The Tao of the Trail

10/04/2021

01/04/2021

Why you need to know about symbols and archetypes sym•bol sĭm′bəl Noun A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. (Oxford Lexico) ar•che•type är′kĭ-tīp″ : the original pattern or model of which all things of th...

22/03/2021

“The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril”

― Niall Ferguson

This section of my blog is dedicated to the precious ideas, practices, philosophies and insights that have come to us from the people of the past and I have chosen to call it Ancestral Wisdom. I wanted to kick it off with an article that focused on one question: why is ancestral wisdom important? Cu...

19/03/2021

Many thanks to Federico Zanetti for another piece of amazing art!
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15/03/2021

A spiritual perspective on wealth, the Buddhist tenet of Right Livelihood and my personal pick for patron saint of enterprise.
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Featured Image: Gurdjieff and the Buddha by Federico Zanetti Wealth and Right Livelihood are such an important chapter of our personal stories and they occupy so much of our headspace, that they naturally take a central role in my work. The mission to “make it” in life and to “become someone.....

09/03/2021

Art by Putridus Cor, please visit https://www.artstation.com/putriduscor

08/03/2021

What's behind a name? Does the path transform the traveller?
Musings on life as a journey of personal evolution from a writer's perspective.

The story behind the project. Up until the end of last year, my work was in industrial machinery with the business that I had started almost eight years prior. As you can imagine, in the period prior to the end of that chapter, I had been having a number of conversations with my friends and family,....

16/12/2020

In Sanskrit, it's called "dhyana", in Chinese "chan" and in Japanese "zen".
What is meditation and why is it considered the key to the development of consciousness?

In Sanskrit, it’s called “dhyana”, in Chinese “chan” and in Japanese “zen”. What is meditation and why is it considered the key to the…

09/12/2020

This week we continue to look at how the way we evolved in our evolutionary niche continues to affect us now that we've long exited that context.

Many thanks to Michael Wachter for consulting with me on this article and lending his expertise on hunter gatherer cultures to help me write the best article I could hope for. https://www.instagram.com/michael_wachter/ Prehistoric ambition and the search for wealth in the wild San children have no s...

01/12/2020

Many thanks to Michael Wachter for consulting with me on this article and lending his expertise on hunter gatherer cultures to help me write the best article I could hope for. https://www.instagram.com/michael_wachter/ There is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot: man is his own worst enemy. Most...

25/10/2020