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ADVENTURE
January 20, 1993
Climbing Aconcagua
A Jeff Shea Adventure in 1993Aconcagua Notebook
January 20, 1993 Mendoza, Argentina
One of the most basic and telling observations that can be made about the human race is their penchant for taking huge tracts of land and claiming it as their own, giving it a name and drawing imaginary lines around it over which they will pit their lives.
Recently it struck me about how limited we are in our thinking. Granted, our need to survive requires us to focus ourselves, yet I momentarily glimpsed the world outside the context of language, custom, rules and even my own way of thought. It later occurred to me that it seemed like what the Taoist philosophers call the Great Tao.
Excerpt Climbing Mount Everest
This is the story of my climb of the North Ridge of Mount Everest in Tibet.
Fear. I have a weak stomach for being in situations where I do not have control for my safety. I think most who know me wouldn’t see me that way….
Excerpt Hawaii, A Broken Lava Tube
This is the story of how a broken lava tube killed Nagar and almost killed me.
Excerpt Walk Out of the Highlands of New Guinea, 1983
The trek through the interior of the world’s second largest island, New Guinea, herein described, had its first beginnings when a sea captain entered my father’s place of business in March 1982 in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I happened to be sitting in front of a computer terminal. He began describing his proposed venture in November. Just before he left, I asked if he needed any crew. He said, “Maybe.” I went to visit him, got on as an alternate, and eventually became crew, totally inexperienced as I was. I worked weekends for six months getting the boat ready. On October 31, Halloween, there was a party in the evening, and we set sail at 9 pm in a 41-foot Morgan Out Island. Forty-two days of actual sailing brought us to Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands.
ECONOMICS
Excerpt A World Changed For The Better
Introduction
This paper contains my views on the state of the world. It includes my observations on key socio-economic problems and suggestions as to how to resolve them. My ideas for global improvement can be distilled into one fundamental theory:
The human world will improve exponentially if human effort is diverted away from destructive, meaningless and unproductive activities towards objectives that are globally beneficial.
I term this the Theory of Global Improvement.
LOVE
PHILOSOPHY
Excerpt Philosophy in Action with diagrams
28 October, 1983 Solu Khumbu Region, Nepal
This notebook is to be an exploratory work aimed at directing myself towards the completion of a cohesive set of goals and a statement of my personal mission. I want to derive lists of what I really want and what activities I want to be involved with. I want to synthesize a statement expressing the Focal point of these endeavors. Then I want to develop a plan designed to further my pursuits, to help me gain ground and to finally achieve my “goals.”Realizing this process is an important one, I want to be very thorough, and by the time I am finished with this notebook, I may still have more notebooks to fill before the task of designing goals is finished. Further, I believe that planning is a continual process. That is, once I design goals, I will plan for them, but, as time goes on, while the goals may stay pretty much the same, the plans should be constantly revised, feedback obtained, digested and a new plan formulated.
I want this process to be fun, and I invite myself to write in this notebook anything that might seem relevant or important, even if at first glance it seems rather obscure or unrelated. Thus, as I decide what I want, I may also describe past experiences, what I learned, how I felt, changes in my thinking, general reflections,, and so on. I may hypothesize about the future, where I will be, my future state of mind, the potentials, the possible environment—the world, where we’re headed.
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