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The 1st Set ...

The Spirit of Surfing

Editorial - Inaugural Edition ... Elemental Surfi Tales
Introduction - Gettin' wet & paddling out the back
Article 1 - The Nature of Surf - the Cosmic Ecosystem
Article 2 - Kohanamoku DownUnder - Freshwater Beach 1915
Article 3 - Cyberspace Threads - Surfing the Hemispheres
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Editorial Commentary

G'Day

Glad you could make it ...

Welcome to the first set of Surfi Tales:
The Spirit of Surfing

Elemental Surfi Tales represent the observation and research of an Australian ex-university student (aka "drop_out") who walked out of the final second year mathematics and physics examinations to take up residence - for the third year of his formal tertiary education - as a solitary surfer, recluse and hermit at a remote location just north of Crescent Head on the northeastern New South Wales coast, in the Great Southern Land Of Oz, back in '72 to '74. Not drawing the dole, most adequate sustenance was drawn from frugal living and the spirit of surfing.

Sunshine and Salt there is a-plenty by the shores of our terrestrial planetary oceans, and you may help yourself to the philosophy interwoven into the Surfi Tales, for there are a number of common threads apparent in the fabric of the Tales:

So then, of these threads are some of the substance of many of the Surfi Tales,
and as such, these Surfi Tales are to be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.

For every one shall be salted with fire,
and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Salt is good:
but if the salt have lost his saltness,
wherewith will ye season it?
Have salt in yourselves,
and have peace one with another.

Jesus of Nazareth


Of salt and sunshine, the coastal regions by the great oceans are abundant. The oceans of our planet cover more than 70% of the total planetary surface, and we ourselves - it is said - are comprised of 98% water. So it is indeed fitting to commence this web magazine dedicated to the nature of nature with a theme that looks at recently evolved culture of surfing, and in introducing the first set of stories this inaugural edition will focus upon the Spirit of Surfing.

Comments may be sent to the editor by E-Mail.

keep surfin' :)


PRF Brown
BCSLS {Freshwater}
Mountain Man Graphics, Australia
Southern Spring of '96

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The Spirit of Surfing

An evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
The evolutionary working of Nature has a double process:
an evolution of forms, an evolution of the soul.
Man occupies the crest of the evolutionary wave.
With him occurs the passage from an unconscious to a conscious evolution.
At each step one receives an intimation of what the following step will be.
The nature of the next step is indicated
by the deep aspirations awakening in the human race.

The Future Evolution of Man
Sri Aurobindo


The Lineup of the Surfing Culture

The emergence of the surfing culture within the terrestrial environment, in particular in the last few human generations, is encouraging for the planet. There is a certain knowledge carried by that culture in respect of the ocean, and in respect of the elemental forces of nature, and in particular, in respect of the individual peace and freedom which the experience of oceanic surfing may engender.

The surfing culture is a global movement which cannot adequately be expressed in any one individual set of beliefs or code or mannerisms, yet all surfers share a common experiential link with the nature of the ocean, and in particular the manifestation which is known to many as the simple surf.

The waves of life

"Always a-changing,
forever the same"

from the soundtrack of
The Morning of the Earth
(A 1960's Surfing film)

Eternally restless are the waters of the terrestrial oceans under the tidal relativity of the spinning earth with the moon and sun. Superimposed over this cosmologically scaled harmonic resonance of the oceanic tides, is the action of wind upon the surface of the same waters. In addition to this, research indicates that life began in the ancient seas more than 3.5 billion years ago today.

If surfing only started on a global basis in the middle of the last century of the second millennia, that means there has been alot of perfect days we have missed when the surf would have been totally indescribable.

Experience is essential .... from the extention of the contemplative moments in the solitude of the ocean, waiting for the time between the sets, or indeed the compression of the raw energy of elemental survival in the surfing of its waves, when the sets roll through - beneath the sky and wind. These experiences are good for the soul. But when the session is ended, or the light of day withdraws, or the swell ceases to roll in from beyond the distant horizons, then it is often the time to contemplate the foundation of peace, and the nature of nature, and how the surf waves are formed and sent on their journeys across the horizons of our common and shared terrestrial island in the cosmos.

And it is with such research in mind that we arrive at TheTakeOffPoint
for the first set of Surfi Tales has rolled into sight:


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Surfi Tales

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The Spirit of Surfing
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