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| The Wild Within: Adventures in Nature and Animal Teachings | 
 enlarge | Author: Paul Rezendes
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 826319
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0425171574
Dewey Decimal Number: 508
EAN: 9780425171578
ASIN: 0425171574
Publication Date: November 1, 1999
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Condition: The book is clean but may have highlights.
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The story of Paul Rezendes's spiritual journey began when he was leader of a motorcycle gang (i.e., a Devil's Disciple). His dangerous life of narcotics and guns eventually caught up with him and he and his wife found themselves in trouble with the law. His legal hassles gave him the perfect excuse to back out of the gang; thus he reneged on his lifelong commitment. (Apparently, motorcycle gangs are a lot like the Mafia; he muses, "You better have a damn good reason to leave.") From then on Rezendes began a furtive spiritual quest that led him into the woods, following the paw and hoof prints of wild animals. Like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Rezendes teaches the art of animal tracking and stalking, all the while making the link to the clean, observant Zen mind. "Stalking meditation demands that we pay full attention to every footfall, every breath, every sound we make, each nuance of landscape, wind, humidity," he writes. "Stalking gives us the opportunity to move away from the tiny perspective of thought and self into all-encompassing awareness." Rezendes, a renowned teacher of seminars and workshops, uses personal tracking stories to emphasize the importance of focused observation. But more importantly, his storytelling challenges readers to be spiritually accountable in the wild as well as everyday life.--Gail Hudson
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A "surprising and powerful"* story of a man and his place in the natural world--"rich in spiritual insights as unfettered and full of grace as the animals he loves."(*Booklist starred review)
Paul Rezendes has followed bobcats through swamps, wrestled a black bear, howled with coyotes at the edge of a moonlit field. Here, he tells the story of his extraordinary progression from motorcycle-gang leader to Zen woodsman, learning about compassion from a curious 750-pound bull moose and discovering the inseparability of life and death through a wrenching encounter between a coyote and a deer. With this book, he shows us how to live in the natural world--even if it's only within a local park or tree-lined street--moving soundlessly, watching where we put our feet, gauging the wind, and entering a new state of awareness. Dramatic and deeply spiritual, The Wild Within changes the way we see ourselves--and makes the world around us come alive.
* Foreword by Bill McKibben, bestselling author of The End of Nature
* A choice of the Quality Paperback Book Club and One Spirit Book Club
* Illustrated throughout with Rezendes's striking photographs
* Rezendes has appeared on NPR and also delivers approximately 50 workshops a year through such organizations as the World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy
"A valuable method of teaching awareness of each moment, moment after moment--the critical practice of this valuable life."--Peter Matthiessen
"Like Muir, Leopold, and Abbey, Rezendes goes beyond words to beating-heart intimacy with the wilderness."--Dave Foreman, author of Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
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 The Wild Within November 13, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Hard to say how much I enjoyed the book. You can see this influence in Mark Elbrochs new book and is a nice look into a tracking pioneers life. I believe he is retired form teaching tracking and like most of these older trackers, tracking has been more than prints on dirt or sign. I enjoyed it very much and I will read the copy I have more than once. Hopefully one day he will start the seminars again.
Remembering An Ancient Art September 20, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are many reasons why this book keeps getting better for me each time I read it.
I'm going to explain one of them here. Most of us have forgotten that human cultures once entered into relationship with the nonhuman community not as exploiters but as equals. And because of this the people of these cultures could read the tracks and signs of nonhumans better than most of us can read a book. And because of this they understood themselves and the nonhuman community much more intimately than most of us do in our alienated state.
Through his very lucid way of storytelling, Paul makes it very clear that no matter who we are, and what path we have chosen to take up until this point in our lives, we can still reconnect with ourselves and the rest of life on this planet.
Someone who walks the talk. October 16, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I give Paul's book my highest recommendation. If you've ever read a book by Tom Brown you will find a home in these pages of wildness - both inner and outer. A wilderness philosophy/ecopsychology of place takes you deep within your own process of healing and awareness with wilderness. Wilderness can heal whatever illness the modern world has inflicted. Paul is an astonishing guide into this realm of spirit and psyche. Enjoy it; but most of all if it calls to your heart, take the next step into the world of wild nature. In this place, "Spirit" speaks to those capable of listening. You may never be the same again.
 What a Hypocrite! November 17, 2005
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
After reading Paul Rezendes's "The Wild Within" for my nonfiction class, I am convinced Mr. Rezendes is a hypocrite. After leaving the "Devil's Disciples" motorcycle gang, Rezendes embarked on a journey to "find himself." He tried on many sets of beliefs, including Ashram and Roman Catholocism. Rezendes was extremely critical of both sects, Ashram because he thought it was hypocritical and Roman Catholocism because he did not receive an annulment from the Pope on his wife's marriage. Both of these sets of circumsatnces are layered with irony. The tone of Rezendes's book suggests that after leaving Ashram he did not drop the holier-than-thou attitude he picked up during that phase of his life: He continues to put his beliefs on a pedastal, trying to "show his readers the way." If his past life is any indication, within five years he will have demolished his current set of beliefs and published another book debunking them, telling readers about how he alone knows the new secrets and interworkings of the universe. I find it amusing that he rejected Roman Catholicism for lack of his WIFE being granted an annulment, considering how many times he himself had been married and all the people he had abused throughout his life.
The book reads like the journal of a very pompous evangelist who thinks he has discovered the meaning of life. Being unaffected by any religious bias whatsoever, I know one thing. I don't know the meaning of life... But Rezendes doesn't either.
One of a kind March 26, 2004
I'm teaching an environmental psychology class and this is the best book I've found to integrate the concepts of the self, thought, and human behavior. Rezendes has a way of explaining complex concepts in a truly engaging and understandable way. My students love this book.
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