ZetaTalk: Aftertime Living
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ZetaTalk: Restart Gardens
Note: written during the Nov 2, 2002 Live ZetaTalk IRC Session.
Human survivors should anticipate the shock of season change in accordance with their pre position and anticipated post position. Crops already in the ground may produce in the Aftertime climate if close enough to what they expect, and if pollination has already occurred. However, this should not be counted on, as the number of variables is higher
than man allows for. Most crops will sicken and fail to produce, regardless of man's expectations. The guidelines for
Aftertime planning should be:
1. Wait until after the shift to start new gardens.
2. Plant a test garden, and only when you can grow seed from the plants should you plant for food. If you can't produce seed, the plants too sickly to mature or the insects not viable to pollinate, then you will eventually waste
all your seed.
3. Flocks and herds can be observed, and managed accordingly. Chickens will eat bugs, relish them, and ducks and
geese nibble on plants along the waters edge. If this survive, and propagate, then lean in this direction in your
plans.
4. Anticipate gardens and crops outside of what is usual for your area, in a wider range, so that disappointments in plants that fail to thrive in the new climate can be replaced with surprises.
There are variables mankind does not normally consider that will be affecting life after the shift, such that an assumed plant or animal life would falter and simply die off, and others flourish. These variables have been present in the past, in your ancestors, when they migrated to new lands, but are not usually passed down to offspring. An immigrant to a
new land would bring seed, perhaps even a pair of prized livestock, and find even with the latitude and seasons similar to the home land, all die. Local fauna and flora, bacteria, rodents, affects the immigrants, though often unseen by the humans with high hopes. Thus, the failure is a disappointment but the reasons for failure not grasped. In like manner,
because of factors like acidity of rain, weather shock in insects or even bacteria in the soil, even plants and animals familiar to an area may succumb, and die off. Opportunistic germs today are affecting the biology of the world, such
that pre-existing illness is causing animal life to sicken. Germs are migrating, infecting in areas not usual, and the
immune systems of the affected lowered by the weather extremes and roiling emanations from the Earth's core.
Thus, in addition to the predictable climate you will shift into, you should anticipate failure in restarting your gardens and herds and flocks. The best plan is a broad plan, so that a failure does not devastate.
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ZetaTalk: Crop Adjustments
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ZetaTalk: Crop Adjustments
Note: written prior to July 15, 1995
To a very great extent, adjusting to crop failure depends on the personality of the individual forced to make an
adjustment. We will get specific.
Take, for example, a farm in the Midwest. Prosperous. Several farm hands. Occasional crop failures but in the
main they can smooth their profits to cover these. Now come the crop failures. First year, the usual fallbacks are
relied upon, although with the talk in the news about weather problems all over, they will be nervous. Second
year, everyone gets brittle. Tempers flare. Long-time farm hands are laid off, with much guilt and regret. Plans
are changed, and arguments ensue. However, there are still savings, and perhaps bank credit, and the expectation
is that the next year will bring sky-high prices, even if the crop is only fair-to-middling. Third year. Shock.
Depression, and we're not just talking financial. Personal gardens are producing enough to feed the family, but
the bank would foreclose if they could find a buyer. Everyone thinks of the dust bowl, the depression, and goes
to the movies a lot!
Now, need this be the scenario? Are there no alternatives? Let us say there is a prosperous Midwest farmer who
listens to the news, eyeballs the Internet, and isn't a stick-in-the-mud. He hears, perhaps rarely but nevertheless
on occasion, about pole shift predictions, and notices that some of these predictions are connecting with his
reality. He decides to prepare for all contingencies. Since the drought is increasing, he stores and recycles water.
Since cattle are dying, he moves to indoor fish tanks to fill his empty barn and prevent evaporation of the water.
Lo and behold, there is a market for the fish! He makes money. He already has a Windmill, and with the winds increasing, takes more and more advantage of this. Now he has the electricity to irrigate hydroponics, as this guy
is no dummy and he isn't pouring precious water into the ground.
After the cataclysms livestock will die for lack of feed or be eaten. Seeds sown will fail to thrive after germination
from lack of sunlight and the excessive drenching rains. What will the survivors eat? Those who have prepared by
establishing intensive indoor gardening such as Hydroponics and the most protein efficient animal husbandry, Fish
tanks and ponds, will find themselves not only subsisting but subsisting well. Such arrangements require indoor
lighting. Hydroponics can be grown around the clock and fish eat either this produce or water plants that feed off the
community's Sewage Effluent, but the base of this food chain is the hydroponic vegetation. For plants, light is life, for without it plants die. Such indoor farming, in place prior to the cataclysms, should not rely on lighting from either the Sun or the utility companies. Both will in essence go out during the decades immediately following the cataclysms.
Power for indoor lighting should rely on harnessing wind, or water flows, or other such mechanical generation that can
be counted upon to be present after the cataclysms.
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.
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ZetaTalk: Flocks and Herds
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ZetaTalk: Flocks and Herds
Note: added during the Jan 18, 2003 Live ZetaTalk IRC Session.
Already, it has been noted that many animals, domestic as well as wildlife, act crazed. Jack rabbits attack, and spiders spin webs over acres. It is a part of folklore, true, that domesticated animals often portend a quake, by acting nervous, hiding under beds, or restless. They are listening to what is in the air, increased electrical charges that interfere with radio transmissions, also another portent of quakes. How will animals behave, during the days preceding the shift and
the shift itself? All animals, including humans, seek to escape what they sense is a crisis, a cinch point. If matters are bad here, then move, so will be on the move, endlessly. A loud noise sends a herd running, a stampede, and scatters a flock of birds. Their instincts tell them that something has exploded, or dropped, may
be heading their way, so move.
Likewise, portents of thunderstorms are more than just thunder cracks, it is electrical charges in the air. To escape
potential lightning strikes, animals have learned to move, to leave the area, and thus the restlessness of domesticated animals such as dogs and cats just before an earthquake. Most certainly, this will be the situation for at least a week going into the shift, and domesticated animals hard to handle for this reason.
What should a pet owner, or farmer, do? In the case of pets, who will be hard to feed and most likely become a meal
instead, they should be put to sleep. This is the kindest thing, but our advice is unlikely to be heeded, so they will run about, be injured, be starved, be shot, and eventually be eaten. However, to save one's strength for the children, the
injured, the hysterical humans among you, eliminate the pets from the equation, our advice. In the case of farm animals, who will be able to graze a bit, may survive to increase the herd, they should be put into a field where they
cannot hurt themselves by running about, hysterically. Close quarters such as a barn, a pen, will cause them to injure
themselves against the walls, trying to escape. Left out in a field, they will run about, exhaust themselves, and will
more likely to be prone, resting, when the shift hits than on their feet because of this. Let nature take its course, as these animals did survive in the past. The key is to provide an environment where they cannot hurt themselves. Barbed wire, likely to be forgotten by hysterical animals, is not good. Wooden fences, or natural barriers, are better.
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ZetaTalk: Ocean Life
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ZetaTalk: Ocean Life
Note: written prior to July 15, 1995
Life in the oceans will not die out. The water will have a green tinge. Little known among the populace, but well
known among scientists, is that the ocean is one of the largest producers of the atmospheric oxygen. After the
cataclysms, the atmosphere oxygen will be rebuilt from the oceans. The oceans will appear greenish to many, and for
good reason. All the fires will have placed a tremendous amount of carbon dioxide into the air, the stuff of which
vegetative grown is made of. With little vegetation on land, the ocean kelp will absorb and utilize this. The oceans will be lush.
Even those far inland should plan to take advantage of the lushness of the oceans, the fish and kelp, to support humans survivors. This will not be so dependent upon the air clearning, as the oceans move this food about, fish about, so
fishing anywhere will be more abundant, compared to land life, in the Aftertime. Life in large lakes, as well as oceans, will fare far better than land based life after the shift. This is in part due to the way sunlight enters water, and the susceptibility of land based vegetation to mold and bugs and physical assult and the like. Seaweed will not find more assults than before, but will find more nutrients. Where the sunlight may be less, they can parlay any growth upwards,
using all sunlight, where land based vegetation finds itself decimated periodically, having to start over, etc. Thus, ocean fishing will be best, due to the broad space it covers and the shared nutrient and fishlife resulting, but land lakes will likewise likely do better than the shores!
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ZetaTalk: Inland Lakes
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ZetaTalk: Inland Lakes
Note: written on Jan 15, 2002.
The oceans have resources not available to inland lands, in that the oceans flow around the world. This not only shares nutrients, but dilutes pollution. The oceans are thus able to gain from being positioned under the equator, where kelp
can gain maximum sunlight. To the degree that an inland lake is free from volcanic ash, is not dumped excessively so
that the water becomes poisoned, and to the degree that the land is under intense sunlight, equatorial preferably, it will flourish. Water has advantages that land does not, after a pole shift. Ash settles to the bottom, where on land remains on the surface. Water also traps heat, creating a middle ground where temperatures rise and fall slowly. Thus, life in
the water can survive a winter, where on land would freeze and starve. Water pools often have nutrients that have
drained from the land, during runoff. Where sewage is considered a nuisance by man, it is the basis for much future
growth. From death comes life, in nature. Thus, water pools flourish and is only considered a foreign environment by
man because he is a land animal.
Water based farming should be considered by survival groups at least to the extent that land based gardening is. Fish often cast off heavy metal pollutants such as lead, and can live without light. Thus, this is a fruitful avenue for survival groups to consider. Inland lakes should be examined based on the following:
1. Are they downwind from volcanoes, and if so, can they drain or have enough flow such that the pollutants likely
to accumulate can dilute and flush out.
2. Do they have positive run-off, rich in humus or animal droppings, so that plant life in the lake has something as
a nutrient.
3. Are they deep enough to encourage circulation necessary for complex life forms, not just slime algae in shallow
pools, but crustaceans, etc.
4. What flows in, and through, these lakes, such that the lake can be trusted to remain fertile, and will not be
poisoned by those upstream.
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ZetaTalk: Gererating Electricity
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ZetaTalk: Generating Electricity
Note: written Dec, 2002
Modern man is much dependent upon electricity, though only having arrived there within the last hundred years or so.
In primitive countries, communities work hard during the day, sleep at dusk, rise at dawn, and have little need of lights except for the occasional lamp or campfire. In pre-industrial days, this was likewise the mode, even the interiors of
castles and palaces lit only by lamps, and then dimly. Modern man expects labor saving devices, entertainment,
communication with the world, all at the press of a button. Modern man will have to do a mega-mindshift after the
shift if he thinks this will continue, as his life will be less than communities a century ago, for the following reasons: 1. Where in the past, sunlight even on gloomy days could be anticipated, after the shift for most parts of the world
the light available will seem like going from dawn to dusk, skipping the mid-daylight entirely.
2. Oils and materials to burn, for light, will be scarce or water soaked, what with continuous drizzle in much of the
world, so fires will be a treasured occurrence from carefully dried materials.
3. Batteries and generators will wear out within months, after continuous use by the desperate, with the shock of
what has descended only coming late to these, not avoided.
4. Petro fuels, or fuels from vegetation such as corn or wood gas, will run out without the means to pump, refine,
or grow in the gloom.
5. The lack of parts for mechanical repair, lack of skills in those isolated, and lack of success with crops, will doom all plans for fuels to be burned in the Aftertime.
6. Skills to build generators collecting power from wind and water will be spotty, and the missing link theory
applied endlessly such that a single link, like battery storage, dooms the plans.
7. Hopes at being rescued, that benign space brothers will arrive, or high tech commu
nities of hybrids, is held close
by those not fully Service-to-Other such that they would not qualify, as the truly Service-to-Other are not
thinking of rescue, but of those needing to be rescued.
In light of all this, what can mankind expect? Nancy has been practicing, walking about her hour for months now, in
the dark such that she must grope to steady herself, and use touch, not sight, as a guide. Lights are used only when absolutely necessary. Practice this, and see how little you need light to walk through your day! Story telling, group singing, eating and washing, enjoying the sounds and smells of the evening, none of this requires more than light enough to make out dim shapes. Those who are used to electric lights, and in groups where the lack of this has
plunged the group into depression, have avenues to generate this. Exercise is one of the great depression lifters, and
racks of old bicycles, with the complainers pumping away, is not only a means of generating lights during the session,
it is a group activity! Group therapy, thus, becomes an exercise session where the 12V batteries are replenished. And
perhaps the children would like to put on a play, practiced in the dark when they are put to bed and should be sleeping, whispered plans to surprise the adults. The bike gen's can provide a flood light for their stage! Thus, it is not so much a loss, as a challenge, an opportunity to be resourceful, as all of life is.
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ZetaTalk: Storing Fuel
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ZetaTalk: Storing Fuel
Note: added during the Nov 30, 2002 Live ZetaTalk IRC Session.
We have stated that fossil fuels will soon run out, so should not be relied upon by survivors for the long term. We
have also stated that refineries and storage tanks of oil and natural gas and gasoline will be broken and set afire during the shift, creating a holocaust for all nearby. Likewise gasoline stations, fuel pumps, and even tightly sealed tanks may rupture and leak, also a continuing danger for any nearby. Natural gaslines in streets will run fire along the street, setting houses ablaze where they would otherwise not be in such danger. Natural gas in lines under cities will cause