Collected Audio (with Mitch Wayne)

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I followed a blind man into the jungle...

I’m not sure why but I was sure he could lead me. I was sure he could take me through the wild jungle ahead and we would both come out mostly unharmed. I was sure that among my choice of guides, 2 of whom had sight, I would look like a fool to choose the blind man for this specific journey in fact all of my peers chose the other 2 guides. Yet, the way he carried himself re assured me. He was not the most fit guide or the most well spoken on top of his obvious disability. But while the others led with their eyes he led with his feeling. When the other guides eyes failed them they would become entangled in obstacles and instead of immediately fixing their situation they would angrily claim “I never saw that coming, this shouldn’t be happening!”. Yet when the blind man came across obstacles he quickly overcame them as if he had done it a million times, no matter how intense the obstacle he would laugh and feel his way through, knowing there would be peace on the other end of the jungle. So I chose him & stayed very close behind just as he felt his way through obstacles I felt his ability to lead. And as I expected, we made it through the jungle to the other side with very little injury & far ahead of the other guides. As we got to a safe place the blind man stopped and congratulated me for making it out of the jungle, then asked if I was planning on exploring more in my life. I replied yes and he began to laugh then grabbed me by the shoulders and said “I suggest you do what I did around your age... I suggest you get rid of your sight & make yourself blind” I looked back puzzled, for all I knew the blind man had been this way since birth yet he proclaimed he took his own sight away around the same age I currently was... I asked him “Why? Wouldn’t that just set me back? I mean how am I supposed to relearn my way of life”. He said back “Notice the other guides, we are very very far in front of them. There is a lesson here: if you are always relying on your eyes to see all the possible issues you may encounter you will always be caught by unexpected events, our eyes are not 360 degrees... However when you accept the fact you will never be able to see all the possible problems & learn how to calmly move through any problem you can conquer any jungle in front of you. Therefore I recommend you get rid of your own sight & instead, practice feeling”

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