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Frauds / Re: "Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote" / Bernice Sophia Noad
« Last post by Sandy S on May 19, 2025, 07:22:12 pm »
Thanks Sparks!

Yes, "orgone" is one of countless pseudoscience spiritualist nonsense she promoted. I watched an interview video that included her teaching how to make an "orgone blanket" which was basically a wool blanket layered with steel wool.

I've been looking her over for several days now. I don't know what caused her shift from "Bunny Halligan" the artist to "Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote" "Grandmother of the Blue Moon Medicine Lodge".

I think untreated mental health challenges might have been involved. She had a grandiose, pressured speech style.

I'd like her followers to know that she was a pretendian, playing dress up. Her claims about petroglyphs, ceremonies, pipes, stone circles, rituals, practices, drumming, history, culture - all of that is false.

She was not a "Metis/Lakota Sioux Elder Metis" "half Lakota Sioux and half Danish". She was Danish and English. She wasn't an "Elder". She was just a white lady making shit up.
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Frauds / Re: "Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote" / Bernice Sophia Noad
« Last post by Sparks on May 18, 2025, 11:21:07 pm »
Quote from: Sandy S on May 18, 2025, 06:57:16 pm
She mixed in pendulums, metaphysics, "orgone energy accumulators", "muscle testing", and other new age/theosophical trappings. Active in WA and AZ.

My bolding. That stuff has been mentioned in the forum half a dozen times or so, in connection with Wilhelm Reich.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone  &  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich
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Frauds / Re: "Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote" / Bernice Sophia Noad
« Last post by Sandy S on May 18, 2025, 07:26:32 pm »
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The medicine wheel ceremony I participated was at VanDusen botanical garden. Elder Phil L’Hirondelle led the ceremony based on the teachings from Bernice Falling Leaves.

Eun, Y. (2023). Time, and the Ecological Futures of Everyday Living https://ecuad.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/ecuad%3A18160

Phil L’Hirondelle (https://www.allmyrelationsteachings.ca/) about the "medicine wheel" at VanDusen Botanical Gardens at Vancouver, B.C.:

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A lady named Bernice Falling Leaves introduced me to it. She was quite an amazing woman who traveled all over the world, making networks. She’d go up to Alaska and put a stone there and then she’d take a stone from Alaska down to Mexico. And she made a kind of worldwide wheel you might say. She always said, “These rock people are very alive!” Because we consider everything to be alive, and we call the stones the old record keepers.

https://vandusengarden.org/interview-medicine-wheel-ceremony/

Ceremonies are held there every solstice and equinox https://vandusengarden.org/explore/events/2025/03/spring-equinox-medicine-wheel-ceremony/

Phil L’Hirondelle mentioned here http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=382.msg1724#msg1724
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Frauds / Re: "Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote" / Bernice Sophia Noad
« Last post by Sandy S on May 18, 2025, 06:57:16 pm »
Another spelling of the word:

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Berniece Falling Leaves later honoured Susan in ceremony as a Hucoule (medicine person)
https://hilltopwellness.ca/
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She gave followers names such as "White Butterfly Woman" and "Standing Tall Tree". She did "Native American ceremony", including use of pipes.

I'm curious about this:

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To close the ceremony, all of the women who were busily preparing the feast of Kayin’s favorite foods were called to the healing room for the presentation of the Blue Moon Medicine Necklace. This gift, which was made in the late 1800s, came from Berniece Falling Leaves, a Lakota/Danish medicine woman and Kayin’s adopted grandmother. The original owner of the necklace was a Choctaw chief who wore a ceremonial white eagle feather head piece which touched the ground as he rode his horse.

https://www.whiteravencenter.org/2017/11/28/our-childrens-coming-of-age-by-dr-marianne-rolland/

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She mixed in pendulums, metaphysics, "orgone energy accumulators", "muscle testing", and other new age/theosophical trappings. Active in WA and AZ.

Her name still bubbles up from time to time, some people use it in their new age bios. Her supposed teachings are being passed down to younger generations. This doesn't seem to involve many people now.

We now have here the only complete fact check of Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote / Bernice Sophia Noad/ Bunny Halligan available online.
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Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote / Bernice Sophia Noad was second generation English and Danish.

Her parents were James Samuel Noad and Anna Margrethe Jensen.

Paternal grandfather Frederick William Noad, born Durham England.
Paternal grandmother Sarah Ann Elliott, born Durham England. They married in Nova Scotia.

Maternal grandparents Lars Peder Jensen and Karen Kirsten Sophie Hansen, both from Denmark, married in Denmark, lived in Canada and Washington state USA.
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Frauds / Re: "Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote" / Bernice Sophia Noad
« Last post by Sandy S on May 18, 2025, 05:47:57 am »
She was also a painter under the name "Bunny Halligan".

She changed her name legally after her mother died.

She was described as a "spiritualist and a Native American Hocule" in the 1991 book "What to do until enlightenment : healing ourselves-- healing the earth". In the 1994 book "Psycho-regression : a new system for healing & personal growth" she is "Bernice (Falling Leaves) Hucole, native American teacher, USA".

Maybe she was claiming she was Huichol?

As far as I can see, her children did not claim any Native American ancestry.

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Frauds / "Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote" / Bernice Sophia Noad
« Last post by Sandy S on May 18, 2025, 04:38:58 am »
She died in 2015 but she still has followers so I want to tuck in some information on her.

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Wearing her white deerskin dress, Berniece was in the movie On Deadly Ground
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151901098/bernice_halligan

She claimed she was "half-Lakota", adopted by Hopi, a mystic, "medicine woman". She did "medicine wheel" events.

She spelled her first name both Bernice and Berniece. Nickname was Bunny.
Her birth surname was Noad, step father surname Simard, married surname Halligan.
Maternal grandparents both from Denmark, paternal grandparents both from England.

As "Grandmother Bernice Falling Leaves" she ran the "Blue Moon Medicine Lodge" in Washington state.

"Kirlian photography" https://vibrantvitalwater.com/testing-research/

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Grandmother ... invited Susan to go to Hopi Land to meet her adopted Grandfather David Monongye, the Hopi spiritual leader. Grandfather told Berniece that she was part of the prophecies and adopted her into his family.

https://hilltopwellness.ca/
https://hilltopwellness.ca/2015/04/18/bernice-falling-leaves-2/

In Oct 21, 1989, Maricopa county AZ, she legally changed her name from Bernice Sophia Simard to "Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote". A family member on ancestry.com says that Bernice did not update all her own records to reflect this name change.
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Frauds / Re: Bennie LeBeau aka Blue Thunder
« Last post by Sandy S on May 18, 2025, 02:11:02 am »
I checked up on everyone listed in this thread.

Marcine Quenzer remains a public problem. She has multiple spammy websites, most are not updated. Her Facebook presence is current.

From her Facebook:
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I was adopted Seneca Cayuga  at the Green Corn 1993 with Hubert Sky Officiating, into the family of Amanda Bearskin Greenback, Susie Greenback as sister.

I was given the Seneca name Niyawehnsie by Medicine Man Kennesatah, 1995    pronounce nea wehn see

I was adopted at ceremony Fathers Day at Elders Celebration as sister to  Leonard Catfish Smith making me Quapaw and Seneca,  daughter to Maude Bomberry Smith, and sister to Dory Smith.

I was made sister to Ron Wahwahsuck, Potowatamie, and Bill King, Apache, 1998.

I was made Associate Artist for the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma, by Chief Bearskin in Sept 2003, during Wyandotte Pow Wow and annual meeting.

I was given the name White Lynx by Earth Healer Bavado Tatun Corzon, 2016, It is Eh heauh uh Ji gohn sa seh in the ancient language of the People..

Note the mention of "Bavado", that was Bennie LeBeau. I don't see any signs of her making money currently from this.

Quenzer also here: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=439.0
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Lori Boess / Spirit Bear Arts Inc. is a possible concern.

https://www.spiritbearartsinc.com/

archived old site https://web.archive.org/web/20161031191323/http://medicinedogdrum.com/ABOUT_THE_ARTIST.html

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Lori Boess, was raised here in the Northwest  in  Olympia  area where it has been here home for over 16 years. She is an artist of focusing on her Cherokee tradition. She create drums, rattles, fans, and other art.

https://ravenredbone.com/tag/lori-boess/

(A note on Brian M. Frisina / "Raven Redbone" - he describes himself as a "Metis Radio talk show host for an Indigenous Radio Station, out of Olympia Washington". https://mixedbloodmetis.com/m%C3%A9tis-at-folklife-fest-1 I believe his use of "Metis" is inaccurate. Some of the people he interviews are frauds.)

Lori Boess also mentioned here http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3644.0
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Non-Frauds / Re: NAFPS Is Proud to Work With Or Be Used As a Resource By...
« Last post by educatedindian on May 07, 2025, 10:20:57 pm »
Long overdue, an update on people who support us, work with us, use us as a resource, and are helped by us.

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FB Group https://www.facebook.com/StopMisuseofCeremonies and https://forgetwinnetou.com/
Winnetou the original Nuage Pretend nonsense written by Karl May, still popular in Europe esp Germany.

https://medium.com/@trellian.black/new-age-frauds-plastic-shamans-4bf9d8c340c2

https://pretendians.com/ A few are members here. Some of their targets or methods I don't agree with.

European academic Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review
Volume 4, Issue 2, 2013 Legitimization Strategies within the Cultic Milieu
Anne Kalvig Pages 228-244 https://doi.org/10.5840/asrr2013424
"Shamans in High Heels"
https://www.pdcnet.org/asrr/content/asrr_2013_0004_0002_0228_0244?file_type=pdf

Chi-Nations Youth Council (CNYC) youth and adults with a mission to create a supportive, open environment for Native Youth
https://chinations.org/statement-liam-opliam-mcdonald-monetizing-off-fraudulent-native-identity-and-co-opting-of-indigenous-peoples-day/

Quoted on Reddit threads
https://www.reddit.com/user/NAFPS/comments/
https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/3l0ft3/does_the_native_american_word_aho_often_used_in/

Daily Good
https://www.dailygood.org/story/2001/the-sunray-peace-village-elissa-melaragno/?t=showComment&cid=7561

U of CA in an article on Joan Scheer AKA Oh Shinnah Fastwolf
https://ucanr.edu/sites/default/files/2013-04/165727.pdf

FB group https://www.facebook.com/people/Native-Charlatans-Wabos-and-other-Fakers/100095535695511/

Wisconsin LGBTQ paper
https://ourliveswisconsin.com/article/center-the-movement-not-you/

Latino pride page, half a dozen articles referencing us to warn others.
https://mexika.org/category/new-age-fraud-conspiracy-nonsense/

Interfaith site
https://stateofformation.org/2015/09/making-the-unconscious-conscious-why-interfaith-communities-struggle-with-racial-diversity/

Academic article
Indigenous North American Sundance Rites
March 2025 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-38971-9_1683-1
In book: Encyclopedia of Religious Psychology and Behavior (pp.1-7)
Authors: E.C. Coombs    University of Alberta
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389911711_Indigenous_North_American_Sundance_Rites

Nature lovers site
https://thewanderers.guide/blogs/news/a-beginners-guide-to-native-american-culture

Poetry and nature lovers site
https://gertloveday.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/the-path-of-pollen-or-frauds-freuds-7/

Cult research site
Music Of Mind Control with Micah: An exploration into the musical output of religious cults, new religious movements, and individuals of a spiritually inspired and divine nature.
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/112746

Articles on Margaret Noodin
https://www.scribd.com/document/681148924/New-Age-Fraud-Noodin-Forum-Archive

Even a site on Atlantis
https://atlantipedia.ie/samples/tag/carl-feagan/

Someone who got fooled by Lynn Andrews' fraud got called out on it.
https://culturalglimpse.com/2014/11/14/writing-to-change-the-world/

Academic site Wisconsin
https://madisonnewmusic.org/2021

The forum for the metal band Nightwish, discussing John Allen Hill.
https://www.nightwish.online/topic/143-john-two-hawks/

Genealogy site
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/586674/list-of-unrecognized-tribes-or-native-clubs-in-us

Academic article
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/opth-2022-0235/html

Skeptic site
https://edzardernst.com/2022/07/wild-reiki-and-shamanic-healing-no-thanks/

Reason article on eagle feathers
https://reason.com/2016/01/27/state-agents-investigate-yoga-instructor/

Academic
Journal of Religion, Nature and Culture
Native American Traditions, Depth Psychology, and Postcolonial Theory
Author Joy H. Greenberg Independent Scholar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v7i1.88
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JSRNC/article/view/4649

Archaeology Review
https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2018/12/megan-fox-and-the-american-giants-legends-of-the-lost-review-of-episode-3/

Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities
https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/CSU%20San%20Marcos%20App%20%28Hispanic-Serving%20Institutions%29%20%281%29.pdf

Star Wars fan forum, warning on imposter who also claimed to be in the films
https://forum.rebelscum.com/threads/autographed-hal-walmsley-jawa-is-a-fraud-selling-on-ebay.1079132/

Articles on ayahuasca tourism
https://independent.academia.edu/jeronimomm

Metis Museum
https://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/149772.EFN%202009%2009%20Sept.pdf

Psychiatric social work
https://www.academia.edu/22885366/PLASTIC_SHAMAN_I_AM_OR_NOT_SO_MUCH

Daily Kos article
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/12/27/931817/-

Cultural appropriation article
https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/what-is-cultural-appropriation/
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Frauds / Re: Joan Scheer AKA Penny McKelvey AKA "Oh Shinnah Fastwolf"
« Last post by Sandy S on May 06, 2025, 11:55:41 pm »
Important context for the Joan Scheer "Oh Shinnah Fastwolf" story:

Her people were from Germany, Ireland, England. They moved to Colorado to exploit the land, seeking silver and gold wealth.

The area Indigenous people were then "displaced from their ancestral hunting grounds" and "force marched to Utah".

( Historical info: https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/brunot-agreement
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/blm/co/10/chap5.htm )

Her people (4 generations in mining country Colorado) can be tracked through vital records, census, lode mining claims, and Silverton newspaper articles. This is where Joan Scheer was born. These are her people. All of them white colonizers.
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Frauds / Re: Mary Teal Bosworth AKA Teal Swan
« Last post by Sparks on May 06, 2025, 07:16:17 pm »
Quote from: Sparks on September 23, 2019, 11:40:54 pm
Quote from: Sparks on September 23, 2019, 11:14:47 pm
However, I found the full article posted here, too: http://www.integralworld.net/scofield9.html
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Reposted from www.gurumag.com (December 26, 2018) with permission of the author.
The original contains more videos of Teal Swan

Here is the original: https://gurumag.com/the-gucci-guru-inside-teal-swans-posh-cult/

Many pictures, many links, more videos, many of those no longer available, though.

The Integral World link above now yields:
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This article has been unpublished at the request of Teal Swan's lawyer.

Fortunately, the Guru Magazine article is still there with all its details.
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