Hey all, I am pretty crazy. But also completley with it. If you get my drift. I am very good to good and friendly people. Anyway, I have just come back from South America. I have left the 'system' over a couple of years ago. Now, I am really out there, when it comes to my vision and passion, but I never trample on anyone who has their own vision, or get in peoples' face. I am currently in Adelaide. I have finally got together a few hundred bucks or so, and well I hate money, but if a few hundred bucks helps me get a foot up to get out of the money pit and into the air of nothing, then so be it. This is the plan. I want to get away from everything that holds me to earth, and in doing so live with the earth side by side. And then some day change the world (but one at a time ok!). I am getting a free tent from my friend (probly a two man). And I am going to try and car pool up to Alice Springs. Why Alice? Cos I just like the name. Nah, that and I just feel drawn there. From there, I plan to try and learn various aboriginal techniques, not neccessarily from anyone but myself, but I will take any offer of advice I fall upon. I want to be able to survive in extreme what would be designated "uninhabitable" territory. I want to get in touch with my spirit as much as possible, and the nature, and the elements. I want to feel the cold, and feel the heat, and be one with it. I want to capture water dew off of plants and live by bare minimum, not forcibly. But just in a way that what comes to me, comes to me. Yes, some will say, a sarcastic good luck, you will die. Negativity to me. I am not stupid. I have done some tough hiking on bare needs before. I do not wish to hear doubt. Keep it to yourself please. I will always go at baby steps. Thought out. Wise considered. Start with the tent and small supplies. Keep within certain miles of township, and then slowly expand my way out, and adjust in gradual ease. Not so hard when you look at it that way is it? My whole mentality is to live in faith. Faith in everything working out right. And 9 billion people will try to pull me down, like as if they were the underlying force of gravity, but to fly, you just gotta fly. I envision, I will as much as like be doing this by myself. As not many are as crazy as me with this type of disconnect. I don't own mobile, have a small backpack, and well if I had anymore it would just be a weight. Even as my backpack as small as it is, is still a weight. But I put out a hand and say this: I aim to be in Alice springs in 22-25 september, will ground myself a little in hostel or so for a night or two, then camp, then just go wherever I am taken by the wind. I have a charango (small guitar) I plan to teach myself on the way... and if anyone wants to start a band...i can sing ok (shyness is my problem)...and well anyone else who can sing is ok too... I really like to sing fleet foxes, but only cos I know the lyrics so well... but any other song that I like I guess success is written all over the palms of my hands, and under my eyelids too, so if anyone wants to come along... and change the world through spirituality and love, and have fun in the process, and learn character through hardship, you are welcome to contact me.. I do realise, that perhaps similiar has been done or said before, but I am not so similiar. All the best wishes to everyone on the forum. You take the harder road, but you know in your heart it is to be easy. Peace
Hi Freetobe You reminded me of a while back {Sounds Like} Nab-AATay, an aborginal man who was teaching me to walk through myself, in other words get out of my own way. He would laugh and say, {again sounds like} YaKaa-neck, atoo..NaLeay, which means Be your Heart Be your Dream and you Be You. He would say the only burden we carry is the one we pick up. I think this is because we fear not knowing who we are in places where we hide from our self.
I wish you the best on your walkabout. Whatever happens, you will learn and discover and feel and think and dream. To do what you're doing, you've got to be a combination of dreamer and hard-headed pragmatist, poet and longshoreman. You must accept the possibility that yes, in fact you might die. That's not "negativity" ... it's just accepting the truth about the land where you're going. That land, like many parts of the American Southwest, does not suffer fools gladly. If you screw up, you die. Very simple. Maybe that's part of the appeal for you ... I don't know. I live in the desert myself and I know very well what it's capable of. I also know what you're up against. People have been wandering off into the desert since the beginning of time in order to find ... something. Perhaps they don't even know what they're looking for ... or maybe it doesn't matter. To some, the desert is an adversary ... something to test yourself against. It works very well for that purpose. And then there are some to whom the desert is the center of universe ... "God's navel", as old Ed Abbey called it. To these people, there is an eerie spirituality to be found in the desert. It's like coming home to them. Again, I wish you the best. May your path be thorned and narrow and strewn with rocks. May the desert sun burn mercilessly on your back. May your muscles ache and cry out for relief. May your throat yearn for water. And then ... maybe ... maybe ... you'll know what God and man is.
Amazing...... it takes great passion or a lot of stupidity to do what you're doin. After going through such a journey I bet anything else in life would be a breeze.
old_crone: yes, well said, my thoughts are along this line oni: yep passion leads us into what would be perceived by others as stupid....but in my eye it is stupid to be without passion. But no, my life will still not be a breeze, because I am not looking to resign to easyness at any point, until I am happy with the world I must share, but at least I can make more impact with the strengths I gain caliente: the only thing that will die, is my fears thanks for your knowledge of the dessert, it only inspires me more, and yes I am all four of those beings, well picked
Beautiful!! I think at least once in every person's life comes the time to make a decision. Do we continue living a life based on the outside, or do we follow our Highest intuition into infinity? The illusion puts restrictions on us. Fear, doubt. But the soul is infinite. It only knows truth, action, being, limitlessness. It trancends life; bigger than happiness/sadness. To follow the highest Self is the highest goal in life. And in a world of people who've deafened themselves to their Inner Voice the biggest challenge is just to listen. As someone who has decided which road to follow, I wish you all the blessings in the world. Keep us posted.
old_crone you always have the best of advice. i hope someday i can be as helpful to others as well as you. @manda
What the fuck calintine? Every time somebody wants to head out and live free you're the person who is jumping all over their shit telling them how awful its going to be.. Here is my question to you.. Have you ever tried to go out into the woods and live a free life? I believe that its something that you always wanted but for some reason you never achieved it and concider yourself too old to go and do it now and its left you quite bitter so that any person who is going to achieve your dreams leaves you with a venom in your fingertips and you just cant wait to respond with a bunch of negative words to try dissuade anybody from following that path.. If you have never tried then you're talking out of your ass, and if you have tried then i guess it means you failed.
i kinda get her sense of humor she's trying to portray, but all in all, very out of line with the ultimate free spirit he has put into words.
