Anarchistbanjo's World

I would like to share a personal story. While in the Air Force I was given the opportunity to go through some specialized training, Basic Land Survival, Water Survival, Desert Survival and Recovery, POW resistance training. While this was not the intensive training special forces go through it was the same training that Air Force Pilots and other air crew go through because an important part of my job was to do refresher training for the pilots.

In Basic Land Survival we were given enough rations to ensure one small meal a day for the duration of the training. We were expected to forage for the rest if possible. It was April in the Cascade mountains and snow covered. There was not really anything else to eat.

What was interesting was how other class members reacted during the course. There was a mix of pilots, air crew and perhaps a few like myself. I carefully horded my small cache of rations and stretched that one meal a day into three very small meals during the day. I watched as other members of the class ate big meals and some even traded rations for smokes! I didn’t understand how they could be doing that.

During the last days of the training those people ran out of food and were begging other class members, promising money even, for something to eat. Obviously a person can go without food for three weeks if they need to so no one was ever in any real danger, but the lesson was there and it was very clear!

So if I write about my concerns of global food shortages next fall and next winter because of what is happening between Russia and Ukraine that puts this fall’s harvest at risk, I am writing from a place of personal experience. I am alarmed at the lack of recognition of the general public of the severity of things. I am writing because I care and not because I am trying to push some political narrative!

True magick happens at the root chakra level and is organic in nature. It does not come from thinking happy thoughts, but from realistic appraisal of our environment and our own abilities. It also comes from applying our personal efforts and energies to effective solutions. It is results oriented! Anyone who thinks otherwise is deceiving themselves!