Free Range
Human
“Wildness is the earthy, untamed, undomesticated state of things - open-ended, improvisational, moving according to its own boisterous logic. That which is wild is not really out of control; it is simply out of our control. Wildness is not a state of disorder, but a condition whose order is not imposed from outside.”
David Abram
Modern life is very good at making a smaller life seem like a reasonable choice. We trade a sense of aliveness for comfort so slowly that we barely notice it happening. We become battery humans: creatures whose lives have been reduced to output, efficiency and managed experience. We stop really seeing the world for what it is, and so life loses its texture.
We call that maturity.
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A Free Range Human is someone who looked at that deal and said not quite.
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They live inside ordinary life, paying their bills and showing up to their responsibilities, but they remain stubbornly, inconveniently and wholeheartedly alive within it. They get ambushed by beauty and commit occasional senseless acts of wonder. They follow the strange. They let the world actually reach them.​
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The Free Range Human project is primarily an interview series, but my long-term goal is to create a community of like-minded people who feel the urgency of this message right now, and want to participate in preserving a sense of inner freedom as part of the human experience.
People who hold this medicine show up in diverse settings, but include artists, mystics, priests or scientists, practitioners of every kind: people who have given themselves completely to something and found, on the other side of that devot
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FRH is a movement for people who want to reclaim their capacity for wonder, their sense of the sacred in ordinary things and their own particular way of being fully alive.
The world needs more renegades.
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