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OBJECTIVES

Fundamental Objectives for my Life – Review and Promote

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

Objectives for the Journey in Being

Fundamental Objectives… Experiments in the Transformation of Being

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

Fundamental Objectives… Ideas

Review and order J05, J04, J03 and the Journey

Fundamental Objectives… Computers and Being… and Social Action

Open but not an emphasis this journey

Think about the nature of and possibilities for politics and influence

Objectives: Nature, Perception and Dynamics

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

Perception: Awareness, Attention, Attunement, and Nature Sense

Animal and primal experience… identity with the animal and animal spirit; and with the primal

Terrain, water, air, sky, weather, animals and plants

Dynamics and Physical Objectives

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

JOURNEY AND TRAVEL PLANS. : ________________________________

Places. Trinity Alps. Alternates: Marble Mountains, Russian Wilderness, Carson-Iceberg Wilderness, Kings Canyon, the San Juan Mountains, Barranca del Cobre

Journey 1
Two weeks: begin Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Destination and objective: Trinity Alps. Hobo Gulch – Papoose Lake. Primary and fundamental objectives. Review objectives for next Journey[s]

Alternates: __________________________________________________

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Journey 2
One – two weeks: begin Thursday, September 29, 2005

Destination and objective: ____________________________________. __________________________________________________________. Review objectives for next Journey[s]

Alternates: __________________________________________________

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Journey 3
One – two weeks: begin Thursday, October 13, 2005

Return: Thursday, October 27, 2005

Destination and objective: Reno, Bay Area, route 101, Seattle & WA – fun, travel, meet people; ______________________________________________. Review: return, next Journey[s] / year

Placement: job – UW, WWU, BOEING, MICROSOFT, other colleges and companies, individuals, grants, network; ideas

Alternates: __________________________________________________

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Return And Reintegration - Review This Toward End Of Journey

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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