Reclaiming Your Inner Antenna: A Tracker’s Approach to Intuition

In the January 26, 2025 episode of Dear Grandchildren: A Tracker’s Tale, titled Intuition Training, Michael Douglas invites us to reexamine the very core of how we move through the world. But this isn’t a crash course in gut feelings or survival skills—it's a call to align our ancient wiring with modern life.

What if your intuition isn’t just a mystical whisper, but a biological intelligence shaped by generations of survival, story, and sensory refinement? This episode unpacks the body’s built-in guidance system—our “antenna array”—and how it speaks through feelings, instincts, and emotions long before logic catches up.

Douglas challenges the idea that we are only our thoughts. Instead, he guides us through the triad of the brain: the primal brain (reptilian core), the emotional limbic system, and the neocortex (the planner, the storyteller). Each has its place—but real resilience comes when these systems work in harmony. And that harmony? It starts with awareness.

From tracking birds to tuning into emotional cues, Intuition Training is an invitation to rewild our perception. It’s about reclaiming the emotional literacy many of us missed in childhood and remembering that survival—real, thriving survival—is not panic and fear, but an active dance with our environment. A practice. A joy.

We’re reminded that attitude is our most essential survival tool. And that learning to interpret emotions as messages—not threats—opens the door to clarity, creativity, and connection.

This episode is a deep well for anyone cultivating nature skills, bushcraft intuition, or simply trying to live more deliberately in a noisy world.

Listen to the full episode and begin crafting your intuition from the roots up.
👉 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dear-grandchildren-a-trackers-tale/id1786276274?i=1000685508864