IWALLK Lexicon

THE IWALLK LEXICON

Being Begged - Having someone beg for something from me.

Crossing - The trip from one US coast to another. By the time I'm done I will have made three: (1) New England Atlantic Coast to the Southern Pacific Coast, (2) The Northern Pacific Coast to the Gulf Coast, and (3) The Gulf Coast to the New England Atlantic Coast.

Die by service - My intention to keep serving even if the results of that service are what eventually kill me. It is specific to the service of my friends. (Please also see "Live by service" and "Service" below.)

Hiking Tarp - This is the small blue tarp that I use during heavy downpours to keep the tarp/fly from leaking. I found it at an abandoned campsite in Athens, Georgia.

Host - Someone who invites me to stay with him/her for one or more nights.

Journey - Some have called this term "trite." I needed a term for these traveling projects and had to name each separate part of my travels something, so I chose the word "Journey" for each. There have been four Journeys: (1) Odyssey, (2) A Manifest Destiny, (3) A Living Magazine, and (4) A Living Magazine - Homecoming.

Light Blindness - The phenomenon of light reflecting off objects at night, obscuring what may lay behind them. Whenever someone is in a bright area, dark areas are that much harder to see.  I rely on this effect for finding suitable sleep spots.

Live by service - My personal expectation for myself, for the rest of my life. It is specific to the service of friends. (Please also see "Service" below.)

Lucid Awareness - Sometimes this is called "Lucid Dreaming." But I believe that when I reach this state of consciousness while my body is asleep I am no longer dreaming, because my mind is fully awake. This process has evolved for me. I have come to realize that it is the Spark that initiates this state and now I use my time there to learn from the Spark.

The New Advent - What I did and what I experienced led to what I wrote about as the "New Advent" in the Manifest Destiny crossing. To me, it was/is for everyone—inside and out. I'd already suspected something similar myself for quite a long time before the first crossing. My discussion and statements about it weren't for my own benefit. I felt obligated to share these thoughts whenever times seemed appropriate for such sharing. Those readers who are inclined toward humanism, existentialism, agnosticism and atheism – and who don't interpret the things described above (e.g. the Spark, the unseen companion, the unseen observers or the Universe consciousness) as I do – may find that treating these subjects as fiction could still be entertaining. 

No one knows what's better for you than you do - Pretty self-explanatory.

Own where you are - Make where you are your own, even if it is only for one night or one moment/

The Point of Maximum Affectability (POMA) - The point at which a single decision or action yields the maximum intended result in any situation.

Prickers - Pricker bushes, like raspberries.

Primary Location - A location where I meet, and stay with a host for more than one night.

The Protector - A human friend - former military - who advised me and made sure I was well supplied to survive outside.

Safety Profile - The physical aspects of a sleep spot that make it less likely for humans or potentially dangerous animals to discover it.

Saggy - My LLBean backpack; named for the way it droops in back.

Secondary Location - A location without a host where I stay for more than one night.

Service - My particular definition of this word is expressed through this statement: "There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends." It was originally related to "death by service," but I decided to make it positive, and now relate it to "live by service."

Sleep Spot - This is where I rough camp. In earlier posts this was sometimes called a "sleeping place" or a "nest." It may variously be interchangeable with the term "camp site." 

Snaggy - My sleeping bag, named after the deteriorating zipper.

The Spark - This is a term I have used to name the piece of conscious infinity that I had felt for many years before the first crossing; something I believe is in my mind and every other human mind on this planet. Only after several weeks into the Manifest Destiny Journey did the concept solidify into a personal contactable reality for me. It is the internal Center of my intuition and the sixth-sense doorway to all transcendental realities, as I understand them.

Into it I send my volitional thoughts, and out from it comes its Will for me, along with its Power to influence the material world around me through its unified and unbroken contact with the Sparks of all other people and the minds of all other creatures. It is an entity that lacks a personality and seeks to become one with my personality. Together, the human and the Spark create a soul than can survive material death. Whether in this life or the next, they will fuse into one being, allowing the knowledge and experience of the Spark to combine with the personality of the human. Such a being becomes permanently immortal. 

Tarp/fly - This is the orange tarp that stretches over the tent. It is sometimes called a "rain fly" 

Tertiary Location - A location without a host where I only spend one night.

Think for yourself - A saying I've adopted from Timothy Leary. Self explanatory perhaps, yet I especially apply it to the rejection of all ideology (being the belief systems of other people), and use it to encourage the building of each of our own world views.

Under-tarp - This is the green tarp that I use as a "footprint" to lay over the ground and under the tent. It can also be used as an emergency tarp over the tent in heavy rain.

The Unseen Companion – The invisible presence of a being who spent large amounts of time with me on the first crossing. I felt him immediately after my decision not to give up and return to Maine and instead, headed out into the unknown from Boston's North Station on Day 2 of the Manifest Destiny Journey. It was as I began to walk toward South Boston that there suddenly "appeared" a being just outside my peripheral vision, while I felt his presence on the inside, as moderated by the Spark. He stayed with me through all of my time and struggles in New England and Pennsylvania until I arrived in St. Louis, Missouri, where I met RhonnaLeigh to stay with her for nearly two weeks.

Before that, while he was with me, he seemed to walk out ahead of me as I looked for sleeping places at night. He walked beside me, with a figurative "hand" on my shoulder, during the extremely long stretches (I did two 34 mile days of walking, for example), and during the stormy walks. He sat all night near me as I slept. He did not really function in any kind of material way, he was not there to protect me nor did he ever directly communicate with me.He was only there to be with me. And I did not feel alone at all during those times.

He rejoined me for my travels south through Missouri, then on through Arkansas. I believe he departed after my first nights in Conway, Arkansas. He then rejoined me as I headed out of Flagstaff, Arizona and stayed until I arrived in Fullerton, CA. I believe he has not been back since. I don't think he was a guardian angel or seraphim. In hindsight, I can see that he and the Spark helped train me for the Living Magazine Journeys, so that I could do it on my own, with only the Spark in my mind to guide me.

The Unseen Observers – On the hill where I camped in Tucson's Mountain Park, I "perceived" (in my mind) the Spark's presentation of hundreds of curious invisible beings who had come to that spot to simply observe this strange human--me.

Many were like the unseen companion and there were others too. I did not see them in the outside world, but rather overlaid upon it from my inner intuition, through the presentations of the Spark. I felt their sympathy as I asked to see a sign in the outside world—something they could not give me, or were not allowed to give me. To some extent I believe they have kept checking in on me ever since  that night, in the same way my human readers might be interested in knowing what I'm up to.

The Universe - A term I use for the Personality of the cosmos and the groups of collective consciousness that lie behind the inner portal of the Spark. I've felt that I am a human reporter, showing them our material world through the lenses of my eyes. I also felt that, although they can see our world from their more objective perspective, in order to perfectly fit their assistance to us into our world - perhaps through the New Advent to come - they need our subjective perspectives. I clearly realized that I was to be one of their foreign correspondents and cameramen on location.

In exchange for my open-eyed reporting--through the filter of my mind, they flashed certain aspects of their future plans to assist this world. I came to recognize that they are planning an official and semi-material contact with us in the near future. I came up with my own name for this: the aforementioned, New Advent.

I do not expect people to buy into my spiritual interpretation of what is happening to me. I am painfully aware of just how many other people in history have announced great paranormal events (second comings, apocalypses, alien arrivals from other planets, "Shifts" and Mayan prophecies, for example) only to disappoint those who believed.

I certainly don't see myself as a "prophet" and would be very disappointed to be either portrayed or thought of as one. But, in a sense, I do see myself as an unofficial messenger for the Universe about this future event and a reporter of current human life back through the Spark to the Universe. It is up to you readers to take that any way you want. If you just call me "crazy" you will be in good company.

If this messenger service is just a figment of my imagination, please understand that it is not being expressed as the result of "delusions of grandeur." There is no evidence to me that I am "special" or "chosen," nor that any other people aren't also saying the same things I am. It is simply important for me to tell what I'm personally going through in my own spiritual growth, and these are the ways I've chosen.

Wear your soul on the outside (WYSOTO) - A saying I've adopted from Terence McKenna to encourage being Real, practicing what we preach and opening up our lives to others. I have as my goal to eventually be seen for what was inside of me, by bringing it out through this blog. Someday I believe that all people will be spiritually beheld, instead of just materially seen. I think by the time I depart this world, my soul will be beheld in some similar way as I have described above.