Wildman Buddha and Jesus the Christ walked Barefoot! Barefoot Mick and Sunshine Sam of the Barefoot Academy share their philosophy of re-connecting to the Earth through the soles of our feet.

Date:   6/14/2005 4:01:44 PM ( 19 y ago)

Mick writes:

"We have done a great deal of research on shoes and the damage that they do to our walk and the effect that this damage has on our talk, and story making.

I am becoming more educated in some of the spiritual writings of our species. I was reading some of the words of the wild man Buddha, who was never a Buddhist, but a man that had walked out of confinement, the comfort zone, in his barefeet and was taught by the trees.

I was interested in his four steps, or what people now call the four noble truths.
As I read them, I realized that in my story I had gone through the same process, which convinces me that the earth keeps sending the same message up through our naked feet each time.

I had pain in my feet, knees and back. I opened myself to the pain, followed it. This seems to be what he means my the first noble truth. That there is pain in life, not that every thing is pain, but there is pain, and one needs to pay attention to the pain, and allow it to teach, follow the pain to find the way to the joy.

The second step is finding the cause of the pain, the root.
I came to realize that the pain in my feet was being caused by a loss of touch with the earth. The root cause of the pain is the separation, the tear in our contact with the natural surface areas of the forest. The more one tries to ignore the root cause, the more the pain is increased.

The third noble truth, or step, is to find the cure for the root cause. This was a simple root cause to put an end to, throw away the shoes, then step out of confinement, and make direct contact with the rest of our body the earth.

The fourth noble truth is to follow the practice, and this was to follow my feet. To continue the walk out of confinement, out past the edge of the city, out past those practices of insulation and separation, extending the escape into all areas of our daily life: What we eat, how we relate to the earth etc.

Sam and I have continued to follow our feet, expanding the practice of removing the insulations, the material separations from us and the earth.

The first step out of confinement was out of our shoes, but this has lead us into the last of the wild places to awaken our touch, the tactile stimulation that forms our full and complete organic knowing.

I read where they said the last words of the wild man Buddha was to never give up escaping.

The results have been so wonderful and this path of liberation is so exciting. The training effect that you were feeling in your feet, the bit of pain from waking up unused muscles, is a key indicator, it is the feeling of your roots growing, your touch of the earth extending and expanding into the earth and into your subtle body, and it will get even better with your movement, endurance, strength and balance, four of the major roots will intensify, and your full mind will begin to seat itself in your pelvis area. In short the head connects to the feet, and do so by connecting your touch to the earth.

We have found that it is important for those that begin to reconnect, to learn the natural walk, which is ball-to-heel, walking, and not heel-to-ball walking.

You should try this, plug your ears, and then walk across the floor, or hard surface, and if you hear a thud coming through your body, understanding that this is a shock and is driving into your spine, and that your body posture has compensated and is holding the old posture of walking.

We have a great deal of medical research to show the effects of this, and we are sure you will be interested, and have developed training classes on how to over come the shoe walking.

But try the walk, try the natural walk and discover for yourself.

What we now call the normal walk, has been created by walking in shoes, and is the March Of Rome. It is a walk of disconnection.

When you step into your fore foot you are stepping into the earth and not ON it.

The body memory, our genetic memory, is ready to be awakened, all one as to do is to learn to walk the natural step, and this root connection will drive itself beyond the ego body, out into the earth body.

Beware that your perception will begin to change and you should keep track of them, and remember that as your body became distorted in shoes and heel walking, so did your talk, your thinking. Eventually the old talk that connected and manifested from the cultural walk of domination will begin to weaken and have no place to ground in the body, no place to exist, and new talk begins to manifest. The more that you bring the natural walk into your entire day, the greater the effect on your new talk manifesting from a deeper perception.

It is useful in this practice to remember that we are bipedal mammals, and we need story to survive, to live. There are three things that we need to make story. These are the path, the walk and the talk, or to put it another way the truth, the touch and the teaching. The earth is where truth is manifested from, and if we cut ourselves off from this flow of tactile stimulation then we have a great effect upon our talk, and our story. Our culture for the past ten thousand years has been practicing domestication of plants and animals and I include humans as animals. The walk of domination is seen in the land, the community and in our personal walk. Domination needs the practice of captivity to work, to insulate, cut off, confine.

When the wild man Buddha stepped out of his comfortable confinement, he stepped with his bare feet into the natural surface of the earth. The wild man Jesus, who was not a Christian, they say did the same.

These are all stories to remind us how to make story. We are animals that need the path, walk and talk, in order for our story to be balanced.

To me what the smart people call ego, the part of us that stores our experiences and thoughts, was an attempt to take over the story. For story means to store, to hold our walk and talk, and the flow of wisdom that comes into our walk and talk comes from the path.

I believe that your words are strong and your pain is great, and this is a good thing. For you are like a dam that is ready to connect and as you remove the blocks that stop you from healing, your organic mind will reflect what the earth wants to be known and spoken.

I do hope that you continue to expand your walk into deeper and wilder places. You will find the wisdom that comes from the most natural of the wild places to be powerful and waiting to enter into the core of your organic knowing.

I was walking with my brother and Sam the other day up at Lake Quinnalt, headed to one of the largest cedars in the world where we were going to dance and play and guide others up and show them how to step out of confinement, when a thought came to us about healing. That all healing is, is getting those things out of the way that block the natural growth, (touch), of the earth. And taking off the shoes, and stepping 'IN' the earth instead of "ON" it, opens the core memory of our species to the growth of the earth.

We hope that there will be a time that you can come and meet the rest of our tribe here in the Olympics. We will be doing work shops up here for most of the summer.
We are very interested in building tribe, base camps for those following their feet back into contact with the earth.

There is so much talk about what is wrong with the earth. What is wrong with our people? It is time to do the walk. It is time to step out of confinement and follow our feet back into our full and complete knowing.

May your naked soles go strong while touching the earth!

Mick and Sam"


Barefoot Mick and Sunshine Sam do not have a website. Please contact them via e-mail at: BarefootAcademy@aol.com

See my other blogs on Mick and Sam, barefoot walking, and reconnecting to Mother Earth through the soles of our feet:


"Warrior Woman of the Shield"  http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=57 
"Barefoot Walking: The Four Disciplines" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=27
"Deer Animal Totem": http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=20
"Walking Like a Deer" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=18
"Earth Shoes" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=19
"Barefoot Walkin' Blues" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=22
"Earth Heals Pain" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=4
"Barefoot Story" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=5
"Re-connecting with Earth" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=6
"Barefoot Practice" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=33

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