http://jszimhart.com/essays/neo-shamanismThe New Age is all about the “self.” For example, in the mid-1990s I had a case in Florida involving a Navy submarine serviceman who got caught up with an unofficial tribe influenced by a self-proclaimed medicine man. Thunder Horse Harjo was a black man who parlayed his medicine services to a small band of makeshift Seminole Indians who were trying to incorporate as a tribe with the federal government. A gambling casino company was backing them.
I met with perhaps thirty members of the tribe during a powwow—all but one or two looked like a white person and few had significant Indian blood in their backgrounds. Several members of the tribe told me that Thunder Horse (Wayne Bowen) caused havoc among them with his unlicensed counseling services that proved to be little more than manipulative self-awareness trainings and an attempt to grab a leadership position. One of Thunder Horse’s publications was The Thunder Horse Medicine, Volume 1: Becoming Your True Self (1996).<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[ix]<!--[endif]--> My client’s son, 21, was totally taken in by the ersatz medicine man even after members of the tribe distanced from Bowen. The tribe was willing to adopt the Navy man who was blond haired, blue-eyed, and not of Native heritage. Anyone could become an “Indian” if formally adopted by the tribe. In any case, the Navy brass were very concerned about Thunder Horse’s control over a serviceman with top secret clearance on a nuclear submarine. I did manage to convince the young man that Thunder Horse had run his unauthorized medicine services before in Arizona (where he irritated the Navajo) and in Hawaii and that he was inauthentic. The young man broke away from Bowen’s “medicine.”
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His own site. Doesn't inspire confidence.
http://aurorathespirit.com/index_files/Page585.htmThe Thunder Horse Medicine is the Love of the Creator
Thunder Horse Nokus Harjo W. Bowen left corporate America almost twenty-five years ago, in order to give back some of the many gifts and blessings that had been bestowed upon him by the Almighty Divine Universal Mind. Leaving the “concrete jungle” for the ancient ancestral swamps of Florida was quite a startling transition, as well as a rewarding experience beyond description.
Thunder Horse’s journeys carried him great distances upon the Red Road and the Blue Road, as he crossed vast waters and giant landmasses to traverse the globe. But the longest journey of his life was from his mind to his heart. This voyage brought him home to the throne of his own Inner Temple, only to find that God was not on the Red or Blue Road, but found inside…while he was made at onement with the Great Spirit, as he allowed the wondrous power of the Creator to reach the deepest part of his heart.
As Thunder Horse healed the inhabitants and lands of all nations, he realized that the world is his tribe, and mankind is his people. Thus, his precious time was spent in developing healing centers, refuges, Divine Physicians, healing ranch retreats, spiritual cruises, educational curriculums, church and religious programs for the people from all walks of life, and in every strata of society.
Through the utilization of this Ancient Ancestral Healing Techniques, he was able to accomplish the task of teaching the “Medicine” to the people. This involved informing the people of the “Elements of Being Human” as well as providing them with a direct exposure to the love of God.
In addition to the aforementioned, Thunder Horse taught the importance of the unification of the world of humanity, for the purpose of building an ever-advancing civilization. In order to foster this program, he cross-culturally trained the leaders of communities, towns and villages, including Medicine Men and Medicine Women, striving to eliminate boundaries and barriers that had been standing between different groups and people. In order to remove prejudice from their hearts and set the people free, he took them to different countries, states and Indian, African and Hawaiian reservations in every corner of the earth.
Teaching spirituality to the world of humanity has brought Thunder Horse to the position of a Divine Physician/Medicine Man, sanctioned by his elders of Saskatchewan, Canada of the Standing Buffalo Indian Reservation.
Furthermore, from 1976 to the present date, as Principal Chief of the Calusa-Seminole Indian Nation and Medicine Man serving as a liaison between the tribe (the people) and negotiating with the United States government Bureau of Indian Affairs, he has been politically involved in petitioning the U.S. for reinstatement of Federal Recognition for the Calusa-Seminole Indian Nation....
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The CSIN "constitution" where they claim to be from Atlantis, use faux Lakota, and have chapters in Hawaii, CA and FL.
http://aurorathespirit.com/index_files/Page460.htmTheir most recent gathering on there is from 2009, and shows maybe 15 people at most.
http://aurorathespirit.com/index_files/Page1515.htmOther mentions.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ll0g0s-h0gkC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=%22thunder+horse%22+harjo&source=bl&ots=2yD9wZut9g&sig=DEE_4A6-CrdITnEU2cTSbWGjBx8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiSod2UkKXNAhXDNj4KHdKABh0Q6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=%22thunder%20horse%22%20harjo&f=falseHis wife "Raining Deer" whose also part of an alleged Cherokee group.
http://www.fyicomminc.com/books/rainingdeer.htmTies to James Mooney mentioned on a thread of ours.
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=253.20;wap2
