Human Rewilding And its place in reconnecting us to The Ancestral Life Ways of the far North (Celtic, Nordic, Finno-Ugric & Slavic)
We are experiencing something called the Great Heathen Awakening. We are seeing a surge of people feeling called to the Ancestral Life Ways of the far North, i.e. Celtic, Nordic, Finno-Ugric & Slavic Heathenry.
First Rome, then the Church stripped us of our cultures & traditions. They not only colonized our lands, but our minds as well. This colonizing of the mind is called domestication.
Many within the community today, though they be Pagan/Heathen, still operate from a domesticated mindset. This is what is causing so much tension and drama within the community.
So with so many young hungry, bright minds coming into the community now, how do we fix this? Well our ancestors honor the old ways from a wild mind. So we must un-domesticate our mind in order to truly embrace the Old Ways. This process is called Rewilding. What is Rewilding you ask?
Well first, it’s a specific type of Rewilding, called Human Rewilding. What is human rewilding? Rewilding in humans means to revert back to a natural or untamed state of being. It is the process of undoing unhealthy modern conditioning and recreating cultures and lifestyles beyond domestication as we define it today.
I’m not going to go into a long rant here of what Human Rewilding is. There are plenty of sites that explain that, and we can have discussions in our Lives or social media forums if people are interested.
My focus is how to help these budding Ancestral Lifeway Discord servers to begin the process of incorporating Human Rewilding into their study groups.
I’ll begin with Primitive Living Skills. Many of the skills that enabled us to live in balance with our world and connect to the cycles of nature have been lost. un-domestication or rewilding is about re-awakening these truly human skills and mindsets, utilizing them once more in our everyday lives, to bring meaning and fulfillment back to our routines. These include basic life skills, such as growing food, bushcraft and foraging; and recovering our connection through mindfulness, a rooting in the physical world over the virtual, and of course time spent in wild environments, living in and being with nature, being a truly integrated part of it, rather than a detached spectator.
Most of you do most of your work with the first two of the three Kindreds, the gods and ancestors. To be honest, the Land Spirits get neglected. WE need to be in sync with all three for a healthy growth in our Paths. Studying and embracing primitive living skills not only strengthens our connection to our ancestors, but also with the spirits of the land.
Learning Primitive Living Skills becomes a ritual that over time begins to deprogram our minds to return to thinking like our ancestors. Doesn’t mean we have to live like Hunter-Gatherers. It just means going back to looking at the modern world from their perspective. Our ancestors were not stupid. They just approach science & technology from a different angle. The domesticating by the Church actually stunted our scientific thinking. Had we not been domesticated, we would have most likely been traveling the stars by now.
I will be doing TikTok Lives and Discord discussions in the near future on Human Rewilding & Primitive Life Skills and am gauging if there's any interest across the servers. If so, please let me know. I’ll start with discussions on different discord servers. In time, when I have enough interest and people have begun to truly grasp what Human Rewilding is and how they can incorporate it into their Heathenry, I’ll move to the next level of actual Primitive Skill Shares and create a server with Human Rewilding & Primitive Living Skills as it’s focus.
NOTE: Indigenous people in America call this Decolonizing..
The term Human Rewilding was coined by one of my mentors back in my early days as a member of Earthfirst. His name is Jesse “Wolf” Hardin. You can google him. I went to herbal medical school in Portland, OR a tad bit over 10yrs ago. Wolf’s wife, Kiva Rose was my online guide & mentor (that is, I would pick her brain on Facebook.). Both Wolf & Kiva have made Rewilding an integrate part of their Pagan path.
Kiva RoseOther great sources on Human Rewilding would be, Peter Michael Bauer, author of "Rewild Or Die" and founder of Rewild Portland.
And Arthur Haines, a forager, ancestral skills mentor, author, public speaker, and botanical researcher.
These folks can point you in the right direction and help you avoid the New Agers who been busy trying to use Human Rewilding to sell diets and other pseudo-spiritual hogwash.
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