Welcome to Wild Mind where you will find ideas, tools and techniques to unleash your potential. Some like to call wild mind the unconscious. But I think its more encompassing than that. Whether your interest is spiritual, physical, mind, psychological, or just burning interest to see what's possible at the edges we hope you will find something here to interest you.

I like to think of Wild Mind as opposite to the sleeping mind. Sleeping not in the sense of a period of rejuvenation, but in the sense of unawakened. An antidote to the common mind, not in the sense of collective unconscious but unconscious in the sense of a mind operating only by habit.

You'll find some of the things I've found, but I'm sure in your explorations you have found things too. So please share and contribute.

OFF THE TRAIL

We are free to find our own way
Over rocks --- through the trees ---
Where there are no trails. The ridge and the forest
Present themselves to our eyes and feet
Which decide for themselves
In their own learned wisdom of doing
Where the wild will take us. We have
Been here before. It's more intimate somehow
Than walking the paths that lay out some route
That you stick to,
All paths are possible, many will work,
Being blocked is its own kind of pleasure,
Getting through is a joy, the side trips
And detours show down logs and flowers,
The deer paths straight up, the squirrel tracks
Across, the outcroppings lead us on over.
Resting on tree trunks,
Stepping out on the bedrock, angling and eyeing
Both making choices --- now parting our ways ---
And later rejoin; I'm right, you're right,
We come out together
Mattake, "Pine Mushroom,"
Heaves at the base of a stump. The dense matted floor
Of red fir needles and twigs. This is wild!
We laugh, wild for sure,
Because no place is more than another,
All places total,
And our ankles, knees, shoulders &
Haunches know right where they are.
Recal how the Dao De
Jing puts it: the trail's not the way.
No path will get you there, we're off the trail,
You and I, and we choose it! Our trips out of doors
Through the years have been practice
For this ramble together,
Deep in the mountains
Side by side,
Over rocks, through the trees.

--- Gary Snyder, from No Nature, p.369

All the best,
Ted