What do you feel?

[Pip]

Hey guys I just replied to "confession time" and tried to some up what I feel out there when i get that special moment/connection. I can't quite put my finger on what it is.... Does anyone else get it? you must do! What does it feel to you?

Sorry all a bit new agey, don't mean to be, but there is definately something there that makes me feel at home away from home.... hmmm

[Scotty]

This is a good question and I'm not sure whether I have the ability to put an answer into words, its difficult to describe, i will have to think on it.

[andyn]

I started typing out a long reply to this but gave up and decided that this a question for around the fire, and not while i'm sat in the office. LOL :rolleyes:

But here is a brief synopsis of how i feel, and i'll try not to go into too much detail otherwise i'll be babbling on for hours.

I don't hold any specific religious beliefs and am pretty agnostic so my view on life and the connection we have with this earth is rather mixed and probably quite contradictional at times. :lmao:

I certainly don't see us as a creation by a God or an almighty being and believe strongly in evolution and the scientific side of things.

However, thats not to say that I do not think that we have a spirital side or an energy flow if you like.

I personally see this planet as being a single source of energy and so everything on this planet is made of the same "stuff".

When I am in a town, city or a building etc I can appreciate, but probably more often than not take for granted, the efforts and the history of the civilisation that has been before us, and in most cases suffered, to have been able to create such a thing for us.

But when I leave the constraints of our construction and our artifical and tailored way of life and visit the roots of where our energy comes and see how this energy really works, and watch season come and go and watch life come and go I can truely begin to understand how I, you and everthing else really is just a tiny cog in an ever revolving cycle.

Hope thats not confusing. :icon_tong

[Pip]

Yeah definately a fire topic...... I think its so simple a feeling its somehow complicated, when you think about it....

[OutBackP]

For me it's just a feeling of feeling at home. Every time I sleep and live outside, I feel a more sense of completeness. I hate the feeling when I start living in a house again, beds become uncomfortable, 'cause they're to comfy and I feel trapped by the walls.

[Phil]

As Pip says its a fireside thing,and most of us still won't be able to put it into words,but we all feel it.
I think I'd need to be a poet to get it right.
But whenever you sit and fire gaze,or watch a stretch of countryside,or see rabbits going to feed,partridges on the wing,you get a sence of contentment.
Its a feeling and lets face it,blokes aint good at feelings.


Phil

[yarrow]

Been thinking about this one for a while. Lets face it we must all "get something" from being outside else we wouldn’t go so often. But as the Cat said in Red Dwarf "yeah..... but what is it?"
Do we some how feel more; more alive, in reality? And this is why I think its more important to think about it now while we are sat at our p.c's, than when we are round the camp fire. I think that perhaps what we are all feeling in our ordinary lives is something called "consensus reality" and although we might think we are alive experiencing life we are more like zombies or robots. When we travel into the backcountry the doors of perception are opened and we wake up. Outside I can see the whole web like structure of life and know that I am part of that web. For me the real challenge is to bring back this feeling of "being awake" and apply it to my life. Perhaps.......who knows:rolleyes:

[Pip]

Been thinking about this one for a while. Lets face it we must all "get something" from being outside else we wouldn’t go so often. But as the Cat said in Red Dwarf "yeah..... but what is it?"
Do we some how feel more; more alive, in reality? And this is why I think its more important to think about it now while we are sat at our p.c's, than when we are round the camp fire. I think that perhaps what we are all feeling in our ordinary lives is something called "consensus reality" and although we might think we are alive experiencing life we are more like zombies or robots. When we travel into the backcountry the doors of perception are opened and we wake up. Outside I can see the whole web like structure of life and know that I am part of that web. For me the real challenge is to bring back this feeling of "being awake" and apply it to my life. Perhaps.......who knows:rolleyes:

Thats a thought I must admit I didn't think about..... mmmmm.... makes sense. I get real enjoyment teaching people to see, as so many people look without seeing, do you think it is an awakening of our hunting senses (whether we hunt or not) waking up is a good description. Any success in bringing it back...

[yarrow]

Thats a thought I must admit I didn't think about..... mmmmm.... makes sense. I get real enjoyment teaching people to see, as so many people look without seeing, do you think it is an awakening of our hunting senses (whether we hunt or not) waking up is a good description. Any success in bringing it back...

I guess the bringing it back is my life’s work. In fact I’m so passionate about this I call it “The Work”. Everything else seems kind of irrelevant.

[Pip]

I guess I spend soooo long trying to get others to see, in my work, although I'm outdoors 60% of the time i rarely get a chance to switch off from the necessary stuff. The bringing it home has always been the problem, as before I get there the feeling is ripped from me by the general human(ness) (not a compliment I assure you) of the people around me. I feel like a guy in a zombie film sometimes, freshly linked to life again and all of sudden theres hundreds of scum bags wanting a bit of what I got, but not capable of seeing it for themselves or too lazy to try, so they take it chunk by chunk.....:icon_hang moan by moan.

Nyway enough of the down side.... I really do love my job, I guess it must be a bad week, might escape into Wales for a bit and sit by a waterfall and get some of that feeling back.

Every now and again though, i get it home and its great, I made my first really nice spoon (not my first attempt) the other day whilst out and about, it sits on the top of a jar of homemade spicy tomatoe chutney waiting for use. I am really pleased with it and it brings a little of the feeling back.

[Pip]

Bad weather but a great weekend, rescued pipistrelle bat from local householder, beautiful thing (each bat has a definate charector) fed and watered and replaced into a suitable hibernaculum nearby... great feeling.

Never did get to the waterfall, but the bat success made up for it. Tried some creative visualisation with the sound of the rain, surprised how well it went.:)

[yarrow]

Bad weather but a great weekend, rescued pipistrelle bat from local householder, beautiful thing (each bat has a definate charector) fed and watered and replaced into a suitable hibernaculum nearby... great feeling.

Never did get to the waterfall, but the bat success made up for it. Tried some creative visualisation with the sound of the rain, surprised how well it went.:)

Nice work dude:You_Rock_Emoticon: