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Next Adventure: Solar Flight Around the World
Bertrand Piccard next adventure: Solar Flight around the world
In a hot air balloon, Dr Bertrand Piccard circled the world. He, and partner, Brian Jones, did this in twenty days in 1999. The trip broke records and was called the "last great adventure of the twentieth century." But that's not all.
What I found most interesting about Bertrand Piccard's TED Talk (below) is how Piccard expressed the adventure of the balloon flight as metaphor for his spirituality. The title of one of his lectures is called, Adventure is a state of mind: the metaphor of the first around-the-world balloon flight.
Bertrand had an interest in human potential before he embarked on the balloon flight. He was influenced by his mother's interest in philosophy and spirituality. He became a doctor specializing in psychiatry and psychotherapy. His father and grandfather were adventurers. His father reaching the deepest waters of the ocean and his grandfather being the first to reach the stratosphere in a balloon.
In this metaphor of life, the balloon is prisoner of the air currents, just as man is prisoner of his convictions, problems or fate. But in the same way as a balloon changes altitude to find the currents that will drive it in a new direction, man can rise professionally, psychologically, philosophically or even spiritually, to become responsible for the direction of his life.
- Bertrand Piccard
We are what we choose to think
We are what we choose to think.
- Louise Hay
I met Louise Hay in the mid 1980's. I'll always remember her warm and true presence. I was teaching a class called The Onward Path at the time and using her book, You Can Heal Your Life, as the guide for the class. I had come up with the idea for the class just before her book came out. When I met Louise, I told her that I was using the book in the class. Shortly after that meeting, Hay House sent me a case of the books.
This link takes you to a video interview with Louise Hay on PBS
Garry Tan, a co-founder at Posterous, found a study by the American Psychological Association and posted an article with a similar title, You Are What You Think. So science is catching up.
