Let's Go Wild

#164: 9 August 2026 Part 2 of 3 (More Introduction)

I write Unsealing Our Past as a personal exploration of truth and reality. This necessarily means that I look at how knowledge is constructed, embodied, and communicated. Thus, as I acknowledge that all means of expression of inner spirit are legitimate and normal, I have already stepped outside the boundary of “civilization” and accepted a different, Wild set of standards for accumulating knowledge and developing wisdom. I can only speak on these matters as befits my experience; awe, grief, and love are possibly the most intense, inner, and unique experiences we humans can have. These aspects are also the most tightly controlled, through media, propaganda, and law, by the dominant (Western, Modern) view I was raised and indoctrinated in.

Where does knowledge come from? We are taught, by parents and other family members, by teachers, spiritual and political leaders, and media (including broadcast, theater, song and dance), learning what is acceptable, civilized, or “developed knowledge” in our community. We are also taught what is taboo, savage, or wild; and are heavily ostracized if we violate community “standards”. These instructions take many forms: myth, stories, traditions including cultural, familial, and spiritual, and the language that supports all of these. Some are true, some are not, and most are shaped in large part by the listeners’ understanding of the meaning of the words heard. How does one describe or relate an experience when there are no words that convey anything accurate about it? We process our experiences and learnings and hopefully distill that into the essence of wisdom; we often want to share our story soon after. Like the old conundrum: describe the visceral, visual experience of the color red to a person blind from birth… I can’t. My wisdom will necessarily be different from yours; I have a unique set of experiences and knowledge that I use to form my wisdom, and the meaning I place on any given word(s) quite possibly is different compared to yours, too.

Note as you process this concept how it feels inside, how it lands, and where your attention has gone. What can you discern by what is roiling in your mind and heart right now? Note how so many today are highly distracted and do no inner work at all. Note how the fringe, those who remain Wild or nearly so, are shunned, deplatformed, debanked, removed from the collective discourse and if necessary in the name of “public safety”, locked away, drugged into submission, or outright killed. I bring this up as a warning: what you are reading here is intentionally Wild; I mean to corrupt you to Modern so you never go back.

Within this process of gaining knowledge and wisdom, we practice and reinforce our beliefs, yet sometimes even they change. The very acts of dancing, healing, creating, storytelling, parenting and mentoring, growing food and flowers, watering and caring for plants and people, becoming a new friend or visiting with friends we have known for a long time, and constantly paying attention and learning from every experience; these are just a few of the ways we embody our wisdom. Practicing ritual makes the act easy; practicing ceremony makes the act sacred. The most aware among us practice both with every breath we take.

Let us acknowledge now the history of the human species. We have been anatomically ‘human’ as we are today for about 200,000 years; we have been agricultural beings for maybe 10,000. From the beginning, our human family lived a creation story that placed us, not as Masters of Nature, but as one more node in a Web that was dependent upon every form of life in order to grow and thrive. It is a view of reality that includes every form of life as conscious to some degree, and necessary for the survival of the whole. Looked at from a different vantage point, Wild, or indigenous, is code for “belonging to place”. Just as you have a role to play in our collective, human survival and growth, so do salmon, rose, granite and sunlight. This historic Wild way has been superseded, although not wiped out completely, by the Modern way. This recent view of creation puts responsibility firmly upon each individual human, while ignoring agency by any other life form and treating Nature as an open pit mine useful for human purposes but nothing else. We call it Newtonian physics; it posits a cold, dead Universe full of solid stuff here for human use. We sometimes call this view, ‘materialism’ as if it points to something ‘that matters’. Rather than humans belonging to place, Modern turns that upside-down into, “this place belongs to humans, to me”. I can see a certain sense to both self-responsibility and ownership, once you accept that agriculture necessitates settling into one place and thus requiring storage, investment, and either the trading or hoarding of property. Those who have will control those who don’t have. Of course having property requires a security force for protection; and once the population to be supported outgrows the ability of the land to support them, then taking the land of others becomes a useful task to also be performed by those same security forces. And all of this logically flows from a premise that a single person can survive alone, supported only by what they do themselves; this forms the basis of a view on life that we now call Modern, and that we characterize as civilized. In fact, none of us can be an island, alone on the vast ocean of this Universe. We all depend upon others to do what they do best, especially given that Modern is so completely infused with both specialization and separation.

Imagine, 200 years ago, if someone came to you and said there are invisible creatures that make us sick and sometimes even kill us? You would have thought them insane, or a religious zealot speaking of evil demons. Now here’s the uncomfortable part. There are fields around us right now that we can’t see. Wi-Fi, radio and cell signals are one example ... but I am speculating about broader fields of information or maybe even a field of universal consciousness, penetrating and permeating basically everything. Of course there is no science to prove this...yet. And throughout unsealing Our Past, I will have three layers of information. First, the mainstream version of reality; what you were taught in school and have reinforced by media and talking heads all the time. Then there is an enhanced layer of new information, since research continues all the time, and you may not have heard some of the recent progress made as a result. Then there is the “crazy” part, the integration. Pulling from various cutting edge research, conclusions seem obvious to some and will be presented for your consideration. As always, trust, but verify.