Keeping the Old Ways Alive

Learn to speak the language of the land

with Bushlore Press’ Pocket Field Guides!

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Many modern spiritual teachings repeat the phrase, “You create your own reality.” I do not believe this is entirely true. We do not stand apart from the world, shaping existence through thought alone. We live within relationship. With t
Nearly every traditional culture carried stories about places people approached carefully, or avoided altogether. Sacred groves. Mountain peaks. Burial grounds. Springs. Caves. Certain stretches of forest where voices lowered, and behavior changed.
Our species has existed for roughly 300,000 years. For nearly all of that time, human beings lived close to the earth. We slept under the stars. Walked with the seasons. Watched animal migrations. Read the weather in the wind and clouds. Knew plants
There was a time when you did not need to think about your relationship with the land. You lived inside it. Food was not a concept. Shelter was not a product. Water was not a resource. These were relationships, learned through attention, passed thr
Earth Day gets one day on the calendar. The Earth does not. You live here. You eat from this ground. You breathe what the trees and waters give. That makes you an Earth person. Not by belief. By fact. Every one of us shares that. The problem is not
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.” — Carl Jung You chase clarity by looking out there. Trends. Opinions. Expectations. Noise. You stay busy and distracted, and you call it progress. Jung calls it dreaming. Your vision
The hero’s journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of yourself.” - Joseph Campbell
Modern society has forgotten how to listen and speak the language of the land. Man’s ability to observe his environment is an inherent human skill that, when honed, can be a remedy for this forgetting. This week, we invite you to get outside &