the truth is almost everything we were taught by our parents, our clergy, our teachers, advertisements, etc. is wrong. ever since we developed agriculture 10,000 years ago, humans have been on the wrong path. we have separated our selves from the rest of the natural world and interact now with only human artifacts- cities, buildings, cars, tvs, etc. there is little bird song, squirrel chatter, and encounters with larger wild life. there is little dirt under our nails, beneficial bacteria thriving on our skin, and wind caressing our cheek. people don't know who they are or why they are alive. you may be among them. i know i still struggle with it. our consumer society wants to keep you dissatisfied and stressed out, it wants to keep you disconnected from yourself, your spirit, your people. it wants you to be desparate for anything to stuff in that big empty hole that we all carry around inside of us. it wants you to buy their products, to slave at jobs that aren't satisfying so that you can buy what you "need."

the truth is mother nature provides everything we need. hunter/gatherer cultures spent 3-4 hours a day 3x a week feeding themselves. the rest of the time was "leisure" time, time for singing, being crafty, playing games, and doing their nails. they don't have words for "work," "starvation," or "loneliness." those concepts don't compute for them. there would be a whole tribe to raise the babies and watch over them as they grow into more independent beings. there would be a whole tribe to build the houses. there would be a whole tribe to hunt and gather food. can you imagine what a wonderful world that was? sure, people died of disease, were eaten by cougars, and fell off cliffs, but no one was crushed in a car accident, was addicted to drugs, or felt the responsibility\~to do everything themselves or with just one partner. time was slower, life was richer, and laughter was often.

people need to re-couple with the natural world and re-integrate their wild nature. we are human animals, one of the coolest species on the planet, and headed towards self-imposed destruction. whole branches of the evolutionary tree that took 3 million years to grow are being lopped off by habitat destruction, pollution, and over harvesting. soon we may be among the extinct. if humans are to survive and thrive, it will take re-learning what traditional cultures have been telling us all along: " We are all one," and shedding the deleterious thought and behavioral patterns western civilization has enculturated in us and we are now addicted to. We are all in recovery from western civilization. This tribe is for exploration into how to be a wild human connected to the earth in the 21st century, covering everything from ecstatic dance to brain tanning. This is a tribe for people on the path to liberation and connection, for the modern primitive that likes to go deep and get funky.

http://tribes.tribe.net/recoveringfromwesternciv