Survival Essentials - Final Review

In this episode of Conversations with a Shaman. 
We get into episode fifty of Survival Essentials. 
Final review of Survival Essentials.

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

Transcript

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 50 of Survival Essentials. Final review of Survival Essentials. This and so much more in this episode of Inside the Raven's Eye. Thanks for listening and enjoy. Okay, here we are. Recap of Survival Essentials, episode 50. And I mean, I'll just go down the list here: preparing and training, stop and first aid, mental clarity and focus, navigation and signaling, water questing, shelter solutions, fire creation, and food gathering. And it's quite quite a list when you kind of look at it that way and you read down it. And when I was thinking this morning, when I was thinking, okay, wow, the big recap here. And I was kind of reviewing, I was just like, well, you know, for me, I'm a for the listener, I'm like holding up this tiny little portion in my finger here. See, like I know like this much really of being in that raw wilderness to me is the way I looked at it. And so for the listener thinking, yeah, like survival essentials, gosh, I don't really know anything. Can I relate? Or if they're just listening to this episode alone starting off, it's very important because I I kind of looked back at the situation of the very first one, preparing and training yourself. It kind of goes right back to the beginning, is where I think about this, because I thought about the very little amount that I know has helped me so much in this modern wilderness. Because it is you're surviving and you're trying your best to survive in that situation. So when you go out in the wilderness, in that raw wilderness, wow, wow, wow, does this list really it helps in that situation, but wow, does it really have it's had a huge impact in the modern wilderness for me in my life? And and I said this in the previous couple episodes, I think uh one of them at least, I said, hey, recap all these episodes, listening to them over and over and over, and just taking even a little bit and under and saying, I'm gonna practice this because you gotta start somewhere. So with saying all that, I'm gonna just hand it over to you.

SPEAKER_01 3:00

No, I think that's awesome. And so I yeah survival essentials, and it is quite a list. And then you consider everything under each of those areas you spoke of, and and and kind of uh uh each of them being their own little uh never-ending treasure box. You know, you open up the preparing and training and you look at the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, and it just is like never-ending. You know, let's move uh a couple places forward and let's go to navigation signaling, and you you know, you open up those four areas, they're each their own little treasure box of never-ending information about those. This is a never-ending study. The divine intelligence is the greatest encyclopedia that you could ever find out there, the Wikipedia, whatever you want to call it, that's out there as far as information. You want to get the correct information, go to divine intelligence. You want to get, you know, the information that is truth that goes, you know, uh through all motion, space, and time, go to divine intelligence. Learn how to have silent communication with yourself so you can always have absolute truth. And then when you have that absolute truth, you can trust yourself. So a lot of this really comes down to trust because, you know, so when we go around, we're living in this kind of a fearful on-edge in our modern wilderness life. And it's almost like we're we're always being uh hunted, you know, it's very predatorial wherever you go, and hunted kind of unintended in a way, because uh we're kind of in an environment where you know it's it's just kind of up to circumstance, and wherever you place yourself in a work environment, a driving-to-work environment, a home environment, an academic environment, a mealtime environment, you know, whatever all these are, and whoever we're interacting with, and under what circumstances of where our present mind is, and when you get 20 present minds together that aren't present, you have chaos. When you get one mind, you you don't have present-mindedness, you have chaos. And so here we are rippling this chaotic energy, and it's just pinging everywhere on our planet, okay? It's just out of control. Learning how to survive in this modern wilderness is more interesting to me now than ever before. And I would say that it is absolutely more imperative than learning how to live in the raw wilderness. And yet at the same time, it's this way of doing this, and this is the part that I want to just state out. I really place in the world that people are going to hear about this unique relationship, this uniquely linking raw wilderness survival skills to everyday living in our today, now, every moment world. There's nowhere else in the world that people can hear how this raw wilderness survival skill essentials like that, the essentials, okay. What is it that we need? And not just to platform on survival, okay? We don't want to just platform out and have a you know this baseline, okay, I'm surviving, I'm surviving. No, it's a continual increase. So I was thinking this morning, too, that you know, whether it's survival essentials, whether it's personal medicine will, you know, um the puppet versus master, all the episodes we've done, you know, whatever it is and how it's taught, how everything is so interlinking. But again, I'm gonna say this there's nowhere in the world that you're going to hear this unique way of linking raw wilderness survival skills to everyday living. People can try and mimic this stuff, but there's no way. The experiences are there to back it up. And not only that, I could say this that it's kind of cool how I have finally uh, I'm gonna say learned, and I don't want to say on a platform level, but learned how to survive in modern wilderness and in a in a way of taking the raw wilderness survival mindset that I developed over all those years and applying it because I have not spent as much time in the raw wilderness as I would have liked to over the last decade. I have been held at home more than ever before, and I've had a desire to in this way, a desire to figure out how do I live in this home environment with other people that have different worlds than me, and how do I do this in a way that we can coexist without ripples. So, for this almost last decade in this home, I have been learning how to make adjustments within myself, to not have expectations with others, to not get in the way of their physical, mental, emotional, spiritual growth, not to sway them by what mine is, not to do anything whatsoever in interfering. And I'm telling you what, I've interfered a lot, you know, and it's not like I meant to or wanted to, but when we think about this, and so I hope everybody's just kind of thinking, okay, on what level, when I interact with other people, am I influencing? Because our energy is an influence. Now, I I'm saying influence because it's almost like when you walk to the edge of if you've gone to a a pond or a lake or an ocean, and and you have these the this water line kind of rippling in, and it kind of comes upon the shore, and then it goes back down. So you can walk, it almost draws you to it, okay? And and then the water comes in and you kind of back up, getting your feet wet a little bit, learning what that feels like. I think anybody and everyone that has ever had an experience in this lakeshore ocean front kind of experience where you are trying to test out what this feels like and trust and what it feels like in this interaction with this movement, okay, walking into it, and then it's coming back. Oh, it's coming back, oh, it's getting my feet wet. Oh, that feels interesting. Oh, what is this? And then we maybe go out a little bit more. Maybe before we know it, we actually dive into it. Okay, so what is this process and how is this influence coming back to us? So people say, well, you get what you give, you know, uh input output. I mean, there's a lot of cliche, you know. I just say, hey, kill it. Kill the cliches, all right? Just get rid of them. You know, yeah, you can dive deep and you can figure out some basics and all of that, but the bottom line is this when you're in a real wilderness survival situation, you're thinking about generally four things without even thinking about them, okay? It's water, shelter, fire, and food. We we absolutely have to at one point or another interact with those in a sense of our survival. And when I'm saying that out there, what is our influence? If we're out there in a fearful, you know, under that fearful umbrella saying, oh, I'm scared, our influence to our environment around us, even though there might not be any people, we still have living organisms that are also putting off an influence. And and the thing that's different is in most cases, theirs is just a pure authentic ripple. It's just, I'm here, I'm a tree, I'm a cactus, I'm a, you know, I'm a yarrow, I'm a whatever, you know, without even thinking, it's just a being of energy. And only when we can come to that same innocent state, that same innate state, that same homeostasis of energy, this electromagnetic energy has to stabilize. So if you ever feel lost or stranded, you just feel all that energy, okay? So blah blah blah blah blah blah building, building, building, calm as frantic, okay? And it's like, okay, so number two, you know, uh in survival essentials is stop. Stop. And this one is so important. I'm just kind of pulling this out right now because when we're not thinking about water, shelter, fire, and food, and we don't really even think about it in this society either, okay, uh, in a completely different way. But when you're in your home, you know, you might think of water like, oh, I ought to take a shower, I ought to water the plants, right? Oh, I'm thirsty, you know, or I need water to mix with this recipe to make something, you know. So water, water, water, water, water. And we talk about gratitude and how grateful we are for that water. Well, I'll tell you in the in the greatest aspects of gratitude and water. Wow. Okay, when when you are so thirsty and you forced yourself to fast, and you're out in the hot, hot desert, and you have intentionally placed yourself there in a four-day, four-night fast, and you have water before you, and you do not drink it as you know you can. It's right there, and you discipline yourself not to. You make yourself go without. You subject your body to your mind. My body, I'm thirsty. Oh, but mind says, hey, look, you can do this for just a little bit. That water right there, you know, you don't you don't need to drink it right now. Let's do this four-day, four-night cycle. And so you subject your body to your mind, see. So in that stopping, you know, we say stop, think, observe, and plan. Well, there's this spiritual subjection going on as well, okay? So this goes a lot deeper on so many levels, on every way, from raw wilderness to your everyday living in your home and going to work and all that kind of thing as well. And then we okay, so let me stay focused here on that. Subjecting your body to your mind, and then subjecting your mind to your spirit. Because that's kind of why I have intentionally placed myself in those situations, is I'm trying to access this spirit place. Trying to override the ripples of energy that are not, they're not true. They're completely influenced by so many things. And when I'm alone in the wilderness under that umbrella, forcing myself to fast, then the only interaction I'm having is with myself. So I say, hey, when you come out on these spirit quests, and and I help you through a spirit quest, spirit quest. You go out there, you learn a few little survival skills, you go out, you spend some time alone, and then you have this opportunity to choose to fast. So you can learn to subject your body to your mind, learn how to subject your mind to your spirit, because the spirit part, see, this is what we want. This is what we want more than ever right now on this planet. We want it the most, okay? Spirit is active, more active on this planet on both polars, okay? I mean, from your from your uh we could just call it the darkest spectrum and the lightest spectrum, however you want to view it, okay? And and yes, it's very, very active. So in spirit quest or in real life, or right now in your home or wherever you are at work, you've got to subject your body to your mind, your mind, your spirit. We want spirit, okay? And no, you don't have to come out on a spirit quest to learn how to do this. You can do it in five seconds anywhere, okay? And so, but in this idea that I'm presenting here, there's a power. So putting myself in that position to not drink that water, see, and then the gratitude, see, we gotta go back and talk about that, because that's where I started this story, see. So, in a gratitude place, then it's like, wow, I'm at that moment when I have realized wow, my spirit is so strong, so capable. I I see from spirit eyes then not from my physical eyes. I understand my connection. Then I start to not just hear these thoughts in my head. I hear the energy. I hear that electromagnetic energy, this hum, this mother earth heartbeat, this mother earth vibration, this father-spirit interaction that allows me to unify with all living things. And when I unify with all living things, I am at peace. There is no threat. There's an understanding without a thought. And when we are in that place, we're able to look at that water and we know that we are already that water. There's a unification. So when that time comes, and I say, hey, I feel accomplished. I feel like I did something, like I learned something through this four-day intentional fasting. Okay, because it does go fast too, see. So this four days might seem like a long time with no food or no water. But you do that. And then when you have that water, and you it's slow. So whether you take it in that water bottle or whether you have been in a real wilderness survival situation where you are looking for your water, because I go out, see so many times, and I don't know, I just go new territory. So I follow the landscape. And maybe I'm out of water, and maybe a day goes by, two days go by, say, you know, I'm thinking pretty thirsty and still wandering around. Then I come across a water pocket. And, you know, I don't want to just run over there and start gulping. See, there's this process of approach. This is where integrity lies, and where dignity lies, and when we have this sacred approach to all life, see to ourselves, we are all life. When we have this sacred approach to how we understand things, when we have subjected our body to our mind, and our mind to our spirit, and our spirit to the essence of this God force, this gracious, omnipotent divine, so that when we approach that water, whatever resource that we have have before us, water, shelter, fire, food, relationships, any of these things, see, you know, this approach, it's not just the water, but what a beautiful way to look at it and understand it and feel it and come to know it. It's the only way to meet. And so then you have that drink, that water, with a new understanding of that it is a life-giving substance. That's the difference. Life-giving substance, see without it for too long, things can shrivel up and perish. So if we look at water, a spirit, you don't want to shrivel up and perish. You wanna nourish. We just finished up on food gathering for the last one. Uh always stay calm and nourish. You want to stay nourished, you gotta have that spiritual nourishment, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual see. So it's always moving, it's always moving. And when you keep yourself in that place all the time, even in dream time, okay, those are other discussions. But when you're able to look at how survival essentials, okay, just gonna go through here now, preparing and training. Always keep yourself, you know, in a state of readiness, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. And then we've got stop, think, observe, and plan, okay, and and then we have I'm just gonna kind of instead of naming all the Four areas, the mental clarity and focus, navigation and signaling. So there's like that first left side, you know, that first four. And and and then over here you've got water, shelter, fire, food. So there's like a divide in a way, okay, because you have to learn how to work inside with yourself. That's what all this is over here, the preparing and the training, the stop and first aid, and the mental clarity and focus and the navigation signaling, those all mean something. See, that's an ongoing, it's a never-ending. It doesn't stop. You know, if you want to get up and and you know, you're gonna you have an idea. I'm gonna uh run the 5K in uh 90 days that I heard about, I better start training. And then let's say you run a mile each week because you're tired the other days or something like that, and you go run that 5K. Have you prepared and trained? What do you think there, Alan? No. Hell no. So what do you have to put into the the basket of giving? You know, uh, well, you know, you've got to give yourself to it. You've just gotta trust, you've got to surrender, you've got to give it all. You've got to give it all like your life is on the line because it is all the time. You know, it's always on the line, and you are always in a state of either growing or decaying. All living organisms are in this process of we are here to grow, we are here to ascend, we are here to increase, whatever those words are. It's uh well, I'm gonna go with this ascension one, okay? So, so we're here to ascend, to become more than what we uh think, uh, to become more than what we were taught, to become more than what is viewed, to become more than what is perceived, to become more than by a kind of an erasing of. So when you find yourself out in the raw wilderness, and there's two ways. One, you walk away from your on a backpacking trip, you set down your backpack, you go off to get some firewood, say, or look around, and then you can't find your backpack, and you're up in some area, you don't even know where you're at, now you feel lost. That's one way. The other way is the intentional going. The intentional going to give yourself intentionally. Say, hey, I'm here, and I'm seeking. I'm seeking something very important here. I'm seeking how to understand to live on this planet in uh in a very functional and effective way with others, you know. And when I say with others, you know, 8 billion, 9 billion, I don't know. Okay, we got a lot of people on here, a lot of people coming and going. So every day, you know, the birth birth uh is off the charts. How many kids being born every millisecond or whatever, how many people dying every millisecond, you know, so so our experiences are more. Everything is more. And so it might seem like, oh, I can't take it. Uh, but that's not true. See, that's not true at all. It just seems that way. Look out a different window. Look out the window that I'm presenting here, the window that says, I can walk in certainty. I can I can walk through the fog. I can close my eyes and play guitar. So, see, you gotta trust where your fingers go, you gotta, you gotta trust the the instrument you're using. And we've been given the most beautiful instrument, this very essence of our bodies. And everybody comes to this planet with a different vessel, you know. It's kind of like, hey, you know, you drive a Volkswagen, oh, he drives a Mercedes, oh, he drives a 67 Chevy pickup, or, you know, oh, you got an Allen body, oh, I got a Windfill body, you know, a 61 Windfill, you know, whatever year you're born, you know, make it up like a vehicle, okay? It's a vehicle. I've got a 1961 windfeld, and I'm gonna take good care of it. So if you don't change your oil, rotate your tires, take care of it. You gotta do the preventative maintenance. So when you are not taking care of your vehicle and you're compromising, but see, all the other living organisms, you know, maybe they don't have that same kind of thought compromise process. They're just be increasing. Okay, they're going with that Mother Earth vibration. So you have to still yourself to get back to that. Because the way humans work, we rob ourselves from our present-mindedness, see? And we don't want that. We want to be present. We want to be present all the time. When I say present, what I mean is where you actually know what's going on. So even all this time that I'm speaking, I can tell you, you know, okay, so here's this, what I'm wearing, what Alan's wearing, what's going on around, and you know, can I just steal myself and you know, so I can hear a dog barking outside, you know, or whatever like that. But what I'm talking about is not just your calm and familiar environment. You've got to switch it. So whether you intentionally place yourself in a quiet place in your home and do meditation and silence yourself and do these things, do it. Or if you're gonna come out to the wilderness and you're going to expose yourself and become more vulnerable more vulnerable than you possibly ever have. I just want to interrupt that thought. Uh Raven Spirit, uh when you think about that now, your first experience out there, your first spirit quest. And I I we didn't really talk much about, I mean, some ways, vulnerability, but what would you say about that?

SPEAKER_00 25:45

Vulnerability, yeah. On the first spirit quest, it was I think of the word trust, because I th I was thinking earlier about the stone people uh showing up. And because trust kind of overrides the the doubt right there, like how I had that. And that the interesting part was I remember seeing that shadow of myself, that shadow self, and not falling into doubt. I I remember in the moment I kind of did because I thought it was you, you know, so but it wasn't. And it was that shadow self that I no longer wanted to be, and realizing that maybe that I'm just calling it that shadow self was preventing me from understanding about doing maintenance on the vehicle of myself. And being vulnerable out there and not having fear of walking into that unknown and putting the trust in you to know, okay, everything's fine, everything's good, and I'm actually here to learn and grow with Mother Earth and you know, know Mother Earth, no father spirit, and get to know yourself. Um, for me, I think about a lot about the stone people because of what they said to say, we need your help. You know.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

Explain stone people, please. What what way real quick?

SPEAKER_00 27:09

So for yeah, from for my experience, I'll just run it through exactly how I was was the solo time that you gave me, and it was you know, not quite dark, but it was that true blue moment. And I had my fire, and I was sitting by the fire, but then that's when Spirit said, go walk by the stream. And so I walked by the stream, and without even thinking what I was doing, I was looking directly at the canyon wall. And to me, it was like a shimmering, like almost a mirage, like a rattlesnake on the tail, kind of like like moved, and then all of a sudden, it's not like people came out of the rocks or anything, but it's like you saw the stones turn into who they truly are. That's the only way I could really describe it. And how they spoke to me was that they needed my help to get the message out, to understand this way of living is so important for Mother Earth and for all humanity. And so for me, I I said, of course, yes. I said, yes, yes, yes. And then it just kind of they kind of went back into the stones, I would say. And then that's when I saw myself dodge behind that big boulder. Like I saw it maybe for a second. It was a long second because it kind of threw me off a little bit. I was like, what the heck is that? And then, but when I stopped and thought about it, I think the following day when I explained it to you, was then I was like, that was some other part of me. And and then I could just be like, yeah, I it's like it's weird to see your shadow self because of how exact it is. It's very it reminds me a lot, it reminded me a lot of Peter Pan.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

Yes. And that's a great way for everybody to relate to that, yes.

SPEAKER_00 29:12

Yes. So that was my experience with the stone people.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

So survival essentials. What you just said, the way that you just spoke all that, I I don't even want to say anything else. If you want to have these experiences, well currently you're not gonna find them on the website. But email us. Call me anything you want, reach out. Survival essentials, spirit quest, learning the personal medicine will all these things. Learning how to live. Understand experience like Raven Spirit shared. Again, thank you. That was that was that moved my heart. My my heart had fire in it when you were speaking. I I felt like I was one of the listeners, and I wanted to have that so bad. And and it helped me realize that, yeah, when I was opening up with this episode and saying I've been, you know, living in my home and learning how to live in society in such an in-depth way, under the umbrella of my survival essentials ways. Okay, it's a way of living no matter where you go. Your environment is not conducive of how you feel. You are. You create yourself in the environment so that you're not ever out of control. You just have to still yourself and learn your environment and what you're working with, and then begin to prioritize for these survival essentials. So now I'm just going to end with this. This is the final review of survival essentials. This is the last episode. And whoever's out there listening to this right now, if you want to sign up for these experiences, 2025's around the corner. You just need to email, you need to call, you need to put yourself out there, kind of a first come, first serve, families, friends, corporations, youth, you know. So uh we will be having outdoor courses better than what I used to do. I'm excited. So I'm just gonna end with that unless Raven Spirit got anything to add with that.

SPEAKER_00 31:55

All I can say is do it. You know, if someone wants to do it, then don't hesitate, don't doubt. I'll say don't doubt yourself, just do it. There we have episode 50 of Survival Essentials, the final review. There is a lot said in this episode, so I will keep this short and sweet. Simply, in my opinion, review the Survival Essentials multiple times. The more you practice, the better you get. 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.