ZetaTalk Prediction 7/31/2004: We have mentioned that the poor, the homeless, the mentally ill, will fare better during the coming changes because they will not grieve for lost possessions, and already being at the bottom of life’s ladder, will find themselves suddenly counseling others on how to survive. We have mentioned that the coming changes, the pole shift, is a great leveler, putting the formerly wealthy on the streets and in desperation, and the formerly homeless in a larger junk yard from which to build a hovel.

Anticipate needing to start a fire. Flashlight batteries will burn out, and matches are a finite supply, but a little dry kindling and an old BIC lighter flint will last. No BIC lighter? Halcon shows how easy it is to use friction. Get his handbook online. Water will be polluted due to broken or overflowing sewer pipes and volcanic dust on surface water. Drinking and cooking water must be cleaned of heavy metals such as lead and mercury and parasites that would cause dysentery or cholera. Your supply of filters will run out, as will your supply of bleach. Distillation is the answer.


Those who have not taken steps to be self-sufficient may find themselves relying upon Nature’s Bounty. Hunting and fishing may be done so aggressively by survivors that the wildlife and fish stock is virtually wiped out, thus survivors may be forced to eat weeds and bugs. Earthworms are 82% protein and their essential oil is Omega 3, like fish. Start a green compost pile and harvest the earthworms regularly. They will also be attracted to manure piles but need to be purged in water to poop out the dirt and poop before supper.



Seaweed is eaten regularly in Japan, harvested from the beaches where it washes ashore. Where most algae is edible, be aware that some algae such as the Red Tide is poisonous, as is an anaerobic Cyanobacteria bacteria that can lurk in large green algae growths in stagnant water. Duckweed is a naturally occurring tiny plant that floats on tops of ponds, and is very high in protein.

ZetaTalk Advice 7/15/1995: Food stuffs that can be grown without artificial light and will do quite nicely on the gloomy light supplied by the Sun are mushrooms, earthworms, and various insects that feed on dead tissue. After the cataclysms bugs will be in abundance, as dead tissue from both plants and animals is everywhere. This trend can be taken advantage of, as distasteful as that concept might be to humans who have never eaten a bug. Larva, grown in humus, can be turned into pureed and creamed soups, puddings, or omelets by skilled cooks. Those eating the fare would never guess that the base was not cream, milk, and eggs. For those humans who do not prepare, they will find themselves eating bugs in any case, as meals from what they can catch or find growing will be few and far between.

All the vitamins man requires can be found in readily available in weeds and bugs. What to do when the Vitamin bottle is empty and scurvy has started gums bleeding? You are surrounded by vitamins and minerals in the edible weeds that grow everywhere. Get a good handbook. Plantain and Purslane is high in Vitamin A, Sheep Sorrel and pine branch tips high in Vitamin C, and plants such as Prickly Pear, Dandelion, Thistle, Moss, Lichen, and Cattails are entirely edible. Mushrooms too are edible but get a good handbook as many are poisonous.



A better approach is to get into gardening! Urban and suburban locations should be resourceful in finding gardening space, as this example of planting banana trees along the streets of LA shows. Back yards, container gardening on patios or porches or along steps, all can allow the urban or suburban gardening an opportunity to develop skills. Soil is grown from green compost with the help of red wriggler earthworms who digest the moldering compost and put free nitrogen into the soil as a result. The shells of their egg casts contain this nitrogen. Growing soil from earthworms is one technique used by Growing Power, a proven methodology for establishing gardens in inner city slums.



ZetaTalk Warning 7/15/1995: As we described earlier, going into the cataclysms the weather will become unpredictable, with torrential rainstorms where not expected, and droughts likewise where not expected. Backyard gardens, tendered carefully by watchful eyes, will survive. Those groups who have prepared, and are relying on themselves and their own carefully tended gardens, will not find themselves pinched between starvation and hostilities.

Certainly would-be survivors should start learning how to save seed. Learning how to save seed is not an overnight process, as many mistakes will be made. Some seeds need to ferment before they will germinate. Most need to be dried and stored in a cool location. Cloning can also be done from a slice of tomato or a slice from a strawberry. Some of the easiest plants to propagate are beans and corn and potatoes. Beans and corn only need to be fully mature and well dried. Potatoes are traditionally grown from cuttings, from the spouts that appear on the sides of potatoes stored in a basement or root cellar.



Keeping chickens and goats has long been espoused in our newsletter. One can eat bugs or the chickens can eat bugs and provide eggs and meat. Chickens need a coop for safety at night, and will return to their coop at dusk. New chickens should be kept in a coop for 2 days so they think of this as home. Free ranging chickens will scratch for bugs and worms but being omnivores will eat garbage such as melon rinds too. They will cannibalize a sick member of the flock. Their poop needs to age before being used in the garden or it will burn the plants.