1) | It would highlight a domain in which participation participation would be a totallly new, vivid experience. |
2) | It would bring forth instinctive or reflex behavior and other underlying molding patterns. |
3) | It would be appropriate to the inspiration and intention of the research. |
4) | During the implementation of the project, I would need to have more than just a coolly intellectual point of view at stake: I would need to be "up against it". |
5) | The results of the research on myself would be applicable to everyone. |
6) | The context would be such that ultimately the only point of my completing the project and making happen what I said is going to happen would be that I gave my word that it would happen. |
1) | motorcross |
2) | long distance swimming |
3) | marathon running |
4) | tai chi chuan |
5) | flying |
6) | gliding |
7) | hang-gliding |
8) | skydiving |
9) | scubadiving |
10) | jetskiing |
11) | rugby |
1) | Give my word that I would complete the project, no matter what. |
2) | Share as much as possible as widely as possible with as many people as possible about BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING at every step of the way. |
3) | Enroll in and complete the skydiving intensive offered by Atlantic Skydivers. |
4) | Skydive. |
5) | Observe what happened from the creation of the project through to its completion and document all of it. |
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This essay,
BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING,
recreates the foreword to the first edition of my
thesis
of the same name (there are five editions so far). The entire
thesis
with all five forewords, incidents, abstracts, observations, and
conclusions is available online at
http://www.laurenceplatt.com/breakthrough |
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