Posted by admin on Sep 13, 2016
Here are 3 of the Core Values I have when traveling: #1 – Going Slow Often times–especially if we’re Americans–we have just a few short weeks or less for a vacation, and we want to pack as much as fun and excitement as we can into that brief time. So we tend to travel with a feeling of a scarcity of time. This can have us focused in on ourselves and focused on getting–getting as much experiences and as many photos as we can in that short amount of time. One of the things I am going to show you how to do, if you come and travel with me or if you take my Carpe Diem! World Traveler LINK course, is how to get more time for longer journeys and sabbaticals. When you come and travel with me, it’s a requirement that we’re not in that scarcity mode. We’re not in that mode of taking and trying to just get as much as possible from the short time that we have. There’s something that’s really magical that happens as we just trust the journey, take our time to go slow, to connect with what we’re feeling, notice who our heart is calling us to connect with, take the time to build relationships and being open to the invitations that we receive along the way. This is one of the most miraculous things that’s happened to me on my travels. I don’t plan most of my own travels. Instead, I go slow, stay connected and follow heart-felt invitations. That’s something we’ll be doing if you come and travel with me. I require that we’re not in that rushed state of mind. Now, it’s OK if we start feeling this scarcity of time as we travel, and I’ll just bring reminders for us to slow down and trust. So if you’re interested in a change of pace and slowing down, de-stressing and learning to travel and live in this kind of a way, then maybe you’ll want to come and travel with me. And if not–if you want to cram as much as you can into your short vacation time as possible–then there are probably some better options or tourist packages that are better for you. #2 – Respect Many times in American culture, respect is lacking in our interactions. Partly this is from our value of independence and individuality. We want to be self-expressed and speak up for ourselves, but often...
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Posted by admin on Sep 13, 2016
It’s Michael Skye. I have something I’m really excited to share with you! Traveling the world for the last 7 years has transformed me, my life, my view of humanity, my way of relating to people, my experience of being alive, my self-expression, etc. And I’m so excited to share this with you. I’ve led some safaris in Africa, designed to be transformational. And I have a new idea for adventures I can take people on, and today I’d like to give you a preview. I’m here in beautiful Chiang Mai, Thailand, where I am staying with a friend who invited me to come spend some time with him. Much of my travels over the last 7 years have been gifts from people I’ve met along the way.. I talk a lot about the Gift Economy in my Carpe Diem! World Traveler course. … If you haven’t participated in that yet, I highly recommend you do so… kind of like a revelation. I have to keep traveling and to show people what I am experiencing, because it’s so beautiful. So here’s my idea for a journey Thailand (and perhaps later, for other parts of the world as well). This is an invitation to come and journey with me in Thailand for a few days, 1 week, 2 weeks. It’s designed to be a welcome into this culture that I love, this beautiful land, the beautiful people. It’s designed to be a soft landing and a welcome–not the kind a tourist would receive–but like someone who is coming home to family. Designed to be … transforms you. It opens your heart further, opens your world view, opens you up to new ways of expression, joy, aliveness, compassion… I am designing this journey to be a transformational AND sustainable. What … so you can ret Alowing you to return here with ease… staying for months or even years at a time, if you like. Can be a second home for you, if you want it to be. The idea is you turn your next 2-week vacation into a “Gateway Sabbatical”, where you spend your time in such a way that it opens up a whole new world for you, and makes it easy to return to this place. While you are here journeying with me, I am going to give you an introduction to easy ways of connecting with the locals, Fun ways of learning the Thai...
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Posted by admin on Jun 17, 2016
As I’ve traveled the world the last 7 years, I’ve encountered a ton of “racism” directed towards me. In Uganda I was the only white man to ever stay the night at a rural school. I stayed for months and was routinely mocked and laughed at for my whiteness, told white people speak like birds, etc. This was standard at breakfast, lunch and dinner–at a table full of Catholic nuns. In Thailand white people go by the name of a funny fruit which is quite commonly used as a pejorative. In Chile I learned that women from the United States share the same name as a crude sex act. There are many in the United States who would call none of this “racism” because it is being directed at white people. Those same people would be quick to label as “racist” any expression that could be taken by a member of a minority ethnic group as the least bit offensive. But the non-stop belly laughs I shared with my Ugandan sisters over many months and more than a thousand meals together came from largely from our racial teasing and stereo-typing. We mocked and laughed the superficial things that could otherwise have kept us separate. Our racial teasing brought us far closer together than they ever get to other whites, with whom they’d never share their true opinions for fear of offending, and far closer together than I would have gotten to them if I’d tried hard to never offend them. I find the same thing among many of my African American, Mexican and South American friends–especially but not exclusively the males (like the older male characters in the barber shop in Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino who connect by calling each other the worst of racial insults)–that this kind of teasing brings us closer together… but of course, certain personality types, cultures and individuals don’t get this at all and are only offended. Of course some joking is actually intended to insult and offend. It’s not about the content, the words–it’s a matter of context, of my heart, of my intention. In my experience sometimes the best tool to bring down walls and create connection is teasing and humor–ESPECIALLY the kind that could be labeled “racist” in the country of my birth. In my experience shaming people and ways of expression as “racist” does nothing to create compassion or a more beautiful world. It may shut...
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Posted by admin on Apr 7, 2016
I met a young Israeli man in Chile just after the New Year. He came to South America looking to reconnect to himself, his power, his authentic desires for his life… and years worth of study of practical spirituality, such as Toltec wisdom. He had earmarked certain locations in South America and Mexico that he felt might hold wisdom for him, and a sense that he wanted to spend time with a shaman and perhaps experience Ayahuasca. The day we met, I had been in a holding pattern, waiting for the signal–the knowing–that it was time to depart for Brazil to plan and launch the adventure for men I have been envisioning and working on. I recognized his moment in life as a Ronin Journey. We talked about Honor, No Compromise, Tesão and Ayahuasca. Then our journey began towards Brazil. We chronicled it in several videos, and I intend to share it in the coming weeks and months. Now, 3 months later we are contemplating another journey. A deeper journey into power and wisdom, as he is seeking training in mastering the Honor Window, and more… The visions I have for taking Western men on grand adventures into LIFE continue. Stay...
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Posted by admin on Jan 2, 2016
I have had many visions about a return the Wealth Warrior work and culture over the years. My next big steps towards these visions in 2016 are 1) the release of my Ronin Diaries series directed towards young men who identify as outsiders, rebels and/or revolutionaries, 2) the second beta-test of cross-cultural transformational adventures for...
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