Dispatch 7 of ReWild Yourself! Magazine will be released on Monday 12/22! Make sure youre signed up for my newsletter to gain access (its free)! This Dispatch focuses on survival skills and human survivability — subjects Im very passionate about! Heres an excerpt from one of my articles: ...It has been said that for basic human survival, there is a ‘sacred order’, a sequence by which we ensure our needs are met. They are shelter, water, fire, and food. These four things are crucial to keeping our bodies alive and well. Consider however, that these are simply incarnations of the four elements. In other words, shelter is how we protect our selves from the temperatures or precipitants in the Air. Water is of course the physical embodiment of the archetype of Elemental Water. Fire, again is the earthly incarnate of the its Elemental expression, and food is the stuff of Earth that we eat, the things that grow up from the soils. Our four basic survival needs are Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. Domesticated children are made to attend elementary school, but learn nothing of these elements. Perhaps if we instead sent them to Elementary school they wouldn’t be so prone to dying from exposure to the elements. As moderns, we know little of the Elements, and instead know primarily about artifacts, things that have been made and shaped by human hands, that bear the mark of human will. We know of machines and concrete, of plastics and toys. Of houses complete with thermostats and faucets that pour forth temperature controlled water on demand. We know of light switches that flood our lives with lumens and toilets that carry away our waste to places unknown and usually unconsidered. We are to our ancestors like soft, weak, and underdeveloped babes who have no ability to care for ourselves.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:11:20 +0000
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