MORE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES.....
artwork: Natalie Caroline and Fiann Paul
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LIST OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES / THE MEANING OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
This is probably the best article I’ve ever written. It is about Indigenous peoples and to some degree about myself. It was published by National Geographic Poland; here is Google Translate version
It was later republished in English by Explorers Web
There are also two more great interviews that I would like to share, I mean exceptionally good and completely uncensored. These touch upon the topic of the article above as well:
Tygodnik Powszechny (free to read after signing in)
Thank you, ambitious journalists for making the effort to develop good questions and for having the courage to publish.
Great interview that smoothly captures the depth and breadth of my work.
CHARTERED GEOGRAPHER of the Royal Geographical Society
I am honored to receive this award and be approved in this standard.
“I think one of geography’s greatest strengths - one of its greatest pleasures - as a discipline, is the way that it gathers together very different talents and skills, and puts them to work together in the task of understanding the world we all share.”
Depth Psychology Studies
Today I defended my thesis at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. What comes to my mind is a fragment of “The Lake” by Edgar Allan Poe:
“In spring of youth it was my lot
To haunt of the wide world a spot
The which I could not love the less-
So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,
And the tall pines that towered around.
But when the Night had thrown her pall
Upon that spot, as upon all,
And the mystic wind went by
Murmuring in melody-
Then- ah then I would awake
To the terror of the lone lake.
Yet that terror was not fright,
But a tremulous delight-
A feeling not the jewelled mine
Could teach or bribe me to define-….”
I received a prestigious note for this accomplishment
Special thanks to those who dedicated extra effort to support me in this journey: Haukur Ingi Jonasson, Marianne Meister-Notter, Tomasz Pasikowski, Mark Winborn, Ursula Brasch, Krystyna Weglowska-Rzepa, Gerold Roth, Gerhard Kubik, Ronja Hübscher, Jeames Philip, Max Black, and others whose support I may not know about.
HONORARY MASTER MARINER
I feel extraordinarily honored to receive an Honorary Master Mariner from the Association of Master Mariners at Maritime University in Gdynia, Poland.
Honorary degrees are awarded very selectively in Poland. Master Mariner is the highest internarional seafarer qualification. In Poland, one needs to study for approximately 8 years to achieve it. There have been only a handful of Honorary Master Mariner titles awarded by the Association of Master Mariners in Gdynia. Among these recipients are some notable names such as Lech Walesa and Pope Francis.
ICE AGE HAIKU
In dawning light
Watching icebergs
Coming out of age
Ice Age haiku, photo: Fiann Paul
The Sirens by N.C. Wyeth
“Long way home
Sea so deep
Hard way home
Sea so addictive
I find myself in waves
But in truth I'm going home…
…I find myself in mermaids
But in truth I'm going home”
-Fragment of “Odysseus” by The Dumplings:
EQUINOX HAIKU
Equinox
Graceful stroll on this orbit’s
Razor’s edge
EPIPHANY HAIKU
Lightening strikes
It fills my lungs with scent
Of enlightenment
Stardust Haiku
If science not proof
human body from stardust,
your stellar presence.
Music of Tundra Haiku
Meadows green
Loud stampede
Music and windy staff
copyrights: wikimedia
Several attempts of explorations were recorded also among the representatives of the animal kingdom. The curiosity to pursue the unknown is inherent in all living beings. Here is one of my favorite examples. If only humans had this shameless courage!:
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning#Wilfrid_de_Fonvielle
“M. Colon, Vice-President of the Geological Society of Paris, saw a ball of lightning descend slowly from the sky along the bark of a poplar tree; as soon as it touched the earth it bounced up again, and disappeared without exploding. On 10th of September 1845 a ball of lightning entered the kitchen of a house in the village of Salagnac in the valley of Correze. This ball rolled across without doing any harm to two women and a young man who were here; but on getting into an adjoining stable it exploded and killed a pig which happened to be shut up there, and which, knowing nothing about the wonders of thunder and lightning, dared to smell it in the most rude and unbecoming manner”!
Mental Strength Haiku
(Superiority of nervous system over the metabolic aspects of performance)
Poseidon shocked
by performance
of Electric Eel
"Crystal Pillars" Haiku:
Brendan the Voyager
called it
"Great crystal pillars"
P.S.
Scientists call it "solid state of dihydrogen monoxide at sub-zero"
But what do they know of the heroic journeys?
"a painter who lived with the religious terror of the overwhelming ocean"
"It was commonly believed that the mind, body, and soul each had to be developed and prepared for a man to live a life of arete. This led to the thought that athletics had to be present in order to obtain arete. They did not need to consume one's life, merely exercise the body into the right condition for arete, just like the mind and soul would be exercised by other means"
"Arete is a significant part of the paideia of ancient Greeks: the training of the boy to manhood. This training in arete included: physical training, for which the Greeks developed the gymnasion; mental training, which included oratory, rhetoric, and basic sciences; and spiritual training, which included music and what is called virtue."
DAO Haiku:
Depth: Psychology
Art and
Ocean
all connect to.