Last weekend a guy from my church invited the men to his property for some shooting on his range. It turns out that about 80-90% of the men at my church are not only extremely well-armed with AR-15s, shotguns, various long rifles, and a wide array of handguns, most are fairly competent marksmen. We were all surprised at the huge turnout and one of us remarked that our church has a company-sized militia force at its disposal, several of whom are OIF OEF veterans. This is not in a red state, nor a small town, but I believe that in the event of collapse our church would remain standing; it’s members protected and fed. For people who don’t yet have the wherewithal to move to a small town and work from home, I can’t think of a better security situation than a church full of armed men.
Pete, I'd love to hear your thoughts on exurbs as an approach. I'm on 5 acres and a well, but also close (about an hour) to a major metro. I'd prefer to have moved further out, but I'm tied down somewhat because of young kids with my ex-wife.
Jack Spirko seems to be happy being only 20 minutes away from fort Worth. Of course he's built himself a mini compound and he says it's very hard to find unless you know where it is.
Thank you Pete for this excellent list and we should all either have done this or be working towards this right now every single day. If anyone can’t do these they’re in for some real trouble up ahead and even if you can’t get land outside the city at least find a land buddy who does and print off some emergency directions for a bugout plan for when SHTF.
The only thing I’d add is to radically improving your bodily health ASAP which can be done in a matter of weeks and for that I’d recommend 3 free PDFs.
In order of ease of use, I’d say learn how to do a basic yoga routine like the Five Tibetan Rites and make that your morning warmup, Sun & Steel by Yukio Mishima, and Phoenix Protocol by August Dunning about Dry Fasting.
A basic yoga routine acts a radical booster to any heavy lifting routine and most importantly tightens your Mind-Body connection, Mishima will radically alter your worldview when it comes to why we should make our bodily development our top priority, and Dunning’s work from his time at NASA on Dry Fasting will render most of Big Pharma bankrupt within the next couple decades assuming they don’t manage to genocide us all first.
The free PDF for the Five Tibetan Rites is just the instructions and pictures on how to do the actual exercises.
August Dunning’s own YouTube channel for The Phoenix Protocol about Dry Fasting is a great resource for this as well and he makes it somewhat obvious that he’a a deeply pro-Freedom individual.
The Phoenix Protocol Dry Fasting By A Dunning : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
I’ll break these three down further in the comments where I have inserted one small joke referencing Pete’s Substack.
The Ancient Secrets of the Fountain of Youth by Peter Kelder is a very short book about the Five Tibetan Rites, a simple daily yoga routine of 5 basic moves that takes all of about 12 minutes to do. The book is about his pre-WWII journey into a hidden ancient Tibetan monastery where he learned the techniques from monks who were decades older than they looked.
In my experience when I first started it took me a while to learn the sequence and when I finally did it it took almost 45 minutes to do. After doing it every day for a month it was down to 12 minutes and I’d noticed a very significant boost in my overall fitness specifically when I was attempting lifts of a very heavy 100 pound kettlebell. It serves as a great standalone exercise and wake up routine but also a solid full body warmup for much more intense workouts. I’ve also noticed that when I’ve skipped it for several weeks my workout performance and my general day to day focus, energy, flexibility, etc. all go down and take a few days to start going back up again.
It doesn’t cost any money at all to radically transform your body in a matter of weeks. It simply requires sheer will along with control of diet. Obviously most people don’t even have that but there are some fairly simple relatively easy alterations to daily routine that’ll visibly pay off in a matter of weeks that most people are capable of doing.
Health is Wealth which is why old billionaires will universally say they’d give up all their money to be completely broke and young again. Every single thing GloboHomo does is to try and weaken your body to make it easier to enslave you because they understand that a healthy human is far more difficult to control than one that relies on their medical/aka slowly poison you via Pharmakia system.
The free PDF for the Five Tibetan Rites is just the instructions and pictures on how to do the actual exercises. Physical book is well worth owning.
Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima is the single most life altering essay I’ve ever read. BAP mentions him often and after reading BAM I encountered this essay which is I make it a point to go outside shirtless daily and exercise even if it’s just for 10 minutes. The deeper spiritual alteration might not hit everyone but it certainly profoundly altered my life and struck deeply into my soul in a way that’s difficult to articulate. I’m not the same now as a direct result of reading this and my physical and mental development took a sharp improvement as a result of encountering this one essay. It also led me to the Nobel Prize Nominee in Literature’s other writings which are their own beautiful rabbit hole.
I have a mantra I taped to my wall as soon as I wake up:
“I REBUILD MY MODY MIND AND AND SOUL LIKE YUKIO MISHIMA IN SUN & STEEL. HEALTH IS WEALTH.”
I repeat it every time I pass it as a NLP NeuroLinguistic Programming affirmation to my subconscious. I will never forget to what extent this essay has altered my life path.
Physical copy of Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima is getting impossible to find but the PDF is free.
The Phoenix Protocol: Dry Fasting for Rapid Healing and Radical Life Extension by August Dunning is a very short book detailing the methodology and the biochemistry behind Dry Fasting. Dry Fasting is when you abstain from not just food but also water for a period of anywhere from a few hours like when we’re sleeping to as this book describes up to 7-10 days. I’m not a scientist by any stretch but I’ve done a lot of reading in technical fields my whole life and found the biochemistry description fascinating.
I sincerely never encountered a single instance of anyone explaining what Metabolic Water is until this book. Your body, as is the case for mammals in general, has a cellular function that’s often never used but in emergency states can convert the hydrogen in your bodyfat combined with the oxygen in the air you breathe to create the most molecularly pure H2O in the world directly within your own bloodstream.
This also results in a pressure differential whereby the new ultra pure clean Metabolic Water inside the cells create positive pressure and force out dirty water, toxins, cellular debris, heavy metals, etc.
The cellular mechanisms to generate Metabolic Water are one component of why Dry Fasting works. Another major one is Autophagy which is when cells eat each other. This is happening to you all the time and it’s why cells are able to break down other broken down weaker cells to reuse parts, get rid of waste, rebuild themselves, etc. all in order to keep the entire whole alive which is your body.
The cellular mechanisms behind Autophagy and Metabolic Water don’t start to fully kick in until about 36 hours of dry fasting but once they do, it’s a freight train of fixing your body.
When you Dry Fast, every cell goes into a hyper protective mode because it thinks you’re back in the Ice Age hunting a wooly mammoth trying to flee a saber tooth Tiger. The overriding goal of all cells becomes to keep the entire body alive by Any Memes Necessary! (See what I did there?)
Within 48-72 hours your entire immune system gets regenerated and those types of shorter dry fasts barely require any planning or refeed period. The longer ones do require further planning and careful refeeding but the health benefits are far deeper.
Based on the Autophagy research that got Yoshinori Ohsumi the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine along with Sergei Filinov’s work in Russia which was almost lost when the Soviet Union collapsed and left everything in disarray, the resulting protocol has been proven to be life altering to anyone that uses it.
August Dunning’s own YouTube channel for The Phoenix Protocol about Dry Fasting is a great resource for this as well and he makes it somewhat obvious that he’a a deeply pro-Freedom individual.
To prove I’m not full of shit now that I’ve typed all this out, I will do a round of Tibetan Rites, go outside shirtless for a kettlebell walk, and prepare for a dry fast in the next several days. I implore everyone to do their own research and start today. Best of luck and can’t wait for more content, Thanks, Pete!
Also it looks like 100’s of videos from the last 2 years on Pete’s YouTube channel have been nuked censored by YouTube overlords so here’s a link to his 1st chapter read of The Populist Delusion By Neema Parvini aka AcademicAgent which is the one I recommend to anyone new to his channel because of how profoundly worldview altering that short text is. Here’s the backup on his Odysee channel which also has all of his banned episodes that never made it to YouTube to begin with.
I agree with so much of this but just want to share some personal experience on a few things so they don't just get glossed over. I think that moving to and finding smaller communities is important, however it can be challenging. 2 years ago I got married, moved to a rural area with a small (we're talking 2400 ppl) town, and started a new job. These were all great things, however there have definitely been some challenges. While we have a group of friends, many of my closest friends moved and spread out significantly since our wedding and so I don't see them much if at all now (not to mention they all have kids and we don't having gotten married a little later in life), meeting new friends as an adult in a new small town is challenging especially when my job is 40 minutes away in a small town two over from where I live. Building community is hard when you're the new person and there aren't many community gatherings (think walking clubs, VFW halls, etc) nearby.
I grew up catholic but haven't attended church regularly in a long time and my husband has never been terribly religious as that wasn't a big part of his family growing up though he's open to it and definitely isn't an atheist and attends mass when we go with my family on vacations or for special occasions like Christmas or Mothers Day or the blessing mass my mom has said for our anniversary every year.
I guess what I'm saying is it's been difficult to build a new community with social connections since all those changes took place and I miss having a few more social connections than I currently do. I'm not always sure where to look or how to find ways to meet people and integrate into my new town.
Maybe I just need to go back to church - there are two catholic and multiple protestant ones within a 5 mile radius.
To quote you, Pete: Become what your enemies fear.
Last weekend a guy from my church invited the men to his property for some shooting on his range. It turns out that about 80-90% of the men at my church are not only extremely well-armed with AR-15s, shotguns, various long rifles, and a wide array of handguns, most are fairly competent marksmen. We were all surprised at the huge turnout and one of us remarked that our church has a company-sized militia force at its disposal, several of whom are OIF OEF veterans. This is not in a red state, nor a small town, but I believe that in the event of collapse our church would remain standing; it’s members protected and fed. For people who don’t yet have the wherewithal to move to a small town and work from home, I can’t think of a better security situation than a church full of armed men.
Pete, I'd love to hear your thoughts on exurbs as an approach. I'm on 5 acres and a well, but also close (about an hour) to a major metro. I'd prefer to have moved further out, but I'm tied down somewhat because of young kids with my ex-wife.
Jack Spirko seems to be happy being only 20 minutes away from fort Worth. Of course he's built himself a mini compound and he says it's very hard to find unless you know where it is.
Thank you Pete for this excellent list and we should all either have done this or be working towards this right now every single day. If anyone can’t do these they’re in for some real trouble up ahead and even if you can’t get land outside the city at least find a land buddy who does and print off some emergency directions for a bugout plan for when SHTF.
The only thing I’d add is to radically improving your bodily health ASAP which can be done in a matter of weeks and for that I’d recommend 3 free PDFs.
In order of ease of use, I’d say learn how to do a basic yoga routine like the Five Tibetan Rites and make that your morning warmup, Sun & Steel by Yukio Mishima, and Phoenix Protocol by August Dunning about Dry Fasting.
A basic yoga routine acts a radical booster to any heavy lifting routine and most importantly tightens your Mind-Body connection, Mishima will radically alter your worldview when it comes to why we should make our bodily development our top priority, and Dunning’s work from his time at NASA on Dry Fasting will render most of Big Pharma bankrupt within the next couple decades assuming they don’t manage to genocide us all first.
The free PDF for the Five Tibetan Rites is just the instructions and pictures on how to do the actual exercises.
http://www.trangsuoitu.org/SachPDF/The%20Five%20Tibetan%20Rites.pdf
Physical copy of Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima is getting impossible to find but the PDF is free.
https://archive.org/details/sunAndSteel_201810
August Dunning’s own YouTube channel for The Phoenix Protocol about Dry Fasting is a great resource for this as well and he makes it somewhat obvious that he’a a deeply pro-Freedom individual.
The Phoenix Protocol Dry Fasting By A Dunning : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
I’ll break these three down further in the comments where I have inserted one small joke referencing Pete’s Substack.
The Ancient Secrets of the Fountain of Youth by Peter Kelder is a very short book about the Five Tibetan Rites, a simple daily yoga routine of 5 basic moves that takes all of about 12 minutes to do. The book is about his pre-WWII journey into a hidden ancient Tibetan monastery where he learned the techniques from monks who were decades older than they looked.
In my experience when I first started it took me a while to learn the sequence and when I finally did it it took almost 45 minutes to do. After doing it every day for a month it was down to 12 minutes and I’d noticed a very significant boost in my overall fitness specifically when I was attempting lifts of a very heavy 100 pound kettlebell. It serves as a great standalone exercise and wake up routine but also a solid full body warmup for much more intense workouts. I’ve also noticed that when I’ve skipped it for several weeks my workout performance and my general day to day focus, energy, flexibility, etc. all go down and take a few days to start going back up again.
It doesn’t cost any money at all to radically transform your body in a matter of weeks. It simply requires sheer will along with control of diet. Obviously most people don’t even have that but there are some fairly simple relatively easy alterations to daily routine that’ll visibly pay off in a matter of weeks that most people are capable of doing.
Health is Wealth which is why old billionaires will universally say they’d give up all their money to be completely broke and young again. Every single thing GloboHomo does is to try and weaken your body to make it easier to enslave you because they understand that a healthy human is far more difficult to control than one that relies on their medical/aka slowly poison you via Pharmakia system.
The free PDF for the Five Tibetan Rites is just the instructions and pictures on how to do the actual exercises. Physical book is well worth owning.
http://www.trangsuoitu.org/SachPDF/The%20Five%20Tibetan%20Rites.pdf
Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima is the single most life altering essay I’ve ever read. BAP mentions him often and after reading BAM I encountered this essay which is I make it a point to go outside shirtless daily and exercise even if it’s just for 10 minutes. The deeper spiritual alteration might not hit everyone but it certainly profoundly altered my life and struck deeply into my soul in a way that’s difficult to articulate. I’m not the same now as a direct result of reading this and my physical and mental development took a sharp improvement as a result of encountering this one essay. It also led me to the Nobel Prize Nominee in Literature’s other writings which are their own beautiful rabbit hole.
I have a mantra I taped to my wall as soon as I wake up:
“I REBUILD MY MODY MIND AND AND SOUL LIKE YUKIO MISHIMA IN SUN & STEEL. HEALTH IS WEALTH.”
I repeat it every time I pass it as a NLP NeuroLinguistic Programming affirmation to my subconscious. I will never forget to what extent this essay has altered my life path.
Physical copy of Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima is getting impossible to find but the PDF is free.
https://archive.org/details/sunAndSteel_201810
The Phoenix Protocol: Dry Fasting for Rapid Healing and Radical Life Extension by August Dunning is a very short book detailing the methodology and the biochemistry behind Dry Fasting. Dry Fasting is when you abstain from not just food but also water for a period of anywhere from a few hours like when we’re sleeping to as this book describes up to 7-10 days. I’m not a scientist by any stretch but I’ve done a lot of reading in technical fields my whole life and found the biochemistry description fascinating.
I sincerely never encountered a single instance of anyone explaining what Metabolic Water is until this book. Your body, as is the case for mammals in general, has a cellular function that’s often never used but in emergency states can convert the hydrogen in your bodyfat combined with the oxygen in the air you breathe to create the most molecularly pure H2O in the world directly within your own bloodstream.
This also results in a pressure differential whereby the new ultra pure clean Metabolic Water inside the cells create positive pressure and force out dirty water, toxins, cellular debris, heavy metals, etc.
The cellular mechanisms to generate Metabolic Water are one component of why Dry Fasting works. Another major one is Autophagy which is when cells eat each other. This is happening to you all the time and it’s why cells are able to break down other broken down weaker cells to reuse parts, get rid of waste, rebuild themselves, etc. all in order to keep the entire whole alive which is your body.
The cellular mechanisms behind Autophagy and Metabolic Water don’t start to fully kick in until about 36 hours of dry fasting but once they do, it’s a freight train of fixing your body.
When you Dry Fast, every cell goes into a hyper protective mode because it thinks you’re back in the Ice Age hunting a wooly mammoth trying to flee a saber tooth Tiger. The overriding goal of all cells becomes to keep the entire body alive by Any Memes Necessary! (See what I did there?)
Within 48-72 hours your entire immune system gets regenerated and those types of shorter dry fasts barely require any planning or refeed period. The longer ones do require further planning and careful refeeding but the health benefits are far deeper.
Based on the Autophagy research that got Yoshinori Ohsumi the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine along with Sergei Filinov’s work in Russia which was almost lost when the Soviet Union collapsed and left everything in disarray, the resulting protocol has been proven to be life altering to anyone that uses it.
August Dunning’s own YouTube channel for The Phoenix Protocol about Dry Fasting is a great resource for this as well and he makes it somewhat obvious that he’a a deeply pro-Freedom individual.
https://archive.org/details/the-phoenix-protocol-dry-fasting-by-a-dunning
To prove I’m not full of shit now that I’ve typed all this out, I will do a round of Tibetan Rites, go outside shirtless for a kettlebell walk, and prepare for a dry fast in the next several days. I implore everyone to do their own research and start today. Best of luck and can’t wait for more content, Thanks, Pete!
Also it looks like 100’s of videos from the last 2 years on Pete’s YouTube channel have been nuked censored by YouTube overlords so here’s a link to his 1st chapter read of The Populist Delusion By Neema Parvini aka AcademicAgent which is the one I recommend to anyone new to his channel because of how profoundly worldview altering that short text is. Here’s the backup on his Odysee channel which also has all of his banned episodes that never made it to YouTube to begin with.
https://odysee.com/@Freemanbeyondthewall:d/episode-771-reading-chapters-1%2B2-of-the:6
I agree with so much of this but just want to share some personal experience on a few things so they don't just get glossed over. I think that moving to and finding smaller communities is important, however it can be challenging. 2 years ago I got married, moved to a rural area with a small (we're talking 2400 ppl) town, and started a new job. These were all great things, however there have definitely been some challenges. While we have a group of friends, many of my closest friends moved and spread out significantly since our wedding and so I don't see them much if at all now (not to mention they all have kids and we don't having gotten married a little later in life), meeting new friends as an adult in a new small town is challenging especially when my job is 40 minutes away in a small town two over from where I live. Building community is hard when you're the new person and there aren't many community gatherings (think walking clubs, VFW halls, etc) nearby.
I grew up catholic but haven't attended church regularly in a long time and my husband has never been terribly religious as that wasn't a big part of his family growing up though he's open to it and definitely isn't an atheist and attends mass when we go with my family on vacations or for special occasions like Christmas or Mothers Day or the blessing mass my mom has said for our anniversary every year.
I guess what I'm saying is it's been difficult to build a new community with social connections since all those changes took place and I miss having a few more social connections than I currently do. I'm not always sure where to look or how to find ways to meet people and integrate into my new town.
Maybe I just need to go back to church - there are two catholic and multiple protestant ones within a 5 mile radius.