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How to walk away from civilization

February 8th, 2015 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized

Picture 514Miles Olson built a ‘feral homestead’ as a squatter, foraging, hunting, gardening and scavenging among a group of like-minded individuals dedicated to living close to the land, in alignment with their values

What separates us from the rest of the natural world? Why is it that everything on this planet exists in a state of balance and synergy, with the exclusion of us? More importantly, how do we transform that? How do we rewild our minds, unlearn the conditioning, patterns and beliefs that lie at the root of our disconnect from self, others and the living world? Miles Olson uses personal stories and experiences as a springboard into these and other big questions.

Miles Olson spent a decade living off the grid, on the forested edge of a sprawling small city on Vancouver Island. During this time he built a ‘feral homestead’ as a squatter, foraging, hunting, gardening and scavenging among a group of like-minded individuals dedicated to living close to the land, in alignment with their deepest values and truth. Olson’s decade-long experiment in deep green simplicity has given him an extensive toolkit of traditional living skills, along with a truly unique and fascinating perspective on the relationship between the human and nonhuman worlds, sustainability, freedom, ecology, and the human experience.

Unlearn, Rewild, and the primitive future

Image-front-cover_coverbookpageOlson is the author of Unlearn, Rewild: Earth skills, ideas and inspiration for the future primitive (2012, New Society Publishers). He has spoken to groups internationally about his journey and revelations. [Source: VIU Anthropology Student Club]

“Picture a world where humans exist, like all other living things, in balance. Where there is no separation between ‘human’ and ‘wild’. Unlearn, Rewild boldly envisions such a world, probing deeply into the cultural constraints on our ability to lead truly sustainable lives and offering real, tangible tools to move toward another way of living, seeing and thinking.” [Source: Vancouver Island Regional Library Courtenay]

We speak with Miles Olson, in an interview first broadcast in December 2013 on People First Radio.

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