“The fundamental nature of the rebel, for Jünger, is that they maintain their interior freedom while contesting and subverting the symbols and values of the regime, and offer up alternative, antithetical, symbols and values… Metaphorically, the forest is the realm of freedom and anarchy.”
I will continue to cultivate the forest rebel within and cultivate the physical means to embody forest rebellion (which for me is satyagraha style) outwardly through cultivating actual forests that can feed, heal, protect, educate and emancipate human beings while helping them re-connect to their "deep roots of being, beyond time and space.. ..to regain authentic freedom."
One of the central methods through which I "..offer up alternative, antithetical, symbols and values." which serve to subvert the extractive/exploitative economy and empower others to boycott Big Pharma and Big Ag (through lending my gifts to spark a regenerative ethnoecologcally defined ethnogenesis) can be observed here:
RE: Historical examples of literal Forest Rebels (resisting hegemony)
"Indigenous wisdom, modern application. Our model for regeneration is the chakra integral, an indigenous agroforestry practiced in the forests of Ecuador and Peru for millennia before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Meaning "big round garden" in the Kichwa language, the chakra integral forms a landscape that resembles a mosaic, which is economically productive and ecologically friendly to the area’s biodiversity.
Archaeological evidence here in the Chocó gives us a glimpse into the Yumbo culture which thrived here for over one thousand years—a complex, stable, and advanced culture in different ways from the societies we've been taught to think of "advanced."
The Yumbo successfully resisted Inka hegemony, not by fighting, but by maintaining "forest superiority." They utilized agroforestry systems to grow food and built complex networks of paths and raised earth mounds in the forest to conduct trade and cultivate diverse forest gardens.
Because of the diversity and abundance in their food streams, they maintained an orderly society without a large hierarchy or divisive social stratification.
The Yumbo have historical counterparts in the Marajó area of Brazil, the forest cultures of Indonesia and others. Across time and space, cultures that cultivated food via agroforestry have been more equitable, less hierarchical, healthier, and more enduring than the "great empires" we learn about in school.” - Kristen Lee Krash
“You could go [along the river] where you wanted and homestead. the forest gives you all kinds of fruit and animals, the river gives you fish and plants. They had to be much more fluid, more hang loose, less coercive or people wouldn’t stay…[The people] were freer, they were healthier, they were living in a really wonderful civilization…orderly and beautiful and complex. The eye-opener was that you didn’t need a huge apparatus of state control to have all that.”
– Anna Roosevelt, archaeologist, author of Mound Builders of the Amazon
The quote above provides some historical and cultural context on the viability of creating Food Forests as a way to resist oppression, I will share another link from an article posted on the website of a Regenerative Cacao Forest Farm (called Sueño de Vida) titled “How We Do It” (cultivating Cacao as part of a food forest).
We can create food forests here in temperate climates that also empower us to resist tyranny, feed ourselves, provide for future generations and also simultaneously create "Refugia" for protecting endangered food and medicine crops.
I will continue to cultivate the forest rebel within and cultivate the physical means to embody forest rebellion (which for me is satyagraha style) outwardly through cultivating actual forests that can feed, heal, protect, educate and emancipate human beings while helping them re-connect to their "deep roots of being, beyond time and space.. ..to regain authentic freedom."
One of the central methods through which I "..offer up alternative, antithetical, symbols and values." which serve to subvert the extractive/exploitative economy and empower others to boycott Big Pharma and Big Ag (through lending my gifts to spark a regenerative ethnoecologcally defined ethnogenesis) can be observed here:
https://archive.org/details/worthmorethangold/
Thanks for the great post brother.
RE: Historical examples of literal Forest Rebels (resisting hegemony)
"Indigenous wisdom, modern application. Our model for regeneration is the chakra integral, an indigenous agroforestry practiced in the forests of Ecuador and Peru for millennia before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Meaning "big round garden" in the Kichwa language, the chakra integral forms a landscape that resembles a mosaic, which is economically productive and ecologically friendly to the area’s biodiversity.
Archaeological evidence here in the Chocó gives us a glimpse into the Yumbo culture which thrived here for over one thousand years—a complex, stable, and advanced culture in different ways from the societies we've been taught to think of "advanced."
The Yumbo successfully resisted Inka hegemony, not by fighting, but by maintaining "forest superiority." They utilized agroforestry systems to grow food and built complex networks of paths and raised earth mounds in the forest to conduct trade and cultivate diverse forest gardens.
Because of the diversity and abundance in their food streams, they maintained an orderly society without a large hierarchy or divisive social stratification.
The Yumbo have historical counterparts in the Marajó area of Brazil, the forest cultures of Indonesia and others. Across time and space, cultures that cultivated food via agroforestry have been more equitable, less hierarchical, healthier, and more enduring than the "great empires" we learn about in school.” - Kristen Lee Krash
“You could go [along the river] where you wanted and homestead. the forest gives you all kinds of fruit and animals, the river gives you fish and plants. They had to be much more fluid, more hang loose, less coercive or people wouldn’t stay…[The people] were freer, they were healthier, they were living in a really wonderful civilization…orderly and beautiful and complex. The eye-opener was that you didn’t need a huge apparatus of state control to have all that.”
– Anna Roosevelt, archaeologist, author of Mound Builders of the Amazon
Quote Source: https://www.sdvforest.com/how-we-do-it
For more info:
The Fascinating Story of Human-made Forests: https://www.sdvforest.com/agroforestry/the-fascinating-story-of-human-made-forests
The quote above provides some historical and cultural context on the viability of creating Food Forests as a way to resist oppression, I will share another link from an article posted on the website of a Regenerative Cacao Forest Farm (called Sueño de Vida) titled “How We Do It” (cultivating Cacao as part of a food forest).
We can create food forests here in temperate climates that also empower us to resist tyranny, feed ourselves, provide for future generations and also simultaneously create "Refugia" for protecting endangered food and medicine crops.
For more on what a Refugia (or Refugium) is read:
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/paw-paw-post-preview-and-refugia?