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What is the wilderness? What’s so special about the wilderness? What is wilderness survival? How does all this relate to survivalism? What are primitive skills? Are wilderness survival and primitive skills the same? Why bother? What is wilderness spirituality? What is animism? What is pantheism? Is wilderness spirituality pagan? What does this have to do with shamanism? What is a vision fast?

What is wilderness survival?

Wilderness survival means not being dead in the wilderness. It means a set of basic skills that can keep you sheltered, hydrated, fed, unlost, and repaired if you get broken. It means knowing what to bring, and how to do without it if you don't have it. It means having the skills to improvise and adapt in the wilderness. It means knowing what to do if things go terribly wrong.

But it is much more than that. Knowledge, skills, and practice have a goal beyond themselves – to let you feel at home in the wilderness, listen to it speak, and let it enter into your spirit. Wilderness survival means – gradually, over a lifetime – learning how to move with the wilderness, rather than bullheadedly against it.

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