Tom's Monthly Newsletter: June 2010

Hi Folks,

Yes of course it is yet another late newsletter.  Just when I thought that I could finally relax a little and take some time to get out the June Newsletter on time I found myself having more things added to my schedule.  Not only did I just come off of three classes back to back to back, but the past two weeks after the class I had to catch up on a laundry list of things that just had to get done, all of which involved elements of the Tracker School, but no time for the newsletter.

I now find myself in the same position again for yesterday I just started a new Standard Class which will be followed by a Philosophy I then a Philosophy II then a week long intense Sacred 21 Class.  During this same time frame I will also be getting out several new computer videos dealing with the "Power of Place" series and I will be starting up once again the live computer broadcasts.  Yes I know what you are all thinking; excuses, excuses, and you are right.  I really should have focused more on getting the newsletter out on time, especially in these very trying times and what we face in our world today.  The good thing about being late again with this newsletter is that there is so much more going on than just a week ago when this newsletter should have gone out.

The other good thing about being late is that Celeste has finally stepped in and helped me rework my schedule so that every day I will set aside time to write newsletters, answer student mail, and finish up my new book.  Now lets talk about all of the things that are happening both at the Tracker School and on our Sacred Earth Mother.  

I know what is foremost on most of our minds and that is the horrific oil spill that has so damaged the Gulf waters but will soon work its way up the east coast and finally to Europe.  I am so sickened by what I have seen not only through the classic news media but also the reports coming in from environmental groups and individuals, especially from the Tracker School family.  Once again I beg you to reread the Prophecy Chapter in The Quest and go to the place where Grandfathers' Prophecy talks about the waters of the Earth.

Read it carefully, remembering that this is written in the Way of the Coyote.  If you read between the lines the impact of this spill is the "black fingers of greed running across the face of Earth Mothers' Blood", as Grandfather once described it.  It will have such horrific consequences both immediate and for future generations.  As much as our government and BP cries out that they will clean up the spill, you and I both know that the damage can never be repaired.  Here once again Grandfathers' words ring true when he said, "we are a society that kills our grandchildren to feed our children."  If you for one moment think that the damage can be repaired then I ask you to research the lasting impact of the Exxon Valdez disaster even today and the implications it has on the future.

I am so sickened by this, but sickened further with the realization that this will not be the last oil spill disaster.  I know that many of the Tracker Students have volunteered their time and energy toward the clean up and many more have prayed passionately for recovery, but I ask you to remember in your prayers our Earth, all creatures of the Earth, and beg the forgiveness of your grandchildren and great grandchildren for slowly killing our Sacred Earth Mother.  Will we learn from it and drive less?  I think not.  We will all just point a finger, blame, and become critics.  As for me, I deplore critics and complainers, thus I blame only myself every time I get into a car, truck, or plane, and blame myself for not doing enough to save the Earth and fight for Her safety.  I have broken my promise to Grandfather and the Earth and failed to protect Her.

On another note I just sent a letter out to all of my Scout Class graduates that announces two new Scout classes that will be offered this coming October.  The Scout community have been calling this year "the year of the Scout", and for good reason.  As many of you know, in the past two years I have redesigned and added much more information the Philosophy Curriculum with special emphasis on Philosophy 3 through 8 and now with the upcoming Philosophy 1 & 2 classes that will take place over the next two weeks I will round out the modification and intensification of these classes.  But my main focus this year is on the Scout class series.  I have added nearly twice the amount of information to the basic Scout class that will take place later this summer, expanding many areas of teaching and adding a tremendous series of workshops that I have never taught before.

 Along with this expansion of teaching comes a very critical and intense change.  I have focused now on what was the old Advanced Scout and Expert Scout Classes, which now no longer exist.  What I have done is to rework, expand, and add information, teaching, techniques, and spiritual application to these classes in a very dramatic way.  These two new Scout Classes called now the Scout II & III will replace the old Advanced and Expert Scout Classes.  In fact the information is so new and so different that I have told former graduates of the advanced and expert Scout classes that none of what they learned in the higher level Scout Classes will be found in these new classes.  The reason that I have uplifted and changed the level of teaching toward the spiritual way of the Scout is because I intend to expand further the Scout experience to be similar to the Philosophy 1 through 8 classes in that in the future the Scout may very have more levels than does the Philosophy Classes.

The reason I am telling you this is that the Scout II & III will not be offered again for several years as is true of many of the higher level Tracker classes.  If you are thinking of taking the Scout class this would be the year to do it especially if you were planning to take a series of Scout classes.  Keep in mind that I am keeping the classes to a very limited enrollment but I can not have a waiting list because I do not know when these higher level Scout Classes will be run again.  

The Scout, Scout II, and the Scout III have now taken me close to fifteen years to redesign and finally offer to the students of the Tracker Family.  When I make the statement that Grandfather could run across a bed of dried leaves without making a sound do you really think that could have been accomplished on a purely physical level?  The best way to sum up the scope and intensity of these higher level Scout classes it to come and find out not only how Grandfather did it but do it yourself.  As I always say, "when I see a Scout, the first thing I see is a Shaman".

The first run of the T3 knives are now in production and will be out shortly.  For all of you who have waited so long for the knife I will personally make sure that you get a low registration number on your knife.  I am thrilled because I will finally see the knife in the hands of so many of you and watch your reactions to the new size.  Out of all the Tracker knives I believe that this one will be used the most and become the most popular.  Funny thing is that I will have mine as soon as you get yours.  The manufacturer doesn't care to cut the designer a break and send his early!  In fact what will probably piss me off the most is that some of you will get yours before I get mine.

Along the same thought as the Tracker 3 knife coming out is that soon our fall winter schedule will be coming out.  I think that you will be excited about the classes I have chosen to teach like the Scout II & III as well as the new places we will be holding classes and the expansion of our "Power of Place" classes.  

Meanwhile pray hard for our Earth Mother and our grandchildren for we have entered very dark times.  It is now the time of the Shaman-Scout to arise.

In Medicine,

Tom