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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QuoteAyahuasca (which contains DMT) is illegal to import, consume, possess, sell, and distribute in the United States with a judicially granted exception for the syncretic Christian churches União do Vegetal (UDV) and the Santo Daime (in Oregon and Los Angeles) based on religious freedom. These exceptions only apply for these specific religious groups, and were obtained after protracted legal bat
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Trinity de Guzman and Marc Shackman 's commercial business Ayahuasca Healings does not meet the Ayahuasca Defense Fund criteria for ethical and responsible practice. Ayahuasca Healings does harm, they are not committed to the welfare of their participants, they do not have the needed experience nor do they screen properly, fees are unreasonable, conditions are poor, customers are expl
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Animacoaching, are you a life coach? How is that definined? What education, training, ethical standards, and oversight do life coaches have? What proof is there that life coaches actually help anyone?
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Marc Shackman and Trinity de Guzman continue to make false claims about their business Ayahuasca Healings. Ayahuasca Healings is not legal (does not have a D.E.A. permit) and it is not a legitimate Native American Church. A new promotional video of interviews with customers was posted. All those interviewed most likely were under contract, for a reduced rate they agreed to be used in a promo v
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He often lectures at theosophical societies. He does seminars and also private sessions. I see $200 quoted recently as the cost of a private session, and he requires newbies to have two sessions with him. Back in the day he was talking theosophical, "spiritual healing", secret knowledge from the east etc. He bought a radionics machine and showed us that. He taught classes in a privat
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I knew Bill Torvund several decades ago in Seattle, Washington. I attended his classes and then worked as an apprentice in his "healing" practice. I was young and naive at the time. Bill had many paying clients from Canada and elsewhere. They paid him well for his supposed healing treatments. Treatments consisted of laying down on a massage table, a large amethyst crystal on the flo
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QuoteBill first came into this realm of universal existence over four hundred million years ago from a realm of primordial light not yet discovered by cosmological astroscience. As an inter-dimensional being, he saw the formation of the Earth and observed the divine beings that were migrating to this region of the universe, and saw the opportunity to assist in the revealment and manifestation
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Ayahuasca Healings monitors their promo YouTube channel closely, any critical comments are removed. They do not permit discussion and reasonable debate.
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I bought a copy of the Original Formation Record of Marc Shackman's corporation New Haven Native American Church. Marc Shackman is the Registered Agent and Officer #1. No other names are listed. Street, mailing, and contact address are all 204 Lutkens Road, Elbe, WA 98330. Originally the corporate name was Ayahuasca USA, this name is crossed out, initialed M.S. and New Haven Native Ame
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License Information: Entity Name: NEW HAVEN NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH Business Name: AYAHUASCA HEALINGS License Type: Washington State Business Entity Type: Nonprofit Corporation UBI:603564808      Business ID:001      Location ID:0001 Location Address:204 LUTKINS RD ELBE, WA, 98330-9704 Mailing Address:204 LUTKINS RD ELBE, WA, 98330-9704 Registered Trade Names:     AYAHUASCA A
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Marc Shackman / Kumooja Banyan Tree "has had several near death experiences in his life and a bout of suicidal depression, mental illness ... " He has also stated “Being a spiritual person but also broke is a little bit dispiriting to me because you have all of these ideas but yet you can’t do any of it.” One of the other core team members ran a fundraising campaign in No
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Trinity now says he is "off to the jungle!" and that "in the future we will have a Shipibo from Peru to come serve the medicine at our Church". Sounds like he is going shopping, for a human being to exploit, to bring to USA, to exploit more people.
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National Council does not condone Faux Native American Churches
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Quotes from a variety of voices, some in response to apologists: QuoteYou are voting for people who won't listen to wise council and stay stuck in their arrogance? Who ask for outrageous amounts of money for ceremonies they falsely claim are Native American and Legal? Who have had a number of core members leave and publicly question their integrity? Who have been censured by many in the A
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A correction to a prior post: the "medicine woman with eight month old child" may well be Franziska Hoffmann, from Switzerland. She has been photographed on the land with a baby in a front carrier. And she is apparently performing as a "medicine woman" for sessions with Marc Roland Shackman playing "shaman".
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"Scholarships" require a minimum payment of $500 plus submitting two photos of yourself and agreeing to be recorded on video, that video to be used as an ad on the Ayahuasca Healings web site. Also a piece of art / creative work must be submitted. For most everyone, the cost starts at $1,500. So Christopher de Guzman / Trinity de Guzman / Trinity de la Cruz and Dylan Guss and Mark
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Trinity has said that he would like a large building where he can have 100 customers at a time. Those hearing this responded that this was a really bad idea, unsafe, not in the spirit of healing. Trinity did not listen. Will Trinity move on if this current scam is closed down? If this scam succeeds and he is ready to move on, will he keep his core team with him? Is he simply a con man? Or
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Chuck Spezzano, in the past, stated that his hourly fee for private coaching was $1,000 USD
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Get Your Girlfriend Back - The Easiest Step By Step System This is Christopher /Trinity de Guzman telling us the secret to manipulate your girlfriend into returning to a relationship with you. "She's as good as yours." Yuck. Thanks to the good folks at the Ayahuasca Healings is Not legal Facebook page for their continued search for the truth. ---- "Life is just one
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Morgane Waldmann / Morganjah Rainbow says she wants to "create an animal rescue center" on the land. Is she licensed as a wildlife rehabilitater in Washington state? QuoteBecoming a Wildlife Rehabilitator You must be licensed by the state of Washington before beginning any wildlife rehabilitation and comply with all Washington state wildlife rehabilitation regulations (WAC 232
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Money is taken in by Your Highest Truth Healings Inc, in Burnaby Canada, dba Ayahuasca Healings, via a Paypal account. Your Highest Truth Healings Inc. was incorporated in April 2015, Canada. (For this company, owned by Christopher / Trinity de Guzman, taxes need to be paid to Canada Revenue.) If Your Highest Truth Healings Inc. is the first place customer money goes, what happens next?
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Brittani Anglin is listed on the Ayahuasca Healings site as a massage therapist. Massage therapists in Washington state need to be licensed. Their name and license number needs to be prominent on all ads. A copy needs to be available for inspection and also posted at their primary business. I don't see her name listed in the provider credential search: There is no license number state
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"... we are all Native Americans in our hearts." Marc Roland Shackman No, Marc, we are not. Your claim is clueless and disrespectful to people who are First Peoples of Canada and USA. Marc is an example of how the sun never sets on the British Empire. He is a Brit selling pretendian ceremonies in a region where not all that long ago, Native people were not allowed their own cultu
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QuoteStories bring us together. We can talk about them and bond over them. They are shared knowledge, shared legend, and shared history; often, they shape our shared future. Stories are so natural that we don’t notice how much they permeate our lives. And stories are on our side: they are meant to delight us, not deceive us—an ever-present form of entertainment. That’s precisely why they can b
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Ayahuasca Healings staff, information all from public sources: Marc Roland Shackman / Kumooja Banyan Tree (UK) Christopher de Guzman / Trinity de Guzman / Trinity de la Cruz (Canada) Franziska Hoffman (Switzerland) Ishika Aziz (Bangladesh) Brittani Anglin (USA) - "medicine woman and her 8-month-old baby" Dylan Guss (Netherlands)- running web operations Morgane Wald
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Services Are Now in Session for Church Offering Hallucinogens By Jordan Nailon / jnailon@chronline.com | Posted: Friday, February 12, 2016 9:29 pm Oklevueha Native American Church of Ayahuasca Healings Marc Shackman, shaman and CEO of the Oklevueha Native American Church of Ayahuasca Healings,
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Current members of this operation are from UK, Canada, Netherlands, Bangladesh, Switzerland, France, USA. Is everyone safe? Does everyone have proper visas? Is anyone left stranded out on the land or is everyone commuting? Trinity has a high volume system schedule, people are churned in and out of these drug retreats quickly. QuoteWill the tipis have electricity? No, the tipis do no
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Trinity claims that the plants are "ethically sourced" from the Peruvian Amazon, ayahuasca vine andi either chacruna or chaliponga. But one of his former workers says he himself hooked Trinity up with some guy who sells premade brew. Trinity certainly did not "ethically source" those plants himself. As Corboy points out, ayahuasca is not from western Washington state USA. T
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"Fifth Dimensional Tipi Village Communities" is how Trinity puts it. More buzz words from : The Great Awakening Revolution of the Heart New Golden Age Native American Religious Global Culture and People Your Divine Purpose Conscious Community Heart Energy Medicine Revolution Good Economy Mother Nature Great Mystery Experience of Oneness Sacred Sacrament
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