Twenty Twenty September 17th, 2008
Hey mate,
Below are 3 amazing letters sent to our discussion group, by Emmett Pennington, one of the first participants in Scout Camp. I request that you not only read the words, but feel the spirit between the lines.
You may not understand every reference he makes, because you wern’t in the camp. But you just might catch how much camp changed him. And how it will continue to change his life for years to come.
(I just spoke with Emmett a few days ago, he’s currently mostly off the internet, enjoying life and exploring possibilities with his sons. Scout Camp is still giving him tons to explore and enjoy. )
We have 2 or 3 openings left in the final cabin we are renting for Scout Camp 2008. I would love to talk with you personally about coming. Email me your phone number and a few preferred times that we could talk if you are moved to. Email: 2020@exhostage.com
Emmett’s original letters are below. Enjoy.
September 11 2006
I’m home now, and the ride back was way cool…
I normally have a lot, a LOT of activity in my head…thoughts, auditory and lots of pictures…
But on the way home from camp…not too much noticed… i know the things are there…but very calm. I don’t know why.
Played around with the questions of…the thoughts are not mine.
Hmmm. How difficult that bridge is to cross. And for some reason the thoughts are there, but they are not as loud as usualy. Some kind of calmness.
JUMP!
Now about camp…wow.
Chunk: I learned to make fire from sticks. The biggest benefit?
Calibrations.
That’s it in a nutshell. CALIBRATIONS.
Using different parts to assemble the vehicle to get fire, using the right form…and calibrating the whole time.
So now i’m fired up for the world. Why? Assertions: i learned to calibrate a powerful force as fire…with those small chunks needed i can take that to calibrating people…and events.
And we learned about the Medicine Wheel…more calibrating and a great model for change…and to connect, and relating, and relationships, and noticing me.
And we learned to start tracking, deer, people and when we started to do this, other people in the camp site began to become curious. John contributed to us…through teaching. We contributed to the other camper with curiosity…and we got a story about Joe Nameth from someone from his home town…who just happened to see us looking at a piece of dirt for 15 min’s…noticing the small chunks of data and tracking.
And so my 5 hour drive home was great! A lot of activity up in the head, i think…but i didn’t notice. It was one of the quitest drives home.
The contributions of John, John and Jess and Carol…wow.
The ripples. I took something back from everyone. John T. gave me some good thoughts and maybe a million dollar idea. Jess gave me some great ways to look at things…a different way.
And being around these guys for 3 days, i was able to begin to model their strategies…some very powerful strategies that were a blast to experience.
Well…
I could go on and on and on and on…
I’ll save some for later…but here’s one more…
So i get home and when daylight comes, i plan to build a fire…just to see and to show my son.
So i live in a city and not too many sticks around to build a bow, so i can build a fire. BUT, the city truck is going around cutting limbs off of trees and just so happens to be in front of my house trimming the tree.
So i ask if i can have a branch…and he says sure. But they get done without getting one that is just bent right.
So i go searching…and behind my garage is this little growth of some kind of tree…the kind that sprout of out nowhere, just a little one with several of the branches coming out of the ground from under the garage.
And the branches hang over an alley where cars go by…I get a knife and go cut it, because i found one of the branches to be just right for a bow. And the neighbor lady comes out.
And she says, are you cutting that? I say yes. And she brings here cutters over and helps me cut the branches off. She says she wanted to cut those down and she was thinking about sneaking over there and cutting them down, because when she drives down the alley the branches hit her car.
WOW…the gift from the universe…i am grateful to recieve it and thankful. I had a little pocket knife cutting my branch that will nurture me and my son by making a bow to build fire. And here comes a pissed off, blaming lady that lends here help…she cut the branches for me…she WOULD NOT let me use the cutters my self.
And so the cutting contributed and nurtured her. She got what she wanted…in a peacful way…and she may not know it…she contributed to me and my son.
Ripples.
And i would never have noticed this if not for Scout Camp and the other camps and products i have been to and took from…
Wow.
From the east and looking with Vision, from the west and noticing the body.
From the South and trusting this list and touching everything and from the North standing and doing what i do even though my neighbors may think i’m different…
Wow,
Emmett
++++ Letter number two ++++
Sept 13 2006
How many cd’s can I buy…
How many books can i buy…
Being there in person, connecting with John, Jess, John, Carol and myself. The energy.
Physically walking through the Medicine Wheel; balance and momentum.
Wow. Yes; buy the cd’s and dvd’s….and go to the back woods and quantum leap. Well worth the paper paid, contributed, passed on.
Wow, the energy.
The saying goes; a picture paints a thousands words…A vist to PA paints a thousands thoughts and insights.
John W. taught a whole lot…about Scout, and about me.
I gained a very useful insight from Jess. We were talking about his products and how we have been using them. We touched upon the Essential Drills and The Insider. Using the body and aligning the back and hips for a more balanced approach.
I performed the drills on the dvd. Jess gave it more power.
Jess, i hope you don’t mind me sharing this, it helped me a great deal.
Jess, said that at work, before he answers a question, he would pause; and would align his body in balance.
Then he would answer.
He concluded that what came out is what the answer needed. No bull shit. The universe provided.
WOW. Using it at work. We used it in the woods at scout camp. BUT at work? Neat. Work is like survival.
Some people check out and die slowly. I just got the insight that work is like the wild, like the woods. I need to stay in tune with the energy in order to survive. WOW.
So, my first day back at work i aligned my body whenever i noticed that i needed balance.
And the day was as perfect as one can have in manufacturing. I bet people noticed that i walked different.
And if they didn’t, who cares, the energy was there. Wonderful!!
Thanks Jess for the great insight for using the balancing at work…the wild.
Enjoy,
Emmett
++++ Letter number 3 ++++
September 14, 2006
I posted after Scout Camp regarding my drive home from PA. The quietest ride that i had in a long time; no acitivity noticed in the head.
Normally (What is normal?) I would have a lot of visuals, picts flying one after another after another…and audio…
BUT on the way back from Camp, a nothingness…a kinda numbness (openness).
(The beautiful silence, the sacred space within!)
I know the ’stuff’ is there, but I can’t pin point it.
Today the same. This past few days, the same. THere are ‘thoughts’ up there, but I can not pin point what it is; visual? audio? kino? I don’t care anymore…it is what it is.
So i am enjoying the feeling of the numbness (openness) and it allows me to notice more around me.
Thanks Scout Camp, for giving me the opportunity to tune in to tune out and to notice the tracks…to track…to find the way.
in the woods…in life.
Enjoy,
‘Emmett