2022-010 | ABOUT HUMILITY BEFORE NATURE, PART 3

WISDOM TRAILS: The outdoors is better appreciated if you would only relegate your ego to the background and put yourself into your most humble form.

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December 18, 2018

 

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WHEN MOSES CAME FACE to face with a burning bush on Mount Sinai, he was so struck with awe and reverence that he placed himself in his most humble self. He removed his sandals for, he sensed, he was on holy ground, and he knelt. Moses now faced the God of his father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. He hid his face for he was afraid to look at God.

Moses faced a supernatural phenomenon and, unable to understand what lay before him, choose to humble himself and knelt with body so close to the ground, probably closing his eyes. He offered himself meekly like a lamb, choosing to disregard, at that most trying time, his gift of human reasoning and trusted instead on his faith.

I would do the same but not within the vicinity of a grass fire bellowing and eating anything in its advance. I would stop and take a knee as I study traces of the wild creatures’ presence, invisible but eyeing me cautiously from its hidden lairs. I would slow my pace when the forest showed me something unusual, special or beautiful. 

Nature is like a set of encyclopedia that could easily fill the biggest libraries in the world, strung together hundred-fold. You learn so many things (and lessons) from her. The tens of thousands of living organisms that exist in nature each show its own set of seasons reflecting to nature herself, diversifying further the only four seasons that we know of.

At the first opportunity, I would grasp this essence of nature by “disrobing” myself first of human imperfections like pride, arrogance, greed, indifference, and that urban smugness which goes with that feeling of superiority. As Moses had done so with his sandals and, later, kneeling so close to the ground.

The landscapes that you walk through could be the familiar one or another. Sometimes the familiar puts on a different mask which stops you on your tracks and play tricks on your memory. It is on these moments that your best abilities are put to the test but you would go nowhere unless you humble yourself.

It is on these moments that you look from the eyes of the heart. To feel nature at your most vulnerable form like Moses did. Overthinking, most of the time, would get you nowhere but trusting your heart – or your guts – would. It would be best to just adapt to the situation and bend to what the landscape demands.  

When I faced something that puzzles me, I just sit down under the shade and close my eyes and then the answers would just float by for an easy grab. Otherwise, never take it as a human challenge and provide your own human solutions. There is no harmony and you double your effort to overcome something so simple from the very beginning.    

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WARRIOR PILGRIMAGE BLOG, personified by this writer, is synonymous with the Outdoors, since Bushcraft and Survival is its niche. Safety and Security are its bedrock when it ventured into organizing outdoor events that involved people as in adventure/pilgrimage guideships and seminars; and explorations and expeditions.

Through tutorship, experience, folk knowledge and good old common sense, this writer was able to collect useful information which he is currently documenting in a book titled, ETHICAL BUSHCRAFT. He shares some of this information and knowledge in his training sessions; in his social-media account; and in this blog.

First photo courtesy AmericanMind.org

2021-047 | THE PERFECT KNIFE

WISDOM TRAILS: There is no "Perfect Knife". A knife could not do all things safely even if it has a very skillful owner. You need a certain knife for a certain kind of work and vice versa.

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September 24, 2018

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I TRIED MY BEST TO HAVE the perfect knife in my whole life, the one knife that could do it all, but I simply could not hold on to it (as a teaching model) and I failed. Despite the skills learned the hard way, it was not enough. I may succeed but I may double my effort if in case I was cutting a large branch with a folding knife or lose my poise if I was carving something delicately small with a machete. 

However, I have seen local mountain kids with their bolos, longer than their femur bones, who effortlessly used these as if they were handling a small blade. I watched Tata Kasoy, the venerable elder of the Pastolan Aeta, who nonchalantly whistled and talked in broken English while deftly creating things out of bamboos with his long panabas as if it was an extension of his arm.

The skills with a blade are earned. You may achieve something but at a cost of breaking the blade somewhere along the way or ruining your project. There should be blades dedicated for brute force and blades for delicate jobs and then the blades in between. George Washington Sears have solved that by creating a system to handle different works. People later called it the “Nessmuk Triumvirate” in his honor.

Quite practical and this system ensures that you would not break your one and only blade. The system creates a redundancy favored now by modern bushcraft enthusiasts which is fail-safe. That idea of the perfect knife disappears and replaced by a perfect mental state where you have an almost unlimited option to approach each problem with a different blade. 

In Philippine bushcraft, the best big blades to use are those that are made locally. They are tested by time and the most frequent materials used against it are the wiry types of vegetation like cane grass, vines and the very deceptive bamboo. These type of blades could chop any wood found in the tropics like Tata Kasoy’s panabas. These blades are valued by their owners and most of them are heirlooms.

Nessmuk was referring about his pocket knife as the least component of his system. Quite clearly, by its build and make, it was used for light work like peeling fruits, slicing thin strips of meat, and smoothing out the rough edges of wood that his bigger blades missed. When it came to pocket knives, or folding knives, we choose the imported ones and, many, come with so many extras.   

The blade in between the big and the small, could be any make. Local and imported blades compete for the attention of our local bushcraft enthusiasts here. The real guys, those that go out regularly doing dirt-time, prefer those that were made by here or carry the cheap imported types. Why? They are not there to impress but to develop their craft.  

Since outdoors activity now are more leisurely, bushcraft here shunned the large blade and replaced it with a folding saw, thus lessening the weight you pack. We gave more teeth to the saw by increasing the size of the pocket knife with a bigger Victorinox which has a tiny saw. Compensating for the loss of the big blade are two medium-sized blades and a baton stick foraged for the occasion. 

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WARRIOR PILGRIMAGE BLOG, personified by this writer, is synonymous with the Outdoors, since Bushcraft and Survival is its niche. Safety and Security are its bedrock when it ventured into organizing outdoor events that involved people as in adventure/pilgrimage guideships and seminars; and explorations and expeditions. 

Through tutorship, experience, folk knowledge and good old common sense, this writer was able to collect useful information which he is currently documenting in a book titled, ETHICAL BUSHCRAFT. He shares some of this information and knowledge in his training sessions; in his social-media account; and in this blog.

Image Nr 1 courtesy of City Sports Club Cebu

2021-042 | BLEND, ADAPT & IMPROVISE

WISDOM TRAILS: I teach bushcraft because some people or TV programs taught it the wrong way and a lot of people are convinced of it and caused themselves harm or doing a disservice to the environment. Actually, true bushcraft is not against the environment. It teaches people how to BLEND, ADAPT and IMPROVISE and learn from nature instead of going against it.

 

First seen in Facebook

September 18, 2018 

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BUSHCRAFT, IN WHATEVER TERMS you want it explained, is an activity by an individual or a small group pursuing a livelihood, or leisure, in the outdoors, or in the safe confines of walls and a roof, utilizing methods that are deemed archaic or improvisations using current technology which purpose is to utilize nature, create implements, and/or improve the comfort of living without having to make a great impact on the environment.

When you introduce yourself outdoors, you are creating an impact already. It starts with how you looked and how you smelled. Then it rolls up to your attitude and your body language. Lacking the ability in how to make yourself work for nature results to nature working for you instead. Most people believed bushcraft is about brute force and blades and slash, slash, slash. It is not what it is. You may have watched the wrong TV channel? 

As I wiggled myself into this niche of bushcraft many years ago, I suddenly found contrasts which are for or against the prevailing rivers of opinions from within and outside of it. I preferred best the philosophies of the old masters for these are sweet and golden. I rowed myself further midstream and developed my own which is perfectly explained in just three words: BLEND, ADAPT and IMPROVISE. 

With these, I could navigate easily on both sides without tipping my boat over. With these, bushcraft would stay as it is – bland, boring and invisible – which is to my liking. I do not have to work hard to spread bushcraft here far and wide. I would just be content to share my home-grown knowledge to as few people as possible but that would not be the case. 

The wonders of the internet, with its sensational documentaries without dialogues and equally sensational marketing strategies under the guise of learning videos, had got hold of most people. Their appetite to learn have to be stimulated even more by looking inwards, something that is concrete which can be grasped. It is during this time that they seek local sources of learning.

It is also during this time that I guide people to reality and how bushcraft is properly done, with ethical considerations. And this is where I applied BLEND, ADAPT and IMPROVISE. This simple philosophy is meant to control the excesses of human nature whose penchant for recognition are released in an energy which have given bushcraft its bad reputation. 

Bushcraft is like poetry. It is not fast-paced and has a rhythm all its own much like how nature moved with the seasons. That is why it is boring to adrenaline junkies. It is bland because it does not happen in a few half-minutes. It is required of people with longer attention spans and the keenest observation skills. And this is what I liked most: it is invisible. It does not like company and unwarranted recognition. 

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WARRIOR PILGRIMAGE BLOG, personified by this writer, is synonymous with the Outdoors, since Bushcraft and Survival is its niche. Safety and Security are its bedrock when it ventured into organizing outdoor events that involved people as in adventure/pilgrimage guideships and seminars; and explorations and expeditions. 

Through tutorship, experience, folk knowledge and good old common sense, this writer was able to collect useful information which he is currently documenting in a book titled, ETHICAL BUSHCRAFT. He shares some of this information and knowledge in his training sessions; in his social-media account; and in this blog.

Image Nr 1 courtesy of Adrenaline Romance.

Image Nr 2, Nr 3 & Nr 4 grabbed from Lakad Ninja YouTube channel.

2021-032 | PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO NATURE, PART 2

WISDOM TRAILS: When you do not race against time and against your itinerary you see everything. You would have seen this event and you would have understood why the brown fly willed itself in the middle of two lines of harm.

 

First seen in Facebook

July 21, 2018

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IF YOU ARE TOTALLY CONNECTED with the environment you are in, you would totally see each and every detail. To do so, you would have to shed something in you which does not fit in. It could be your attitude. It could be the smell and color of your clothes. It could be your adherence to time. Or it could be the number of people with you. 

Fitting in is not about feelings and that sort of thing. It is about just you and nobody else. You may wander along a trail yet you are blind and deaf to the many events unfolding all around you. Your presence is just skin deep. Try to close your eyes first and take a deep breath. Inhale the essence of the place. You would notice not the silence but the life around you.

Feel the ground vibrate. Hear the birdsongs and the insects buzz. Try to focus more on the slightest sounds and the whispers of the tiny creatures. Dance with the leaves and branches as the breeze stirs it to life. Blend with your surroundings. Make the best of your presence by appreciating life to the fullest. Touch a tree trunk. Smell a flower.

Look up, once in a while, over the canopies, for a glimpse of the blue sky and a passing cloud to break the green monotony. Look down, most of the time, beyond the undergrowth, to witness life amidst the decay. A hole there and a scat there. A leftover fruit at your right and a footprint up ahead. A loosened rock and an unnaturally bent leaf exposing its underside.

Follow that foot ahead of you and watch where the owner stayed for a while. Excitement pumps your heart faster as you found many traces of paw prints beside that human you followed and you know that those prints were that of a dog’s. Slowly, you begin to enjoy this contactless and invisible rapport as if you are reading a book.

As you sharpened your wits to new heights, you notice that your footfalls are light. You now move without a sound and you leave with almost no traces of you. Your feet becomes discriminating on where you place it. You now preferred to step on rocks and exposed roots. You even step beyond a line of ants crossing the path. 

Your eyes begin to catch slight movements and you see a spotted dove from your peripheral vision poised to glide from a low branch to a much lower branch. You turned your head to its direction and the bird flew away, startled at your presence. You learned a mistake and then, after that, you could see everything now. 

Another line of ants crossing the trail. You stopped instead and bent your knees to see their activity better. While staying still, you observed that there are two lines of ants instead of one and there was a fly in between them. Why did the fly placed itself to potential harm? You ask yourself. Then in one swift move, the fly snatched a tiny sphere of moisture from one ant and repeated it many times on the other ants.

That fly was a reflection of you. You are in harm’s way while you walked the path alone but you persisted to stay and, in fact, kept coming back, because you liked it. While you were at it, you snatched tidbits of information and common sense in your solitude wanderings that your superficial world could not provide you. End of story.

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WARRIOR PILGRIMAGE BLOG, personified by this writer, is synonymous with the Outdoors, since Bushcraft and Survival is its niche. Safety and Security are its bedrock when it ventured into organizing outdoor events that involved people as in adventure/pilgrimage guideships and seminars; and explorations and expeditions. 

Through tutorship, experience, folk knowledge and good old common sense, this writer was able to collect useful information which he is currently documenting in a book titled, ETHICAL BUSHCRAFT. He shares some of this information and knowledge in his training sessions; in his social-media account; and in this blog.

2021-015 | ENJOYING GOD’S OWN TIME

WISDOM TRAILS: The outdoors is best appreciated with an open mind, a longer moment, a slower pace, with great humility and much awe. If you do not notice several lines of ants crossing a path, you are either too fast, too arrogant, too self-centered, too urbane or you have eyes that see but do not know how to look. You leave destruction instead of harmony. 

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January 18, 2018 

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FOR THE HUNTER, BLENDING is a perfected art. For the prey, it is an act of nature developed through so many years of changes in habits and genetic mutations. For the modern outdoorsman, it should be compulsory. If you cannot blend your mindset with your environment, you can never appreciate nature. It is not that hard. You just have to strip yourself of arrogance first. 

Appreciation of nature is best served in slow motion like normal walking. Humans, long ago, adapted to their environment when they found out that their anatomy could not keep up with the other terrestrial inhabitants. But they have rational brains and a soul and they walked far and wide. They soon reached the top of the food chain.

Technology kept that wide gap among all else wider than before and it had placed us even more at a precipice where we would eat our own kind someday. But I hope not. We just moved too fast for our own good and it is time to take a deep breath and open our eyes to a new perspective of our existence. 

When you are in Rome, you dress like the Romans do. But when you are among the forests, you do not dress like Spiderman. Blend in with your surroundings instead with austere-colored clothes that do not shock wildlife, even a fellow human being. Your appearance says all about you and contributes to an impact on places you pass. 

The gait you would make on the trails are different than what you are used to in walking the pavements of urban areas. The same with how you breathe. Here, time stands still and you get used to it. There are no urgent reasons for you to waste energy and please do enjoy that God-given time to absorb His Magnificence.

 

Ignorance of nature is magnified by arrogance. What people do on controlled environments should not be done in the woodlands. When you make the landscape a part of your agenda and catering to your personal pride, you are no different from those who raped the environment to satisfy their desires and whims. 

When you are outdoors, be one with the essence of the trail. A lot of people get a lot of satisfaction and joy when “they stop to smell the roses”. It is there in that zone that people get to know nature better and they could see better the details. They are “low” enough to understand that. 

The best indicator if you are in this zone is when you notice lines of ants crossing the trail. Go lower and seek the clues of what these ants are doing. Most likely you would find two or three different kinds of ants going about their business. You are in God’s own time and go enjoy your day.

 

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WARRIOR PILGRIMAGE BLOG, personified by this writer, is synonymous with the Outdoors, since Bushcraft and Survival is its niche. Safety and Security are its bedrock when it ventured into organizing outdoor events that involved people as in adventure/pilgrimage guideships and seminars; and explorations and expeditions. 

Through tutorship, experience, folk knowledge and good old common sense, this writer was able to collect useful information which he is currently documenting in a book titled, ETHICAL BUSHCRAFT. He shares some of this information and knowledge in his training sessions; in his social-media account; and in this blog.

2021-005 | PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO NATURE

WISDOM TRAILS: Study my trail habits and you get to appreciate the outdoors more. Stopping to pay close attention to the swirl of a stream is giving respect to the power of nature. Be attentive all the time.

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December 26, 2017

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THE MOUNTAINS ARE MY TEMPLES, my art galleries and my classrooms. I do not worship nature but I am awed of its beauty and its splendor as well as its moods as if God is speaking to me. My Creator is an awesome God and I am full of gratitude of my existence and the wonders He has created for me. I submit myself before Him and His Creation with utmost humility and supple understanding. 

I am just a speck in this landscape where I ranged, an intruder and a deranged lover. Deranged enough to sleep in her bosom; bathe in her streams; sing and dance around a fire; and shout to my heart’s delight above the winds. Into this solitude among the mountains, I drop my veneer of the learned and become wild for a day or two. Even a month if I wanted to. (Just make sure nobody sees you else they see you mad.)

 

The more time I spend with nature, the better I understand myself and my relationship with my Creator. My existence is insignificant and I get the best out of my remaining years while I can and never have I discovered that the lore I learned in the woods with my grandfather while young has become so useful and significant to me in this time. I have come to grasp nature closest in bushcraft ways. 

Not the bushcraft that you came to abhor but the bushcraft that is so sweet, so full of harmony and so genuine. The bushcraft that I always referred to as “zen in the woods”. Once I am on the trail, I am immediately absorbed by all the details that people would likely ignore or not see. The trail before me always has a story to tell and it entertains me to interpret what I saw, heard and smelled. 

Sometimes, at the drop of a hat, I would pause and keenly be in attention if I feel there is a sudden change in the buzz of the jungle or a sudden drop in temperature or I sniff something unusual. When I am in this zone, I am now one with nature. I cannot explain it how and why but when you see me do this, be attentive. This is not learned in a university or from YouTube. It is a “native” thing, quite different from superstition.

 

I would always leave no traces of my presence because footprints are an eyesore on soft ground. My footfalls would be light and my feet would be very discriminating where it lands. If I leave you a footprint, it is done for a purpose. If I sat on my haunches, I am in “conversation” with nature; the kind of conversation where it is a one-way affair but quite different from prayer. 

The closeness of my interaction with nature depends on the austerity of my appearance, my presence and my smell. The more modern I look, the more I am intruding. That goes with how many are with me. Compleat ethical bushcraft is something hard to comprehend or carry out. Try removing arrogance and observe how humility will take charge of your ignorance on nature.  

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WARRIOR PILGRIMAGE BLOG, personified by this writer, is synonymous with the Outdoors, since Bushcraft and Survival is its niche. Safety and Security are its bedrock when it ventured into organizing outdoor events that involved people as in adventure/pilgrimage guideships and seminars; and explorations and expeditions.

 

Through tutorship, experience, folk knowledge and good old common sense, this writer was able to collect useful information which he is currently documenting in a book titled, ETHICAL BUSHCRAFT. He shares some of this information and knowledge in his training sessions; in his social-media account; and in this blog.

2020-009 | BUSHCRAFT AS A LIFESTYLE

WISDOM TRAILS: Bushcraft, for me, is the ultimate experience. You are the sole master of your own fate and you will know the mountains and its valleys and rivers more than anyone else. You just stay in a few places while everyone else are preoccupied of their time and destinations, totally missing out the finer details of a journey which would have given one lasting impressions, wonderful discoveries and irreplaceable wisdom. I have achieved total and unimpeded freedom doing all these and no foreign ideology, modern technology or expensive gear had altered or prevented that.

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December 15, 2017

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OVERHEARD ONE DAY from a couple of friends talking about some guy they saw in TV engaged in a series of survival exploits which, to my understanding, are rather ordinary if done by our indigenous peoples, and does not need a lot of hype. Then I found something unusual. The guy was not doing it the right way! Imagine the harm it would inflict on people if they happen to follow his exploits? 

Just by ear only I have grasped the very idea of what he was doing, very familiar yet there was something wrong, even if I have not seen one episode. At that moment, I decided to find a way to educate people properly, the soonest, as it had been taught to me by my late grandfather, else, they would fall into that trap. I was now in the notion of creating another outdoor interest here in the Philippines which, actually, is as old as time.

I searched the Netscape browser to look for some hobby or interests closely related to survival and I found many but BUSHCRAFT seemed to be the most used, so far, globally. It is primitive living using skills from the standpoint of a Western culture. I then borrowed this term and began to start a movement here, dainty little steps, until I became ambitious by organizing the Philippine Independence Bushcraft Camp in 2011 and the rest is history. 

Before the PIBC, I was just a lonely voice in the wilderness. Bushcraft was as alien as ET here and people were more interested in adrenaline-pumping activities. Peak-bagging was their most popular passion and they have their preferred camping grounds, gear brands, dress and crowd. Quite a crowd indeed. My kind of bushcraft would veer away from crowds who learn nothing from a gathering. We shall nurture our own playgrounds, our own dress style and our own sets of gear.

During my sorties among the mountains, I developed my own style and philosophy of bushcraft in a tropical setting; hitching both the modern and the archaic; to become a very practical, quite flexible and a life-fulfilling interest. I walked the talk literally and intellectually and graced a lot of hours before a lot of people about the good outcomes of engaging in such and how useful it would be during post-disaster events.

 

However, it would take another project of great magnitude before people could comprehend and connect to my lifestyle of bushcraft. It was my route explorations for the Cebu Highlands Trail, a long path of around 400 kilometers that crosses over the rugged middle spines of Cebu Island from the southernmost tip to the northernmost tip. It exposed myself through so many challenges and helped to establish myself as a serious bushcraft advocate.    

By and by, it had become a way of life. I became what I have created and more. It had placed me in a different dimension which I had never before entertained in my wildest dreams: creating another philosophy for bushcraft, quite different from a Western concept. It had become a very cerebral outdoors learning and leisure – a zen in the woods; best taught to people and to let them get a taste of what secrets it held for them. 

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WARRIOR PILGRIMAGE BLOG, personified by this writer, is synonymous with the Outdoors, since Bushcraft and Survival is its niche. Safety and Security are its bedrock when it ventured into organizing outdoor events that involved people as in adventure/pilgrimage guideships and seminars; and explorations and expeditions. 

Through tutorship, experience, folk knowledge and good old common sense, this writer was able to collect useful information which he is currently documenting in a book titled, ETHICAL BUSHCRAFT. He shares some of this information and knowledge in his training sessions; in his social-media account; and in this blog.

Photo Nr 3 courtesy of Justin Apurado

2020-006 | ABOUT HUMILITY BEFORE NATURE

WISDOM TRAILS: Bushcraft teaches you to be part of the landscape instead of the landscape as part of your designs. Humility before nature instead of arrogance. Blending instead of standing out. Adapting instead of plodding on tunnel vision.

Bushcraft makes you an island of your own instead of "no man is an island". Improvising and prepping is the name of the game.

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December 17, 2017

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BUSHCRAFT, FOR OUTSIDERS, is destructive. Their prejudice about its methods are anchored on the Western concept of outdoors living, which is very popular now and then in syndicated survival TV programs and in hundreds of YouTube channels. I could not disagree more and I would not have to elucidate further why because bushcraft is not ready yet for politically-correct societies and will never become mainstream, no matter how people tried hard about it.

For most people, including this writer, it is a way of life, although mine is a special kind of existence since I lived in an urban setting and turned “wild” when ranging the mountains. I have this special relationship with the outdoors and I try to remove this gap between modern man and his environment through my advocacy of imparting knowledge of bushcraft and the importance of safety of the outdoors. Safety does not only favor man but also of nature from man.

What is the difference then between my bushcraft and that of the popular Western concept? Not much really except that I would rather tone down mine because I saw how people tried hard to build it up but are torn down quickly by those who cannot understand its principles. How would you go about to make it palatable? Simple. With HUMILITY. Not by bending against criticisms but understanding nature first, embracing it perfectly and then let the skeptics see the beauty of bushcraft in it. Do not overdo things. Keep it simple. 

In the first place, bushcraft is a cerebral activity. It uses more brains – creativity and epiphanies – than it uses brute force. The latter is just the by-product of the former. You have to agree with that and that is where you start. Since man has dominion over earth and all its living things, we are morally its steward. Obviously, man’s place is above these things, we tend to be arrogant in how we dispose with these and then we broadcast it everywhere, which does not sit well with those who are advocating for a healthy environment.

On the other hand, a humble steward would work his way around and find other solutions instead of focusing on a challenge in a conventional way, with blades flashing and talk for miles of its sharp character! Very predictable and not a bushcraft way, which we tell the world is “bushcraft” and we feel “proud” about our exploits. It would have been alright if we have enough resources or we are just one million people living in this planet we called home. 

If there is humility on our part, we could easily blend in among it; adapt within it; and improvise around it. BLEND. ADAPT. IMPROVISE. This is the only guiding principle I used in bushcraft and it does not need a lot of explanations if it becomes one of your core values. I arrived at this conclusion when I demonstrated “Survival Day” for my adherents in the Camp Red Bushcraft and Survival Guild; a sort of certification process for one who likes to practice bushcraft in an ethical manner. 

I looked inwards long and hard to create a different philosophy in bushcraft where it shall be acceptable to all and it is called ETHICAL BUSHCRAFT. It is anchored more on the “blend, adapt and improvise” approach which is merely toning down excessiveness of this activity by leisure outdoorsmen and is, in itself, educational for the true traditionalists: the indigenous people, the homesteaders and the people who find the wilderness as their calling.

Ethical Bushcraft guarantees to leave so few traces of you as you enjoy leisure bushcraft activities in places below the treeline, in marshy jungles and rocky shorelines, where all the actions are. When you are on that level, you are an island of your own; a part of a landscape. In my part of the world, I now have adherents who are now into that and I feel so secure that it made our world a better place to live in.

 

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WARRIOR PILGRIMAGE BLOG, personified by this writer, is synonymous with the Outdoors, since Bushcraft and Survival is its niche. Safety and Security are its bedrock when it ventured into organizing outdoor events that involved people as in adventure/pilgrimage guideships and seminars; and explorations and expeditions.

 

Through tutorship, experience, folk knowledge and good old common sense, this writer was able to collect useful information which he is currently documenting in a book titled, ETHICAL BUSHCRAFT. He shares some of this information and knowledge in his training sessions; in his social-media account; and in this blog.