Survival Essentials - Fire Creation - Uses

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

This and so much more in this episode of Inside the Ravens Eye.

Thanks for listening and enjoy. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 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 42 of Survival Essentials, Fire Creation. Always stay warm and protected. Uses. This and so much more in this episode of Inside the Raven's Eye. Thanks for listening and enjoy.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

Okay, so here we are. We get to talk about the uses of fire. And again, we are on fire creation. Always stay warm and protected. So with uses, it's the last section here under fire creation. Some of the uses, tools, companionship, cooking, warmth, and there are so many other uses of fire creation. Fire does so much for us. We've learned how to manipulate the elements with fire. So those temperatures can turn ice into water. Those temperatures can melt down hard alloys, and you can shape wood and harden it. You can shape metal and harden it. You can do so much in the creation of tools and manipulating already existing compounds into something different by introducing it to heat. There are many things that fire can do. Sometimes fire seems like it's gonna go out, sometimes it gets a little out of control, so we sometimes step a little closer to it, and then sometimes we step back a little bit. It's got its own energy like that, and I think us people are kind of the same. I don't know if you've noticed that when you get around people in this societal life that you feel drawn to them, you can step forward, or there are others you step back from. How inviting is the energy? So when we start thinking about that, if I'm thinking, for example, about myself, how inviting is my energy? Is my energy something that I am inviting others to be within my sacred space, or am I repelling those others away from me? We have some sort of internal thermostat, if you will, with our energy. And depending upon our mood, sometimes we want people. So we do things with this thermostat to bring people in closer. And it's kind of sad in a way that oftentimes that's under this umbrella of victimization. You know, we we need people. Oh, please help me. Um, can't you see I'm hurting? Things like that. On the other hand, there's that part where if we're angry or if we are annoyed or we don't want people's bad energy around us, we do things to manipulate that internal thermostat to repel them, to push them away. So we are always engaged in this uses of fire in our lives, always engaged in what kind of tools or companionship, or you know, are we purifying or are we destroying and consuming? What, you know, what is it that we're doing? How are we keeping our fires burning? So I talk a lot about fire making I have for three, four decades now in regards to everyday living. Making that bowl and drill fire does something to a person's confidence. When you first create a fire from the elements of the earth, there's a very worthwhile and significant feeling that says I can. And with that I can, if we turn that into things of this world here in society, all the things that we say that we don't want to or we can't, or I don't have the time or the energy, or things like that, we really ought to take a closer look at things. We really ought to take a look and just make sure what we're creating in our life. What is it we really want? Why are we inviting certain things in, and why are we repelling other things away? What are our fears? What are our concerns? Where do we have this insatiable faith, you know, and desire to move forward with things, even when it doesn't appear as if it can happen? So these are definitely things to take a look at. And as we've been cruising through this, you know, I mean, how much can a person say about fire? Well, obviously a lot. I've said so much over the years, and I don't want to keep going on about it, but when it comes to wilderness survival, when I'm out there and I'm not in a house, I'm just sleeping with the earth, and when I have fire, that fire is so important. It's very sacred, it's its own entity, its own life. I I want to feed it, I want to take care of it. And when I leave, I want to make sure that it is out so that it doesn't have an opportunity to get out of control. So there are certain things that I do, and depending on the conditions or the environment that I am in, as to how much I will use fire and for what. But here every day in my home, every day with my wife, my kids, every day with the clients, every day with others that I'm associated with, and man, you know, what is this about Winfield, where it's almost like I have this, you know, when you have these camp stoves now and they've got this click ignition, you can it it clicks and makes a spark so that it'll create a fire. That's kind of like my go-to response has often been anger. And what's behind that usually is you know being hurt uh to some degree or being scared to some degree. So I've noticed that when I start to have a little fear, I feel like I'm a little out of control, or uh there's not much I can do, you know, to fix something on the outside of me, it's usually through that fear and also through that that unknown place, that uncertainty, you know, that says, What am I going to do? So when I'm in those places, I quickly remind myself now to not stay there. It's one thing to get angry, and yes, I've been able to be effective with my anger, channeling the anger, getting a lot done, being productive, being effective, but the most important thing that I've learned is how to change it back to this calm, assuring certainty with kindness, and that is what I like the most about fire, the thing that I've enjoyed the most. No matter what, no matter what, no matter what, whether it saved my life and got me warm or anything, my favorite, favorite thing is hanging out with people I really like, people I really love around a fire. There's something beautiful and magical sitting around a fire, whether you're roasting marshmallows or cooking or making tools or whatever, when you have a group of people around a fire that have a common good, a common goal, just a common union that is unspoken. There is such a powerful essence of connectivity. And that's something that I've never spoken about with the fire, is that connectivity. And if you don't connect your sticks together in that fire, if you don't connect those logs together, they can't reach out to the next one to start it on fire, so to speak. So how contagious do we want to be and in this good contagious, like they say? Love is contagious, laughter is contagious. Let's be so inviting, let's have people around our fires. Let's be kind, let's not be so afraid and uncertain and just lose sight of what is really important. Allow ourselves to be a little bit vulnerable. You know, in most cases, when I've gotten burned, I've healed right back up. So I think that fire creation always staying warm and protected. To me, I am. I'm warm and protected, and I just want to invite others around my fire so they feel the same, and then they can go and do the same. So with that, I'll end this episode today, and then we will do our review on fire creation, and we'll be moving into food gathering. God bless.

SPEAKER_01 10:59

There we have episode 42 of Survival Essentials. Fire Creation. Always stay warm and protected. Uses. I've said this before on previous episodes, but nonetheless, I would highly recommend listening to this episode again and again. There are many, many golden nuggets, as Hawk would say, within this episode. 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.