Saturday, April 30, 2016

Primitive Camouflage

Indigenous hunter-gatherers around the world have employed their environments for thousands of years for concealment and stealth - to hide from their prey, and to recon neighboring clans.



The principles of primitive camouflage enable the practitioner to dwell within layers of invisibility by becoming cryptic and mimicking his or her surroundings by matching shapes, colors, textures, and patterns, and thus vanishing into the landscape. You want to create and become Baseline by changing your physical appearance with materials found in your area, coupled with concealing your energy waves - essentially preventing yourself from casting any alarmwaves, and finally, moving slowly and carefully enough to avoid detection.

"Deadspace" is the key, the gateway to Invisibility, conforming to and moving in shadow, with the landscape. It's important to know that Understanding Baseline is Awareness, Blending with Baseline is Camouflage, and finally Manipulating Baseline is Invisibility.
The four aspects of Invisibility to be mindful of are: Scent, Sight, Sound and Speed. De-scenting is accomplished first by masking any body odor by washing with a tea made with native plants (non-toxic, of course), then smudging with smoke from a campfire, then rubbing down with the crushed leaves from the tea. Chewing fir or pine needles will cover breath-scent. Also, paleo diet will mask your scent from the inside-out. Then, the next step is to strip down and cover any areas of the body that may reflect light and cause shine, such as your forehead, the bridge of your nose, etc. with crushed charcoal from your fire, before covering your entire body with a thick layer of mud! Everything gets covered! Apply mud even to the edge of your eyelids, around your mouth, in your ears...everything gets covered with mud! Then, throw debris from the ground all over you allowing it to stick to the mud, close to the body. Fir needles, moss, lichens, grass. Whatever you can find that would be found in the spot that you have chosen to camo into. You will want to recon the area from a distance beforehand.



In the colder climates and seasons, you can make custom camo clothing of your own by taking an old set of clothes and working some magic with camouflage spray-paint (air out for a time so they don't hold the smell), or clothing paints from any decent craft shop. Be artistic and use dappling and highlights on top of drab earthtones.
Then, sink and fade into the landscape. Be "aggressively" patient. Breathe deep and steady. When you need to move...blend and flow - allow the landscape to dictate your route and pace. Once on the ground, rather than moving with elbows and knees up and down, you can crawl with a rectilinear motion like an inchworm, keeping your profile low, hugging the ground, infinitely slow. Slow enough, that in time, with practice, you'll be able to stalk wildlife close enough to touch!!
Be safe and have fun!


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