Good morning friends and readers,
the ongoing highly active and productive fase of my new independent life increases continuously the backlog of important experiences, which I would like to share with You here in my blog.
Today it`s the turn for sharing with You some impressions and insights from the wonderful “Nature Quest” event, which I have gained together with a wonderful small group of international friends on the eve of our joint participation in the 1st Global Horasis Meeting South America in Vitoria, Brazil, at the end of October 2024 in the enchanting “Rolling Hills” region in the interior of the beautiful state of Espirito Santo.
When Dr. Frank-Jürgen Richter (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frrichter/), the Founder and Chair of Horasis (https://horasis.org/), an independent, international think tank headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, invited me to participate as speaker in 2 panels during the spectacular event in Vitoria, I also received the invitation to participate together with a very small group of people from around the globe in the pre-event “Nature Quest”.
The organisers of our “Nature Quest” experience were Benjamin J. Butler (https://www.benjaminjbutler.com/) and Sujith Ravindran (https://www.iofc.ch/sujith-ravindran), two very impressive and quite famous personalities and spiritual leaders.
When I registered as participant, I was purely driven by my curiosity. I had no clue what would expect me and I knew none of the other participants, including Benjamin and Sujith.
It all started with our arrival at the quite small and very simple, rustic farm an hour’s drive from Vitoria in the mountains. All participants arrived one after the other so that we could get to know each other. Sujith and Benjamin welcomed all of us warmly.
My arrival at our accommodation for the next 3 days, together with (left to right) Benjamin, Deniz and Sujith.
What were Benjamins and Sujith`s intentions and plans with regards to our 3 days “Nature Quest” escape event from our normal lives and routines?
We should, for this very limited period of time, leave all our common material prosperity and our routine daily agendas behind us and instead of this enjoy the spiritual experiences and inspirations of Sujith and Benjamin altogether without prejudice, as a gift for us.
Our “nature Quest” group, together with our lovely local catering assistants. That`s how it all started…
It doesn´t make much sence – nor for me nor for you – to give You a detailed report about everything and all we did together during these 3 event days. Instead of this here in a nutshell. We hiked for 3 days in the beautiful mountains and participated in the numerous spiritual activities, including meditation, poems, deep conversations, intensive exchange of ideas and personal experiences and we practiced altogether some fisical exercises instructed and supervised by Benjamin and Sujith.
Instead of much description of our beautiful joint experiences I rather prefer to share plenty of visual impressions from this unique nature experience with You.
Sujith impressed me deeply with his wisdom and experiences
As mentionned earlier, we were just a very small group of 6 participants from all around the globe, who did not know each other before this event: Jonathan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-keim/), Connie (Dr. Connie D. M. (Nee Strong) Allsopp | LinkedIn), Deniz (Deniz Erkus, CFA | LinkedIn), Jerry (Jerry J Zhang | LinkedIn), Nikolas (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolasmancebo/) and myself. And for sure our guides and new friends Benjamin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminjbutler/) and Sujith (Sujith Ravindran | LinkedIn.)
This`s was our complete group…
The advantage of such a small group is clearly, that – even during a very short time period available – You come very close to each other and get to know each other quite nicely.
The beautiful landscape has made it easy for us to temporarily forget our normal everyday life…
One of the richnesses of our “Nature Quest” event was, that all participants were from different countries, continents and had totally different personal & professional backgrounds.
During 3 wonderfully inspiring days the path was our only goal…
The intensive mix of amazing nature and landscape discoveries and spiritual group experiences made this event unique for me. I admit frankly spoken that I never have been very open minded towards spiritual ideas and experiences. My “Nature Quest” event participation did not change my mind completely with regards to spiritualism, but it opened it up.
What impressed me deeply was, that during our mountain hikes we came to many nature situations which gave the impression of doors…
And what I also liked very much were the typical quick brazilian (by the way – I found the same nature phenomenon during my intensive travels in Africa) daylight changes in the morning and in the evening…
One more natural “door” scene…
Benjamin and Sujith during a rest…
And one more “door” scenerary…
Together with Jonathan and Sujith in our morning circle…
During our hikes, which in parts were quite steep and challenging, we made short breaks for recovery of our forces and for drinking water. During the days it was quite hot and we always enjoyed it very much when we could walk a while in the shady woods.
“Nature Quest” mission completed – conclusion of our joint escape experience and departure back to Vitória for the opening of the great Horasis Global Meeting event.
I hope You liked my short “Nature Quest” experiences report. Please feel free to ask me if You would like to know more about it.
No other video clip fits better to this post than Ludovico Einauldi`s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovico_Einaudi) wonderful live Experience presentation at London:
Enjoy the rest of the weekend and don`t loose touch with my blog and me.
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