How we relate to the world determines our level of awareness and our ability to move through it. This impacts every aspect of our lives - from obtaining food to avoiding injury. Yet it all comes down to empathy, respect, and personhood. How can a simple choice have such profound impact?
Rewilding our innate ability to observe and ask questions of the world comes down to a very simple, but profoundly powerful choice. We all too easily pass it by…
Tom Brown, Jr.
http://www.trackerschool.com
Also see here:
Often we all too easily dismiss the power and importance of Story; consuming the stories of our culture, modern civilization, in large part keeps us from fully engaging in our own path of rewilding, because of self-doubt and distraction, and the clamor of venomous inner voices and imagery born from toxic entertainments. Our only way through this mess lies in creating our own, homegrown Story. Listen in as I talk briefly about Storyjamming, one way of creating this grassroots Story.
The Story Games forum
http://www.story-games.com
Go Play Portland! (Oregon)
http://www.goplaypdx.com/forum
Go Play Northwest (based in Seattle, WA)
http://goplaynw.wetpaint.com/
Steal Away Jordan
http://stone-baby.com/?page_id=4
In A Wicked Age
http://www.lumpley.com/wicked.html
1001 Nights
http://www.nightskygames.com/
Polaris
http://swingpad.com/dustyboots/wordpress/?page_id=230
Also, do a word search on “storyjam” or “storyjamming” here for more COMC blog articles on storyjamming.
Many people with a close connection to the land speak of the richness of the present moment, yet how do we get there, free of “shoulds”, striving, and calls to virtuous behavior? In this podcast I walk you through an experience that you can make your own, that of reclaiming your sensory birthright, something you can take anywhere and experience any time you choose.
[correction: in this episode I refer to “Drawing on the Left Side of the Brain”. I should have said Right. See below.]
Wilderness Awareness School
http://www.wildernessawareness.com
“Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”, Betty Edwards
http://www.drawright.com/
Why does poetry intimidate (or uninterest) so many people? Why do riddles bedevil us? Why do dreams commonly serve no more than as stories we relate to friends and family, starting with “whoah, I dreamt the weirdest thing last night…” and ending with “…I wonder what it means?”.
Let’s get to the bottom of this!
“All About Dreams”, Gayle Delaney
http://www.amazon.com/All-About-Dreams-Everything-Need/dp/0062514113
Tom Brown, Jr.’s Tracker School
http://www.trackerschool.com
Joseph Campbell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell
This has stayed a secret for too long, for too many people who need to know about it. Iroquois mentors inspired the US constitution, and as such it imitates the appearance of the Iroquois constitution, without successfully duplicating the heart and spirit of it, which has lead to many problems over the centuries. Listen in for more on this fascinating subject, that has much to say about our evolving identity as “people who rewild”.
“Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy”
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/EoL/
“Basic Call to Consciousness”
http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Call-Consciousness-Akwesasne-Notes/dp/1570671591
Finally able to publish this episode! Thanks to Mike R. for making the donation that made this possible.
Our greatest power comes from those with whom we choose to collaborate. How do we make these choices? What happens when we make them consciously? What consequences follow from broken agreements, and choices that don’t create the results we hoped for or want?
Adults hold space for culture, raise children, provide food and shelter for each other, and make decisions together that they follow through on. What does all this mean in a rewilding context? What do rewilding adults look like? I explore this topic with some rather strong opinions, borne of bittersweet experiences. Rewilding Adulthood may just amount to the most challenging, terrifying, and important work we have to do, as people who rewild.
Jake Swamp: http://www.treeofpeace.org
Jon Young: http://www.jonyoung.info
Rewilding: http://www.rewild.info
For the series on rewilding and breaking the spell of the modern culture, look into Breaking the Spell, parts One (Rewilding), Two (Rewilding Your Ability to Reason), Three (Reality Therapy), Four (the Village Philosopher), Five (the College of the Round Table), Six (the Reason for Riddles), and Seven (the Wise Compass).
What does it mean to pay attention to Needs and Feelings, our own and others? Why do we characterize the most biologically tangible and real aspects of our human nature, as irrelevant and inconvenient? We explore this taboo inner universe in today’s podcast.
Julie Cramer: http://www.thebalancepoint.org
Morihei Ueshiba, Founder of Aikido: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morihei_Ueshiba
Nonviolent Communication (communcation centered on nonjudgemental observations of Needs and Feelings): http://www.cnvc.org/
As we move further along the path of personal clarity and rewilding, we may discover things that hold us back, such as concepts of ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’. In this episode I talk about finding better measures for evaluating the feedback the world gives us, to improve our relationships in real ways. I also talk about implications of making these changes, of abandoning judgement as a primary tool of relating, and how this will change the way we communicate.
Life-affirming interpersonal communcation can feel a lot easier than the world of self-help books and gurus make it seem.
In the way of Tracking, we have a wonderful metaphor for a relationship that we can use also with human people, not just the other-than-human ones.
In this episode I share my personal routine of reflection and communication that I use to improve relationships in my own life.
Jean Liedloff and the Continuum Concept: http://www.continuum-concept.org/
Marshall Rosenberg and Nonviolent Communication: http://www.cnvc.org/
Don Miguel Ruiz and the Four Agreements: http://www.miguelruiz.com/
How does our language affect us? Do indigenous people’s languages reflect their fundamentally different relationship to the world, as contrasted with cultures of modern civilizations?
If we wanted to change the way we speak, in order to reflect a more satisfying relationship with the Land around us, where might we start?
E-Prime, English without the verb “to be”, offers an approach.
E-Primitive takes it even farther, adding verbiness and other factors that deepen the observation and process-oriented perspective of the world around us.
This podcast clocks in at about 26 minutes.
Listen to me interview Lisa Wells, instructor of theater, creative writing, and wilderness skills, author of Cedar Rapids: the Coming Derrick Dean, and poet-about-town.
In the interview she talks about the fascinating connection between prayer, theater, intuition, nature awareness, storytelling, and that ineffable creative energy that we sometimes call “shamanistic” or “mystical”.
I apologize in advance for a bit near the beginning where the microphone seems to go on a walkabout - I hope you can still catch what we say, as it addresses a worthwhile issue. Also, I mention the word “Duende” as meaning “wind” in Spanish. It doesn’t.
Get out of your head, and into your body, courtesy of Lisa Wells.
