His dreams for life

As a little boy he has had three wishes: to work in Marocco/Africa, to travel around the world and sail across the atlantic all alone.
The last dream came true even for two times! In 1955 he went from Liberia to Haiti with a dugout canoe and in 1956 he crossed the Atlantic Ocean
with a simple folding boat everybody can buy in any magazine:

He wrote down his extreme experiences of difficult status` of the mind in his book, his orientation words had been anchored deeply in the unconscious by the autogen training of Dr. Schulz: "course west.... course west....." Then the spray of the waves suggested these words into his automatisms so he could keep oriented. Another sentence: "I will make it!"

Lindemanns minimal equipment:

Once he keeled over with his boat and nearly could not get back on the boat. When he felt something as a sharks finn would touch him he got energy to get back onto the boat.

From Las Palmas to St. Martin in 76 days

Somehow he managed to turn around the boat again and get the water out. On December 30th he landed on an antill island. The inhabitants asked him: "Where do YOU come from" and served him coconut cake!

In the USA he was a hero and had been invited for lectures about mental training and even printed on the cover of "Life" - an honour which had been given only to Konrad Adenauer before. He then went back to Bonn/Germany and opened his office also teaching "Autogenes Training" and writing books - his "alone over the ocean" had become a best-seller, a cult book of the fifties!

See also http://www.wdr.de/themen/panorama/personen/lindemann_hannes/index.jhtml