A few years ago, I started hoarding food and water with the little financial means at my disposal, in my cellar. (I have little space in my small house). The cellar is not very big and houses the boiler and two fuel tanks.
Shortly after, we suffered the only flood to date at home. There is no river nearby, but intense rains have raised the water table. In addition to the deterioration of the boiler, which was partly reimbursed by the insurance, most of the stocks were destroyed.
Although I thought then maybe it was an attack of another level to deter me from preparing for the worst or to test my resolve, I ultimately took it for a sign of the uselessness of preparing myself from a materialistic point of view. Not that I disapprove of the idea, on the contrary, but only that I find it futile and even harmful to worry about it when you can't afford it.
I therefore concluded that the best preparation had to be done at the psychological level, which was however already obvious. And come what may for the physical side.
That doesn't stop me from having a water filter, a few lighters and candles, and a full freezer most of the time.
@trytofly you gave a good example of what I was going to say:
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him of your plans."
I went thru the big shock decades ago, when I realized I/We/Many could die and that life could be reduced to survival levels. I've learned so many things with that in mind but also because it was the way I wanted to live: Raising goats, rabbits, chickens, gardening, herbology and foraging, primative ways....you get the picture. My son, Addam, loved all that and embraced it. I got older and creakier and thought, well, my son is trained, we can get thru anything....And then, he died.
I not only learned those things for the future, but also because my life has been one long adventure of stripping away of the outer and the inner. So, I have a house and storage full of stuff, but I sometimes think that it might very well serve somebody else, because I have the distinct impression that when I'm done here, doing all that I came here for, I'll lay my body down and leave....Just like I came, in spirit.
People ponder on what is their mission. To answer that, it is good to ask, "Who/What am I?" and "Why am I here?" Some have asked me what my mission is. I quietly chuckle because this idea of a mission is mostly centered around the self. And that's ok, there is a need to contribute, and I'm all for lessening suffering in its gross form. But the truth is, all of humanity will give, whether they know it or not....Even those who die in ignorance, the energies of their finer bodies will be absorbed by the cosmos.
When I have been asked of my mission, I reply, "I came here to immerse myself in life (boy did I!) and I'm sending back what has been transformed."
Now, this caused eyebrows to raise, and it is asked, "Sending where?"
"I send it back to Source and Creation, that is what I serve." (Since childhood, I've had what I can only describe as
reverence towards God and Creation)
Talk here is on being able to receive higher energies, yes, but
Humanity is the bridge for the
exchange of energies between the Earth and higher levels of existence.
"Evolution is a movement of substances in transformation. This is something that must, one way or another, be accomplished. What is important is this inner
circulation. In a sense, life is entrusted to us. Below the initial movement of the Absolute, the Absolute no longer intervenes, which means that responsible
beings must appear.
There is a need for beings who become aware of this and have such a love for Creation and the Creator, that no matter what trouble it causes them, they awaken to be the ones through whom this accomplishment
takes place . . . This is the very purpose of evolution: a vast movement of maintenance – the law of reciprocal feeding. Either I am “eaten” by the lower levels, which is the fate of every sleeping man or woman, or I consent to serve as food
for a more conscious level. The whole of life is feeding, exchange, transmission
of substances, transmutation of substances. It is essential that I recognize that I am part of consciousness.
Either you give yourself to something more conscious and you partake of that level of consciousness, or you let yourself go and you partake of a lesser consciousness."
---Michel Conge, "Inner Octaves"