Starvation

I was thinking tonight just how much the human race has changed just in the last 100 years. There could never have been 7 billion people alive in the last 10,000 years or so because of one thing. There was no gasoline, diesel, wind, (a little wind power through windmills), no solar power, and no Nuclear power etc.

So, before the last 100 years starvation was a fairly normal thing in all countries of the world. And as a result the population at no time in recorded history reached even 1 billion people. Such a thing would have been thought unheard of in any age. Because without gasoline and diesel this much food could never have been grown let alone shipped quickly to all parts of the world (even though it is very expensive and getting moreso every day).

So, what happens if oil gets interfered with in the middle east through what is happening in Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, etc. ?

There is a very good likelihood that starvation will once again became very common for periods on earth among at the very least approximately 3.5 billion people which would be the poorest half of people on earth.

So, the reason I'm writing this article is to help people understand that someone can go on living who is under 50 or 60 years old and fairly healthy even with no food at all for 40 to 80 days (some even more). They might not feel very good. They may be in very altered states of consciousness. But it is possible to physically survive without damaging yourself very much physically or psychologically in any permanent way to do this. How is this possible?

As long as you have a source of clean water to drink and can stay warm enough wherever you are you likely can stay alive if you can keep it together enough psychologically. However, you sort of have to know what to expect is going to happen.

Have you ever read children's stories from the 1950s or earlier? You are really in for a fairly horrific treat by today's standards. For example, let me show you my mother's nighttime prayer for the early 1920s. She was born in 1919.

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I should die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take
Amen.

Today most parents would never teach their kids this prayer because it is too scary. But when my mother was born up to half the kids born couldn't expect to live to be 10. That is not a statistic I looked up this is what my mother told me. So, when people had kids it was perfectly normal for up to half of their kids to die (from one reason or another by 10 to 20 years of age). Even now, statistics of people living to 90 only work when people say, "If you live to be 30 you likely will see 90". That is a given if you are born in the United States. But, even now, if you look at the statistics of how many are lost between birth and 30 for all reasons it is still pretty horrific even today here in 2012. So, in families it wasn't unusual up until 1950 to have 10 kids with 3 to 5 dying before 20 years of age from everything from polio to whooping cough to war to accidents.

So, I would say if you are in the lower half of the world in wealth it might be in your best interests (when it is warm enough where you live) to try just going on water for a few days (if you are healthy enough for that) just to see what happens when your body doesn't have any food inside it for a few days.

The easiest way would be to choose a day when you don't have to work or go to school and try (just for 12 to 24 hours try to only drink water and look carefully at what you are experiencing physically and psychologically. By doing this you get to know yourself and your body much better. Because who you are when you eat food and who you become when you don't eat food are not exactly the same. If you are a spiritual person and do this in a place where you feel safe you might even consider this to be a "Spiritual high" which many spiritual or intuitive people do. However, like anything else you have to be careful of doing this too much for a variety of reasons. First, you won't make as good of decisions in general in you life. You won't be able to drive a car or bicycle or motorcycle or boat or plane as well while fasting. And you also might want to be careful walking too. So, in some ways not eating can be a little like getting a little tipsy or having some kind of drug reaction or even a MSG or salt reaction. But if you never experience this you won't be able to deal with it when it is a real emergency for one reason or another. So, this is one reason you should do this to prepare for some actual emergency.

For example, say you are driving cross country and your car breaks down and it is snowing and you are way out beyond where any people are driving then. What are you going to do?

Or, if you are flying across the country in a plane (passenger or private) and it crashes but you survive and it is in the middle of the desert or mountains away from civilization? What are you going to do?

Or, what if you are in the middle of another country or this one and someone steals your wallet and ID and you have nothing to buy food? What are you going to do?

So, by preparing for unusual but possible events you will feel more confident to literally travel anywhere on earth and know you can survive 40 to 80 days on just  clean drinking water if you had to in a real emergency. (However, I wouldn't go over a week myself because your hallucinations will become pretty extreme by that point, especially if you aren't drinking enough water.

So, my father wanted me to fast when I was young in my teens because he said it was a way to detoxify my body from any toxins I had taken on into my body from anything in any food I had ever eaten. So, I first tried one day on just water and lemon juice and Maple syrup. (just a teaspoon or less per glass of water). (the lemon juice tends to keep you from getting a headache because it cuts the toxins as they eliminate out of your body). So, eventually by age 18 I had tried 7 days on only water, lemon juice (fresh squeezed) and maple syrup (less than a teaspoon per glass of liquid) and I was fine. I felt kind of spaced out from it and very different than normal but I felt very close to God. (Jesus is reported to have fasted for 40 days and nights on water as well).

Then at age 35 in 1983 I did a vision quest for four days with no water and no food in a bear wallow on the South Fork of the Trinity River in Northern California. This was pretty amazing and extremely empowering to do this. I realized after that that being a human being I was more prepared than I ever thought to survive a very long time without food or water while remaining perfectly calm.

(Even though the first two days my mind was screaming at me things like, "You are crazy to do this. You're going to die out here. This is nuts." But finally my mind settled down because I am disciplined enough to go through this until I got to the place I needed to to understand what I was supposed to do next in my life.

So, what really sounds nuts about all this is by starving myself for 4 days and nights while not drinking any water and praying all the time gave me the understanding and visions to live the rest of my life and to bring me here writing this for you right now. But that is what happened and it was one of the most boring and simultaneously exciting 4 days of my entire life. Not eating is a paradox but it might just be what saves your life (if you don't do it too long).