Rewild Your Life zine by Paul Waggener & Danielle Fedorshik0

I received this short but truly interesting zine, which is a collaboration between the writings of Paul Waggener & photography of Danielle ‘Metalographer’. Interspersed with a healthy dose of inspirational quotes from naturalists, authors, and philosophers. The concept of Rewild is an resurgent atavism of the feral spirit in man. It is about replenishing what lies inside telling us to wander, and is kept locked away by modern causality, materialism, fear, routine, or conformity. We as a species have tarnished our ego, and are taught from young age to not stand out too much, follow a career, and have our own “identity”. This identity is only a pseudo recognition of what we think we have chosen ourselves. For the one who retains any form of feral instinct at all, this literature nourishes the seeds needed to grow it. I will paraphrase the first collection of thoughts from this piece which sets the tone for the zine itself.

“The increase in mass urbanization worldwide has provoked studies that are proving conclusively a corresponding increase in psychosis, depression, and general mental illness. This occurs because of the combining effects of poverty, crime, drug use, overcrowding, pollution, dissolving family structure, and all the anxieties and negative properties that these have on the individual. Urbanization and so called “human progress” has really been a long, systematized domestication, so that you would shut your mouth and go along with the program in order to make a small percentage of the world’s population wealthy while your spirit and dreams atrophy and die, along with the green world around you”

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It is a brash and true statement, that still impresses me how our seemingly intelligent race as a whole accepts this as normal, or satisfying enough to be worth living for. In this way, Rewild is also a fuck you, to all order and law! all hierarchies! and plasticity and pathetic life! Re: meaning perhaps a second, third, or even greater attempt at this. It urges the minds eye to open the portals. Be wolflike, austere, modest, & creative. First, it presupposes that this does not happen in one night, not one month even but over time. To live in accordance with nature, seeing evolution as it is most pure. It is a gradual morphological and spiritual difference, in conspiracy with our finite time here. It is important and relevant to see, we are just as the fauna of the universe from which we were created. No different from the wolverine in the forest, the octopus in the ocean, or vulture in the sky. We must go about with this in our minds and embrace our ancestors, the atmosphere that surrounds them, and the natural forces that govern them. It is an effort to live more modestly.
“Rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness” -Tolstoy

If you already find this reverence within yourself, it will serve mostly as a reminder and a perspective reassurance of what you already know. If I* make no sense, then it is likely you might never come to such intimate self knowledge to understand it. The primitive force is telling us to stray from our contemporaries. Take an epic walk into forests unknown with no agenda to return on time; break down a small barrier and enter a tunnel underground or an abandoned building; and make the real effort to retain self discipline, master some form of artistic or usable skill, and connect with nature as not separate from us, but interwoven into our very fabric.

Here is a page offered from the Rewild Your Life zine. Copies in 5x by 7x can be acquired here http://www.etsy.com/listing/88897284/rewild-your-life-issue-1-zine