About Incas, expeditions and how in life one should remember death

В подборке утренних новостей в мире, читаю сегодня новостную заметку о том, что «в очередной раз самец гориллы убил человека…» Поразительная однобокость посыла! Теперь большинство людей, читающих хотя бы по утрам, будут думать, либо усилят свои представления, об агрессии этих исчезающих, как вид, приматов. Это вызвало во мне желание рассказать, как однажды, 7 лет назад, находясь в составе экспедиции Живая Параллель в Африке, будучи в коротеньком переходе через джунгли Руанды, наш проводник вдруг резко остановился и быстром движением руки остановил всю шеренгу исследователей. Читать далее...

International Festival in Travel and Tourism named after N.N. Miklouho-Maclay "Russian traveler" was held in Orel.

My lecture "Diagnosis: The Traveler", planned in three parts, one for each day of the festival, was received with interest by world-famous travelers. But, as they say, tell God about your plans and he will laugh - and it happened. The third part, in my opinion the most important, because of the time-bound regulation was not brought to the listeners. However, in this there was a plus, as this is the best reason to continue the relationship outside the festival and breaking the boundaries, regardless of the distance to complete the scheduled. Let's do it, my friends!

Surprisingly, there are 14 years between these books. That's exactly how long Leo Tolstoy felt one cycle of human maturation constitutes. He had an almost intimate idea of ​​dividing life into periods—conditional periods in which, every fourteen years, a person reaches a new level of understanding.

If, putting aside excessive modesty (briefly and strictly for scientific purposes), we apply this logic to ourselves, a curious picture emerges.