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I've Been to The Mountain Top(s)

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 The Promised Land Is Right Where You Are When you are following your bliss My universe is made of stories, not atoms: land, air and sea travel and the power of now. If I wanted to be a multinational soul, and  leverage   my best asset,me,  I couldn't do it in cities where I lived like New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo or Paris  alone-I needed to get consecrated by sailing on the oceans. letting your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic. It's a wonderful thing to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some  place where you don't know anyone; where, as Melville said,"God's one and only voice is Silence." The sceneries  paint  themselves.  I'm just the middleman.   You can't create experiences like this, you undergo them. If a man speaks in the forest and there are  no women around to hear it, is he still wrong? Living on a ship, might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.  It...

Glacier National Park-So Big, So Bold and Breathtaking

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Alaska | Where Wilderness Is Therapy Field Archive / Alaska Alaska Where Wilderness Is Therapy The wilderness makes me want to wrap myself in tinfoil and walk on the moon. Glacier Bay Tracy Fjord Inside Passage 8-Stage Journey 01 Ordinary World 02 Call 03 Threshold 04 Foreign Land 05 Trials 06 Revelation 07 Return 08 Elixir The Golden Thread Nature is more. Man and cruise ship, less. Alaska reduces the scale of the self. Glaciers move, fjords hold memory, weather erases certainty, and the traveler becomes a witness again. The point is not to conquer the wilderness. The point is to let it recalibrate you. 01 Ordinary World / Glacier Bay National Park Marjorie Glacier - The Most Photogenic ...

San Diego-AmeriCANS

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Carnival Splendor · USS Midway · Black Swan Event Aircraft Carriers Are Accidents Looking for a Place to Happen This time it was not a battleship. It was a cruise ship, a catastrophic power failure, and an improbable event that only looked predictable after it happened. See Full Image Enter the Incident Show Text The Call The Midway The Event Black Swan Logic The Elixir The Call Permission to Go Ashore “It is better to ask for forgiveness than permission to go ashore.” Field Evidence USS Midway, Carnival Splendor, and the View from the Flight Deck Permission to Go Ashore The naval backdrop made the irony impossible to miss. The Crippled Splendor A cruise ship became the accident looking for a place to happen. ...

The Dude Abides in Panama : COSMIC ZEN AND CRUISE SHIP WISDOM

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EK Version Vegas Version The Dude / Cruise Life / Panama Canal / Cosmic Zen The Dude Abides Cosmic Zen and the Art of Cruise Ship Enlightenment See Video 01 Threshold 02 Foreign Land 03 Trials 04 Revelation 05 Return 06 Elixir The Threshold There Are No Problems at Sea. Only Situations. "The Dude Abides Principle" says there is this energetic force that has your best interest at heart, and you can tap into it any time you want... Visual Field Notes Panama, The Dude, Permanent Travel, and LOST Four images, one operating idea: loosen the grip, pay attention, and keep moving. Select any image to open the full original. ...