Insights from 4 Years of Living on the Road
- Nikita Ierisov
- Nov 21
- 23 min read
Traveling was something I was always dreaming since my teenage years I have to admit.
Because of that I have chosen to be a seaman, because back then I was thinking that was the only way. But at 24 I sitting the 6th month on the ship, I was realising that something must be wrong. And I decided to go India backpacking after I will comeback home to Odessa. My parents disapproved this of course, because strange as this may seem that had their own plans.
I went there with my girlfriend, and I think that was very first profound transformation that has influences me to this very moment.
As I can reflect until now the Vedic Culture impressed so much, that many of arts which I have practiced on the Way so far have their origin in Vedic culture, like Yoga, Jyotish and Mantra practice.
Apparently it was not enough for travels only, and in 2021 I decided to go somewhere else permanently. So I didn't know where exactly I want to live, so we would go to Bali with my girlfriend and friends because we liked it the most. And our intention was to study Yoga and Jyotish Astrology.
Writing this post I am reading my diary, and it is the best thing one can do, I believe. Because If I would do much frequently, I could avoid many mistakes I did and take a better decisions in terms of my life.
So even If I travelled since I was 18, I still was afraid to leave my home country permanently. I was thinking even: "Could I afford it ?" It is a strange questions to ask, because If it is your true goal you would find the ways. But apparently some forces are really supporting us on our way, because I started to study Jyotish Astrology, and learned that not only wandering, but also an immigration was the part of my quest. But also was another reason for that, I had near-death incident on ship, luckily no one got hurt in the end, but this incident forced me to re-consider what I am doing with my life. But not only that, it was also a divorce and I realised after the incident that I hate what I am doing.
Alchemists and Vedic sages say that our outer reality is a reflection of our inner reality. And I think that was the time I realised how right they might be. My emotions were on fire, and this fire literally manifested in my reality. I had fire in my apartment back home in Odessa, and two times on board of oil & chemical tanker where I was second in command. I neglected my intuition and instincts for so long that they eventually demanded to be heard - crashing into my life to get my attention.
So I was at the point where I understood I require a radical transformation of my life - so I chose it to be immigration, so we left Ukraine 6 months before the war had started.
The best insights of that times - is that overthinking is the worst one can do. It's always better to do something and to not be preoccupied with the result. Because result it is only feed-back from the reality. If we do not act, there is no feedback and we get stuck. If you have a feedback you can learn and adapt, without feedback you can only guess and daydream. And I daydream a lot.
6 months on Bali was immense time of studying Jyotish Astrology with Kali Shankar and yoga practice. We chose Bali also because it was covid, and the island was almost empty, so we could explore it freely.
The various archetypes serve as mirrors and companions, guiding us along the path of self-discovery. What makes India so fascinating that because during it's unbreakable history of 7 millennia or maybe more it's culture has integrated hundreds of various gods and goddesses in it's pantheon. And If monotheistic religions with it's dual worldview suppress the dark, the Vedic sages long ago realised that it should be accepted and integrated.
It is said that the ancient Rishis created yogic postures inspired by their deep admiration for the animals and other creatures that inhabit our Earth. Swabhav is a term which refers to our inner personality. It’s the natural state something expresses when free from external conditioning or distortion, it is what remains when you remove imitation, habit, or social influence - it is your authentic nature.
In Bhagavad Gītā (18.47), Krishna says:
“Better is one’s own duty (svadharma), though imperfect, than the duty of another, well performed.”this points to acting according to one’s Swabhav.
In Tantric context, Swabhav is often described as the spontaneous flow of pure consciousness,the way the divine expresses itself uniquely through each being.The realization of one’s own Swabhav is seen as a form of liberation - when you no longer resist what you truly are.
Do we live our lives true to our nature or do we constantly adapt or pretend to adapt to the environment around us that knots our mind, knots that can only be removed through yogic practice ?
The scorpion in Hindu mythology, is associated with the goddess Chamunda - scorpion bellied goddess. In art, she is depicted as gaunt emaciated goddess with many arms who is associated with crematoriums and battlefields. She is surrounded by corpses and ghosts and feeds on the entrails of the dead.
This image, is a non-Hindu setup, may be seen as that of a demoness or a witch, but in Hindu mythology, gods and goddesses take a various forms, some romantic, some lovable, some delightful and some frightening, so that all human emotions are expressed through them.Thus, for Hindus this is the form of the goddess. Even the crematorium, ghosts, and goblins are part of the divine scheme of things.In Tantric traditions, it is by meditating on these inauspicious, frightening and undesirable things that we can see the true nature of the world and attain wisdom.
A goddess who rides on a rooster, appears in dreams of men to admit their gender and
sexuality and to withstand social pressure that bind them to prescribed heterosexual roles. Nothing of that kind we can find in patriarchal monotheistic religions, where divine feminine reduced only Virgin Mary in Christianity and Hand of Fatma in Islam. The dualistic worldview of this religious institutions can be seen in that even Mary Magdalene is not worshipped and portrayed as a miscast, while she was one of Jesus’ closest followers and benefactors. She was the first witness to the Resurrection, makes her, symbolically, the first apostle.
In Vedic worldview both feminine and masculine principle are equally important.
They are manifested through main triad Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva with their Divine consort of Saraswati - Lakshmi and Parvati. But in reality there are numerous deities,
representing infinite aspects and manifestations of the Universe.
Interestingly, I am reading what I wrote in my during Yoga Teacher Training on Bali in 2022:
"Could music be a highest form of spiritual practice ?"
And now, in 2025, I realize that music and
meditation are kind of the same thing.
From my personal perspective - I don't separate them. Music is my meditation practice. Before I started to do music I couldn't meditate neither. This discovery inspired me so much, that I started to write a book covering landscape of consciousness and sound. You can start reading it here, but we are going to far now.
So what I want to tell with this one reflection,
that we need to trust our intuition.
As paradoxically as it may seem - I have a strong intuition, but I have problems trusting it. Which I realise now, because I have made too many mistakes. That is why journalling and reflection is so important.
And through practices like yoga and meditation, we can connect with our intuition through our body.
When I only started to do yoga, I was thinking that one have completely devote oneself to yoga, like my teachers used to say. Yoga became very popular at some point, but at its core, it is an ascetic practice that requires renunciation of the world, as it was originally built upon the dualistic philosophy of Sāṃkhya. But if one changes his perspective from duality to non-duality, as it taught by Vedanta, Taoism, Sufism or Tantra - one may actually benefit from yoga practice, while enjoying his life as well. Because what is not told, that yoga is energy practice, and what we learn on the mat, we can transpose into our daily life, like focus and discipline.
But the main thing, at least for me is that we can manifest our thoughts into reality.
Why is Shiva called the Auspicious One ?
Shiva is Destructive aspect of the Being. When practicing yoga, we invoke this destructive
aspect to destroy all this knots, that don't allow that prevent us from expressing ourselves and living to the fullest. Another explanation is discipline. Shiva as master-yogin is a personification of discipline. Through discipline one can consciously rewire own brain. Because 70% of time we operate on auto-pilot (unconsciously), thus we consist of mostly of our routine and habits. When creating a new healthy routine we building new neurone links, which will also serve us as auto-pilot, although not in random direction, but the one we chose. We don't like to take decisions, it is always better to blame circumstances or partners, government or stars. And it is hard to take full responsibly for one's actions and decisions.
Where attention goes, there energy flows. All tantra in a nutshell.
We need focus to consciously work on our goal. (Sun) But we also do need unity with our emotions or soul (Moon). From unity of Sun (Ha) and Moon (Tha) is coming practice which is called Hatha Yoga.
Why do Buddhist tell us to renounce one's desires? From a Christian worldview, it seems that they are also purists, afraid of the punishment of a vengeful God. But in reality they say so, not because it is bad or sinful to have desires, but because desires do not come true. Only intention unfolds into reality. Intention is fulfilled through the union of soul and mind. Buddhists say that we live driven by craving for pleasure and avoiding pain. This is called Samsara. This how our entire life passes by. Craving is called sin in Christianity even, because your mental energy is dissipate into vacuum. Intention is desire to have and to act.
On other hand then your desires are built upon pleasures only, it might not be what your soul really wants. And intention only realised through unity of soul and mind. Pleasures are benefits, but not the goals. In Jyotish it is explained in this way:
Dharma is translated from Sanskrit like Purpose, but also like Duty. We all are born unique for a reason. To understand this uniqueness and realise it in physical world, we call Dharma. Thus first house answers the question: "Who Am I ?" Second house answer the question how one makes energy exchange with the world, by fulfilling his or her purpose - this is house of Artha - resourcefulness . Then only the third house in this spiral is house of Kama - Pleasures.
Another magical experience happened to on Bali in Dragonfly Sauna, which is in Ubud.
I was melting there in herbal sauna with other people, when girl walked in, undressed and offered us to sing the song of Curawaka: "He Ya Ma Yo"
We sung for a while I think, then I said to her that I can't sing properly because of the sour throat and she said: "It is your vulnerable part, just don't care about it"
And I believe she was very right. Why do we repress our voice and afraid to sing in from of other people? I believe that opening the voice is a necessary step for everyone spiritual evolution.
Our voice is dominated by our mind, but voice is the part of the body. And our mind is influenced by all the social conditions and limitation imposed on our personality. By freeing our voice we can achieve this unity of mind-body, necessary for true intention. This very long topic, for which I dedicated my full book.
After Bali we decided to go to Thailand, first on Koh Phangan, and later on we stayed in Chiang Mai in the Northern Thailand, while made our visa-runs to Cambodia.
We spent around 6 months in Thailand, but this actually the moment, where I didn't read my journal, and if I did - the best decision would be to go to Europe. But it is, what it is. I lost something, and I found something. At the end of our stay in Bali, I bought a DJ controller and started to explore music seriously, which I always wanted, but didn't allowed myself.
The most profound realisation in Thailand was:
"Do not postpone your plans and dreams for the future". During that times I had a feeling that I am chasing some lost moment. Then comes another realization - that once an unfulfilled gestalt is finally completed, it often brings far less satisfaction than expected. So it is better to let go and carry on.
The essence of all this, is to let go as much as you can - find the support in reality of here and now and go from there. Because indeed this very moment has all answers. And we do not have anything except of it.
From the manifestation perspective - then you are focused on your intention, you bring positive transformation to your life, but then you are dwelling in the past your energy is dissipated into nothing.
Then in the beginning of 2023 we finally came back to Europe, to Italy first.
I read some blogs where people say that - there is nothing to explore already. It is all the same - they said. No, it is not. We will not see Bali during Covid again. World is always changing, so as we. Then you come to Koh Phangan, you can always hear from "locals" that KP is not as it was before. It is always change. And movement is the essence of Being.
When you go travelling you can read off from your persona (Greek - mask) and try to explore what it is the Swabhav
In every place you go, people have different social structures, so you have to adapt to fit it, every time you create your new persona. It’s the process of learning itself - that’s why traveling becomes such a profound teacher. In Jyotish Astrology, 9th House personifies both Knowledge and Travelling.
And I learned a lot, meeting the most interesting people. I also got rid of many things.
This one and half years were full of suffering, depression, winning and a lot of time was lost on hysteria and drama. And the best take away from it: "We need to celebrate every day, because it is precious and irreplaceable." Drama only eats your time.
But I got rid off illusions. I used to found a conception and become a zealous follower of it. Then conception changed.. Then one may realise than any conception could not be a true representation of multi-various reality, but only a model of it. That is why there is no point to argue about conceptions.
Gossips, critics - draw a lot of your energy. I also was attached to people to degree that they could influence my decisions. Love, but not attach! Separation it is okay.
Only one thing one should not let go - responsibility. For oneself and for whose you love. And I learned it in a hard way.
It was also a time of falling of the authorities. As a devoted follower of certain teachings, I used to listen closely to the Teachers. It’s very tempting to hand over responsibility for one’s own decisions to them. But in truth, no one really knows what you should do. Learning to make decisions independently is part of the path - a lesson I had to learn the hard way.
After Italy was Greece. And it was our first separation. I went to Rhodes and Sasha wanted to come back home to Odessa. I was fitness instructor in a luxury hotel, and it was the time when I overcome my fear to cold talk to people. Because I had to promote my classes in the hotel, I had to talk to around 100 hundred people a day. And it was the best experience I ever had.
In the beginning you feel reluctant, but at the end of your "round" then I wished all this people a great day, you can literally feel that the day is actually good. Your every word has a power, so you need right ones at your disposal.
At the time Sasha came to Rhodes, the wild fire started there.
And it was really wild and messy - many tourists were evacuated from the hotels. And at this time I realised that it is time to go somewhere else. I didn't know where to go, but back in the days I used to hike in Turkey on the Lycian Way, so I decided to took a ferry and go to Fethiye.
At the time Sasha came to Rhodes, the wild fire started there. And it was really wild and messy - many tourists were evacuated from the hotels. And at this time I realised that it is time to go somewhere else. I didn't know where to go, but back in the days I used to hike in Turkey on the Lycian Way, so I decided to took a ferry and go to Fethiye.
We stopped in the AirBnB hotel in Fethiye, were roaming the city and thinking what to do next. It was hot, and we lost ourselves in Turkish tea and delights. Then my old Turkish friend suggested to go the place called Babacamp, which is on top of Babadag mountain. We bought a tent and on our last money we took a cab there and arrived late evening. The gate was closed. Dogs barking. Scary. Finally someone opened the gate and let us in. It was Barkin. He showed us where we can put a tent, so we did and fell asleep.
It was summer time, the camp was running festivals non-
stop and we spent two months living there in the tent on top of the mountain. It was harsh and real.
Then we spent one month living in Istanbul with our friends. Turkish tea, pekmez, and menemen - a perfect trio.
Also in Turkey in the last day of the submission - we made our visa to Canada. And then I realised it is time for me to get back on the ship after two years. I promised my-self to never do it again, but at that time I didn't see any other options. I had a panic attack for the first time in my life I think and I started smoking.
But then my Turkish friend from Babacamp texted me and said that he is coming to Istanbul, and asked if I want to meet for coffee. So we did and went to Starbucks, yes in Turkey... We talked about our lives, and he was a healer, at first I wis quite sceptical, but in this situation I decided to give it a try. Anıl was energy healer, he studied with Shaman in South America, but his father also was a medical-pioneer in Turkey, he created his own method of laser-acupuncture. I didn't tell him anything about my smoking, but I did about my emotions, what I do feel in this very moment, why I am anxious and depressed and so on. Because I started to smoke like a machine gun, I had a soar throat. And during the session he started to spit on the napkin and said that something is blocked in my throat, he did it many times during the session and asked question about my father and emotions. After the session I felt much better and stopped smoking tobacco. I had ambivalent relationships with tobacco since I started to work on the ships, it is Slavic country and everyone starts to smoke in the Academy, so did I started and quit many times, though I didn't smoke a lot. But since that time I never came back to it.
Suffice, to say breath is life itself. And now I know to much about breathing, to commit this crime against oneself. It is not giving anything, only draining your energy.
So I called Anthony, my old friend from Malta, since I had a break of almost two years and it was difficult to join the ship, but I knew he needs me for sure. They took over a new ship, which we have to bring from Turkey to Malta. I passed my medical checks in Istanbul and Anthony send me cab, which brought me to the ship.
I spent 3 months on Malta doing more than sixty ship-to-ship transfers of oil cargo with me
crew. I love Malta, it is very small island but with very special culture. They have very unique blend of Arabic, Italian, British and Greek cultures. But every island where I have been is unique, because I think of this separation from the mainland, people tend to create something exceptional.
You have to learn "unethical" skills for ethical goals.
People tend to avoid learning such things, like marketing for example, because they think that they are "unethical." But marketing is only means showing your product to the world. If nobody knows you, nobody buys from you. Ok, if it is not a product, it can be a project. Because if you are not working on you project, then what are you doing? You are working on someone's else project.
And here is a thing, we avoid to learn this skills and go to work for someone who is using it without any ethical concerns for mere profit. I learned this hard way as well. Because mere profit in industry I worked is ocean and coastal pollution, air pollution, destruction of ecosystem and much more.
You can read my article about Noise Pollution I wrote if you interested to explore this subject.
In other words, if we are not showing our project to the world - we are contributing to the evil.
To get rich is the best thing you can do if you want to create the world of purpose, because money it is only a tool, which allows you to direct attention to your goals. And I am sure, you have beautiful ones.
Another thing that prevents us from manifesting what we truly want in our reality is fear - along with a whole gamut of negative emotions and limiting beliefs. You consist of vibrations - your thoughts, your feelings are all vibtrartions and by the law of harmonics you attract the same vibrations you project into your own reality. Don Huan teacher of Carlos Castaneda said that fear is the enemy of the man of knowledge. Our worst fears and problems more easily come into our reality rather than our dreams and goals. Why this happens we can learn from “Him-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”
“When Harry tries to cast a Cruciatus Curse on Bellatrix Lestrange in the Ministry of Magic, he fails because, deep down, he doesn’t truly want to harm anyone. And Voldemort tells him: ‘You have to mean it, Harry.’”
But when we hate someone, or even ourselves, fear something or pity ourselves we usually mean it, we have a unity of our mind and soul, and thus we invite negative energy into our physical reality. This is where paradox happens - we spend our own energy to manifest problems in our lives and then we spend another energy to fight with this problems.
We create a vortex which drags us deep down, where we are drained, exhausted and depressed. Buddhists might call it Samsara.
The key is stop whining and fighting, but observe your thoughts and most of the problems magically disappear.
There are also not so obvious cases with the fear, when we don't aware of it. Anıl Görür, who healed my in Turkey call his sessions energy-coaching. When you want something, the question you also need to ask yourself: "Why I don't want it ?"
I want to be a DJ but I fear to perform or dance on public. I want to share my knowledge, but I am afraid to make a mistake. What if someone will ask me something, and I don't know what to answer? And so on. You think you want something, but you actually avoid it. Your fear is blocking it to come into your reality.
I want to leave my 9-5 job, but I am afraid to take money for my services.
I wrote in my diary that I would do ‘X’ and ask for ‘Y,’ but now, looking back, I see I undervalued myself tenfold.
Are you a Dreamer ?
I was day-dreaming all my life and that's why maybe I love travel so much, because when you on the road you can day-dream a lot. But what happened, since childhood I never associated this dreams with reality and energy is wasted into vacuum. We dream those dreams for a reason, because we are Creators, Visionaries. The trick is to understand that all you dream about supposed to become real. Dream impossible dreams, but take a step towards it. Our soul knows what does she wants and communicates to us through feelings, inspiration and symbols, but it usually hard to persuade our mind that this is our true reality. Again all my book is related to this subject, where I bridge philosophy, psychology, myths and ancient teachings to understand it's various aspects.
You don't need to know exactly - how you will reach your final goal. You just need to know what is the first incremental step. It might be very small step, but it doesn't matter, as soon as you make it - you have feedback from the reality and you pivot. And then you think of your goal, don't think of this distance and how you reach it, instead imagine you would feel when it is reached. This technique is called slide - in this way you achieve unity between your mind (thoughts) and your soul (feelings). When you practice it you direct your energy towards your intention, which in turn induce the material realisation. And it is not mere concept for understanding - it is practice. Have you tried to focus on your best reality at least 30 minutes a day ?
All that being said, brings us to another perspective - Fear of Failure.
Fear of Failure is Automatic Loss. If you focus on negativity it becomes self-fulfilling prophecy.
There is no such thing as failure actually, because if you do something, you already one step ahead of those who procrastinating or immersed in gamut of self-doubt. When you do something, you have the most precious thing - experience, each time you become more competent doing it.
We consume data, read books, listen to podcasts, listen to coaches - we think if we know more, understand more we will have more success. Which is proven to be wrong, because all this matters nothing, if you miss one thing - execution.
Socrates said that the only knowledge that truly matters is the one that is born within you.
Sage Vasishtha teaching young Rama said: "The swan of Wisdom has two wings: Knowledge and Action"
After Malta was Romania, where I met Sasha, she brought her god Ozzy from Odessa. We met in Bucharest, it was cold there and we got sick for 2 weeks - maybe it was covid, so as I never felt so exhausted. All we could do is walk to grocery store to buy oranges and sleep. But it was very cozy.After we felt better we took a bus to Istanbul and booked a flight to Canada.
We spent 2 weeks there enjoying the city and meeting our friends. It was our first time flying with the pet, but it was very smooth all the way.
It's what I wrote on the plane:
"A human being can perceive reality only through contradictions, because the human mind experiences the world dualistically. Duality is not a property of reality itself, but a property of the mind.
The one who knows the Dao does not speak of it, and the one who thinks he is ready to speak does not know It.Thus, we cannot define God precisely, for God is That.We may know the equation, but we do not know the exact position of Absolute Reality.
Therefore, a person cannot arrive at the nature of God even if he knows exactly what God is not.Every created thing contains the equation of what it is not - and from this perspective, one can arrive at the concept of God as Absolute Nothingness.At the same time, the claim of an “all-powerful” and “almighty” God is, from the standpoint of Vedanta, the highest form of ignorance, because human beings perceive reality through contradictions, while God is the Ultimate Reality - something about which no positive statements can be made.
God to Moses: “I am Becoming what I am Becoming” (Absolute Nothingness)
If God cannot be reached through thought, but only through action - through merging with the One - then the act itself and the right action become essential.Therefore, there is no need to kill each other over thoughts or concepts.The final goal of every Eastern tradition is Self-Transformation.
By contrast, in Western religion, thought is central. This gave birth to the concept of dogma and the Catholic Church.The one who does not believe is a heretic.A person who believes may feel superior to someone who does not believe, but lives God.
The concept of dogma eventually gave rise to science - and to the discovery of atomic energy."
So then was 1 year in Vancouver. I think at some point I lost myself living there and it was a hard year. Hard because you live in a rented cell, working 9/5 job which allows you to pay the rent only. But I maybe I needed this kind of experience. I never worked 9/5 job before, and never lived in big city like Vancouver for so long.
Also there are a lot of drug-addicts in Vancouver, who live on the streets. And all this atmosphere pressures you, like:" You have to work, or you will be homeless like they" People in Vancouver afraid to become homeless. But remember the fear. This is how pendulum (egregore) of a big city hi-jacks your attention. Instead of working on my own goals, I acted out of fear. Eventually if you don't have inspiration to do what you are doing - here you go depression and anxiety.
So to break out of this vicious cycle I went back to sea, but now in Canada. I joined tanker in Quebec, East Coast of Canada and we made Arctic lift supplying with diesel Indigenous villages at Nunavut. Nunavut is is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories which provided this territory for Inuit people for Self-Government. It was beautiful and nothing like I saw before. You can see tide range there up-to 10 meters, fjords and no single tree.
So I started to work there, because it allowed me to fly to East Coast and shake a bit my energy. Travelling is what gives me most energy. But the job there is challenging. Most time of the year this vessels work on St. Lawrence river at East Coast of Canada and Great Lakes. So the trips are very fast and you legally allowed to work 16 hours a day by Canadian regulations.So again it was the time for me to think: "What I am doing here ?" I think it was the time when I deeply reflected on the patters from my childhood, which programmed to do what I am doing, but this the theme for spin-off, because a lot of psychology in there.
After 1 year living in Vancouver we bought a motorhome, but even then it was scary to leave our apartment ...First place, we decided to explore was Tofino on Vancouver island. I think it is one of the most transformative places for me. Everyday you walk on the shore I breath in this ocean breeze. Then I also swam in the ocean and meditated with a crystal bowl. Day-by-day your structure become transformed.
We stayed there for 3 months and then moved to North of Vancouver island.I think life in Canada starts when you start explore outdoors. Life in nature is very different from life in the city. And I think for almost two years living here I learned a lot.
"Learn by doing" is the main philosophy what I have learned from working on Canadian ships.I will explain what I mean by that. I am alumni of Odessa National Maritime Academy, where you have to study 6 years, wear uniform and epaulets. People from Ukraine are very proud wearing epaulets. But here is the thing, the education is outdated for almost 50 years, and becomes purely theoretical, which brings another problem where people can only speculate about things, but don't know how to actually do them in reality. You end up working with the crew where only few people know what is going on. There is nothing like that on Canadian ships, where everyone from deckhand to Captain are high-grade professionals. It was challenging for me, but as I said I learned many things.
Then living in motorhome, I think I became more mature and responsible. Because now you
are not dependent on city infrastructure, and you have to think about your water, power, heating and so on. I started to manage resources, like water, more responsibly. But you also become closer to the nature and the elements. You can do fire everyday and it is very cleansing, you can burn your garbage and think of how you can reduce your waste footprint.
But eventually at some point I realised again that working on the ship's I am not moving in the right direction. I didn't like how I did feel in my body, and during the summer 2025 I returned completely exhausted. So I realised that the same depression is crawling in, the same one which pushed me to leave my home-city and start exploring. Also I understood that working in Oil & Gas industry was contradicting to my values, and I realised that I can't do it anymore.
When we left Vancouver, winter of 2025 - Dharma Station was born. We didn't what is going to be exactly, but we knew that we want to build a community. Now vision became much clearer.
I also realised that my sub personality of a sailor (explorer) is very powerful and it is not possible to just get rid of it as if with a wave of a magic wand, however I tried before. It is shown in my natal chart, and it is something that supported me for 10 years. Instead, you just need to know how to connect your experience with your values, and find it another goal, but now with purpose. What I mean by Purpose, is action which reflects your values.
My sound journey, brought me to the realisation of tremendous impact that global shipping makes on dwellers of the oceans. To make long story short - ocean ecosystems are even more important in context of global warming and clean air. But I wasn't aware of this, so as I wasn't aware of noise pollution caused by global shipping and oil & gas industry, when I worked there.
So as you guessed maybe, it is there I realised I can contribute my skills and spread awareness..
As for now, I didn't extend my seafarer documents for the first time, and it is stressful. But it is there real fun begins. And winter is coming.
Nikita Ierisov - Explorer, Philosopher
Keeper of Dharma Station
Vancouver Island, Canada
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