Diane Tegarden

[jamesl]

While of the Hopi page on Facebook, I saw a woman (an author) from Pasdaena who claimed Hopi ancestry from childhood anectdotes  and wanted guidance on researching her ancestry. One person told her to go to AZ and find relations. It seemed fishy, so I followed her link, went to her site, etc. Her author's bio states:

"She’s been a print journalist since 1992, writing on a wide range of subjects including; renewable energy, environmental concerns, holistic health, women’s issues, and Native Spirituality. Her work has been published in..."

I did not find any books by her on "Native Spirituality" and she isn't doing rituals-for-pay as far as I can tell. I have attached some screen shots. Any others run across her?

[Epiphany]

I’ll also be presenting several Hopi Indian Dance Masks for sale; they represent the four directions, inner visualizations and other natural phenomenon. They are the results of the spiritual/mental trance work that is known as “journeying”.

http://rosefirewalker.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/visit-diane-tegarden%E2%80%99s-booth-at-the-monrovia-street-fair/

Active in my Native American religion, (my ancestors are the Hopitu Shinumu, known simply as the Hopi) it is my honor and privilege to lead the Sacred Circles and study meetings, to teach the ways of our people to those willing to learn.

Known as a healer, I have acquired the first degree of the Usui System of Reiki, and am called upon to aid ill and ailing people.

  http://voices.yahoo.com/battling-silent-killer-lupus-biggest-secret-281903.html

Throughout the book, Tegarden interjects her native spirituality, detailing some of the rituals and dances of her native faith.

http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/3412850 (Quote is about her sci-fi book "Anti-Vigilante and the Rips in Time")

Tegarden was born in Tucson, Arizona and was raised in Rowland Heights, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Her mixed heritage is Mexican/Spanish/Italian and Native American, belonging to the Hopitu Shinumu Tribe, whose name means “the Peaceful Ones.” She has lived in California, since she was three years old.

http://www.firewalkerpublications.com/index.php?page=about-us

[catbus]

What is it with new-agers and reiki? they are always either a 'shaman' or a 'reiki master'!

They don't even get that reiki is not even respected as real traditional medicine in most of Asia. My traditional Chinese teachers, an authentic master and a nun, explained that even in China reiki is seen as bogus. It was made by Japanese using a bastardization of Qi/Ki philosophy, because they didn't actually understand the traditonal medical and energetic teachings. Reiki was like this instant-mastery anyone-can-do-it instantly bogus stuff made up by colonialist Japanese after they stole a bunch of medical books from China during an invasion. It's not even real eastern medicine, yet it has become like the most popular thing among white Jap-wannabes and even the shameon NDN-wannabes. The white race's stupidity and lack of scrutiny is mindblowing at times.
There are some therapies in authentic eastern medicine which involve the practitioner emitting a very powerful energy when it is necessary, and I have witnessed this done by a humble traditional master. And I will guarantee that any real traditional master really capable of healing in this way, will tell you that reiki is bogus, and that it takes years of serious meditation and cultivation.