FIMBULVINTER - anarko-primitivism på svenska :: January

Diverse, Mossgröna tankar, Urkultur30 January 2008 5:00 pm

NATIVE LIFEWAY GUIDELINES for DAILY LIVING

Har ar en lista pa saker man kan gora for att leva mer ursprungligt, aven om man bor i civilisationen. Den ar skriven av Tamarack Song och hans fru Lety Seibel, som bada ar guider pa Teaching Drum Outdoor School.

Hoppas den kan ge inspiration!

/Brum

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As we rediscover who we really are, we often look for ways to integrate our newfound awarenesses into our daily lives. Following is an outline of suggestions that has worked for many. For more information on any of the following, go to www.teachingdrum.org

Awake with the dawn. Immediately listen to your dreams.

Live in and for the Moment, because that’s all there is. Do it now. Dwelling in the past or hoarding away for the future robs you of the bliss of the Now.

Recognize and Honor everything as a Gift, whether it be pleasure or pain. Some day you will find its purpose, it’s blessing.

Spend time every week with a Child under 6 years of age.

Walk your days without alarm clock and wristwatch.

Exercise aerobically 3 times per week., not just to exercise, but as an intrinsic part of your lifestyle.

Use Moon time (ex. Falling Leaves Moon, waxing crescent).

Be as a question. One question leads to another, fosters inquisitiveness. Answers shut us off to other possibilities, encourage judgements and dogmatism.

Practice attunement/awareness skills (Shadowing, Balance, breaking mental patterns, Coming to Oneness, sensory awakening) continually. Not as isolated exercises, but within context of normal activities.

Squat and sit cross-legged whenever possible (at meal times, when reading or writing, while visiting or doing craftwork).

Keep forageables log, incl. location and Moondate (ex. Cinnamon Fern – gathered 1/2 Moon after first Leeks).

Practice Honor and Respect (reverence and conscientiousness) in all things and with all Beings. Ex.: Lay down Offering (Kinnikinick, a strand of own hair) and speak your desire/need before foraging, traveling, requesting assistance.

Practice Truthspeaking with self and others
• when unclear, ask rather than asume
• take it to person involved — taking it to someone else is gossip
• listen in silence — give full attention
• express rather than repress, now rather than later
• when expressing, be brief and concise
• own and work through contrary thought and speech patterns; remember that they only half fill your bowl — the other half is for the teachings they bring
• break out of absolute (always-never) mindset; think & speak perhaps, usually

Practice Da’i (respectfully returning you scat, urine, fingernails, hair, menstrual blood, etc. to the Earth.)

Leave field guides at home. Instead, observe, use memory, take notes. Quality relationships require presence. Use books as last step in knowing.

Familiarize yourself with the Earth language spoken in your area and regularly add these terms and phrases to your everyday speech. Earth languages reflect the spirit of the Land and echo the voices of the Relations who naturally live there.

Making as many of our own clothes, eating utensils, canoe paddles, and other everyday-use items as we can, help us to feel less alienated and more connected with the means and ends of our existence.

Wear soft, thin footwear and clothing. Heavy-soled shoes and denim-canvas materials are stiff and interfere with skin sensitivity. Deep treaded footwear tears up the ground.

Eat your Ancestral foods — minimal carbs, no dairy or legumes, lots of green vegetables, fruit and nuts, along with healthy meat, fat and eggs.

Eat slowly, lightly, wisely, and with Honor.

Fast periodically (one day a week works well for many).

Check in regularly to see of what service you can be to your Circle, The Mother, and the Relations. Only by Giving can we Receive.

Diverse, Böcker, filmer och länkar, av Agueli27 January 2008 1:52 pm

As the World Burns

Jag har precis läst ut Jensens och McMillans seriebok utan att ännu ha smält innehållet. Den är underhållande även om den ibland känns lite ihophafsad. Civilisationskritik i serieform känns lite konstigt och Jensens tankar genomsyrar hela storyn; hans uppmaningar att spränga dammar och rädda djur undan djurförsök och annat. Presidenten, Gore och de ondskefulla företagsledarna är pedagogiskt utformade som psykopatiska fåntrattar som hellre samlar på guldklimpar än räddar världen undan rymdrobotar som äter upp jordens resurser.

Jag kan tänka mig att den sprids snabbt över collegen i USA, vet inte riktigt hur den skulle kunna spridas bäst i Sverige för spridas borde den, speciellt till de utan en kritisk hållning till civilisationen.

http://www.bokus.com/b/9781583227770.html?pt=search_result

//Agueli//

Diverse, Kulturspår25 January 2008 8:16 am

Mer sköna hobbithålor

http://www.lammas.org.uk/lowimpact/gallery.htm

~Snusmumrik

Diverse21 January 2008 7:08 pm

Sopfolk

SensationsTV, såklart. Kanske kan man finna lite inspiration ändå?

http://kanal5.se/web/guest/webbtv/k5videoplayer/playlist-name/Outsiders%20701/none/

Kulturspår 12:10 pm

…marknaden anpassar sig:

Eller är det krass privatekonomi?

- V1ldr0t3

Diverse, av Agueli14 January 2008 9:31 pm

“Participating in Nature” - Thomas J Elpel

"Nature, I have come to realize, exists as little more than a wallpaper in most people’s lives. In the modern world we are surrounded by pretty green foliage with a few flowers for splashes of color, plus birds chirping pleasantly nearby and manicured ponds with ducks looking for breadcrumbs. It is all ver quaint, but who really pays much attention to wallpaper?

At best, we are sometimes so taken with the scene of a rainbow after a storm or a butterfly visiting a flower that we pause for a moment to admire the walls of our world, but that is as far as it goes. Some inspired individuals appreciate the scenery enough to seek out narrow wilderness paths where they can get a completely unobstructed view of the walls. But very few people ever make it beyond the paper.

The real world, as people experience it, is the world of people and culture. It is a world that we have built and it has real substance and action - buildings, cars, movies, parties, song and dance, and an endless stream of newsworthy events. With so much going on, why would anyone ever stop to investigate mere wallpaper?

Nature remains a two-dimensional pretty picture in our lives, only rarely broken by the magnificent buck that unexpectedly comes crashing through the walls to stand in front of us. For a second the world takes on an undeniable three-dimensional aspect, hinting that there is more beyond the walls. But the moment passes as quickly as it came, and nature returns to its two-dimensional normality. We look at ur watches and continue on, eager to keep our appointments in the real world. But what might happen if we stopped to investigate the wallpaper?

When you can learn the names of a few wildflowers and birds and rocks, then you will simply pay more attention to them. You will recognize the flowers and trees when you pass on the street or in the woods. No longer will you be able to ignore them as mere splashes of color on the walls, but as something you are familiar with, like seeing an old friend. The natural world becomes a bit more interesting, if only because you know something about it.

It is when you stop to say "hello" to this old friend that you begin to notice more of the wallpaper. "Who is this?" you wonder, and "Who is that?". Soon you may find yourself making herbal tea from some of those wildflowers, or adding edible greens to your salad.

But there is so much more to explore. Try learning to start a fire-by-friction using wood from the local trees, or making pots from clay you have dug up by the side of the road. Go camping without a sleeping bag or tent and make a warm shelter from the avaiable sticks and grasses and bark. Make your own moccasins from animal skins you have tanned, and walk through the woods feeling the earth beneath your feet. Catch a fish with your bare hands, or run down a mountain just for the fun of it. The more you discover the natural world, the more you become a part of it.

The gap that separates people from nature is both immense and imaginary. It can take decades to bridge the gap, to truly know and feel that you are one with the earth. But in due time you may wander off the beaten path and right into the wallpaper, meeting friends and neighbours as you go, until you are immersed knee - deep in a swamp - catching bugs, following the birds to their hiding spots, and wondering what in the heck that unusual plant is a little farther over there. Years later you may find yourself in a meadow of wildflower and wildlife - even if it is just an vacant lot in the city - surrounded by friends you have seemingly always known, only to look back and realize how far you have come. There in the distance is what you once called the real world, the world of people and culture. But now it seems lika house of smoke and mirrors, a place with bright light and loud sounds, full of self-importance but empty of substance. The real world, you have discovered, was in the wallpaper all along."

Hämtat från introduktionen till denna bok, som på ett levande och positivt sätt vägleder en i primitiv livsföring, självförsörjning och att bli ett med naturen. Bilder och peronliga beskrivningar som visar hur man bygger olika typer av vindskydd, trummor eller lergrytor och hur man lätt bygger sig en båge att jaga med, spåra och att anlägga fällor.

Författarens hemsida: http://www.hollowtop.com/

Praktisk och insiktsfull

//Agueli//

Mossgröna tankar9 January 2008 12:10 pm

…children draw savannas…

I used to regard the Anarcho-Primitivist movement with good-natured amusement. The mental picture of John Zerzan bounding across the Serengeti plains wearing nothing but a loincloth and his TV-sized glasses would be aspectacle if ever there was one. I’ve sometimes toyed with the idea of sending Chellis Glendinning an e-get well card. My basic attitude toward them was: If you wanna bungle in the jungle, well, that’s all right with me - so long as you don’t encroach on my hi-tech Anarcho-Communist utopia, which is the *only* setting in which I can attain my much-coveted two-hour work day; I might even go camping with you when I’m on vacation. And besides, if you do try to encroach, we won’t have any trouble deflecting your boomerangs and spears. As for poison darts, we Anarchists have become immune to them after so many years of diatribe. Then this weekend I read what they have to say in earnest. I’m still reeling from it, having been shaken, not stirred. While I am not at all sure that I agree with their conclusions as to how to solve the problems, no one has plumbed their depths more profoundly or articulated them more trenchantly. I mentioned the Serengeti plains tongue-in-cheek above. Now, no longer in a flippant frame of mind; I recall reading many years ago that children in various cultures when asked to draw what paradise looks like draw savannas.

The closely-related schools of Anarcho-Primitivists go far, far beyond the critique of other Anarchists. They don’t critique societies, or given societies or societal structures. They critique civilization itself. Before reading them, I thought my criticism of society was radical. I now realize that in assuming that society, any form of society, should be held intact, albeit reformed; I was being just that – a reformist. They make a very convincing argument for the position that the problems we experience in our various societies are endemic incivilization itself – any civilization. Although I have read and considered how language forces us into asymbolic representation of reality and tisked eating packaged bread and meat treated with chemicals that keep it red sold in plastic wrappings so that I don’t have to deal with the mess of hunting, I’ve read E.M. Forster’s "The Machine Stops" and have often experienced myself progressively weakening and my body and faculties atrophying inresponse to living in an advanced technological society; I never really, I mean really, gorked just how deep it goes.I never realized that living in a technological world has caused me to live in my head, in a virtual reality.

I never realized that the occasional feelings of unreality that I experienced, especially as a teenager, are not the result of some pathology in my mind or neural circuitry, by the response to very real alienation from reality. I don’t touch anything directly, most especially my truest, most natural self. I suddenly realized that I don’t know myself at all. Who would I be, what would reality look like if I retained the ability to discern one monkey face from another, an ability I possessed when I was six months old, inter alia? Who would I be and what would my relationship to my food be if I ate with my hands? Who would I be if I did not consult with the washing machine oracle, the water faucet oracle, the electric switch oracle to supply my needs and wants? Who would I be if I could still connect with my feral fury? What would happen if I were to respond appropriately, i.e., tooth and claw and all adrenaline rage unmitigated to the threat of impending destruction that the governments threaten me and everyone I love with? Why does that not come naturally to me? Why can’t I reach that in the event that I don’t react normally and naturally? Why can’t I access that? Why can’t you? Why are we not even able to override the programming manually if we have to? Why have we become so abstracted from reality that we regard our very existence as something that we can be philosophical about and discuss rationally? I’ll provide a link to an article that is a very perfunctory treatment of the concerns and aims of Anarcho-Primitivism, but I do not wish to impose more than a 12-page introduction upon you. It is intended to be aprimer. I’ll also provide a link to the homepage of Dr. Steve Best, philosopher, writer and activist.

He’s one of the foremostspokespersons and champions of this movement. It is interesting that hehas been banned from UK. Maybe some of you in UK can better understand why he has than I can.I am left with the wholly unsettling feeling that I’ve accessed the files in my consciousness that, which when I try to delete them, tell me that they cannot be deleted as they are integral to the functioning of my OS. What would happen, who would I be if I did manage to delete them? Should I? Everything that I took for granted now seems odd, unwanted, intervening and, most of all inescapable. I realize that everything I do is by wayof a technological mediator and most of my activities are for the sakeof and in order to procure more of this artifice. Tomorrow, for instanceI plan to go for an outing with my husband. The outing is built around my main purpose for having to get out to another town – we, as subscribers to five megabits of internet connection are entitled to afree router from the phone company.

We also need a new phone cord, asthe insulation on the one we have is cracked, exposing the wires. I amsuddenly exquisitely aware of how much of my activity is centered ontechnology – virtually all of it. I am completely in its thrall anddependent upon it. It not only determines most of my behavior, itdetermines most of who I am.It suddenly feels very odd having to consult with the computer oracle in order to reach out you. Would that I could tap directly into yourconsciousness and emotions in order to impress upon you the moment ofwhat I understood and engage your empathy with me so that you wouldexperience it to. But that is precisely what we have been obviated from being able to do by all of the mediating and intermediary layers of notonly societal norms which have tamed us, but also centuries of technology that shield us from one another - as well as us from our natural selves.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel

Urkultur2 January 2008 3:19 pm

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