[native-nutrition] Wilderness Survival
- Subject: Wilderness Survival
- From: "Suze Fisher" <s.fisher22@v...>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 23:21:21 -0500
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Hi Wanita,
fraud.Was surprised a few years back to hear on some list that Tom is a total
Never was a Stalking Wolf and his friend, grandson of Stalking Wolf was
still
alive and not dead as he'd written in his books. Mighty big claim but one I
paid little mind to knowing much of what Tom wrote could not have been made
up
or even read in books. There were too many pieces of my childhood that was
in
part Native American.
****I asked Dan about the fraud claims you mentioned. He told me he's
familiar with a number of such claims, many from competitors at wilderness
schools in the west it seems. Tom's school is the most well known, the
oldest, and is in NJ, as I imagine you already know. As you said, what Tom
Brown knows is not something one could learn from a book. He is a proven
masterful tracker. The FBI used to call on him for tracking missing people,
and local police use him often. Dan said Apache trackers can understand the
pressure release in tracks -this is what Tom was taught (among other
things). Tom can look at a track and tell if a person or animal swallowed
while making a particular track because the weight shifts during a swallow.
Dan's tracking skills are not that advanced, but he can see, for example, if
someone or some animal turned their head to the right while stepping in deep
sand. But it takes him a little while to study the track. Dan also said that
Tom may be the best tracker on the planet - his awareness and skill at
reading tracks is extraordinary. (Although I'd imagine there are some
excellent trackers in hunter/gatherer groups somewhere in the world and we
just don't know about them...) Dan's seen him spot about 20 fox tracks
within a few moments, but it took a group of students about an hour and a
half to find all 20 tracks.
Dan also told me that some of the western wilderness schools consider Tom's
spiritual approach "that spiritual nonsense" or something to that effect,
and that there's probably some jealousy at play due to his tremendous
success. I guess the bottom line is that he's proven that his skills and
approach work, not just in tracking, but in other wilderness and spiritual
matters. Another example, Tom taught Dan the pipe ceremony, which is a type
of healing ceremony, and Dan has conducted pipe ceremonies over the years,
refining it, and has had some amazing results with people who were ill,
including at least one person with cancer.
This is bringing back an interesting memory of the basic survival skills
class I took...heightened awareness is a major theme running through
everything Dan teaches. One lesson in awareness that I clearly remember from
the class I took is this: Dan had one of his apprentices "hide" himself in
some shallow grass next to Dan's driveway. The apprentice covered himself in
mud (just like the photo on tom's home page) and mentally made himself
"invisible." I knew he was going to do this and I often looked around to
see if Chris was hiding, but I saw no sign of him. Then at one point, we
were standing on the dirt driveway listening to Dan. We were standing there
for about 5 minutes, and suddenly Chris popped up out of the grass about 2-3
feet away from me! We all jumped as none of us had seen him, although he
must've been fairly visible in the lowish grass and with much of his torso
NOT covered in mud. We made him get back in the same position, and when he
lay in the same place, we could all clearly see him. Of course, that's
because we KNEW he was there. There's no reason that we shouldn't have
noticed him before, except that we were exceptionally UNaware people.
You mentioned that too many pieces of your childhood was native american -
is part of your heritage native american? If so, what nation/tribe? Or did
you grow up under the tutelage of some native americans?
working at a bank a man came in. I cashed his check, he asked why I didn'tWhat really blew me away was one day before I quit
ID
him, told him he was a schoolmates father and I knew him. He asked who I
was,
told him and he goes your Dad is quite a hunter. He then described to me
exactly Tom Brown's first deer hunt only it was how he knew my Dad had
hunted a deer as a much younger man.
***I don't understand what you're saying here...? Dan mentioned that tom's
first deer hunt was a poignant story in which he first became aware of the
lifeforce/spirit/ki of plants...is your story tied in to that?
health of the groups he studied than just the physical components of theirI really am just suggesting that there may be more to the robust
diets.
Its a common mind and the common good.
***Yes, and perhaps not the just the common good of the *group* but of all
that sustains it, and to which it wil return...
Suze Fisher
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