Quo Vadis?

Where are you going?

Sailing down to the shores of Eternity.

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“You are not where you are from; you are where you are going.”

(Ray Horvath)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCynyt9z8CQ

Evangelizing for the conquistadors* would not have ever been possible without the financing the explorers received.

I have always craved for challenges; there have been so few, although even a cursory count shows that I have outdone a cat, who has only nine lives, while I’ve had over 22.

And I am grateful, “Grazie”:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/this-is-how-i-want-to-die

Moreover, this is the way I want to live.

Is there anything more challenging than a leap in the dark? I did it at the age of 19 for the first time, and I thought it would kill me, but I didn’t want to be suffocated by my own “knowledge,” so I had to let go of all my attachments (according to the previous Polish Pope, this is where Buddhism ends and St. John of the Cross’s spirituality starts). After that, it became a routine with me, and on these very pages, I am still doing my work, perhaps for the Glory of the Creator for all I know. All I know is that I have no choice: the path is narrow.

One can always toy with the idea that the true explorers were puppets of their sovereigns, but that rules me out, because I’ve never profited from my efforts, used my knowledge against others, and even on these pages, I am still making about 15% of minimum wage, despite thousands of visitors a day.

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*The Spaniards’ financiers were definitely after gold and riches, but they also brought along their religion, which was a gentle one compared to the barbaric customs of the Americas. A movie, The Mission, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mission_(1986_film)) is one of the best about the era. Only two years after Columbus’ first discovery, the Pope divided the New World between the Spanish and the Portuguese in 1492 (https://www.grunge.com/473675/heres-why-the-pope-once-split-the-world-in-two/). As the natives died in the mines rapidly, a slave trade was created between Africa and the New World. Already in 1537, the Pope opposed enslaving native peoples (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/185.html) and declared that the natives were also human beings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimis_Deus). Eventually, about half of an estimated 10 million “imports” from Africa ended up in Portuguese territory, which is by and large, called Brazil these days…