When moving through the world at 80km/h on a motorcycle, there is the simultaneous experience of witnessing so much of the goings on, and yet feeling like you are moving through an endless stream of missed opportunities. This pretty much sums up travel in India, as I cruise through the tapestry of country life that … Continue reading Transmission 11 – Jai Hanuman!
Author: :aferalspirit:
braydon has lived a nomadic lifestyle for the past seven years. Following the journeyman tradition of the Germanic heritage, and traveling with other gypsies in far flung meccas all over the world. Learned from several teachers of tradition, permaculture, and spirituality, lived amongst the Zapatistas, the Lacondon Indians, Berber and the Mayans. Worked alongside Native Americans and farmed and explored in Norway and Sweden. He has written six books on topics ranging from shamanism, psychedelic plants, mythology, cosmology, philosophy, heathen tradition, health and fitness, and spirituality. He has lived in seventeen countries, and supports himself through reforestation, homesteading, permaculture, stewardship, and communal/neo-tribal living. He is now settled on a plot of land in the Appalachian mountain range of New Brunswick while moving towards a full time forager gatherer off grid lifestyle.
To co-exist with my other life projects, these writings take a direction towards special concepts, more often than not, involving nature, dreams, lucid experience, homesteading, handmade art, prose, exploration, runic wisdom and inspirations but not limited to a carved niche. If you feel like we may resonate, write to me, and I'll write you back, that's how it works.
This blog is about all things my heart drives me towards. I aspire to address humankind’s longing for adventure and our relationship with nature. Re-instigating an esoteric way of living, to build new mutual relationships between us and the planet, plants and people. It is complete animism and wild worship in the written contexts. And a fusion of high caliber travel literature with rusticated homestead diaries, from inside the wooden walls.
Inspired by intense ritual experiences, hikes, shamanism, rewilding, plants, fauna, art, dreams, travel, passion, folk culture and music. I seek to portray a pure seeded interest in deep ecology and a rightful way of being with the world, with my heart and love rooted in place, from source are the words you read.
This blog is the transmitter, which conveys the power and intensity of excursions into the primal wilds, contrasted with the evolving country lifestyle hand crafted in a forest cabin where I dwell when not traveling. The artwork and photography utilized is a result of fusion states between the spiritual and the temporal, while all experiences are real, and expressed through poetic medium of story telling.
I'm currently investing spirit into a six month trip to the African continent, to meet the beautiful souls that live there, hunt & gather in wild places, farm in the old ways, and sit by the fires of the first people
Transmission 10 – Small Miracles and Long Hauls
The 257 km that pour out of Munnar are growing in a perpetual blanket of lush jungle and bathed in the unique light of valleys. Banana plantations fringe the roadsides and we ride through pockets of cool air and on past rushing falls. The staggering beauty of the ride feels dangerous in itself as I … Continue reading Transmission 10 – Small Miracles and Long Hauls
Transmission 9 – Hills of Tea & Cardamom
Giving the bike a final look over and tightening the saddles, I tacked up for another 170km to the hills of Munnar. This time I had rolled the odometer over thrice, and was settling into a groove. Kerala was where I would lay my head tonight, between here and there were the plains of Palani … Continue reading Transmission 9 – Hills of Tea & Cardamom
Transmission 8 – Spice Valley
The early dark hours of the next leg of my journey found me monsooned in the camp while rain pattered on the steel roof, and I laughed at my predicament. I lumbered with little sleep after a late night celebrating at Dharma Swasti with three women I had met in Auroville from Switzerland, Sweden and … Continue reading Transmission 8 – Spice Valley
Transmission 7 – Convoys, Carved Temples and Pujas
The season is Pongal, in the month of Thai, and while the local Indians are getting high on sugarcane and the sweet porridge that borrows its name from the harvest festival, I finish my karmic service at the food forest, and prepare myself for the next leg of this great two wheeler journey through India. … Continue reading Transmission 7 – Convoys, Carved Temples and Pujas
Transmission 6 – Karma Fields Ride Through
The red dirt on my feet and grit under my fingernails brought me swiftly into the agricultural life of southern India. Still in Auroville in the fertile green belt, my rapport with the Tamil workers of Kuilapalayam and Bommapalayam became something akin to friendship. The peasants of this state labored in these flatlands since the … Continue reading Transmission 6 – Karma Fields Ride Through
Transmission 5 – Auroville: The Dream
Things began to get very real about the point that I reached Auroville. Surrounded by the sprawling urban life of Pondicherry or ‘Pondi’ for short, in the state of Tamil Nadu, Auroville sprouts outwards from a central meditation temple called the Matrimandir like a fractal. It is hear that other seekers have come, seeking unity … Continue reading Transmission 5 – Auroville: The Dream
Transmission 4 – The Karnataka Monkey Ride and Rest in Mysore
In my life, I've never encountered so many monkeys as I did on the roads through mountainous Karnataka. This brush with our simian ancestors was highly curious from the saddle of a motorcycle, but perhaps a usual sighting for them. The ride out of Gokarna through the uplands of the Sharavati wildlife sanctuary led me … Continue reading Transmission 4 – The Karnataka Monkey Ride and Rest in Mysore
Transmission 3 – Finding Gokarna and Offerings to Kali
In places of myth and magic, a seeker finds himself impressed upon by his surroundings, in such a way that the people, and the circumstances of his presence have a potent effect upon the storied reality that becomes his life. Methinks India is one of these places. Where the worker of will has to surrender … Continue reading Transmission 3 – Finding Gokarna and Offerings to Kali
Transmission 2 – Royal Enfields & The Goan Sun
....I parked my bike outside, feeling proud of the ride, but grateful for some rest. My muscles were hardened and sore, after enduring miles of the worst roads. The hostel was average, with half finished artwork on the walls, a cafe outside, and a kitchen for longer staying guests who wanted to cook their own … Continue reading Transmission 2 – Royal Enfields & The Goan Sun
the motorcycle mantras 