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Frauds / Re: Teo Alfero - Castaneda disciple - very active
« Last post by Sandy S on Today at 02:40:06 am »
Over the next five months or so several of Teo Alfero's inner circle will do events for his "Transmission: The Experience, Sessions in Applied Consciousness".

Jen Zieger, Stefanie Menack, Wendy Cirello, Janet Douglas, Lauren Jane Heller. (I'm not providing links to their respective life coach businesses because don't want to drive traffic to them.)

These events will teach people to "manifest like a sorcerer" and go on "a shapeshifting journey to access discernment". This is all Castaneda destructive, controlling cult talk.
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I used Google Translate - Portuguese to English for the Joseph Marty (Joseph "Joey" Marti/Marty Joseph/Zoe7/ and other names) death cert attached in post above.

Note the cause of death. And that the declarant (informant) is SILVIA BEATRIZ POLIVOY.


Number: 0000606-79.2011.8.05.0114
Class: CRIMINAL ACTION - ORDINARY PROCEDURE
Document number: 21082020181169100000125940417
Federative Republic of Brazil
Civil Registry of Natural Persons

DEATH CERTIFICATE

NAME
JOSE LUIS MARTI
REGISTRATION 137372 01 55 20134 00012 203 0002244 58
Male, white, single, 47 years old, from New York, United state of America

FATHER: LUIS MARTI
MOTHER: FANNY VALENCIA
RESIDENCE: IN FAZENDA LIRIO, VILA CAMBOINHA

DATE AND TIME OF DEATH DEFENDANT: July 5th, 2013

PLACE OF DEATH
IN CAMBOINHA - ITACARÉ/ BA. ITACARÉ

CAUSE OF DEATH: HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK, SECTION OF THE LEFT CAROTID, ASSAULT WITH A BLADE WEAPON.

BURIAL/CREMATION: SERRA GRANDE MUNICIPAL CEMETERY- DST- |
Declarant: SILVIA BEATRIZ POLIVOY, RNE V481191-8, SINGLE.
URUÇUCA/ BAHIA "BUSINESSMAN". resident of FAZENDA LIRIOS DO VALE, IN
as CAMBOINHA, RURAL AREA OF ITACARE/ BA.

NAME AND DOCUMENT NUMBER OF THE DOCTOR WHO CERTIFIED THE | DEATH: ERNESTO LEITE DA SILVEIRA (CRM 7641)
OBSERVATIONS) VERIFICATIONS.
Registration date: July 22, 2013.
Did you have a voter registration card: No.
Did the deceased leave assets: Yes.
OFFICE NAME: ITACARÉ RCPN OFFICE
OFFICER: NORMA LÚCIA DA SILVA BOMFIM
MUNICIPALITY: ITACARÉ-BA
ADDRESS: RUA JOAQUIM VIEIRA, 53, CENTRO,
CEP: 45530-000, Tel.: (73)3251-2158
The content of the certificate is true. I give faith ITACARE, BA, August 22, 2013
Signature of Official Num. 129460926 Signed electronically by: LUCIO DE PAULA DE SANT ANNA SOUZA - 08/20/2021 20:18:12, LUCIO DE PAULA DE SANT ANNA SOUZA - 08/20/2021 20:18:11

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There's a long list of court cases Polivoy and her former partner Susan Diamond faced.

Her partner Joseph Marty also died from causes not admitted to by Polivoy. I attached the obituary.

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https://www.jusbrasil.com.br/processos/nome/71933654/silvia-beatriz-polivoy
Jusbrasil found 23  lawsuits that mention Silvia Beatriz Polivoy , and that may be from different people with that name. Participating in a lawsuit does not mean having committed a crime; the person may be a plaintiff, defendant, lawyer, judge, etc.

Processes
Case No. 000XXXX-54.2021.8.05.0103

Silvia Beatriz Polivoy x Bahia State Electricity Company Coelba
TJBA Ilheus, BA
Civil · Supply of Electric Energy, Consumer Contracts, CONSUMER LAW
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-97.2021.5.05.0491

C. aa x Iet
TRT5 Salvador, BA
Labor Law Fine under Article 477 of the CLT - Prior Notice - Fine of 40% of the FGTS - Fine under Article 467 of the CLT - FGTS - Overtime - Severance Pay - Repercussions - Compensation - Unemployment Insurance - Deposit / Difference in Collection - Reinstatement of Employee - Discriminatory Dismissal - Reinstatement / Readmission or Compensation - Moral / Material Damage - Duration of Work - Individual Employment Contract - Partner / Shareholder - Jurisdiction of the Labor Court - Anticipation of Protection / Specific Protection - Process and Procedure - Competence - Jurisdiction and Competence - LABOR LAW - CIVIL AND LABOR PROCEDURAL LAW - Joint / Subsidiary Liability - Termination of Employment Contract - Deposit / Differences - Individual Labor Law - Reinstatement / Readmission or Compensation Substitute
View process
Case No. 001XXXX-02.2020.8.05.0103

Silvia Beatriz Polivoy x Coelba Electricity Company of the State of Bahia
TJBA Ilheus, BA
Civil · Compensation for Moral Damages
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-83.2019.8.05.0114

Public Ministry of the State of Bahia x Jussara Souza Santos
TJBA Itacaré, BA
Criminal · CRIMINAL LAW (287) - Criminal Offences (3692) - Disturbance of the peace (12354)
View process
Case No. 800XXXX-88.2019.8.05.0114

Silvia Beatriz Polivoy x Susan Diamond Capuano
TJBA Itacaré, BA
Civil · CIVIL LAW - Things - Property - Condominium in Building - Change of Common Thing - CIVIL LAW (899) - Things (10432) - Property (10448) - Condominium in Building (10463) - Change of Common Thing (10465 - Change of Common Thing (10465)
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-59.2019.5.05.0492

Leandro Jesus dos Santos x Silvia Beatriz Polivoy
TRT5 Salvador, BA
View process
Case No. 800XXXX-72.2019.8.05.0000

Case No. 800XXXX-72.2019.8.05.0000
TJBA Salvador, BA
Civil Chambers CIVIL AND LABOR PROCEDURAL LAW (8826) - Appeal (9045) - Effects (9047 - CIVIL AND LABOR PROCEDURAL LAW (8826) - Process and Procedure (8960) - Anticipation of Protection / Specific Protection (8961
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-63.2015.8.05.0114

Itacaré Police Station - Bahia x Susan Diamond Capuano
TJBA Itacaré, BA
CRIMINAL LAW (287) - Crimes against Property (3415) - Fraud (3431) - CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LAW (1209) - Criminal Investigation (10604) - Competence of the Public Prosecutor's Office (10605)
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-79.2011.8.05.0114

Public Ministry of the State of Bahia x Silvia Beatriz Polivoy
TJBA Itacaré, BA
Criminal · CRIMINAL LAW (287) - Crimes against Property (3415) - Fraud (3431)
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-63.2012.8.05.0114

Silvia Beatriz Polivoy x Lucy Evelyn Cannon
TJBA Itacaré, BA
CIVIL LAW (899) - Things (10432) - Possession (10444) - Dispossession / Disturbance / Threat (10445)
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-36.2012.8.05.0103

Susan Dinamond Capuano x Silvia Beatriz Polivoy
TJBA Ilheus, BA
Civil · CIVIL LAW
View process
Case No. 013XXXX-09.2012.3.00.0000

Adriano Silva Souza x Court of Justice of the State of Bahia
STJ
Criminal law · CRIMINAL LAW, Crimes against Property, Fraud, Criminal Proceedings, Lockup
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-13.2011.8.05.0114

Silvia Beatriz Polivoy x George Evans Steintmetz
TJBA Itacaré, BA
Civil · CIVIL AND LABOR PROCEDURAL LAW (8826) - Procedural Acts (8893) - Nullity (8919)
View process
Case No. 016XXXX-42.2011.3.00.0000

Susan Diamond Capuano x José Luiz Marti
STJ
Civil law · CIVIL LAW, Legal Facts, Legal Act / Transaction, Defect, nullity or annulment
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-34.2011.8.05.0114

Jose Luiz Marti x Susan Diamond Capuano
TJBA Itacaré, BA
CIVIL LAW (899) - Companies (9616) - Partnership (5724) - Dissolution (4935)
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-21.2011.8.05.0114

Susan Diamond Capuano x Adriano Silva Souza
TJBA Itacaré, BA
CIVIL LAW (899) - Companies (9616) - Partnership (5724) - Entry and Exclusion of Partners in the Partnership (4940 - Entry and Exclusion of Partners in the Partnership (4940)
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-36.2011.8.05.0114

Susan Diamond Capuano x Silvia Beatriz Polivoy
TJBA Itacaré, BA
CIVIL LAW (899) - Companies (9616) - Partnership (5724) - Entry and Exclusion of Partners in the Partnership (4940)
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-06.2011.8.05.0114

Susan Diamond Capuano x Isis Tourist Enterprises LTDA - ME
TJBA Itacaré, BA
Civil · CIVIL LAW (899) - Companies (9616) - Partnership (5724) - Entry and Exclusion of Partners in the Partnership (4940)
View process
Case No. 001XXXX-46.2010.8.05.0000

Susan Diamond Capuano x Jose Luiz Marti
TJBA Salvador, BA
Civil · Effects
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-40.2010.8.05.0000

Susan Diamond Capuano x Adriano Silva Souza
TJBA Salvador, BA
Civil · Anticipation of Protection / Specific Protection
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-77.2010.8.05.0114

Susan Diamond Capuano x Jose Luiz Marti
TJBA Itacaré, BA
Civil CIVIL LAW - Legal Facts - Legal Act / Transaction - Defect, nullity or annulment - CIVIL LAW (899) - Legal Facts (7947) - Legal Act / Transaction (4701) - Defect, nullity or annulment (4703 - Defect, nullity or annulment (4703)
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-51.2009.8.05.0114

Susan Diamond Capuano x Adriano Silva Souza
TJBA Itacaré, BA
CIVIL LAW (899) - Things (10432) - Possession (10444) - Dispossession / Disturbance / Threat (10445 - Dispossession / Disturbance / Threat (10445)
View process
Case No. 000XXXX-85.2008.8.05.0114

George Evans Steinmetz x Silvia Beatriz Polivoy
TJBA Itacaré, BA
CIVIL LAW (899) - Civil Liability (10431) - Compensation for Material Damage (10439) - Image Rights (10443 - Image Rights (10443)
View process
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I received the following account, mostly on the Tikun business.

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I am sending you the following information, hoping that it will help you bring to light the following person and establishment to the world.

I have sent the following email to Stripe and Wise to let them know of what is happening...
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The name of the business is Tikun Consulting (website: tikun.consulting ). The owner of the website/business is Silvia Polivoy who is also the owner of the website Spiritvineretreats.com. The latter sells ayahuasca-based retreats.

The owner uses tikun.consulting to sell coaching services for people who have already attended the ayahuasca retreats. However, she also has a few services  such as the packages of 5 or 8 sessions, which is in reality the price of her retreats.

If someone is interested in purchasing an ayahuasca retreat, she sends them the stripe link or sends them to the Tikun website and instructs them to purchase the appropriate service. Based on your term services, this is prohibited, as she is selling services using prohibited drugs via Stripe.

As you can see in the website above, the prices for each retreat are usd 2250 for dormitory (9 days retreat), usd 2550  for dormitory (11 days retreat), usd 2850 and usd 3150 for either shared in 9 or 11 days retreats. Occasionally, someone might pay more for a couple or private bungalow.

You will notice on the Tikun website that she offers the 2550, 2850 and 3150 usd services and sending the stripe links or instructing people to purchase with a credit card to facilitate her ayahuasca retreats sales.

This has been going on apparently for a while and I am sure that if you contacted some of the people who already used their credit cards to purchase through Stripe for these services, or using the links, they would certainly tell you that in reality they were purchasing a drug-based retreat, and not coaching sessions.

That was the whole point of creating the Tikun Consulting business based in the USA and opening a Stripe account: so that they could easily cater to a wider crowd and offer a way for them to buy anonymously.

I am attempting to reach WISE as well, as I am aware that the above person is sending the money from Stripe to either their USA bank account and/or Stripe. I strongly suggest you contact the WISE company and the Bank associated with their account in order for their compliance department to do the necessary.

Should I notice in the coming weeks that the above business is still using your service or Wise, I will make a report to the local authorities.

Hopefully the above information is detailed. Should you need any further information, feel free to email me.

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Stripe has acknowledged my email, however, I am not aware that they stopped providing her with their services.

I have also contacted Wise over the phone to provide them with the above information, but I am not sure if they are taking this seriously.

If it came from different places/people, maybe they will take a more serious look.

....She is still fighting a 2012 court case with her old, but now dead, business partner Susanne Diamond, from which she stole a part of the land.  And how her now deceased partner Zoe7 died. Something she kept hidden from everyone for so many years because of the shame and guilt it brought her.

....People, and by this I mean all the ones seeking healing and wisdom from the Plant, should be aware of how abusive this narcissist is and how unfairly she treats the locals she employs versus the foreigner that pay her thousands to attend the retreats.
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Frauds / Re: Teo Alfero - Castaneda disciple - very active
« Last post by Sandy S on October 28, 2024, 12:43:13 am »
Teo Alfero's operation Wolf Connection is "wolf washed". His Teo Alfero LLC business is more overt pseudo-shaman, life coach, "energy pathways" - much of which is from the fraud Carlos Castaneda.

Teo Alfero and two of his inner circle mentioned earlier - Amy Harris and Erin Kinney - sell a four month course "The Threshold" for 12,500 https://teoalfero.com/thethreshold/

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The Initiatory Course
Are you being called?

Also available:

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Advanced Training: Invitation only 9- month deep dive into applied consciousness and mystic arts.

https://teoalfero.com/

All of this new age salesmanship we've seen a zillion times before here on NAFPS. Same sales tactics, this with a Castaneda dangerous twist.

The "Apply to Study with Teo" application requires indepth personal information. Just say no to frauds, don't give him information that he and team will use against you.
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Frauds / Re: Teo Alfero - Castaneda disciple - very active
« Last post by Sandy S on October 28, 2024, 12:07:53 am »
2012 event:

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Scientists consider wolves among the most successful ‘social animals.’ The seers of don Juan’s lineage, which originates in ancient Mexico, suggest we would do well to consider ourselves social animals too.

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From this weekend of Tensegrity® at The Wolf Connection Ranch, this is what each of you will have the opportunity to do:

Go on hikes, designed for the light to mature walker, throughout the conservancy, with the intent of focusing attention, becoming more conscious and ‘slowing down;’

Uncover, through self-inquiry exercises, your likelihood to currently experience groups the same as your early family group – replaying roles related to sibling birth-order, scapegoating and blame...

Practice movements of Tensegrity® to open up channels in your physical form, allowing your energetic core to shine through...

Explore and gather new ways of being from experiences with the elements – air, water, fire and earth – and from frequent visitations with the wolves;

Sleep at night in tents arranged in a dreaming circle to enhance dreams;

Rise with the sun; eat out of doors; assemble in a native teepee; partake in a fire-pit storytelling event and give away the habits you want to release; recapture how your ancestors, in alignment with the surrounding natural energies, once walked in harmony with other beings upon this earth.

http://wolfconnectionpack.org/events/full-moon-carlos-castaneda-s-tensegrity-workshop-1

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2022 "A Taste of Teo's Energy Practices: Journey Through Your Energy Layers"
 
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Play with the membrane of your energy field. Build energetic capacity by shifting quickly from the fire within, to the physical glow, to the energy field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD65LFLO5u8

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Currently on the https://wolfconnection.org/ site I don't find any mention of Tensegrity, Castaneda, or Don Juan now other than in Alfero's bio https://wolfconnection.org/team/teo-alfero/ . The only mention of "shaman" is concering two of the canines.

Wolf Connection is pitched as therapeutic and educational. So Teo Alfero's actual core teachings are "wolf washed" here.

Ideally funding agencies would know to look closer at the "medicine circles" and other signs of fraud, but they don't seem to be doing so.
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Frauds / Re: Teo Alfero - Castaneda disciple - very active
« Last post by Sandy S on October 24, 2024, 01:10:36 am »
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Wolf Connection
When: October 30, 2024
Time: 09:00 AM To 12:00 PM
Registration Fee: $50

Hello Los Angeles County Management Council Members.

In collaboration with Supervisor Kathryn Barger, we want extend this exclusive and unique invitation to the first 100 LACMC active members to join us on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at The Wolf Connection located at 29063 Aliso Canyon Road, Palmdale, CA 93550.

https://managementcouncil.lacounty.gov/Event/5136

From flyer: "The Wolf Connection works with several LA county departments to serve their clients."

So this is advertised as exclusive, unique, leadership insights, networking, wolf interaction, human empowerment.

The chair of board of directors of Wolf Connection is Steven Golightly. Retired Director of Los Angeles County Child Support Services Department.

https://community.ncsea.org/network/members/profile?UserKey=a16c41fc-e9a7-4ccc-a2c1-111d5fe08f33

The Wolf Connection property recieves a property tax "wefare exemption".

Alfero also has his Teo Alfero LLC consulting business. He initially filed for that in 2021 and it is active. Who knows how much money he is able to run through that.
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Frauds / Re: Teo Alfero - Castaneda disciple - very active
« Last post by Sandy S on October 24, 2024, 12:55:13 am »
Looks like Miguel Rivera is still on the board of Spring of Evolution, Inc – DBA Wolf Connection.

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He is a founding member of the Western Gate Roots and Wings Foundation, a member of the Guild of Future Architects and a Board Member for Wolf Connection

Episode #22 Miguel Rivera - Sweat Lodges, Native American Teachings & Wolves March 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lo8-ER-z2k

Fairbanks, cross over work with teens between these organizations (and maybe others) is a good idea, I'll keep an eye out for it too. There looks to be a lot of grant money potential. The grant providers don't seem to check for new age indoctrination, cultural appropriation etc.

Rivera in this podcast says the plan is to do events at the Wolf Connection place. So maybe the Western Gate Roots and Wings Foundation now works as a pipeline to Wolf Connection.

So much money: https://www.avpress.com/news/wolves-getting-more-space-to-call-home/article_b5f28c8c-5c8f-11ec-b9ed-4b2479206b26.html

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Wolf Connection is growing, thanks to a $2 million expansion through a partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health that will tripled the capacity at the 165-acre ranch and further support LA County youth and veterans’ wellbeing


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Frauds / Re: Teo Alfero - Castaneda disciple - very active
« Last post by fairbanks on October 23, 2024, 03:09:55 pm »

Youth, incarcerated people, those with PTSD etc. absolutely do not need Castaneda.


Considering that Miguel Rivera was/is? on the board of Teo Alfero's group, I'm wondering if there is cross over work with the troubled teens that come through Rivera's Roots and Wings Foundation.
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Frauds / Re: Teo Alfero - Castaneda disciple - very active
« Last post by Sandy S on October 22, 2024, 05:20:13 pm »
Some reviews of Teo Alfero's book The Wolf Connection:

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I too am a Carlos Castaneda devotee so I love your take on wolves.

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This was an impulse buy. I thought it was a science book, but it's more scientology. There is some science in it, usually from outside sources (actual experts). The author expends a lot of text on out-of-body experiences and praying to trees.

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His "wolves" are actually wolf-dogs and he usually does not make that clear.

Teo Alfero is a manipulative salesman. He's taken two common activities: animal rescue, also canine therapy for humans, and packages them with Castaneda cultic practices and claims of miracles.

He's charms government agencies and scores big contracts.

The ongoing "studies" including A Rich Exploration of the Experiences at Wolf Connection. Claremont Graduate University, 2018, Piper T. Grandjean Targos (I've not found a url for this) read like puff pieces, ads for Teo Alfero's operation.

Animal assisted therapy can be easily found without cultic Castaneda content. Life skills, journaling, time out in nature can be found without cultic Castaneda content.

Youth, incarcerated people, those with PTSD etc. absolutely do not need Castaneda.

If I could speak directly to a funding agency, to researchers doing ongoing supposed studies, I'd tell them that they are charmed by a conman. No matter how much money/time they've spent, they need to cut their losses and walk away.
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