Naked and Afraid: Discovery Channel series

I was watching some of these episodes with my daughter's boyfriend in Portland. It reminded me of many people I knew in the 1960s that were into this way of thinking that one could function in various places completely naked. So, this wasn't a new concept for me. I have met people for example, that climbed Mt. Shasta to the top not naked but in shorts and a T-shirt and barefoot.

For me, I wasn't into being completely naked that wasn't my thing, especially after a friend of mine burnt his male parts by swimming out onto a raft in the middle of a lake and falling asleep like that in full sun. His male parts had an awful time of it. So, after seeing what happened to my friend and all his pain just from falling asleep naked for a few hours on his back on a raft in the middle of a mountain lake being naked in the sun didn't seem like a very good idea. Also, you are very vulnerable so most smart people want to protect their parts from branches scratching them as they walk by. Also, your feet (if you haven't toughened them up surfing and walking on beaches a lot or just walking barefoot on trails) can crack or get wounds or step on briars or cactus spines or just bare roots that you can stub your toes on or worse. So, it is easy to injure your parts or your feet in various kinds of country you might encounter.

However, one of the best outdoor experiences as far as becoming empowered by it was for me to not eat or drink anything including water for 4 days and nights in a bear wallow on the south fork of the Trinity river in Northern California. This turned out to be one of the most empowering, amazing and surprising experiences I have ever had. But, unless you are psychologically balanced and very healthy to begin with likely you shouldn't attempt something like this because no water and no food is really going to alter to an extreme degree all your senses, especially at night when you kind of go into a sensory deprivation experience where I at one point became a 50 to 100 foot tall Golden Dragon. This also was one of the most empowering and simultaneously terrifying experiences I have ever had.

So, if you aren't mature enough both in the wilds and spiritually speaking you might not survive doing something like this if it is just on a lark.

So, as I watched these people who were naked in places like an Island off of Panama and Borneo try to survive in extremely wild places, I sort of thought what physical and psychological risks they were taking. So, I was to some degree reassured when most all of them are survival instructors here in the U.S. Because at least then they knew more what they were getting into doing this with nothing but literally a machete (which one girl almost took her finger off with) and goggles to spear fish with.
(This guy hadn't been in the open ocean with sharks before and sort of freaked out.) My general rule always was "If the shark is bigger than me I'm getting out". But everyone has their own limits on any given day.

Some sharks aren't safe to be around at any size "Like Great White Sharks" and others like Nurse sharks might not attack you unless you were attacking them. It just depends upon the nature of the sharks and what they have been experiencing lately. If a shark is really hungry and you are bleeding from any place on your body, no matter the breed of shark get out of the water.

1. Naked and Afraid : Discovery Channel

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   Apr 29, 2013

   Each week on Naked & Afraid, a new pair of strangers must learn to survive together for 21 days with no ...
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   Naked and Afraid: The Jungle Curse : Discovery Channel

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   Watch Naked and Afraid's first episode, The Jungle Curse, as the contestants ...
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   Naked & Afraid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   Naked & Afraid is an American reality television series that airs on the Discovery Channel and premiered on June 23, 2013. Each episode chronicles the lives of ...