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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
- byPeter Bauer on12th March, 2010 inRewild Camps
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My book is out!!1!!
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/rewild-or-die/5410577
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
- byJohn Feeney on5th March, 2010 inRewild Camps
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The Hadza
Many here probably saw this, but if not...
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/12/hadza/finkel-text
I found this passage interesting:
"There are things I envy about the Hadza—mostly, how free they appear to be. Free from possessions. Free of most social duties. Free from religious strictures. Free of many family responsibilities. Free from schedules, jobs, bosses, bills, traffic, taxes, laws, news, and money. Free from worry. Free to burp and fart without apology, to grab food and smoke and run shirtless through the thorns.
But I could never live like the Hadza. Their entire life, it appears to me, is one insanely committed camping trip. It's incredibly risky."
The things in the first paragraph lead me to an entirely different conclusion! At any rate, I envy the writer for having had that chance to spend time with them.
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
- byPeter Bauer on24th February, 2010 inRewild Camps
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Bark Tanning!
http://goingferal.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/bark-tan-leather-primitive-waterproof-technology/
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Earliest Shrines to the Gods of Hunting ReDiscovered
- byMatthew Bennett on23rd February, 2010 inRewild Frontier
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A pillar at the Gobekli Tepe temple complex near Sanliurfa, Turkey, predates even the pyramids and inspires a rewriting of the story of human evolution. http://www.newsweek.com/id/233844
Unfortunately, scientists also now theorize that these very same temples "begat the city."
So instead of history going:
Wild -> Ag -> Civ -> Religion
...academic science now appears more aligned with Daniel Quinn's theory of spiritual/ideological change preceding all else:
Wild -> Religion -> Ag -> Civ
This discovery also serves as further evidence that all religious zeal serves civilization ...yes, even if it's animistic or rewilding zeal...
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From March 1, 2010 Newsweek (reblogged from Arthur Magazine)...
…Standing on the hill at dawn, overseeing a team of 40 Kurdish diggers, the German-born archeologist waves a hand over his discovery here, a revolution in the story of human origins. Schmidt has uncovered a vast and beautiful temple complex, a structure so ancient that it may be the very first thing human beings ever built. The site isn’t just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture—the first embers of civilization. In fact, Schmidt thinks the temple itself, built after the end of the last Ice Age by hunter-gatherers, became that ember—the spark that launched mankind toward farming, urban life, and all that followed.
Göbekli Tepe—the name in Turkish for “potbelly hill”—lays art and religion squarely at the start of that journey. After a dozen years of patient work, Schmidt has uncovered what he thinks is definitive proof that a huge ceremonial site flourished here, a “Rome of the Ice Age,” as he puts it, where hunter-gatherers met to build a complex religious community. Across the hill, he has found carved and polished circles of stone, with terrazzo flooring and double benches. All the circles feature massive T-shaped pillars that evoke the monoliths of Easter Island…
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/id/233844
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
- byPeter Bauer on4th January, 2010 inRewild Camps
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New stuff on Rewild.info!
- byJason Godesky on31st December, 2009 inRewild Frontier
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Hello all!
In the final hours of 2009, I've finished setting up some new features on the site.- The archive of my old site, the Anthropik Network, has moved into its permanent home here on Rewild.info, at http://rewild.info/anthropik/
- More importantly for you all, you'll see the Wiki tab has returned! We have MediaWiki installed now (the same open source software package that powers Wikipedia).
The wiki will need some time to flesh out, and we'll need your help to do it! You may notice that the old sticky thread "Post Your Local Rewilding Group Here!" has gone away. That has moved into the wiki. For now at least, think of the wiki as a place to plug your local rewilding group into Rewild.info. Open space meetings usually have a wiki page for organization, right? The wiki will provide you with that. Just use the same user name and password you use to log into the forums.
I've started off by copying over the information from the old thread into separate pages for each group. Please, expand on that information! Everything you add to the wiki will make it that much more useful!
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
- byRobert Gill on14th December, 2009 inRewild Camps
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Pentatonic Scale,
or the basics of music jamming.
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Intriguing Event in Philly ...on Feral Christianity?
- byMatthew Bennett on29th October, 2009 inRewild Frontier
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Comprised of lectures, panels, singing, dancing, and prayer, to a degree, this gathering felt shockingly transformative. I cried a lot. It healed a lot of wounds from my civilizing Lutheran upbringing and to me, combined here-to-fore opposing ideologies, at least in the way most often practiced.
The ideological foundation for the gathering was built upon Derrick Jensen's Endgame series in tandem with the premise that the Christian faith-based tradition was hijacked by the powers-that-civilize. These hijackers at some point decided that it was holy to simply serve as the "Moral Managers" of civilization, instead of following the true path of Christ - Anarcho-Primitivism, aka Indigenous Lifeways.
The main speaker Ched Myers did a great job at articulating an Anarcho-Primitivist Reading of the Bible. Here is my own abbreviated summary of the Bible:
The Old Testament arose from the civilization** of the indigenous Jewish tribes who belonged to the land between the Nile Delta and Mesopotamia (**NB: civilization used as the noun-form of the verb "to civilize" ie: action done to these peoples). These two fertile areas birthed the evil that was some of the earliest city-states on record, resulting in the Jews serving as one of the earliest tribes to face colonization/civilization: clearcuts & systematic oppression, agriculture & slavery, desertification & abandonment. Parts of the Old Testament document the indigenous Jews' struggle with attempts to civilize them and their own attempts to free themselves. Exodus and wandering in the once-forest, now-desert for 40 years was the story of attempting to fully Rewild a generation of Jews.
Fast forward to the New Testament and Jesus appears amongst the now-assimilated-and-fully-civilized-Jews to call for an end to capitalism, hierarchy, and civilization and return to the wilderness ways. With hilarious results.
Anywho, Ched believes we can learn much from an anti-civ / Rewilder's Reading of the Bible, because this book may very well serve as a testament of prior attempts to end civilization. Ched Myers believes lessons can be learned from the Bible so this movement doesn't repeat the same mistakes.
JesusRadicals.com did a "Report Back" from the conference and they summarized some key points made throughout the weekend:
* Those who eagerly await “the collapse” with joyful anticipation should realize that civilization probably won’t end in our lifetime. For this reason, we need to practice what Ched called “insomniac faith and revolutionary patience” on one hand, and love and grace on the other. We don’t know the time civilization will fall and we can’t begin to imagine how devastating “the collapse” will be particularly for those people whose necks are already under its heels. For there reasons alone we ought to check ourselves.
* We need to build this anti-civ movement on more than doomsday predictions about the end as we know it. Many groups before us have arisen based on a solid critique of civilization only to disappear when the expected collapse didn’t come when they wanted it to. The analysis that civilization is self-destructive is demonstrated in history as well as in our Biblical text and faith tradition. Anti-civ theology based on so-called “final countdowns” instead of faithful thought and practice will only distract, undermine and disappoint.
* We need to be in solidarity with others who are struggling against the oppressive affects of civilization even if they don’t share every aspect of our outlook. This begins with listening and learning from those who have been resisting longer than we have.
* Don’t confuse enlightenment and exodus with escape. Although we understand civilization’s failures and are doing what we can to break out of some of its hold, we are all caught “in the system” — a truth that should make us generous givers of grace.
* Unconsciousness and lack of action around white privilege sexism and patriarchy, heterosexism and other kinds of oppression within and outside of the Christian and anarcho-primitivist movement is not only inexcusable — it is also a surefire way to alienate potential allies, repeat the ills of civilization and undercut the very liberation we seek.
JesusRadicals.com's "Report Back" also contains an excellent summary of some key Bible verses referenced during the weekend.
All in all, I found the conference a fabulous step towards uniting once-thought-to-be-diverse interests under the same flag. There wasn't much time at the conference spent attempting to develop a Praxis for Faith-Based-Rewilding, so that's been on my brain. How to connect and share and serve a broader community than "the choir"?
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Storyjamming
- byJason Godesky on26th October, 2009 inRewild Camps
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Slides and a slidecast of what I presented at the Three Rivers Bioneers conference last week.
http://www.slideshare.net/jefgodesky/storyjam
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