Cheryl “Hawk Healer” Cotten

[Ardal]

http://www.paganunityfestival.org/classes.html
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Cheryl “Hawk Healer” Cotten has been following her Pagan path 1974. Raised by open minded parents, she has studied Spiritualism, Theosophy, Cherokee, Christian and Gypsy philosophies, she learned divination with tarot cards and crystal balls from her paternal grandmother. She received ministerial training at Unity School of Christianity, Unity Village, Mo., became an ordained Minister, has studied Cherokee under the tutelage of her cousin “Bobcat” who is the Speaker of the Council of Elders and Medicine Man. She is a recognized Medicine Woman and Traditional Spiritual Leader in the Native American Church and Principal Stone Carrier of the Warioto River Chapter, a Reiki Master and Teacher and has studied Pranic Healing.

Class: Native American Spirituality- The Cherokee 7 Sacred Directions
and The Legend of the Sacred Pipe
In this class we will concentrate on the significance of the Seven Sacred Directions according to Cherokee traditions. We will discuss what each symbolizes in our lives and look into where we are in each direction. This will also help understand why smoke is offered to each direction.
Next we will learn the legend behind the tradition of the Sacred Pipe of the Lakota Peoples and the ceremony associated with it. Cheryl will demonstrate how the pipe is handled, the sacred joining of the pipe, and possibly even include a smoking of the pipe with others.

[Ingeborg]

Welcome, Ardal.

One good fraud detector is their advertising a mix of various different ethnic traditions, plus various Newage practices.

Nuage stuff: spiritualism, theosophy, Tarot, crystals, Reiki, Pranic Healing.
Theosophy is particularly interesting as it is based on a theory of so-called root races which declares ndns to be a senile race prone to extinction. (Theosophy has also been discussed in several threads in this forum.)

Then she claims to have studied „gypsy philosophy“. Any person with real contacts to Roma and/or Sinti will be aware that, for the majority of them, „gypsy“ is a no-go. Roma and Sinti also do not pass their traditions to outsiders.

Another fraud detector is persons claiming one nation and teaching spirituality of one or several other nations.
Cotten claims „Cherokee“ without being any more precise. Usually, members of an indigenous nation can and will name their family, clan or band, relatives etc., and with more detail than just a „cousin Bobcat“.

A „Council of Elders and Medicine Man“ (just one of them? ? ?) ? And for/from which nation? A google search for that only produces her facebook site and the website advertising the event. A search for „... medicine men“ is not particularly successful either.

Why would a Cherokee teach Lakota spirituality? Whenenver you see persons claiming this, you can bet they are plastic shamans, usually of non-indigenous descent, or of very distant indigenous descent.

[earthw7]

Oh My God what is wrong with these people

[Defend the Sacred]

A lot of these frauds seem to be washing up in Florida.