For us grownups who may have stopped seeing the underlying magic, the hidden stories that throb underneath mundane existence. The mortgage, the office politics, the school bills, the traffic, hyperstressful work and the sicknesses it produces, the numbing TV, the deadening but seductive distractions.. whatever the favourite flavour of zombietude. It’s a dire social contagion. Too many of us urban humans indulge in these bits of “seriousness” as though it confers virtue. Looking too far out into economics, like zooming too far out into science, the timeline of evolution or astronomy can make us nauseous and deliver a bout of existential flu that would run civilization aground if we all got a peek in at the same time.

I hunt genius by passion and profession; so curious, unexpected and seemingly mundane places, people and everyday objects may glow with promise and life. Most won’t realise what they’re taking for granted.
The smart ones may feel it or even see it themselves, but mostly saved by a sudden rush of the rational to fill the uncomforable chasm of wonder.

“People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live… We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.” – Albert Einstein in a letter to his best friend Otto Juliusburger sometime in ’42

The better part of genius -that doesn’t get subsumed by madness or misanthropy perhaps- is kept alive by the childlike wonder. Wonder from the simple stuff that Uncle Walt drew out in poetry to the ridiculously-cool scientific improbability of human existence. Uncrutched by a blanketing binary religious belief it could do your head in. THAT, if nothing else is what most religion has stripped from us,  the possibility of looking nakedly into the total perspective vortex (thank goodness we had the indisputable genius of Douglas Adams walking with us for a while).. the feeling of entitlement rather than feeling absurdly lucky, is dangerous beyond any cruel weaponry we can fashion.

wow, sidetracked. Okay so essentially:
Intelligent fun are us. I’m taking what I do in my secret life (the arcana vitae) and sharing the magic that I’ve seen, woven into everyday urban life and crafting edventures that others might enjoy too. Into social learning experiences, urban games and unusually powerful travel experiences for the slim minority that take delight in learning (even if you’re a grown-up, with the academic papers and debt instruments to show it) rather than just looking cool and together.

I’m doing this with a group of brilliant ones like some kind of oldskool Explorer’s Society. Global citizens who are up for adventure beyond cracking the corporate C-suite. We may have mapped the physical but there is still so much yet to be discovered.
Ah, heady delights.
We’d love to do this with you if you too are not entirely convinced that the smug consumers life is the life for you (and you’re not heading out for a monastry anytime soon).