Hey
People call me Puerto…my mother is Puerto Rican…I’m just getting into “rewilding”, but I’ve been interested is primitive survival skills for about 5 or 6 years. Looking for local (Salem, OR) people to learn new things from. I started barefooting a few months ago and I love it, I also like climbing trees, gardening, and being anti-social…
Hi!
Call me Daniel. I’m a Boyscout. I just stumbled upon your forum, I hope you dont mind me joining up. I think ‘rewilding’ is a great term.
Smooth trails
Hey everyone here at rewild.info, I’m Kyle. You can call me Kyle, wolf, sleepy, whatever; it doesn’t matter to me
I have, my whole life, always known I want to live in the wild oneday (AKA apart from my current civilization AKA the USA) and that dream has just recently become a huge reality to me. I am planning on doing this transition to a new life sometime in the next few years. It is something I am passionate about and 100 percent on doing.
I plan on destroying my identity pretty much in the same fashion that the guy in the movie "Into the Wild’ did. I am 19 years old and starting a 2 year program at a community college in January of 2009. I might be doing that to make friends, or to have more time to learn bush skills, ect because the only thing that’s stopping me from up and leaving everything in my current life is my lack of knowledge. I have just recently begun to learn valuable things, but I have a long long way to go.
I don’t want to get out into nature and feel like it’s a survival situation 24/7 (even though it is) I’m just saying I want to have enough knowledge so that I have time to enjoy the natural world and not be worrying about dieing constantly. Reading everyone’s posts is really inspiring and I hope to get to know you guys because I am leaning towards doing this with other people, although I am still leaving the possibility of doing it alone maybe.
[quote=“sleepywolfe, post:503, topic:67”]Hey everyone here at rewild.info, I’m Kyle. You can call me Kyle, wolf, sleepy, whatever; it doesn’t matter to me
I have, my whole life, always known I want to live in the wild oneday (AKA apart from my current civilization AKA the USA) and that dream has just recently become a huge reality to me. I am planning on doing this transition to a new life sometime in the next few years. It is something I am passionate about and 100 percent on doing.
I plan on destroying my identity pretty much in the same fashion that the guy in the movie "Into the Wild’ did. I am 19 years old and starting a 2 year program at a community college in January of 2009. I might be doing that to make friends, or to have more time to learn bush skills, ect because the only thing that’s stopping me from up and leaving everything in my current life is my lack of knowledge. I have just recently begun to learn valuable things, but I have a long long way to go.
I don’t want to get out into nature and feel like it’s a survival situation 24/7 (even though it is) I’m just saying I want to have enough knowledge so that I have time to enjoy the natural world and not be worrying about dieing constantly. Reading everyone’s posts is really inspiring and I hope to get to know you guys because I am leaning towards doing this with other people, although I am still leaving the possibility of doing it alone maybe.[/quote]
Welcome Kyle. I’m pretty much at the same point in my life where you are right now. Same age and trying to figure out how to realistically reach that goal of existing as a wild and free human.
Glad to have you on the forum.
yay another wolf! Welcome to the forum
[quote=“thunder thighs, post:504, topic:67”]Welcome Kyle. I’m pretty much at the same point in my life where you are right now. Same age and trying to figure out how to realistically reach that goal of existing as a wild and free human.
Glad to have you on the forum.[/quote]
did somebody say my name? ;D
welcome all!!! glad to have you here!
Let’s make a wolf pack 
Another Kyle here but Tao works as well. Though if you point in my general direction, I’ll also respond to “hey you.” I’m easy that way.
Get it? “Tao Jones?” I slay me. For me, the name represents a more accurate measurement of the health of a culture – an index based on personal fulfilment rather than economics. In other words, we should judge ourselves based on our wealth of happiness rather than the financial wealth of a few large corporations. And seriously, is there anyone here who wasn’t excited (at least on some level) of the current financial crisis?
Some more about me… I’m 30 and live in Hamilton, Ontario. I fancy myself a storyteller of sorts.
Life has been a philosophical journey for me starting when I was 12 at a leadership camp. I was off lying on a rock in the remote lake just staring off into the wilderness. It was the first time I ever remember silence. Then a mosquito landed on my arm, merely inches from my face. As she bit me, I just watched and encouraged her to take her fill. I mean really watched. I could see all the detail in the pumping motion as she sucked my blood. Strange thing was that it didn’t even hurt or sting at all. It didn’t even itch at all either. It was then that I realized I was an animal. The cultural disconnect between “humanity” and the natural world was revealed as the illusion it is.
Since that day, the fictions have continued to be exposed. By the time I was introduced to Daniel Quinn, I’d already figured out most of his message on my own. The rest made me kick myself for not having already been figured out. Either way Quinn’s books (and a number of other books that followed) helped expand my mind.
One particular fiction that I tend to focus my writing on is religion. I see religion as enabling and excusing the destructiveness of civilization. Honestly, I don’t see a place for religion in whatever it is that comes next. Of course, values are essential, but, to me, religion enables the disconnect between us and the rest of life.
I’ve reached a turning point in my life where I have to figure out how to best do my part. A few years ago I quit my cushy job to start something on my own which didn’t work out for a number of reasons. (Having a tribe, would have helped) Since then I’ve been living rather simply – yet happily – well below the poverty line.
I’m not quite sure that rewilding is for me, though I greatly appreciate what is being done and I hope to learn as much as I can about it by being here.
So… Hi.
A funny parting story… I wasn’t sure if I was going to lurk or post, but as I was thinking about it, my phone rang. The call display listed the name of the caller as “A BEAR” which made up my mind and made me laugh.
Even though I am a newcomer here too, I welcome you
And, I keep hearing everybody talking about these books like Daniel Quinn and whatnot; I haven’t read any of them at all. I have seen the movie ‘Into the Wild’ but I don’t know if that’s on the same level as these books. What is the main focus in the books? On a similar note, I am constantly disheartened by having to ‘buy’ knowledge from the bookstore, as are all of you I assume.
Well, I hope this board can help you figure out what path to take, Tao jones!
P.S. I was going to lurk on this board too, and I said to myself ‘I guess I won’t join…I’d be a lone wolf here…’ but right then I came across Fenriswolfr
Welcome, Puerto, Daniel, and the Kyles…
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
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.
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 ;D
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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