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General => Research Needed => Topic started by: Walks Proud on June 13, 2010, 11:00:32 pm

Title: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Walks Proud on June 13, 2010, 11:00:32 pm
Anyone know anything about this guy? Is he legit or what?

http://www.fwii.net/events/gulf-oil-crisis-prophecies-and
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: debbieredbear on June 14, 2010, 12:40:05 am
I went to college with Phil Lane jr. He wasn't a "chief" then. His dad, to my knowledge wasn't either. His dad was well respected. Phil worked at United Indians of All Tribes several times. Most recently in the last couple of years. He is a Bahai. I haven't seen him inproabably 30 years, though.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: apukjij on June 14, 2010, 01:10:14 am
oh yes, we know him here in Mi'kmaw Country, he was the first to cash in on the canadian govts' Aboriginal Healing Foundation Program for Survivors of Residential Schools which resulted in the first Survivors Gathering held in Fredericton, New Brunswick canada. Who knows how much he made for that conference. I attended as a "first generation survivor"; my Mother, who went to the notorious Shubenacadie  Resie skewl did not attend. I attended the conference the first day only. It was a mishmash of poorly constructed "talking circles" and other quasi flooky programs to provide healing. I instead spent the rest of the conference outside by the Sacred Fire, where there were Medicine People gathered and conducted Ceremonies and where the real work was being done. Now the Aboriginal Healing Foundation created by the Canadian Govt was the biggest sham in recent history. Its purpose was "healing" Neither I, or my Mother; are sick. We are not in need of Healing. My People are
not sick!
the hundreds of millions of dollars that the us and canadian govts have spent,
has all been part of an insidious and diabolical plan by the govts. you see as
long as the govt's tell us we are sick and in need of "healing" and then they
spend millions on it, they NEVER have to look at what policies, procedures, and
acts allowed this act of Genocide to occur to our People. (according to the
current U.N. policy, abduction of children, and the reprograming they went thru
is considered Genocide.) You see in this "Grand Deflection" they govts have
perpetrated, they NEVER have to look at themselves and CHANGE, they never have
to apologize...so if nothing changes....it can all happen again.... And sadly i would say  70 percent of the funds that exchanged hands went to the lawyers representing the lawsuits as my mother was granted 3000$ as reparation for her stay at the school, i say they should have been a thousand dollars for each day she spent in that unholy residential skewl.
Now more on phil. I never heard he was a chief. he is also associated with the notorious Four Worlds International Institute. Who produced the vile book called the "Sacred  Tree". a handbook for the for all new agers based on the fraudulent medicine wheel which severely  damaged a generation of Mi'kmaq and Maliseet and Passamaquoddy childeren, for more information on that see the posthttp://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1161.0 (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1161.0) by Esteemed Maliseet Elder Andrea Bear Nicholas.
The book supposedly was created by  Elders from all over canada,  but i know most of them were Native-Bahai, which in itself is not troublesome, what was troublesome was this was the first book in canada to start the pan-indian spirituality, and i believe that Bahai beliefs were mixed in with the rest of the pan-indian  spirituality presented in this book. it was a cash cow that allowed them to create a cirriculum based on the book. Phil is a techie for hire as long as theres money involved.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: debbieredbear on June 14, 2010, 01:55:43 am
Unfortunately, I suspected this. I liked Phil when we were at school, but he was trying to get out from under his dad's shadow. And then he moved to Canada and I started hearing stuff.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: educatedindian on June 14, 2010, 03:09:28 pm
....he is also associated with the notorious Four Worlds International Institute. Who produced the vile book called the "Sacred  Tree". a handbook for the for all new agers based on the fraudulent medicine wheel which severely  damaged a generation of Mi'kmaq and Maliseet and Passamaquoddy childeren, for more information on that see the posthttp://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1161.0 (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1161.0) by Esteemed Maliseet Elder Andrea Bear Nicholas.
The book supposedly was created by  Elders from all over canada,  but i know most of them were Native-Bahai, which in itself is not troublesome, what was troublesome was this was the first book in canada to start the pan-indian spirituality, and i believe that Bahai beliefs were mixed in with the rest of the pan-indian  spirituality presented in this book. it was a cash cow that allowed them to create a cirriculum based on the book. Phil is a techie for hire as long as theres money involved.

For anyone whose not a longtime member, there's a thread that talked a bit about issues with the Bahais in Native communities.
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=117.msg18197#msg18197
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Isa1961 on March 05, 2011, 01:12:50 am
Osiyo,
Someone posted something about "Chief" Phil Lane, Jr. on Facebook, and I questioned what this guy is chief of. So I did some research.

In this video  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Dv2ccT6WY  they say:
"Elders share in the honor that Windstar has bestowed upon Phil Lane, Jr. And the fact that they have accorded him the title of Chief."

Who is Windstar?
The John Denver Windstar Board of Trustees, and their award, making this person part of the Windstar Earth Council...

In another video they call him "Hereditary Chief"

Hmmm. 

I mean it looks as if this guy is doing some good work, but isn't it kind of offensive to use the title Chief if it was bestowed by some singer's non-profit? (Don't get me wrong, I love John Denver, BUT....)


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Hayv ale tohitsu,

Isabel
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Bahesmama on August 08, 2012, 02:24:44 am
I watched the Youtube Windstar video and it was wonderful to see Grandma Bow and Lala Phil Lane, Sr. hugging him on the stage.  They have both passed on now and I miss them.  I grew up going to their horse ranch in Walla Walla and riding horses with my Lala (he is my grandmother's cousin).  I know Phil Lane, Jr., I've known him since I was a child, he's my dad's cousin.  Our family were hereditary chiefs out at White Swan on the Yankton Sioux reservation.  We were also the last to see the White Buffalo Calf.  It is our Tiyospaye's work to carry on the vision of Mato Wi and Owl Man (Saswe Deloria).

I wasn't aware that he was a Bahai.  He practices traditional Nakota ceremonies.  His wife is Thai and is Buddhist.  He is the only one of his generation to step up and take on this role, so I have no problem with his title or his work.  Our band was called "the half-breed band" by the Americans and was lead by Chief Little White Swan.  We were mixed French and Indian because of the river, the Missouri.  I am half Navajo and half Yankton with some French as are many Yanktons.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: debbieredbear on August 08, 2012, 03:32:40 pm
Glad to hear from you. Now I see why he calls himself a Chief.  Phil jr has been a Bahai since the 1970's. I remember when he used to hold meetings at his house in Seattle, before he was married. I also remember his parents.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: ska on May 25, 2015, 02:38:29 pm
Many people seem to accept Phil Lane as a leader and knowledge keeper and increasingly his approach, which some call "new age", is being represented as "traditional".  If there is concern about him, it is not being voiced on the internet, and he is often pictured or featured alongside various Native leaders and healers.

Phil Lane is increasingly reported to be a "hereditary Chief" and there are numerous pictures of him wearing a war bonnet.  There is a large portrait of him in full headdress hanging in the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Center.

Here is one biography:

http://www.eaglequetzalcondor.com/staff-view/hereditary-chief-phil-lane-jr/ (http://www.eaglequetzalcondor.com/staff-view/hereditary-chief-phil-lane-jr/)

Some know of his work with the Four Worlds Institute and as one of the authors of "The Sacred Tree"  which seems rooted in Sun Bear's teachings but is now presented throughout Canada as "traditional" medicine wheel teachings.  On the Four Worlds website, a photo of Phil Lane meeting Evo Morales is described as the "eagle meeting the condor"

http://www.fwii.net/profiles/blogs/eagle-and-condor-meet-at-summit-of-the-americas-the-latin-america (http://www.fwii.net/profiles/blogs/eagle-and-condor-meet-at-summit-of-the-americas-the-latin-america)

His claim to have Crazy Horse's pipe is reported through his work with protecting the sacred and the Nawtsamaat Alliance:

http://www.protectthesacred.org/ (http://www.protectthesacred.org/)

Phil Lane has also been a very prominent part of the the International Indigenous Leadership Gathering where he will be speaking again this year, along with Lee Brown and Leroy Comes Last:

http://iilg.animikii.com/home (http://iilg.animikii.com/home)

He has appeared and spoken with Arvol Looking Horse at World Peace and Prayer Day, the International Indigenous Leadership Gathering, and both were featured speakers at the "Indigenous Wisdom Summit":

http://2014.indigenouswisdomsummit.com/program/54 (http://2014.indigenouswisdomsummit.com/program/54)




Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: earthw7 on May 25, 2015, 04:17:14 pm
Just because he spoke to Arvol does not mean he was accepted, if you have been around these gathering every newage person try to get close to him, I will tell you i have many friend from the Yankton reservation who are not mix blood, and some good people down there, and no he is not accepted as a chief other wise we would of heard of him.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Epiphany on May 26, 2015, 05:15:34 pm

Some know of his work with the Four Worlds Institute and as one of the authors of "The Sacred Tree"  which seems rooted in Sun Bear's teachings but is now presented throughout Canada as "traditional" medicine wheel teachings.

Warning for Maritime Natives from Andrea Bear Nicholas http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1161.msg6642#msg6642 (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1161.msg6642#msg6642)

Excerpt:

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It has been repeatedly brought to my attention how completely our people have been fooled into believing that the medicine wheel is somehow part of our traditions, especially our spirituality. While I had long had concerns about its origins, what woke me to the hoax was an event that occurred several years ago at a national conference of Aboriginal women scholars. It occurred when I raised the concern and prefaced my remarks with an apology to those whose tradition it might have been. Immediately a chorus went up with virtually everyone in the room saying loudly that it was not their tradition! And these were Aboriginal women scholars from across Canada!

Subsequent to that meeting, we in the Native Studies Program at St. Thomas University began researching the history of the medicine wheel, and what we have found is appalling!

Indeed, it was not even known by our people in the Maritimes until the last couple of decades. It is not anywhere in the oral traditions of Maliseet, Mi'kmaq or Passamaquoddy people collected as recently as the 70s and 80s. So how in the world could it represent the knowledge of our elders, if none of them ever heard of it until recently? The answer is that it was a totally invented tradition that was foisted on our people only as recently as the 1970s.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Bahesmama on July 14, 2015, 10:12:51 pm
Thanks Debbie! I do miss Lala and Grandma Bow. Even more now that I have lost even more relatives from that generation.

Update on Uncle Phil Lane, Jr. He has been very helpful to another of my dad's cousins, Faith Spotted Eagle in getting funding for work on the Yankton Sioux reservation. Particularly, for the resurgence of our ceremonies like the coming of age ceremony for girl that the Brave Heart Women's Society puts on every summer.

Also, he helped Auntie Faith get funding to hold the first meetings between the "Bold Nebraska" farmers and Dakota and Lakota people to fight the Keystone XL Pipeline. This conference held at our tribal casino (Ft. Randall) laid the groundwork for the "Cowboys and Indians" coalition that has successfully garnered support against the pipeline. Faith has gone to tribal councils and got them to turn down the project. Thanks to the funding support Uncle Phil was able to provide. Also working with them on this project is Dallas Goldtooth, his father was a founder of IEN.

I can understand the frustration of First Nations over the "evangelism" of Dakota/Lakota spiritual concepts across Indian Country. In fact, Dakotas find Lakota evangelism really annoying. I apologize for my family if my Uncle Phil's sharing of our stories felt overbearing in any way or disrespectful to the traditions of other nations.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Bahesmama on July 14, 2015, 10:44:58 pm
Also, regarding his Bahai status. Once again, he's never brought it up with family. Certainly, he has had many opportunities to try to convert us. We are mostly Episcopalian (Phil Lane, Sr. and my grandmother are the grandchildren of the Rev. PJ Deloria and first cousins to Vine Deloria, Jr.) or traditional. He graciously participates in family events whether in church or in ceremony. He does not discuss his Bahai connections at all with us. I don't really see them as very relevant to the work he does.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Autumn on July 20, 2015, 06:05:22 pm
He is very busy in the pay-to-pray area.  Only $297! (and you don't even need to leave your living room!)

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Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: AClockworkWhite on July 21, 2015, 07:42:28 pm
I am definitely being overtaken with laughter.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Sachem Laster on July 22, 2015, 01:01:02 pm
Phil Lane Jr is also involved with the IPUN, though not one of the core members. Also one of the people I came here to check up on.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Ingeborg on July 29, 2015, 11:04:42 pm
As we have seen, several members from IPUN / Indigenous Peoples' United Nations board and 'grandmother's circle' joined FWII (pls see http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4675.0  , http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4675.msg41015#msg41015  ).

These persons are either pretending ndn descent or status, or are plain white Nuagers. This suggests that the persons registering with FWII will not be verified in any way by FWII nor does FWII apparently take much of an interest in their members' backgrounds. A short look at the FWII membership confirms this suspicion.

http://www.fwii.net/profiles/members/

Having checked some 20 pages of newest members, it becomes apparent that more or less anybody is welcome to join. Many of the registrations state a residence outside of the USA, Canada or countries in the Americas. It is perhaps me, but seeing a person from Australia registering with a name of „Stormwalker“, or a „Lady Lozamay Luminiere“ from Lebanon, or „Windwalker“ from Leeds/UK, or one „SunWheel Ellen Sjödin“ from Sweden, my first thought does not happen to be „Ah, some expat ndns“....

A closer look at some of them yields results:

Ellen Sjödin – SunWheel / Solhjulet

https://about.me/solhjulet.net

She claims to be resp. sells:
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Intermediary between worlds, shaman, shamanic treatment, medicine woman
Shift of the Ages, Shamanism, Medium, healer
On her facebook site, there are phtotos showing Sjödin in front of a sweatlodge, and there are ads for seminars, courses, and workshops:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Solhjulet-SunWheel/187577374597115


Maria Wind Talker according to her site is a „Shamanic Practitioner and Animal Communication“:
http://www.crystalspace.co.uk/maria-wind-talker/4586680955

From her intro:

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Maria’s connection with the Ancestors started from her awakening at 2 years of age when she was taken momentarily from this world as a result of an abduction and drowning incident.

[...]
Her formal training began in her late 20’s after the passing of her mother.  She studied a vast array of Holistic Healing methods which included Reiki, Hypnotherapy, Regression, E.F.T.    Although her main passion always lay with nature and the Indigenous ways, which led to the  most recent Initiations into Munay Ki.
[...]
In honour of them she sends Love, Respect and Gratitude to Grandfather BearHeart, BJ Bear Claw, Von Harman (Lady Hawk), Elder Nick (Hopi), Elder Waya (Lakota), Chris Crow Summers, Paul Francis,Triona Martin, Tara Williams, Teresa Johnson, Alexander Valiente, Lizzie Saleh,Carla Meeske, Tim GoodBlood and Ally Wilkin.
Those who have passed on to spirit world continue to provide invaluable lessons and Maria is eternally grateful for their guidance.  In service as a hollow bone for spirit, always.
Although not of Native American blood, Maria’s soul has incarnated many times as a medicine woman/man and so it is that she again stands upon this path.
In honour of tradition, Maria offers her healing gifts without a fixed charge and trusts that those who seek her guidance respect the tradition of honouring the value of the work undergone with a suitable energy exchange.
The beauty of Shamanic healing is that physical contact is not necessary and can be applied to anyone across the world.   

And then there's this:

http://heyevent.com/event/b6d55yyjuqvpea/beulah-tribe-party-the-second-happening

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Beulah Tribe - the second happening will be tribal themed. We will be starting the evening with a Shamanic Drum Journey, led by Maria Wind Talker https://mariawindtalker.wordpress.com/. Maria will take us on a Shamanic journey to meet our power animals - all you'll have to do is lie down, get comfy and allow the drum and her voice take you on a little trip. […]


Yahara Golden Deer Katzeff

http://shamanation.ning.com/profile/YaharaGoldenDeerKatzeff
is now a member of World Wisdom Academy
Oct 3, 2013

The „shamanation“ site propagates Robin Youngblood and publishes three videos with Youngblood who they say was „Okanagon/Tsalagi“. The site also claims to be the „World Wisdom Academy“.

Katzeff's LinkedIn profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/yahara-katzeff/96/20b/8b7

claims she is the founder of an enterprise called „Beloved's Way Wise Woman Arts“ situated in Turner Falls, MA.


Lookingthruwolfseyes Windenmyhair

According to her FB site, her real-life name is „Shar Schwindt“:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lookingthruwolfseyes-Windenmyhair/501243973235058



Jane Stormwalker

http://www.janestormwalker.com/

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Lady Lozamay Luminiere

LLL is somewhat hard to research, as there are chiefly numerous sites, YT videos etc where she left a comment, but there's also other results:

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Katharina Sebert, Munich

http://www.in-guten-haenden.com/07Kontakt/Kontakt.htm

Sebert is an altmed practitioner selling „deep healing“. Intro from her website:

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All my supercisions and seminars reflect my long-term experience in therapeutic individual supervision, seminar leadership, essence work, holistic massaging and healthful touch, energy-, soul-, heart-, and earth healing, shamanic supervision, contact with the spirit world, Council, systemic constellations, medicine wheel work and ritual work, dance, chanting, healthful communication in groups and partnerships, tantra and healthful sexuality, ritual and spiritual arrangement of dying, farewell, and transition, heart practice, meditation and partnership work.


Pardon my French, but WTF are these people being accepted to register at a site claiming to work for indigenous peoples? Or did FWII perhaps just become lazy about weeding out the not appropriate registrations?

Let's have a look at the other end of the membership list – 20 pages of the oldest registrations: It is basically a similar mix of Europeans, Australians, New Zealanders, Euro-Americans, a few people from East Asia. And of course there's also interesting names.

Apparently, one Harvey Arden from Washington DC is among the most longstanding members of FWII.

Another name among the first 400 members happens to be „Angaangaq IceWisdom – Greenland“ (to be found on page 200 of a total of 214 pages as of yet) whose real-life name is Jens Lyberth – Mr Lyberth is an Inuit from Greenland living in Canada and has been selling indigenous ceremonies for more than 20 years. His latest „shame-on name“ is Angaangaq Angakorssuaq – pls see more here: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1833.0 . It is also quite interesting that both Phil Lane Jr. and Mr Lyberth happen to be members of the Bahai denomination.


Susanne Kasack Zürich
seems to be a member of Scientology: http://de.soc.weltanschauung.scientology.narkive.com/YdBHrs5U/284-schweizer-scientologen


Medicine Bear Whitebow
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rphlmedicinelodge

According to the info provided there, John Whitebow, calling himself „John Medicine Bear Whitebow“, is the owner of R.P.H.L. Medicine Lodge in Las Vegas/Nevada, and a „minister/ceremonial/spiritual leader of R.P.H.L a Native American based spirituality“. He specialises in „Pranic healing, tarot, dream interpitation [sic!], mentoring, counciling [sic!]“.
Whitebow also claims he is a war veteran having received a „Purple Hart, Silver Star, Bronz [sic] Star with „V“ 2 cluster“.

Has a profile here:
https://www.starseeds.net/profile/JohnMedicineBearWhitebow

Another intro reveals his real-life name as „John Radell“:

https://vimeo.com/user28804368
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Introduction
From Warrior to Healer
Give an Hour™ spokesperson John "Medicine Bear" Radell shares his story (as excerpted from Celia Straus's book Hidden Battles on Unseen Fronts)

John Radell deployed for war in Iraq with the California National Guard's 1498th Transportation Company, on May 15, 2003. He was 35 and had served in the early 1990s with a Special Forces unit. His mission in Iraq was to supply, service, live in, drive, and provide protection for Heavy Equipment Transporter Systems, recovering and hauling everything from M-1 battle tanks and Humvees to Port-o-Johns across war-torn Iraq. He would be attacked, ambushed, blinded in sand storms, swelter in 130-degree heat, and perform two-week long dangerous convoy missions without adequate body armor, radios, or supplies--even, at times, basic parts to his truck such as cab doors that could open and shut. By the time he was injured on July 22, 2003, he had either experienced first-hand or observed enough violence, killing, torture, and mayhem to sear his psyche forever. […]

"The year at Fort Lewis was bad. My first therapist was an Army Major who refused to believe I had PTSD. […]

On February 1, 2004, John was retired from the Army with 100% disability, 70% of which was PTSD. It would be years before his Traumatic Brain Injury from repeated exposure to IED blasts would show up in a CATScan prescribed because he'd lost all feeling in his right arm. He returned to his family in Oceanside, California, a changed man. "I couldn't relate to anyone when I first got home. I couldn't hold my wife or my fifteen-year-old daughter. I felt like I was stained. I saw blood on my hands. I had night terrors. I've been prescribed up to 13 medications a day in various combinations depending on my levels of anxiety and depression." After four years of intense therapy, sometimes as often as three times a week, he is coping better with his level four PTSD but still grapples with his "evil twins, general anxiety and panic attacks."

Early on he also knew his PTSD was affecting his marriage. While he sat paralyzed with anxiety and depression, his wife, Aiyana, was left to run the household and take care of everything from finances to children to pets. When John overdrew their bank account with his debit card, they decided she would give him a monthly allowance instead. By 2007 they were wise enough to get some marriage counseling. "There were only so many times that she could hear the same excuse, 'I've got PTSD.' We had to work through the issues. Now I have a weekly chore list I'm supposed to do, but I still forget about it, and that causes trouble." In the fall of 2008 John and Aiyana separated.

Today John is clear about who he is and what he wants to do. "I am John Medicine Bear Whitebow. I am of native indigenous ancestry from the Midwest, born and raised in California. My ancestral roots are of the Blackfoot, Yaqui, and Cherokee tribes, and I am a member of a non-federally recognized tribe. I am a descendant of medicine people, and I am also a medicine man. I have a vision to create a sanctuary where one can go to get away from the hectic lifestyle that modern life brings and become centered once again, where one can leave stress behind and seek the welcoming shelter of a sacred place that our Mother Earth has prepared for us.
To learn more about the Rainbow People's Medicine Lodge Sanctuary started by John, please visit: rpmlmedicinelodge.org.

http://www.rpmlmedicinelodge.org/

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The Sacred Pipe  "Chanupa"
Welcome to our Lodge!
Rainbow People’s Medicine Lodge. was founded in 2005. Located in the small community of Crestline, California.R.P.M.L. is an extension of other Medicine Lodges located in California, which have been in existence for many years.
The lodge represents a place for people attracted to the “Red Road” path of life, as well as a fullfillment of a vision and promise to a late Grandfather “Medicine Bear” Whitebow is the caretaker of the lodge here in North Las Vegas,Nevada. What is offered is the traditional teachings of the Red Path as it has been passed down through the generations. All of the lineage can be traced back through our Elders. We are a mix of tradtions as taught from various tribes as this is the way the teachings came through. We follow a basic code of ethics and do not wish to tread on other traditions or teachings. All Ceremonies are done in the way they were taught and have not been changed in order to keep the purity intact.’.

http://www.rpmlmedicinelodge.org/id5.html

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"Medicine Bear" Whitebow
AKA Bear
 
Care Taker/Ceremonial Teacher
Mato Wopiye (Medicine Bear) is a retired veteran; He Earned the Silver Star, Bronze Star w/Device, and was awarded the Purple Heart in 2004 after serving in the Army and being injured in combat.
 For many years he was a member of Heart Medicine Lodge as well as other Lodges throughout the southern California basin. He comes from Gabrilino/Tungva/Apache/Cherokee/Yaqui heritage. His teachings are varied from the Lakota Peoples, Mescalaro Apache,Cherokee, Yaqui, Arapaho, Kiowa. He is a traditional Pipe Carrier for the people and a ceremonial dancer, ordained minister, public speaker, has been featured in local newspapers and this last year had his personal story added to a book "Hidden Battles on Unseen Fronts".
As well he is the carrier of the Inipi ceremony, Medicine Wheel, Vision Quest,Water Dedication, Puberty,Making of Relatives ceremonies and many more. His healing teachings are passed down from generation to generation from a long line of Healer's/Medicine People, he practices crystal healings, pranic healing, and traditional teachings of the medicine peoples.
 His journey began at age 6, through the instructions of his first teacher Standing Eagle a holy man from the Arapaho peoples. He has spent time over the last 36 years with teachers from the Lakota Nation, Apache, Blackfoot,Cherokee to name but a few.

So how does a „Gabrilino/Tungva/Apache/Cherokee/Yaqui heritage“ go together with teachings „from the Lakota Peoples, Mescalaro Apache,Cherokee, Yaqui, Arapaho, Kiowa“? Plus a Lakota name and Lakota ceremonies? Or the earlier claim: „My ancestral roots are of the Blackfoot, Yaqui, and Cherokee tribes, and I am a member of a non-federally recognized tribe.“


Shuki Split-Feather Ben-Ami

An interesting addition at FWII, because Ben-Ami is apparently deeply involved with the Moonies, i.e. Unification Church:

http://www.tparents.org/library/unification/talks/flynn/Flynn-050422.htm
[My comment: „tparents“ is a front for the Moonies and translates as „true parents“, the title Moon and his wife go by in the cult.]

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Report on the NALA delegation to Israel March/April 2005
The April pilgrimage to Israel was attended by a delegation of four Native Americans including Fred Simpson, of the Alaska Tlingit tribe, George Akeen, a Cheyenne tribal chairman and medicine man from Oklahoma, Sue Senn, a Cherokee from Arizona working with the Peace and Dignity runners, and Dianna Uqualla, a tribal leader of the Havasupai residing with 300 others on the designated tribal land at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. We were, of course, joined by Shuki Split-Feather Ben Ami, our Native American/Jewish Israelite host.

Another entry claims he was „Hebrew/Lakota“:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Racism_Against_Indigenous_Peoples/conversations/topics/8579
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Dr. Shuki Y. Ben-Ami (Hebrew/Lakota)

Apparently, someone already researched Ben-Amis background before:

http://barthsnotes.com/2004/07/03/moon%E2%80%99s-mates/

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Standing behind Waldman in the picture of him provided by Gorenfeld (to our left) is Dr Joshua Ben-Ami (also known as Shuki Ben Ami and Shuki Yariv Ben-Ami). Ben-Ami flew from his native Israel to Washington for a press conference after the story broke, where he announced that only Moon has been interested in Israeli/Palestinian peace, so “I crowned, with my ten fingers, with white gloves, Father Moon, and I wish to do it again.” (Here on mp3). Unification Church press releases and other reports describe Ben-Ami as dean of the Emil Frank Institute in Jerusalem, afiliated to the University of Trier. The Trier Emil Frank Institute website makes no mention of this link (perhaps if someone could do a search in Hebrew more could be found).
Ben-Ami is also given the title of “President WMA, Israel” in this news report from Moon’s Interreligious and International Peace Council, where there is a photo. WMA is the World Media Association, another Moon concern directed by Mike Marshall, editor-in-chief of Moon’s United Press International. According to a Unification Church news report, Ben-Ami considers Moon to be the Second Coming, and at church events gives testimony “about giving Jesus the crown”.
I could not find out whether Ben-Ami is related to David Z Ben-Ami, founder of the American Forum for Jewish-Christian Cooperation, who has also made comments in support of Moon.

Although Unification Church claim Ben-Ami had a Ph.D., I could not establish any dissertation for him, just the publication of four books in 1992, 2003, 2007, and 2012.


Thomas Sasquatch Spirit

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/curious-times/2013/10/09/curious-times--thomas-sasquatch-spirit

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Thomas was  my first guest on Curious Times way back in the summer of 2011. He joins us again and we'll talk about Sasquatch and anything else that comes up along the way. Thomas is a most interesting man who for quite some time Hosted a show here on Blogtalk Radio.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-great-turtle-island
Thomas has been communicating with numerous Sasquatch since his first encounter in April 2008.  He has a wealth of knowledge about their existence and whereabouts.
https://www.facebook.com/thomas.hughes.946
Feel free to call in with any questions or comments you have about Sasquatch, or any of the other topics we may discuss.


So indeed the FWII membership has been a mix of white Nuagers, plastics, pretendians, and sellers of ceremony right from the start - with a few cult members (Scientology, Moonies) thrown in for good measure.


Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: AClockworkWhite on July 30, 2015, 01:05:35 am
I can tell you right now off the top of my head that the NALA delegation had at least two VERY non-qualified people claiming medicine status.

That lady Dianna (White Dove) Uqualla's brother is actually "Uqualla" and deserves his own thread if he isn't already on here. One look at this tells me he's an active fraud. http://www.uqualla.com/html/workshops.html

George Akeen is actually listed as a reverend of some unspecified church. A simple internet search turns up several instances where he is titled as such. I am checking on his claims of being a medicine man as I type this. Cheyenne medicine people, besides not being church people in any way due to the extremely contrary nature of that tradition, do NOT let anyone who isn't at least Native know who they are. And they certainly don't travel with a group of people to the mountains of northwest Arizona to become a medicine person for the Cheyenne and Arapaho of Oklahoma. Here's his corny tale: https://aclcnational.org/?p=2841 Note that is a church site, not a cultural site of any sort.
As far as his being a Chief, it's hard to say, although I do not see his name listed anywhere I've looked so far as being an official Chief. Sometimes Chiefs are not listed if they're culturally-based and not elected in the modern way.  I am checking with blood relatives there on all this.
Stay tuned.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Ingeborg on July 30, 2015, 10:31:15 am
We got a thread on James Uqalla:

Uqualla:
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4271.0

And an info on Unification Church aka the Moonies:
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2862.0


George Akeen is actually listed as a reverend of some unspecified church. A simple internet search turns up several instances where he is titled as such. I am checking on his claims of being a medicine man as I type this. Cheyenne medicine people, besides not being church people in any way due to the extremely contrary nature of that tradition, do NOT let anyone who isn't at least Native know who they are. And they certainly don't travel with a group of people to the mountains of northwest Arizona to become a medicine person for the Cheyenne and Arapaho of Oklahoma. Here's his corny tale: https://aclcnational.org/?p=2841 Note that is a church site, not a cultural site of any sort.

The ACLC is another Moonie front - here's who ACLC claim as their founders:
https://aclcnational.org/?page_id=1613

Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: AClockworkWhite on July 30, 2015, 06:34:37 pm
I just came across that about the Moonies. Thx, Ingeborg.

I was just told by a blood-relative enrolled Cheyenne who lives in the community there that Akeen is NOT a medicine man and they were told he is not to be trusted, nor that "church", in any way. My relative is a church person as well as traditional person (that side of our family is Dog Soldier descendant and have been/are still involved in very important traditional matters among the C&A), so that is huge for them to say. I know personal anecdotes are not evidence, but this relative is not a gossiper and has recently had reason to have proximity to him due to several passings that Akeen attended the services of. That is more than enough for me. As far as his claim of Chief status, that too I am working on. As I said earlier, many called that title aren't listed anywhere, and many times the title is bestowed at ceremonies that people do not publicize. But the fact that no one I asked could remember off hand whether or not he's an actual chief of any sort indicates that's probably BS as well.
 
And I didn't finish looking for Uqualla here last night, so thank you for linking that thread. I heard of him in passing but hadn't really researched anything about him yet. Some friends who performed dance shows near his tribal area told us about him and some of the weird things they were told by members of his own tribe. A lot of hear say, I agree, but as we see so often here, where there's smoke there is usually fire.

Amazing how linked in Phil Lane is to all this fraud!!!
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: AClockworkWhite on July 30, 2015, 08:48:40 pm
Was just told Akeen is legit one of the 44 Southern Cheyenne chiefs but is definitely not a medicine man and he definitely is not allowed to say even IF he was. He is not regarded very well by a large number of Cheyennes involved in the Churches and Traditional communities there.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Sparks on April 01, 2017, 11:18:04 pm
Starting with this post, Chief Phil Lane Jr. is now being discussed in this thread:

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4934.msg43588#msg43588

This old thread is also about Chief Phil Lane Jr.: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=60.0

And then he was mentioned in this long comment: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1516.msg9309#msg9309
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Diana on April 02, 2017, 12:29:49 am
Thanks Sparks. He's come up so many times with all sorts of frauds on NAFPS, I couldn't remember if we had investigated him or not. Looks like he's could be one of those DAPL cons. He needs another look-see.
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: kuljamu on May 21, 2018, 04:09:41 pm
Who is this person?
https://theshiftnetwork.com/course/IndigenousWisdom?_ga=2.134293297.1185481246.1526918440-527595200.1524239324&_gac=1.238208436.1525980298.EAIaIQobChMImrTbwu_72gIVgqDsCh24OA1rEAAYASAAEgJztPD_BwE
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Diana on May 21, 2018, 05:01:46 pm
Phil Lane Sr., we have a post on him here.

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2731.0
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Diana on May 21, 2018, 06:28:48 pm
 Oops! I meant to type Phil Lane Jr. not Sr.
Phil Lane Sr., we have a post on him here.

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2731.0
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Sparks on May 22, 2018, 10:41:11 pm
https://theshiftnetwork.com/course/IndigenousWisdom …

This link about Chief Phil Lane Jr. has not been posted before in this thread.

A very New Age site, with a total of 108 courses. I recognize names that have their own threads in the forum:

https://theshiftnetwork.com     https://shift.theshiftnetwork.com/courses
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Sparks on May 27, 2018, 05:35:56 pm
https://theshiftnetwork.com/course/IndigenousWisdom …

That post, with Diana's two replies, have now been merged into the present thread, starting here:

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2731.msg45054#msg45054
Title: Re: Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Post by: Sparks on August 26, 2019, 03:42:18 pm
In Canada, "medicine wheel" teachings, workshops, and orientations are very popular and seem to have become adopted, at least in urban settings, as practices reflective of traditional ways.  This can be traced to the development of "The Sacred Tree" curriculum model which was developed by Phil Lane, Judy Bopp, and Lee Brown in the early '80s.

These "medicine wheel" ways also seemed to have taken off out here on the West Coast following Sun Bear's forays into these territories in the early '80s as well.

Now more on phil. I never heard he was a chief. he is also associated with the notorious Four Worlds International Institute. Who produced the vile book called the "Sacred  Tree". a handbook for the for all new agers based on the fraudulent medicine wheel which severely  damaged a generation of Mi'kmaq and Maliseet and Passamaquoddy childeren, for more information on that see the post
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1161.0 (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1161.0) by Esteemed Maliseet Elder Andrea Bear Nicholas.
The book supposedly was created by  Elders from all over canada,  but i know most of them were Native-Bahai, which in itself is not troublesome, what was troublesome was this was the first book in canada to start the pan-indian spirituality, and i believe that Bahai beliefs were mixed in with the rest of the pan-indian  spirituality presented in this book. it was a cash cow that allowed them to create a cirriculum based on the book. Phil is a techie for hire as long as theres money involved.

Some know of his work with the Four Worlds Institute and as one of the authors of "The Sacred Tree"  which seems rooted in Sun Bear's teachings but is now presented throughout Canada as "traditional" medicine wheel teachings.

That book is now being promoted by Scandinavian neoshamans to gullible New Agers with this new link:

Quote from: https://www.fwii.net/profiles/blogs/the-story-of-the-sacred-tree-1
The Story of The Sacred Tree
Posted by Phil Lane Jr. on August 20, 2019 at 12:00am

The book is sold here (link not shown before in the NAFPS forum):

Quote from: http://www.4worlds.org/medicine-wheel.html
THE SACRED TREE
By Bopp, Lane, et al, English Edition, 82 pages, Paperback ISBN 1-896905-00-5
This beautifully illustrated book presents many of the universal concepts and teachings handed down through the ages in Native societies throughout North America concerning the nature, purpose and possibilities of human existence. The book uses the ancient symbol of the medicine wheel as a mirror which reflects not only what a person is, but also what they might become through the development of their potentialities.

I am looking for a serious debunking of the contents of this book. Anyone?