Response to outside reading “Wilderness Spirituality” by Michael Comins/ by Mikey Famiglietti

“Mindfulness is the great gift of wilderness” (Comins).

In wilderness we notice all the cycles, masked by civilization, that we as God’s creatures are bound to. In wilderness and through solitude, we can transcend our rational mind and focus our perception on the present. We can enter a path that is beyond ego, more oriented about our place in the big scheme of things. We enter a meditative state, clearing and calming the mind, eliminating the notion of getting lost in the “to do” list for the day that we experience daily in civilized life. Wilderness allows us to live in the moment and that is very foreign experience for people blinded by civilization.