Survival Essentials - Fire Creation - Location

In this episode of Conversations with a Shaman. 
We get into episode forty of Survival Essentials. 
Fire Creation - Always stay warm and protected. 
Location.

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SPEAKER_00 0:14

Welcome to Inside the Raven's Eye. I'm your host, Alan Mitchell. My medicine name is Raven's 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 40 of Survival Essentials, Fire Creation. Always stay warm and protected. Location. Keep it small and safe. This and so much more in this episode of Inside the Raven's Eye. Thanks for listening and enjoy. Okay, so here we are on episode 40 today of Fire Creation. And this one is location. Keep it small and safe. So I was thinking about, you know, small and safe, small and safe. For me personally, now knock on wood. I've never been in a you know out in that raw wilderness. I've never had anything go down to where, you know, I could have started a wildfire or anything like that. And I don't want to jump too far ahead, but I wanted to give this example to me. Again, going on the inside, we just got done talking about yesterday for me, was kind of like energetic and a lot of energy going on. And I remember I was agitated at work, so internal fire, kind of maybe blowing in some wind and kind of getting a little out of control. And I'm sitting there, and it was interesting because towards the end of my shift, this woman I work with, she said, Alan, do you mind me asking you a personal question? And I was like, Yeah, go for it. And she was like, and at first it kind of started like, you know, to me, I was it was kind of dark. It was like, how in the wilderness? Do you ever come across people do this all the time with me? You know, I'm sure with you too, like anything spooky or weird. And I was just like, oh, this is kind of a weird question. And I, but I shifted it really quick. I was like, well, not really. I've had really beautiful situations, and I started to go into details about experiences that I've had in that raw wilderness. And but then she was like, she she shifted, and she's like, you know, it's kind of like being alone in like that pure darkness, Alan, and you're like that light, and and you you're like like a fire. And I was just smiling at her, and I was just like, Well, thank you. And she's like, No, like, and it's like I I if I was out there, I knew how to like get to you because I can see that light. And and like, does it just like radiate out and and like you can help people or does it gravitate more people like you? And I say, Well, a little bit of both, you know, if people need help, at least they can see that light. And and I would say, but most of the time when people need help, they kind of if they do get to my light, I kind of point and I say, see that bigger fire over there, you need to go over to you. So it's kind of like toner that. And but to me, that even though maybe getting to this small and safe, yes, my fire might be a little bit small and it's safe, but I do that on purpose because I've done my best to listen to you. Don't get it out of control. So if it is on the inside, what are you doing every day to gather your firewood? But just because you're you're gathering your firewood, you don't need to necessarily go out there and you know pile up all the wood that you just barely gathered. You don't need to do that. So, again, for me, um, that was the biggest thing. And again, I don't want to jump ahead because I know that we that you like to start on the that raw wilderness and then kind of end up going on the inside. So, again, I'll just wanted to explain all that and my experience of going into this episode, what it has been for me.

SPEAKER_01 4:29

That's perfect. I love that. How the woman talked to you yesterday, and what that to me indicates is how we get spiritual precursors, you know, these things that prepare us for the upcoming. So it's kind of awesome, and this happens often, but I want to point it out to everyone that listens is that look for those in your life, look for those places where it might seem awkward for a minute, but this literally has prepared us in a better way for today's podcast by him having that experience yesterday and her saying it's kind of like a fire, you know. So uh, you know, we could say, hey, that that's coincidental, but I say absolutely not. Spirit knows exactly how to work with who, how, and when, without us really having any kind of common understanding about it. So just have that faith, have that trust within yourself and within the unseen force that says, okay, uh, I can get a fire no matter what. I can be a beacon of light for others. But you got to get yourself uh to be that beacon of light for yourself first. So when I do speak of the raw wilderness, this was all designed, and again, I'm hitting this hard and heavy because it's interesting here, especially with fire creation, it's almost the opposite of what we would think of, you know, in real life versus survival. Okay, but when you're thinking of your survival, you're thinking of utilizing the least amount of energy in the most effective and powerful ways to give you longevity in a short period of time. So if you're lost in the wilderness, you're lost or stranded, you've had, you know, and you've got that 72-hour window, which all of this was based upon. How can I stay alive and be found and get out of this situation in less than 72 hours with these eight survival essentials plus? So it is very interesting. Fire creation. Always stay warm, protected, absolutely, and then I go right into necessity. Do you need fire? Do you need fire? Well, sometimes we don't. We don't need a fire. It's not effective, but it's comfortable, it's inviting, it's nice. People circle around it, whether you need it or not, whether you're gonna cook on it or you need to get warm, that doesn't matter. But when some people start to gather around it and all of a sudden there's conversation that is uplifting and positive, seems like that fire is kind of responsible for an attractive thing, kind of like the woman was saying. I can see that, and then I can go there to that fire. I see it in the wilderness when it's dark, so people come around, and then all of a sudden they're collecting together. Whether they're in a good state of being or not, they're all there because it feels good. Okay, so it seems interesting. Do you need fire? Well, inside of us, in our real life, we need fire. We absolutely do. And when it comes to the location, keep it safe and small. And so that almost on a day-to-day basis inside of ourselves seems very protective and withdrawn, introverted, you know, like keep it small, keep it safe, don't let anybody get in there and put your fire out. That's not what I'm saying. So let's go back to real wilderness here, okay? Wilderness survival, you're lost, you're stranded, you're out there. And I have had my fires get out of control before. I have had myself uh seeming to fight a state of panic, trying to get my shelter uh to not be on fire in the middle of a night. I've also worked with these wilderness therapy companies, and in the years past, when I was doing that, uh, one point, one of our groups uh they had accidentally started a forest fire and they lost everything. They lost their backpacks because that fire just consumed it fast. They had to run. So they had radio, but they didn't have their packs, they didn't have their water, they didn't have anything. So we have to call in on those emergencies like that, and we have to involve forest service to get the fire put out. There has to be accountability to how that happened, and then there has to be kind of a renewal of gear, there has to be a replacement, you have to get your things back. So a lot of things can be replaced. You can go get a new pack. Okay, it's pretty easy if you have the money. You just go get a new pack. Okay, the other one got caught in fire. I'll get a new pack, new this, new that, new that, I'm fine. But when our internal fires get out of control and we don't know how to dial 911 and get the help we need to get that you know fire immersed, you know, it can go from all kinds of things from a deep rage to where you are causing harm to yourself and others, or to where you become completely introverted and you know you can tame it all in and maybe become that postal killer, you know, that we hear about. You know, all of a sudden one day out of nowhere, you know, uh the high school has a uh student come in and out of nowhere they just start taking shots. And so these are kind of some uh sad examples of what happens in our inner dialogue that takes a beautiful infant that was born into this world. That I promise, when that baby was born, whatever person has done these horrible things, I'm pretty sure when that baby was born, somebody thought, oh, this is precious, and and enjoyed looking in that baby's eyes. I doubt that there's too many cases, or very many cases, or uh where there is a deliberateness to when that baby is born, that there is some sort of evil assault that says, I am raising you up to darkness, I am raising you up to cause harm, I am raising you up under the umbrella of hatred and fear, so that you will annihilate, not care about yourself, not care about anyone, and because of that, that you will go out and basically crucify hope. And so when that happens, yeah, we we can take a look at it and think, wow, how does a person go from being born to a out-of-control life inside of them? This mind, this thought process, this unregulated place, it is an out-of-control fire. Okay, thoughts running rampant. I've had this happen with myself, and even as of recent, where I just started thinking something, and I started thinking more and more about it. I was questioning some things in a particular relationship, and I started wanting to find things wrong in that rather than things that are right, and I started on a path of looking for the negativity to try and prove something from a thought that said, hmm, I wonder if this is the truth. I wonder if this person is telling me the truth. And with my thoughts, I went down that path. But see, with my heart and with spirit, I can just go and because I've already got this fire developed, why not take the easy access and why not just go inside and say, Winfield, you've just had this conversation with this person? Is what they're saying true? And then I can sit and listen. But I have to have already developed the ability to trust what notion I sense from that. Not allowing there's a difference between thoughts that seem to come in and taint feelings, and thoughts that I can filter through truth detector, through my heart, through this internal fire that I've built, this Holy Spirit. My favorite scripture that I ever read was within the uh scriptures of of uh the Book of Mormon, and it's a very small verse, and it's this uh Book of Mormon, chapter 10, verse 5, I think. And by the power of the Holy Ghost you shall know the truth of all things. Now, we can read excerpts like that, whether it's in uh Taoism, whether it's in you know Catholicism, uh Mormonism, whether it's in the simplicities of nature, you know, when you begin to unravel truth and see what laws are immutable, you know, and what things take place within a parameter, it's no different than fire. Fire has a parameter, that's why we make a fire pit, that's why we make a fire ring, we want to try and contain it, that's why we uh build uh uh an internal force, if you will, within us, so that when all of the external things are happening, so if we relate wind coming to our fire in the wilderness and blowing sparks out and landing on some dry material and that catches on fire, what is the wind in our day-to-day life? You talked about that earlier today. I can't remember if it was in our first conversations or if we were actually into the episode, but about, you know, I think it was already into the episode and talking about the wind as if it was a wind coming. And what is that, and how unregulated does that cause your internal fire to become? So, what is in our life on a day-to-day basis the wind? What is the wind? What are the circumstances that we can we can perceive as things that are that we are allowing on the inside to blow our thoughts, to blow our words, to blow our feelings, to blow our actions into oblivion where sparks are flying everywhere, and we either do you know some good with it and get back into control, or we unramp it and for how many years sometimes? So on the inside, keeping that fire small and safe, yes, you need to, but you've gotta understand how to burn so bright and have such a level of certainty that that fire can never, ever, ever, ever, I'm talking people, ever become diluted, contaminated, tainted, out of control, uh, pissed on, whatever you want to say. It can't be put out by anything externally. Uh-uh. When you learn to navigate from the inside out, see, so everything's on the inside, everything. I have to go into my my shelter, I have to go inside of me. I go in there all the time. I try to live there. And in this living there, in this internal fire. So if you can imagine, I am the fire. Okay, I am I'm inside of that fire pit, I'm in there. And and and it is a consumable product. I have to have something to consume. What I like to consume is truth. So when I'm thinking about fire, and I'm thinking now about an experience I had with uh a spiritual experience I had with Hiawatha when I lived in Texas, and I ended up around a fire under some very frustrating experiences I've shared in some other podcast in the past. And I'm sitting there, and at this particular point of that evening, in relation to this episode today, I hear Iwatha say, Do you see those two logs in the fire? One is flat and one is round. I said, Oh yeah, I see that. And it was true, there were two logs in my fire. One was round and one was flat. And he said, The flat one is flat, it's linear, it has a beginning and it has an end. It is this life, it is temporary and it is consumed in the fire. And he said, But the eternal log is round, has no beginning, no end, and will not be consumed in the fire. And that round log rolled up out of the fire pit, over the stones, and rolled out over onto the sand, and I mean onto the rock, because it was rolled over onto some stone, and that's when he said, and it will not be consumed in the fire. So my spiritual experiences are real, it is truth. I filter all of that through my fire inside. So I'm in that fire. And I must learn how to feed myself. I must learn how to reach out and get the firewood, the good firewood. So when I'm talking, clear back into preparing and training, then the very number one, fuel yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. You've got to, see, so that's what I'm talking about. See fuel. So I intentionally gather the fuel to put in my internal fire. There's a type of fuel that works the best, see, so there's not too much smoke, it doesn't burn too hot, and that I can go ahead and do my life every day and have my inner self, my higher self, trained, or somehow my higher self has trained me to continue to do my daily do while it keeps that fire burning. So I can stay well, no matter what, so that when I noticed my I noticed my thoughts, it's like, okay, dude, they're getting out of control. This is not right. You know better than this, okay? You teach this. You better live what you teach. You better surpass what you teach. You better become more or don't speak. So that's what I'm doing. Becoming more. See this fire. You like I like the blue colors and the orange colors and the yellow. I like how it changes. Certain parts in that wood will expose a little more oxygen or a little more fuel if there's like some pine and there's some pine pitch in there, like in pinion, and all of a sudden you hear it, and it's like ps, ps, ps, pss, and it blows out like some blue smoke. I know you've seen this before, you've been watching your fires, Alan. And so this whole thing about location, everything about location is to keep yourself safe, warm, and protected. You don't want your fire, just in case the wind does come, to be close to other burnable. You don't want to have tree branches too far above you. Because if your fire got tall, I've seen trees catch on fire. That's how that group lost their control of their fire. So when things happen that are unforeseen and unpredictable in our lives, the one thing you can count on is your fire inside. So you it's best to go and listen to every episode. We've got a couple hundred plush episodes. There's a lot of things available to us, a lot of resources. These resources come in so many ways. Firewood is one of my favorite resources. I love gathering firewood. It is hard work. And when you go up and down hills and bring that firewood into your campsite, and then you enjoy it, and then it's nighttime, and it's getting cold, and you noticed earlier you can't get away with this. Don't let don't cheat yourself. You already saw your fire pile going down low, and then you're going to act surprised and be like, oh, I'm almost out of firewood. It's getting cold, it's dark. No, don't do that. It's called preventative maintenance, okay? Work when you don't want to. Do not let yourself get away with saying, well, somebody didn't go get firewood. Blaming others. Uh-uh. Get inside. Speak your truth to yourself. Think 'em, speak 'em, fill 'em, act 'em, get accountable. You're the one in charge of your fire. Make it good. Feels good around fire, and when you can have a few people saying great things when they're around a fire. Those are some of my favorite memories.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

That's all. There we have episode forty to survival essentials. Fire creation. Always stay warm and protected. Location. Keep it small and safe. I love the reminder of the wind and how it can cause an issue to our fires. I think if the wind is blowing, perhaps I should move my location. If my fire is within and the wind is causing issues, maybe it's the people I find myself around. Maybe it's the location of where I'm living. Like Hawk mentioned in the podcast, follow your truth detector, follow your heart against all odds, and keep your fire small and safe, but burning bright. 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 and God bless.