Sunday, March 8, 2009

Wildness & Self-Acceptance

What I find depressing about life and have to grapple with daily is the duality of human nature. In the wilderness there are many dualities, or even a rich, deep portfolio of many-textured truths, but all are beautiful. So in re-entering the biodiverse natural realm we call wilderness, which matches fairly well the human psychological construct we call wilderness, I find comfort in now shallow-seeming duality of human nature. Humanity's redemption is in its wildness, in the grounding of our evils in the flux of evolving nature, which is altogether and irrevocably beautiful. That's also why the bad guy is delicious in any decent opera. When culture touches nature, we find purgation. When an individual enters wilderness, she finds salvation.