contd:
LMH has also been cooperating with an association by the name of „Calumed e.V.“ The „.e.V.“ part means it is a registered association in a position to accept donations, it is (or should be) non-profit and is tax-exempted.
Calumed e.V. seems to have some history of cooperation with LMH. In a 2005 publication written by founder Dieter Jarzombek, former president Peter Weigle, and Barbara Strohschein (a member of the association), the history of this association gets described.
The book is titled „The white caravan: Vision and reality of a life school“, 2005 Book on Demand, Norderstedt
p. 86
1990 July – August
First Summer Camp „Spirit of Earth – The Changing Power of Visions“ with the Indian shamans Dan Old Elk, with medicineman and sheriff Larson Medicinehorse and his wife Patty in the town of Bebra/Northern Hessia
1991 June
First meeting with sex-performance artist and later professor of „Human Sexuality“ Annie Sprinkle from New York/USA, during her engagement with Hamburg Schmidt-Theater (later cooperation agreed – series of seminars titled „Wings of Joy“)
July
Second Summer Camp „Spirit of Earth – The Changing Power of Visions“ in Bebra with Dan Old Elk and Larson and Patty Medicinehorse of the tribe of Crow Indians, Montana/USA
August
Indian-Dance-Art with Max and Patty Spotted Bear and Ben & Joline Cloud. Both couples are sundancers of the Crow Indians and, organised by Calumed, they perform at Beach Party in the town of Kassel, and invited by Dieter Jarzombek, then Director of the Clinic for Psychiatry, Neurology, and Rehabilitation in the town of Schleswig, [p. 87] they perform their traditional ritual powwow dances at the clinic's premises for patients and employees.
1992 August
Third Summer Camp „Spirit of Earth – The Changing Power of Visions“ with Larson & Patty Medicinehorse in the vicinity of Hamburg. During the camp, the project group „White Eagle Clan“ is founded with the aim to pass on the world view of the Crow Indians as well as their rituals, ceremonies and healing ways taught in the meetings with Larson Medicinehorse, within the framework of intercultural cooperation to other interested persons. Apart from this, the clan will support Larson's work at the Crow-Reservation in Montana and develop a concept of an advancement of German youths on the basis of Indian initiatic traditions.
p. 88
1993 June – July
Employees of the Calumed – White Eagle Clan again travel to Montana to complete the concept of the youth project. During their stay, Dieter Jarzombek is appointed a honorary tribal elder.
p. 90
1994 July
Initiation Youth Camp „At the Threshold of Growing Up“ with Larson & Patty Medicinehorse and a team of tutors with sweatlodges and initiation rituals. During the camp, the Calumed Shaman School gets founded. In this time, some participants also start their preparation for a large Vision Quest taking place in 1995. The participants of the Shaman School start their first year of apprenticeship during this camp.
Apart from doing seminars and camps for the association, LMH also appeared as a lecturer at so-called congresses organised by Calumed:
http://calumed.de/kongress/kongress-2006.phpCongress October 21, 2006 „Spiritualty and Healing“ in Berlin
Lecturers:
„Healing Myths“ - Dr med. Fabio Ramirez, Bogota/Colombia
„Indian Spirituality and Rites of Healing“ - Larson Medicinehorse, Montana/USA
Ramirez has been mentioned here before – see
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1610.0 - and gets mentioned as a lecturer at another 2006 conference in Basel/Switzerland where he spoke on „Shamanic rituals of the aboriginal peoples of the Amazon“.
The site also publishes a report on the congress written by one Leila Dregger, a member of Tamera.
For the following 2007 congress, Calumed invited Tamera's Sabine Lichtenfels, and again a congress report written by Leila Dregger is published at the Calumed site.
Both Tamera and its 'founding' organisation ZEGG were mentioned here before in the thread on Francis Talbot aka Manitonquat:
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=888.0 - see replies 2, 3, 4, and 5 for more info on these cult-like organisations.
The 2007 congress was titled „Spirituality and Sexuality“, other lecturers were Margot Anand, San Francisco, a Sannyasin (lecture on „The path of Skydancing Tantra“), and Annie Sprinkle, San Francisco (lecture on: „Loving as an art“). Lectures given by Lichtenfels/Tamera and Dieter Jarzombek, Calumed-founder, were titled „There will be no peace on earth while there is war in love“ resp. „Sufi-Tantra, or: Sex with God“. Another lecture was „Eros as a life force“.
Some info on Sprinkle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Sprinkle and Margot Anand:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_AnandThe report on the 2006 congress says:
Connection to Mother Earth was also an issue in the healing ceremonies of the Crow which Larson T. Medicinehorse introduced. The Sundance-Chief with the medicine name „Thunder who carries the pipe“, sheriff of his hometown since 20 years, explained his tradition with much humour and affection. He also spoke about his own healing from Parkinson's disease, „We don't tell people not to go to see a doctor. But they go to a medicine man before that, who will do cleansing rituals with them and this takes an effect on their spirit. When they go and see a doctor then, they already carry the belief of being healed. And healing starts in the spirit, as everything does.“
A small ceremony which the old chief did with a young man from Germany was very moving. The young man had been living with his family for three months on initiative of Calumed, and he was given a new name. Nathaniel R... (26) may from now on call himself „Thunder who lives across the water“. „He's become like a son for me“, said Larson Medicinehorse. [...]
There is also a eulogy held by LMH published in another Calumed publication, „Morgenlandwelten“ - „Oriental Worlds. Festschrift on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Dieter Jarzombek and the 20th anniversary of Calumed e.V.“, p. 285ff. Apparently, this was a speech held by LMH on the occasion of Jarzombek's 60th birthday in May 2007.
Here are some excerpts:
p. 285
„I am „Thunder Carrying a Pipe“, also known as „First Man“ and Larson Medicinehorse. Greetings to my friend „Chief Thunder Living Across the Big Water“, Dieter Jarzombek. […]
I met Dieter long time ago in the Pyrenees in Spain. We were at an Indian Camp which was sponsored by Dieter's Indian brother Karl Scherer.
I am connected with Dieter – through his work with people and my role as a Sundance priest. We are working together to help young people. Dieter schools and prepares the young persons in a soft way for the time when they will be living as Indians on the Apsalooke Reservation.“
There is a remarkable similarity between the name LMH gives Jarzombek – Chief Thunder Living Across the Big Water – and the name he gave to Nathaniel R.: „Thunder who lives across the water“ (cf. above).
The camp in the Pyrenees mentioned by LMH is not documented by Calumed, so it might predate the cooperation between LMH and this association with their first summer camp being organised in 1990. However, this eulogy from a 2007 publication also indicates an ongoing cooperation between LHM and Calumed.
p. 286
„We, the Apsalooke, have a Sundance every year. We still use the buffalo head [sic] which was paid for by Dieter and the Genese group [Genese is one of the former names of Calumed]. Every year, Dieter sends me a group. The group usually is in the Sundance lead by my friend Tom Erbskorn, a Pipe Carrier. All in Apsalooke Country know this group as „the Germans“. The Germans do a lot of work for us when building the Sundance Hut. The money the give for the Sundance is very welcome. Doing a Sundance costs between 6,000 and 7,000 US-Dollars. AHO for all your help and the help from your group! Without the Germans, my wife and I would have a hard time with our Sundances.
You, my friend, Thunder Living Across the Big Water, also known as Dieter Jarzombek: May you enjoy your golden years as an elder, and may our friendship continue for a long time. [...]“
Since Erbskorn holds a regular job in a company run by his wife, acts as a supervisor, and gives lectures to various audiences, he is probably not a Pipe Carrier (thanks to earthw for her explanation), so LMH seems to use the term in its Nuage definition.
Wolfsklan:
This clan was founded by Matthias Walter aka Lightfire already mentioned above
http://www.trommelbauen.de/contents/c_aktuelles.php as a seller of sweats on these premises.
His own website –
http://www.lightfire.de - is pretty much under construction.
There are three flyers to be loaded down:
Flyer 1 Vision Quest
Dates: Sept 3-8, 2013, June 1-8, 2014
Price Tag: Euro 888 PLUS VAT, plus accom & food (for accom, please bring you own tent)
VAT included, the vision quest will cost clients Euro 1,056 = USD 1,388 (USD 1,167 VAT excluded).
Flyer 2: Shamanic Training, Training Cycle 2013
Price Tag: for 19 days of training, Euro 1,999 PLUS VAT, plus accom & food
VAT included, the price is Euro 2,379 = USD 3,172 (VAT excluded USD 2,628).
For 2013 cycle:
I July 5-7, 2013 Shamanic Healing
I Aug 2-4, 2013 Path to Power
II Sep 2-9, 2013 Vision Quest
IV Nov 22-23, 2013 Initiation to Merkaba
V May 2-4, 2014 Firewalking & Initiation
Flyer Rainbowdance
This is in fact a flyer announcing the Wolfsclan Summercamp 2013, dd Aug 16-22 (although the flyer says Aug 2010)
The price tag for a complete week is Euro 390 (USD 513), for one day Euro 60 (USD 79), this time including food and accom.
Officially going with the label of a clan, their invitations and flyers also use the term tribe.
Wolfsklan was founded by Matthias Walter aka Lightfire:
Wolfsklan is a spiritual community of Lightworkers and Earth Keepers not affiliated to any tradition, religion or system of beliefs. […]
Wolfsklan came into being by a prevision of Larson Medicinehorse – the spiritual leader of the Crow Indians to two of his sundancers. It is a community of like-minded persons which is based on an ancient Indian prophecy of the Hopi Indians which says that only tribes will survive.
Wolfsklan works with ancient, traditional rituals of the white Buffalo Calf Woman whose healing and visionary spirit also carries and supports Wolfsklan.
Among these rituals are the Sacred Pipe, the sweatlodge, the Vision Quest, Talking Circles, the Medicine Wheel, the Give-Away Ceremony, Spirit Walks and many more ceremonies […]
In Wolfsklan, we are practicing living together in a tribe, that means everything which happens will be supported by all persons present for the wellbeing of all.
From:
http://www.alivio-hilft.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/WOLFSKLAN-Sommercamp-2010-Sirianus.pdf Wolfsklan thus mixes several indigenous traditions and (alleged) prophecies. Although they claim to be non-denominational, Wolfsklan clearly practice indigenous ceremonies taken from Plains nations, and Lakota in particular. Some of the alleged ceremonies they name and present as indigenous are Nuage, or at least very popular in the Nuage scene, like the Medicine Wheel ceremony, or Talking Circles.
Wolfsklan also organises annual summer camps, during which they offer:
Rituals:
Sharing of the sacred pipe, sweatlodges, Talking Circles, Give-Away-Ceremony, Spirit Walks, Story Telling, Meditations, Heart Openings, Prayers, Power and Trance Dances, Shamanic Journeys, Buffalo Woman Ceremonies […] and many more ceremonies for power, healing, and vision which often occur spontaneously from the energy of the circle and the people.
From:
http://www.alivio-hilft.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/WOLFSKLAN-Sommercamp-2010-Sirianus.pdf Apart from „initiating“ more persons himself, Walter also refers clientele to Medicinehorse's Sundance in Montana, as becomes evident from this lady's website:
http://die-blume-des-lebens.ch/jm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=16Having been initiated by Matthias Walter, a shaman who since long has been following the messages of White Buffalo Woman, I did a Vision Quest and have done the Sundance (Montana 2011), and I have also been authorised by Chief Larson Medicinehorse (Lakota/Crow) to pour water.
There is some evidence of sundances held in 2008 and 2010. Sabrina Dengel, owner of TrAfo Seminar House in Austria, former organiser of the summer camp with Ben Cloud, participated in the sundances of 2008 and 2010. Dengel publishes photos taken during her 2008 stay in Montana, including photos of piercing wounds which are either hers or those of the three European women accompanying her:
https://plus.google.com/photos/110398313898679244896/albums/5285636275597909905?banner=pwa&gpsrc=pwrd1#photos/110398313898679244896/albums/5285636275597909905photos 112-114 caption: Woman's piercing from sundance with wounds from blood sacrifice
Women piercing is, however, not in accordance with Crow traditions. According to a newspaper article photocopied in the Calumed book „Oriental Worlds“, LMH was perfectly aware of this in 2006:
The pieces of flesh torn out were a sacrifice for creator who thus was given thanks for life amd asked for his grace for one's relatives. Women were dancing in this ceremony, but do not pierce. They experienced enough pain in giving birth, the Chief explained.
from: P. Weigle, B. Strohschein: Morgenlandwelten. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Dieter Jarzombek und zum 20jährigen Bestehen von Calumed e.V. p. 213, originally published in „Boehme-Zeitung“, Oct 27, 2006
