Pilgrimage to the Soul of the Guardian

The 2026 Training

The Initiation: 80 days plus, from Feb 7 – Apr 28, 2026 (online, via email and Zoom)
The Deep Dive: 160 days, from Jun 19, 2026 – Jan 11, 2027 (70 days somewhere in the Wisconsin Wilderness, 90 days online)

We tend to think of the Guardian as a protector of the people—a master of deception who can move as invisibly as a shadow and strike as quickly as a Snake. At a moment’s notice, he/she is there to serve, whether it be as a scout or mentor, or on death-defying rescue missions.

There is another Guardian persona: that of the magician and mystic. It is little-known and seldom practiced in this day, yet it has been kept alive by the few recluse devotees who have survived the witchhunts and shunned the weaponization of the Guardian Way. For them, living on thin air, seeing through solid objects, and bathing safely in the Fire Of Dragons comes as naturally as walking and talking does for us.

The First Step

To join in this transcendence from Guardian persona to Guardian Spirit, you are asked to:

• First, contact Tamarack (715-546-2944 or tamarack@teachingdrum.org) to set up a Zoom interview. He will invite you to bare your soul: What is the driving force in your life, your deepest pain, your darkest secret, your most debilitating belief, your wildest dream for the future?
• Then, solve a riddle. After the interview, you will be sent a paradox that takes more than cleverness to crack. The answer lies beyond the power to reason—you will need to fool yourself in order to see it without it blinding you.

As soon as you solve the riddle, you will be invited to apply.

The Initiation, to Awaken

This 80-day at-home unraveling can be taken as a stand-alone, and it serves as essential preparation for the Deep Dive.

Do you hear the sacred calling to be reborn into the Quintessential Guardian? Do you dare risk your temporal life for ascension into Guardian Nirvana? The Initiation is an 80-day at-home Mindfulness Grounding. It is spiritually and ethically rigorous:

• Every morning begins with a focused meditation on a new aspect of the Guardian Way.
• Each evening there is a story—a holy exercise for carving away smothering layers.
• There is an e-group and regular Zoom circle gatherings for sharing, guidance, and inspiration.

In essence, you master your mind, body, and spirit to develop the stamina and vision for the Deep Dive. Or if you are not going on to the Deep Dive, you will be reborn into a life that you did not know was possible and a world that you did not know existed.

If you take the Initiation as a stand-alone, on September 8 you rejoin those who have gone on to take the Deep Dive, to give them support and an informed audience for the stories they will have to share. You in turn become enriched by the story teachings, and you stay with them throughout their 80-day Emergence intensive to hold space and serve as a sounding board. You, in turn, gain the support and guidance to keep expanding into your new life.

Investment: $3100 and your naked soul.

The Deep Dive into the Mystic

The Initiation is a prerequisite and is included in the Investment listed below.

Part 1 – The Plunge

70 days in the Wilderness: June 19 – Aug 27

We cloister ourselves deep in the Wilderness, on retreat from everything familiar, to come intimately close to everything we already know. Through Deep Trance Work and Dream Journeying, we take Regressions to our beginnings as a species. There we meet the first Guardians in our lineage, and our Guardian Helpers. That prepares us to:

• Go on our Soul Retrieval, to face our Dragon, the guardian of our inner child, who holds the Golden Secrets.
• Metamorphose from an “I will save that tree” Guardian to an “I am that tree” Guardian.
• Extend an empty hand that is always filled.
• Go from practicing various mind-body trainings and routines to integrating their essence into a fully embodied, fully engaged life.
• Find humor in all things, as it is the final—and essential—Gateway to The Mystic.

Part 2 – The Emergence

90 days at home and online: Oct 14 – Jan 11

Every Guardian Mission starts as a Visionary Experience. The resulting Vision is a precious pearl to be valued and served. At the same time, the Vision is a most cherished Guide in our training and healing. Although the spirit of that Vision is immediate and upfront, its unfolding manifests over time. The Emergence is a training intensive in best practices for using the time wisely and productively to guide and nurture the unfolding of the Visions we have brought back from our Wilderness Plunge.

Here is the order of the Emergence training:

1. Learn the protocols and support practices for a smooth reintegration into “normal” life.
2. Returning as an enlightened and empowered Lone Wolf, you learn how to avoid Lone Wolf Syndrome by transforming the illusion of “I.”
3. You are given a complete tool chest for manifesting your Vision.
4. To orchestrate the manifesting, you learn the secrets to accessing boundless energy and resources.
5. And finally, you learn how to become a receptacle to that by living life as ceremony and a continual meditation.

Investment: $10,200 for both Initiation and Deep Dive – 240 days total. And there is an even bigger investment—the dead-serious commitment to abandon all that suffocates you and keeps you a mere mortal.