Tamarack Song

Becoming Nature

Learning the Language of Wild Animals and Plants

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Produktbeschreibung

A step-by-step guide to animal communication, connecting with your primal mind, and immersing yourself in Nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781591432111
• ISBN-10: 1591432111
• Artikelnr.: 43482719

Autorenporträt

Tamarack Song has spent his life studying the world’s aboriginal peoples, apprenticing to elders, and learning traditional hunter-gatherer survival skills. He has spent years alone in the woods as well as living with a pack of Wolves. In 1987 he founded the Teaching Drum Outdoor School in the wilderness of northern Wisconsin. He is the author of several books, including Entering the Mind of the Tracker.

Inhaltsangabe

In Honor of My Teachers
To Know Nature Is to Become Nature
A Different Approach to Connecting with Nature
Relearning the Old Way
To Know Nature Is to Know Yourself
Transformation through the Animal Mind
Step 1 Remember Nature Speak, the First Language
The Personality of Nature Speak
Why We No Longer Talk with Animals
How Nature Speak Works
Where We Get Stuck
Relearning Nature Speak
Nature Speak and Domestic Animals
What to Expect from Nature Speak
Step 2 Learn the Silent Language of Birds
How Birds Teach about Themselves
A Bridge to Nature Speak
How Birds Teach about Other Animals
From Symbolic to Direct Communication
How to Learn Their Silent Language
Rock Dove
Red-winged Blackbird
Great Northern Loon
The Anatomy of a Birdsong
Step 3 Awakening the Animal Mind
My Coming Out
I, the Animal
Our Two-Track Brain
We, the Conflicted Species
Thinking without Thought
Beware of the Rational-Mind Trap
Knowing the Experiential Mind Set
Letting Go of Goal Orientation
How to Live in the Now
What It’s Like to Be in Animal Mind
Step 4 The Time-Media Trap
Leaving Tools, Entering Relationship
A Fresh Perspective on Cultivating Relationship
Our Brains on Media
Media Creates Reality
Re-attuning Our Ears to Nature Speak
It’s All in the Mind
Seeing Is Not Always Believing
Audiovisual Material Meets the Animal Mind
Time by Dictate
Step 5 Be Where the Magic Happens
How We Live Can Help Us Find Animals
Dawn: The Place to Begin
Next, Attune to Our Body’s Rhythms
Step 6 Enter the Silence, Listen, and You Will See
The Dynamic of Silence
Learning to Listen
Listening Beyond Words
Honing Our Listening Skills with Shadowing
Big Ears: A Deep Listening Example
Deep Listening and Time
Looking Versus Seeing
The Problem with Seeing Too Much
A Lesson in Listening
Step 7 Energize and Attune Your Senses
The Awareness
Overcoming the Barriers
The Stories
The Exercises
The Answers for Step 7
Step 8 Walk and Paddle Quiet as a Shadow
Natural Walking
Shadowing Canoeing
Step 9 Turn Invisible and Instill No Fear
Seeing through Our Biggest Blinders: Prejudice and Fear
How to Become Invisible
To Stand Out Is to Blend In
Be the Landscape
Visibility: A Survival Strategy
Step 10 The Best Tricks for Seeing Animals
What to Do When We See an Animal
Step 11 Become the Animal
Imagine
Step 12 To Touch an Animal
Counting Coup: The Concept
Learning to Count Coup
When Noble Fare Is Far Away
To Touch the Soul
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1 List of Stories
Appendix 2 List of Exercises
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the Artists