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Physics of Change will feature information in specific sections each month.
The information is intended to inform the readers of this newsletter.
However, it is not advice!! Any decisions made based
on this information are to be done
in a self-responsible manner.
Mulai de Guise Publishing, LLC cannot be
held responsible for any individual actions based on the information it presents.
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~~~June 2007 Edition ~~~
Section 1 - Q & A
Hi Greg
I'd appreciate your advice. There is a UG for sale 45 minutes from Yelm. It is a geodesic dome fiberglass construction fully equipped for the days to come, and I have seen it for sale a few years before now.
I am interested in purchasing it, but am pausing because I remember Ram saying concrete was the only way to go. Can you advise me?
Here is how I have approached my own preparation. I do not know how severe the Earth changes are going to be, however, I have prepared for the harshest of possibilities within my own means. So now, I don't have to think about it often. In my opinion, the greatest preparation is doing the preparation yourself. There are many good resources for building shelters. survivalcenter/index.html has the reference materials. Remember the stories from my book, and the amazing statistics from Hiroshima and Nagasaki - those who owned and lived in their homes tended to survive the atomic blasts and those who were renting houses in the same area were much less fortunate. Having your mind in the very fabric of the building provides a great protective shield.
There are many options in building a shelter. Having a structure with 2' concrete is the best - and the most expensive. I would have trust in someone who put everything they had into a UG, even if it is not 2' concrete. We do the best we can with the resources we have. I would suggest that you build your own shelter with your own resources which includes the hundreds of decisions that will be made in the process of construction. All of those decisions carry the intent of survival and that becomes as important as the building itself.
There are many people who do not think that Earth changes are going to happen. To me that is the same mind set of that of a gambler. The odds and consequences are too great to be left to chance. And there are those who say that they will be in the right place at the right time. Read the story of the ant and the grasshopper, and contrary to popular interpretation, the ant does NOT open the door.
It is so easy to get started!! Get some information on food storage and shelters. That's the first step. That is about as hard as getting up out of your chair. And if you cannot manage that, then you get your choices as a reality - as we all do. Here, I'll even give you the suggested Food Storage List from Danielle Graham.
A SIMPLE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO FOOD STORAGE
by Danielle Graham
Hello everyone:
Whether you are building your very first basic food storage program or updating your current inventory, this simple beginner's guide to food storage can help make your planning and labor easier.
Remember, people have been storing food since the beginnings of civilizations. However, since our current societies no longer maintain public granaries, it is up to each of us to wisely store foods for such times that either interruptions in distribution or crop failures leave us without the abundance of foodstuffs we have grown accustomed. Fortunately, our current technology and knowledge archives provide us with ample tools and the information necessary to make this responsibility easy to understand and implement.
The process of storing foods is quite simple, requiring good planning, a moderate budget and a constant-cool location for storage. Following these simple guidelines below can help eliminate the frustration of what may seem, at first, to be a daunting task. Yet, the goal of providing ample food stores for yourself and your family is easily attainable, and ultimately, a deeply satisfying experience. Once you have your food storage preparations under way, you will know a level of inner confidence and security that no 'world event' can take from you.
The wise basic food storage plan.
The wise food storage plan takes into consideration the possibility of dramatic changes from our current lifestyle and insures that our nutritional requirements are met no matter how much our physical activity increases or decreases.
Currently, we live quite comfortably: Cars, buses, trains and planes that carry us from location to location, and, markets, grocery stores and restaurants in which to satisfy our hunger. However, if we were suddenly required to walk or bicycle long distances, grow and prepare our own food, build and maintain our own homes, fields and crops, our gross nutritional requirements would increase exponentially.
By the same token, if we found ourselves in circumstances in which our physical activities were severely curtailed, our gross caloric requirements would decrease, but our bodies' need for vital nutrients would not: The nutritional requirements would shift from calorie rich foods to nutritionally dense foods with significantly fewer calorie requirements.
Thus, even during beginning planning for a basic storage plan, it is important to account for this wide range of possibilities when creating our food storage lists. The guidelines provided below do take into consideration the wide range of potentials and these basic recommendations are offered accordingly.
What basic foods should be stored?
The best foods to begin with for your storage are the foods that store the longest, are the easiest to store, and provide the best and broadest range of nutrition, : Whole grains, beans and whole seeds, salt, sweeteners, and spices. These foods form the foundation of all long-term food storage plans. These foods require the least monitoring and rotation, are the least expensive and provide for both the broad nutritional requirements as well as dense nutritional requirements.
There are many levels of important foods to include in your food storage plans, however for the purposes of offering a good basic guideline, we will focus on only these basic foods in this simple Beginner's Guide.
How much basic food should be stored?
To answer this question, ask yourself: How many people do you want to store food and for how many years? I call this people/years.
Let's say you are a family of five - 2 adults and 3 children. (Always consider children the same as adults for the purposes of this calculation.) And, you want to store enough basic food supplies for 2 years. Multiply 5 people by 2 years and you have 10 people/years.
Use this formula to multiply the recommended amounts below by the above 10 people/years to get the number for the bulk amounts you should acquire.
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Grains: 300 lbs per person, per year
Beans: 100 lbs per person, per year
Sweeteners: at least 50 lbs per person, per year
Salt: at least 10 lbs per person, per year
Spices: at least 2 lbs per person, per year
Therefore, based on the calculation for the family of 5 for 2 years, multiply the amounts above by 10:
Grains: 300 x 10 = 3,000 lbs
Beans: 100 x 10 = 1,000 lbs
Sweeteners: 50 x 10 = 500 lbs
Salt: 10 x 10 = 100 lbs
Spices: 2 x 10 = 20 lbs
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Now, this 2+ tons of dry food may seem like an overwhelming huge quantity, however, this is a very manageable amount of food that can easily be packed, stacked and stored away.
As well, the quantities may seem out of touch with your current dietary regime, but the high amounts of sweeteners and salt take into consideration elevated nutritional requirements during demanding physical activities.
How are these basic foods stored?
These basic foods are packed into buckets, and in the case of the grains and beans, with nitrogen. Heavy food-grade food storage pails with a food-grade gasket lid come in 3 sizes for the purposes of storing and accessing bulk foods: 3.5 gallon, 5 gallon and 6 gallon.
Although utilizing 6 gallon buckets is the most cost efficient, please consider the weight of these buckets before deciding on the bucket sizes. I rarely recommend 6 gallon buckets, preferring instead the 5 gallon and the 3.5 gallon sizes.
6 gallon buckets generally hold 43 to 48 lbs of food for
a total weight of about 50 lbs. each
5 gallon buckets generally hold 30 to 33 lbs of food
for a total weight of about 35 lbs. each
3.5 gallon buckets generally hold 25 lbs of food
for a total weight of about 27 lbs. each
With the recommended 5 and 3.5 gallon buckets, each 100# of bulk grain or beans would fit into three 5 gallon bucket or four 3.5 gallon buckets. These weights are easier to manage, carry and utilize by putting less stress on the physical body over time.
Oxygen is forced out from around the grains and beans with nitrogen, protecting these foods from common, nesting insects. A slow flow regulator should be used with the nitrogen tank to slowly release the nitrogen from the bottom of the bucket upwards, displacing the oxygen as the nitrogen rises. Though many other packing options exist, this packing technique is the most effective and least expensive option for preserving food long term.
Why buy bulk food and pack the foods yourself?
There are 2 main reasons to pack your own storage foods: First and foremost, putting your own energy into the foods you are storing for the potential use of your family and yourself adds value to these foods by simply putting your own mind and consciousness into the foods.
Secondly, by packing your own food storage, you will have the opportunity to inspect the quality of the foods. How do these foods look and feel? This knowledge can add value when your utilization of the foods later on.
Highest recommended foods for long term bulk storage:
Recommended grains: hard red spring wheat, hard white wheat, soft pastry wheat, unhulled buckwheat, hulled barley, rye, quinoa, kamut, spelt, oat groats.
Millet, rice, rolled oats, cracked grains, etc., have a significantly shorter shelf life and should not be chosen for long term storage. They can be regularly rotated into any food storage plan.
Recommended beans: adzuki, green lentils, black beans, garbanzo, soybeans, whole green pea, mung beans. These beans perform the best, are the most diverse, are easiest to sprout and have the highest usable protein.
Recommended sweeteners: honey, molasses, maple syrup, white and/or brown sugar, depending on taste and budget.
Recommended salt: Redmond real salt is mineral rich. Salt is one of our most important and necessary minerals. There is no such thing as too much salt for food storage.
Recommended spices: allspice, cloves, cinnamon, peppers, cumin, nutmeg, chilies, cardamom, curry, ginger, paprika, peppercorns, vanilla bean.
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Summary:
Remember, these recommendations are for basic, long-term storage, utilizing foods that have demonstrated to be the hardiest and best foods for storage over time. However, your own food storage plan will certainly contain many more foods than these.
Be sure to include foods you are familiar with, but be careful to respect their shelf life. Additionally, items like freeze-dried meal packets, although expensive, offer the benefit of a quickly prepared and hardy meal, quite valuable during stressful situations.
Comfort foods have an important place in any food storage program. Be sure to include your favorites like chocolate, sauces, liquors, wine, coffee, tea, powered milk, meat, etc.
I hope this simple outline will be of value during your preparations.
Resources:
Bulk Organic Foods: Yelm Food Co-op - 404 1st Street South, Yelm, WA (360) 894-8151
Buckets: Ryco Packaging - Kent, WA (253) 872-0858
Nitrogen: Airgas or Pacific Welding, Olympia, WA
Pre-packaged Food Storage:
Happy Hovel Foods: info@happyhovelfoods.com
Healthy Harvest: annecassidy@fairpoint.net
Survival Center: info@survivalcenter.com
Danielle Graham was the founder of Good FoodStuffs, then the largest bulk organic foods wholesale warehouse on the west coast, (1989-1991). She is currently the founder and executive director of NW Frontier Research Institute, an independent, non-profit, international scientific research lab exploring the fundamental implications of natural human potential. Danielle is also science editor, co-content editor, and 'Future Science' columnist for the new SuperConsciousness magazine, as well as co-founder of the new, soon-to-be-premiered business, Living with Nature, offering superior and storable nutritional products.
I was on BTO awhile back and heard about Ramtha's views on purchasing gold because the dollar is going to be useless. My question is "How much?" I would like to buy 1 oz at a time, but it can be a bit expensive in one shot. Can I purchase smaller quantities of Canadian bullion and still achieve what's required? Also, how many ounces will I need to get started? Is purity an issue? (Kuggerrands are .917 pure)
I've also started to invest in silver as well. Is there a set limit I should be focusing on or do I just buy it as frequently as my budget allows? Do you recommend going to coin shops or buying online?
Ramtha advised that we buy Canadian Maple Leaf's (99.9% pure). The U.S. has just come out with its first pure gold ounce (99.9% pure). However, one ounce gold coins are expensive. I would buy whatever I could afford without placing myself in a financial bind. And I would buy on a consistent basis as the purchases can be psychologically accounted for if done consistently. Silver is even more advisable, as it is undervalued and will become needed as China and India upgrade their society into a middle class. The Canadian Mint has just released a new ¼ ounce gold piece - the smaller the value the easier it is to barter or to find a buyer.
I would buy from any coin shop that does not record the sale. If you pay cash some coin shops will simply do the exchange. Colonial Resources www.colonialresources.com does not record your personal information if you purchase from them. Always buy currency (US or Canadian) OR numismatic coins (coins that cannot be recalled by the U.S. government).
Section 2 - Breaking News
In the June issue of Natural History, the following was reported:
Great Lake Bake
With so much evidence that global warming is real, it's no surprise to learn that summer temperatures on Lake Superior have been rising for 27 years. At the current rate of change, Lake Superior will be ice-free for most years in about three decades.
Cereal Killer
The consequences of global warming, generally thought of as an event in the future, are being felt by the farmers right now. They have been losing crops to rising temperatures for more than 25 years.
"Brick by brick my citizens . . ."
After a four year battle waged by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and a coalition of 30 state, city, and environmental partners, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 5 - 4 that carbon dioxide and other global warming emissions are "pollutants" under the Clean Air Act and that the EPA has the authority to start curbing them. The decision is a rebuke to the Bush Administration's do-nothing policy on global warming and directs the EPA to take a new look at cutting the pollution from new vehicles.
www.nrdc.org
Radical new findings on the cause of pain in the body
John Sarno, MD, Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University Medical Center came to realize that people who tend to be perfectionists -- that is, hard-working, conscientious, ambitious, success-oriented, driven, and so on -- that this type of personality was highly susceptible to experiencing pain in the body.
He also realized that there is another kind of self-induced pressure, and that is the need to be a good person. This is the need to please people, to want to be liked, to want to be approved of. This, too, like the pressure to excel or to be a perfectionist, is a pressure and seemed to play a big role in bringing on this disorder. Self-imposed pressure is one of the sources. It's difficult to understand because one has to think in terms of what's going on in the unconscious mind. There are other kinds of pressures that are equally important, the ones that life puts upon us: Pressures from our jobs, our personal lives, our marriages, our children, and so on. It turns out that these pressures were equally disturbing. Things of this sort could contribute to a reservoir of rage that Dr. Sarno believes we all carry around inside of us. This is part of the human condition in Western society.
Section 3 - Older & Wiser
Steve Klein sent me the link for The Coin Vault. It is a great place to shop for coins.
www.shopathometv.com This site sells some of the high-end numismatic coins that the government did not re-call when gold was re-called in 1933. See the January issue of the Physics of Change e-newsletter to read about the 1933 re-call. Could it happen again?
CHANGE MAKES SOME PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE
WHILE IT MAKES OTHER PEOPLE RICH!
Why do we see all of this negativity about the growth of India, China and many other emerging economies?
Why do we see the negativity about gold, oil and so many other commodities?
We see it because change is hard for many people to accept. Change is not comfortable and is often heralded by wrenching upheavals in people's lives.
Today the world is changing more and faster than ever in recorded history. This is due to technological, economic and social change which has led to political change. Clearly this is not comfortable for most people. When people are not comfortable they deride the changes, they deride the agents of change and the investments which benefit from the change.
As a successful investor in precious metals, I can expect more ridicule and derision, along with the increased prices for precious metals, energy, commodities, foreign currencies and foreign stocks.
Those who want to ignore what is going on can ridicule your investments, and they can ridicule you for making those investments, but only you can enjoy the money that you make on those investments.
Monty Guild
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Gold
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Why I am still excited about Gold and Silver as Investments
The GCC or Gulf Cooperation Council may see other members abandoning the US dollar in coming weeks. Other members include Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
Also, the giant Swiss pharmaceutical company, Novartis, is to invest about 400 million dollars US of its pension fund in precious metals. This is about 4% of their total pension fund. If other companies follow, that alone could take precious metals much higher.
LONDON (Reuters) - Investors who think it is too late to get into commodities-related stock because the market has risen so much are "crazy" as prices will only go higher due to tight supply and growing demand, JPMorgan Asset Management said.
Ian Henderson, fund manager of the UK-registered JPMorgan Natural Resources Fund, told Reuters in an interview that China's latest move to rein in its booming economy would dampen speculative activity but metal inventories remained low.
"I think people are crazy not to be in it (commodities). I just can't imagine anybody being so naive as to imagine this is not a revolution like the way people have never seen before in their lifetimes," Henderson said late Monday.
"It's absurd to imagine that with the enormous amount of infrastructure going on, whether that be railroads or roads or power stations or subways or airports, this is other than a revolution in terms of demand going on."
Section 4 - DID YOU KNOW?
Aquatic Virus Hits 2 Great Lakes
(SYRACUSE, N.Y.)-A deadly, fast-spreading aquatic virus is reaching epidemic proportions in New York's two Great Lakes and has already spread into the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York, according to a Cornell University fisheries expert.
West Nile Decimates Suburban Birds
Birds that once flourished in suburban skies, including robins, bluebirds and crows, have been devastated by West Nile virus, a study found.
Populations of seven species have had dramatic declines across the continent since West Nile emerged in the United States in 1999, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The research, to be published by the journal Nature, compared 26 years of bird breeding surveys to quantify what had been known anecdotally.
"We're seeing a serious impact," said study co-author Marm Kilpatrick, a senior research scientist at the Consortium of Conservation Medicine in New York.
The hardest-hit species has been the American crow. Nationwide, about one-third of crows have been killed by West Nile, said study lead author Shannon LaDeau, a research scientist at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in Washington. The species was on the rise until 1999.
The birds act as an early warning system for humans, said Wesley Hochachka, assistant director of bird population studies at Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
"If you start seeing crows dying and dying in numbers, that means there could be a human outbreak," said Hochachka, who was not involved with the study.
NEW CURRENCY?
The push to unite the economies and erase the borders between Canada, US and Mexico is going ahead full speed. The unified currency intended for the North America Union was announced on the local news yesterday morning. They are calling it the Canamero, for Canada, US, and Mexico.
DROUGHTS EVERYWHERE
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida (AP) -- The fairways here are flecked, the greens mottled brown. The PGA National Resort & Spa doesn't look like a marquee golf course.
Florida's bottom half is in an 18-month drought, and signs of the problem are everywhere -- from the links to the nursery and sugar cane industries.
Lake Okeechobee, the region's primary reservoir, is down to 9.3 feet above sea level -- less than half a foot above its record low. Farmers and the area's 600 golf courses must use 45 percent less water in the hardest-hit areas, and home sprinklers are restricted to once a week.
Officials are comparing the drought to another in 2001 that caused an estimated $400 million in agricultural losses.
"We can honestly say this is one of the most severe droughts that we have dating back to when records started in the early 1900s," said Randy Smith, spokesman for the South Florida Water Management District.
The $15 billion landscaping and nursery industries might be getting hit the hardest by the drought. It is the largest sector of Florida agriculture and second nationally behind California. Its growers are concentrated around Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties on the rain-starved Atlantic Coast.
The cane sugar industry is also bracing for a big hit. U.S. Sugar Corp. spokeswoman Judy Sanchez said crops were worse than the 2001 drought. The company is the nation's leading producer of cane sugar. The drought is compounding damage from some earlier cold weather.
Florida's citrus industry could also be affected, but consumers are unlikely to notice until next year. Much of the current harvest is picked, but the dry weather stresses blooming fruit, said Mike Sparks, head of the grower's group Florida Citrus Mutual.
Section 5 - Testimonials, Revelations,
and Inspirational Stories and Quotes.
"Your description of depression as a lack of personal self expression and your explanation of Ramtha's view of suicide helped me tremendously in my battle
with those states." - Ron
"I would also like to THANK YOU FOR writing your story. I mailed my youngest son a copy. He called me a couple of weeks ago and said "Mom, I love this book, I want to go to Ramtha's School and find out for myself, to evolve my life. He also requested the White Book which you made reference to several times in your book. I will be mailing him the White Book as well.
I have dreamed that my sons would come to school. Thank you for helping in my manifestation." - Vasilia Sheehan
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." - Henry David Thoreau
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