For about 99% of
human history/life, we have been “wild”. We were domesticated just like any
other critter. In the case of humans today, we are domesticated by our parents,
but buried deep in our DNA is a wild personality. It is embedded in us with a
feral memory that is suppressed at very turn.
What we are fed is a
pale life of normal behavior and you do not dare to break from this norm.
History depicts the cave men as brutes always living in fear, at least that is
the Hollywood version in countless bad films. Anyone who has spent any time in
the outdoors, slept under the stars, have felt a yearning to be able to stay.
That is your DNA speaking and reaching out to you. It gets smothered by a house
payment, a car and all that society demands of us. In an everyday onslaught, we
trudge back into that life.
The silence of the
Feral Woodsman is a deafening roar raging within us, often showing itself as
frustration and a general feeling that we have missed something in life. We
have missed something, and that is our “wild” side, the essence of “man”, a vital
essence dominated by our current society. In order to break those chains, we
must realize what the call is and recognize the images it conjures up.
We begin by
practicing the art and craft of the Feral Woodsman, the skills involved that
will maintain a gratifying and complete lifestyle, the throwback to the wild
pioneers who were our ancestors. A thought occurs to me that if the hunter
gatherers had not been successful and not had children, we would not be here.
By using a cliché,
we have a need to connect with the earth, to understand it and be a true part
of it. Treating our life as art is a great beginning for a Feral Woodsman. Take
the time by training yourself the crafts that are needed for a hunter gatherer
life.
Banishing oneself
from most of what we have been deluded by will not be an easy transition, as we
have discussed in past articles.
I met Lynx a few
times at Wintercount only a hello really , she has a school for want of another
word that can help you on your way. I do know she is very good at primitive
living, a true Feral lifestyle. Might just be your introduction and showing you
it can work. Search, living in the wild, for many examples of the Feral
Woodsman’s life.
The silence of the
Feral life, living inside of us, can be fueled by information and doing small
tentative tryouts, in the wild places . At some point, the Feral Woodsman wont
be so silent and you will have to pay attention on a level that drives you to
earn the skills required. Without those skills, one is doomed to fail.
Life, I believe, is
an art you can refine in no finer place than the wild. A simple thing of going
into a remote area and listening to what is around you, seeing the wild place
with a different eye, like it is your home, can be truly rewarding. We are not
here to fight nature or take over but to blend and be a part of the wild
place.Those who think we must conquer anything are on the wrong track. Our fear
and ignorance is what we need to conquer, in order to fit in our slot in the
wild. A true hunter gatherer in the classic sense.
Our lives have been
mapped before we were born, so we have to be able to travel to uncharted worlds
, Beware the dragons, and let be the Feral Woodsman roam into those wild
places. We discussed some of the easy transitions in past articles, as well. In
truth, it really wont be so easy but it is very doable with the many options we
have covered.
Let the Feral
Woodsman, in your DNA, have a chance. Release him to the world that your life
has never known.
By Dude McLean
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