{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"KunstlerCast 424 \u2014 Ray Jason Navigating the Shoals of Collapse with the Sea Gypsy Tribe","description":"    Ray Jason has been writing the Sea Gypsy Philosopher blog, for the last twelve years largely touching on politics and social issues.  His commentary is filtered through his unusual lived experience of being a longtime ex-pat open water sailor living on his boat, the Aventura.      Ray\u2019s greatest contribution to the blogosphere is his Sea Gypsy Tribe concept \u2014 his belief that small bands of ocean-dwelling cruisers can both survive and flourish after any type of catastrophe which is the main thrust of our conversation here Ray\u2019s personal life path has been quite out of the ordinary.  Right after college graduation, he was drafted and ended up in Vietnam on a U.S. Navy ammunition ship.  Post-service malaise steered him away from the so-calleed Real World and he spent the next 20 years as a highly successful San Francisco street performer \u2014 juggling, his specialty.  When that scene began to deteriorate, he commenced his sea gypsy life and has not lived on land since 1992.      We speak with Ray today aboard his sailboat somewhere in the Banana Latitudes of Central America.   ","author_name":"KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century","author_url":"http:\/\/kunstler.com","html":"