True
Wildness
“Opening
the gate in the tall deer fence, I stepped through into the soggy
field with its newly sprouted carpet of vividly green English wheat.
The sky skimmed blue overhead and a sheer, golden light illuminated
bare trees and the rolling Downs in the distance.”
L. R.
Heartsong (excerpt from “Meet the Green Man: Archetype for a Wild
Soul, Good Men Project website, July 26, 2015)
When you read the
paragraph above from L.R. Heartsong's article about the Green Man
archetype, do you feel it resonate in your mid-section. Can you see
in your mind's eye that green field of wheat, the golden light on
bare trees? If you wish you were the one stepping through the deer
fence, you may just be feeling the rumbling of the wild soul within
you.
There is a Wild being in
all of us—not the one that thinks it's great to go down to the
brewery on Saturday night and get sloshed and act a fool—but the
one who is the true steward of the natural world and of all living
beings in it. The Wild Man archetype, like the Wild Woman archetype,
is the heart and soul of the true masculine and feminine. It is
instinctive, intuitive, unafraid and unashamed. It is not brutal, and
does not seek to dominate, control or abuse others. In fact, it is
the protector of all things tender and vulnerable.
When we abandon the
wildness in us—the part of us connected with the natural world—we
lose a great part of what makes us human. Ironically, when we lose
our wildness, we become more brutish—not less—toward our
fellow-humans and to the earth. When we are aware and living from the
wild man or wild woman part of us, we have no need to belittle, goad
or denigrate anyone or anything. We stand in our own truth and walk
our own path and allow others to walk theirs.
You don't have to be
Tarzan of the Jungle to experience your Wild Man or Wild Woman. You
just have to get in touch with that part of you that loves nature,
that feels strong and true. It's there inside you, whoever you are,
and it will sing you back to health and sanity if you let it.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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