Survival Essentials - Fire Creation - Techniques

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

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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'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 41 of Survival Essentials, Fire Creation. Always stay warm and protected techniques. This and so much more in this episode of Inside the Raven's Eye. Thanks for listening and enjoy.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

Well, we are talking about different techniques of fire creation in today's episode. Remember, fire creation, always stay warm and protected. Now, fire can do many, many things. We've talked about the necessity of fire, we've talked about the location of fire. The one thing I wanted to add in regards to location is that when you make a fire, look around, look up, consider your terrain and make certain that you're not going to have your fire get out of control. Location is so imperative on the survival essentials aspect. If you need to be found, it needs to be out where people can see it from the air, other places. So when you're in dire straits, when you're lost or stranded in the wilderness, fire making so powerful. So if you do not know how to make fire already, unless you have like a lighter perhaps, or some matches, and those are good things, but there's a lot of techniques, and the techniques is what we're going into detail about today. Techniques, like I was saying, matches, lighters, and then there's like flint and steel, there's battery and steel wool, magnifying glass, there's bow and drill, there's other friction fire like hand drill, there's pump drill, there's a lot of ways to get a spark. There's a lot of ways to get something to ignite. And the techniques are really fun. They're they're really almost unlimited. When it comes to raw wilderness survival, and this is what I've always thought is okay, when you're out there in the wilderness, if you have nothing, what can you locate? What does Mother Earth provide that I can make fire with? So in most cases, you're just left with the trees, the rocks, etc. And you start uh learning how you can manipulate uh say a tamarisk into a bowl and fire harden it that would last you for a long time, whether it be a bowl for archery or a bowl for fire making. It's good wood. You can fire harden that and make it long lasting. So to make fire, you have to gather all these things, and then to make your bowl even better, you already have to have fire. So somehow you get the fire, and then you use the fire to do so many things, and that's going to be in the next session uh section about the uses. You know, there's just so many uses about the fire and what you do. So making tools, cooking, warmth on down the line. So making a fire from the elements of Mother Earth, if you know how to get those two sticks, for example, a hand drill, and you know how to properly assemble them and to make certain that you are able to control or to guide or direct the uh ember or the uh debris that will turn into the ember because of the friction and being compacted and the exposure to oxygen. Once you have that ember going, you've got to be careful. It's like a newborn baby. You know, this this fire making is just so sacred when you go about making it. And when you are in a dire straight situation, and when you go to Mother Earth and you locate all these things and you make fire, I've explained before there's nothing like it, it's just such a fabulous feeling that you can start with nothing and you can create something that is not just a foundation for warmth or something like that, but if you keep that fire going, you can do so many other things. You could even travel with fire. There are ways in which you can make a coal bundle, a carrier, if you will, uh uh like putting a coal inside of some bark where you think that it would just catch on fire, but minimal exposure to oxygen and definite exposure to burnable debris on the inside of one of these carrier wands made out of like juniper bark or something like that, you can take a coal a long ways. And so there are many things that you can do to keep the fire alive, never let it go out. Now when it comes to our real lives on a day-to-day basis, it it's challenging as well, and it's rewarding also. Just like I was saying, that feeling about getting that fire, all the work you have to go through, and then finally getting that reward. It is so important. So when it comes to making that sacred fire within us, in fact, let's just even step back before that. Do you even know that there's a sacred fire in you? Kind of like that. So it'd be like, hey, how's your spirit? How's your spirit doing today? How's your fire burning? You know, how are you doing maintaining yourself? How are you doing on this project of knowing that you are eternal, living every day in this body of flesh and bones, etc., and remembering every second that you're eternal in this body and not getting caught up in the linear of this society and being able to navigate from this eternal perspective that says I am operating from a higher level than what seems to surround me. So it's almost like you have to work no matter what with faith initially, you know, this unseen. So I go back to the number three: mental clarity and focus, thoughts, words, feelings, and actions. I'm going to get a fire no matter what. I've got to be thinking that. If I'm thinking I'm going to die, if I'm thinking it's too hot, if I'm thinking it's too cold, if I'm thinking anything other than what I want the result to be, it's a demise to my current situation. I have to be focused on the result, and sometimes that's hard when things are upon us in our current day-to-day events that are on the outside, and it's with relationships, other people, and sometimes they're in our own homes, our workplaces, out on the road, strangers, you know, people that you do know. Nonetheless, it's energy. We're all these eternal beings in these vessels. Most people do not remember that. 24-7. Most people do not remember that they have a power within them that they can access. And the only way to access this, the only way, it's not outside, it's inside. You have to go inside of yourself. It's like kind of like crawling in the fire pit and going into the fire to find out what's really going on in there. You know, you got to get in there and stoke it up. So I was talking about carrying a coal a long way. So the good news is about our heart, if you will, our our heart shocker, all of our chakras, our energy points, the spirit, this place, this truth detector. I want to keep this spirit alive, this connector, this connectivity, this way that I'm able to stay attuned to something better and higher than what is on this planetary level, this societal level. And how do I utilize this divine intelligence, this unseen intelligence, this God intelligence, to assist me in this bag of flesh and bones right now, to be able to navigate effectively so that I don't get consumed by other people's fires, or when I'm talking about going back to number three, mental clarity and focus. Maybe I was just talking about that. I'm saying, hey, you gotta think it. I've got to think it. If I'm thinking negative things like I know that something's, you know, wrong, or you know, this isn't right, or you know, this isn't gonna work out, or oh my gosh, you know, uh those thoughts start to contaminate, and it is so easy to begin to invite other similar thoughts that take us down a path that is not about making a healthy fire. Okay, that fire is almost like pouring gas on uh a fire that's and letting it be out of control. When our minds out of control, when our thoughts are out of control, we're not inside, we're not inside looking at our heart, we're not inside navigating from the best and highest. We get stuck. So just remember right now, okay. Imagine that you you have this coal, maybe, you know, and it hasn't gone out, so you just take a little journey. So it's like okay, all right. So we're gonna kinda go inside our bodies, and we're gonna go down in there, like into this place. So if you close your eyes and imagine, like you're in your body, and you know, uh, what does it look like? You know, uh, all of a sudden you see that you're next to a fire pit. And is that fire pit out? Are you cold? Are you scared? Well, I'm here to help you through this, to give you that reassurance that says, hey, I'm gonna make a fire no matter what. Remember, thinking. I'm gonna make a fire no matter what, I'm gonna get this fire no matter what. So then you start speaking, and I'm gonna get this fire no matter what, I'm gonna have a better life no matter what, I'm gonna get in control of my thinking no matter what. So I'm thinking whatever it is that I want, okay? The discipline to effectively navigate through every day without being taken by things that are really hard. It's really hard not to be swayed by what's going on outside of us. It is just downright challenging, okay? So creating time on a day-to-day basis, we're learning how after that to access 24-7, this higher self, this place that says, Oh yeah, I'm eternal. And when you're eternal, there is like no fear of death or no fear of poverty or paying bills. It's just a simple knowing that this is a play out here on this planet. And how can we give ourselves the edge? How can we access this divine intelligence, this God power, bring it into our fire pit inside of us, and kneel down by your fire pit, blow that sacred breath on it. See, you got to give it that oxygen, you got to give it that life. It's your life, it's your breath. Blow that breath of life upon that. And as you do, you'll see that ember start to brighten a little bit. And you got to get some good tender material on there, something that it can ignite with when there's that much heat. You want it to start to smolder, and then you want it to not just smolder, you want it to ignite. Okay, and once it ignites, you want to be prepared with your firewood, your other thoughts, your other feelings, your actions, your results. Thoughts, words, feelings, actions equal results. Thought, word, feeling, action equals result. Okay, no matter what you're thinking, no matter what you're speaking, no matter what you're feeling, no matter what you're acting out, you're getting a result. You might as well learn how to deliberately make yourself think, make yourself speak, make yourself feel, and make yourself act towards, oh, and there's a lot of results we want. We want to feel good, we want to be happier, we want to feel safe and secure in our relationships. We don't want to worry whether or not somebody, you know, wants to be with us, or we don't want to worry about whether we're good enough. You know, we want to be able to know for certain. And when we develop that fire within us, and we come to a place where we can blow our sacred breath upon that and learn how to have that other firewood there, and then to keep that fire going all the time in a safe way, a welcoming way, a way where others want to be around it. And that's good, you know. When others see our brightness and see our light, they're attracted to it, and they want that as well. And so when we do this, it's like we're giving permission to others without ever saying a word to remember that they are eternal as well. And this rapid fire process can happen so quickly. You imagine, even if there were, you know, a thousand people that just sat down right now and just went through this process of thinking that they want to feel better. And they began to think it and speak it and feel it, act in a profound way. And then they decided to even get more specific about other results they want. I want to be able to make a difference. I want the financial means in which to make this difference because it will require this, this, this, and this to be able to do that. So then we start to get specific, and then we say, okay, well, when do you want to do? Well, I'd like to have this done by now, whatever dates are. So the more specific you get, okay, you just can't, you know, go create a planet and say, oh, let's put some flowers there, you know. What are flowers? You've got to get specific, you know, okay, uh, reds, blues, greens, you know, you've got to just get real specific about everything and what it requires. What does it take to sustain something? Where do you get your longevity? Where do you get your staying power? What is your integrity? Have you been stretched enough in life to be able to see what you really are capable of? So when it comes to fire making, when it comes to this fire creation, you're in charge, you know. We are the creators. We are the creators. We must remember that we are eternal creators and that we can exercise this profound power, we can access this power, and we can be this power, and all the techniques of making fire will be available. All that information is available. You don't need to go on YouTube, you just access it, you just trust, trust the processes of life, trust God, trust this earth, trust, open up, be vulnerable. Because, man, I'm telling you what, fire, you know, you can be really cold and get in there and get yourself burned. You gotta be aware. So, with that, we'll close out this section here on techniques. The techniques are available, we're all in a different position, all of our terrains are different. Get to know your terrain so you can see what your resources are around you, inside of you and outside of you, so that you can begin to make fire on the outside and on the inside, change your life, bring it to what it is you want, and we'll see you next time when we start talking about the uses of fire, being able to make tools and have companionship, being able to cook and have some warmth and just that feeling of just real nice safety. Take care.

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There we have episode 41 to Survival Essentials, fire creation. Always stay warm and protected. Techniques. The techniques reminded me of how many resources there are out there in the raw wilderness and also the modern wilderness. Everything we need for success is right in front of us as long as we take the proper time to effectively learn and practice the methods. 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.