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This is one powerful video on how to share meaningful travel experiences…
The folks over at Adventure.com have put together a series of images, music and words that will give you chills. The poetry is Allan Watts (see the full transcript below) and it speaks deeply to the nature of our experiences here on earth. Check out their site to see their stunning visual artwork and passion for sharing adventures.
We as leaders and guides have such an incredible opportunity to give people the experiences of a lifetime.
To push them, challenge them, and inspire them to see things in an entirely new light. We can change people’s lives.
Share this video with someone you hope to inspire…
or better yet, share it with someone who already took you on a journey of a lifetime.
Thanks to the team at Adventure.com
-Kelsey T
Founder, Be a Better Guide
Transcript:
“If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here unprobational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke – but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.
I am not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it, I want you to play with it. I want you to think of its possibilities, I am not trying to prove it. I am just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about. So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream and that you could for example have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time or any length of time you wanted to have.
And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfil all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure during your sleep. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say “Well that was pretty great”. But now let’s have a surprise, let’s have a dream which isn’t under control, where something is gonna happen to me that I don’t know what it’s gonna be.
And you would dig that and would come out of that and you would say “Wow that was a close shave, wasn’t it?”. Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further- and further-out gambles what you would dream. And finally, you would dream about where you are now. You would dream of living the life that you are actually living today.
That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have. Of playing that you weren’t god, because the whole nature of the godhead, according to this idea, is to play that he is not. So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. The deep-down basic whatever there is. And you are all that, only you are pretending you are not.” -Alan Watts
