It is a pleasure to have you here sacha. I look forward to reading what you have to say.
Billy
Hey Sacha,
Iād really like to read your books when theyāre ready! Iām very interested in those two subjects, even if Iām still a newbie at both.
Itās great that youāll be participating here. Looking forward to reading your posts.
Misko
Welcome Sacha! That book sounds fucking great! I just got done reading āKeeping It Livingā by Nancy Turner and am currently reading āTending the Wildā by M. Kat Anderson.
Thanks, Scout! I just noticed there is a section on Language, so I should have mentioned that I have a degree in linguistics with a specialty focus in Native American languages. I have always felt an acute sense of bereavement about not being able to speak my own language (except for some isolated words) and a sense of how much Native people are losing with the loss of our languages, so my long-ago ambition was to be a field linguist and devote myself to saving endangered indigenous languages. Not many people seem to put a priority on language so I am glad you do.
As I mentioned, after the book on traditional Amazonian permaculture I am going to write a book on tribalism and what it means, and I would like to discuss some of these concepts on this forum. I guess it would go in Social Technologies, but I am surprised that tribalism is not mentioned in the forum description; I would think that learning about it would be a priority. How have indigenous tribal peoples managed to function for thousands of years without governments, police, prisons, voting, or any kind of physical coercion? This is something to explore.
It is part of Spiritual Technology too, which is not only about talking to other-than-human people, although that is an important part of itā¦
Gayle-
You got me. Welcome to our forum! I feel really glad you found us. I didnāt realize this place would match your sensibilities too!
As far as tribalism, it definitely belongs here in the Social Technology section. Iād love to hear your thoughts on it. Iāve personally begun exploring the topic more on my site, the College of Mythic Cartography, in terms of ārewilding adulthoodā and other issues. Feel free to start the conversation here too.
yrs,
Willem
Hi!
Yarrow here, southern Brit with an interest in permaculture, low impact living, ethics and linguistics. My bike wheels turn often, my daughter laughs, the garden spilleth forth.
Any brits here?
'ello.
Seems like a nice forum here. Iām just looking to occasionally chat about various topics in the realm of human rewilding. It is really the endpoint of everything I am aiming towards and there is no more politics and babbling about it - gave up on petty arguing a while ago.
My obsessions are currently: everything plants (and all aspects of ecology), mushrooms, friction fire, primitive wilderness living, scavenging, primitive bows, human history, and anarchist/apocalyptic hardcore music.
I currently live in one of the largest cities in the world and it infects/affects all of my thoughts. The only positive aspects of city living I see are: free wireless internet connection, lots of usable/edible garbage, lots of unusual people, abandoned buildings and wild vacant lots.
Been getting more and more frighting lately and Itās good to have yāall around. Greetings to all.
Welcome Yarrow and artifracture!
Hi - Iām Marita - I currently live in Lakewood Colorado, just finished reading the 30 theses and have lurked a long time on your forum. Iāve been completely swallowed up by the cultural story for a long time, and am in the process of extracting myself, and finding it a slow and painful process! I havenāt found any rewilders to learn from in Colorado, stuff I find is expensive and time consuming, but I take most of the responsibility for it, lacking much time or money.
I was a wild child as much as I could be, studied ecology/wildlife in college, but when I got to graduate school got really turned off by academia, and started working with computersā¦ it was a fake world, but an honest one, to some degree. Then I got married and had two kids. My oldest had lots of birth trauma, and it was my struggles to not lose her to autism, or something similar, she kept slipping away from me, that took me down a path of psychosis! Which was my Dark Night, where I learned a whole lot. I had to learn about the fragmentation of our mind/body/spirit that has happened to human beings and other domesticated critters. Our mutual healing journey, and my search to see what others knew about wholeness and healing (indigenous mostly) that brought me to the place where I realized undomestication is essential. But by then I had a big life, a house, car, job, etcā¦ how to extract us from all that? I currently try to pay bills working on websites, and continue to learn more about undomestication, and how to live different. I have been working parttime on a book also, but have little timeā¦ I am continually schizofrenic, I now have two teenagers, and I keep giving them double messages, āhereās how you would act to make it in this culture, but really this is the way things ought to be, the way we SHOULD be actingā¦ ,ā I figure my kids will be better prepared for a post crash world, because they have alternate ways of looking at life. I could really use more of a tribe, a sacred circle of folks to hold this āpost crashā energy of a gift economy, but struggle along with what I have. I did take Tom Brownās standard class, but have little dirt time, and havenāt developed many survival skills, which I am very sad about. My excuse is mostly the single Mom thing of little time or money. Whine whine!!! Anyway, I am selling the house next spring, and going nomadic, my daughter graduates from High School, my son is only 15, not sure what he will do, come along, or stay with his Dad and finish high school, I will leave that up to him, but I have to cut the chains, I am feeling the drumbeat. You guys have been an inspiration to me.
Welcome Marita! What a story!
Hey, iām pk.sage. iām simply joining because i want to learn primitive ways and this site looks amazing.
Iām on the computer to much, but mostly because i hate the way society is ran right now, computer offers comfort it seems. I found myself stuck between the question of accepting to do the work the way i was told at school or doing it my way the more developmental way, the way that i will actually learn something that will develope me as a human. I droped out. Now i find myself arguing between the choice of career and work and paying or my own way and i think iām finding a choice.
I like philosophy and phychology, i put a lot of my time in the basement (heh) in both. I Find myself voided most of the time. At a stalemate of life. Feel iāve a priority iāve got to do but donāt know what it is. aaand thats it.
Welcome Pk.Sage!
I just noticed the intros thing, soooo, Iām ben, I live in Western Washington.
Hey, welcome ben! Another Cascadian. woo-hoo!
Hello, my names Eivind and iām norwegian(one of several on this forum it seems!). Iāve been interested in āprimitiveā theory for most of my life, but started practicing rewildening only recently. For as long as I can remember Iāve had a problem with domestication in all its forms, but Iāve never really had any people to discuss with or learn from until I found this forum, so it was a great relief when I stumbled upon it.
Iām 22 years old and live in the city of Oslo, struggling to stay sane while working a stressful job & loosing sleep over traffic noise. No need to say I camp in the forest whenever I can!
I love hanging out in libraries and used book shops reading and learning for hours, traveling, sleeping in my brazilian hammock between two pines on a forest cliff, fishing, heavy music, and gourmet cooking. One thing I would like to do before the collapse of civilization is to make an airplane drop with a parachute. I have an unhealthy addiction to pot, but plan on quitting when I move to the country - this autumn Iām joining a sustainable living/self-sufficiency school where Iāll learn tons of cool stuff, and I canāt wait!
Thanks for a great (but addictive!) forum!
Hi Eivind, happy to have you here.
Hmmmmmā¦ just out of self-interested curiosityā¦ could you tell us more about your Brazilian hammock? I have always loved hammocks and I want to experiment with making one that I can sleep in every night (without putting my back outā¦)
Thereās actually a thread started on hammocks: http://www.rewild.info/conversations/index.php?topic=610.0
Hullo! Iām Alwyn, originally from Kauai, Hawaii, and have been living San Francisco since 1997. Though Iām a country boy, I never really felt a desire to be (re)connected with the natural world until I read āEndgameā by Derrick Jensenā¦that book changed my life. Iāve been pursuing knowledge in nature awareness, wilderness skills, and global awareness ever since, and plan to attend a year-long wilderness school next year. I love to hike, and try to get out camping as much as I can. I attended Headwaters Outdoor School last year, and to state the obvious, that rocked my world!
[quote=āBlueHeron, post:456, topic:67ā]Hi Eivind, happy to have you here.
Hmmmmmā¦ just out of self-interested curiosityā¦ could you tell us more about your Brazilian hammock? I have always loved hammocks and I want to experiment with making one that I can sleep in every night (without putting my back outā¦)
Thereās actually a thread started on hammocks: http://www.rewild.info/conversations/index.php?topic=610.0[/quote]
Itās a hand woven, real heavy and robust cotton hammock, not the net type. I donāt know much about hammocks, I just know that if you got a bad back donāt get one of those with āspreader sticksā in the ends. You want to lie with your head and feet on different sides(head on the right side, feet on the left), this way your back will be straight.
Welcome Alwyn!!
Hey all new people !!! just a little shout out to let you know im still alive. At the moment im in the middle of a housing/squatting crisis so im really very busy and havent got the time to go online at all. Well im gonna try and stay a little uptodate here. miss talking to all of you 
take care!