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I have been lax in updating my readers on my latest adventures but rest assured I have been having them. I have lived in 7 different places in the first 8 months of 2011. Things seem to have settled a bit as I have been in the current place for 3 months. Time to BIM – write my newsletter has been scarce as has Internet access at times. A little re-cap:

• I got my second hip replacement in May 2011 correcting the tweaking detailed in my Everest Interruptus post. I was walking 3 miles a day beginning the 11^th day after surgery. In the fifth week I hiked 30 miles through the Santa Monica Mountains here in LA.
• I am back to training for the Himalayas and have been hiking from 20 to 40 miles a week in the mountains. I attribute a lot of my rapid recovery to http://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Grass-Servings-8-5-Ounce-Container/dp/B00112IM56 . I bought a jar of it and gave it to my world class ortho surgeon, Dr Andrew Yun.
• I also credit my acupuncturist, Miranda Brocki of Santa Monica for my great current health. I am taking Reishi mushroom extract from her and a mixture of herbs for longevity and strength.
• I took http://www.landmarkdirectaccess.com/  course in October and impressive things have happened. I am a great believer in Landmark Education offerings and spent 10 years ending in 1990 taking all the courses and seminars they offered including the est Training, The Forum, the Six Day Advanced Course, many seminars, and assisting at the Six Day. To briefly summarize Direct Access: “we”, humans, store our thoughts, feelings, and thoughts about how we experience ourselves AND our actions in neuronal patterns. When a situation in the present causes a neuronal pattern to become active ALL the thoughts and ACTIONS associated with the pattern become active. We do not have choice in how we act. When I have time I’ll attempt to write this up more cogently in a newsletter. Some of the references associated with the course are Demasio - Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain ; Ludwig Wittgenstein ; Edmund Husserl ; Martin Heidegger

So, of all the stuff that’s happened the best was camping in the desert in Death Valley at natural hot springs for all of February and March as I had nowhere else to live. https://picasaweb.google.com/115628322404008008798/Trips_2011

The full Moon of March 19^th, 2011 was the Super Moon. I was sleeping in my tent in high 30’s temperatures in bright moonshine with the tent illuminated like a light bulb. I would never have chosen to go camping at that time but was forced into it – I had nowhere else to go!

I meet a lot of accomplished people. I read tons by really bright people. The thing that seems of inestimable value is ACTING – going there, seeing it for yourself, EXPERIENCING IT – whatever that is for you. Getting back to the neuronal patterns, we, whoever and wherever we are, are situational. Generally, to change your patterns change your situations! Go to India – go to the desert – GO.

More later

I know, it’s not later yet. I decided to start a hedge fund as a result of being in the Landmark work – it seemed like the most outrageous thing I could think of to do!. A few weeks later I was applying for Food Stamps but did not qualify.