Survival Essentials - Water Questing - Filtration

In this episode of Conversations with a Shaman. 
We get into episode twenty-eight of Survival Essentials. 
Section five - Water Questing. Always stay hydrated and aware. 
Filtration. What can I use to filter water?

To search and learn the important ways of filtration of water in the Raw Wilderness is crucial and highly important. I believe the more you learn in the Raw Wilderness, the more you learn in the Modern Wilderness. How we understand the importance of filtering out the negative, and bring the positive that we all seek is of highest importance. Always and forever purify yourself.  

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SPEAKER_00 0:13

Welcome to Inside the Raven's Eye. I'm your host, Alan Mitchell. My medicine name is Raven Spirit. This podcast is partnered with Earth and Spirit Medicine, owned and operated by Winfield Ivers. His medicine name is Coyote Thunderhawk. He is a shaman here in the state of Utah, so make sure to visit Earth and Spirit Medicine.com. In this episode of Conversations with a Shaman, we get into episode 28 of Survival Essentials, Water Questing. Always stay hydrated and aware. Filtration. What can I use to filter water? This and so much more in this episode of Inside the Raven's Eye. Thanks for listening and enjoy. Alright, here we are. Another episode, episode 28 of section five for survival essentials, and this is water questing. Filtration. And yes, this is survival essentials. So and I was thinking, I was like, yeah, I know very I would say very little about filtration. I've boiled my water out in the wilderness, done that, kind of done as I just want to see how it is, how it tastes, make some plant medicine too, and make some tea out of this, and then I know so for me, very little about all the possibilities of filtration. But then I started to think about, as I kind of often do in these episodes, I was like, how do I filter everyday life? What is my filtration process? What am I doing when I get home from work when maybe it's a rough day and I just don't like the energy? What am I doing to filter out the negative and bring about the good that I want, that I strive for? And for me, I spoke to you about implementing more of my herbs, my workouts, my my sauna. Thank you, mom. You know, all these things that I've said, okay, I have all these things right in front of me. These are a good way to filter my overall health and my happiness, my well-being, my meditation time. So to me, I connected a lot more to the area of everyday life, of filtering. But there's no difference than when you're trying to filter that dirty water into something pure out in the raw wilderness. So for me, I kind of had that uh a little bit more connection, I guess, to the more modern wilderness of filtration than than it is in that raw essence. But with saying that, I'll hand it over to you.

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Alright, thanks. Yeah. Water. I didn't know I thought so much about water until as of recent. I'm always considering water. I've always just had some sort of connection that maybe I wasn't aware of the depth of that connection, perhaps. I knew I liked playing in the water, loved seeing waterfalls, rain, just swimming in swimming pools and gosh, you know, just all the time playing in water, having a good time, boating, fishing, all the things like that outside in a way, or whatever that way of my memories as far as just water. And I've always enjoyed drinking water. I remember I just, if I was thirsty and I was out playing around when I was a kid, I just could stop at any of the houses. I didn't even know who lived at some of these houses, but I'd go turn on their water and get a drink because I was thirsty. So I just, if they had a hose hooked up or whatever, if the tap you could come out of the house that way, you could get a drink. So it was always this place where I found myself. Oh my gosh, I'm so thirsty. And there's something really cool about that, like just going on through life every day actively, and then coming to something where it's like, oh my gosh, I'm so thirsty. So when I feel like that, it's not like I forgot about water, it's that my body gives me a signal. So just as I took a little sip right there, it's very gratifying, it's lubricating, if you will, you know, it seems to absorb well into our bodies, and and our bodies will say, Hey, you're thirsty, and we'll be like, Oh gosh, I'm so thirsty. Now there's a difference of getting that signal and knowing you can run to the holes or the tap or the neighbor's holes, whatever, as a kid, whatever you just drink, you know. Then there's that part where I've been out in the wilderness, whether with youth groups or different things, and and it's like, wow, I'm thirsty, and we're out of water temporarily. It's always been temporarily. I've never ran out of water, obviously, because I'd be dead if so. However, the body sends the signals. So when I've been out there in the wilderness, it's hot, or even in the midst of eight below zero winters, you know, where the washes freeze. And the there's an air contraption, like the ice will freeze in these washes, and you bust that ice, and there's like space between there and the earth, and there's like not even any water running through. So, how does that ice freeze a layer across that's like a crust, even and there's moisture in there in those washes out there? But being thirsty, whether in the winter or whether in the summer, we we get the signals. Now, yeah, you want that really good refreshing water when it's so hot and everything, you want to get in, and you know, when we when we get in water, our body, the first thing that contacts is our skin. Our body has a way of absorbing moisture through our pores. Our skin can absorb anything out there through those pores. But we're speaking about that water. So the skin is that first place of filtration. Now, when we drink it, it all starts in the mouth there, that that activating the salivary glands and then starting this filtration process through our bodies. And it goes throughout everywhere. Every part of our body utilizes this moisture. So whether it's winter or whether it's summer, whatever the climate is, we need water. Sometimes it's frozen and we don't understand what that space is between. I couldn't tell you. Somebody that knows physics, I'm sure, could, but I just know we would go gather those little layers of ice, and it takes a long time to melt down those enough layers of those ice to get one cup of water. And to do it without burning the ice over the fire and getting a flavor in the water. So, what are we trying to filter out, you know, in a way, uh the burnt flavor, if you will, by trying to melt the ice very slowly in a warm cup versus just throwing it in the flames, and then that ice will singe and you will taste that burnt in your water. So, filtration out in the wilderness, well, there's a lot of different places that water will run and collect, and sometimes even disappear right in the earth and come out somewhere else in some of these springs that I've come across and seen. So when we think about all those layers of the earth, that water, and then it comes out, it's like filtered, it's coming straight out when you see it come out of the spring, you know, like that. And we can drink that pure water right there, and it's pure purest essence. Once it starts to go down the creek bed or the wash or whatever it might be, going to perhaps a larger stream bed, a larger to a river, maybe, and these tributaries that get to the main water channels, and then those main water channels they end up out in our ocean, and there's a transference, if you will, of what the water started off as and what it becomes, and this cycle, and so we kind of are like this Mother Earth, if you will, our bodies we absorb this water, what you know, and and we're able to understand our need for water, but we're usually never put in a position that we can really truly appreciate water as the life-giving substance. So, water to me is this life-giving substance, and when I can locate it, well, I've located a lot of different places of water, some of them not as palatable, tasty as others. Trying to filter out flavor, trying to filter out debris particles. There's a psychology, sometimes you can have a really good pure water, but if there's things in it, sometimes people in their home will hold up their glass and they'll say, What are all those particles in my water? Hmm. But I'm talking about like dirt and other little microbes and things, you know. So, grass, for example, maybe, you know, you can gather all this grass, and you can make you a little wooden platform of crisscrossing sticks, and you can put this grass over it. So that's like a filtration process. So you pour the water into that grass, say, and then those sticks support that grass from moving, and that grass will gather the majority of the debris that psychologically you do not like to look at because it is like, oh, I don't want to put that in my body. But we often put things in our body without question. So there have been many times when, in the need of water, I overlook the debris and drink. Now, when it comes to purifying and conserving, which we'll we'll get into in these other episodes, there's just a process of working with water, and I work with this water every day. Every day. So I have my garden, my dog drinks water, you know, we shower, we do dishes, we do laundry, you know, sprinkler systems, you know, uh, and then of course, cooking, drinking, are you know, for ourselves and the consumption of the water. And I was at the store yesterday morning, and I was filling up my water bottles at the water systems they have at some of these grocery stores. So I drink this bottle, filtrated purified water that I have come to trust at this location where I go, and I can see the dates they have it serviced and everything like that. You know, yeah, they have to leave these tags. But I I like this location, I like the water. Now, people test and do all these muscle testings and things like this nowadays about water. Me, I'm pretty simple. You know, so I go get this water at the store, fill up my water containers to bring them back home, and I'm going up to the check stand, and I come across the gentleman. And it's interesting. First thing I noticed was I'm gonna run into him because he's turning the corner and I'm beelining down the aisle. So I hurry and swerve right and put on the brakes and say, Oh hey, come on, you come on ahead. Because to me, he's probably older than me. But see, I'm funny that way when I look at people and I don't know how old they are, but I don't feel old anyway. I say to this guy, come on, come on ahead. And I noticed that he's got a full leg, uh artificial leg device. Man, this guy's walking so good, he looks good, and he was just so happy. He's like, water drinker, huh? I said, Yeah, I'm a water drinker. He said, I think we all are. But he says, Well, you don't like the tap water? I said, Oh, I'm in Spanish fork. He says, Oh, I live here in Salem. I love Salem water. I said, I love Salem water, I love the Mapleton water too. And I don't mind the Spanish work water, but I just like to get my water like this. And he said, he he all of a sudden took his hand and he tapped me on the belly. And he says, Well, that's why you look so good. That's why you're doing so good in life, because you drink that good water. I just said, Oh, thanks. I needed that. He says, You look great. I said, Thanks. So, what does water do? Well, that kind of built a relationship. Then I'm going out because I got a couple of other things, and I'm getting ready to drive out of the parking lot, and I see that same guy and he's waving, and I see another woman at the other side of the parking lot, and she's waving, and they're communicating, and this gentleman has a smile on his face. I don't know if their conversation or their waving had anything to do with water, mine did, but what was the most beautiful, profound thing about that with me that will stick in my mind forever, is this gentleman's ability to personify himself with such ease, like water, see? It just goes. But he was so happy, he didn't seem grumpy about his situation whatsoever. In fact, he wouldn't even have noticed if he had because he had shorts on. Just a happy, positive person that's sharing an energy of love and light. That's like a life-giving substance, too, you know. We need to be nurtured with love. It's not just the water, the water is a life-giving substance, but the the nurturing has to do somehow with some connective love. So, when we love our water, love is a powerful force. I believe love can purify water. I've drank a lot of water out in the wilderness, never to have ever received any type of what one might call giardia. Now, I've worked with people that have had giardia, and I've used my plant medicines to heal this giardia. So, yes, there are ways to heal. And so, as I have drank from all these water sources, my mantra has always been, thank you. I have a sense of relief in this drinking of, I have such a state of gratitude. There's only been a couple of times that I've turned down the drinking water, and it was pretty bad. So I had to go find other water. And I had to remember where this water pocket was that had fresh rain water. And I had my two little brothers with me, and we were out in the middle of the desert. We've been hiking around. And see, when you start getting dehydration and you start getting, you know, the heat exhaustion and hyperthermia and you know other things start to kick in. So I'm really wanting to navigate well with my brothers because I knew this water pocket existed in this particular wash. And I passed it early on, and I knew it after a while, but it was such a nice. Stay in a nice hike, and even though we were getting thirsty, I can go a long time without water. We did find a big water hole. And so I just went up to it and I was just so soft. And even though we weren't going to drink it, I was just being so soft. And see, one brother was like maybe 14, and the other was like nine. And so I'm getting into this water all slow with this state of gratitude and respect. And then here comes my youngest brother, and he's a yippie kaye, and it jumped up in the air and lands in that water hole and it splashed everywhere and changed my perspective to that place of love and happiness and the gestures of joy. And we did talk about the gratitude, but the gratitude was deeper in him that day than it was in me, I realized. Oh, he was excited to get in that water. And our skin. We just sat in that water neck deep, talking as brothers. And then we went down. And even though we had purified some of that water with military purification tablets, it was nasty. Couldn't filter out that flavor. Mineral water sometimes is hard. It's hard to pallate. It's hard to want to drink it. Psychology, see. It was pure. We could drink it without the chances of, but wow, to drink it, it was like, no. I know we'll find that water pocket. So we got out of that big deep water hole after soaking in that. Felt like we had a big drink of water somehow. Our bodies drank up what it could through those pores. And we went on down to wash where we'd come up. And then I remembered where that water pocket was. And you have to hike up some sandstone, climb up some sandstone, and you have to get yourself over top of it and into this little teeny place where you can barely, me and my two brothers sat in there, and we filled our water bottles in that little pool. And we sat there and we just drank that water with such gratitude in a different way. All within a couple of hours span, the shiftings of gratitude, the shiftings of need, the shiftings of desire, the shiftings of discipline, the shiftings of the psychology behind it. Water is able to take us to a lot of different places, but that's the kind of way that water works, see? It just goes. It starts somewhere and then it goes. And then it might say, oh, well, I guess I'm going to be here for a little bit. And so it pulls up and it pulls up and pulls up, and when it can reach a place, it can go some more dust. And so I like to look at my life that way, kind of how you were starting off, the modern wilderness, and my thinking. This is where I'm going now. Where in life do most people need the greatest filtration? And it's in their mind. It's in their mind. They need to filter out this negative energy, this stupidity of a human species that has deliberately decided not to connect with earth and spirit in a fashion that provides and promotes a longevity of a human species. So, see, we're in a beautiful evolutionary process. And in evolution, you always see some things leaving the general area. So when you look at a river that comes by that general area on a bank, and you will over time see the pebbles falling, the dirt clouds falling. You will see that water continue to move inland even more in those weak areas of erosion. Now, the thing is that erosion always takes place. It's always going on when you have this type of thinking, this concept, this idea which I'm trying to promote here. Our thoughts are ongoing. I've spoken about our thoughts so much, so deeply. And we're talking about filtrating water now. And we're talking about being able to filter our thoughts and being accountable, deliberate, and attuned enough to be able to understand what is it that I am putting into my mind so we can think like water. I'm only going to put pure water in my body. I'm only going to put pure thoughts in my mind. I'm going to filter out all that negativity. How? Well, I said it's with love, see. So when I kiss that water and I say, no matter where that water came from, no matter what, I don't know when that day will be because I haven't been in that kind of a need, but I'll tell you, that feeling behind it's always been there. I love you, water. But there's something behind that that can purify. So many people, and you can read this in uh that gentleman's book that wrote about the the magic behind water and love, and there's a lot of movies and documentaries behind all of this, and so people would start labeling their pipes in their home. They would get a piece of paper and tape it on their pipes. Love, happiness, joy, as if speaking to the water to get the water connection going, to promote the idea that when that water is coming into their home, that they are aware of it and thoughtful of it and grateful for it. Now one can label all they want, but when it comes out of that shower cold when you want hot, where is your gratitude then? Where is your gratitude when you are not getting what you want with water? It must always be there. So when we come to this place of filtering out the negativity of this world, we must only allow clean and pure. Keep the thinking clean and pure, like the springs in these earth waters. They flow pure and natural. You can drink from them and feel this purity go through every cell in your body. I can attest to this over and over and over because I have done this over and over and over. Water is what people have lost lives for. Water is what people have fought for. Water is what people have said. God says this is my water, this is your water. Water is water. Water has nothing to do with all those wars over water. Water is life-giving substance. People get in the way of water. There is more than enough water for everyone on this planet. Do not fear, do not think that this climate change is taking your water. Yes, we see the ebbs and flows of water throughout this continent, but this ebb and flow change of the continents in this earth have been going on like that for a long time. Water is going to come out somewhere else where water disappeared, see. And so you gotta go like those animals. You gotta follow the water. You gotta go where the water goes, but only have gratitude, only give love. And then pray for water. Pray that water comes to those places where you want it to be and get your prayers answered. Pray for the water. You gotta pray for the water. Okay, that's I can't say that enough. You gotta pray for it. Pray for it to be pure. Pray for it to run through this mother earth as if it's the blood in your veins. Pray for it to be able to come through you and trickle in a way that magnifies every cell in your body so you can remember your eternal and that you're connected to earth and spirit.

SPEAKER_00 28:08

There we have episode 28 to Survival Essentials. Water questing. Always stay hydrated and aware. Filtration. What can I use to filter water? To search and learn the important ways of filtration of water in the raw wilderness is crucial and highly important. I believe the more you learn in the raw wilderness, the more you learn in modern wilderness. How we understand the importance of filtering out the negative and bring the positive that we all seek is of the highest importance. Always and forever purify yourself. If you enjoy this podcast, please remember to share this with your loved ones, family, and friends. Give us a rating and follow us so you don't miss any upcoming episodes. Thanks again for listening and much love.