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J.-Michael Kohfink/Kalagin aka Tacansina Kalagin aka Tacansina Miwatani
Ingeborg:
These are a few more site of Tacansina students, most of them offer ceremonies, too:
http://www.wonka-cocata.de/index2.html
This gentleman goes by the name of Wonka Cocata (votever zis meanz). His site, however, is
still under construction but already gives his name and 'title':
"Wonka Cocata - medicine man"
http://www.bluemlinger-praxis.de/per.html
The site belongs to:
Frank Blümlinger
Naturopath, Psychologist (Diploma)
68723 Plankstadt
Excerpt from his intro:
--- Quote ---"Shamanic Work is accompanying me now for more than 12 years. Since 2004, I am a member
of Canglesa Takata following the Indian medicine path of the Mandan, and a student of the shaman
Tacan'sina Miwatani.
I carry a medicine bundle and they call me by a medicine name: Orgato me (Who walks his
path)."
--- End quote ---
http://www.lichtblick-netz.de/lichtblick/neuesnetz/mast_name_ang2.asp?id=441
This site advertizes events with Blümlinger:
--- Quote ---"May 31, 2008
Healing Sweatlodge, 1 day seminar
healing, Indians, nature experience, rituals, shamanism, sweatlodge, transformation
FEE: € 50 plus voluntary donation
June 26, 2008
Spiritual Journey to Power Places at Schwaebische Alb
earth harmonizing, adventure journeys, Indians, journeys to power places, meditation, nature
experience, rituals, shamanism
seminar of 4-7 days
from: June 26, 2008
to: June 29, 2008
Thursday 8:30 a.m. to Sunday 6 p.m.
FEE:
normal: € 195 plus accom (about € 25-30 per night incl breakfast)
early bookings: € 180 (booked before March 1, 2008)
August 30, 2008 Night Sweatlodge
healing, Indians, nature experience, rituals, shamanism, sweatlodge, transformation
from: Aug 30, 2008
to: Aug 31, 2008
start Sat 5.30 p.m. till Sun 11 a.m/open end
FEE:
normal: € 50"
--- End quote ---
This is a Swiss site:
http://www.vierwinde.ch/45101.html
As an aside: yes, this translates as "Four Winds"
This project is run by "Daniel and Sylvia"
Daniel's intro closes with the words:
"mitakuye oyasin - (Lakota, pronounced: mitakoodshe oyassin)"
They are selling ceremonies:
http://www.vierwinde.ch/39101.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id*val*
--- Quote ---"INIPI CEREMONY
in the tradition of "Tacan'sina Miwatani" Lakota Indian"
Date: Sat, September 13, 2008
Time: 2 p.m. to approx 9 p.m.
Fee: SFR 90 per person"
--- End quote ---
Either Daniel and Sylvia happen to be inattentive students and made a mistake about Tacansina
being Lakota, or they did hear a different story.
Another student selling seminars:
http://www.visionsunlimited.de/
From her bio:
--- Quote ---"I was born June 19, 1964 in Berlin as Birgit Musielak. [...]
It is of special importance to me to offer seminars during which the first place is devoted to support
persons in their personal development. And I would like to enable like-minded persons to meet
each other.
For this, I founded Visions Unlimited.
I received the name of Soma'ate (Walks to the Sun) during my Indian Vision Quest."
--- End quote ---
Ms Ate Soma - errm: Soma'ate wants us to inquire in person about seminars and their date, place,
and price tags.
http://www.ruth-zellfelder.de/ruth.htm
From her bio:
"- Since January 2004, I am a student of Tacan'sina, shaman of the people of Numakaki-Mandan
(North America)
- Initiation as a healer"
Her real genuine Indian name (TM) happens to be Wahcawin. Ms Zellfelder, too, offers various
ceremonies and healings, but wants customers to inquire about date, place, and fees.
http://www.wurzerin.at/ich.html
"Initated as
- sweatlodge leader
- teacher of the Cosmic Laws for children
- Keeper and Carrier of the Chanunpa (sacred pipe)
- student to become an Indian medicine women (carrier of medicine bundle)"
The real genuine ndn names she received are:
"Mato Tau Win - Woman to whom the bear came
Wi Sunali - Morning Moon"
http://www.wurzerin.at/angebot.html
Here's her price tags:
"Building and using a medicine wheel
At Ybbsthalerhütte
May 29-30, 2008, EURO 90,-
incl. accom for one night, dinner and breakfast"
http://www.indianergruppe.de
"Our Indian group has put up our tipi in the Sauerland region.
Kept lovingly by Lioba and Hopá Thee.
Walk the red path together.
Since 2008, there is a supporting training group in the Sauerland region, "Stone Circle".
The name "Hopá Thee" seems quite in line with the garbled fake ndn names handed out by
Tacansina. The gentleman's real-life name is a rather unspectacular 'Norbert Lehmann' according to
the site's imprint. Lehmann's site offers four links, the first being to the Tacansina site, the second
goes to the site of Christian Wuenstel (Tacansina student), while the third link leads to the site of
Susanne Tampier-Neuhaus-Schwermann:
http://www.colour-stone-spirit.de/Ueber-Mich.html
Her training has been Reiki and Aura Soma stuff mainly, but there is also this entry:
May 2007: meditation seminar with Shaman STANDING EAGLE
(who has been mentioned at NAFPS before)
July 2007 visit to FINDHORN COMMUNITY, North Scotland
Here's Lehmann's virtual 'business card':
http://www.indianergruppe.de/pageID_5325687.html
--- Quote ---Hopá Thee Modoc people
is the Indian name of Norbert Lehmann.
He received it in May 2007 during a vision quest from his Indian ancestors.
Transmitted and accompanied by the shaman Tacan'sina. The name means in
translation
"I come to you"
Hopá Thee views his work in the Here and Now as his task.
Mitakuye oyasin A How ! ! !
I come to you, too.
For info regarding prices and additional cost please follow the link.
Individual work - dream journey - or please inquire directly
SMS or mobile 0160 9494 xxxx or mail.
--- End quote ---
http://www.indianergruppe.de/pageID_5351446.html
various 'Indian group' events posted, some with a price tag, some without, e.g.:
July 12 + 13, 2008 Indian group Hopá Thee + Lioba € 150,- Transformation weekend
For those events coming without a fixed price, the entry says 'donation'; when you click at the word
'donation' [Spendenbasis], a new page opens with a lot of nuage garbage about giving and taking
which ends with this remark:
"Many thanks for your backflow which at the same time for us is a measure for what we pass on", i.e.:
the more you give, the more valuable you see what we 'teach'."
This is another Tacansina student selling sweats as well as ndn style craft he does. Part of his site is
very interesting as it offers an impression of the stuff Tacansina teaches: e.g. reincarnation, which is
no ndn tradition. Apart from that, a lot of stereotypes get applied in his 'teachings', too, some of
it quite blatantly racist:
http://www.wonkawolf.de
The following text is translated in excerpts:
--- Quote ---"This is the life story of Wonka, 'Who comes from the wolf'
It happened about in the time during the years 1850 and 1880.
My name is Wonka. I am 'He who comes from the wolf', from the tribe of Blackfeet [sic]. Our peoples
live as warrior tribes on the north-western Prairies along the Rocky Mountains. [...]
One day, when I toured through the mountain world of the Rocky Mountains, I happened to spot an
Irish trapper. The Blackfoot [sic] were feared for their being very aggressive, since they attacked
almost everything walking on two legs and downright slaughtered everyone not belonging to their own
tribe. So I attacked this imposter immediately with the aim of killing him.[...]"
--- End quote ---
http://www.wonkawolf.de/wonka003.htm
--- Quote ---"Presently, I live in Bavaria near the town of Landshut with two sleigh dogs, 'Nuits' and 'Cheyenne'.
I own a vast estate there which is in part forrest. Because I felt isolated from nature in the house, I have
built a wooden hut near the forest where I spend most of my time. As soon as I open the door, I get
into contact with plants and animals around me.
Under the guidance of the shaman Tacan'sina who is my friend, we built an Indian medicine wheel
there which was activated by him. Thus a power place has been created which is open for every
person seeking aid and advice, and at the same time it serves for earth healing through the energies
which come into being through the sacre medicine wheel.
In April 2001, during a sweatlodge ceremony, I was asked by Tunkashila, the granfather from the spirit
world, whether I was willing to accept the post of a sweatlodge leader. Since I am very intent on living
the Indian Way actively, I accepted, and then was initiated by the shaman Tacan'sina who led the
lodge.
In September 2001, I visited the old homeland of our souls with Tacan'sina. The Canadian Rockies.
We came to Lake Louise, where the two of us had lived at the same time and traveled on to Maligne
Lake, to visit Spirit Island. Tacan'sina led us to a large clearing at Lake Maligne where he built a
nature's altar to do a ceremony.During this powerful ceremony, I was asked by the ancestors of my
Indian incarnation, whether I was prepared to continue the medicine of my ancestors and to learn the
knowledge and the sacred rituals. I accepted in order to continue right where it stopped in earlier
times.
I am very intent to help people seeking aid and assistance in our times, therefore I am very grateful
for the trust the spirit world has in me and that this door has been opened for me to be a shaman
student and learn sacred knowledge.
I often get asked where my Indian approach and way of life comes from and since when I was this way.
Since I am able to think, I have been attracted to what is Indian, and the more I do this, the more
opens up and the freer I get.
Those who know do not need to doubt any longer.
I think it is all connected to my last incarnation, in which I lived in the Rocky Mountains as a Blackfoot
Indian.
[...]
--- End quote ---
Mr Wolf also sells sweats:
http://www.wonkawolf.de/wonka004.htm
"It is up to the individual whether they enter the sweatlodge naked according to ancient tradition,
whether they wear swimsuits or a loincloth, or whether they wrap in a large towel.
[...] I do the ceremony following the tradition of the Lakota Indians. I have been called as a sweatlodge
leader by the spirit world and have been initiated by the shaman Tacan'sina. Therefore I am
authorized to conduct this very ancient sacred Indian ceremony.
Dates: Every Saturday prior (or at) new moon
Time: 6 p.m. (end approx 12 p.m.)
FEE: € 30,-
Here's a few interesting photos:
http://www.wonkawolf.de/wonka005.htm
"Wonk's" arts & craft shop:
http://www.wonkawolf.de/wonka006.htm
Another student offering ceremonies:
http://spiritonearth.de/5/Willkommen.html
"Welcome between heaven and earth with
THATÉ NA OKH??TE – 'The Wind blows and is hot"
[translator's note: Once again this appalling preference for - errm digestive processes... The
connotations are exactly the same in German language, btw. German folklore also has a saying
about the deadliness of winds both hot and silent, and on the other hand, about a person letting out
hot air when talking rhubarb. Certainly, this preference displays a degree of anal fixation - or
probably makes apparent a certain sadistic streak in the person giving those hilarious names]
"Thaté na okháte (pronounced: Tkhatay na Ok-khahte [pronouciation adjusted]) has an academic and
therapeutic training, has been working with people for 22 years, since 14 years works in clinic and own
office as a healer, experienced in the emerge of psycho-somatic diseases and their cures."
[translator's note: Mr Hot Wind had a company setting up his website for him, but according to info
given on the site, wrote all the texts himself. He seems to prefer speaking about himself in 3rd person]
Next to a Canglesa Takata Logo (TM's very own business), there is the following text:
"For the last eight years, he has done an additional training in cures of ancient peoples. During a
vision quest with the shaman Tacan'sina, he received the Indian name Thaté na okháte (pronounced:
Tchateh na Okchahte).
Following a call from the spirit world, he was initiated as an inipi leader (spiritual sweatlodges), a
Chanunpa carrier (sacred pipe), in High Healing, and to a medicine bundle carrier by the shaman
Tacan'sina. Offers Indian cures in the tradition of Canglesa Takata, spiritual sweatlodges, various
seminars and events described in more detail below."
http://spiritonearth.de/51/Impressum.html
In accordance with legal provisions, Mr Hot Air has to provide his real name and address and we
learn that in real life he (again very unspectacular) is called Stefan Schmidt [i.e. Stephen Smith].
Here's shame-on Hot Wind's price tags:
http://spiritonearth.de/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8&location_id=50&topicid=3
Seminars "Energetic Self healing", July 18-20, 2008 in Handloh
[...] This course offers a simple and practical approach and takes place from Fri, July 18 (6 p.m.) to
Sun, July 20, 2008 (2 p.m.)
Two nights' accom necessary, because we will build ip an energy within the group which will remain if
we stay together for the weekend. Accom will cost between EURO 18 and EURO 34, food will be EURO
42 for the weekend. The fee for the course is EURO 200. Patients receive a rebate of 10%."
Zashaitdia:
Wow, this twinki is way out there. I don't know where to begin, with so many errors and just plain bull shit. 1. I am Mandan (Nuita, as we call ourselves) 2. I think he was trying to say Numakgagi which means Mankind 3. We were never in Canada not back then not now
He speaks of ceremonies that we never had and does not speak of ones that we do have. I would like to bring this ass hole to our tree and pierece him Mandan style with buffalo skulls hung from his back, arms, and legs, while suspended in mid-air. We'll see how much he thinks of Mandan Spirituality then. How shameful and disrespectful this person is.
porkypine:
--- Quote from: Zashaitdia on July 03, 2008, 07:22:41 pm ---Wow, this twinki is way out there. I don't know where to begin, with so many errors and just plain bull shit. 1. I am Mandan (Nuita, as we call ourselves) 2. I think he was trying to say Numakgagi which means Mankind 3. We were never in Canada not back then not now
He speaks of ceremonies that we never had and does not speak of ones that we do have. I would like to bring this ass hole to our tree and pierece him Mandan style with buffalo skulls hung from his back, arms, and legs, while suspended in mid-air. We'll see how much he thinks of Mandan Spirituality then. How shameful and disrespectful this person is.
--- End quote ---
I think the name 'hot air' says it all... lol
Gus 1:
I thought it is about time to set a few things right. Nobody seems to notice that a few facts are simply not told as they are, but as somebody likes them to be seen.
Quote:
"Tacan'sina is a descendant of the Numataki-Mandan. The Mandan lived in North Dakota/USA and
Canada. His greatgrandfather was a shaman and one of the last Mandan to survive the epidemics in 1837."
And you should probably learn how to read your own quotes, Ingeborg!! In the quote it says very clearly "greatgrandfather", it is you who makes a "grandfather" of it!!
Apart from that: Tacan'sina is a descendant of the Numakaki-Mandan, not the Numataki Mandan!! I am just telling you, because you think it is so important how words are being spelled. See below!!
Quote:
"How can someone *go back* to *his* people when in fact he goes to meet someone for the very first time?
Another aspect is that apparently TM assumes his grandfather to be extremely long-lived, if he was to be a
survivor of the 1837 epidemics. It is, however, even more unlikely that said grandfather, even if born not
earlier than 1837, should have been alive in 1997 - at the age of 160! Apparently, simple mathmatics is not
among TM's talents, nor does it seem to occur to his 'scholars' here in Germany. Well, either that, or the
Guiness Book got an entry wrong."
Simple reading does not seem to be among your talents, Ingeborg!! Because how else is it to explain that you apparently don't know the difference between a grandfather and a greatgrandfather?
As you see, the Guiness Book has nothing to do with it.
Maybe we now see a few hasty corrections made on this site!
Quote:
"- canglesa takata
According to TM, this is the name of his very own 'medicine path'; TM says it means 'Circle of Future'.
However, 'canglesa' is not to be found in Lakota/Dakota, while 'cangleska' exists and means 'circle'. 'Takata'
again cannot be found in Lakota/Dakota, while there is the word 'tokata' which means 'future'. I again predict
hasty adjustments at TM's website once he has read this entry. "
I have been told there are no spelling laws in Lakota. And that there are many dialects. Therefore words naturally are being pronounced in different ways, as you probably noticed in German as well.
What great difference is there anyway between "takata" and "tokata" ? Or between "canglesa" and "cangleska"?.
Quote:
"According to information obtained from former students of TM, he is not able to speak any ndn language, and
even his command of the English language is modest, despite his claim of having lived with his grandfather
for seven years and having been trained by him to become a medicine man. His attempts at pronoucing the
few words of Lakota and alleged Lakota were said to be deplorable, so e.g. he mispronounces his name
as /takann seena/ or /takann zeena/ which is far from correct, and also mispronounces the term 'tunkashila'
badly."
I was just wondering, how could the so called former students know that? Where did they get their knowledge from so they can judge his lakota pronunciation?
Have you ever heard of bullying? In Germany it is called mobbing.
The way you are talking gives me the impression there is more bullying to it than seriously proofed information. Or hearsay from what you call former students. Your way of arguing is far from correct or fair. Also would I call it slightly polemic!!
You apparently never talked to Tacan'sina himself. It is very easy to tell stories behind someone's back!!
Superdog:
Hi Gus, welcome to the board.
Just a question about your friend. Is he really advertising spiritual services for sale??
Just to bring you up to date, the one thing that can be agreed upon across the board with Native spirituality practices is: They are not for sale.
If he's doing these things he's in the wrong and that's the point of this forum. Whether he's legitimately American Indian or not.....that practice isn't allowed and it's agreed upon that people who sell these ways (whether they're Indian or not) are in the wrong and 'cause way more harm and damage than good.
Just wondering what your thoughts are Gus. I'm not saying your wrong for standing up for a friend. I'm giving you a chance to speak for him.
Does he advertise his services?
Does he charge a fee?
If so, how can this be justified??
Superdog
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