rewild, v : to return to a more natural or wild state; the process of undoing domestication. Synonyms: undomesticate, uncivilize.
rewild, v; to foster and maintain a sustainable way of life through hunter-gatherer-gardener social and economic systems; including, but not limited to, the encouragement of social, physical, spiritual, mental and environmental biodiversity and the prevention and undoing of social, physical, spiritual, mental and environmental domestication and enslavement.
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For most green/anti-civilization/primitivist anarchists, rewilding and reconnecting with the earth is a life project. It is not limited to intellectual comprehension or the practice of primitive skills, but instead, it is a deep understanding of the pervasive ways in which we are domesticated, fractured, and dislocated from our selves, each other, and the world, and the enormous and daily undertaking to be whole again. Rewilding has a physical component which involves reclaiming skills and developing methods for a sustainable co-existence, including how to feed, shelter, and heal ourselves with the plants, animals, and materials occurring naturally in our bioregion. It also includes the dismantling of the physical manifestations, apparatus, and infrastructure of civilization. Rewilding has an emotional component, which involves healing ourselves and each other from the 10,000 year-old wounds which run deep, learning how to live together in non-hierarchical and non-oppressive communities, and deconstructing the domesticating mindset in our social patterns. Rewilding involves prioritizing direct experience and passion over mediation and alienation, re-thinking every dynamic and aspect of our reality, connecting with our feral fury to defend our lives and to fight for a liberated existence, developing more trust in our intuition and being more connected to our instincts, and regaining the balance that has been virtually destroyed after thousands of years of patriarchal control and domestication. Rewilding is the process of becoming uncivilized. -Greenanarchy.info
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For my personal take on rewilding see What Rewilding Means to Me.
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To join the renaissance visit rewild.info.
Have just come across your website and thought i’d drop in and say hi from the land down under. I’m a native New Zealand Maori who now resides in the state of Victoria Australia.
I just wanted to really say that it is refreshing to read your posts/blog on your passions for life… that being nature, spirituality and the simplicity of all the natural things that surround and encompass us. It appears you are beautiful internally and externally and your zest for life is heart warming!
Keep living girl..
Kia Kaha (Have strength)
Arohanui (Love to all)
Thanks Sean, Wow I am getting so much great encouragement from all over the world lately. It feels pretty good!
As an early botany and environmental studies student, your mission seems very inspirational. I will no doubt be reading many of your articles! Thanks for your work.
We saw a tree today that my mother commented on “that is a bam gillard tree my mother used to make a black salve from it that would heal anything”. I made a picture. It may be the same or similar tree that some on line called a balm of gilly tree but it does not look anything like tulip popular from ky that we are familiar with. Do you have a connection with someone who might know.
My mother is nearly 88.
I made a picture of the tree.
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