I know there may be a West-Coast bend to this site, but I wanted ya’ll to know the Mid-West and South are thinking along the same lines:
http://ishthink.org/ishthink_rewilding_seminar
The concept is to do an open-source gathering where people bring skills they are confident to teach, and skills they need space and others to learn and experiment with.
This seminar will be held on Memorial Day weekend (5/24-5/28), and rather than glorify the violent triumph of civilization, we will choose to remember the devastation of civilization as a launchpad into something different, into something hopefully bettter.
These seminars also mark the bridging of intellectual pursuits into more spiritual pursuits. There will be lots of observation, berry-picking, nightwalking, and perhaps even an analog to the Lakota Inipi ceremony.
Hopefully you’ll learn lots of cool stuff on rewild.info and be itching to join us! (The next seminar will be on the next civilization “free day”, Labor Day).
TonyZ