Appointment of first Senior Fellow and Living Sage
IRVINE CALIFORNIA, July 09, 2021
Spirit gate leading into Great River’s wooded park and reflective walking trails.
The Little Creek Monastery is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott Walter as a Senior Fellow as well as additional recognition as a Living Sage. He is the first person to receive either honor from the monastery.
The bestowment of these titles is in recognition of his life’s work, including unsung but significant and relentlessly dedicated contributions to humanity. (Fellows and Sages are not required to be resident or active within the monastery.)
Both titles are in recognition of Mr. Walter’s dedicated lifetime service as a Master Teacher. We include in this recognition acknowledgement of his steadfast contributions to:
Developing the human potential through numerous original programs;
Offering diverse educational curriculums focused on deeper self awareness and the improvement of the human condition;
Comprehensive esoteric studies, including sharing extensive discourses promoting how to cross-relate concepts and intellectual understandings into realized, practical, everyday life applications;
Research into human consciousness and awareness, notably by guiding others into deeper, often life-changing, experiences of their own;
Developing and sharing a wide variety of deeply beneficial and innovative healing modalities;
Teaching the harmonious alignment of the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical bodies in relationship to numerous dimensions of being;
Artistry in music including the areas of composition, arranging, teaching, leadership, community outreach and volunteerism;
The development of Great River’s highly advanced Jiu Jitsu martial arts training programs.
Scott Walter is Founder and Director of Great River Institute, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Montvale, Virginia. He is also Shihan of Great River Jiu Jitsu, the institute’s resident dojo. Great River Institute focuses on helping individuals develop their potential, in their specific areas of interest, by providing both educational and professional services. Since 2001, Mr. Walter has served as the conductor and music director of the Bedford Community Orchestra.
As a direct descendent of Great River, the Little Creek Monastery incorporates many of Sensei Scott’s teachings.
LINEAGE
Diato-ryu, founded 780–1200, reformed c. 1888
Hakka-ryu, founded 1941
American Kobe, founded 1975
Chokken Shin-ryu, (unknown)
Great River, founded 1991
Little Creek Monastery, founded 2012
Little Creek’s publicly available monastic archives include numerous essays from Scott Walter’s many seminars and prolific teachings, a collection upon which we hope to expand. The monastery encourages interested pathfinders to investigate his highly practical and challenging expositions on universal principles, energetics and consciousness.
“While the monastery is modest, my enthusiasm and support for my brother’s work and his consistent, dedicated efforts is something I am deeply proud to claim. In many ways, the Little Creek Monastery is a living testament to the Principles and values he holds to so loyally and fiercely.” - Mark Walter
Congratulations to Scott Walter, Sensei.
Mark Walter and Scott Walter, Huntington Beach Pier, 2009
Scott Walter with his daughter Emily.
Scooter life… or, going this way on a that way.