… Eagle's Wing, which is a fraud outfit in England founded by the late exploiter Leo Rutherford.
Leo Rutherford is still around: http://eagleswing.co.uk/individual-sessions/leo-rutherford-individual-sessions/
… and now reported to do a workshop in Norway this spring: https://www.facebook.com/events/1766346403604525/
[Translated from Norwegian]: «The Medicine Wheel is an old tradition that has had a very great influence on the North American Indian culture. It gave in its time also inspiration for the American "Founding Fathers". Leo Rutherford, "The Godfather of British Shamanism", is Europe's leading promoter of this knowledge. It is with great pleasure that we invite to courses with this acclaimed capacity.»
See also: http://www.livstreet.com/kurs/2017/3/24/kurs-i-medisinhjulet-med-leo-rutheerford
[Translated from Norwegian]:
COURSE IN MEDICINE WHEEL
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the first course on the North American Medicine Wheel to be held in Norway. This is a several thousand year old knowledge that largely shaped the original Indian culture. A knowledge that both gives us an understanding of the Universe and its contexts, and guidelines for cooperation and development of society. Our oldest democratic ideas are sourced from here. The Medicine Wheel also gives a deep insight into the human mind, and shows which roads and pitfalls there are on the path to self-realization. The Medicine Wheel encompasses the major questions while giving practical guidance in daily life. It is an incredibly good tool for those who seek greater insight and understanding of their own and others minds.
After the whites almost ruined Native American culture, this knowledge went underground and was through generations only shared with initiates. It was first made known to the public through the books 'Seven Arrows' and 'Lightningbolt' of Hyemeyohsts Storm.
The European who above everyone else knows the Medicine Wheel best is Leo Rutherford. Not without reason is he called 'The Godfather of British Shamanism'. Leo has over 30 years experience both as a psychotherapist and as a shaman. He has, among others, been trained by Hyemeyohsts Storm, the legendary Michael Harner, Harley Swiftdeer, Sandra Ingerman, Gabrielle Roth (trance-dance), Felicitas Goodman (trance postures), Jean Houston, and Sun Bear. He has also gained a lot of knowledge in Peruvian shamanism from Alberto Villoldo and don Eduardo Calderon, and in African shamanism from Malidoma Somé.
He has led courses in England since 1985, trained many who today are practicing shamans, has accompanied many groups to Peru, and led over 300 Sweat Lodges. He has written four books:
- Principles of Shamanism / Way of Shamanism
- Shamanic Path Workbook
- The View through the Medicine Wheel
- Spirituality versus Religion
Leo is a very talented, inspirational and inclusive teacher. He speaks a clearly understandable English.
[In English at the above-mentioned site]:
HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS
Medicine Wheel maps of relationship. With Leo Rutherford
When we go somewhere new, the first thing we usually do is find a map to help in plotting our course. But have you ever had a map of life? I didn't until I discovered the Medicine Wheel - and what a difference it has made!
You can put any life issue or question onto the Medicine Wheel and once you find it's correct 'sitting place', the wheel will show you what energies are working and what they are doing – and therefore what to address in order to change and heal the issue.
The Medicine Wheel is a series of interlocking maps of life and shows us the forces that operate on us from all directions. The wheels are circles of power and knowledge, ways of knowing life and its cyclical and circular nature.
'Medicine' means vital force, it is anything which brings personal power, power over our self, the ability to respond to and to consciously co-create our life. The Medicine Wheel is not a belief system It guides us to steer a good heart-full path through life's many challenges and vicissitudes.
The Twenty Count, also known as the Childrens' Count because it was a way children were taught, is the foundation wheel and shows the forces of the Universe and how they compliment and oppose each other.
The Seven Arrows are a map of how we make ourselves miserable and how to get out of such spirals of self destruction to a place of happiness and rejoicing in life.
This workshop will give you new ways to understand your self and your life and new ways to deal with the challenges that life sends you. It will include shamanic drum journeys, ceremonies and other experiences which will enable you to feel into the messages taught by the wheels and how they relate to you. It will open the door to a much greater sense of personal empowerment and possibility.
The Star Maiden's Circle is the central circle of the Twenty Count and is the circle of human life and development.
All those "teachers" who are named are well-known to me and to this forum. Hyemeyohsts Storm is frequently mentioned in the forum, but I found no separate thread on him. I'd like to recommend this excellent article:
https://www.psiram.com/en/index.php/Hyemeyohsts_Storm
My main reason for posting here is to ask if there is as much as an iota of truth in these descriptions of the "Medicine Wheel"? Is there any recent and decent scholarly work tracing the New Age origins of this concept? If it really is "an old Indian Tradition", can it be traced back in the history of any Native American Nation?