Perception

If you know someone in law enforcement, ask them about the reliability of witnesses in a crime. No doubt, while many of them genuinely like people, are protective of citizens, and honorable, I'll bet that they'll chuckle.

Witnesses are terrible about actually being observant. They see just fine, but their experiences, upbringing, beliefs systems, and attention all get in the way. They don't realize it, but they filter what they see, and this analysis gets immediately processed and placed into short-term memory. Even a brief amount of time will alter that memory even more.

Few witnesses are reliable. Some people however are more observant than others. Maybe they were directly looking at what was happening, and intentionally trying to remember (active observation). Maybe because of their occupation or interests, they are also actively observing the phenomena or event.
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In the Wild and while using primitive tribal skills, you need to change your perceptions and try to open them. A green horn cannot “see” well. They aren't used to it, they vaguely look around, kind of pressured by what's happening, and feel stressed even in a test situation with no real danger. Stress blocks perception.

What we see is very limited with our eyes. We see only that electromagnetic part of the spectrum that is between the book ends of infrared and ultraviolet. It's very narrow.
Lots of things are going on and we can't see it. We can however learn to perceive lots of things going on by using our whole body to see. I want you to learn to see with your heart, mind, and soul.

Let's say you need a certain plant. That plant grows in certain niches, but it can live elsewhere. When it grows, it changes as it ages. Knowing this, and what its seedlings, leaves, flowers, fruit, bark, smell, look like in your mind...when you set out, call out to it with your heart and soul. Send your mind's eye to it in the meadows or forest places it likes and try to home in on it.

Imagine that your whole body is awake and alive and in tune with that plant. Think of what you will create with it, much as the Source created the plant in order to make our lives beautiful. See the plant as a living being that has spent its life connected to the Earth, drinking from the Earth's blood, feeling the warmth from the Sun and helping it's photochemical process to create it's own energy source.

Now that you are in tune with it, imagine that you are one with the Green. Enter into the forests and meadows as another species who has come home. Where is that brother/sister plant? What does your sight say?

Before you come to it, you will have some awareness of it. Some “gut hunch” will tell you to go here or look there. Maybe that is nothing mystical, just common sense and science. Some people will say that you are simply reading tiny signs from your experiences in the Wild. I personally doubt that. I believe that there are few things that are more mystical than this.

The Source made us to be at one with the Garden of Eden. When we enter the Green, we return to Nature. If you think like a city dweller, and resist the call, then you will have a harder time hunting and gathering.

Likewise, when we seek an animal for the hunt or to trap, we will do the same thing. We honor the animal for its life. It is sacrificing for us in the natural cycle. It is no trophy, no meat, instead it is Life giving Life to sustain us. It is long lasting tools from its body to keep us alive. This is sacred.

Feel the path. Where is the Earth tender? Where are her bones? Is the soil rich, clay, loose, rocky, muck, sandy, or dangerous?

Feel the wind sighing. What direction does it come from? Where is it going? What scents waft upon it?

Hear all of the sounds at once in harmony. Tease out certain voices just as you do when tuning in to one instrument in an orchestra.

When we enter the Green and work with our tribe, they too should be one with the Green. Try to perceive them. Sense them in the woods walking. Try to feel their presence and awareness. Later as you return to your dwelling, let the Green stay. Continue to see your tribe. You are all connected. If you learn to live this way, you will treat them differently and respect them.

When you think this way, and really see your tribe members, then you will come to love them. Hurtful words that wound them, wound you. When they prosper and are life-filled, then you will perceive it. You will feel the energy of it.
If you work at it, then you all will feel connected.

Something palpable will happen. When working as a team in the forests, then you will “know” that they are in sync with you. Sometimes an eerie and wonderful connection will occur. Chances are a deep communion with the Source (God) will happen.

You may feel stunned by the epiphany.

When someone who is not your tribe is around, you will feel disturbed. You will sense something has changed. If they are not connected to the Green, then you will notice the disturbance is greater.

This is true perception and sight.