Techno-Indigenous Lifestyle
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"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my my true self. Why was this so very difficult?" - these are the beginning words of Hermann Hesse's enigmatic novel. Demian. I believe they can be the opening words of the life-story for any of us who walk their authentic paths. During my spiritual quest, I have learned that we each have a special life mission (existential program), which unfolds as we follow our inner voice. C G Jung calls this individuation, a uniquely rewarding, at the same time notoriously difficult process which leads us towards becoming our own authentic self.
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This path is not easy to embark on, consequently many people never do. Brazilian consciousness researcher, Waldo Vieira, estimates that over 90% of all people lead a robotized existence, relying on conditioning from family, school and society in general. Breaking out of a firmly established system of social securities and expectations is by no means easy, as virtually anyone who has started on their own authentic path can testify. I can still remember working at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, doing research at an institute for international business law. It felt so absolutely wrong. This job - that could have been an academic dream job for someone else - quickly became a nightmare for me as I realized that I was on the wrong track. My book-shelf was full of publications about altered states of consciousness, hypnosis, indigenous views on reality, mythic archetypes and personal development. What on Earth was I doing at a law institute?!
Sometimes life leads you really far away from where your soul wants to be. So, what is there to do when you have an already well-established life, yet you feel you need to do something completely different? I found that ignoring this feeling was the worst thing possible. Personally, it made me sick and depressed. Such thing just leads to existential melancholy: a joyless life devoid of drive and purpose. Life begins to feel like a drag, instead of an adventurous quest into the magic of the universe.
I began to slowly move out of the trap, starting to do more of what I wanted. First, I started writing one hour a day, every day. (Often the only time I could do this was at night before I went to sleep.) Curiously enough, I never told anyone about it but it became a truly special time. Through this, I learned that if you are doing something on a regular basis, which comes from within you, it will transform you. Soon, other things followed: I started to have dreams and out-of-body experiences in which spiritual guides reminded me of something that I have seemingly forgotten: that I am here to understand some of the deeper patterns of existence and share that with others. Things began to unfold: as soon as I had an opportunity to change my academic direction, I did. I am forever grateful to have had a chance to "escape" into anthropology, applied spiritual anthropology and hypnotherapy, and could start working with people as I was meant to.
As my life became more authentic, I also felt the calling to move away from the city and spend more time where the wilderness begins. It was not a sentiment of "going back to nature" rather finding a state of balance where using modern technologies such as computers and the internet harmonize with sustainable living and natural inspiration.
Sometimes life leads you really far away from where your soul wants to be. So, what is there to do when you have an already well-established life, yet you feel you need to do something completely different? I found that ignoring this feeling was the worst thing possible. Personally, it made me sick and depressed. Such thing just leads to existential melancholy: a joyless life devoid of drive and purpose. Life begins to feel like a drag, instead of an adventurous quest into the magic of the universe.
I began to slowly move out of the trap, starting to do more of what I wanted. First, I started writing one hour a day, every day. (Often the only time I could do this was at night before I went to sleep.) Curiously enough, I never told anyone about it but it became a truly special time. Through this, I learned that if you are doing something on a regular basis, which comes from within you, it will transform you. Soon, other things followed: I started to have dreams and out-of-body experiences in which spiritual guides reminded me of something that I have seemingly forgotten: that I am here to understand some of the deeper patterns of existence and share that with others. Things began to unfold: as soon as I had an opportunity to change my academic direction, I did. I am forever grateful to have had a chance to "escape" into anthropology, applied spiritual anthropology and hypnotherapy, and could start working with people as I was meant to.
As my life became more authentic, I also felt the calling to move away from the city and spend more time where the wilderness begins. It was not a sentiment of "going back to nature" rather finding a state of balance where using modern technologies such as computers and the internet harmonize with sustainable living and natural inspiration.
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James Cameron, director of the movie "Avatar" used a phrase for this idea that captured my attention. He speaks about a "techno-indigenous lifestyle." A phrase can be powerful, once I heard it, I began my own experiment into such a life-style. In 2017, I found a spot of land in the Northern Highlands of Hungary at the edge of a national park forest. On it stood a tiny, 200 year old cottage. Even though I normally am quite a nomad, I ended up buying this place and moving there for a major part of the year.
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Film scene from
James Cameron's Avatar (2009)
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Living here is an experiment to go back to a way of life, which allows direct access to the soil, growing some of my own food and foraging, while also going forward: exploring the possibilities of the world wide web to reconnect all of us who share the longing to explore nature, the inner realms and to evolve consciously.
The place received the name
The place received the name
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Little Vicienteinspired by the "Celestine Prophecies." Viciente in that book is a place in Peru, dedicated consciously to higher vibrational living and to raising the energies. Now, Little Viciente has become a small, but real counterpart to the ficitious place from the novel. Its history is beginning to unfold quite beautifully, as it is drawing people in (sometimes in person, sometimes through conversations and sharing of ideas), who seem to be on the same wavelength.
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