ZetaTalk: What Mindset
Note: written on Nov 15, 2001
Humans hearing dread warnings tend to think in terms of escape routes and stocking up and hunkering down. The cataclysmic situations they encounter include
tornadoes (hunker down), hurricanes (escape and stock up), droughts or shortages (stock up). The pole shift will present survivors with long term needs, not
anticipated.
- We advise thinking about Third World conditions and adaptations, or live 100 years ago for those living in highly industrialized nations. This give the picture
of continuing struggle. You don't plant seed to grow for this season, you save 10% for seed stock next year. You don't eat your livestock altogether, when
hungry, you save your best pairs and breed for the future, going hungry now if need be! You think of the minimum that you will need, not the optimal and
how to arrange for it. When you've got the minimum, start adding to that, but only when the minimum is addressed. This is where humans fail the most in
planning for the shift, and life afterwards. They think of their life now, and come down from that. They should start with life with nothing, but bugs and
sucking dirty water up from the ground with their hands. No clothes. No heat. Nothing. Then add what is needed most, and first. Heat, shelter, then food,
bugs if need be or weeds, then how to clean your food so you can stop that tummy ache and constant pooping, then how to grow or gather food more
effectively. Start from that, adding what is needed to clean water and eat food nature will provide, live bugs aplenty, and go from there, and you will have a
better plan.
- Humans wishing to survive the starvation and disease that will be rampant after the shift should consider first their general state of health. Those who are in
good health, exercise and have most importantly a good attitude, will be in the best position to survive. As many doctors and caretakers will report, the will
to live is prime for survival. Patients expected not to see the morrow live and recover, while those without serious injury or disease succumb! It is time for
the populace planning to survive to lift their eyes to the future, past the shift, to the years afterwards. This is not without hope, not without excitement, and
seeing beyond a travail helps to survive it. Eating well, of natural foods that you will perforce be required to consume in the Aftertime, will acclimate your
body to what is to come. Being in good shape, with exercise, will prevent fatigue from becoming a discouragement.
- Becoming overweight to store food is counter productive if the general health is adversely affected. The body has capabilities most in civilized countries do
not realize, as during starvation use of nutrients is altered accordingly. The body becomes weak, energy lagging, but the ability to survive a long spell is
increased. An attitude of hope, expectation that things will get better, and a sense of excitement about what might be around the corner will do more for
survival than layers of fat. Consider that a plump person will run slowly, be easily caught, and would be considered a good meal by some groups looking to
cannibalize. Consider also that overweight individuals would also be subject to being left behind by a group on the move, or to be a good meal by hungry
dog packs or wolves. Can they carry their pack? Are they resented for the food they have gorged themselves with before hand? There are many factors to
be considered.
