Not sure what happened with the first post, but I'm reposting it as part of the letter I sent to people in Sweden.
>From: al carroll
>To: klintanna@hotmail.com, post@f4world.org, annelisarre@hotmail.com,
>amouselikeme@hotmail.com
>Subject: Phony Indian "Shaman" at University of Gavle
>Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:17:04 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi everyone,
>We have a member of NAFPS now who is a Quechua/Aymara woman living in
>Norway. She has some distrubing information, that Marie Perruchon, a
>professor at Uppsala University, is a spiritual exploiter of the type I
>spoke about on my tour.
>
>I'd like to write to Karl Johan Gurt, but he gave me his phone number and
>not his email. If any of you have it, please forward it to me.
>
>Also if you have any contacts at Uppsala University or University of Gavle,
>please forward them. I only hope that it's because of ignorance of what she
>is doing that they would still allow her to teach at a university.
>
>Below is the post about Perruchon.
>
>
http://newagefraud.org/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.cgi?board=frauds;action=display;num=1127225844>"Marie Perruchon is a swedish woman, PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the
>University of Uppsala, who has lived for two years with the Shuar in the
>Ecuadorian Amazon. She has been married to a Shuar man, and they are now
>living in Sweden where she teaches about Shamanism and New Age at the
>University of Gävle. She and her husband, Domingo Jempekat, claim to be
>initiated shamans, and together they give courses and do
>healing.(
www.shamantrumma.se). On their website says that Domingo has also
>been tought "Inkahealing" by "Inka shamans" (There are no Inkas, the Inka
>empire existed 500 years ago and concisted of different tribes, no one
>calls them selves "Inka shaman" today.)
>
>I spent two months in the Amazon and talked to the people from Domingo
>Jempekats village and they where all surprised to hear that Domingo and
>Marie claimed to be shamans, as Domingo had never been interested in his
>culture, he did not speak the Shuar-language and nobody in his family knew
>about any traditional healing. They where also angry that Marie claimed
>having been initiated, as this is a process that takes more that two years
>(the lenght of time she spent there) and no foreigner had ever been
>initiated.
>
>Marie Perruchon has written a book about Shuar shamanism; "I am Tsunki",
>and most of the book is based on what she has been told by Domingo
>Jempekats familymembers about shamanism/traditional healing. Or so she
>says. According to the people in the Shuar communities, this is a family
>with no knowledge about traditional healing, and since her husband claims
>to be a shaman, although he has absolutely no status as a shaman in his own
>community, it seems to me that neither the book nor her sources can be
>reliable.
>
>When returning from Ecuador, I wrote a letter to Marie, telling her about
>what the people in her husbands community felt about what they (Marie and
>her husband) did and what they claimed to be, and the response I got was
>extremly hostile. She wrote that she and Domingo indeed where shamans, but
>they did not want anyone in their communty to know about their status. They
>where "chamanes escondidos", spanish for "hidden-" or "secret shamans". She
>wrote that my gossip had done a terrible harm and that I shouldn't think
>that I understand anything after having spent only two months with the
>Shuar. She had lived with them for two years, and she is PhD, so she should
>know, she wrote.
>For those of you who understand Swedish, please take a look at her website
>and read what it says, it's all absolute crap and fraud.
>And the worst thing, is that this woman has a doctoral degree at Uppsala
>Universitet, the university with the best reputation in Sweden.
>Now, what to do?"
