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Summary: Wild Within
Review: This book is not just about experience or wilderness, it is not only about life or enlightening, it is all of this at once... Like understanding how your footsteps relate to the sky. First you look down to the ground, not just close, closer, not just staring but embracing. Only then do you start elevating, not high but broad, not yourself but all. This book is a testimony that when you want to go down a path, your starting point has no influence on how far you can go. Distance is of no object though; depth is what you are looking for.
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Summary: Spiritual journey in the wild
Review: This is a book which requires that one actually read the dust jacket description. From the cover and the title, a reader might think this is a book about tracking skills. It is. However, the animal that Rezendes teaches his students to track is ultimately themselves. The other reviews here already outline Rezendes' personal history, which he often uses as example in his teachings. His approach to self discovery is one I'd not encountered before, however. Yes, I know many seek quiet in the woods to get in touch with their own spirit, but this notion of tracking and stalking another animal to achieve this end is fascinating to me. Fascinating also are the connections he makes from seemingly unrelated incidents such as a bobcat's journey and that of spiritual seekers. He gives us simple exercises we can try in our own "wilderness" to help us experience the ideas he suggests. His ability to read the signs left by the animals amazed me, and I have been one to look at such things carefully in my own forays into the wild. This book shows that there is so much I haven't seen, both in tracking wild creatures and my own journey through life. Whether you agree with his approach or not, this is a highly readable and thought-provoking book, a refreshing change from most of the "self help" genre.
Rating:
Summary: Spiritual journey in the wild
Review: This is a book which requires that one actually read the dust jacket description. From the cover and the title, a reader might think this is a book about tracking skills. It is. However, the animal that Rezendes teaches his students to track is ultimately themselves. The other reviews here already outline Rezendes' personal history, which he often uses as example in his teachings. His approach to self discovery is one I'd not encountered before, however. Yes, I know many seek quiet in the woods to get in touch with their own spirit, but this notion of tracking and stalking another animal to achieve this end is fascinating to me. Fascinating also are the connections he makes from seemingly unrelated incidents such as a bobcat's journey and that of spiritual seekers. He gives us simple exercises we can try in our own "wilderness" to help us experience the ideas he suggests. His ability to read the signs left by the animals amazed me, and I have been one to look at such things carefully in my own forays into the wild. This book shows that there is so much I haven't seen, both in tracking wild creatures and my own journey through life. Whether you agree with his approach or not, this is a highly readable and thought-provoking book, a refreshing change from most of the "self help" genre.
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