The explorer from the 1500s sought to explore new lands for at least one of three reasons: God, Gold, or Glory. Explorers may be called to explore uncharted lands for all of these reasons at once; but always at least one of them.
Today there isn’t any land to explore in the physical domain; the frontier has moved to 3d spaces.
The unexplored areas include the sea and all of space above us.
Both of these frontiers are hostile environments that cannot be accessed easily, even with the most expensive equipment made to explore the ocean, or space, foreign to our experience on Earth’s land.
Many feel the call to explore, to go somewhere new, but with nothing new accessible in the physical realm, that call is often unanswered, leading to lives of quiet desperation with wanderers desperate to explore.
“Most men live lives of quiet desperation”
Henry David Thoreau
The historic explorer is the modern wanderer of today.
Today we must wander for mastery, an internal exploration of Body, Mind, and Spirit(BMS). Exploration was a path to mastery for the explorer of the past that touched each domain of man.
To the explorer who wants to find their calling, there is an infinite frontier of mastery to explore in the domains of Body Mind, and Spirit(BMS) and it is available to you right now.
Pursue mastery for God, Gold, or Glory–mastery brings all three.
We hope to have more opportunities to explore the physical realm but for now, we must pursue what is made available to us, knowing our pursuits will take us to places previously unaccessible.
Mastery is always available.
Mastery is available to all individuals at all times throughout life. The path to mastery is more consistent than the best of friends and the most loyal of lovers.
The Muse of mastery will never turn her back on you if you show loyalty.
Every individual is an explorer but it is up to them to pursue exploration.
Below are the three motivations of the explorer that live in all of our spirits–and how you may use these motivations for your exploration and fulfillment.
For those who have the will to explore, you can explore every day.
God
God, or more generally a higher power, whether that be an entity or an object like the sun, has motivated explorers to seek new lands for thousands of years.
This motivation still rests in the spirit of every man, regardless of whether you believe in a singular God, Gods, or no God. Reality, or the universe can be God–we may never know, and we don’t need to.
You don’t have to be religious to explore for God. The universe can be your God.
The notion of a higher power is a fundamental human experience.
Your higher power can be relatives, friends, or heroes who have passed away–regardless if you met them or not–you can follow your path to honor your dead understanding that one day you will join them.
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God can even be a feeling. Like a feeling that you need to continue on the path you are on. That is your Muse pushing you towards your destiny.
Gold
Gold is the most physically valuable motivation for the explorer, but the least valuable pertaining to the domain of the spirit.
This is why wealthy people are often depressed. Understand being wealthy is not the same as being rich. A rich life can be lived without wealth.
The wealthy or wealth-focused set a goal for their spirit that once they have their wealth, they’ll be happy. But riches are not the amount of money you have, riches are the amount of fulfillment you have.
The poor East-Asian fisherman may have more fulfillment than the Western CEO.
Without a path to mastery there will be no fulfillment.
The pursuer of gold falsely believes that once they have their gold, that’s it. They’re set. But we’re never set. And that’s never ‘it’.
The gold-pursuer reaches their objective and has no more path to walk because they have not vowed paths to mastery, only a path to a pile of coins that has no purpose other than for a medium of exchange.
A medium of exchange is not a medium for fulfillment.
Glory
Glory is vitamins for the spirit. Glory is good for all souls.
Glory is often associated with combat, but it’s not isolated to combat.
Glory is the spirit being proud of the performance of the Body, Mind, and Spirit(BMS) when the wanderer is pursuing mastery in each domain, or multiple at once.
A grandmother who makes blankets for all of her grandchildren, who receive them with love and admiration–that grandmother will feel glory from her output and pursuit.
Glory is associated with fame. Being a legend. Being remembered.
This doesn’t have to mean celebrity, it means impact.
Grandma feels as much glory as a writer who publishes a best-selling book, if not more. She may not be known outside of her family, but she is remembered, and she may be legendary through her creation of her knit blankets. Grandma’s family cherishes her.
Glory is the depth of recognition from others.
Glory can become toxic if glory outside of the self is pursued with greater vigor than glory inside of the self–this applies to many things. Most things.
Pursuing glory for fame can be toxic because fame is a vice. But it can also be a motivating factor. If pleasure motivates mastery, so be it; just be careful of this relationship as it can turn toxic.
If fame is a motivating factor for the explorer, they must balance the pursuit of poison with the pursuit of health, pertaining to the spirit.
The pursuit of vice has no nutrition for the spirit.
The pursuit of fame must be balanced with something healthy, like the pursuit of mastery or the pursuit of doing good, otherwise the spirit will become intoxicated and will not be healthy.
The pursuit of fame–which is the pursuit of pleasure–can lead to the wanderer selling their spirit and their honor for the vice of fame, and vices can never be fulfilling to the wanderer. And when the wanderer pursues a vice instead of mastery, they often aren’t skilled, so fame and glory are not long-lasting.
Those who pursue vice are one-hit wonders who want to be famous instead of desiring to be good at something.
When the fame is gone, wanderers have their mastery. When the fame is gone for those who pursue fame, they have nothing.
Celebrity is pleasure, and pleasure cannot be fulfilled, so it must not be pursued.
The calling of the muse
God, Gold, and Glory are the three reasons explorers explored.
A calling to explore is a reason to explore but who does the calling?
God calls when the calling is not gold or glory, assets or individual recognition.
The muse can sing loudly when you approach her. Listen to the sound of your Muse, your GODian angel.
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