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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
- byWillem Larsen on7th August, 2009 inRewild Camps
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Rewild Havens as "Ranches"
- byJason Godesky on3rd August, 2009 inRewild Frontier
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Let's work together! Or, the New Rewild.info and Our Step-by-Step Guide to Feral Community
- byJason Godesky on31st July, 2009 inRewild Camps
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Do you feel adrift with the whole new forum setup? I can't blame you. It seems like a big shift, and at first glance, the emphasis on organizing Rewild Camps and Rewild Havens would really seem to lock out a lot of people. I had the same reaction when Willem and Peter first suggested the shift to me, but after talking to them a bit about it, I saw why it really makes perfect sense, and better, why it really offers an important next step for all of us.
If you saw the old Rewild.info, you saw a discussion board with all kinds of discussions going on, mostly about the philosophy of rewilding: critiques of civilization, ponderings on the nature of native life, speculations about our future, and so on. Interspersed there, you had threads on earth skills, ancestral skills, "primitive" skills, etc. All important discussions, absolutely, but other places already provided the space for them. For people looking for support and validation as they think through the ramifications of civilization, we could hardly compete with Derrick Jensen's forum. For people working on a specific skill and looking for feedback or advice, we couldn't beat Paleo Planet.
Now, Rewild.info did have one unique claim to fame: we'd given the world "the Rewild Camp." Really, it just means letting the freedom of rewilding permeate the structure in which you learn about it—instead of trying to study rewilding in a domesticated context. A Rewild Camp means using open space—a modern re-invention of some very traditional techniques—to bring people together to learn about rewilding. Willem & Peter organized a Rewild Camp in Portland, and it ignited a local rewilding community. It brought together people who never suspected how much they had in common, and put them in touch with one another. That first successful Rewild Camp helped create a "rewilding scene" in Portland, and each Rewild Camp after that has helped foster that "scene."
A scene does not a community make, but when you get to that point, you can start to think about the different strategies you might employ to make those Rewild Camps last longer: the difference between an unconference and, well, you might call it an unschool. Imagine an open space gathering that met every day, or a Rewild Camp that grew into a rewilding school, and I think you'll have a good vision of the Rewild Haven. An established Rewild Haven will have a group of people who have known each other for a long time and work together to share rewilding with others. In time, that "sharing with others" aspect may fade into the background. Naturally, at its own pace, such a group could become more and more like a family—a free family, living on the land. A feral community.
And there you have it. At each step, the next step lies within your reach. Achieve one goal, and it makes it possible to reach the next one.
The new Rewild.info doesn't try to compete with forums like Derrick Jensen's or Paleo Planet. Instead, we help people organize Rewild Camps and Rewild Havens. Does that mean you don't have a place here if you don't like or want to organize such a thing? Only in the broadest sense. At a Rewild Camp, everybody presents. We all teach each other what we know. We all participate as both audience and presenter at one point or another. So, a discussion like the finer points of the Continuum Concept, or how to start a friction fire, or how you feel about the people logging your local forest could all still happen here—but with a slight shift from, "I want to talk about this," to "I want to present this at a Rewild Camp."
That little shift means more than you might think. It frames the conversation towards the outside world. It reminds us that we didn't sign on just to talk to people online; we signed up here to make a difference for our land, to rewild ourselves and to foster a feral community. It reminds us that this means more than idle speculation: it means real-world commitments to real-world communities. Instead of coming together for our common beliefs—which defines us in terms of a set of ideas, and thus defines those with different ideas as "unbelievers" or those who change their ideas as "apostates"—it brings us together for a common task. As long as we can work together, we can benefit from each others' presence and contributions.
We all have a wide range of talents and skills. If you excel at the on-the-ground kind of organizing it takes to put together a Rewild Camp, then welcome! And if you have some other talent or skill, we still need it, and it still counts as organizing Rewild Camps and Rewild Havens. The open space nature of these things means that almost anything and everything that you care about or excel at still matters here. We just want to work together. Care to join us?
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
- byPeter Bauer on26th July, 2009 inRewild Camps
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Miles started a blog and I thought this entry was particularly awesome.
Fermenting a Rabbit: http://goingferal.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/fermented-rabbit/
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
- byPeter Bauer on26th July, 2009 inRewild Camps
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Pretty inspirational article about a dude who doesn't use money and lives in a cave. Sad that he doesn't have a community, but cool anyway.
http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_9817
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Writing, Language & Thought
- byJason Godesky on14th July, 2009 inRewild Camps
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I met a woman at an IshCon gathering a few years ago. She contacted me late last year. She had gotten involved in the planning for the Mensa's 2009 Annual Gathering in Pittsburgh. She remembered me, and remembered that I lived at the Forks of the Ohio, so she invited me to speak. I prepared a presentation titled, "Writing, Language & Thought," pulling from the thoughts of people like David Abram, Tim Ingold and Walter Ong. I think something like this could fit in nicely as a session at a Rewild Camp. I've put everything I can online, under a Creative Commons license, so feel free to use this for your own Rewild Camps.
- Posting on Toby's People
- Audio on Archive.org
- YouTube (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
- SlideShare. Listen to the "SlideCast," browse, share, or download the presentation slides.
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
- byJason Godesky on12th July, 2009 inRewild Camps
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Have you seen Lucas Foglia's "Re-Wilding" collection? He took some interesting shots at Wildroots.
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
- byPeter Bauer on28th June, 2009 inRewild Camps
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Echoes in Time
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
- byPeter Bauer on10th June, 2009 inRewild Camps
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Foraging in the New York Times!
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
- byPeter Bauer on20th May, 2009 inRewild Camps
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Hand made, gourd banjos!
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