you might not like it. but then your beef is with a lakota spokes person teaching us this and not me.
You have committed offenses by supporting frauds and trying to lead ceremonies you have no right to. You have shown you do not understand who can and can't represent Native people. What you are engaging in is called "blame-shifting" - you blame the people whose culture you are harming for your own choice to do harmful things.
You mention the Declaration of War, so you can't even claim ignorance here. It sounds to me like you knew that the consensus of Lakota people is that the ways are not to be given to white outsiders - and you are a white outsider - and you chose to do it anyway. You chose personal gratification and illusion over respect.
You have disrespected the very people you are trying to emulate. Do you have any idea how hurtful and wrong that is?
I found this after the seminar. I was told that he was instructed by elders to teach this and it was supposed to be in one semiar , it did not make profit but however cost was covered.
it was not popular either in the Danish native american friendship community.
this is why a other , half blood offered to teach me for free.
so I got it a strange way.
but let me ask you this then , why do you think I needed to do this and what do I use it for ?
you have no idea who or what I am .
I do understand your pride of your ceremonies and culture. I Am not taking more than someone from your culture gave me. I use it for healing of myself. not for personal gain neither money.
I do also understand its a sensitive topic.
however please , consider asking spirit , why did they lead me down the path I was .
you have to understand one thing first . that person I was at the time , would do anything to get better. no question .
but also the person I Am now reflects about the life I had. I do want to warn others about new age in particular.
I can not , and repeat not claim in anyway that I was given any special insight in native american culture or anything but in fragments from various people I met that are maybe some of them genuine and maybe some of them not. have a idea of something.
I NEVER claim to be a medicine person. I Never claim to have had anything other than the few instructions I had in the sweatlodge by two persons.
I Never ever take money for it but use it among friends for healing. even pay for the whole thing my self.
as I said already hakita was not very popular for doing this. however he did this in spite of this lakota declaration war on spiritual exploiters of lakotas because , he is married to a white person. he know white adopted people who also run sweats. sundancers. how can he support the idea that white people cant be part of this , with respect off course.
however without the ceremony I could not heal myself like I did. wont tell you what I suffering from but I can assure you that if you had the same condition then other peoples accept would not be the most important thing and I am grateful for spirit to have taken me down this path.
but you can as said go speak to spirit about this . then come back. I have no problems with my life or what I been through and know deep inside that I never ever insulted spirit by trying to heal myself neither did I ever exploit your sacred ceremony.
but I had to do it a other way than usually would be more acceptable to your people. at that time I cant go there. I cant find anyone with a open hart at that time , that could have shown my ANYTHING that could have healed my this way.
had I for some reason met a other person. that had something with same healing. well....then I had picked that up instead.
go here
http://www.tipi.dk/join and tell them your concerns with this matter.
they would know exactly who hakita najin jordan and his wife marianne is.
you can take it up with the person teaching me this instead. now sure he still is alive but they will know be able to point you to him . . but you can at least get this out of this conversation that I Have as said nothing to hide. no reason to.
however I would be happy if you do ask spirit first in this matter. , not as in a general matter but in my case. this case. then see if spirit would maybe explain you why sometimes things are a other way than you find acceptable.
all I am asking for. let spirit be in on this. before you assume anything about me , as a person or pass judgement on me or my actions in this life.