Chapter 27 A Bit More About Philosophy 1 — from my book Changes

Chapter 27

A Bit More About Philosophy 1

When Tom taught us something, he often reminded us to do as Grandfather Stalking Wolf taught him to do; that is to empty your cup.  Forget your past.  Learn with  fresh eyes and then later you can sort through what you just learned with what you have previously learned to see how those things might fit together, and/or what you want to keep.

Philosophy 1 had more depth to it than I have written about already.

In Phil 1 Tom gave us a map of the things that could be found along the path of the subconscious, or, the more personal part of the force, as well as the rest of the force, which would be the stairs we go down as we go deeper toward the medicine place and the spirit world.

Tom always explained everything before each meditation so we would not have any surprises and things would go smoothly.

Along the path, we learned there is a place of all memories and actions, a place of the primal self or instinct, a place of body control, a place of self healing, and a place of fusion between the subconscious and the  force.

Aa we proceeded down the stairs, we learned there is a place of fusion between the force and the subconscious, a place of communication with entities that are near you, a place of communication with entities that are far away from you, a place of healing, a place of force energy, and a place for the fusion between the force and the spirit.

When Tom led us in meditation and introduced us to these places, separated by thin veils, he had us create landmarks at each place, just off to the side on the left of the path, and then off to the side on the right of the stairs.  By creating landmarks to remind us what each place held for us, it gave us an anchor; a way for us to easily get to any of these places by shifting to our landmark there.  We were led many times to these landmarks in order to feel them within ourselves, and make them solid in our experience.

The place of healing along the path is a place where we can heal ourselves if we want.

The place of healing along the stairs is a place where we can heal family members if we want.

And the place of healing in the medicine place is where we ask the creator to send us what needs healing.  In other words, not for us personally and not for our families, but for a purpose beyond self.

Before Tom told us about the different places along the path and the stairs, he encouraged us to begin to notice passing through thin veils as we walked.  The veils are what separated the different places we came to know.

For the healing places on the path and the stairs he simply told us what was there and gave us the landmarks.  For the healing place along the path, we would step off the path to the left and there was a column of white healing light we could step into.  For the healing place on the stairs, we would step off to the right and enter a crystal cave where there would be a healing altar.  The process for healing in the crystal cave is the same as I described earlier in the chapter on healing in the sacred area of the medicine place.

Ideally, to learn and do these meditations you could either go to Trackerschool Philosophy 1 class where you would have the instructors there guide you through everything in Philosophy 1, or you could find someone who has chosen to teach this meditation who had learned it at Trackerschool.  Many trackerschool students have gone on to share what they have learned under Tom’s leadership.

When Tom taught these things to us, he told us he was not teaching students, he was teaching teachers, and he wanted us to pass this on to others just as we had learned it.

I’ve enjoyed teaching these things to several small groups in person. And considering how much growth I gained from what I learned at Trackerschool, I love sharing these teachings with others.