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before their heart attempts another beat? Ninja –
the ancient trade practiced by those who were
boiled alive in oil if they were caught, not the
modernistic interpretation employed by trendy
Hollywood actors and their aquatic counterparts –
is much more a way of life than nearly any other
martial arts package. You’d do well to study its
foundations.
If you’re going to survive within this rapidly
threatening world of ours, especially one where
you’re going to meet up with people quite willing
to die for the chance to terminate you, then you’re
definitely going to have to develop your psychic
sensitivity. 37 We in the modern world have lost our
natural ways and you’re going to have to find some
method of getting them back. Chances are, you’re
totally lost even within your local environment.
You move through a sea of people, cars, thoughts,
responsibilities, and aspirations and I bet that you
can’t separate a damn one of them long enough to
employ all five senses of yours let alone hope to
engage a “sixth”.
In the “bush”, not being able to corral your
senses is tantamount to death and death is what
this book is all for delaying. At least until you’re a
ripe old cuss begging for the trumpets of Saint
Peter. Away from the trappings of modern
conveniences which are nothing more than
distractions, your natural sensors will soon notice
things that you never knew that you could detect.
You’ll begin to realize that cigarette smoke can be
detected up to a quarter of a mile away if the wind
is right and you’re a non-smoker. 38 You’d also be
able to detect food, cooking fires, even ‘bathroom’