Survival Essentials - Water Questing - Purification

In this episode of Conversations with a Shaman. 
We get into episode twenty-nine of Survival Essentials. 
Section five - Water Questing. Always stay hydrated and aware. 
Purification. Giardia or dehydration? A choice?

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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's 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 29 of Survival Essentials, water questing. Always stay hydrated and aware. Purification. This and so much more in this episode of Inside the Raven's Eye. Thanks for listening and enjoy. Alright, so here we are, episode 29 of Survival Essentials. And uh yeah, we're on section five, water questing, and again, episode 29, purification. And uh I always go back to that modern wilderness kind of way of looking at things, but um purification, purification, purification. You know, I I know I've been as honest and pure as I can through the podcast and even seem vulnerable at times, and I think that's the best way to be is to be vulnerable even if, you know, tons of people even even end up listening to the podcast, and you know, it's I guess that's being real, that's being raw, you're just being truthful, and so yeah, last couple days kinda been a little rough for me, and so I just a lot of feelings and just trying to work through it and kinda like feeling like emotional. Yesterday's medit meditation was kinda listening to medicine work with you and that you just did and had a powerful medicine uh what meditation that made me cry and kinda made sense why things are kinda maybe going through these emotional ways of me right now, kinda like cocooning in a good way, but kinda still maybe fighting through things, purifying myself in a s beautiful but strange way. It's the only way I can really think of it is beautifying myself and getting through certain things that maybe I didn't even know were there and I truths I had to come to, and so when I think about water and purifying, there's really no difference in it and how I'd want to go about it purifying myself in certain ways. And so I didn't know what else to really talk about because it's only thing that's been on my mind even in this way of purifying purification. So with saying that I'm just gonna hand it over to you.

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Well, sometimes there's a lot of water, and sometimes there's not very much, depending on where you're at. It's not something that is easily accessed in some geographic locations. So water questing. Why and survival essentials and and then the basics of what many might say as far as hey, I need to take care of my water, shelter, fire, and food. And it's kind of funny because my wife the other day said, Hey, there's a new season of Alone Out. She said, Do you want to watch? I said, Well, we'll see how long I last. So within probably just a few minutes, I was out of the room. You know, it's funny to hear people talk on these survival shows about their needs, their priorities. And and you know, we all get a little enthusiastic about our approach to something new, perhaps. So a lot of people say, yeah, Ben, I'm an herbalist, I'm a survivalist, I'm a primitive living teacher, oh, this money's gonna help me start my own survival school, oh, all this, you know, and and so what are the reasons? What are they really questing? You know, what are they really questing, you know, in this so-called alone relationship with earth and spirit that they put themselves into to within less than 24 hours say, well, you know, I made a mistake. You know, that storm came in real fast, I'm wet, I'm, you know, I I I should have done my shelter first, and you know, so so a level of prioritizing. And and people are confused. You look around, people can't even turn right or left and put on a signal light to give heed to someone else that might be trying to navigate that day as well. So it seems to be a very confusing method methodology of prioritizing in today's world, no matter what it is, as to what people want to appear to be versus what's the truth. Water, you get what it is. It's either toxic or it's pure, you know, and and so, you know, it's not gonna be any other. And the reason that it's toxic is because of what humans have done. And, you know, water used to run pure on this planet, you know. There there weren't toxicities. Yes, there might be mineral compounds that enhance the flavors of water a little bit differently in certain places, depending upon ore or whatever we might say in the ground like that, you know, that can do that. And so as I sit here and I think about water and I'm watching that show and I'm thinking about priorities and, you know, and just how much people talk about water, and you know, gosh, they'll they'll sometimes I've seen on these shows where they say, gosh, you know, I really need to get some pure water because they might be by the ocean. And yet their feet are drenched, they're walking through all this milk, all this uh condensation, okay, and their feet are soaking wet, and they're complaining about their feet, and yet they go down to the ocean where they're salt water and they're trying to find pure water, and yet if they just took the bandana and they just started dabbing that bandana amongst everything where their feet are getting wet down there from all that condensation, then you bring that bandana out, you get some pretty good water, okay? So, levels of understanding, levels of prioritizing, okay? So, when it comes to these survival essentials, and you're thinking about water, shelter, fire, food, and about prioritizing, and then you break those down. And that's what we're doing right now with water. And and so, in this whole thing of water, you know, it's kind of frustrating in a sense as to you know what kind of a bad rap we can give water, or what kind of an enthusiastic promote we can give water, you know, drink Dasani, you know, or whatever like that, okay? So why do we choose the methods that we choose? I spoke about me getting water at the store the other day, and that guy saying, Hey, you know, a water drinker, huh? You know, so why do we do what we do in this water questing? What is it that we're really questing? Are we questing the purest of water so that we can have this such a profound connection? And and when we approach it from a state of gratitude, this this water and self-connection is sacred because we come from the same. So when we put impure, impure, so if we take toxic liquid and put it in a pure body, you know, uh, or if we have pure water and we put it in a toxic body, you know, what I'm trying to point out is the different effects and influences that water can have depending on how we're inputting and what our current status might be. So in water, I talk about location, all right? Well, because you know, like I was saying initially, geographically there's uh more water in certain places than others. And so location and and what helps us when we're trying to locate water, we're questing towards water. Well, in the wilderness, it's usually because we're thirsty. We're thirsty, okay? That's a real need. I talked about the sensations, and you know, I start getting that dry mouth and you know, and start to kind of get some parched lips and can't quite salivate. So yeah, you can just thank you, water, okay? So when we approach our water intake with that gratitude, and we have that connection every time. So all you have to do is just say thank you for this life-giving substance, this purity that I'm putting in my body. And I'd like my thoughts to be as pure because, see, when we relate our thoughts to the purity of water, and we're trying to purify it, so we go from location. How do we locate it? We've got to try and find it. There's indicators, okay? There's indicators about what we're trying to do here. And we have to look for it. Usually water makes things greener, and so we're looking for things of green. Usually other uh life force entities like uh birds and deer and lizards and you know all types of species and all types of different climates, they need water as well. And so you watch that, and then you see that sometimes when there's places of water, you'll see trails that go to the water. Why? Because that's where the majority of the animals go as they are going to the water source. And so they take that path that's easiest to get to the water, just like water's easy, okay? And so we look for these indicators to try and get to the water. Once we get to the water, does it need to be filtered? You know, does it need to be purified, you know? And so when I'm talking about thoughts, you know, okay, locate your thoughts, you know. Uh where are they? What am I thinking? You know, hello, is anybody home? Kind of a thing. You know, ask yourself, where are you, whoever you are? If your name's Dave, just say, hey, Dave, where the heck are you, man? Come on. You know, let's get to the right here, right now. Because once you get to that water and you connect, okay, you have to have a pause, a pause. And in that pausing, that's when we're saying, hey, you know, um, I'm right here right now. We have to get present. We have to have a stillness. You have to have that stillness. So when you get to that water, so I locate it out in the wilderness, okay. It it's this is something that I I've done for a few decades, you know, really looking for water, signs of water, learning to follow these signs and indicators, why to find the water. Once I get there, what does that water look like? Where, you know, what's the terrain? What's what's going on? Is it toxic? You know, in most cases, you know, it's best to filter and purify. How do we purify out there? Well, you've seen me put a plastic water bottle right in the fire, and you've watched that plastic water bottle not get consumed in the flames. And you've watched that water inside that plastic water bottle begin to boil and purify that water. And so what you do is you look for means in which to bring the water to a state. In other words, you're shifting the molecular structure of the water in order to promote purity. And so we must do the same within ourselves. See, we have to, we have to restructure that molecular uh activity within ourselves. We have to retrain ourselves. So it goes back to number one, preparing and training physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. So see, you got to go backwards all the time to get your she-shaw together, get your shit straight, if you will. Okay? And it's important to do it all day long. It's important to do it all day long. To keep yourself grounded to the stillness of gratitude. Thank you, water. Oh my gosh. Wow, Ben, looking for you. Thank you, calm thinking. Ben, we're looking for you. Hey, so you get to that place, we start to purify, see. So now let's stick with the water for a minute. Because, see, I say with the purification, I say dehydration or giardia. You know, which one do you want? Do you want to, you know, if that water looks nasty? Because here's the fact people have been found dead next to water sources that appeared contaminated. Did they die from gyardia or did they die from dehydration? Well, according to autopsy reports, many of these people have died from dehydration. They did not want to drink of that water. So palatable in all our psychology, the ability to promote life. Does there a fear of getting sick if I drink that water? Well, for me, I'm going to drink the water. If I'm in that state, and I'm usually not going to get myself in that state. In other words, we live, most of us, in situations where we have access to water. We have the ability to hydrate our bodies with ease in most cases. Now, I will also do the best, do my best in the wilderness to keep my body hydrated. I will always drink what I have. That gets into the conservation part in our next episode and how I go about whether to conserve in my body or in my canteen. Because when you're next to a water pocket and you've got some water in your canteen that you haven't drink because you don't want to, and you get near there, something like that, and you die because you're too sick to do anything about it, you know, that's sad news. So we have to play out a psychology in our thoughts. The thought source, the mindset, connecting your brain, that muscle, to divine intelligence, a mentality, a mind, if you will, okay? That it's not like our brain, you know, uh is this portaling out. It's a muscle that allows us to actively engage ourselves with our eternal existence. We're able to pass the mortality to the immortality with divine intelligence. We're able to have faith. We're able to have hope. We're able to secure thought patterns from there. We're able to get ideas, we're able to be, and you listen to Puppet versus Master, if you want to go there about what divine intelligence is and what we can really pull from this unseen arena of the purest place of conception. So when we pull those ideas from that thought pool, divine intelligence, when we get impulse. So when somebody has giardia and I pray and I say, Hey God, what do I do? You know, this little girl, she's only five, she doesn't feel good. God, she drinks some of that river water, and and and I don't know what to do. And then I hear, you know, words, I hear a voice, hey, go get some dandelion and some yarrow and some plantain and make her a tea. So, and I'm up in the mountains and the high wend is there. So go and I gather these plants, right? They're all right by me there. So I go and I gather them and and I make this young lady a tea. And I tell her, hey, you know, just drink this. About a cup of it is all, but I made it really strong. And she drank that tea. She didn't like it. It didn't taste like Kool-Aid or something like that, but she drank it. And then that giardia was gone. She wasn't puking or diarrhea or feeling so sick, and she was out messing around and playing with other kids in about 20 minutes or so. So, you know, and that's not my only experience with those herbs. And the effects of curing giardia and being able to withstand the effects of a thought process that can help expedite one way or the other the reality. Fear takes us down to where things seem to get worse with that giardia. So I stay in a stance and say, you know what? No, I'm not gonna get giardia, I'm not gonna get anything, okay? I'm just gonna drink that water, I'm gonna shift that molecular structure, see? So I'm already pulling from divine intelligence, shifting the molecular structure of my thoughts to a place that I can do that to the water as well. So when I was speaking about this uh water method, and Dr. Oh gosh, I I can't even remember the name of the book or the author's name, but I believe that he's a Japanese expert in water study. And so I was talking about when we label water with love, when we put that, you know, so love is very powerful. This is the place. If you if you want to have a homeostasis, if you will, if you want to understand the rhythm of Mother Earth and spirit, it's what we could call love. And we could put a lot of other words in there, like calm, like breath, you know, we can put a lot of other things in there. But it's this equality, it's a it's a rhythm, it's a vibration, it's a frequency, and it's stable. And in that stability, there's certainty. And when one learns to think a certain way, pulling information from that divine intelligence, being able to act upon tangibles in a way in which we can shift the molecular structure, then we have what's called connection. So, now gratitude. Oh, thank you for this water. Oh, okay. So if you can purify it, do well, go. You know, you've got to have something hot, like a fire. You know, so if you don't have a fire and you need water, you might want to get a fire so you can boil the water. Well, I don't have anything to boil it in. Well, you could get creative, you could look around, you can make something. Oftentimes I have found trees and at the base of the trees. There's like this bowl, you know, a bowl and it'll collect rainwater. When it rains, I drink from these, okay? And and when you can heat stones and get those rocks hot, and you can put a few small stones inside of that little tree where that water is, and it'll boil that water. And so if you're afraid like that, or if you have to get other water and put the water into a tree hole if there's not any in there, or if you can find a concave in a rock, or if you can find anything that might seem to be. And in today's world, there's so much trash, unfortunately, in which you can sometimes more easily find a container that is more modern in order to boil the water in, like I was saying, plastic water bottles. You can find them everywhere almost, and that's kind of sad. But when it comes to survival, you can boil the water in there. You fill it clear up and you stick it right in there, and it'll boil without consuming that container. So when it comes to purifying water, there's a lot of ways to go about it. And you know, in today's world, coming out of the taps, you know, we've kind of gone through the filtration process, chemical inductions, they give you the reports, they tell you about what's in the water, what the percentages are, trying to have a healthy in some states and cities, doses of fluoride, etc., or you know, chlorine or things like that in which to help keep some sort of uh homeostasis to the water so people don't get sick and then therefore sue and things like that. So we we do our best in this world to give all the people and the animals as much water as we can. And the earth provides all of this. And if you don't have a connection with earth and spirit, and you want to make a name for yourself on a TV show, and you want to get known or win the money, and yet you're talking about these things, please exclude yourself from that next time. There's no reason for us to go out there looking like fools, promoting something that we don't even understand. We need to get serious and take the time on our own to go backwards, do the preparing and the training, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. How well am I doing physically? Well, if it's in that place of studying the priorities of water, shelter, fire, and food, you know, you better get yourself in good enough shape to go out there and test those things out so you can understand, so you can search, so you can seek, so you can quest. Then you understand a little more about how to quest purity in life. So when we're in this modern wilderness and we're seeking purification, okay, and now we're just doing this little metaphoric relationship here about our thoughts and having pure thoughts. So every day I have negative thinking come in my head, okay? It's it just it does. It's there, it's around me. And immediately when I have a judgment, immediately when I have, you know, any kind of ah, or immediately when I have any type of adjustment to my balance, my homeostasis, my calmness, my certainty, or as I've spoken before, about the disturbance in my wheat field. I am quick to bring back to the frequency of purity. But it's an all-day gig, see. So when I'm out in the wilderness, oftentimes you come to these water places, but you're going to another place. So you kind of have to gather what you can, and sometimes they don't even offer enough for an entire group of people. So when you come across a water pocket and everybody gets about three, four swallows instead of a full water bottle or something like that, you just do your best. You know, you make it well. And sometimes, you know, like me, I can go a long time without it. I already know, because I've done the preparing and the training. I've gone physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually with and without all these things in order to find my integrity. And what is integrity? It is the capacity in which we are able to withstand. It is when something is stretched back and forth and twisted and turned in order to say, hey, that's gonna work out there. That's gonna work in the marketplace. We've tested this out in every which way. We can assure you. So that's kind of like saying, you know, instead of a product that somebody's putting out there and saying that it's integral, we're saying, hey, what about the twisting and turning of your spirit? What about the twisting and turning of your body, you know, your thoughts, you know, the all the emotions that we feel, all these things that skew our ability to have purity, okay? Because when we have purity, it's like you're saying, Alan. It's it's raw, it's authentic. Wisdom, you know, because I'm I'm thinking about your your you know, your your uh name on the website, Real Authentic Wisdom, Ra. Okay, and wisdom, you know, I don't know. I I speak a lot on these podcasts. You know, you spoke about vulnerability. You know, I'm I'm just as straight out as whatever comes out. I do my best to propagate my material in such a way that I am able to stay on a target and to run off the trail a little bit, almost as if I'm, you know, in these podcasts. It's kind of like I'm going off a trail to check, oh, there might be water over there, and then get back on the trail. I don't get lost over there. I go over here, oh, there might be some water there. I get back on the trail. So I'm questing, I'm questing information. You know, I'm doing my best to be able to personify myself, to personify this information, to be able to put together through my experiences an opportunity for anyone listening to go, oh, I think I get it. You know, I I hear people talk about the podcasts. Oh, some people even said, hey, that saved my life. And then maybe don't hear from those people ever again. Hope they're doing real good. But here's the thing: don't let anything really save your life except for you. Uh, we get good information, we get good water, but get back on the trail and keep finding it. Get good at it, get real good at it, get so good at defining yourself that you always find reason to continue doing that. Because when it comes to this mortality, and when it comes to how we have to filter out all this negativity of this world, because wow, it's coming at us a million miles an hour. And it's not pure, folks, okay? If you've gotten used to this world and think that that's some pure information, think again, take yourself out of the picture for a minute and review who you are. Maybe see if you can go out in the wilderness, just kind of put your life on the line, maybe a little bit, you know, spend a 24-hour solo out there by yourself without any food or water, and just see what you might think, see what you might feel, log it within your soul. Let the petroglyphs of that experience override that information that's coming from the world that you have to filter out. Because after that filtration process, you have to learn how to keep up pure, see. And and then this conserving that we're going to get to. Wow.

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How do you conserve all this power, all this energy, all this beauty, all this love?

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There's ways. I'll teach you, I'll share with you what I've learned that's worked for me. But right now, I'd best be going backwards if I were any of us. I do it all the time. I'm always reviewing, always taking things off my table, always looking again at where I'm at in the big picture. Because it's different than yesterday, even though things might look similar. Purify yourselves, people. Keep yourself clean and pure from the habits of this world.

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There we have episode 29 to survival essentials, water questing. Always stay hydrated and aware. Purification. Just as crucial it is to purify your drinking water, so it is to purify your thoughts. Purification. Remember the importance of giving gratitude for every area of your life. 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.