T wo years and 3,000 hours ago, I started to edit The Inner Tracker (see trailer) and immediately I sensed something ominous. Within the subjects of the film I was seeing myself and my closest relationships reflected back in ways that would send my life as I knew it into a full-on avalanche.
In 2002 a group of animal trackers was called together to discuss 'inner tracking.' It's one thing for trackers to evaluate animal track and sign out in the woods. It's another matter when those tracks are within themselves and their own relationships with one another.
And here I am, myself working in the nature education community, and I start to see the same manipulations in the group-worldview that I identify with. We’re protecting belief systems, we’re scared, we’re defensive, and we’ll do anything to avoid seeing our blindness. I thought I was doing my part to save the world, and now I find that this is what I’m part of; this is what’s going on underneath?