right here, the very first word demanding its peculiar rationale and context: what this is all about, why we are recording everything , and why we are publishing it in the form of a blog.
In their early fifties two people, a man and a woman who are lovers, spouses, partners and business associates to each other and who have been a variety of these for close to three decades, decide to suspend a successful business in Australia to isolate themselves from society in a home to be shared with 10 other people of varying ages and nationalities on a small, remote island off the south coast of Denmark in order to attend a ridiculously expensive educational programme run by an unusual man of roughly the same age who has been touted by some as the greatest horseman alive and brushed off by others as a narcissistic pretender. Her name is Vicki, his is Andrew and we are the couple involved. The unusual man is Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling.
We will be relinquishing the daily grind for a year to undergo what we believe will be a life-changing experience. Acutely conscious of this, we have decided to devote ourselves exclusively to this experience to the point where we refuse to plan a future that is to follow it. Any future will be born of the experience.
This blog has been set up to record our reflections on and in relation to this experience both in the lead-up to it and during the experience itself. In particular, we will be seeking:
- to keep our family, friends and anyone else who is interested up-to-date with our progress;
- to learn how to become the kind of human that a horse can trust and look to for leadership without the aid of force or mind games;
- by doing this to become conscious human beings who are not ruled by regrets or fears;
- to learn whether we are capable of doing this.
You can find out more about us and this abandonment of rational pursuits right here.
Vicki and I will be posting our own reflections independently of each other but will do so through the same blog. We welcome all feedback and will try and respond to all questions that are presented to us.
In the meantime I have a question for you. When we first considered this undertaking, we felt that we were stark raving mad to even think about it. Yet intuitively it represents a focus towards which we have been growing for several years now. We think that we are mad to do this but would be madder if we did not. What do you think?
