One obvious freedom is the freedom of the body - to be free in movement, to feel free in ourselves.
"...theory of character armour - strong emotion lodges in the body, causing a rigidity which constricts the tissues and cuts off the flow of streaming energy. Loosening the body's soft tissues, unwraps the traumatised, tightened body and exorcises the original negative feelings which froze the body into its rigid immobility, its character armour."
Wild animals are free in their bodies. Twisting, climbing, running. Lithe, flexible bodies feel freedom directly. Freedom is what I feel when I move freely. A feeling of ease in my body. No amount of philosophising about the 'nature of freedom' can substitute this direct experience of freedom.
For many civilised philosophers, their ruminations on freedom are more concerned with moral codes and social contracts. How to 'allow' individual freedom while guaranteeing state control of that individual. They mask it up in notions of social cohesion, but really what they're talking about is state control - how to keep production running smoothly, how to keep the slaves content in their slavery.
They also concern themselves with notions about how to be free from nature - a very odd concept indeed! Why would anyone want to be free from nature, from Life? What would Life be without Life?
These famous philosophers, the ones who imagined our culture into being, talk a lot about freedom in those contexts, but understand little about what freedom means to wild people. The civilised notion of freedom is freedom from religion, fuedal lords, the state, nature...it's about how to live under the yoke of civilisation (without changing it), how to cope with the meagre existence offered by civilised living. Some of them, like Rousseau, had a better understanding. He had a sense of the wild, a hint of freedom in his understanding - as had Nietzsche, the great hater of sheepdom and slavery.
But the average Western philosopher talks about freedom in the sterile way of academics, in the dry thoughts of authority. What about non-Western philosophers? Some Zen thinkers talk of freedom in terms of being free to be a part of nature, to experience the sacredness of everyday life, every day. This is the ultimate freedom. Not dependent on 'rights' handed out by masters, freedom is something we work for ourselves. Like that old RTS poem, "We are not going to ask, We are not going to demand. We're going to take, We're going to occupy."
Some radical Taoist philosophy embraces similar ideas of freedom. Freedom is a way of living in harmony with the rest of Life, in harmony with ourselves. You could argue that many European Church philosophers felt the same way, but apart from some heretical religious, the tradition has firmly been to think of freedom as freedom from the earth, not freedom to be a part of it. Religious thinkers are always reaching away from the earth, striving vainly to become apart from the web of life, to become a disentangled strand. It is so far from animist ideas of freedom as to seem to come from a different species of animal altogether.
Of course, there were always dissenters, even in the heart of civilised Europe. These beghards, beguines, Adamites and other Brethren of the Free Spirit kept the wild ideas alive even while they were burnt and persecuted for them. These individuals wandered, sharing their knowledge with others, writing pamphlets and books, trying to set up communities, encouraging civilised Europeans to shake off their armour and re-wild themselves.
The attempts usually end in disaster, as civilisation will allow no example of wildness to survive. But the results of our actions cannot be foreseen. We must free ourselves and re-wild ourselves no matter what the consequences, for it is in the doing that we become free. As Xanana Gusmao said, "to resist is to win." Freedom is the practice of being wild, of living as self-willed members of the community of life. It is this that will allow us to walk away from civilisation, to create worlds free from human superiority complexes, free from the tyranny of time, and urgency, and work. Free to explore the many worlds we're a part of.
How many more freedoms can you think of? And how many are indescribable?
It has to start with a sense of what we're missing and what we're capable of. With our wildness ignited, we can start to make a better world and leave this experiment in domesticated misery behind.