December 15, 2025 • 7 mins
Some thoughts on the fourth pillar of Personal Rewilding - Honoring the Wild Ancestors - and what that means in terms of how we relate to the natural world.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to Truth Be Told about Going Wild. I'm your host,
Robert Hensley, and this is the podcast inspired by the
principles of personal Rewilding. Hey everyone, I am coming to
you from a very cold and snowy mountaintop in Pennsylvania today.
And one of the things that I wanted to talk
about is the fourth pillar of rewilding, this idea of
(00:28):
honoring our wild ancestors. I know we've talked about this
in the past. Maybe you're tired of hearing me harp
about it a little bit, but it's really important. And
this is why in order for us to really take
our place in society in the greater sense of the
natural world, right, because we are natural beings, we're all
(00:50):
part of nature, we do have to acknowledge that we
are connected to every other being on the planet, right,
human and otherwise. And so we start to think about
this idea of lineage and relations and kin and how
(01:10):
that looks, what that looks like our kind of past
generations and our connections to the past. There's a beautiful
poem that I found online. I think it was the
Daily Shaman on Facebook posted it, and this is the poem.
You were once your own ancestor and will be again.
Your ancestral remains from other lifetimes still rest in sacred ground,
(01:35):
in the quiet folds of old forests, beneath stones that remember,
in soil that still sings your name. The land holds
your stories, not lost, but layered, woven into the dreaming
of earth. Walk gently, she knows you, right. I just
there's something about that poem that just spoke to me.
(01:56):
I wanted to share that today, and I also want
to just to remind people that there are traces of
the past, of every generation before us. Right. It dwells
deep inside our souls, our connection to nature, the relationship
that we have with the rest with the natural world.
You know, when we talk about personal wilding's it's not new, right.
(02:19):
It's why I sometimes utilize the phrase rekindling our connection
or relationship to the natural world. And it's because we
are rekindling it, right. That relationship is an inherited birthright. Right,
it's printed upon our DNA. So when we talk about
our relationship with nature, we need to think about that
(02:43):
kind of in the same terms that we talk about
generational trauma, right, the things that have happened to the
people in the past somehow get printed into our DNA,
and we end up suffering for years dealing with the
same stuff that all of these other people dealt with,
whether or not it happened to us directly or not. Right,
those indirect traumas affect us and change our DNA. Right,
(03:09):
But the same thing happens with all of our successes. Right.
So the people who succeeded and survived for generations before
we got here, their successes, their relationships are also stored
in our DNA. Right, They shaped who we are. So
we can't forget that this relationship is not new. Personal
(03:31):
rewilding isn't about opening a new door. It's about opening
a door that's already been there for months, right, and
for us to allow for an open flow of communication
between ourselves and the natural world. Right. So we're not
strangers to the wild. Right, Just like the poem says,
she knows you, we are ancient kin with every other
(03:52):
living being on the planet. Right. So when we honor
our ancestors, we're also honoring future generation. Right. So when
we reconnect to those relations to those kind of family members, right,
we're taking up our rightful role as stewards. Right. That's
(04:15):
the overall goal. When we have rewilded, when we have
chosen to open that door, when we've chosen to rekindle
that connection to the natural world, we are making ourselves
ready to be more involved in the care of the
planet and the care of each other, in the care
of all other beings, of taking more responsibility for our
(04:42):
being on this planet. Right. And so those are the
things that I want to talk about more readily moving forward.
Is how we become stronger stewards. How do we again
and honor our ancestors, honor future generations, honor ourselves. Right.
(05:05):
So much of this happens because we feel like we
don't belong, we don't have a sense of place, we
don't have a pride of place, we don't have an
understanding of our role in the universe. We seem lost, right,
and we all go through moments of that everyone. Some
people feel it more keenly than others. And rewilding is
(05:28):
that thing that will give that back to us right
where we can start to feel like we are part
of a bigger picture, that we have a purpose, that there
is something driving us forward, and that there is a
goal at the end of the day that is not
about making money or you know, working for the man, right,
(05:49):
but something that is solely just for us. And so yeah,
so that's what is on my mind today. That's what
I wanted to share with you. And I hope that
you are all, whether you're on a snowy mountain top
like I am, or you're somewhere where it's warm and funny.
I just hope that you are safe and really starting
to think about the holiday season and what that means
(06:12):
for you and your family. So I hope that that
is a time of remembrance and joy and beauty and
peace and love. And if you are interested in knowing
more about what's happening with Robert Hensley Nature Reconnect, you
can check out the website again Robert Hensley Nature reconnect
dot com. And remember there are three opportunities each week
(06:37):
for new content from the Truth Be Told family of
podcasts on the Club Paranormal channel on YouTube. You can
listen on Fridays for Tony Sweet with your original Truth
Be Told at three pam Pacific, six Eastern, Bonnie Burker
with Truth BeO Told, Transformations on Wednesdays, and Truth Be
Told about Going Wild every Monday, same time, three pam
Pacific six Eastern and until next time s
Welcome to Truth Be Told about Going Wild. I'm your host,
Robert Hensley, and this is the podcast inspired by the
principles of personal Rewilding. Hey everyone, I am coming to
you from a very cold and snowy mountaintop in Pennsylvania today.
And one of the things that I wanted to talk
about is the fourth pillar of rewilding, this idea of
(00:28):
honoring our wild ancestors. I know we've talked about this
in the past. Maybe you're tired of hearing me harp
about it a little bit, but it's really important. And
this is why in order for us to really take
our place in society in the greater sense of the
natural world, right, because we are natural beings, we're all
(00:50):
part of nature, we do have to acknowledge that we
are connected to every other being on the planet, right,
human and otherwise. And so we start to think about
this idea of lineage and relations and kin and how
(01:10):
that looks, what that looks like our kind of past
generations and our connections to the past. There's a beautiful
poem that I found online. I think it was the
Daily Shaman on Facebook posted it, and this is the poem.
You were once your own ancestor and will be again.
Your ancestral remains from other lifetimes still rest in sacred ground,
(01:35):
in the quiet folds of old forests, beneath stones that remember,
in soil that still sings your name. The land holds
your stories, not lost, but layered, woven into the dreaming
of earth. Walk gently, she knows you, right. I just
there's something about that poem that just spoke to me.
(01:56):
I wanted to share that today, and I also want
to just to remind people that there are traces of
the past, of every generation before us. Right. It dwells
deep inside our souls, our connection to nature, the relationship
that we have with the rest with the natural world.
You know, when we talk about personal wilding's it's not new, right.
(02:19):
It's why I sometimes utilize the phrase rekindling our connection
or relationship to the natural world. And it's because we
are rekindling it, right. That relationship is an inherited birthright. Right,
it's printed upon our DNA. So when we talk about
our relationship with nature, we need to think about that
(02:43):
kind of in the same terms that we talk about
generational trauma, right, the things that have happened to the
people in the past somehow get printed into our DNA,
and we end up suffering for years dealing with the
same stuff that all of these other people dealt with,
whether or not it happened to us directly or not. Right,
those indirect traumas affect us and change our DNA. Right,
(03:09):
But the same thing happens with all of our successes. Right.
So the people who succeeded and survived for generations before
we got here, their successes, their relationships are also stored
in our DNA. Right, They shaped who we are. So
we can't forget that this relationship is not new. Personal
(03:31):
rewilding isn't about opening a new door. It's about opening
a door that's already been there for months, right, and
for us to allow for an open flow of communication
between ourselves and the natural world. Right. So we're not
strangers to the wild. Right, Just like the poem says,
she knows you, we are ancient kin with every other
(03:52):
living being on the planet. Right. So when we honor
our ancestors, we're also honoring future generation. Right. So when
we reconnect to those relations to those kind of family members, right,
we're taking up our rightful role as stewards. Right. That's
(04:15):
the overall goal. When we have rewilded, when we have
chosen to open that door, when we've chosen to rekindle
that connection to the natural world, we are making ourselves
ready to be more involved in the care of the
planet and the care of each other, in the care
of all other beings, of taking more responsibility for our
(04:42):
being on this planet. Right. And so those are the
things that I want to talk about more readily moving forward.
Is how we become stronger stewards. How do we again
and honor our ancestors, honor future generations, honor ourselves. Right.
(05:05):
So much of this happens because we feel like we
don't belong, we don't have a sense of place, we
don't have a pride of place, we don't have an
understanding of our role in the universe. We seem lost, right,
and we all go through moments of that everyone. Some
people feel it more keenly than others. And rewilding is
(05:28):
that thing that will give that back to us right
where we can start to feel like we are part
of a bigger picture, that we have a purpose, that there
is something driving us forward, and that there is a
goal at the end of the day that is not
about making money or you know, working for the man, right,
(05:49):
but something that is solely just for us. And so yeah,
so that's what is on my mind today. That's what
I wanted to share with you. And I hope that
you are all, whether you're on a snowy mountain top
like I am, or you're somewhere where it's warm and funny.
I just hope that you are safe and really starting
to think about the holiday season and what that means
(06:12):
for you and your family. So I hope that that
is a time of remembrance and joy and beauty and
peace and love. And if you are interested in knowing
more about what's happening with Robert Hensley Nature Reconnect, you
can check out the website again Robert Hensley Nature reconnect
dot com. And remember there are three opportunities each week
(06:37):
for new content from the Truth Be Told family of
podcasts on the Club Paranormal channel on YouTube. You can
listen on Fridays for Tony Sweet with your original Truth
Be Told at three pam Pacific, six Eastern, Bonnie Burker
with Truth BeO Told, Transformations on Wednesdays, and Truth Be
Told about Going Wild every Monday, same time, three pam
Pacific six Eastern and until next time s
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