Survival Essentials - Food Gathering - The Review

In this episode of Conversations with a Shaman. 
We get into episode forty-nine of Survival Essentials. 
Food Gathering - Always stay calm and nourished. 
The Review.

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

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 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 49 of Survival Essentials Food Gathering. Always stay calm and nourished. The review. This and so much more in this episode of Inside the Raven's Eye. Thanks for listening and enjoy.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

We are now on the review of the eighth section of survival essentials, food gathering. Always stay calm and nourished. We've talked about the physiological aspects where you think that you want it yet you don't need it. We talked about the wild edibles, knowing common plants for food and medicine. We talked about the traps and snares, figure four, byute deadfall, and other methods. We talked about the necessity of food gathering, and we talked about the little formula of no water equals no food. Now, here in this review, we want to be able to go over this process about food gathering. First of all, in a wilderness survival situation under the umbrella of being found, giving you are lost or stranded in the wilderness for a period of 72 hours, give or take. So in that window of time, food gathering is not important at all. Now, I say that pretty factually. So when it comes to prioritizing, there's a lot going on. You're doing all these things, and you're going to be burning a lot of energy, or let's say, utilizing energy. And in this process of fueling yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, using your thoughts, words, feelings, and actions to get those results powerfully during this time period, food gathering is something that you want to get really familiar with now. Let's hope that none of us ever get in that you know, in that position where we're lost or stranded in the wilderness. You know, it's not uh a good experience for anyone that I've ever heard in that way. We're mostly talking about the way that we live here in society, and what are our priorities each day, especially when we have in most cases our water, shelter, fire and food in the format of food in the fridge, water and the taps, uh, shelter your home, or you know, like that, and and the uh fire your your thermostat, regulating temperature, etc. Your oven cooking food, things like that. So food gathering in a wilderness survival situation, start learning now all the possibilities, study from reliable sources. Do not just hear somebody on Instagram say, Oh, this is good for this, and this and this and this and this and this. If they don't have storylines to back up their processes of what they're saying, you might want to look for another resource. When I'm talking about having storylines to back it up, we're looking for validity, we're looking for that part where someone can truthfully say to you, Wow, plantain, I have used it in these ways, and they can go through and explain to you, they can explain to you where it grows, they can explain to you the texture of the leaves and how the stems grow up out of the center, and how the stalks, the top seed pods, are actually psilium husk. You pay money in the stores for this stuff. So you want to get to know your foods. Oregon grape root has berberine in it, a great source of medicine, and especially for your liver, and you pay money for it in the health food stores, berberine. It's just one constituent out of many trace minerals. We don't want to separate them. I know that might sound funny, I'm not trying to come down. I've been in the herbal industry, I've been in that retail industry of that, I've been in the sales every bit of it, you know, manufacturing, I make my medicines here. I understand. But when it comes right down to it, if you don't know Mother Earth and Father Spirit, and you don't trust both, and you don't actually, even in a case where you do not know what to do, I told you the story about the little girl with giardia. And there's other stories about people with giardia that I was able to help after that because of that first question. This little girl's sick. What should I do? I just asked. I was told get some plantain, some yarn, some dandelion, and make a tea. So I already knew those plants, and they were all right there. It was very easy. The hardest part is when you start to doubt. Your mind goes kind of crazy and you question and things, and then when you start asking, then you question a few uh your questions, and then you question the other answers, and then you wonder if, you know, am I getting the right answer? And so you just need to go with it your first time, okay? Ask. If you don't know and you're in a position, if you're in that willingness survival situation out there, just get down on that earth and reach your hand up and say, Listen, I'm connected here to the earth. I'm down here on the earth, and I'm reaching up and saying, help me. Tell me what plants that I can use if you needed medicine, say, or tell me what plants like if that are edible, like if you needed the food, okay? So you'll get that information, you'll see the images, it will help you. It's innate, it's divine. We've just suffocated all that with all of our complications in this society. So when it comes to food gathering, this is a super big deal. When you look at the global structure of food, wow. First of all, remember this there's more than enough of everything on this planet for a lot more people than are here right now. More than enough water, more than enough food, more than enough of everything for everyone. But here's the thing: the tricky thing is recognizing that you are a steward. When you become a steward of something and you start working with the life force, you start planting those seeds of your food, and you start seeing how it grows and you build this relationship and have this connection. You it's what we call being one, one with. And so when you, and we already are, that's the innateness I'm talking about, and how we complicate that. So when it comes to this food gathering and what's going on in our world today, I recommend that you learn the simple foods and medicines that are around you in your own geographic area that you can grasp from the ground right out of Mother Earth, okay? And you can start preparing them and utilizing them in your home and working with them. You can start growing a little garden of your foods. You can grow your tomatoes in most cases here, you know, and you can do your indoor gardening, outdoor gardening, community gardening. And so there are a lot of people who are doing this. They're turning these dark places of neglect in our communities into garden centers, and they are providing their own people right there in their neighborhoods food because that section of town was neglected, say, for whatever reasons. I know you understand what I'm talking about. So we have to get this food gathering back in perspective. There's nobody out there controlling it. Yes, they're trying to, and yes, they're trying to say they have a hold on what we can drink, how much we pay for it, what we can't eat, how much we pay for it. We want to think ahead. We want to have sustainable living, and so we must have good food. Now we're in a period of time where organic, that word organic, okay, all we're saying, people, I think in this is look, we got to go back to the grassroots, okay? Stop putting all these things, chemicals that don't belong, on your food to make them look pretty and to make them go faster. Stop, you know, condensing the populations of like chickens and putting them all in one coop so stacked upon each other and making them fat with antibiotics, you know, and whatever it is that we're doing to mass produce is going against the natural rhythms. You've got to trust yourself, your body will tell you. And then you've just got to, like Alan said in this last episode, or one of the last couple episodes, about asking himself, do I need this? Do I really need this? Or is this something that I'm trying to do to fill a void, perhaps, when you're hungry? Why do you do what you do when you do it? So get busy thinking about your most common foods and the most common ailments, and then locate those plants to fulfill to take care of those most common ailments in your home and family, and then those foods that you can grow most abundantly in your home or neighborhood with others. Get busy about this sustainability, okay? Uh nobody's in charge of your life. It might seem like you might not have a say or have some control in this matter of food gathering, but you know what it is, is always stay calm and nourished. You've got to provide yourself the opportunity to know how to go about these things so that you can have certainty, so you don't have a fear, so you're not thinking, oh my gosh, I can't afford to give this food, or where you're finding yourself, you know, because you've got family, you've got to go to the food banks or whatever, in order to sustain your family's viability. And so this food gathering, think about it. Always stay calm and nourished. All right. And then we're talking about, again, the physiological processes. You know, what you think you want and what you don't need. So you've got to consider before you do things. And this isn't just about food, these are thought processes that help you in every area of life. Wild edibles, know your common plants for food and medicine. Absolutely. Traps and snares. Wow, don't get caught in your mindset with those traps and snares. And when it comes to the traps and snares and willingness survival, yes, learn them. Learn how to build a figure forward, learn how to do a Paiute deadfall, learn how to do uh different types of snares and how to work with the resources around you, how to make cordage from natural plants and and uh inner barks that surround the area there, and how to do these things so that if you're ever in that position, but not only that, even if you were never called to be in a position of survival, that connectivity that you're experiencing when you're touching these live elements, when you're touching the earth, when you're working with this and training and learning, you're pulling yourself back out of the complications of society and putting yourself back into the innateness. And then you can trust yourself better and you can know how to go about giving yourself everything, using your thoughts, words, feelings, and actions to get the results you need in every single area of your life. So, this review of Food Gathering is to remind you to always stay calm and nourished physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, under any umbrella, any circumstance, so you don't let your environment and your thought process processes take over what you might think you need versus what you really do. Take care.

SPEAKER_01 13:30

There we have episode 49 of survival essentials, food gathering. Always stay calm and nourished. The review. With this review, I would like to add the necessity I feel to remind everyone listening to not only listen to one episode only once, listen to them over and over, multiple times. Practice what you hear. Find your way that works best for you, but practice what you hear in these podcasts. It will heal in more ways than you can count. I promise. 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. God bless.