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I have the hiccups. To be specific, I’ve hiccupped pretty much non-stop for the last 24 hours. The taxi driver is freaking out a little. Not bad, and not about my hiccups, but the anxiety level is rising in the car. We’re lost. <Hiccup> “Where you friend go? He drive too fast! This the street! Continue reading Baptized in Bali: Lost, found, purified, reborn  
My screeching alarm clock coincides perfectly with the call to prayer from a nearby mosque. It’s before dawn and I’m both disoriented and angry. Where am I again? Oh yeah. Cairo. Why am I awake so early? Oh yeah. Emil. I’ve just worked two weeks straight and, regardless of the opinions of the muezzin or Continue reading Sunday in the Valley of Salts 
This intriguing lecture will include sites in Bali, England, France, Eastern Europe, Hawaii, America, Egypt, the Sinai and the Holy Land. Topics will include geomancy and earth energies, sacred architecture and geometry, solar and stellar alignments, psychology, spirituality, religion, the alchemy of travel, quantum mechanics and some fascinating new discoveries about the science and psychology of Sacred Places. Continue reading Sacred Sites Around the World – Theosophical Society, Seattle- December 19th, 2010 
Join me on Thursday July 15th, from 7 pm to 8:30 pm, at Mystic Journeys Bookstore in Venice for a talk on travel photography called “Capturing the light of foreign lands.” Mystic Journeys Bookstore 1319 Abbot Kinney Blvd. Venice CA 90291 Telephone: (310) 399-7070 July 15, 2010 7:00pm – 8:30pm info@mysticjourneybookstore.com Mystic Continue reading El Nur: Capturing the Light of Foreign Lands – Presentation: Mystic Journeys, Venice- July 15th, 2010 
Join me on Thursday May 6th, from 7 pm to 8:30 pm, at Mystic Journeys Bookstore in Venice for a talk on travel and spirituality called “The Secret Alchemy of Travel.” Mystic Journeys Bookstore 1319 Abbot Kinney Blvd. Venice CA 90291 Telephone: (310) 399-7070 May 6, 2010 7:00pm – 8:30pm info@mysticjourneybookstore.com Mystic Continue reading The Secret Alchemy of Travel – Presentation: Mystic Journeys, Venice- May 6th, 2010 Join me on Sunday November 8th, from 4pm to 5:30pm, at the Theosophical Society of Seattle for a new talk on travel and spirituality called “The Secret Alchemy of Travel.” Theosophical Society of Seattle 717 Broadway Ave. East Seattle, WA 98103 206-323-4281 After more than a decade traveling to the world’s most sacred places, Greg Continue reading The Secret Alchemy of Travel On our last trip we docked near a small village in upper Egypt and went into the town (this is one of the advantages to sailing on a private dahabeya) where we ran across a wedding celebration. The local woman were dancing in the streets and they just spontaneously invited us to join them. It Continue reading HD Video: Wedding Celebration, Egyptian Village near Kom Ombo An unedited clip shot at a friend’s stall in the “Alley of the Tentmakers.” This is truly authentic Egypt – not a place that tourists visit (though we take all of our groups). This is where you can find the most beautiful, intricate, hand-made quilts & embroidery at truly amazing prices. Continue reading HD Video from Spirit Quest: The Alley of the Tent Makers Here’s an awesome piece of video – it’s period footage from Egypt circa 1932. For those of you that know Cairo, this footage show a SHOCKINGLY clean city. Since the brits were in charge then the narration has more than just a whiff of colonial prejudice to it. For example… “Across the street the Dragoman Continue reading AMAZING period footage from Egypt, 1932. What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? -Buddha Shakyamuni Just before this last Christmas I flew from Los Angeles to Seattle to spend the holiday with my family. A sudden snowstorm closed the airport in Seattle and forced our diversion to Spokane, which ironically was itself sitting under 3 and half feet of snow, but where the airport was at least open. The scene at the airport was a kind of panicked chaos. It was now well past midnight and the tiny airport was overwhelmed with rerouted travelers from up and down the West coast. There were no facilities, no food, not much information, and many unhappy people. Continue reading Lessons from the Road: Hipless in Seattle Here’s a brief handheld POV clip, shot with a pretty crappy camera, of worshipers streaming into (and out of) Besakih Temple on the slopes of Mt. Agung, in Bali Indonesia. Continue reading HD Video from Spirit Quest: Besakih Temple, Bali Indonesia This is the first entry in a periodic series about the temples of the “Sacred Balinese Mandala.” Today we begin with the center, the heart, the most revered of all nine temples: Besakih. Bali is often called the land of 10,000 temples, and while no one actually has quite an exact count, that’s as Continue reading Balinese Temples: Besakih – The Mother Wow. Now this is an amazing story. Talk about travel with a higher purpose: these three people are traveling more than 600 miles over three months, in the most extreme and dangerous condition you can imagine, in order to measure the polar ice cap. Here are three videos: two interviews with the leaders and overview of the expedition. Continue reading Video: Interview with Ann Daniels of the Catlin Arctic Survey Here’s a video podcast of the inimitable Mr. Cleese making fun of standard issue tour guides. Continue reading John Cleese Taking the Piss out of Tour Guides I’m just about to leave for Egypt: Spirit Quest is leading “The Spirit of Moses” for two weeks. Cairo, Alexandria, Aswan, Philae, Kom Ombo, Luxor, Karnak, Dendarah, Abydos, Edfu, Sakkara, Giza, Wadi Feran, Mt. Moses, St. Catherine’s Monastery. I am so EXCITED about this trip. We’ll doing a spiritual pilgrimage through Egypt and to Sinai, Continue reading A Trip to Egypt: The Spirit of Moses I expect that by now many of you have seen the “Where the Hell is Matt” video – but it’s worth spreading the meme further. It’s terrific – Matt both lives in Seattle and worked in, then left, the videogame business. Even terrificer! Here’s a Flickr slideshow of some new shots of Luxor Temple (shot during Spirit Quest Tour’s recent HBU trip to Egypt and the Sinai). Continue reading New Photos of Luxor Temple For the last eleven years in Egypt, independent travel to places like Abydos or Denderah was forbidden by the government. Numerous cities could only be visited by tourists who traveled together in armed convoys. Happily this decade-long restriction has been lifted. This might seem like ironic news in light of the recent horrific events in Continue reading Tourism as an Act of Bravery Here’s a video slide-show of hundreds of beautiful shots from our recent “Sacred Mandala Pilgrimage” to Bali. Continue reading Video from Spirit Quest Tours: The Spirit of Bali |
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