Hallo!

Zu Stalking Wolf sollte man sich dieses mal durchlesen:

Auszüge:

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=390.0;wap2

"There is a series of outdoor books written by a Quaker named Ernest Thompson Seton between 1910 and 1920. Tom Browns writings and knowledge come directly from these books.
Stalking Wolf and his grandson Rick were proven to have never existed by a Alibamu-Kosati writer and researcher for NAIDV named Sondra Ball."

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=390.5;wap2

"Tom Brown, Jr. is the author of a number of fiction books with titles like The Tracker, The Vision, The Way of the Scout, and The Quest, that oddly are found in the non-fiction or autobiography sections. In these books, he tells of how as a boy in New Jersey, he and a childhood friend "Rick" (whom nobody can seem to locate to corroborate the story) were approached by an old Apache tracker named Stalking Wolf who took them under his wing as his apprentices and taught them wilderness tracking, along with loads of supernatural woo such as how to make themselves invisible, walk through walls, kill deer using their bare hands while falling out of a tree, go on shamanic journeys, permanently frostbite-proof themselves by taking a hike, change shape, spend a summer living naked in the forest foraging plants for survival, magically escape from a pack of wild dogs who think they are wolves, trick their parents into thinking they were at home doing homework when in fact they were spending weeks at a time in the New Jersey pine barrens being taught by an Apache tracker, and too much else to list here.

The story is simply too implausible to take seriously, yet it is marketed as non-fiction and is popular especially in New Age bookstores, where people desparately want to believe in tripe like this.

Some obvious questions come to mind immediately: An Apache tracker just picks two boys out of the blue - in New Jersey of all places - to become his apprentices? How did these boys manage to spend to much time running around in the woods without their parents noticing?

The story bears more than a casual resemblance to the 1903 childrens novel Two Little Savages by Ernest Thompson Seton (who was largely responsible for all the pseudo-Indian woo in the Boy Scouts of America), and to Boy Scout pseudo-Indian woo in general, making it possible that Brown read and was inspired by Seton's book, which is about two boys who go into the woods to "live as Indians" for a while, learning woodcraft, tracking, and other woods skills. Brown's story is also a classic childhood "apprenticeship" fantasy to which lonely, nerdy, and shy boys are especially prone, in which the lonely misunderstood boy fantasizes about being taken under the tutelage of a usually wizardly "Gandalf"-type adult who is an expert at some arcane, often super-human skill. Under the influence of Ernest Thompson Seton's book it is not hard to speculate how such a fantasy can develop around a Native American tracker. One may speculate further that such a fantasy, once elaborately constructed, could be believed by the child and writing about it as an adult as if it actually happened could become the basis of a lucrative career as a "tracking" expert.

Speculation aside, Tom Brown Jr. does run a tracking school and is a recognized go-to person in the field of tracking (although even there, he makes some claims that are not widely accepted among other trackers, such as claiming to be able to detect if a person is ill from their tracks). He is likely self-taught. Look, if you want to believe the silly Indian apprenticeship fantasies, you are more than welcome to, but the whole thing smells a little too much like Mike Warnke's "Satanism" tall tales.

Brown's tracking school has been the subject of a Penn and Teller Bullshit! investigation as part of an episode covering survivalism and doomsday scenarios.

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What I have heard about Brown:
Tom Brown has lost his friggin mind.
He learned what he initially learned about bushcraft from the Society of Primitive Technology in New Jersey.
He took classes there and is remembered by the instructors.
He's a huge fraud. There was no Stalking Wolf or a Rick."

Stalking Wolf wurde wohl auch erst 1978 erstmals erwähnt (siehe hier die Quellenangaben).
Dazu passt, daß er hauptsächlich Probleme zu beschreiben scheint, die um 1980 wohl noch mehr öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit bekamen, als heute:

- Hunger in der 3. Welt
- Ozonloch (= Löcher im Himmel)
- Umweltverschmutzung (nicht zu Verwechseln mit Treibhauseffekt)
- Waldsterben
- AIDS - jedoch aus heutiger Sicht von den Folgen her eher übertrieben dargestellt (keine "Killerkrankheit" bei im Vergleich zur Gesamtbevölkerung nur sehr wenigen Infizierten im Westen)

Ich plädiere hierfür:

Gruß
Taurec

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