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Nothingness to Nothingness is the whole journey
Nothingness is Everything. Unmanifest while at the same time, it is absolute potential.
I feel like I am in a gap right now. I have had dreams of being suspended in nothingness, millions of light-years from the nearest piece of space debris or the stars scattered all around me. They look close, I feel part of them and they are connected to me and everything somehow, and I have a sense of belonging without question, but they are so far away at the same time. There is just silence and nothingness. Other dreams of falling through pitch black, that feeling of a falling elevator, with nothing under my feet and with no end, until I wake up.
I don’t feel attached to anything that could really ground me. The only person who I have met on these travels who could possibly change that is not attached to anything either. Even less so. (more…)
Forward the (r)evolution
About a month ago I was really lucky to meet these guys. They shared a few meals with the family and I at Hospedaje Central, the hostel where I’ve been living the past month. Forward the (r)evolution is two couples who are living and traveling the world without money. It started as a fun idea to do for a few months and now they have gone past their end date and are now living a life of travel without money. They aren’t bums. They aren’t trust fund kids. They are respectfully dressed, clean, ordinary people like you and me who live with little to no impact on the earth, catching rides that were going somewhere anyway and eating good food that would have gone to waste anyway. All the while they are giving talks on how other regular people can do the same. How ultimately we could all live in a world without money and evolve to a new system.
I’m not quite ready for this drastic step and all that it implies, like letting go of my career which I love, and the vulnerability of a single woman traveling alone without money worries me. But a seed was planted. And I admire them so much. I have a feeling I would do this for a few months, and then never want it to end. Who knows…
If you’re curious, check out their amazing travel blog, and the links where they give full information on how they did it and how you can too.
Living Without Money
This is the first installment of a series called Living Without Money. This (r)evolutionary concept of living and traveling without any money that I currently have a huge big crush on. So, starting with this one, I will bring you more and more tasty temptations, to maybe open your mind to the possibility of leaving it all behind, and living without money. You can even bring your dog. Or your parrot. Or your kid. Right now I’m at a point where I’m living with very little money. Over the past 4 years I have deliberately earned substantially less and less each year, and learnt to do more with what I have. At the end of this financial year I will have earned less than the US minimum wage, by a third, by choice. I can’t tell you how many lucrative projects I have turned down this year, that I used to gag with excitement over, because they didn’t feel right or I just simply didn’t need the money. Currently I live on around $6 a day, all incl. And I am happier than I have ever been.
But this woman has lived with no money for 14 years. There are different ways of living without money. This is one way. I’d prefer to be more self-sufficient, and have my own home to come back to, on self-sustainable land, but what she’s doing, might be perfect for you:
Protect the Western Arctic Reserve From Big Oil
The Western Arctic Reserve, also known as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, is the largest tract of unprotected, relatively pristine public land in the United States. The 23.5 million-acre reserve is home to imperiled polar bears, seabirds and one of the densest populations of nesting raptors in the world. Its shores and lagoons harbor beluga whales, seals, walruses and other marine mammals. The BLM is accepting comments on a planning document that sets the stage for oil and gas leasing in the western Arctic for decades to come. Help save this national treasure by telling the BLM to protect the Western Arctic Reserve from dirty fossil fuel development »
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