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Relationship to Core Wave
Are we following the same journey as the ancients? If so, where are we going? Does it really matter?
Connection Tunnels
Hopi Survival Kit
The Bridge
Highlight Quotes
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
- -Unknown
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"Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has been momentarily interrupted by extraneous forces. Believe
me, we are travelers. If we don't have traveling, we have nothing."
- - don Juan, Readers of Infinity by Carlos Castaneda
Geographic Location
Far east somewhere, but everywhere in general should understand the importance of learning
from what we've done, instead of worrying about how it will affect us in the long run.
Images and Clips
I would suggest a game called "Heaven and Earth." Just a game of puzzles, but one that
"makes you think."
Access and Distribution
Not sure who the vendor is...it's a really old game, though.
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Main Submission
The symbol, most easily catagorized as a wheel, is made
up of a circle and straight lines which intersect each
other at a designated point in the middle.
There is a group of monks who live in the Far East. As
a type of initiation into the group, each young man is
given the task of runner. Every day for a year he wakes
at dawn and runs up a mountain, where he prays and
meditates. Upon finishing his meditation, he runs back
down the mountain. He is going nowhere. Even though
his path covers a great amount of distance, he is no
further from the beginning than when he started.
However, just like in a circle, the experience itself
is what is important, not necessarily where one ends
up. The spiritual plane the young man rises to, along
with the discipline of learning dedication and faith
even though it promises no definite outcome, is why
the process exists.
The symbol shows a path with many opportunities for
shortcuts. However, in taking the shortcuts, one
misses out on the importance of the experience, and
ends up in the same place he or she started.
The same can be said for life. A child's first steps
mark the graduation from an entirely dependant state,
to one where a life is forged. Shortcuts to a "happy"
life can be taken, but in reality the path within one's
self, a circular path in which the person can never be
truly finished, is what needs to be completed. That's
the journey. It's what's important, not the end
product.
Follow Ups
It reminds me a little of a Pink Floyd song I liked
a lot in high school called "The Gold it's in the..."
The final lyrics went:
"All I wanna tell you, all I wanna say,
is count me in on the journey don't expect me to stay."
A journey around the wheel does move one back to
the beginning but the wheel if it is rolling has
moved ahead to a different position. Two different
ways of looking at it but I don't think these
perspectives are in any kind of conflict. Both
exist simultaneously and both journeys contain elements
of both kinds of journey.
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