The Ancient Future
People work to earn money so they can work and rattle their hamster wheel every day caged in a cycle of work and debt. Addiction to social media dulls the emptiness and encourages extreme self-interest to the detriment of creating community. To break free of this feudalism you gotta say ‘fuck ya’ to the narcotic hold of normality.
A hardy few break the bonds, flee the city and boot it down the cosmic highway in search for freedom. Jalopies are loaded to the gunwales with everything they could possibly need to carve a new life in the wild wet woods. They pack all their fears and leave behind the one essential – nothing. There are no luggage racks on a dandelion.
Biomimicry is doing what nature does, we don’t anything extra, our biology is out technology. It is already in us to ride with the dumpster cowboys and apprentice to the master scavengers. Nature is about community, everything is interconnected, interdependent and interrelated. She may be a hanging judge, but she does leave the door ajar for us knowing that we are hardwired to mess up. We need to look back to where we lost the plot.
Back in the 1980s the necessities of life were turned into commodities, this ensnared young people into a downward debt spiral as they barcoded their lives away. Meanwhile the off-griders enjoyed free heat, shelter, food, power along with tribal support. Once established, the added bonus of a feedback loop fills their lives with even more time and resources. My enthusiasm glamorizes the harsh reality, I choose this life because for me the rewards far outweigh the hardships. It is too much for some and they return to the city disillusioned – and that got me thinking.
I have jaywalked through life devoid of dogma or guidance. Bike packing across Patagonia or a wine-soaked saunter along ancient pilgrim routes is my idea of a good time. When you venture beyond the beyond into the wilds of farflungery you get caught in a slight undertow that carries you away from the mainstream and ever closer to the shores of spirituality. Your reset button may be pushed and you find yourself living the life your life wants to live. It is this spiritual connection with Nature that is essential to off-the-grid living and it is also the mental adjustment that some folk find most difficult.
Off-grid-living is all about integrating lifestyle and land use with ecological realities chimed with drifting into the mystic. This is nothing new, the spiritual and physical world have always been one for indigenous people. We are fast approaching a global crunch time when the woolly sweater folk in the wild wet woods who have built resilience into their lives and have skills, knowledge and resources will be the lucky ones. We will be the ones to help are less fortunate neighbours who chose not to adapt and prepare while it was still easy to do so. The Old World with it’s patriarchal society is contained, controlled and separated, our new tribes will be flowing, fused and unified. Living as outliers on the very margins enables us to see what is coming long before the huddle masses in the centre. We may live alone, but are never alone because there is an unseen spirit world just beyond our perception. The spirit world needs us and we need them, magic happens when we connect. We have to trust in the intelligence of the universe as we jettison the junky lives we have lived and not just live with nature but become Nature; when you give yourself to nature she gives you back yourself. Being dharma bums doesn’t take away from the very physical side of living in the woods, it requires an unpolished rough readiness. There are skills to be mastered, like, the ability to think without thinking, to live in the here and now, not to ruin today worrying about tomorrow, to live by natural law and the laws of life, there is nothing to seek – this is it. We all have a long distance to travel within ourselves, that said, we also have the means within ourselves to solve problems, however, you got to shoulder your own pack to find your own truth. Take heart that all these changes are not a malignant force, but an essential quality of the natural world innate in all things.
Irish playwright, Samuel Beckett, could be the patron saint of sustainability, “Fail, fail again, fail better.” Make mistakes, learn from them and move on. None of this is new ground, the techniques and materials that may seem new to us have a legacy going back hundreds, if not, thousands of years. It’s all the recent stuff that is wrong and hazardous.
What you are doing by going off-grid is creating a story, your own song line, stories are the currency of life, the better the story, the better the life, you squeeze all the juice out of life by living slow.The Ancient Future
People work to earn money so they can work and rattle their hamster wheel every day caged in a cycle of work and debt. Addiction to social media dulls the emptiness and encourages extreme self-interest to the detriment of creating community. To break free of this feudalism you gotta say ‘fuck ya’ to the narcotic hold of normality.
A hardy few break the bonds, flee the city and boot it down the cosmic highway in search for freedom. Jalopies are loaded to the gunwales with everything they could possibly need to carve a new life in the wild wet woods. They pack all their fears and leave behind the one essential – nothing. There are no luggage racks on a dandelion.
Biomimicry is doing what nature does, we don’t anything extra, our biology is out technology. It is already in us to ride with the dumpster cowboys and apprentice to the master scavengers. Nature is about community, everything is interconnected, interdependent and interrelated. She may be a hanging judge, but she does leave the door ajar for us knowing that we are hardwired to mess up. We need to look back to where we lost the plot.
Back in the 1980s the necessities of life were turned into commodities, this ensnared young people into a downward debt spiral as they barcoded their lives away. Meanwhile the off-griders enjoyed free heat, shelter, food, power along with tribal support. Once established, the added bonus of a feedback loop fills their lives with even more time and resources. My enthusiasm glamorizes the harsh reality, I choose this life because for me the rewards far outweigh the hardships. It is too much for some and they return to the city disillusioned – and that got me thinking.
I have jaywalked through life devoid of dogma or guidance. Bike packing across Patagonia or a wine-soaked saunter along ancient pilgrim routes is my idea of a good time. When you venture beyond the beyond into the wilds of farflungery you get caught in a slight undertow that carries you away from the mainstream and ever closer to the shores of spirituality. Your reset button may be pushed and you find yourself living the life your life wants to live. It is this spiritual connection with Nature that is essential to off-the-grid living and it is also the mental adjustment that some folk find most difficult.
Off-grid-living is all about integrating lifestyle and land use with ecological realities chimed with drifting into the mystic. This is nothing new, the spiritual and physical world have always been one for indigenous people. We are fast approaching a global crunch time when the woolly sweater folk in the wild wet woods who have built resilience into their lives and have skills, knowledge and resources will be the lucky ones. We will be the ones to help are less fortunate neighbours who chose not to adapt and prepare while it was still easy to do so. The Old World with it’s patriarchal society is contained, controlled and separated, our new tribes will be flowing, fused and unified. Living as outliers on the very margins enables us to see what is coming long before the huddle masses in the centre. We may live alone, but are never alone because there is an unseen spirit world just beyond our perception. The spirit world needs us and we need them, magic happens when we connect. We have to trust in the intelligence of the universe as we jettison the junky lives we have lived and not just live with nature but become Nature; when you give yourself to nature she gives you back yourself. Being dharma bums doesn’t take away from the very physical side of living in the woods, it requires an unpolished rough readiness. There are skills to be mastered, like, the ability to think without thinking, to live in the here and now, not to ruin today worrying about tomorrow, to live by natural law and the laws of life, there is nothing to seek – this is it. We all have a long distance to travel within ourselves, that said, we also have the means within ourselves to solve problems, however, you got to shoulder your own pack to find your own truth. Take heart that all these changes are not a malignant force, but an essential quality of the natural world innate in all things.
Irish playwright, Samuel Beckett, could be the patron saint of sustainability, “Fail, fail again, fail better.” Make mistakes, learn from them and move on. None of this is new ground, the techniques and materials that may seem new to us have a legacy going back hundreds, if not, thousands of years. It’s all the recent stuff that is wrong and hazardous.
What you are doing by going off-grid is creating a story, your own song line, stories are the currency of life, the better the story, the better the life, you squeeze all the juice out of life by living slow.The Ancient Future
People work to earn money so they can work and rattle their hamster wheel every day caged in a cycle of work and debt. Addiction to social media dulls the emptiness and encourages extreme self-interest to the detriment of creating community. To break free of this feudalism you gotta say ‘fuck ya’ to the narcotic hold of normality.
A hardy few break the bonds, flee the city and boot it down the cosmic highway in search for freedom. Jalopies are loaded to the gunwales with everything they could possibly need to carve a new life in the wild wet woods. They pack all their fears and leave behind the one essential – nothing. There are no luggage racks on a dandelion.
Biomimicry is doing what nature does, we don’t anything extra, our biology is out technology. It is already in us to ride with the dumpster cowboys and apprentice to the master scavengers. Nature is about community, everything is interconnected, interdependent and interrelated. She may be a hanging judge, but she does leave the door ajar for us knowing that we are hardwired to mess up. We need to look back to where we lost the plot.
Back in the 1980s the necessities of life were turned into commodities, this ensnared young people into a downward debt spiral as they barcoded their lives away. Meanwhile the off-griders enjoyed free heat, shelter, food, power along with tribal support. Once established, the added bonus of a feedback loop fills their lives with even more time and resources. My enthusiasm glamorizes the harsh reality, I choose this life because for me the rewards far outweigh the hardships. It is too much for some and they return to the city disillusioned – and that got me thinking.
I have jaywalked through life devoid of dogma or guidance. Bike packing across Patagonia or a wine-soaked saunter along ancient pilgrim routes is my idea of a good time. When you venture beyond the beyond into the wilds of farflungery you get caught in a slight undertow that carries you away from the mainstream and ever closer to the shores of spirituality. Your reset button may be pushed and you find yourself living the life your life wants to live. It is this spiritual connection with Nature that is essential to off-the-grid living and it is also the mental adjustment that some folk find most difficult.
Off-grid-living is all about integrating lifestyle and land use with ecological realities chimed with drifting into the mystic. This is nothing new, the spiritual and physical world have always been one for indigenous people. We are fast approaching a global crunch time when the woolly sweater folk in the wild wet woods who have built resilience into their lives and have skills, knowledge and resources will be the lucky ones. We will be the ones to help are less fortunate neighbours who chose not to adapt and prepare while it was still easy to do so. The Old World with it’s patriarchal society is contained, controlled and separated, our new tribes will be flowing, fused and unified. Living as outliers on the very margins enables us to see what is coming long before the huddle masses in the centre. We may live alone, but are never alone because there is an unseen spirit world just beyond our perception. The spirit world needs us and we need them, magic happens when we connect. We have to trust in the intelligence of the universe as we jettison the junky lives we have lived and not just live with nature but become Nature; when you give yourself to nature she gives you back yourself. Being dharma bums doesn’t take away from the very physical side of living in the woods, it requires an unpolished rough readiness. There are skills to be mastered, like, the ability to think without thinking, to live in the here and now, not to ruin today worrying about tomorrow, to live by natural law and the laws of life, there is nothing to seek – this is it. We all have a long distance to travel within ourselves, that said, we also have the means within ourselves to solve problems, however, you got to shoulder your own pack to find your own truth. Take heart that all these changes are not a malignant force, but an essential quality of the natural world innate in all things.
Irish playwright, Samuel Beckett, could be the patron saint of sustainability, “Fail, fail again, fail better.” Make mistakes, learn from them and move on. None of this is new ground, the techniques and materials that may seem new to us have a legacy going back hundreds, if not, thousands of years. It’s all the recent stuff that is wrong and hazardous.
What you are doing by going off-grid is creating a story, your own song line, stories are the currency of life, the better the story, the better the life, you squeeze all the juice out of life by living slow.The Ancient Future
People work to earn money so they can work and rattle their hamster wheel every day caged in a cycle of work and debt. Addiction to social media dulls the emptiness and encourages extreme self-interest to the detriment of creating community. To break free of this feudalism you gotta say ‘fuck ya’ to the narcotic hold of normality.
A hardy few break the bonds, flee the city and boot it down the cosmic highway in search for freedom. Jalopies are loaded to the gunwales with everything they could possibly need to carve a new life in the wild wet woods. They pack all their fears and leave behind the one essential – nothing. There are no luggage racks on a dandelion.
Biomimicry is doing what nature does, we don’t anything extra, our biology is out technology. It is already in us to ride with the dumpster cowboys and apprentice to the master scavengers. Nature is about community, everything is interconnected, interdependent and interrelated. She may be a hanging judge, but she does leave the door ajar for us knowing that we are hardwired to mess up. We need to look back to where we lost the plot.
Back in the 1980s the necessities of life were turned into commodities, this ensnared young people into a downward debt spiral as they barcoded their lives away. Meanwhile the off-griders enjoyed free heat, shelter, food, power along with tribal support. Once established, the added bonus of a feedback loop fills their lives with even more time and resources. My enthusiasm glamorizes the harsh reality, I choose this life because for me the rewards far outweigh the hardships. It is too much for some and they return to the city disillusioned – and that got me thinking.
I have jaywalked through life devoid of dogma or guidance. Bike packing across Patagonia or a wine-soaked saunter along ancient pilgrim routes is my idea of a good time. When you venture beyond the beyond into the wilds of farflungery you get caught in a slight undertow that carries you away from the mainstream and ever closer to the shores of spirituality. Your reset button may be pushed and you find yourself living the life your life wants to live. It is this spiritual connection with Nature that is essential to off-the-grid living and it is also the mental adjustment that some folk find most difficult.
Off-grid-living is all about integrating lifestyle and land use with ecological realities chimed with drifting into the mystic. This is nothing new, the spiritual and physical world have always been one for indigenous people. We are fast approaching a global crunch time when the woolly sweater folk in the wild wet woods who have built resilience into their lives and have skills, knowledge and resources will be the lucky ones. We will be the ones to help are less fortunate neighbours who chose not to adapt and prepare while it was still easy to do so. The Old World with it’s patriarchal society is contained, controlled and separated, our new tribes will be flowing, fused and unified. Living as outliers on the very margins enables us to see what is coming long before the huddle masses in the centre. We may live alone, but are never alone because there is an unseen spirit world just beyond our perception. The spirit world needs us and we need them, magic happens when we connect. We have to trust in the intelligence of the universe as we jettison the junky lives we have lived and not just live with nature but become Nature; when you give yourself to nature she gives you back yourself. Being dharma bums doesn’t take away from the very physical side of living in the woods, it requires an unpolished rough readiness. There are skills to be mastered, like, the ability to think without thinking, to live in the here and now, not to ruin today worrying about tomorrow, to live by natural law and the laws of life, there is nothing to seek – this is it. We all have a long distance to travel within ourselves, that said, we also have the means within ourselves to solve problems, however, you got to shoulder your own pack to find your own truth. Take heart that all these changes are not a malignant force, but an essential quality of the natural world innate in all things.
Irish playwright, Samuel Beckett, could be the patron saint of sustainability, “Fail, fail again, fail better.” Make mistakes, learn from them and move on. None of this is new ground, the techniques and materials that may seem new to us have a legacy going back hundreds, if not, thousands of years. It’s all the recent stuff that is wrong and hazardous.
What you are doing by going off-grid is creating a story, your own song line, stories are the currency of life, the better the story, the better the life, you squeeze all the juice out of life by living slow.The Ancient Future
People work to earn money so they can work and rattle their hamster wheel every day caged in a cycle of work and debt. Addiction to social media dulls the emptiness and encourages extreme self-interest to the detriment of creating community. To break free of this feudalism you gotta say ‘fuck ya’ to the narcotic hold of normality.
A hardy few break the bonds, flee the city and boot it down the cosmic highway in search for freedom. Jalopies are loaded to the gunwales with everything they could possibly need to carve a new life in the wild wet woods. They pack all their fears and leave behind the one essential – nothing. There are no luggage racks on a dandelion.
Biomimicry is doing what nature does, we don’t anything extra, our biology is out technology. It is already in us to ride with the dumpster cowboys and apprentice to the master scavengers. Nature is about community, everything is interconnected, interdependent and interrelated. She may be a hanging judge, but she does leave the door ajar for us knowing that we are hardwired to mess up. We need to look back to where we lost the plot.
Back in the 1980s the necessities of life were turned into commodities, this ensnared young people into a downward debt spiral as they barcoded their lives away. Meanwhile the off-griders enjoyed free heat, shelter, food, power along with tribal support. Once established, the added bonus of a feedback loop fills their lives with even more time and resources. My enthusiasm glamorizes the harsh reality, I choose this life because for me the rewards far outweigh the hardships. It is too much for some and they return to the city disillusioned – and that got me thinking.
I have jaywalked through life devoid of dogma or guidance. Bike packing across Patagonia or a wine-soaked saunter along ancient pilgrim routes is my idea of a good time. When you venture beyond the beyond into the wilds of farflungery you get caught in a slight undertow that carries you away from the mainstream and ever closer to the shores of spirituality. Your reset button may be pushed and you find yourself living the life your life wants to live. It is this spiritual connection with Nature that is essential to off-the-grid living and it is also the mental adjustment that some folk find most difficult.
Off-grid-living is all about integrating lifestyle and land use with ecological realities chimed with drifting into the mystic. This is nothing new, the spiritual and physical world have always been one for indigenous people. We are fast approaching a global crunch time when the woolly sweater folk in the wild wet woods who have built resilience into their lives and have skills, knowledge and resources will be the lucky ones. We will be the ones to help are less fortunate neighbours who chose not to adapt and prepare while it was still easy to do so. The Old World with it’s patriarchal society is contained, controlled and separated, our new tribes will be flowing, fused and unified. Living as outliers on the very margins enables us to see what is coming long before the huddle masses in the centre. We may live alone, but are never alone because there is an unseen spirit world just beyond our perception. The spirit world needs us and we need them, magic happens when we connect. We have to trust in the intelligence of the universe as we jettison the junky lives we have lived and not just live with nature but become Nature; when you give yourself to nature she gives you back yourself. Being dharma bums doesn’t take away from the very physical side of living in the woods, it requires an unpolished rough readiness. There are skills to be mastered, like, the ability to think without thinking, to live in the here and now, not to ruin today worrying about tomorrow, to live by natural law and the laws of life, there is nothing to seek – this is it. We all have a long distance to travel within ourselves, that said, we also have the means within ourselves to solve problems, however, you got to shoulder your own pack to find your own truth. Take heart that all these changes are not a malignant force, but an essential quality of the natural world innate in all things.
Irish playwright, Samuel Beckett, could be the patron saint of sustainability, “Fail, fail again, fail better.” Make mistakes, learn from them and move on. None of this is new ground, the techniques and materials that may seem new to us have a legacy going back hundreds, if not, thousands of years. It’s all the recent stuff that is wrong and hazardous.
What you are doing by going off-grid is creating a story, your own song line, stories are the currency of life, the better the story, the better the life, you squeeze all the juice out of life by living slow.The Ancient Future
People work to earn money so they can work and rattle their hamster wheel every day caged in a cycle of work and debt. Addiction to social media dulls the emptiness and encourages extreme self-interest to the detriment of creating community. To break free of this feudalism you gotta say ‘fuck ya’ to the narcotic hold of normality.
A hardy few break the bonds, flee the city and boot it down the cosmic highway in search for freedom. Jalopies are loaded to the gunwales with everything they could possibly need to carve a new life in the wild wet woods. They pack all their fears and leave behind the one essential – nothing. There are no luggage racks on a dandelion.
Biomimicry is doing what nature does, we don’t anything extra, our biology is out technology. It is already in us to ride with the dumpster cowboys and apprentice to the master scavengers. Nature is about community, everything is interconnected, interdependent and interrelated. She may be a hanging judge, but she does leave the door ajar for us knowing that we are hardwired to mess up. We need to look back to where we lost the plot.
Back in the 1980s the necessities of life were turned into commodities, this ensnared young people into a downward debt spiral as they barcoded their lives away. Meanwhile the off-griders enjoyed free heat, shelter, food, power along with tribal support. Once established, the added bonus of a feedback loop fills their lives with even more time and resources. My enthusiasm glamorizes the harsh reality, I choose this life because for me the rewards far outweigh the hardships. It is too much for some and they return to the city disillusioned – and that got me thinking.
I have jaywalked through life devoid of dogma or guidance. Bike packing across Patagonia or a wine-soaked saunter along ancient pilgrim routes is my idea of a good time. When you venture beyond the beyond into the wilds of farflungery you get caught in a slight undertow that carries you away from the mainstream and ever closer to the shores of spirituality. Your reset button may be pushed and you find yourself living the life your life wants to live. It is this spiritual connection with Nature that is essential to off-the-grid living and it is also the mental adjustment that some folk find most difficult.
Off-grid-living is all about integrating lifestyle and land use with ecological realities chimed with drifting into the mystic. This is nothing new, the spiritual and physical world have always been one for indigenous people. We are fast approaching a global crunch time when the woolly sweater folk in the wild wet woods who have built resilience into their lives and have skills, knowledge and resources will be the lucky ones. We will be the ones to help are less fortunate neighbours who chose not to adapt and prepare while it was still easy to do so. The Old World with it’s patriarchal society is contained, controlled and separated, our new tribes will be flowing, fused and unified. Living as outliers on the very margins enables us to see what is coming long before the huddle masses in the centre. We may live alone, but are never alone because there is an unseen spirit world just beyond our perception. The spirit world needs us and we need them, magic happens when we connect. We have to trust in the intelligence of the universe as we jettison the junky lives we have lived and not just live with nature but become Nature; when you give yourself to nature she gives you back yourself. Being dharma bums doesn’t take away from the very physical side of living in the woods, it requires an unpolished rough readiness. There are skills to be mastered, like, the ability to think without thinking, to live in the here and now, not to ruin today worrying about tomorrow, to live by natural law and the laws of life, there is nothing to seek – this is it. We all have a long distance to travel within ourselves, that said, we also have the means within ourselves to solve problems, however, you got to shoulder your own pack to find your own truth. Take heart that all these changes are not a malignant force, but an essential quality of the natural world innate in all things.
Irish playwright, Samuel Beckett, could be the patron saint of sustainability, “Fail, fail again, fail better.” Make mistakes, learn from them and move on. None of this is new ground, the techniques and materials that may seem new to us have a legacy going back hundreds, if not, thousands of years. It’s all the recent stuff that is wrong and hazardous.
What you are doing by going off-grid is creating a story, your own song line, stories are the currency of life, the better the story, the better the life, you squeeze all the juice out of life by living slow.The Ancient Future
People work to earn money so they can work and rattle their hamster wheel every day caged in a cycle of work and debt. Addiction to social media dulls the emptiness and encourages extreme self-interest to the detriment of creating community. To break free of this feudalism you gotta say ‘fuck ya’ to the narcotic hold of normality.
A hardy few break the bonds, flee the city and boot it down the cosmic highway in search for freedom. Jalopies are loaded to the gunwales with everything they could possibly need to carve a new life in the wild wet woods. They pack all their fears and leave behind the one essential – nothing. There are no luggage racks on a dandelion.
Biomimicry is doing what nature does, we don’t anything extra, our biology is out technology. It is already in us to ride with the dumpster cowboys and apprentice to the master scavengers. Nature is about community, everything is interconnected, interdependent and interrelated. She may be a hanging judge, but she does leave the door ajar for us knowing that we are hardwired to mess up. We need to look back to where we lost the plot.
Back in the 1980s the necessities of life were turned into commodities, this ensnared young people into a downward debt spiral as they barcoded their lives away. Meanwhile the off-griders enjoyed free heat, shelter, food, power along with tribal support. Once established, the added bonus of a feedback loop fills their lives with even more time and resources. My enthusiasm glamorizes the harsh reality, I choose this life because for me the rewards far outweigh the hardships. It is too much for some and they return to the city disillusioned – and that got me thinking.
I have jaywalked through life devoid of dogma or guidance. Bike packing across Patagonia or a wine-soaked saunter along ancient pilgrim routes is my idea of a good time. When you venture beyond the beyond into the wilds of farflungery you get caught in a slight undertow that carries you away from the mainstream and ever closer to the shores of spirituality. Your reset button may be pushed and you find yourself living the life your life wants to live. It is this spiritual connection with Nature that is essential to off-the-grid living and it is also the mental adjustment that some folk find most difficult.
Off-grid-living is all about integrating lifestyle and land use with ecological realities chimed with drifting into the mystic. This is nothing new, the spiritual and physical world have always been one for indigenous people. We are fast approaching a global crunch time when the woolly sweater folk in the wild wet woods who have built resilience into their lives and have skills, knowledge and resources will be the lucky ones. We will be the ones to help are less fortunate neighbours who chose not to adapt and prepare while it was still easy to do so. The Old World with it’s patriarchal society is contained, controlled and separated, our new tribes will be flowing, fused and unified. Living as outliers on the very margins enables us to see what is coming long before the huddle masses in the centre. We may live alone, but are never alone because there is an unseen spirit world just beyond our perception. The spirit world needs us and we need them, magic happens when we connect. We have to trust in the intelligence of the universe as we jettison the junky lives we have lived and not just live with nature but become Nature; when you give yourself to nature she gives you back yourself. Being dharma bums doesn’t take away from the very physical side of living in the woods, it requires an unpolished rough readiness. There are skills to be mastered, like, the ability to think without thinking, to live in the here and now, not to ruin today worrying about tomorrow, to live by natural law and the laws of life, there is nothing to seek – this is it. We all have a long distance to travel within ourselves, that said, we also have the means within ourselves to solve problems, however, you got to shoulder your own pack to find your own truth. Take heart that all these changes are not a malignant force, but an essential quality of the natural world innate in all things.
Irish playwright, Samuel Beckett, could be the patron saint of sustainability, “Fail, fail again, fail better.” Make mistakes, learn from them and move on. None of this is new ground, the techniques and materials that may seem new to us have a legacy going back hundreds, if not, thousands of years. It’s all the recent stuff that is wrong and hazardous.
What you are doing by going off-grid is creating a story, your own song line, stories are the currency of life, the better the story, the better the life, you squeeze all the juice out of life by living slow.The Ancient Future
People work to earn money so they can work and rattle their hamster wheel every day caged in a cycle of work and debt. Addiction to social media dulls the emptiness and encourages extreme self-interest to the detriment of creating community. To break free of this feudalism you gotta say ‘fuck ya’ to the narcotic hold of normality.
A hardy few break the bonds, flee the city and boot it down the cosmic highway in search for freedom. Jalopies are loaded to the gunwales with everything they could possibly need to carve a new life in the wild wet woods. They pack all their fears and leave behind the one essential – nothing. There are no luggage racks on a dandelion.
Biomimicry is doing what nature does, we don’t anything extra, our biology is out technology. It is already in us to ride with the dumpster cowboys and apprentice to the master scavengers. Nature is about community, everything is interconnected, interdependent and interrelated. She may be a hanging judge, but she does leave the door ajar for us knowing that we are hardwired to mess up. We need to look back to where we lost the plot.
Back in the 1980s the necessities of life were turned into commodities, this ensnared young people into a downward debt spiral as they barcoded their lives away. Meanwhile the off-griders enjoyed free heat, shelter, food, power along with tribal support. Once established, the added bonus of a feedback loop fills their lives with even more time and resources. My enthusiasm glamorizes the harsh reality, I choose this life because for me the rewards far outweigh the hardships. It is too much for some and they return to the city disillusioned – and that got me thinking.
I have jaywalked through life devoid of dogma or guidance. Bike packing across Patagonia or a wine-soaked saunter along ancient pilgrim routes is my idea of a good time. When you venture beyond the beyond into the wilds of farflungery you get caught in a slight undertow that carries you away from the mainstream and ever closer to the shores of spirituality. Your reset button may be pushed and you find yourself living the life your life wants to live. It is this spiritual connection with Nature that is essential to off-the-grid living and it is also the mental adjustment that some folk find most difficult.
Off-grid-living is all about integrating lifestyle and land use with ecological realities chimed with drifting into the mystic. This is nothing new, the spiritual and physical world have always been one for indigenous people. We are fast approaching a global crunch time when the woolly sweater folk in the wild wet woods who have built resilience into their lives and have skills, knowledge and resources will be the lucky ones. We will be the ones to help are less fortunate neighbours who chose not to adapt and prepare while it was still easy to do so. The Old World with it’s patriarchal society is contained, controlled and separated, our new tribes will be flowing, fused and unified. Living as outliers on the very margins enables us to see what is coming long before the huddle masses in the centre. We may live alone, but are never alone because there is an unseen spirit world just beyond our perception. The spirit world needs us and we need them, magic happens when we connect. We have to trust in the intelligence of the universe as we jettison the junky lives we have lived and not just live with nature but become Nature; when you give yourself to nature she gives you back yourself. Being dharma bums doesn’t take away from the very physical side of living in the woods, it requires an unpolished rough readiness. There are skills to be mastered, like, the ability to think without thinking, to live in the here and now, not to ruin today worrying about tomorrow, to live by natural law and the laws of life, there is nothing to seek – this is it. We all have a long distance to travel within ourselves, that said, we also have the means within ourselves to solve problems, however, you got to shoulder your own pack to find your own truth. Take heart that all these changes are not a malignant force, but an essential quality of the natural world innate in all things.
Irish playwright, Samuel Beckett, could be the patron saint of sustainability, “Fail, fail again, fail better.” Make mistakes, learn from them and move on. None of this is new ground, the techniques and materials that may seem new to us have a legacy going back hundreds, if not, thousands of years. It’s all the recent stuff that is wrong and hazardous.
What you are doing by going off-grid is creating a story, your own song line, stories are the currency of life, the better the story, the better the life, you squeeze all the juice out of life by living slow.The Ancient Future
People work to earn money so they can work and rattle their hamster wheel every day caged in a cycle of work and debt. Addiction to social media dulls the emptiness and encourages extreme self-interest to the detriment of creating community. To break free of this feudalism you gotta say ‘fuck ya’ to the narcotic hold of normality.
A hardy few break the bonds, flee the city and boot it down the cosmic highway in search for freedom. Jalopies are loaded to the gunwales with everything they could possibly need to carve a new life in the wild wet woods. They pack all their fears and leave behind the one essential – nothing. There are no luggage racks on a dandelion.
Biomimicry is doing what nature does, we don’t anything extra, our biology is out technology. It is already in us to ride with the dumpster cowboys and apprentice to the master scavengers. Nature is about community, everything is interconnected, interdependent and interrelated. She may be a hanging judge, but she does leave the door ajar for us knowing that we are hardwired to mess up. We need to look back to where we lost the plot.
Back in the 1980s the necessities of life were turned into commodities, this ensnared young people into a downward debt spiral as they barcoded their lives away. Meanwhile the off-griders enjoyed free heat, shelter, food, power along with tribal support. Once established, the added bonus of a feedback loop fills their lives with even more time and resources. My enthusiasm glamorizes the harsh reality, I choose this life because for me the rewards far outweigh the hardships. It is too much for some and they return to the city disillusioned – and that got me thinking.
I have jaywalked through life devoid of dogma or guidance. Bike packing across Patagonia or a wine-soaked saunter along ancient pilgrim routes is my idea of a good time. When you venture beyond the beyond into the wilds of farflungery you get caught in a slight undertow that carries you away from the mainstream and ever closer to the shores of spirituality. Your reset button may be pushed and you find yourself living the life your life wants to live. It is this spiritual connection with Nature that is essential to off-the-grid living and it is also the mental adjustment that some folk find most difficult.
Off-grid-living is all about integrating lifestyle and land use with ecological realities chimed with drifting into the mystic. This is nothing new, the spiritual and physical world have always been one for indigenous people. We are fast approaching a global crunch time when the woolly sweater folk in the wild wet woods who have built resilience into their lives and have skills, knowledge and resources will be the lucky ones. We will be the ones to help are less fortunate neighbours who chose not to adapt and prepare while it was still easy to do so. The Old World with it’s patriarchal society is contained, controlled and separated, our new tribes will be flowing, fused and unified. Living as outliers on the very margins enables us to see what is coming long before the huddle masses in the centre. We may live alone, but are never alone because there is an unseen spirit world just beyond our perception. The spirit world needs us and we need them, magic happens when we connect. We have to trust in the intelligence of the universe as we jettison the junky lives we have lived and not just live with nature but become Nature; when you give yourself to nature she gives you back yourself. Being dharma bums doesn’t take away from the very physical side of living in the woods, it requires an unpolished rough readiness. There are skills to be mastered, like, the ability to think without thinking, to live in the here and now, not to ruin today worrying about tomorrow, to live by natural law and the laws of life, there is nothing to seek – this is it. We all have a long distance to travel within ourselves, that said, we also have the means within ourselves to solve problems, however, you got to shoulder your own pack to find your own truth. Take heart that all these changes are not a malignant force, but an essential quality of the natural world innate in all things.
Irish playwright, Samuel Beckett, could be the patron saint of sustainability, “Fail, fail again, fail better.” Make mistakes, learn from them and move on. None of this is new ground, the techniques and materials that may seem new to us have a legacy going back hundreds, if not, thousands of years. It’s all the recent stuff that is wrong and hazardous.
What you are doing by going off-grid is creating a story, your own song line, stories are the currency of life, the better the story, the better the life, you squeeze all the juice out of life by living slow.
