Cody Lundin - When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes

This book is written to remind people of their right to self-reliance within a world community and to offer them no-nonsense, home-tested tools and techniques toward the goal of obtaining greater peace, harmony, and independence during troubled times. Its based upon popular lectures and hands-on skills about self-reliance that Ive taught to thousands of students around the nation. Using common sense and the hierarchal necessities of human psychology and physiology, When All Hell Breaks Loose concisely and humorously outlines the often simple steps needed for preparing a self-reliant home to survive urban and rural emergencies from Los Angeles to Paris and everything in between. My intention is to offer these survival tools in the most practical, affordable, simple, efficient, and realistic way as possible.

Dont assume to whip out this book while three feet of floodwater lingers in your living room and expect to be a happy camper. The information in this manual should be studied and used BEFORE the next emergency. Its too late to read the book on how to swim when the boats going down. Proper advanced preparation can mean the difference between your living or dying. There is an old survival saying thats prudent to understand and follow: Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

This is not a book based upon religious prophecy, dogma, or end times. Regardless of your faith or lack of it, Im betting that you reside within a human body that lives upon a physical planet. If this is true, you and your loved ones will benefit from the contents in this book whether Armageddon happens or not. That said, embracing and strengthening a personal and family spiritual path will deepen your connection with the Source, the only truly permanent supply on Earth.

This is not a book based in fearmongering and paranoia. It doesnt matter what preparedness gear you have stored in your garage or buried in your backyard if you are too much of a mental and emotional basket case to use it. You will learn later in this book about the power of your attention. Whatever your attention focuses upon, you draw that quality into your life to act. Perhaps nothing is needed more in todays world than inner harmony consciously held by the individual. To be able to maintain and hold a harmonious attitude in the face of all things chaotic is true mastery. It is your biggest and best survival skill. Have faith and keep trying. This book is dedicated to your Divine right to think and act for you and your familys welfareand those serious about advancing on the path will remember that we are all family on this planet. Self-understanding and self-reliance minimize fear and manipulation, increase positive attitudes, and allow you to become one of the stronger links in the chain of humanity during times of turmoil.

This is not a book on homesteading skills. I dont write about growing gardens, planting fruit trees, or milking goatsall of which would be wonderful resources and skills to have during a prolonged crisis. There are books available that deal with small- and large-scale homesteading and I encourage you to learn all that you can about self-reliant strategies. If you have the initiative and the space to raise some or all of your familys food, you have my praise and a hearty slap on the back.

Unlike some survival manuals that offer handy tips for cooking the family pet, stockpiling ammo and only ammo, improvising explosives, and properly fitting the family with gas masks, this book sticks to the basics of being prepared in a populated environment when shopping at the discount or grocery store is not an option. That said, Im not discounting the potential weirdness that could threaten our towns and cities in current world affairs. However, planning to survive the effect of a catastrophe is very different from planning to survive its cause. The former is dictated by a mind-set of fear and hysteria; the latter, a mind-set of common sense and practical wisdom. If you think theres no difference between the two, please rethink your intentions and strategies for your familys preparedness plan.

Im not a financial planner and I dont want to be. Through this book, I hope to educate the public on what is truly needed to live during a compromising scenario in which you are on your own. A friend of mine once told me the sobering story of how his German grandparents, during World War II, witnessed urban dwellers making their way into rural farming areas to trade. He said, They went to farmhouses with suitcases full of silver dinnerware, gold, and jewelry, and left with suitcases full of very expensive vegetables. The supposed value of an item is dependent upon that which society decrees upon it at the time. Dont repeat history by forgetting your priorities.