By Michael Bunker
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The 5 Steps of Survival and Prepper Maturity

Posted by MichaelBunker
editor@lazarusunbound.com
February 22, 2012

You may have heard about the 5 Steps of Grief and Mourning. They go like this:

1. Denial and Isolation

2. Anger

3. Bargaining

4. Depression

5. Acceptance

In like manner, many (but certainly not all, and probably not even most) intelligent and engaged people will pass through a similar process -- beginning after they first get an inkling that things are not right in the world, that they are in a perilous situation, and that their loved ones are in danger if something (anything) bad were to happen. The 5 Steps of Survival and Prepper Maturity are easily identifiable, and most people can readily see where they are in the process. Like in the 5 Steps of Grief, you only very rarely will be able to skip steps, and you will almost always deny that you need to move on to the next step. One basic maxim of this truism is that people generally feel comfortable where they are and will think that everyone further down the maturity chart is "extreme" or "unbalanced". This is the nature of vision and perception of reality. Everyone, on whatever level they find themselves, thinks that those behind them are deceived and foolish, and that everyone ahead of them is extreme. There is one other very important fact that we need to identify before we go into the list. All of these are actually levels on the scale that stretches from FULL-ON CONSUMER to PRODUCER. The first step in beginning the road to maturity, is to admit that you are a consumer. I'll talk about this more particularly on the radio show tonight (DV), but unless you are in the .001%, then you are a consumer. Admit it now, and let's move on. Consumption as a maxim is the bedrock of slavery. "Your consumption percentage" is also your slavery index number.