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6/23/2025, 7:57:49 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPR9bIl3VZw
I am 42 years old.
I grew up playing Outside.
My parents were nature loving hikers, campers, backpackers and skiiers and took their kids on their adventures Outside.
In doing so they provided their children with the highest spiritual education.
I played little league baseball and basketball and loved it, I was a cub and boy scout and loved it.
Walked and bicycled all over town as early as the third grade, without adult supervision with friends, as was the norm then.
I excelled in school because I loved it because all the rich activity and exposure to beauty inspired an insatiable curiosity. Because learning wasn't a struggle for me it was a pure joy; I was a teacher's pet.
When I was 12 my friend showed my some old mining caves where we lived (Auburn, a mid-sized town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada - gold rush country) which were like labyrinths of passages and rooms straight out of Zelda. I played the original Zelda and it helped to fertilize a fascination with these caves.
Except I still had a residual fear of the dark from childhood that made me apprehensive about exploring the caves alone (which REALLY isn't a good idea, but hey, I survived.) So one day I summoned my courage and went in alone into the biggest chamber of the cave and sat in the dark for two hours to get over the fear. It worked perfectly. Ever since then my occasional nightmares of malicious fearful things in the dark was replaced by wonderful cave dreams where adventures in caves led to amazing places. I had naturally found a way to initiate myself into an adult embracing of The Unknown.
The mix of fear and fascination with the dark didn't emerge out of nowhere: it was also fertilized by cultural stories about things such as UFO's and ghosts. And my fascination with UFO's and space aliens led to another adult blossoming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPR9bIl3VZw
I am 42 years old.
I grew up playing Outside.
My parents were nature loving hikers, campers, backpackers and skiiers and took their kids on their adventures Outside.
In doing so they provided their children with the highest spiritual education.
I played little league baseball and basketball and loved it, I was a cub and boy scout and loved it.
Walked and bicycled all over town as early as the third grade, without adult supervision with friends, as was the norm then.
I excelled in school because I loved it because all the rich activity and exposure to beauty inspired an insatiable curiosity. Because learning wasn't a struggle for me it was a pure joy; I was a teacher's pet.
When I was 12 my friend showed my some old mining caves where we lived (Auburn, a mid-sized town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada - gold rush country) which were like labyrinths of passages and rooms straight out of Zelda. I played the original Zelda and it helped to fertilize a fascination with these caves.
Except I still had a residual fear of the dark from childhood that made me apprehensive about exploring the caves alone (which REALLY isn't a good idea, but hey, I survived.) So one day I summoned my courage and went in alone into the biggest chamber of the cave and sat in the dark for two hours to get over the fear. It worked perfectly. Ever since then my occasional nightmares of malicious fearful things in the dark was replaced by wonderful cave dreams where adventures in caves led to amazing places. I had naturally found a way to initiate myself into an adult embracing of The Unknown.
The mix of fear and fascination with the dark didn't emerge out of nowhere: it was also fertilized by cultural stories about things such as UFO's and ghosts. And my fascination with UFO's and space aliens led to another adult blossoming.
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