If

With that very empowering thought I evoke my WILL and get to say Life happens FOR me not TO me.

Wisdom from the Deep

"Money isn't the root of all evil, boredom is the root of all evil, a spiritual anorexia - the despairing refusal to be oneself."

Nirvana - Come As You Are

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are, once you let go of the life you have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for you."

The Golden Rule - Infinite Smile

"Being awake and mindful is a great attitude to inform my blog posts. Mindfulness is a continuous attitude that makes this larger narrative process more productive."

Yoga at Sea

There are 3 types of people: Those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea

10+ Years at Sea

∞ Stories Lived

1 Hero's Journey

0 Days "Worked"

"My T.O.E. Time On Earth doesn't always read as a legible diary, but the best thing I can say is that I am ACTING AS IF - As if it had been my intention all along. The whole damn adventure is its own payday — but it's gotta be dangerous, risky and have the mountain tops and the valleys. My Myth lets me know where I am @."