The Adventurers Quest

My proposal for Grand Natural Challenges to all explorers, adventurers, daredevils, seekers, gurus, suits, malcontents, techbros, empowered women, large canines, and other humanoid life forms

About a month ago I watched a movie. Actually, I watched two movies. First, the original Point Break starring Keanu Reeves. Next, I watched the 2015 remake starring Luke Bracey, if you’re a Netflix user you may have seen him in the rom-com Holidate.

The two movies are not masterpieces by any means. Entertaining, without a doubt. Summer blockbuster types, but the movies had some mystical depth, in particular the second movie.

Specifically, it had some compelling spiritual and ecological themes, ideas, and philosophies underneath the main cops and robbers story. The plot is pretty basic and silly. So, I won’t get into it.

However, the two movies combine two seemingly different worlds into what I call, “daredevil spirituality.”

It is simply the pursuit of enlightenment through death defying stunts like jumping out of airplanes and into caves, flying through mountains in wingsuits, surfing impossible waves, and so on.

The True Explorers Grand Slam adds seven more peaks above 8,000 meters to the challenge. But the spirit is the same. Climb some big mountains!

Now here is my addition to the lists. I call it The Adventurers Quest. And I plan to add to it over time. This list may seem impossible to complete in one lifetime. So, try to complete it in a few lifetimes!

Natural Challenges awaken our inner fires and spirits, modern life can get so boring, believe me I know. Why do you think so many great stories, myths, and epics commemorate great physical feats, like the 12 labors of Hercules, or Jesus’ 40 days in the desert, or the Buddha’s austerities toward enlightenment?

The reason is simple, human beings need adventure.

We don’t all want to live and work in a pod all day, then return to another pod we rent called an apartment, and then sit in front of a bunch of screens in another pod we call our living room or home office, then retire to bed, rinse repeat and eventually die.

We don’t want to live like techno-rats, we want to live like human beings.

There’s a place for technology. But it’s not a foremost place. It’s a tool after all, for human well-being. And even has a place in many of these challenges. Nevertheless…

Doing just one thing on my list can change your life. I know that to be the case for me and others close to me.

So, feel free to add to the list and more importantly, to check things off the list. Enjoy the ‘venture!

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