Comments on: The Rewild Frontier: Life in Collapse

By: suspiria_two

suspiria_two — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:13:44 +0000

why apologize for biblical tales? they are just another body of knowledge, and not all dogma & laws. whether or not you believe them to be the ‘literal’ truth, if one looks closely at the stories one can see a grain of psychological truth, deep conceptual truth. in this way, the story of the fall of adam & eve led me to understand what rewilding means. it is (to me) an idealized, mythologized representation of when we stopped being at one with ‘nature’ and started to view ourselves as separate from it, and eventually superior to it. it was the original unwilding event, representing the moment we became ‘civilized’ even though i don’t believe that this was a single moment but an ongoing process as much as any other.

it is only when the bible is preached as the literal truth, only-way to see the world & what has happened in it that one should begin to apologize.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:17:07 +0000

Thanks for writing this.

By: waf

waf — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:54:00 +0000

…scout another important text worth translating!…and implementing!! Thanx:)

By: Collapse vs Rewilding « Celtic Ramblingz

Collapse vs Rewilding « Celtic Ramblingz — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:26:56 +0000

[...] vs Rewilding I found an interesting post over at Urban Scout an American blogger about collapse vs rewilding … some interest things to think about indeed, especially the end of the [...]

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:25:47 +0000

Haha Strider, if someone had asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up when I was 7, I would have said, “A Sioux” (Lakota).

Scout, thanks for synthesizing so many ideas here.

By: Strider

Strider — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:42:07 +0000

Wow! This post was especially inspiring Scout! It made me choke up a little…it made me excited to be following my heart, it made me joyful that others are too, that I’m not the only “crazy” one…
I’ve always felt in my bones that rewilding was the way to go; I just didn’t have a name for it til recently! I was the kid who at seven announced to my family that I was going to live in a tree someday…they laughed, but I was serious.
Anyway, I’ve been very inspired by your blog…I’m wondering if you are offering classes lately in the PDX area; also you could ad my blog to your list of blogs about rewilding; not everything in my blog directly relates to rewilding, (some midwifery stuff too,) and none of it is as well written as your stuff, however, I think it is pretty interesting.
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/carrot
Anyway, keep up the good work! I’ve been fighting my own feral urges for far too long…I’m beginning to give in!