She is grateful to the wisdom passed onto her by beloved teachers and mentors from around the world:
DON AMÉRICO YÁBAR, JUAN NÚÑEZ DEL PRADO, THE Q'EROS PEOPLE, SANDRA INGERMAN, DR. LINDA LANCASTER OF LIGHT HARMONICS INSTITUTE, CHANDRA SUN EAGLE OF SONCO VIA KAUA'I, LLYN ROBERTS, DON FRANCISCO & DONA JUANITA AND DR. THOMAS RAU OF PARACELSUS KLINIK LUSTMÜHLE.
Piff pointed out our thread about Ingerman/FSS already. All of the so-called teachers I researched are plastic shamans.
Two of them have a similar background as Michael Harner, the founder of FSS. Both
Yábar and Nunez del Prado are (or were?) anthropologists who turned plastic shamans. Both have meanwhile introduced their sons – Gayle Yábar and Ivan Nunez del Prado – to the business who are now offering seminars etc with their fathers.
Yábar and Nunez also visit similar countries:
for Yábar, there are sites from Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, UK, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, the Netherlands promoting events with him,
while for Nunez, I found sites from Germany, UK, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Argentina, and Greece. One Dutch site mentions Nunez was doing regular annual visits to NL since 1999.
Linda Lancaster:
Her site claims she specialises in „Energy Medicines“, and that her „healing system“ was based on Yoga, Ayurveda, Anthroposophy, TCM, Naturopathy, and Homoeopathy.
Light Harmonics Institute offers introductory classes and certificate programs in various aspects of Energy Medicine. Courses include Homeopathy, Medical Radiesthesia, Radionics, Subtle Anatomy, Nutrition, Crystal, Gem and Flower Healing. Light Harmonics Institute has been in the forefront of the current movement towards the Integration of Medicines.
Further info on some of the methods propagated by Lancaster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radionics#Radiesthesiahttps://www.psiram.com/en/index.php/Homeopathyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadionicsChandra Porter:
Her bio gives us well-known pieces of BS (having been drawn to nature since early childhood, finding comfort outdoors, instinctive understanding of nature, ). She claims to have taken courses in Thai Yoga massage, Craniosacral Unwinding (pls see:
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3998.0 ), Polarity therapy, and Yoga – plus having visitations from indigenous teachers and spirits, so she has been a „shaman and medicine woman“ in earlier lives.
She blends sound healing, indigenous teachings, ceremony, bodywork and shamanic energy healing with more modern day healing modalities for individual and group gatherings.
A mix of altmed and Nuage stuff, with some "indigenous teachings" and "shamanic energy healing" thrown in for good measure. Sigh.
http://www.soncovia.com/about-chandra.htmlLlyn Roberts:
Roberts seems to mix an education in psychotherapy (although it does not get too clear whether the degree from Naropa „University“ is the only one she obtained – there are several threads here in which Naropa gets mentioned) with various altmed/Nuage methods plus „trainings with diverse indigenous cultures“, shamanic methods, and „spiritual ecology“. She calls herself a „spiritual ecologist“ - a label also chosen by Brooke Edwards aka Medicine Eagle (pls see
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=581.0 ).
Robert's bio uses several racist stereotypes – like e.g.:
„she has facilitated indigenous book projects“
„lived for two years at the edge of the wilderness in the Hoh Rain Forest in the Olympic Mountains of the Pacific Northwest“.
http://llynroberts.com/about-llyn/Dr Thomas Rau is a medical doctor who turned to alt-medicine and pseudo-science and to fleecing his customers, not only in Switzerland where he operates a hospital (formerly an anthroposophic hospital), but also internationally via websites in English language. He promotes various ideas of causes of disease which do not comply with evidence-based medicine at all, some pseudo-scientific ways of diagnostics, and some pseudo-scientific cures and remedies without proven effectiveness and/or rejected by evidence-based medicine. Still his sites claim he can cure several kinds of tumors, MS, heart diseases, and other serious conditions.
Of course these diagnostics and „treatments“ are not covered by health insurances and customers have to pay out of their own pocket:
http://www.drrausway.com/paracelsus-clinics/patient-treatment-information.aspxAlthough the typical cost is no more than conventional medicine, the treatments at Paracelsus are not covered by insurance. For the average patient, the cost of treatments at Paracelsus is between $8,000 and $9,500 for the first week of your visit and between $5,000 and $6,500 per week for each additional week. But these costs could be considerably higher based on your individual treatment plan. You should note that after your evaluation, we will recommend a treatment plan for you, but ultimately you decide what treatments you will take.
Rau further recommends customers to have all amalgam removed from their teeth, as he sees that material as a source of various diseases. He is also an anti-vaxxer, claiming that vaccines did more harm than good, and e.g. recommends customers not to get any shots preventing influenza. Instead, he propagates a treatment with 3 homoeopathic injections (homeopathy – pls see:
https://www.psiram.com/en/index.php/Homeopathy ).
Rau also recommends a „detox“ treatment to flush out alleged poisonous matters from the body. This is quite popular in the pseudo-scientific altmed scene. He has also done lectures promoting so-called „Germanic New Medicine“ (GNM), invented by former med. doctor and antisemite Ryke Geerd Hamer ( pls see:
https://www.psiram.com/en/index.php/Ryke_Geerd_Hamer ,
https://www.psiram.com/en/index.php/Germanic_New_Medicine ).
So as far as we can see, all of Harrsen's 'beloved teachers and mentors' are cultural appropriators and/or quacks, selling their customers BS at extremely high prices.
Piff has already addressed this, and I agree: with people like Harrsen – what do you expect in the way of answers? She will be defending what she does with loads of Nuage BS and claims of initiations into Nuage BS by plastics. I very much doubt that mere questions can convince any of these plastics to stop what they're doing. And please also bear in mind that the giving up fleecing the gullible will mean loss of income, and apparently one can get used to an easy dollar or two. Effin' people over to make them part from their money may beat hard work for making an income... : sarcasm off:
We're not as much concerned about making plastics see the light (although of course they're welcome to) but warn their customers and prospective customers, providing information, and provide support for indigenous persons and nations who do not want to see their cultures and religions exploited, abused, and misrepresented by plastics.
