Before I do my meditation, I do a kind of shield to protect the bears. Thirty bears have been killed around here in the past seven years. Then they open the bear, take the liver out and sell it in the marketplace in San Francisco. They are paid a thousand dollars for the liver, which is used in Chinese medicine. They leave the rest of the bear behind.
Some people also come nearby to kill the squirrels in the national forest.
There are no rules about hunting squirrels because nobody has ever hunted them before. These people hunt them for food, so now the gray squirrels are almost all gone. I believe that the medicine man saw this, and wanted me to shield this area to keep the hunters away. It has been working. So far no bear has been killed inside this compound.