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When we leave the wild lands and come back to civilization, we discover something curious inside our minds. We discover that we have a peculiar way of considering civilization to be the ‘real world’, and the natural world to be a sort of ‘escape’.

It’s all fine and well to escape into the woods for a month, but it’s definitely an escape. Sooner or later we have to go back to the realities of paying our bills, meeting our social obligations, and putting money into our retirement fund. Our families, our jobs, and our life’s desires all dwell within the world of civilization.

Consider for a moment how you, personally, view the above ideas. Does the civilized world hold this aura of ‘reality’ for you? For most of us, it does. And this is an important thing to notice.

It displays to us the light in which we consider our natural selves and the natural world.

Today I found out that one of my friends wipes his dog’s butt. Indeed. After each poop, he cleans his dog’s rump, first with a wet napkin, and then with a dry one.

His rationale for this behavior is rather detailed, and I won’t get into it here. Suffice it to say that it would make a nice YouTube video.

The reason I point this out is that we humans seem to have an almost irrational fear of all that is natural. And what we fear most is what is natural in ourselves. This is rather sad, because what is the most natural in ourselves is also the most wonderful in ourselves.

Let’s Go Into the Wild!

Let’s take off all our clothes and run naked into the woods. Let’s not come back for a while. Just wander about in the wild places for a few weeks and see what unfolds. . .

Enlightenment. Awakening. Satori. Dwelling in the Now. Non-Dualism.
These are huge, beautiful words. They hold the promise of something amazing and wonderful, available to us if only we can unravel the secret of finding them.
When we dwell on any of these words, we can feel their power in our […]