Year: 2011

“You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”

I throw myself out there and don’t mind being judged by my peers, ridiculed, nor am I afraid to make a fool of myself, or shout when I’m angry. I have a voice, and for what ever reason, people who listen to it.

I’ve been thinking of my agenda and what I want from Project BlueSphere going forward. It’s not money, fame, or ego. It’s simple, I want to help people unplug as I always have. I don’t want to fight the system, nor do I want to tear it down. I just want to open a a very small door and let the people who seek freedom walk through it. I will also provide a country on the other side of that door if only it is to live in our hearts. It will be a country governed by the sea, and one where we will not be afraid. Baby steps.

Someone just said he only sails on weekends and sails more than I do. Project BlueSphere is not about sailing and never has been. I’ve sailed more miles than most but its not the point. Project BlueSphere is about one man’s quest for freedom, how he found it, and how he continues to live in it. I wish it to be a road map. Freedom does not come easy or without a fight. Ask my friend Ross who has been in and out of the hospital for years with one simple goal. To buy a small boat and go cruising. He is, and he is a hero to me!

Personally…, for me Project BlueSphere is about being a minimalist, being personally responsible, and taking action for my future. It’s about consuming little, living large, and sharing with my comrades.

Some of you may think I’m “Stuck” in Panama and you are so far from the truth its absurd. I’m exactly where I want to be, and for those of you who have been around for a while I’m sure you can see that.  

“I know why you’re here. I know what you’ve been doing, why you hardly sleep, and why night after night you sit by your computer. You’re looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn’t really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It’s the question that drives us. It’s the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did…The answer is out there, and it’s looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.”

I believe my readers are looking for freedom and the truth. Perhaps I’m wrong and your just a bunch of beer swilling arm chair sailors waiting to see me plow across another ocean and write about the sea. But the meat my friends is in-between the lines it’s in the reality. I’ve opened my mouth and yelled, and I will do so more often. I’m not afraid of my readership dwindling, judgment, or a loss in film sales. I just want the truth!

“The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, or when go to church or when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth”

It is the system that leads us to believe we should work every day until we are 65. It is the system that leads us to believe we need to pay exorbitant amounts of money for health care and insurance, it is the system that makes you believe it is acceptable to pay tax on everything in our “reality”, it is the system that wants you to believe everyone is out there to hurt you. It is the system that puts mothers in the work place, and it is the system that wants you to believe you are free. The system is control. Freedom my friends is free, just realize it and take it.

I’m a real person, not a TV show, please don’t judge me like one. I cry, I get angry, I love, and I hurt. I’m also in a very different position than most. I’m on the outside looking in. And what I see is not acceptable to me. If I turn my back on my readers, and only write about all the beautiful places I see it would be a great injustice. It would be “fluff”, unreal, and untrue.   

If you never question authority, and care only to be a socially, and not personally responsible citizen I don’t think my blogs forward will interest you. Aside from my IRS, sister, and uncle issues I cant figure out simple things like, why does every apple in the supermarket have to have a plastic sticker on it? Why do the supermarkets still give every person who walks threw them fist full’s of disposable plastic bags. And why do most men work all year for a few weeks off?

Maybe together we can figure these things out?

Out of the whole Zeitgeist film:

http://www.zeitgeistthefilm.com/

It was JFK’s words that sent shivers down my spine. They are very real words and you should hear them.

Peace, Love, and Change.

– Alex