The Limits of Survivalism

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The trouble with survivalism is that it is almost purely materialist and selfish in nature. I know that many survivalists portend to be Christians, but I'm talking about the goals of survivalism as an ethos, as opposed to the goals of religion. Taken to its logical endpoint, survivalism means that I WILL KILL YOU TO PRESERVE MY OWN LIFE. The end.

And therein lies the rub.

BECAUSE, that is a destructive means to achieve my own survival. What is missing is a higher ethos, that of brotherhood and self-sacrifice and genuine love for other human beings. These things supersede the physical. They supersede material wants, even needs. They bring people together, they form lasting community. They assist with our spiritual evolution. And they reduce selfishness.

We must have community in order to survive, and we must have sustainability in order to survive. Survivalism has traditionally relied on weaponry and individualism instead of on community, and on hording instead of producing. I am not saying that weapons and stored supplies should not be part of the hippie survivalist regimen, BUT, they should be tempered with an honest and heart-felt attempt at creating community and viable food gardens.

As this century progresses, and the current trends -- both constructive and destructive -- all reach their logical endpoints, each of us will need to make choices again and again regarding our own inner alignment. Are we on the side of creation, or destruction? Each time we reach a new crossroads, we will need to make the choice and take the road offered. That involves deciding what is most important and dear to oneself.

Me, I will choose the side of creation. For me, the spiritual outweighs the material. It leads to the evolution of my spirit, which has lived human lives before and will live them again. But also, I believe that it can lead to a more fulfilling life, and as mentioned above, to real, sustainable human community that is based on sharing, caring and mutual love.

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Nothing Left to Poop

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I like to think outside the box, and I'm pretty sure it's time we re-assessed the concept of dieting. What I propose is a book called Nothing Left to Poop, which examines dieting from the rear end, so-to-speak. Instead of counting the calories that go into our open upper orifice, this book studies the size, content and frequency of our poop. It correlates poop and weight-loss. Because, I'll tell you, I've been dieting for the last week, and I've noticed that I'm simply pooping less. I mean, I still poop once a day, but I poop LESS, once a day. My theory is that if I perfect my diet to a T, I will have virtually nothing left to poop, because my body will absorb almost all the nutrition I put into it. A bit of roughage is all that will remain in my ejectum. So, yeah. Maybe I will go eat a little something now. Feeling light-headed, don't you know!

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Happy New Year 2012

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OK. It's 2012. We have almost a year left until the world goes down in flaming heaps of plastic shit on the next Winter Solstice ;-). Some thoughts:

•This blog has focused way, way too much on weapons. It's time to bring in some higher love, so to speak. Guns can protect us and feed us and they serve that pragmatic purpose, but they can also easily bring about the end of the American social order thru wanton violence. We need to remember that community is what will ultimately save us. It is foreseen that there will come a day when there are so few people left in the world that people will greet all travelers with open arms, without any head trips at all. We need to re-connect with our own humanity, to make it thru the coming times.

I recently traveled to the Hopi Mesas and the Taos Pueblo. Sadly, last year the last 5 remaining families moved away from the single surviving strictly old-school village on Second Mesa. This means that that village is now occupied only for sacred rituals. I was also told by a local that the new generation of Hopi dancers is not as devoted as their forebears, that they have succumbed to the seductions of the modern world and do not have their hearts in the sacred rituals. This is bad news for the rest of us, because the Hopi are the Keepers of the Earth, and as their sacred rituals die, so does mankind and the planet.

On a more positive note, the Taos Pueblo continues on as it has for millennia, with its inhabitants still living the pure life on their sacred land. They hunt in their pristine ancestral land and still drink from the stream that flows directly thru their village. This is good, good news. I talked directly with Indians who have spent their entire lives on the Pueblo, living the traditional life. They are good, friendly people. Go visit them and talk to them. They reminded me of the old hippies I used to see. Then I realized that those old hippies were modeling themselves on these same Indians. The hippies are now gone, but the Indians remain.

I came away from these Native communities with this thought: The world is in a cycle of unprecedented change, and ancient ways and cultures are indeed vanishing all over the earth, never to return. These native cultures are usually bound in secret earth-based rituals which were designed to preserve their cultures, and by keeping those rituals secret as they die, these cultures are extinguishing themselves completely. I have resisted accepting that technology is part of the future, but now I believe that it will remain part of human culture for the time being, and I embrace it. My thoughts are generally in line with what Penny Kelly expressed in ROBES, when she said that the future surviving "Family" communities of the late 21st & 22nd Century will in fact use high technology (if humanity succeeds in avoiding total collapse and a new Dark Age). That does indeed seem to be the route we are on.

Lastly, I spoke with a woman in Santa Fe who is part of the burgeoning local/organic food movement. She and a friend are getting into sacred bee shamanism, and starting a home-based honey business. They will be adding 10 new hives this year alone. Also, they grew so much food last year that they had to give it away. All this on 2 1-acre plots. Yay! Yay, yay, yay! This is what will save us: Locally grown food and home-based businesses. So, join the trend and choose your alliance. Become a Creator, and get back to your sustainable, earth-based roots.

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the bugout land at the end of the rainbow has been sold & the homestead is no more.

moving on 2 the next adventure.
new year

gotta get shit straight & right
before TSHTF

i keep tryna say & no one listens
we R all gonna die
each of us dies
& it's all gone when we do
the only thing we take with us is
WHO WE ARE

we all gonna die 1 day
oughta get the soul 2gether
b4 it's 2 L8.

find the straight line

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New Urban Survivalist Blog

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Check out the VERY cool new urban survival blog called SHTF School. It's written by a Bosnian named Selco who survived 3 years of civil war in 92-95. He went thru the wringer head first, but managed to come out the other side intact. His insights into surviving anarchy are very, very valuable. Keep in mind, though, that the United States is WAY more commercialized, WAY more armed to the teeth, WAY more populated, and WAY more dependent on energy and transportation for daily survival than Bosnia ever was, PLUS the United States is FILLED with drug addicts, mentally ill people, and mall rats who have no survival skills whatsoever and have never had any meaningful connection to the land, society or any community.

I predict that the horrors Selco describes would be ten-fold if TSHTF in the United States. We would probably blow the entire country to pieces fighting each other for food & gasoline & guns & ammo, then eat each other once we emptied the houses and Safeways of food. Very few people would actually garden or hunt, since nobody knows how to survive any more. Survival would probably be one long night-run thru the combat zone, a desperate bid to outlast everyone else as starvation impinged from all sides.

G'night!

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NDE Vision of the future of the United States

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On October 22, 1976, Elane Durham had a near-death experience in which she experienced the following vision:

A Changed North America

As the angel pointed in front of me a wide view of land and water opened up, so that at first I thought I was seeing two countries. Instantly it was made known to me that I as looking at a vastly changed portion of North America, which was completely divided by a large body of water, and which had lost a large part of both eastern and western shorelines. As I saw this I was given a total understanding of the natural and man-made disasters that would need to occur to make these changes, and I was informed that these might or might not come to pass according to our choices as a people -- according to my choices as an individual.

Great Destruction

In this scenario icebergs and polar icecaps were melting. Earthquakes had occurred and there had been hurricanes and fierce storms -- the whole country had been ravaged by these things. I could also see massive fires burning here and there -- not so much the flames as the smoke that was ascending toward me -- as huge areas of the country seemed to be being burned. There were also explosions in some areas, sort of like sheet lightning in a dark sky, that were doing great damage.

Where Washington and Oregon had been there were mostly islands, the water coming inland over most of California and Arizona and parts of Utah and Nevada. Yet there were also islands there, massive ones, so it wasn't like it was all ocean....

On the East Coast I saw that much of the eastern seaboard was gone, though the water did not come so far inland as it did on the West Coast. I was also aware that the southern half of Florida was under water.

I don't remember seeing anything like Central America or South America, for water surrounded what I was seeing, and I didn't really focus on what was beyond that water. Yet at the same time, I had the understanding that the waters had risen around the entire Earth, and that everything had changed to one degree or another.

Two Separate Countries

The area of water in the middle of . . . the United States was massive, and was widest or most extensive in the north. There were no Great Lakes as I had known them, for all of them had come together into this huge sea that extended northeastward into the ocean. The inland sea also extended southward, filling most of the Mississippi an Missouri River valleys and widening by many, many miles the Mississippi River where it flows into what we know as the Gulf of Mexico. This sea was so vast that I knew it could not be bridged, and so in essence the United States had become as two separate countries.

A New Seat of Power

I was also aware that the seat of power, or patriotism, had moved away from Washington, D.C. There was so much turmoil and warfare on the eastern side of this body of water that no authority really existed there. I understood then that in the scenario I was being shown, our country had come to the very edge of destruction -- to the brink of losing everything, because myself and hosts of others like me had chosen to seek worldly things rather than loving or serving others.

Additionally, we had refused to care for our precious natural resources. Because of our greed and selfishness our national government had lost most of its power, and could no longer completely govern or control. National laws were ignored, and there was no true nationwide governmental infrastructure left. What government there was seemed to be territorial, sort of like large tribes or groups of people who had banded together.

And I saw that because of the ramifications of these day-to-day choices the people, especially on the eastern side of this new body of water, lived in great danger and fear. There was tremendous anarchy and crime -- sort of like the Los Angeles riots spread nationwide. And the normal citizens kept themselves hidden away from all this, barricading themselves into their homes or wherever they had gathered together for security. many children didn't go to school, commerce as we know it had pretty much ceased, many people were starving to death, there was terrible violence from people who seemed like roving gangs -- it was just an awful scene of confusion and turmoil.

Yet in this scenario there was less of that turmoil on the western portion of our country. There was even a certain amount of prosperity, and it was there that I could see the new seat of power, if that is what it could be called. This area, or city or whatever, while on the eastern edge or shore line of the western portion of land, was located in almost the exact center of the combination of both halves of the country. Later when I looked at a map of the United States, I realized that it would have been very near present-day Kansas City.

From this location I could see power radiating outward, almost like light flowing out to strengthen and stabilize other areas. This power was what I called patriotism or strong moral character or spirituality -- a true spiritual force that was the only real governing power over the whole land. This is why I called that area the seat of power.

But I must state this power was totally spiritual -- a true power of spirit such as the angel beside me was exhibiting, or that I had felt emanating from Christ while I had been in His presence.

The Native Americans

I also sensed that some of the Indians -- the Native Americans -- were partially responsible for the peacefulness that was on the western side of this water. Some of these Native American peoples had a knowledge of how to live from the land, or how to be in harmony with it so it would bring forth in abundance according to their needs. They were teaching this spiritual knowledge to the people around them, and all the people were starting to learn to live in harmony with each other. At the same time they were beginning again to prosper by becoming harmonious with nature, or the natural elements upon which they depended.

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The above material was copied directly from Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife.

The Prophecies of Meher Baba

It's probably not a good idea for me to say much about Meher Baba. He was a 20th Century mystic from India who claimed to be the Avatar of the Age (that is, God in human form). I personally believe that He was who He said He was, primarily because of two traits He possessed: 1) He suffered voluntarily (and greatly), and 2) He did not sugar-coat reality. In my limited experience, these are two traits that virtually no holy man, or human, possesses. Reality is simply too painful for the vast majority of people, no matter how enlightened or well-intentioned, to meet head-on. That said, to mis-represent the Avatar is to bring about extreme karmic consequences - thus my reluctance to say much about Him. In spite of this, I recently went online to see if Baba discussed apocalypse, and found some notable quotes, which I have copied below.

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It seems that every personal ego has to come up to the surface and function, before it can be destroyed, so the national ego, the religious ego, etc., must undergo, in the same way, the same process of destruction. Love can then flow in to replace them. After the war, Baba told us this cleansing had by no means been fully accomplished, and that there was a choice of two ways to accomplish the rest.

One would be a third and devastating world war, and the other way would be through small wars, earthquakes, general physical upheaval, starvation for some groups, and religious groups vying with each other, their adherents killing each other to prove that their way was the only way to God.

Baba then looked around the group, and asked which we thought was the better way. For once unanimous, we said, ‘The second way.’ He made no indication as to the direction in which humanity would be swept, but certainly most of the things that he mentioned as the second way have already happened and are still, in many parts of the world, continuing to cause a general upheaval.

[1945?, India]

—Source: Margaret Craske, The Dance of Love, pp. 153-154

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“One day in the early forties, Baba called all of us and asked us ‘What will happen to this world? I’ll give you five minutes to narrate the worst scenario.’

“Each of us described the horror that the world would experience. After listening to all of us, he said,

“‘This is not even one percent of what will happen. The entire world will cry out. Food will not be available, and people will eat the cloth off their backs.

“‘I will give those who are mine a small amount to eat, but what will happen to the rest?’

“On another day, Baba told us, ‘I will close all the doors very slowly. Only then will suffocated humanity become conscious of fresh air.’

—Source: Mansari Desai, Glow International, February 1997, p. 9

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I spoke to Baba about someone who, in order to protect his family and himself from destruction foretold by Baba, wanted to establish a home way up in the mountains, and stock it with the necessary food.

Baba interrupted me and said, “No place will be safe, not even the top of the Himalayas. Only by the grace of God can one be saved.”

So I asked Baba if this destruction would be a man-made or a natural one.

Then Baba answered, “It will be both.”

[1950s]

—Source: Fred Winterfeldt, in The Awakener Magazine, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 40, http://www.theawakenermagazine.org

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