When you write to the DEA, just stick to the safety issue. Don't talk about cults, delusional pseudo-shamans, fake spirituality or any of that. That is outside of their purview and would muddy the issue for them. Make it clear and simple, just talk about the unsafety of AH's lack of qualifications and say that it would be dangerous public policy to set a precedent to let just anyone,
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QuoteIndigenous Amazonian healers and shamans entering the United States, as well as organizations facilitating their entry, should be aware that they may be arrested and their ayahuasca may be seized Ideally, Trinity de Guzman would halt his plans to import a shaman from Peru to USA, and pay attention to the facts. Ideally he would stop exploiting his workers and customers.
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"I dont just listen I look at their life." Corboy: This is very good advice. Only problem is that some very clever gurus find ways to hide just how badly they treat people - they inflict horrible pressure on thier inner circle entourage while being inspiration to the auditorium crowd which generates the big bucks. The ugly truth about Native American "shamans," &
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dab, people are not 'suckers'. First it is difficult to find information about imposters. Often when survivors attempt to describe the abuses in public, the imposter's disciples swarm onto the website and troll the discussion. In bad situations, the website is threatened with a lawsuit. Sometimes the survivors who speak up are subjected to threats -- look what a friend of
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Some references New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans Topic: Erick Gonzalez AKA Omeakaehekatl Couple questions alternative healing groups’ activities on Haida Gwaii National News | November 9, 2013 by admin2 | 4 Comments QuoteBy Rob Smith APTN Investigates Some people on Haida Gwaii think Earth People’s United (EPU) is a cult. Others disagree. Laura Duthiel said pe
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Shamans, Mystics and Doctors:A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions Alfred A Knopf, New York 1982 Sudhir Kakar described a visit made in the late 1970s to early 1980s to the ashram of the guru Maharji, leader of the Radhasaomi sect in Beas, Punjab, India. QuoteThe Warmth of the Crowd Quote"It was in such a state of "altered consciousness"
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Here is a an informative discussion of "Core Shamanism" on a discussion forum New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans. Shamanic traditions are never authentic if sold and marketed. Where is what the persons who have been intruded upon and had their ancestral traditions marketed for money have to say.
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corboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > According to a post on New Age Frauds and Plastic > Shamans website, > this, allegedly, is the waiver form > > > 0.45 I can vouch for the person who posted the waiver, they are a survivor. Even with the RCMP warning, Erick and his people continue to run dangerous drugs, I'm not sure how
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According to a post on New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans website, this, allegedly, is the waiver form
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Five pages of discussion on New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans discussion forum. Erick Gonzalez AKA Omeakaehekatl « on: August 28, 2011, 02:51:21 PM »
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The successorship disputes in Sant Mat are exhaustively described below by Professor David C Lane. All one need to type control button plus F -- activating the Find command. Put into the slot whichever name of a Sant Mat guru you wish to trace, then type 'next' and keep selecting 'next'. You will be led to each reference for that person. Succession disputes devel
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Here is the link to page one of the POV discussion on New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans
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Thwarted Development of Autonomous Professional Identity? I would like to propose a possible scenario. In the 1960s and 1970s, some psychotherapists, influenced by the tenor of the times, became disciples with Eastern gurus, or in some cases, after time spent with such gurus, became self proclaimed gurus themselves. Even if the guru title was not invoked, these persons, nevertheless
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Chuck Spezzano claims he was enlightened at Oneness University in 2007. Through Psychology of Vision he, his wife Lency Spezzano, and their trainers, all teach Oneness practices, including claims that they do Oneness Blessings. Oneness University had been compared to a locked down facility, it has guards and barbed wire http://griftershotel.blogspot.com/2013/11/oneness-university-locked-down-f
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From a discussion on New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans Full of specific details.
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The 12 Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous offer a useful guide for anyone or any group wishing to stay focused on their stated mission. Six—An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose. Seven—Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting
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Quoteme a story about one of the teachers she worked with. He was a bit of a dork, but fancied himself and authority on Native American culture; he was thrilled when the kids gave him what he thought was an Indian name . . . he proudly announced to my friend that they were calling him "Cool Arrow." That is priceless!!! A quick side track from SGI. If you or any friends need to
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Quote37 liters of DMT seized - Shroomery News Service - Shroomery ...Feb 19, 2005 ... According to Chief Deputy Laura Balthazar, 46-year-old Hugo Arana and 51-year -old Luzia Krull, both of California, were transporting 37 liters ... www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/3802305 - 101k - Cached - Similar pages Luzia Krull - New Age Frauds & Plastic ShamansAccording to Chief
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Hi, I am not sure where to post this but I am so greatly distressed. I’ve read threads here about recovery from New Age bs and I sadly admit I am one of them. I am not sure if I should even start a new topic or add to one of those threads but there are so many pages to the others, plus I do have one specific concern. I don’t even know where to begin. I got into the new age thing in 2007.
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QuoteMisstykQuotewalter1963Highly sanitized - symbolic unlike the Aghori that still engage in ritual human sacrifice/cannibalism - when they can steal a child away from village and do you know what to them. Yes there are schools of Taoism that utilize sex in their rituals but most are entirely negative - basically for a form of energy vampirism. Up until 20 years ago there was a invite only c
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Quotewalter1963Highly sanitized - symbolic unlike the Aghori that still engage in ritual human sacrifice/cannibalism - when they can steal a child away from village and do you know what to them. Yes there are schools of Taoism that utilize sex in their rituals but most are entirely negative - basically for a form of energy vampirism. Up until 20 years ago there was a invite only club in Taiw
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Here's whats sad and scary: The Tibetans used the axle to create prayer wheels. But Heinrich Harrer was amazed to see that there were no wheeled vehicles. People were breaking their backs dragging lumber and other materials manually. Bwaaahaaaaa. The neuroscientists should read some Melvyn Goldstein and, as a booster shot, Orville Schells book Virtual Tibet. If someone is a re
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"They don’t have the mental structures to treat us equally, because they are still living in the 8-14 century and make sure that that is what surrounds them. This is lamaism. . " "On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with ‘pure view’ per se-ultimately such is the goal of Buddhism. The issue is the way certain Tibetans have skilfully manipulated the concept in order to fac
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From The Guardian (excerpted from a long and quite good article) Professor Geoffrey Samuels is author of a series of excellent, well researched books on the history of tantra in both India and in Tibet and its links to indigenous shamanism, and how it was co-opted into and legitimized as part of Buddhist practice. QuoteProfessor Geoffrey Samuel from Cardiff University explains: &qu
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QuoteThe knowledge which Shaman Mancoluto carries comes from the Order of Bancotauri, a system used by the Shamans of Chavin de Huantar to access a superior metaphysical knowledge coming from Atlantis, Lemuria and different parts of the Universe. Corboy note: This is fake shamanism. The suff about Atlantis and Lemuria derives from a European source, Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy, which was
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Ayahuasca...not to be taken lightly. Am not sure Kyle Nolan's family will be comforted by the hope that this will be a step in our evolution. Or comforted by hopes that the noble medicine of ayahuasca and its adminstratants will not suffer in reputation. Judging by how the Nolan family has fared at the hands of a pair of creeps while struggling with the death of their son, it doesnt ap
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Backathome wrote QuoteMy comment: In his latest post corboy wrote Quote: The high rinpoches of the Vajryana traditions seem unable or unwilling to depose anyone and lack the mechanisms for doing so. From my point of view what corboy described is not acceptable. Friends, I do not consider this acceptable, either. I do not believe that Vajrayana Buddhism has self correcting mechan
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A quick note: I have read scattered accounts of people getting started in UM by first receiving a UM DVD or tape. Would be interested to know if listening to or viewing these thing trigger some sort of sublime experience or relaxation response. If so this may lead the subject to feel convinced that UM must have something special if a mere UM DVD can elicit such seemingly profound experien
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All quoted material from Quote ISSN 1527-6457 Research Article Interpreting the Diamond Way: Contemporary Convert Buddhism in Transition Burkhard Scherer Canterbury Christ Church University Department of Theology and Religious Studies Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU, U.K. Abstract: This paper addresses the broader issues of continuity and change during the transition of Tibeta
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One way Ole and his minions can separate the true believers from those less suggestiable is to see who becomes convinced that the phowa ritual left a mark on their noggins. And phowa deals with preparation for death--a matter that brings up deep emotion for us. An aroused audience, concerned with death and with the ritual of phowa is a deeply suggestible audience, in terms of trance induct
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