Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery

PlanetSpores.ca
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

General Interest > Philosophy, Sociology & Psychology
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Skydiving, a very zen experience
    #1751889 -

Nothing is more "living in the moment" than jumping out of a plane nearly two miles from the ground (10,000 feet) and accelerating to 120 miles an hour for 37 seconds and pulling your cord at six thousand feet to enjoy a canopy ride of about five minutes. Nothing makes you feel more alive.


I went for the first time this spring and I plan to go again here in a week or two.
Has anyone else done this, and if so, did you consider it to be a spiritual experience???


--------------------
"Plus one upvote +1..."
--- //
-- :meff:
  /l_l\/
--\-/----

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Skydiving, a very zen experience [Re: SpecialEd]
    #1751906 -

I haven't yet.. that is something I have always wanted to do though.


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Skydiving, a very zen experience [Re: Shroomism]
    #1751954 -

I highly recommend it. I did a tandem jump, which means an instructor was strapped to the back of me during the jump. Everyone who I talked to it about (people who haven't skydived) said that was stupid and they would rather do it themselves. But when you have just opened your chute, it is nice having someone with thousands of jumps telling you how to steer and whatnot, plus, a tandem jump only takes 20 minutes of training, then you get a nice 20 minute plane ride and the experience of a life time. Also, I get to say that I have ridden in a plane, I have just never landed in one.


--------------------
"Plus one upvote +1..."
--- //
-- :meff:
  /l_l\/
--\-/----

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Skydiving, a very zen experience [Re: SpecialEd]
    #1751967 -

Heh..good stuff


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Skydiving, a very zen experience [Re: Shroomism]
    #1752030 -

I've always really wanted to.. I love heights.

though, now i wonder if i should tempt fate like that

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Skydiving, a very zen experience [Re: Grav]
    #1752065 -

right before I jumped, leaning out of the plane, I was thinking about all of the bad things I had done in my life, and how, if there was a christian god, he had the perfect opportunity to kill me, but I lived.

Also, I figured, if I survived, I had a great experience, and if I died, I died of my own accord and i would have died during a great experience. Definately worth $150.


--------------------
"Plus one upvote +1..."
--- //
-- :meff:
  /l_l\/
--\-/----

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Skydiving, a very zen experience [Re: SpecialEd]
    #1752131 -

there was this dilbert cartoon:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Skydiving, a very zen experience [Re: domite]
    #1752511 -

Yeah dude! I have been skydiving since i was 17 and have 500+ jumps.


--------------------
--------------------
We're the lowest of the low, the scum of the fucking earth!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Skydiving, a very zen experience [Re: Scarfmeister]
    #1752567 -

I would love to skydive but im scared shitless of the idea. I know the freefall would be one of the funnest things but I dont think I could have fun until i was sure that my shute would open...maybe i would...but i know the drift back to land after. Falling has gotta be my #1 fear...im not afraid of death, i can think of no way i wouldnt mind dying...i could be tortured indefinately...but not fall. i love airplanes, but i always get paranoid. =[


--------------------
"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
Jorge Luis Borges

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Skydiving, a very zen experience [Re: Quadrant6]
    #1752886 -

i dont trust planes, heheh

but if your going in one to jump out of it anyways, then it would be all good.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Skydiving, a very zen experience [Re: Grav]
    #1753262 -

ilove such stuff. I am paratrooper in the army right now. I have 9 jumps:-) From C-130 and from Chinook


--------------------
I'm back after 5 years!!!!

My cubes grow log (brf spawned poo) 6 years ago.

My outdoor grow log 6 years ago...

My pan cyans grow log from 2004!!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Skydiving, a very zen experience [Re: SpecialEd]
    #1755286 -

I agree skydiving is grate , I have 32 freefall jumps you need 30 to get your licence.
I don?t skydive any more thou was a grate experience when I did.
I never did tandem because I wanted to learn on my own, but If you just want a one time experience is well worth it.
What I learned with skydive was the meaning of fear.
If you want to feel your balls jump to your mouth do skydiving!
It is a grate challenge to confront those feelings.
And is true about the feeling of being alive, you become so aware that even your vision changes, the notion that this could be the last act in your life is very powerful.
In one particular jump I when into a "zone" as soon as I exited the plane time slowed down, I was so at peace, I was seeing the ground get closer yet, I almost did not care I was mesmerized, even thoughts crossed my mind like, what will happen if I just keep going, and then boom My reptilian brain kicked in screaming pull, pull, pull.
Well skydiving was a big thing in my life especially I did most of it in Arizona?s Desert.


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Skydiving, a very zen experience [Re: LOBO]
    #1756501 -

LOBO said:
even thoughts crossed my mind like, what will happen if I just keep going, and then boom My reptilian brain kicked in screaming pull, pull, pull.



Ahh... the beauty. It definitely puts things in perspective.
Peace.



--------------------
:redpanda:
If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving every breath of you
:heartpump: :bunnyhug: :yinyang:

:yinyang: :levitate: :earth: :levitate: :yinyang:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Skydiving, a very zen experience [Re: fireworks_god]
    #1757538 -

Best. Thing. Ever.

I've only jumped once (tandem), but am looking at purchasing my own pack and canopy right now and enrolling in classes to get jump certified. I think there is more potential for personal addiction in this one activity than in any of the other things I've been addicted to in my lifetime (cycling, tripping, baseball cards, paddling, in no particular order).

Seriously. Do it.


--------------------
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
  --  Howard Zinn

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

General Interest > Philosophy, Sociology & Psychology
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* what is "zen"
( 1 2 all )		 Larrythescaryrex 3,209 36 10/18/02 03:19 PM
by Xibalba
* My essay on Koans and the Zen arts. Anonymous 1,285 6 12/16/02 09:57 AM
by 3eyedgod
* Zen Meditation
( 1 2 all )		 TinTree 3,821 22 03/15/04 05:23 PM
by peleg
* ESSAY:Psychedelic induced mystical experiences by Alan Watts tekramrepus 3,072 6 03/21/03 01:43 PM
by pattern
* ZEN lucid 1,003 8 07/11/03 10:19 PM
by phreakyzen
* ZEN Remy 1,168 16 12/26/02 01:02 PM
by Strumpling
* Satori,,conversion experiences(please post) ZenGecko 1,375 15 12/20/12 10:54 AM
by Rool Kat
* Zen and cattle rosewoodpete 677 5 06/04/02 07:24 AM
by rosewoodpete

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Middleman, DividedQuantum
2,057 topic views. 0 members, 17 guests and 40 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.034 seconds spending 0.01 seconds on 16 queries.