Hitchhiking The Path
-Always pick up hitchhikers, with discernment. And never go hitchhiking unless you have to.
The Spiritual Nature of the U.S.A. is a combination of enlightening spiritual concepts and hilarious observations from my experiences traveling in Americana Postmodernica. The Spiritual Nature of the U.S.A. explores the terralogical influences of North America. Terralogy is akin to astrology, only it’s the study of how the physical elements, the terrain of Earth influences humanity, rather than the celestial bodies.
People used to say that, ‘the solution to pollution is dilution,’ mainly the people who polluted. And as shitty of a modality as it was, there was some truthiness to it, but no more. Americana Postmodernica began when pollution could no longer be diluted. Americana Postmodernica began when the ‘dilution’ of pollution became just part of the saturation.
Whether hitchhiking or rolling in the newest machine we are all in this together, we’re all on the same path. It may not seem like it on a day to day basis, but we are dependent on others, mainly that they don’t entirely soil the way behind them. We are dependent on each other and we are going to the same place at our own pace. So no matter the divergent trails, and no matter the different sideshows and events, it’s all just ‘on the way’ so to speak.
It’s all just another stop on the way to ascension on the path. Deny that and you end up figuratively stuck at a rest stop in Bakersfield, or literally revisiting the same experience rather than expanding to new experiences. Soon enough you’re so caught up in your own limitations of your own story and doing that they all are quite convincing. You end up in a monotony funk or worse, having addictions, unable to move passed them.
I always try to see everyone that’s around me as my neighbor, and potential new friend. Wherever you go there is practically always local pride or localism, but when you’re traveling or moving you are local wherever you are. As long as you care for the land and liberty of everyone in your area you become local. Being friendly in this manner probably saved my life on more than one occasion and definitely saved me from being bruised or imprisoned on many occasions. Wherever travelers go everyone around us is our neighbor. And they are all doing different things, on different phases of the path, maybe caught up by different sideshows, but we are neighbors at that particular time, so always pick up hitchhikers, with discernment.
Always pick up hitchhikers because whoever is desperate enough to hitchhike today obviously needs help. Always pick up hitchhikers, and while traveling the path you should be using discernment all the time, not just when picking up hitchhikers. I advise to never hitchhike unless you absolutely need to because in Americana Postmodernica the people who have the time and the wherewithal to stop and fight you vastly outnumber those who have the spare time and inkling to help you, though there are plenty of kind people in the world.
Most people consider themselves good and kind, but often the same good people just won’t stop to pick up hitchhikers. Mostly only kind people will pick hitchhikers up, but you just never know. Hitchhiking is not easy and can be dangerous. At one point I hitchhiked as my main mode of transportation. I refused to own a vehicle for about three years. It worked because I was devoted to snowboarding, and lived in a small ski town where hitchhiking was commonplace.
When hitchhiking though, sometimes it felt like no one would pick me up and once when I was ignored on the side of the road for what seemed like hours, I came up with an experiment. The experiment risked me being accosted or maybe run over, or who-knows-what, but I thought it would be the perfect, seemingly spontaneous social experiment that could actually get an honest look into the human psyche!
The experiment involved subject A (me) standing with my snowboard on the road that went to only one place; the ski resort. There was no chance of prison escapees posing as potheads going to the Tahoe interior to hideout. Indeed practically everyone on the road was going to one and the same place to do the exact same thing. Subject A, on failing to get ride hitchhiking, then proceeds to give subject X (every male who was driving by themselves, who had plenty of room in their vehicle) the middle finger.
I went from hitchhiking solemnly to flipping people off boldly when it was obvious they weren’t going to pick me up…to see what would happen. I only did it to dudes, because despite the fact the road was only going one place and so forth I just didn’t feel right about flipping women off for being afraid to pick up hitchhikers realizing it would only give them reason to ultimately more afraid. I was vaguely proud of the controlled parameters of my experiment and began my observations.
Well, it turns out that a great deal people who are way too busy to bother with you when you show them your thumb have all day to stop in the middle of the road and argue with you, plenty of patience to hang around and threaten you, and open calendars to take revenge on you for the next few years when you show them your middle finger! It absolutely astonished me how many people who ignored my thumb stopped to threaten me with because of my middle finger. I was offered physical confrontation there and then, as well as at a later date at ‘the bars’ and even threatened with the blackout of my ski pass because of people the offended was connected with, because I showed them my finger. I squashed every attempt at bravado and confrontation by exclaiming, ‘Really? You’ll stop for this but not for this?! You’ll stop for my finger, but not my thumb?!...Can I get a ride now?’
My brilliant social experiment reveals a lot about where I was spiritually and psychologically at the time to even think of doing that! But it was my intention to investigate what would happen and demonstrate to people that they are illustrating the worst traits of life in general and life on the road specifically. You’ve got to pick up hitchhikers especially in such controlled circumstances.
Sidenote: When I hitchhiked in Chile people with way to many other people in the car picked me up with my snowboard and made it happen.
My experiment proved to me we have to start helping each other and stop hindering each other, that we need to not be so quick to attack and so slow to assist. It also revealed to me socially and historically we would rather hinder than help, go to war than raise help for.
The whole experiment is reflective of a lot concerning Americana Postmodernica. We, generally speaking, would rather hinder than help. It is reflected in our war culture and the fact that most people won’t pick up hitchhikers, but they’re ready to throw hands. This typically usually begins when someone is mistreated and then it cascades into a negative reaction and mistreatment of others. Try to be different than the mistreatment cascade. Be open to assisting your neighbors on the path. To begin, you can always pick up hitchhikers, with discernment. Try not to get stuck into thinking and/or saying the ‘No one helped me so I help no one,’ construct.
The Spiritual Nature of the U.S.A. is a travel guide to the United States of America for spiritual and conscious travelers. It’s an exploration and an understanding of how the physical elements influence our spiritual and psychological thinking and being.
I found the inspiration for The Spiritual Nature of the U.S.A. on a cross country book tour I took from Mendocino, California to Maine. I actually had no defined point to end my journey other than visiting family in Maine, but made new friends on the way and new potentials, in Maine.
The journey took about five months to complete basically living in my van with my dog and staying with friends on the journey. I explored many parts of the country on that trip and have at one point or another visited practically every state in the continental U.S.A. I have also visited Canada and Mexico by car in the past, as well as lived in many different parts of the country extensively. My experiences living in and travelling across the country are the sources I draw upon for The Spiritual Nature of The U.S.A.
Enjoy The Spiritual Nature of The U.S.A. for more (FREE EBook through 2/17/21!
-Always pick up hitchhikers, with discernment. And never go hitchhiking unless you have to.
The Spiritual Nature of the U.S.A. is a combination of enlightening spiritual concepts and hilarious observations from my experiences traveling in Americana Postmodernica. The Spiritual Nature of the U.S.A. explores the terralogical influences of North America. Terralogy is akin to astrology, only it’s the study of how the physical elements, the terrain of Earth influences humanity, rather than the celestial bodies.
People used to say that, ‘the solution to pollution is dilution,’ mainly the people who polluted. And as shitty of a modality as it was, there was some truthiness to it, but no more. Americana Postmodernica began when pollution could no longer be diluted. Americana Postmodernica began when the ‘dilution’ of pollution became just part of the saturation.
Whether hitchhiking or rolling in the newest machine we are all in this together, we’re all on the same path. It may not seem like it on a day to day basis, but we are dependent on others, mainly that they don’t entirely soil the way behind them. We are dependent on each other and we are going to the same place at our own pace. So no matter the divergent trails, and no matter the different sideshows and events, it’s all just ‘on the way’ so to speak.
It’s all just another stop on the way to ascension on the path. Deny that and you end up figuratively stuck at a rest stop in Bakersfield, or literally revisiting the same experience rather than expanding to new experiences. Soon enough you’re so caught up in your own limitations of your own story and doing that they all are quite convincing. You end up in a monotony funk or worse, having addictions, unable to move passed them.
I always try to see everyone that’s around me as my neighbor, and potential new friend. Wherever you go there is practically always local pride or localism, but when you’re traveling or moving you are local wherever you are. As long as you care for the land and liberty of everyone in your area you become local. Being friendly in this manner probably saved my life on more than one occasion and definitely saved me from being bruised or imprisoned on many occasions. Wherever travelers go everyone around us is our neighbor. And they are all doing different things, on different phases of the path, maybe caught up by different sideshows, but we are neighbors at that particular time, so always pick up hitchhikers, with discernment.
Always pick up hitchhikers because whoever is desperate enough to hitchhike today obviously needs help. Always pick up hitchhikers, and while traveling the path you should be using discernment all the time, not just when picking up hitchhikers. I advise to never hitchhike unless you absolutely need to because in Americana Postmodernica the people who have the time and the wherewithal to stop and fight you vastly outnumber those who have the spare time and inkling to help you, though there are plenty of kind people in the world.
Most people consider themselves good and kind, but often the same good people just won’t stop to pick up hitchhikers. Mostly only kind people will pick hitchhikers up, but you just never know. Hitchhiking is not easy and can be dangerous. At one point I hitchhiked as my main mode of transportation. I refused to own a vehicle for about three years. It worked because I was devoted to snowboarding, and lived in a small ski town where hitchhiking was commonplace.
When hitchhiking though, sometimes it felt like no one would pick me up and once when I was ignored on the side of the road for what seemed like hours, I came up with an experiment. The experiment risked me being accosted or maybe run over, or who-knows-what, but I thought it would be the perfect, seemingly spontaneous social experiment that could actually get an honest look into the human psyche!
The experiment involved subject A (me) standing with my snowboard on the road that went to only one place; the ski resort. There was no chance of prison escapees posing as potheads going to the Tahoe interior to hideout. Indeed practically everyone on the road was going to one and the same place to do the exact same thing. Subject A, on failing to get ride hitchhiking, then proceeds to give subject X (every male who was driving by themselves, who had plenty of room in their vehicle) the middle finger.
I went from hitchhiking solemnly to flipping people off boldly when it was obvious they weren’t going to pick me up…to see what would happen. I only did it to dudes, because despite the fact the road was only going one place and so forth I just didn’t feel right about flipping women off for being afraid to pick up hitchhikers realizing it would only give them reason to ultimately more afraid. I was vaguely proud of the controlled parameters of my experiment and began my observations.
Well, it turns out that a great deal people who are way too busy to bother with you when you show them your thumb have all day to stop in the middle of the road and argue with you, plenty of patience to hang around and threaten you, and open calendars to take revenge on you for the next few years when you show them your middle finger! It absolutely astonished me how many people who ignored my thumb stopped to threaten me with because of my middle finger. I was offered physical confrontation there and then, as well as at a later date at ‘the bars’ and even threatened with the blackout of my ski pass because of people the offended was connected with, because I showed them my finger. I squashed every attempt at bravado and confrontation by exclaiming, ‘Really? You’ll stop for this but not for this?! You’ll stop for my finger, but not my thumb?!...Can I get a ride now?’
My brilliant social experiment reveals a lot about where I was spiritually and psychologically at the time to even think of doing that! But it was my intention to investigate what would happen and demonstrate to people that they are illustrating the worst traits of life in general and life on the road specifically. You’ve got to pick up hitchhikers especially in such controlled circumstances.
Sidenote: When I hitchhiked in Chile people with way to many other people in the car picked me up with my snowboard and made it happen.
My experiment proved to me we have to start helping each other and stop hindering each other, that we need to not be so quick to attack and so slow to assist. It also revealed to me socially and historically we would rather hinder than help, go to war than raise help for.
The whole experiment is reflective of a lot concerning Americana Postmodernica. We, generally speaking, would rather hinder than help. It is reflected in our war culture and the fact that most people won’t pick up hitchhikers, but they’re ready to throw hands. This typically usually begins when someone is mistreated and then it cascades into a negative reaction and mistreatment of others. Try to be different than the mistreatment cascade. Be open to assisting your neighbors on the path. To begin, you can always pick up hitchhikers, with discernment. Try not to get stuck into thinking and/or saying the ‘No one helped me so I help no one,’ construct.
The Spiritual Nature of the U.S.A. is a travel guide to the United States of America for spiritual and conscious travelers. It’s an exploration and an understanding of how the physical elements influence our spiritual and psychological thinking and being.
I found the inspiration for The Spiritual Nature of the U.S.A. on a cross country book tour I took from Mendocino, California to Maine. I actually had no defined point to end my journey other than visiting family in Maine, but made new friends on the way and new potentials, in Maine.
The journey took about five months to complete basically living in my van with my dog and staying with friends on the journey. I explored many parts of the country on that trip and have at one point or another visited practically every state in the continental U.S.A. I have also visited Canada and Mexico by car in the past, as well as lived in many different parts of the country extensively. My experiences living in and travelling across the country are the sources I draw upon for The Spiritual Nature of The U.S.A.
Enjoy The Spiritual Nature of The U.S.A. for more (FREE EBook through 2/17/21!
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