Poacher or Big Game Tracker, Perception Can Change Everything…

Shikari is a word that comes from the Indian Himalayas. It was and I hope still is a word used to describe someone who lived off the land…

It was later used to describe someone who was a big game tracker. Because as agriculture took hold, people who continued to live off the land got given a new name. “Poacher’s”. The way they lived had not changed, just the ownership of the forest. So from someone who had been respected, they became someone who was seen as trouble and were now stealing from the landowner…

To become respectable again and to earn a living these great trackers and survivalists began to lead the rich on hunting expeditions, and so regained the respect they once had from their tribes and people. They once again became known as Shikari…

A Shikari is some one who watches and observes, and can deduce many Things from the smallest of details. The scapes in the dirt to them would Speak volumes, the type of animal that made it its direction, its speed, the Time it passed. The list of information available become volumous as your Skill levels increase. But its like learning a language it takes time, and you First need to learn your ABC’s…

So the aim and vision of Hunter gatherer School is to mentor you to become a great Shikari. To develop awareness skills so advanced that the things you know will seem Like magic. Maybe people will think your psychic or that you have ESP (Extra Sensory Perception). But All that will be going on is you’ll be noticing things they have missed…

I have a quote in my mind, and I’m paraphrasing here. “Any technology that is advanced enough will seem like magic to anyone who does not understand it…”

When you have learned the skills that we teach here, what you will be able to do Will seem like magic…

Imagine yourself walking with a friend, you here a bird Alarm in the distance, and because of your training you know by the intensity and shape of that alarm, that it is a fox that has triggered that alarm. You turn to your friend who didn’t hear it and you say “lets stop here, and sit down, don’t make a sound and watch over there, there is a fox coming.” You point into the distance at a spot on the trail up ahead. You friend looks at you with a quizzical look but does what you say. one minute later, a fox pops out onto the trail, and then back into the forest. Your friend looks at you as if…… Whoa…

How do you explain it, it was obvious to you, but it seems like magic to them…

Developing your awareness is like having an advanced technology. And it will serve you wherever you are in the world. So Awareness is part of the School. It is the one thing, the one skill that will enhance all others. You might think that survival is all about building shelters, and finding water Making fire, and cooking plants to eat. Well it is, but only about 10%. The rest is The difference between subsistence survival, and living is absolute luxury…

The difference is wanting shelter, looking at you surroundings, smelling what’s on the wind, looking at the topology, and the animals in the area, and from all this information knowing in which directing your most Likely to find what you want.
Without awareness you’re stumbling in the dark, and learning by trial and error…

You don’t need to learn by trial & error, find your self someone who can mentor you in these skills & this knowledge, they will take you far along the path…

Take Care, Walk in Awareness