Safe Locations for Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South & North Carolina, Tennessee.

Continuing in my series of Safe Location videos, state-by-state of the USA, this video describes the basic situations for the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South & North Carolina and Tennessee. States of  Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida will be essentially be under water after the Pole-Melt, which I think will completed by 2025, so not recommended to try to locate permanent survival areas anywhere in those states. South Carolina and Georgia will mostly flood but have easy access to the highlands of Tennessee, with the slight exception of Georgia’s high lands which will over populate, along with Tennessee in the After-Time, so both states are off the list of good survival states. Tennessee will suffer from overpopulation as many migrants from the lower gulf states will naturally move and try to settle there during the march of the rising sea sea level in the After-Time. North Carolina is a special situation where sociological problems of a disparate community of very different people and lifestyles try to occupy the same mountainous zone of the southern US, therefore I discuss North Carolina in it’s own segment.

 

 

 

New Video: Safe Location areas for states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri & Illinois.

This 48 minute video is next in my series of Safe Location areas for states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri & Illinois. The states of Minnesota and Wisconsin are good examples of excellent safe locations, but Iowa, Missouri & Illinois are examples of very poor and not recommended states. The latter comment is not directed at the good people who live there, nor the beauty and vitality of the State lands and cultures, but their Pole-Shift survivability and (in some cases) suitability for After-Time living. All areas of the world will change in character during the Pole-Shift into either a death-zone for all Earth-life forms or a stable geological platform to face the earthquakes, hurricane winds (with rock), extreme weather events and the fresh water (rain) and sea water tsunami (pole-shift waves) or moving flood waters. All coastal areas of the globe are dangerous, In-lands are better, but with caveats depending on moving Earth and proximity to volcanoes or flooding. Mountainous areas are dangerous from falling rock and landslides, but the caveat here is the age of the mountain range: The Rockies and Sierras are young and sharp, that equals danger, the Appellations and the Ozarks of eastern USA are rolling, smoothed-over and much older, which equals safety. Immediate After-Time migrants can also be a big problem for those settlements and camps that haven’t prepared for them. There will be thieves and marauding gangs among those wandering the landscapes searching for food and shelter, however, protection against thievery, etc. will be very much required if one lives near a migrating-zone of Pole-Shift survivors. The suggestion is to carefully choose your safe location settlement so as to be invisible or hidden and to also buy propane and propane cooking equipment for the first years in the After-Time so that the settlement is not visible from the sky (military) or from the ground (marauders) via a smoke-trail. We are hoping that some wealthy people of the world will arrange for food, water and survival items like blankets and clothing and shoes to give to the desperate families with children as they can. Perhaps a secure and secret compound can be built and stocked beforehand in a nearby area where such an operation can be staged. If you are wealthy and reading this, please be aware that money will be of no value in the After-Time, neither “precious” metals or any objects considered of value in these end-times of late modern Earth-man. Even in the year just prior to the Pole-Shift, bartering will begin to take over for the exchange of “money”.

REFERENCES:
Webpage LINK explaining the blind Psychic Baba Vanga’s predictions mentioned in my video.
My Facebook group: “Surviving The Pole-Shift
My Youtube Channel.

 

New video: Safe Locations for the USA states of: Alaska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

I am slowly moving through the USA providing advise for Pole-Shift survival state-by-state. After the USA is completed, I will be starting on Canada.

 

 

Planet X NewsLetter (2015) Issue #2

Planet X NewsLetter (2015) Issue #2.

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This issue opens with a small but important article on volcanoes, more specifically: how to determine your local prevailing winds After the Pole-Shift before hand so as to avoid inadvertently establishing your camp downwind of a volcano.

Last month (April 2015), I became enthused about bringing some clarity to the Pole-Shift radiation leakage fears that many people have been expressing, consequently this issue has a massive 3-part article on Radiation exposure in the After-Time. The radiation article covers a lot of ground and finalizes with the babushkas of Chernobyl, a fascinating story in itself of the mainly older woman living with wild animals within the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster exclusion zone.
Also, the “Jade Helm” buzz hit the internet this month and thankfully the Zetas of ZetaTalk covered this topic. However in my coverage, I focus on the reasons behind the so-named military exercises: a particular portion of the 7-out-of-10 event series, as coined by ZetaTalk. Within the Jade Helm article, are the key survival red flags to watch for in the run-down to the Pole-Shift (mainly involving the U.S., Mexico and the Caribbean Islands).
Another poignant story I discovered while looking over the ZetaTalk reports was a revisiting of the Grasdorf Crop Circle from 1991. ZetaTalk covered this almost a year ago, but the story has big implications for the Planet X curious: it’s almost beyond belief, but true none-the-less.
The internet is full of claims purporting Planet X sightings, but the majority of these are sun dogs or lens flares, so I cover some basics for those attempting to determine if an image is a genuine capture or not. Also included in this issue, is a semi-allegorical style piece about the Annunaki. The Annunaki subject is huge, but I thought it would be fun to compile and report a little on the probable life-styles of this race of beings (based on ZetaTalk information).

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Chris Thomas.

The Decline of the Gentleman Scientist and it’s Effect on the Public Awareness of Planet X.

Earth is stopped in orbit by the powerful influence of Planet X. The STO Zetas of ZetaTalk explain that planetary orbits are “not sacred”, they can be altered if sufficiently powerful forces are in play. Earth is held in its circular orbit around the Sun by other solar system dynamics: a balance of gravity-attraction and repulsion-forces. The anti-clockwise orbit of Earth is maintained by the sweeping arms of our rotating central star, but when an orbiting planet encounters a dense brown dwarf near it’s orbit-path, it has no choice but to halt. Earth also has a counter-orbiting buddy, a dead twin (Earth’s Dead Twin – EDT) which is the Hopi “Blue Kachina”. We see it occasionally now because when Earth halted in it’s orbit, EDT continued from it’s 180 degree position opposite of Earth and came up to stop behind Earth. So since about 2004, Earth, EDT and Venus have been captured in a particle-flow “cup” – graphically represented as the faint red enclosure.

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Gentleman scientist Alexander Graham Bell demonstrating his “telephone” at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia on June 25, 1876.

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1850 – The SS Baltic was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamer built in 1850 that operated between New York and Liverpool. It was the fastest and most luxurious transatlantic steamship of it’s day crossing the Atlantic in slightly less than 10 days. This was before the days of telephone and travel was very slow, thus a gentleman scientist in those days depended very much on his own deliberations.

A gentleman scientist is a man so dedicated to his scientific interest in a subject that he embarks on a path of study and experimentation based on scientific principles, such as mathematics, chemistry or astronomy under his own financial steam. This expression characterizes the early scientists in the modern age of “western” science that began sometime in the 1600s. In the meantime, I have no doubt that there were many private men of science in other countries not noted by conventional history and since these early modern times were still influenced by the age of Pisces, a patriarchal age, most scientists were male. By and large these men were not beholden to a particular interest group such as a financial supporter, but were able to explore the natural world with abandon and without fear of retribution of their peers. On the other hand, it is likely that there was one special interest group whose needs may have fell upon a married gentleman scientist, namely his wife and family.  Obviously, other scientists would perhaps be jealous or critical of a fellow scientist who has made a recognized discovery, but since the scientist of note was operating on “his own dime”, this nor the needs of his family, were not necessarily a hindrance to the quality of his scientific work. Some examples of early notable gentleman scientists would be Charles Darwin: evolutionary theory, Henry Cavendish: discoverer of Hydrogen, Robert Boyle: one of the founders of modern chemistry. Henry Talbot: developed the precursors to the photographic process. Of course one has to mention the free thinkers such as Buckminster fuller: the buckyball and Philo Farnsworth with his early work in developing the television. There were gentle-women scientists too, such as Marie Curie: a Nobel Peace prize recipient who did pioneering research on radioactivity and Dorothy Hodgkin, another Nobel prize beneficiary, credited with the development of protein crystallography. Plus there were women like Jane Goodall the anthropologist considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees. Whether or not a scientist was a male or a female, those early-modern days (1500 – 1800) had a kind of innocence about them that was protected by the difficulties of far-travel and communication. These were the days even before the telephone, when inter-continental travel was by ocean-going steamships requiring almost a month to transit from the U.S. east coast to England and commercial airline travel was only possible a hundred years later. A scientist in those times was therefore less encumbered by a political or cultural climate, thus exempted, had the privilege to draw his or her own conclusions.

Fast forward 100 years. The condition of today’s modern society, has changed the face and mind of the men and women science. This is partially due to the hold that the banking industry has on our medium of exchange: money, driving up the cost of goods and real estate putting pressure on to perform. Also, the massive growth of international corporations and government-supported University education, the two now entwined, over-focusing scientific study due to selfish corporate interests. Of course the U.S. military has tightened its dastardly grip on patents preventing many wonderful new innovations from benefiting the public at large and at the same time has driven scientific work towards the attainment of the advantage on the field and skies of war.  Police-states and the proliferation of laws, lawyers and the courts have become the extended hand of the avaricious corporations and the very wealthy and powerful. Finally, scientific peer review organizations such as the various academy of science bodies and the old Royal society, the mainstays of the scientific status quo, are now controlled top-down by the corporations, governments and the military as well. Today, there is hardly room for the gentle-person scientist, east or west, and the nearest equivalent of a gentleman/woman scientist is referred to as a: “Citizen Scientist”. The Citizen scientist are considered laymen, but doing essential environmental work that governments and corporations are either refusing to do or avoiding. Our various cultures have swallowed the bitter pill of subservience to the governmental and corporate  monsters. Governments of the world are corrupt and cannot stand alone against international corporations save perhaps, few: Iceland (threw out the banks) and Norway (government is highly oriented to the welfare of it’s people). Of the new influx of scientific minds, I am sure there are many exceptions to the corporate-scientist. I firmly believe that the men and woman in the field gathering data are still just as starry-eyed as those in their private labs back in the day. Yet data has to be collated, studied and results be re-applied in a lab or in some controlled environment and these facilities are owned by governments and the corporations….. Here is evidence of what I am saying, a new opinion piece at National Geographic declaring that science is running out of things to discover. This latter story is clear evidence of the results when allowing corporate meddling in science. Here is an article at the National Post exposing the degradation of modern scientific journal publications, apparently anyone can “publish” any quality of scientific work for $500. This is the unfortunate truth of modern-day scientific work: a hostile environment for the purity of scientific thought and exploration of new ideas.
Flashing back to this early-modern period, it was then that fellow gentleman scientists independently discovered aberrations in the orbits of the outer planets that lead to the discovery of Planet X, but societal conditions underwent massive changes in the meanwhile. So, it is ironic, that due to erosive sea-changes in the freedom of expression of modern society, now the gentleman scientist has not only faded from existence, but his gradual replacement by the corporate-government scientist, cannot report on Planet X which is standing on the ecliptic at this very moment.

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1914 – Persival Lowell at 59 observing Venus during the day with his Clark refracting telescope in Flagstaff Arizona.

 

It was in 1906, when another wealthy gentleman scientist: Percival Lowell, continued to seek the cause of the orbital perturbations of the outer planets of Uranus and Neptune started by his predecessors Adams and Leverrier 76 years earlier. Lowell virtually built his own astronomical observatory in 1894 to look for Planet X. Certainly such an investment is not a casual intention, but it reveals a determined heart and a keen and persistent mind. Although he died in the fall of 1916 failing to find his elusive planet, he is credited with it’s modern name: Planet X. However, if you read about Lowell’s drive to discover Planet X at Wikipedia.org, you would think that the man was a fool and a dullard to spend his remaining 23 years looking for his Planet X. However, this was a man who’s initials (P L) have been combined by the astronomical community to denote Pluto and therefore the name of Pluto:   Pluto-monogram.sm  ….which in anyone’s books is a great honor. This belittling is also true of the work of Zecharia Sitchin who wrote “The 12th Planet“, an amazing book which points to the existence of Nibiru (Planet X) and the Annunaki who use Planet X as a home. When one observes the disparaging viewpoints of the elite hierarchy against the works of Lowell and Sitchin, there is clearly a deep disconnect considering the public’s  open-armed acceptance of the works of these two men.

In these times, much of the public accesses information such as history, science and news via the internet, within a few seconds one can explore almost any subject with a few mouse clicks. The advent of the Internet vastly improved many aspects of the lives of those who could afford to own a computer and access to Internet, but there is a massive problem that developed in the interim. First, let’s consider the book. There was a time when one had to go to a public or a University library and spend many hours pouring over reference texts, published scientific works and newspaper articles to research a subject. A book, once printed and published, provided anyone who could read the information therein. It is no wonder that the powerful factions of the day would burn books they didn’t want the public to read. With the internet, the content of a webpage can be altered at any time, even anonymously. This is the problem. In my 6 and a half years of researching and reporting on Planet X, I have seen many blatantly false reports on subjects, even at Wikipedia.org. Also, many articles relating to NASA’s activities in space that support ZetaTalk have simply disappeared, when at the same time, articles on an unrelated subject of a similar age are still available. So we know it’s not about the age of an article, but about the subject.

Today, since the subject of Planet X and the Pole-Shift is censored, it remains for the interested party to determine the truth about Planet X. But how does one do that without the concern of disinformation poisoning the soup of knowledge? The first place to look for the truth about Planet X would be the ZetaTalk website. Nonetheless, this website is massive and requires a great deal of patience to wade through, hence the reason why I write on ZetaTalk. On the other hand, ancient texts go right to the point: the Christian Bible and the Qu’ran (Koran) for instance have many references to Planet X and the Pole-Shift. Edgar Cayce, Mother Shipton and many other prophets have predicted the appearance of a second sun and a Pole-Shift. Cave drawings and rock carvings from many different ancient cultures have also indicated the same, but when is the Pole-Shift due to occur? Obviously, given the state of Human development and spiritual protocols, humans are not to know the date. Yet the actual Pole-Shift (PoleShift) date is not necessary to know anyway, since Planet X will show himself many weeks before the Pole-Shift. So the reality is we need to educate ourselves as to what form the appearance of Planet X will take. There are pre-conditions to the nearby passage of Planet X, such as sporadic global-wide dusting of red dust from the trash-cloud of Planet X, but that is only days prior to the Pole-Shift. Probably the most obvious will be the “tipping” of Earth, with the famous ancient accounts of the “3 days of darkness” and the “6 days of sunrise west” (for most people in the northern hemisphere), certainly the latter would be within weeks of the Pole-Shift. Now since we are preparing for a pre-industrial, agrarian lifestyle after the Pole-Shift, we need the time and money to buy what we need. We need a safe location to ride-out the Pole-Shift, and we need a safe-route beforehand to get there, so much thought and planning needs to be applied. Therefore, for those who require visual proof of Planet X, they will need to keep an eye on the skies for the first appearances of a “second sun” visible by the naked eye. For those others who are already convinced of the imminence of the Pole-Shift, they are either already prepared or are preparing now.
Chris Thomas.

Planet X and Pole-Shift information is based on ZetaTalk. Art is by Chris Thomas.

Envisioning your After-Time

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The above image is approximately what North America will look like about 2 years after the Pole-Shift. It is based on the sea level rise within 2 years of the Pole-shift (the “pole-melt”) and the approximate 90° geological re-location of Earth’s land masses (the Crustal shift) as described in ZetaTalk. The amount of above water land shrinks because all existing ice at the geographical poles will melt due to the fact that the poles “move” to a location near the equator. Art is by Chris Thomas.

You know about Planet X. You have found the references to the Second Sun written by the ancients as allegorical accounts of Earth history, word-of-mouth stories by the modern original cultures and the stone carvings by their descendants depicting the same by natives of many different cultures. You have even found many old arcane scientific documents referencing a heretofore hidden gravitational influence in the direction of the constellation Orion. Also, with your study of all the pre-1985 newspaper and magazine public discussion of the goings on of NASA, you’re realization of the truth of the existence of Planet X deepened.

Published June 13th, 1968 in the Victoria Advocate, a still-running newspaper in Texas (founded May, 1846).

Published June 13th, 1968 in the Victoria Advocate, a still-running newspaper in Texas (founded May, 1846)

Furthermore, you have noticed the arbitrary avoidance of the current status quo hierarchy to discuss what is clearly part of Earth’s history and the clever Planet X disinformation issued from influential U.S. agencies or their counterparts in Europe and elsewhere around the globe. You notice the latter, as you can recognize story, news pronouncements and Internet published work subject-matter manipulation with subtle false and confusing story-associations, mixing established facts with dubious scientific findings and outright lies through  inexplicable sources. You also understand why your government can and would lie to you about such an unavoidable massive event such as the Pole-shift as you understand that emergency systems can barely handle current disasters let alone a country-wide event such as the Pole-Shift. The fact that U.S. hurricane Sandy victims are still waiting for aid portends what a Pole-Shift response is going to look like.  You have been observing the rise in earthquake and volcano intensity and event-frequencies, poorly-explained or down-played record-setting weather events, fireballs and land subsidence for many years now and because you have absorbed all of these seemingly disparate elements with an open mind, you have come to the conclusion that an interloping planet in the solar system does make sense: that it is the final forbidden puzzle piece that puts it all together.  Therefore, you now understand the inevitability of the Pole-Shift when

An ancient depiction, one of so many, of a two-sun sighting. "This stone carving (above) was found in Iraq near the ancient city of Babylon (Bagdad)." (source: www.thetruthishere.com)

An ancient depiction, one of so many, of a two-sun sighting: this would be a mere three – to – six months prior to the last Pole-Shift.
“This stone carving (above) was found in Iraq near the ancient city of Babylon (Bagdad).” (source: thetruthishere.com)

Planet X passes Earth within weeks of the storied second-Sun appearance. You have studied ZetaTalk “safe locs” to determine your best relocation site the for the Pole-Shift event and for your After-Time living arrangements.
The months before the Pole-Shift. Speaking generally, the public mood will be frenetic and will become dangerously chaotic as the second Sun becomes more and more obvious. This means that great care will be needed as one moves about in traffic or walking on the streets doing their last city/town pre-Pole-Shift errands. Most likely your local food markets will be empty, but you have bought your one-to three year food supplies many months ago. The same with bottled water availability, which will be non-existent, water filters are sold out but you planned ahead. (Note: remember to buy lead-testing kits, as lead in the groundwater will be possible and unexpected. Find a new source of water if the current one has lead in it or distill. With the volume of lead dropping from the sky (volcanic dust-fall) and roiled-magma nearer to the surface, some groundwater will be overloaded with lead making water filtration unreliable.
Depending on the country where you live, there may be roadblocks slowing traffic or blocked routes, but you have planned most of your moving needs ahead of time using back-roads or hiking trails by some form of transport. Cell phone towers may be overloaded or broken down, so you foresaw a need for an alternate form of communication. Thinking ahead, you guessed that you may not have an old-fashioned telephone line available (more reliable), and since you are on-the-move or the other members of your party are, you decided to invest in portable CB or HAM  handheld radios. Gasoline for your vehicle will also be hard-to-get, so again you calculated your back-up supply and have stashed these containers away for emergencies. People in general will be frightened or angry and will be acting that out, so you do not expect others to behave normally or follow-through on agreements and promises. You understand the reason for that: hardened denial against the sight of a second Sun they are not prepared to deal with, nor understand. Others get that this means some kind of calamity and are now are seeking the resources of others’ for their survival. Considering human nature in difficult times, you decided to keep the details of your safe location, your food and water stores, gasoline and essential living hardware secret. You may have even buried these in separate locations for extra security.
Unless you are in a land-movement zone (check ZetaTalk safe locations), it probably won’t be until the Pole-Shift that all hell breaks loose. Life beforehand may even seem somewhat normal at times but the contrast with the Pole-Shift event itself and the After-Time will be shockingly spectacular. Socially, many things depend on if or when announcements are made from your local government about Planet X and the Pole-Shift. One thing’s for sure, if there is an announcement, it will be subtle at first, then the message will be amended as the Second Sun becomes increasingly visible, unexpected and devastating Earth changes emerge or stunning Sky/Atmosphere events become glaringly public. Most likely, there will be sliding-scale updates of interrupted information with the whole story never being told. The message of the Pole-Shift is already being hinted at in a veiled way for many months now. Some examples are the  so-called earthquake readiness “three-day supply of food and water”, the “Shelter in place” message and the exercising of government emergency preparedness action plans. These carefully-managed tactics, appearing to be normal public programs, are but barely audible faint whispers compared to the glaringly obvious underground  bunkers built many years ago for the U.S. After-Time government. Norway has taken the lead with it’s underground seek-bank.

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This (above image) is a First World War Trench as it appeared in 2002. (credit Ed Harding, 2009) Notice the steel roof and the length of the trench. For Pole-Shift sequestering, such a long trench design extends escape opportunity in case of tree-fall or other debris covering your trench exits, also providing runoff for water from the torrential rains of the Pole-shift.

The Pole-Shift event. Since you understand the makeup of Planet X and the essential Pole-shift conditions, then you can readily envision raining rocks, extreme high winds with sheets of drenching rain and extremely loud stratospheric lightning. This also means that you understand the need to be out of the wind, below ground, covered and in a drainable location. With rocks of many sizes potentially flying with the wind, aboveground dwellings are going to sustain hits, but could likely sustain somewhat less hits if these buildings are within the lee of a berm, a steep hill or a heavily forested slope of a mountain. In any case, your plans consider any existing structure, no matter how well-placed, to be potentially found near-destroyed once the Pole-Shift is finished, unless major preparation against the flying rock and wind is implemented. In the light of all this, you have a portable building buried nearby to erect in the immediate aftertime.
Riding out the Pole-Shift also could require other personal protection, such as:  a helmet, knee and elbow pads and ear protection against shock waves. Possibly even a full-body suit for support that will provide protection against physical trauma such as speed skating suit. Another important item is a light and easy-to-store face mask that will filter-out odors and airborne chemicals, etc., also enabling you to work or pass through areas reeking with organic odors from rot, and of course protection from volcanic dust.

Your After-Time Life:   What will it be like?  Envisioning your After-Time Life in a positive light is important. Being proactive now about your After-Time concepts and picking through them to see what you can find hiding there that you don’t like will help prevent just falling into default responses as the Pole-Shift approaches. For example, for some unknown reason you went with a group to settle 300 miles inland, but you found afterwards you wished you were by the sea.

This is Matavenero, a mountain eco-village in Northern Spain. Originated by miners in the sixties, but had since abandoned the site. It was rebuilt and resettled in 1989.

This is Matavenero, a mountain eco-village in Northern Spain. Originated by miners in the sixties, but had since abandoned the site. It was rebuilt and resettled in 1989.

Exercising an After-Time happiness & desire envisioning can pre-vent these needs into your awareness.   Where  you settle somewhat determines what tools  you buy beforehand. You may be able to trade your rifle and ammunition for fishing gear or your spinning wheel for a small boat, but it’s better if you don’t have to. What kind of people do you want in your party? What will your outreach efforts be? More importantly, what kind of Life experiences are you looking forward to and what emotions  have you imbued your future After-Time life with?  All the answers to these questions are revealed in our current Life and so what we feel and think now directly affects our future: the After-Time. Tough to look at some cases, but necessary if we want to make changes and improvements. We can change  our future, the power to do this is nested within the choices  we make. What projects and how we are engaged in them now sets the tone for our After-Time Life experiences. If you are nervous and apprehensive about the Pole-Shift and the After-Time, you only need to look at those fears to see where they are coming from. Break down your expectations of what you believe about the Pole-Shift and the After-Time and align them with reasonable and studied probabilities. For example, if you live near the coast, you know you need to seek a safe location high in the coastal mountains. By-the-way, use this interactive world map to determine your safe location from the ocean at Pole-Shift time. Being properly prepared is a good place to start shaping your after-Pole-Shift-Life and having a safe location (at least identified as a start) is essential in resting your fears with a Pole-Shift Event-Time plan being simple to arrange. Of course, once you get started preparing in earnest, you will find the details piling up, so revert to keeping it simple. Perhaps the most difficult thing for many is the blind denial of your loved ones not directly under your care, or a wife or husband resisting your Pole-shift discussions and efforts requiring a special plan of action. Sometimes you have to proceed with what you can, while other preparation plans are put on hold, but move ahead you must as you know acting on viable plans while the field is open is reassuring.

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Small home constructed with cob walls and a sod roof that offers a kind of camouflage or landscape blending.

One possible settlement style in the After-Time. Your settlement is patrolled by the strong and capable of your large group of settlers, although there hasn’t been an incident for many years now. The settlement is well located with the northern perimeter being up against a high ridge and the south side  a long gentle slope down to a creek. Your location was established in forested hills, miles from the ocean for invisibility against marauders that used to travel by sea, but over the years only the occasional wanderer found the settlement looking for food, employment and lodgings.  The founding members also chose the location for it’s several mile access to the sea coast and is near enough to a another route that other’s use (from another settlement) which is convenient for trade.  The houses in your settlement were built far enough apart for privacy, but close enough to hail others for gatherings and meetings. Although the weather is still not bright enough for some garden vegetables, you wouldn’t know that by the gardens that carpet the local area and since it’s safer these days, you can see the glint of light reflection from plastic sheeting being used to assist in growing vegetables like tomatoes and peas. Chicken coops, pig and goat pens and small barns are standing here and there, and when visiting old friends travelling from one home to the other, one must follow the drainage ditches and garden paths that skirt the dark tilled soil and pastures. Who could guess that it could be so fine and peaceful like this after a few years of working hard together with a common goal?
Approximately every new moon the townspeople gather for a potluck and dance, the air is full of fiddle, flute and drum for the whole evening. Throughout the evening, stories are told and important news is shared about the lives of others you know: who is ill and needs care or who has a new child. Reports of other news such as any new settlements found by those members who are  returning from exploring the new landscape since the seashore moved miles inland after the Pole-Shift. The towns folk freely share food and skills within the settlement for those who are sick or elderly. Bartering goods and services as trade started soon after the settlement was founded and even a central registry was eventually developed to keep track of who owes what to whom. Yes, there are trade disagreements occasionally, so within a few years a council of fairness was organized to manage disputes and to help plan future settlement development. Those from outside the settlement who had heard about the kindness and fairness of your group, wanted to become a part of the town, yet of those petitioners with strength and good health, the requirement is that they must go through an approval process. Of course, your group doesn’t allow squatters nearby, so that difficulty was solved with frequent patrols and member outposts within a comfortable buffer zone. For those wishing to join the settlement, a trial period was decided as the best option for local inclusion before they are accepted, which is managed by the security group. Other wanderers and visitors who are ill or hungry, are treated by a special group with special settlement agreements for handling unexpected visitors. The rules? There is a nurse among your group who examines the newcomer for fitness and disease and if they are ill, then someone trained cares for them, but they are prevented from circulating within the settlement until healthy again. Once healthy and able to move on, a choice is made to stay to go, but they pass through the approval meetings and set-rules. In the case of death, both burial and cremation is used according to settlement agreement. Non-threatening visitors are treated kindly but always with an eye to the rules of mixing with the settlement: no unexpected extended stays. This is a small settlement with a few hundred people, not a large free-wheeling coastal boom-town, the big settlements have different and perhaps more harsh rules!

This is just one set of thoughts for a settlement, there are so many other variants depending on the constituents and the location. Small groups are more vulnerable but flexible with larger groups having a broader skill-set pool but are complex. One thing is sure with all types of camps, there will be transitions and many changes such as members leaving and those wanting to join, so because of the “new blood” and the variety of changes, it is very important to have managed and agreed upon settlement rules with an understanding that the rules will be updated and modified on-the-fly by elected settlement leaders. This means regular meetings, cooperation and quick and strong enactment of those rules, this is if members want that kind of security. Other kinds of societies will be more free-flowing and creative, probably a coastal settlement that is more spread-out will have more members who are more independent and reliable. Also, if inter-settlement trade is conducted within town limits, that is another model entirely or perhaps the little town is a way station between routes to other camps or coastal villages, that is different again. Personally I so look forward to assisting other groups, exploring the new landscape and helping any way I can to establish new towns and villages for the new world to come in the After-Time.
Rule of Law.
In the After-Time, frontier justice will replace the buffer of current civil laws, police and the courts since old-style pre Pole-Shift governments will quickly become a thing of the past. Direct consequences will be meted-out to thieves and those involved in violence by the community: ostracization and possibly even death in very rare cases, but with agreed-upon rules. Those who are troublesome to live with, but healthy and able to walk are likely to be ostracized, in time. Every settlement have to develop citizenship rules, including very harsh punishment: you cannot have thievery or other crimes go unpunished, especially when every cabbage head, pound of deer or fish meat, bunch of greens or bag of mushrooms is hard to come by, or a main family supporter is lost due to an altercation. Often, a person ousted from a frontier town either changes their ways eventually, or will find death sooner than later, this is why it is the preferred method of punishment. The After-Time environment will not be tolerant to the criminal and conversely, can offer a rewarding Life to the loving, hard-working and cooperative.

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Built in 2003, this cob house is situated in West Wales. The owner has since left and has built another cob home in an “eco village” donating this one to the locals. Can you see yourself living in a house like this?

The Dream.
See your ideal Life, reach out and touch it with your imagined fingers, find it waiting in your bones because it’s there. Mold it as you will and make it a mashable markup of what you truly want. We all need a place to live freely and to express ourselves and it is up to each of us to decide which environment we wish to live in. Better to be imagined beforehand than waiting for circumstances that may never come or to victimize ourselves by allowing others to make our decisions for us.

Some Pole-Shift details are derived from ZetaTalk.com.