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Becoming Nature: Learning the Language of Wild Animals and Plants — Occult Philosophy

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📚 WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT

Tamarack Song invites readers to rediscover their inherent bond with the natural world, offering a practical pathway to communicate with animals and plants. This guide delves into the forgotten wisdom of our ancestors, showing how to tap into a 'primal mind' that recognizes our shared essence with all life. Through guided exercises, you'll learn to become an unnoticed presence in nature, perceive hidden creatures, and foster genuine connections with wild beings, ultimately moving in harmony with the intricate web of existence.

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“I love the way Tamarack explains that you must get away from thought to understand animals. He is referring to verbal thought with language and entering the animal's sensory-based world that has no words. To understand animals, you have to get away from words and enter their realm of visual, auditory, and touch sensation, which are linked to emotions. Becoming Nature will help connect you to the natural world.”

— Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human

🏛 Bear & Company 📅 2016 📖 304 pages 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781591432111

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Tamarack Song's "Becoming Nature" stands out as a genuinely transformative guide, offering not just theory but a tangible path to re-engage with the wild. It excels in its practical exercises for cultivating intuitive awareness. Readers expecting purely scientific discourse or instant results may find its approach too experiential. Nevertheless, it's a vital contribution to modern nature spirituality, bridging ancestral wisdom with contemporary ecological consciousness, a must-have for those committed to a profound, living relationship with Earth.

📝 Description: Becoming Nature: Learning the Language of Wild Animals and Plants

A step-by-step guide to animal communication, connecting with your primal mind, and immersing yourself in Nature - Includes exercises for learning how to become invisible within Nature, sense hidden animals, and communicate with wild animals and birds - Explains how to approach wild animals and form friendships with them - Details the intuitive awareness of our hunter-gatherer ancestors and their innate oneness with Nature Animals and plants are in constant communication with the world around them. To join the conversation, we need only to connect with our primal mind and recognize that we, too, are Nature. Once in this state, we can communicate with animals as effortlessly as talking with friends. The songs of birds and the calls of animals start to make sense. We begin to see the reasons for their actions and discover that we can feel what they feel. We can sense the hidden animals around us, then get close enough to look into their eyes and touch them. Immersed in Nature, we are no longer intruders, but fellow beings moving in symphony with the Dance of Life. In this guide to becoming one with Nature, Tamarack Song provides step-by-step instructions for reawakening the innate sensory and intuitive abilities that our hunter-gatherer ancestors relied upon---abilities imprinted in our DNA yet long forgotten. Through exercises and experiential stories, the author guides us to immerse ourselves in Nature at the deepest levels of perception, which allows us to sense the surrounding world and the living beings in it as extensions of our own awareness. He details how to open our minds and hearts to listen and communicate in the wordless language of wild animals and plants. He explains how to hone our imagining skill so we can transform into the animal we are seeking, along with becoming invisible by entering the silence of Nature. He shows how to approach a wild animal on her own terms, which erases her fear and shyness. Allowing us to feel the blind yearning of a vixen Fox in heat and the terror of a Squirrel fleeing a Pine Marten, the practices in this book strip away everything that separates us from the animals. They enable us to restore our kinship with the natural world, strengthen our spiritual relationships with the animals who share our planet, and discover the true essence of the wild within us.

📑 What's inside

In Honor of My Teachers
To Know Nature Is to Become Nature
A Different Approach to Connecting with Nature Relearning the Old Way To Know Nature Is to Know Yourself Transformation through the Animal Mind
Step 1
Remember Nature Speak, the First Language
The Personality of Nature Speak Why We No Longer Talk with Animals How Nature Speak Works Where We Get Stuck Relearning Nature Speak Nature Speak and Domestic Animals What to Expect from Nature Speak
Step 2 Learn the Silent Language of Birds
How Birds Teach about Themselves
Step 3 Awakening the Animal Mind
Step 4 The Time-Media Trap
Audiovisual Material Meets the Animal Mind Time by Dictate
Step 5 Be Where the Magic Happens
How We Live Can Help Us Find Animals Dawn: The Place to Begin Next, Attune to Our Body's Rhythms
Step 6 Enter the Silence, Listen, and You Will See
Step 7 Energize and Attune Your Senses
The Awareness Overcoming the Barriers The Stories The Exercises The Answers for Step 7
Step 8 Walk and Paddle Quiet as a Shadow
Natural Walking Shadowing Canoeing
Step 9 Turn Invisible and Instill No Fear
Seeing through Our Biggest Blinders: Prejudice and Fear How to Become Invisible To Stand Out Is to Blend In
Be the Landscape
Visibility: A Survival Strategy
Step 10 The Best Tricks for Seeing Animals
What to Do When We See an Animal
Step 11 Become the Animal
Imagine
Step 12 To Touch an Animal
Counting Coup: The Concept Learning to Count Coup When Noble Fare Is Far Away To Touch the Soul
Acknowledgments Appendix 1 List of Stories Appendix 2 List of Exercises Notes Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author About the Artists

💎 Expert review

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Tamarack Song provides a compassionate entry point into animistic practice, focusing on humility and sensory attunement rather than forceful magic. The emphasis on becoming an 'unnoticed presence' is a refreshing take on wildlife interaction that prioritizes respect over domination. However, this book does not suit readers seeking rigorous academic biology or strict scientific validation of their claims. Those looking for complex ritualistic structures or dogmatic theological frameworks may find the approach too fluid and personal. It is best for those willing to engage in quiet, solitary practice rather than group ceremonies.

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Why this book is worth reading

Readers who feel a deep, perhaps unarticulated longing to reconnect with the natural world beyond mere observation will find profound value in this guide. It is ideal for those seeking to move from passive appreciation of nature to active, reciprocal relationship-building. If you have ever felt a pull toward the 'primal mind' or wished to shed the heavy armor of modern urbanity to become an unnoticed presence in the wild, this book offers a gentle pathway. It appeals to spiritual naturists and practical mystics alike who want tangible exercises rather than abstract theory. By learning to perceive hidden creatures and speak the primal tongue of plants and animals, you gain not just knowledge, but a renewed sense of belonging within the intricate web of existence.

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⭐ Esoterica editorial review Editorial rating 4.6/5

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If you yearn to deepen your relationship with the Earth, move beyond casual observation, and unlock ancient ways of knowing, this book is for you. It's an essential guide for anyone seeking a more profound, reciprocal connection with the animal and plant kingdoms.

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Esoterica Books editorial team

Tamarack Song provides a compassionate entry point into animistic practice, focusing on humility and sensory attunement rather than forceful magic. The emphasis on becoming an 'unnoticed presence' is a refreshing take on wildlife interaction that prioritizes respect over domination. However, this book does not suit readers seeking rigorous academic biology or strict scientific validation of their claims. Those looking for complex ritualistic structures or dogmatic theological frameworks may find the approach too fluid and personal. It is best for those willing to engage in quiet, solitary practice rather than group ceremonies.

❓ Frequently asked questions

It is highly practical, featuring a wealth of step-by-step exercises designed to cultivate your intuitive senses and facilitate direct communication with wildlife and flora. It's a hands-on guide to experiential learning, not just abstract philosophy.

No, this book is accessible to all. While it touches upon shamanic principles, it's written for anyone seeking a deeper connection to nature, regardless of their prior spiritual background or experience level. It's a journey for the open-hearted.

📖 Who should read this

🎯 Key themes and symbolism

Speaking with the Wild

This book provides a detailed methodology for understanding and interacting with wild creatures. It moves beyond mere observation, teaching techniques to interpret animal calls, discern their intentions, and even establish a profound, empathic rapport, transforming casual encounters into meaningful dialogues with the non-human world.

Reclaiming Primal Awareness

Explore the ancestral consciousness within, the innate wisdom possessed by hunter-gatherers who lived in seamless unity with their environment. The text guides you in reactivating this intuitive awareness, enabling a deeper, instinctual understanding of natural patterns and the subtle energies that permeate the wilderness around us.

Deep Nature Connection

Learn to dissolve the perceived barrier between humanity and the natural world. Through specific practices, the book shows how to become 'invisible' within ecosystems, sense the presence of unseen life, and foster a sense of belonging. This process transforms you from an observer into an integral, harmonized part of nature's grand dance.

📜 Historical context

This work draws heavily from the traditions of animism and shamanism, echoing ancient indigenous wisdom that views all life as interconnected and sentient. It resonates with modern Gaia theory by emphasizing Earth's living systems and aligns with contemporary ecological thought, while offering a deeply spiritual and experiential approach to environmental awareness, rooted in ancestral practices.

📚 Glossary

Primal Mind
Nature Immersion
Animal Communication

📔 Questions to reflect on

Reflect on a time you felt deeply connected to nature. What senses were most active, and what did you perceive beyond the obvious?
How might recognizing your 'primal mind' change your daily interactions with the non-human world, even in an urban setting?
Consider a specific animal or plant you encounter regularly. What assumptions do you hold about its 'language,' and how might you begin to listen differently?