Title: MindsEye

Why “Rareflight”? 

Rareflight comes from a book by Gordon MacKenzie called ”Orbiting the Giant Hairball”.  Believe it or not, it's about getting more creativity and productivity in (and out of) dull corporate workplaces!   Anyway, within the book, Gordon posts an anonymous newspaper clip he collected. The clip says the following:

Rare Flight

Departing From: Devious Dependency
Destination: High Triumph

Not the plundering triumph of machismo where the game is to crush a brother or a sister, to become the  victor of the day - tomorrow's distinguished prey. Not that triumph. There is no deliverance there. Not that triumph, but the triumph of finding your divine humanity. To be divinely human - profoundly, passionately human, you must dare to forsake the fear-fed grappling for security that enslaves your spirit. Say “Goodbye, Dependency!” Unfold your wings. Brave skyward to the sanctity of grace, whole in the knowledge that - though the mud of your beginnings will soon reclaim you - you are living your moment, heart and soul. 

So, Rareflight.   Nice to meet you.  Me? I'm a wanderer.  I've wondered on a spiritual path now for decades; and while we never arrive, we do keep going and we're better for it. I've traveled some of the world, but certainly not all - who has?

But my perspectives have continuously grown and evolved over the years and my passions, which were really there all along, have grown as well. Those are (in part) environment / ecology, social justice, sustainable business practices, and finding ways for everyone to just get along. Oh, and health / fitness and taking care of myself physically, mentally (a la “sharpening the saw”), and spirituality.  What gradually dawned on me was slowly but surely those things were beginning to converge on one point.

Edward O. Wilson called it Consilience: Eventually knowledge in all areas evolves to a point where it eventually begins to converge on one point.  Ahh……….no, not that I have it all figured out!! :-) But I do feel a certain amount of consilience / convergence happening in my life, which brings a certain peace.
For example, eating as low on the food chain as possible (ergo, vegan/vegetarian) and living a healthy diet / lifestyle turned out to be one of the best things I could do for the planet…just as important as the car I drive (not its not a hybrid!). 

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