Summary of Martha Beck's Finding Your Way in a Wild New World

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#1 The tracker from the Shangaan tribe, Richard, was able to find two leopard cubs three miles from any road in dense brush. The most basic reason he was able to wayfind with almost miraculous skill was that he was a master of the first technology of magic, Wordlessness.

#2 The most important skill for any wayfinder is the ability to drop into Wordlessness, which allows you to be aware of your situation and your own responses to it. It connects your consciousness with the deep peace and presence that is your essential you.

#3 The idea that real learning is spoken, read, and written is a holdover from the Age of Exploration, when explorers traveled the globe and claimed indigenous populations were dim-witted, unmotivated, and backward.

#4 The key to Wordlessness is to move your basic perceptual and analytical thinking out of your head and into the whole inner space of your body. This is how you begin to find your way through life. But most people don’t know this.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822525856

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Insights on Martha Beck's Finding Your Way in a Wild New World

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The tracker from the Shangaan tribe, Richard, was able to find two leopard cubs three miles from any road in dense brush. The most basic reason he was able to wayfind with almost miraculous skill was that he was a master of the first technology of magic, Wordlessness.

#2

The most important skill for any wayfinder is the ability to drop into Wordlessness, which allows you to be aware of your situation and your own responses to it. It connects your consciousness with the deep peace and presence that is your essential you.

#3

The idea that real learning is spoken, read, and written is a holdover from the Age of Exploration, when explorers traveled the globe and claimed indigenous populations were dim-witted, unmotivated, and backward.

#4

The key to Wordlessness is to move your basic perceptual and analytical thinking out of your head and into the whole inner space of your body. This is how you begin to find your way through life. But most people don’t know this.

#5

The answers to the questions of how we feel and what we want are not in our feelings, but in our thoughts. They are socially grounded and socially acceptable, and they make sure we won’t rock any boats.

#6

When we lose the ability to speak, we gain the experience of a human mind freed from language. This allows us to see our true nature and heal from the violence of a thought system that cuts us apart.

#7

To master Wordlessness, you must first heal your true nature and become a wayfinder. You must then unlearn almost everything you were taught in school about what it means to be intelligent.

#8

We physically restructure our brains when we learn new skills, especially when we use a learning process called deep practice. Deep practice is more than simply repeating something over and over. We aim for a precise experience, first getting it only in brief flashes, then repeating the effort until we can perform the skill reliably.

#9

There are many ways to reach Wordlessness, which I call the paths of stillness. They involve sitting still and meditation, which was considered bizarre by most Americans during my childhood. If you love to meditate, good for you! But if meditation holds no appeal for you, try one of the techniques below.

#10

The technique of asking your mind to explain how you can know that your hand exists without opening your eyes is similar to the wayfinding techniques of many different cultures. It activates both sides of the brain.

#11

The Open Focus method involves focusing your eyes on an object, and then making everything else in your field of vision the background. Then, make the object the background, and everything else the foreground.

#12

The Apache method of Wordlessness is to focus on your heart until you can feel it beating, then focus on your pulse as it moves through your hands, feet, scalp, and entire body. Then do some simple task while continuing to feel your heartbeat and pulse.

#13

Wordlessness is the state of being in which you are no longer able to think or feel your thoughts and emotions. It is a challenging state of being for many meditators, who associate