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[BlueHeron]

Welcome, Puerto, Daniel, and the Kyles...

[streunner]

Hello,
im Niko, so the peaople call me. Im interested in close to the nature living with other groups. Idont want to be to aggresive on civilisation. Or violent against techniq.

Interesting in living in group together in communication movement, foreign people, contact, touch, bodycontact, dancing, art, nature healing, doing something together, living together. But dont get to much in the rushy society.

How can I stay by my self in that rushy fast loud technical world.

niko

[BlueHeron]

Hi Niko, thanks for introducing yourself.  I'm happy you are posting again.  I can see that you've gained more fluency in English!  For this message board, that is great, great news.

[Aquila ka Hecate]

Hello All,

I got here by way of the Derrick Jensen Forums (err.. Fora??).

I've looked at the online Rewilding Primer and read some of it -I've bookmarked the sites and will go back and do a more thorough job later.

I'm a 48 year old female living in the city of gold-Johannesburg, South Africa.

I answer to Terri as well as Aquila ka Hecate

[Truly]

Hey Folks,

Some of you may recognize me.  I'm an IshCon refugee and have done some time in the IshThink refugee camp and wandered around to some other places aimlessly.  I came here because I think the wiki is a great idea and I'd like the contribute when and where I can.  I'm also also getting some what sick of arguing with people on the internet, since everything seems to turn out harsher than expected.  Like a feral dog though, I still get the urge to rise to the fight or argue sometimes, even in a place of safety, so please forgive me if I'm a bit silent in my attempt to avoid argument.

I come from Midwestern United States near Chicago, and I'm working on a master's degree in Cultural Anthropology with an emphasis on food issues and agriculture.  I also have a good deal of experience in my education with soil science, GIS, human evolution, and hunter/gather societies, among other things.  I have been volunteering with a small family farm near where I live as part of my research and been doing some urban foraging on the side where I can.

I'm pretty familiar with Jason's work through the former IshCon crowd, and I look forward to examining the other rewilding literature.

Some of you know me as Paul, though I generally as Truly where I can get away with it.  Its hard being named after a megalomaniac for a birth name.

[BlueHeron]

Welcome Aquila ka Hecate (care to share how that name found you?) and Truly.

Speaking of new names, a revised name for myself came along a few weeks ago when I was experiencing a really fertile creative period.  I've only discussed it with a few of my friends so far.  I'm not pursuing legal recognition of the name, and I don't really know how to "re-introduce" myself to many of the people I see on a regular basis, such as co-workers, employers.  There is no explanation for changing my name other than "it feels better" -- which IMO is a perfectly fine reason, but other people may not get that.  Because of all of those factors, I'm going slow with the transition.

On second thought, another reason for the name is that it grants me a blank slate for re-conceptualizing my life; it is a self-empowering renewal.

If anyone on the forum would care to use it, then that would be a good start. 

So if I may reintroduce myself (for the third time!), I'm Eve.  I prefer it to Rebecca.  The full name is "Eve, Apasionada del Yermo" which is Spanish for "Eve, in love with the wasted wilderness."  The name Eve carries a heavy dose of associative meaning, but then again I have never been one to shy from grand poetic gestures.

[nodedog]

My names nodedog.  I am not particularly primitive right now, although I have been in the past.  I live north of Santa Fe, NM in a rural area.  I do think that is important to rehone or learn the skills of living off the land.  We are in a crisis period right now, but it was always a good idea, because along with the skills goes being closer to Mother Earth.

I have mixed feelings about the crash of our civilization.  Allot of people will be hurt.  Lots of older ones do not have the health to withstand the living the way our ancestors did.  But we may have to anyway.  I am very fascinated by the focus that many who comment here reflect on this idea of rewilding.

[incendiary_dan]

Welcome nodedog!

You raise some valid points about civ's collapse, but remember: civilization is hurting people now, and elders are more likely to get good care with family than in a nursing home.

Anyway, good to have you here, since you're one of those people who actually introduces themselves.

[penney]

hi, i'm Penney.
 
i live in Denver, CO but it seems any more that this place is only a tool to regroup before i go off traveling time and time again- Denvers the home base (at least for now), but i leave it a lot.

i spent 10 months of the last year working on organic farms in Europe because the main skill i want to know inside and out is how to grow all my own food. and i wanted to learn Spanish (that one still needs a lot of work) 
but i did learn a lot about preserving food and making things from scratch and my life now is pretty much exclusively dedicated to furthering those sorts of skills.

my house is full of plants- everything from beets and carrots to arugala basil.

so yeah, now i'm here in Colorado again working at a non-profit, rebuilding bits and pieces of my life and my book collection so i can go off again. the real plan is to buy a piece of land abroad and create a completely off-grid sustainable dwelling where everything that is needed can be made or found or grown- an existence as far away from money- dependence as possible.

something else that is very important to me is learning all about herbal medicine. i'm currently scouting around for teachers and programs- i want the main emphasis to be on identifying plants out in the wild- not just what herbs do physically in the body. so if anybody has suggestions on this i'd really appreciate it.

other than that, i'm a painter, i love rock climbing, passing all the cars on my wonderful bicycle, knitting, sewing, reading and, most of all, learning- which i'm excited to do a lot of here.

thanks!!

[Duc]

Hello to all

I go by Duc (pronounced like "John Wayne" not the water fowl)

I make home in Washington State but currently enjoy the lovely fall weather in Northern Iraq on my third visit to this interesting country.

I grew up between Hawaii, California and summers living in a tent outside of Oakridge Oregon, not “camping” but living as my Father decided to walk away from society and lived years off the grid in an old Army GP Medium tent. When school let out for the summer my mother put my brothers and I on the Greyhound and off to the woods we went. I hated it then but now realize why my Father did it and understand that he taught me more than any school or “civilized” education could have.

30 years later, coming full circle, I remembered what I almost forgot and began my re/de-education process.

The topics presented here interest me and I hope to learn more about the rewild concept.

I've been on many of the "primitive ways" websites and they seem to focus more on the technical aspects and for the most part seem to ignore the deeper issues of escaping the chains of our destructive culture.

Hopefully I can learn and pass on a better way to my two beautiful daughters and wife back in Washington.

I feel thankful for all who contribute here.

Duc

[Willem]

Welcome Duc!

[Cordage]

(I jumped into posting and didn't realize to post here)
My ReWilding name is Cordage (my other name doesn't really matter), I was nicknamed that at Mashkodens (the Wild Moon camp at Teaching Drum Outdoor School) because of my love for making Cordage and have stuck with it. I'm 21 years of age.
I live to become a feral being and to see the end of this death-culture and for the wilderness to come back to the areas where she has been oppressed.
I live in Idaho though I am homeless (not as in not living in a house) within the city, only to be at home within the wilderness. I roam around in the desert, and mountains a lot, occasionally going into the forest when I can make the long trip to get there.
I'm an anti-civilization anarchist. I came to the conclusion that civilization must go mostly after reading the works of John Zerzan and Derrick Jensen and what they had to say about it all. Since then I've just been exploring all of the anti-civ literature out there from Kevin Tucker, to Chellis Glendinning, as well as others.
I practice primitive/earth skills most days to prepare for the collapse and because I enjoy doing them. I fish, and am trying to figure out trapping methods, getting into hideworking, and all of the other stuff that goes with all of that.
I write every so often because I want to bring awareness to people as to what this system brings, as well as its inevitable collapse. I don't want to end up in jail so I write as opposed to doing illegal actions which could land me there, in hopes that it will have an effect on those who read, so that they can take action in the way they feel suited to do, and so they can prepare for the collapse.
I look forward to the collapse of this machine culture while at the same time fearing it and knowing that life won't exactly be easy immediately after.
I went to Teaching Drum Outdoor School in June to participate in the Wild Moon program which solidified my determination to become feral and live off the land, as well as my thoughts on this culture.
Not sure what else to add, so yup..
-Cordage

[Ink]

Hi all,

Annie here, but I go by "Ink" (simply because "digital ink" is all most people ever see or know of me on the net).

I know of this site because I'm Yarrow Dreamer's housemate and Willem's friend.

I jumped in to posting in the population dynamics thread when I couldn't stay "shut-ed up" any more. I seem to be naturally drawn to the more cerebral debates about gender roles, economic collapse, and scientific theory... however, I know I'd get great value out of participating in the "how-to" threads about herbs and other living skills.

What I'm hoping to get from this site is to be helped further down the path toward my goals. For the immediate future, I'd like to have the following ready to go in case things go to shit real fast (not what I'm expecting, but I'd like to be prepared).

1) Get a place of refuge lined up for if times get hard quickly
2) Assess my survival knowledge.
3) Find other people that know stuff I don't about survival (either already at that refuge, or going to go there)
4) Have a plan to all get safely to the refuge.

Once I've got that in place, I can concentrate on more long-term goals that work for slower, more "degenerative" collapse.

1) Exit economic slavery gradually and gracefully
2) Co-purchase or buy shares in good land to set up thriving community (not just survivalism).
3) Bring with me people or go to place with people willing to set up village life.
4) Get a sustainable perma-culture and community system going  (over a few years).

The second set of goals is FAR preferred to the first. I could totally see myself on some land near a national forest or BLM land somewhere in the NW (Willamette Valley, up to British Columbia). There would be a mix of near-by forest, streams, meadows and wetlands in which we could forage and foster life. There would be some gardening and domesticated animals, but no monoculture, and certainly not farming that's almost no different than a 9-5 job. If a crop or an animal needs I high level of care to survive and provide, it doesn't fit in.

That's about all I can think of right now. Talk to ya later!

[mestarr]

Hello there! So I guess I posted elsewhere without the intro - shame on me! Anyway, I'm STarr, founder of the now-dead OurIshmaelVision group for Portland Ishmaelers. Still an interesting email list, but nothing close to this place - I love it! I'm thankful to the guy who started the Myspace Rewild group to bring my attention here. I am pretty sure Willem and I have talked on the phone, but it was most likely around 5 or so years ago.

I am happy to be here, and will try to keep up as much as I can. I am grateful there are some guidelines here to keep things (hahahhaa) "civilized" as they don't usually stay that way on most internet groups.

That aside, if anyone is in the Portland area this Saturday, the 25th, please stop by the Portland Center for Spiritual Living at 1pm to be interviewed for a documentary being put together called 'no one right way'. I'm excited. feel free to email me with Q's. I'll be there, as I am the one with the key!

to the Vision of Truth,

STarr

[Willem]

Welcome Cordage!

Heya Ink!

And good to hear from you again Starr!

p.s. and welcome to Penney too. Good to hear everyone's stories!