EPISODE 319: Why Do You Hunt? with Adam Janke
Is there something in our DNA that is most self-actualized when we are hunting? And if so, what is it? I would argue that there are few activities on this planet that cause the human being to enter the \u201cpresent moment\u201d with more force and completeness than in that moment of truth just before we take an animal\u2019s life. And hunting is more than that--there\u2019s something spiritual in the harvest of an animal\u2019s flesh and bone so that we may live--and not only live but so that we may thrive. Discomfort; frozen hands and feet, sleeping on the ground, hiking countless miles, denying the negative voices in your head, schooling your adrenaline, overcoming doubts, honing weapons skills; feeling nature--reading animal behavior; predicting the wind--being both predator and prey at the same time; these things awaken ethereal human senses that all-too-often lay dormant in the heart of the modern man. If these things are true, one-dimensional statements like, \u201cI hunt for meat,\u201d do not even scratch the surface for why we do what we do.
Our message needs to evolve; because it\u2019s deep than what we\u2019ve been saying. Today, I visit with my friend, Adam Janke, from The Journal Of Mountain Hunting. It\u2019s always a pleasure to visit with Adam because he\u2019s continually challenging my ideas and preconceived notions. I hope this episode gets you thinking about why you hunt and how you share your story--because everybody has one and how it\u2019s told can make all the difference.