To experience life as it was for the Paleo-Indians—the first homo sapiens in North America around 12,000 years ago—go today to a wild place, such as the Ancient Bristlecone Forest in the White Mountains. Absorb the panorama through your bodily senses, a kaleidoscope of stimuli from which we evolved, devoid of a single blip of the artificiality that is modern life. The bristlecone pine at your fingertips may be 5,000 years old!
Shortly after this epiphany, you will likely realize that life as a Paleo-Indian living free in nature was not all that it is cracked up to be.
We are lucky in that the means to survive in the wilds are now easy to come by. No doubt the Coso people (a division of prehistoric indigenous peoples east of the Sierra Nevada), would have enjoyed cooking kung pao chicken over a propane stove, watching a romcom on an iPad, and sleeping on a soft bed, not to mention driving miles on pneumatic tires. This we can do today, while also being among the contours that speak without speaking to our inner nature.
Nature talks in a dimensional language, not only of the 3D spaces, intricate and grand as they may be, but also in the fourth dimension of time, where the same place is transformed completely from its previous embodiment.
Sensing nature, and only nature, is what it feels like to be alive. Simple. True. Healthful.
Range of Light Trailblazer, a travel guide, has all the details on how to get out there—along the Eastern Sierra from Mono Lake to Mount Whitney, and extending east through numerous Wilderness Areas to Death Valley National. Included in the guide is a handbook for dispersed camping for beginners.
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