I watched most of this video interview:
https://www.facebook.com/exploringthehumanjourney/videos/271404103581366/?source_id=1102034883192271Ward says that she was raised white. She married and went into military, she isn't clear whether she herself was in military. She was Southern Baptist for awhile. She says she then tried many different religions and supposedly took the best ingredients of all.
She describes a lot of Nuage practices and beliefs. She claims that she compared what she was already doing to what she then learned of Hopi - and decided that everything is the same. Everything is connected, everything is the same, she was already doing intuitively what other cultures practice.
She says that Native beliefs are for that past time period. That many Native American people are struggling to evolve. She on the other hand is evolved and has the specialness to share with us all.
She looks at people as computer systems. They have too many tabs open and they need a defrag. Ward tries to apply a "modern" gloss to her claims but they are the same ol' Nuage. New Thought, visualizations, create your reality type stuff.
According to her - people are either angelic, star seed, or elemental. She tells you what you are and then may apply music accordingly. For instance angelic level people get tuning forks, chimes, and bells cause drumming would make them feel sick.
Unfortunately she has many clients that she says are "last resort". She has many who have breast cancer. Ward claims that she can feel matching cancer pain in her own body when she works with patients and that she can even taste chemo.
She lays Nuage guilt trips on people who are suffering. Got breast cancer? You have heart centered issues, you need to speak your truth, you've played martyr too long. Chronic pain? You are inflamed with anger and have been limiting yourself.
She says that Hopi beliefs are very similar to Christian bible. Everything is connected, meaning to her that everything is pretty much the same.
Ward preaches that non-native people who feel called to supposed native ways are members of the rainbow tribe who are returning to humanity.
She does cold readings of people and then tells them what they want to hear.
White people want to be told that they are special and that they are Native American. Ward is one of the people doing just that, for a fee.
On her Facebook page Native American Within she has asked people:
Please share here how you sensed that you were Native American at heart so much but you chose to hide it from the world and how long you hid it.
Mary Jo Gardner/ "Maria Yraceburu" is a member of this FB group.
