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General => Frauds => Topic started by: Madalaine on March 29, 2015, 07:08:28 pm
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Madalaine, Pixie's stuff is all made up, she invented it, based on New Age b.s. that is already out there.
"Bear Who Dances with the Sky" = Irene Skau = another fraud:
Irene is a certified Reiki Master and Ortho-Bionomist. She is a pipe carrier, initiated into this sacred responsibility and prayer practice by her teacher, Blue Bear Medicine Woman. She carries on her teacher's legacy of teaching, healing, and sharing the ancient Lakota and Cherokee tribal medicine traditions with all people. Irene has also studied under Lynn Andrews, Michael Harner, and Timothy "Whispering Eagle" Aguilar.
In addition to one-on-one healing work, Irene offers long-distance healing, Soul Retrieval and Sweat Lodges. She facilitates women's healing circles and hosts weekend medicine retreats and Vision Quests.
https://www.facebook.com/events/298211983539278/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/298211983539278/)
In regards to heritage claim:
The Choctaw Lighthorse were the Tribal Police my grandfather was employed by in the late 1800’s, the appointed peacekeepers on the reservation.
http://www.pixielighthorse.com/hello-world/ (http://www.pixielighthorse.com/hello-world/)
Do you know Pixie's maiden name? We can keep researching her, but I believe this is an easy call, Pixie's teachings are fraudulent.
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Thank you Piff, your reply is much appreciated.
Unfortunately I don't know her maiden name, I have never heard/seem her mention it. I will see what I can find out.
What you found out about "Bear Who Dances with the Sky" = Irene Skau, is interesting. I did try to find her real name, but had no luck, thanks for that.
It seems so strange to me that either she is not aware of her appropriation or chooses to ignore it. She comes across as someone who is really interested in helping people, I want to believe that she isn't just doing this to make money/fool people...I think she genuinely believes what she is doing is a good thing, fooling herself I suppose?
Anyways, I will no longer be studying her courses that's for sure.
Thanks again!
She could stop with the shamanism completely, and refocus on art as creative expression for women.
Maybe she likes viewing herself as a woman who helps others and she is not willing to face the fact that she is appropriating.
Even if she has Choctaw heritage, what she is doing is not Choctaw, and is not an excuse for what she is doing.
Glad you are not participating anymore. :)
I wonder what she would say if asked about appropriation issues.
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She also lists Brooke Medicine Eagle and Sandra Ingerman on her "Resources" page:
http://pixiecampbell.com/resources
Brooke has her on thread on NAFPS here:
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=581.0
Sandra Ingerman is (or was) married to Michael Harner. They both are mentioned many times on this site. In order to read what is written about them, go to the Home screen and then type in their names in the search box.
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I have asked her about appropriation and this is her reply (I feel kind of bad posting this as it is a private message, but I need to get to the truth):
Madalaine, I have to face this every day in my work. Being native and being taught a number of different ceremonies and rituals to honor my medicine and the medicine of the Earth, appropriation comes up. I handle it by consulting with my teachers and elders and I send my vision quest women to work with a medicine woman trained in that particular ceremony. I do not hold ceremonies that belong to a culture or tribe I do not hold membership in, or wear traditional dress, nor do I make medicine that is not given to me by the earth in my locale unless invited to.
So some questions we can have before giving her any money, taking her counsel, accepting her guidance:
What does she mean by "being native"? That is a very general term. We get to ask for specifics. Is she enrolled in a federally recognized tribe? If not, what is her actual heritage? How distant? Is she involved in the day to day community of her people?
Who are her "teachers and elders"? If they are real, actual, they have names, who are they? If they are vision dream elders and teachers, Pixie needs to be clear on this.
Who are her "vision quest women" - does she mean parts of herself?
Is the reference to a "medicine woman trained in that particular ceremony" referring to a dream figure in her own psyche? If this is an actual "medicine woman", she would have a name.
We have a thread here on Middle aged White Women (I'm one myself) and on how we can stop playing pretendian and find healthier ways to live. http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3651.msg30821#msg30821 (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3651.msg30821#msg30821) I think Pixie is an entitled white woman playing NDN.
Pixie sounds like she is claiming that she is special. She has special insight, special connections to the spirit world, special heritage, special abilities. That claim of "special" can be a red flag.
You may see another side of her now, as she feels questioned, she may feel defensive, you may feel like you are doing something "wrong". But questioning, researching, and making good choices is an excellent pursuit. We are adults, we get to apply consumer awareness skills, we get to think things over.
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Just to add: I have asked her what her maiden/birth name is and she replied "These are rather personal questions." so I'm thinking she isn't going to tell me...
Yeah, sounds like she has already closed down. Her birth name could possibly help with genealogy, might be able to find out if she has an actual NDN grandfather. But I'm thinking she does not, or at least was not raised in that culture.
If I had a Choctaw grandfather, I would be able to tell people the names of my parents and grandparents, easily, because it would be part of being a community member. But I would not be using my heritage to appear special, I would not use it to sell anything.
So Pixie might be wanting it both ways. She wants to benefit from marketing herself as NDN, but she doesn't want to live in her NDN community and culture. If her grandfather was Choctaw and she went to his community, she would of course need to be able to answer questions about who she is. That should seem normal to her, not as a bad challenge.
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Thank you Piff, you have been incredibly helpful! I will see if I can put those questions to her...but I feel she is already starting to get a little defensive. Hopefully I can keep a dialogue going with her. Will update here when I find out more.
Thanks for bringing her to our attention. I live in the Pacific NW so am especially interested in pretendian types out here.
Pixie is already defensive, that tells you a lot right there. You are doing consumer due diligence and she already can't handle it. Not a good sign.
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Holy Crap! SHe really likes the green stuff. I mean $1199.00 for three days in a shared tipi???
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Her name was Cherie Carr Campbell, she has a Facebook under that name. So the "car clan" she was initated into would be her birth surname Carr.
Edit and correction: I'm wrong on this one, the "clan" under discussion is the "scar clan"
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It is a common fraud trick, to claim in every way possible that they are special shamans, but then to say that they never said that.
She claims she is a "documented member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma" ( http://pixiecampbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/SouLodge-Medicine-Animals-Totems-e-Guide.pdf (http://pixiecampbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/SouLodge-Medicine-Animals-Totems-e-Guide.pdf) ), if she means she is enrolled, that means:
There is no blood quantum requirement for obtaining a CDIB or Tribal Membership as long as you can connect to a direct descendant of yours who was enrolled on the final Choctaw Dawes Commission Rolls by blood. You may live anywhere to be eligible to vote.
http://www.choctawnation.com/services/departments/enrollment-cdib-and-tribal-membership/ (http://www.choctawnation.com/services/departments/enrollment-cdib-and-tribal-membership/)
http://www.okhistory.org/research/dawes (http://www.okhistory.org/research/dawes)
Application includes genealogy information. So if Pixie has done this, she would be familiar with being asked who her people are.
Even if she is Choctaw, what she is selling is not Choctaw. So why has she branded herself this way? Likely to stir up more interest, gain more followers, and make money.
The Choctaw Lighthorse were the Tribal Police my grandfather was employed by in the late 1800’s, the appointed peacekeepers on the reservation.
http://pixiecampbell.com/blog (http://pixiecampbell.com/blog)
This is interesting wording, she doesn't outright say that her grandfather was a tribal policeman. She says he was employed by.
She was born in Bakersfield, California, she refers to it as "little Oklahoma", that is accurate historically. http://articles.latimes.com/1992-10-18/local/me-622_1_san-joaquin-valley (http://articles.latimes.com/1992-10-18/local/me-622_1_san-joaquin-valley)
I figured out her name by combining her name used now with her birth place Bakersfield, that led me to whois info http://website.informer.com/Cherie+Campbell+Pixie+Campbell.html (http://website.informer.com/Cherie+Campbell+Pixie+Campbell.html) and her Facebook.
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Many of her photos show herself with eyes closed, I assume this is supposed to indicate that she is a "mystic".
She has long dreadies now, there are photos out of her earlier without dreadies. I wonder if the choice of hair style has to do with wanting to appear "ethnic".
Pixie looks to be charismatic. She is charging a hell of a lot of money and looks to have a lot of active followers. Some comment threads on her sites are very involved,many women responding with outpourings of emotion and personal information.
Pixie doesn't want to be questioned, this is not a good sign.
She could strip out all the shamanic New Age cult-leader-in-the-making stuff and stick to teaching art. She could do women's art classes in a nice environment, charge a reasonable amount. She could drop all the therapy, life coaching type talk.
She could earn a degree in occupational therapy, art therapy, psychology - something academic along those lines. Then she would have a community of her peers, she would follow developments in psychology, she would be held accountable by licensing, occupational professionalism etc.
But she would not make an outrageous amount of money at this. She would not let her students put her on the wild woman mystic pedestal. She could not claim to be anything more than what she is.
Paying a lot of money to go to a beautiful place, given attention, guided in doing different creative things, being praised and told that you are seen and truly understood - this is all going to make women feel different. But all this can be done in a safer, cheaper, non-exploitative manner. We don't have to follow mystic pixies.
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Borrowing from cultural traditions can be a very serious business, particularly here in our Native America.
http://pixiecampbell.typepad.com/pink_coyote/2012/01/becoming-a-shaman.html (http://pixiecampbell.typepad.com/pink_coyote/2012/01/becoming-a-shaman.html)
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Thanks again Piff, all very interesting and eye opening.
Do you think it is worth me seeing if she will answer the questions you previously posted? Or do think anything she has to say (if she replies) is unlikely to justify what we've uncovered here?
If you want to, you could invite her to come talk with us here.
She wasn't forthcoming with answers to your questions already, so probably she won't do much better with further questions. I hope you definitely don't feel pressured to get more from her, this isn't worth the stress, we already have figured a lot out.
She is an advocate of core shamanism. A good essay on this here:
My personal message to them would be that I hope they come to see three main points:
1) It is not only wildly inaccurate, it is also disrespectful to try to lump together literally tens of thousands of different tribal beliefs together under "shamanism". Not even most Siberian peoples use the term.
2) It is frankly wishful thinking to try and pretend:
a. a haphazard bunch of practices stolen from tribal traditions...
b. by an unrelated collection of lost people...
c. usually led by those who often got their "advanced" training at a weekend seminar...
have any similarity whatsoever to tribal traditions that are:
a. built up over many generations with great care b. by people with common lineage and culture
c. led by tribal elders who are trained for DECADES, not over a weekend.
To me the "shamanism movement" is more accurately termed the would-be shaman movement, or in the case of many of its more exploitative leaders like Michael Harner, the pseudo-shamanism bunch.
3) In the end, "core shamanism" is wishful thinking, a way of justifying theft of tribal traditions and practices by falsely claiming they are "universal". Outside of incredibly broad things like belief in a deity or afterlife, that just isn't ever true.
And incidentally, they should realize that Michael Harner is a pariah to both his former profession, anthropology, and to Native people.
I also welcome any questions they care to send me, or any discussion on the forum.
Dr. Al Carroll
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=236.0 (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=236.0)
Pixie's writings are rather New Age and confusing, so I don't know that we will get a clear answer about her heritage. She is claiming she is a member of a Nation, this is a big deal, in that it isn't some vague nebulous trip. She is either lying about that, or she is a member and is doing her own New Age thing, hoping to use her heritage as a way to brand herself as special.
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Okay, Mads, another deleter! You had second thoughts? Or did she threaten you with libel?
Before you delete this also, I thought I would copy this from your introduction thread:
Hello, my name is Madalaine (you can call me Mads) and I am from and live in England, UK.
For many years now I have felt like I am missing something in my life, a connection to the earth and spirituality. The last year or so I have been looking into different forms of spirituality and have come across shamanic practitioners online with online courses etc. which at first I found really interesting and considered doing some of their courses, in fact I have done a couple of courses with one 'shamanic practitioner' (I will make a post about them in the 'research needed' section). But something has been nagging at me inside, something telling me that these 'shamanic practitioners' aren't as authentic as they try to make themselves out to be.
So, I started thinking that I should look to my own roots. I have been researching druids, and came across the The British Druid Order (http://www.druidry.co.uk/)- again at first I thought great! Maybe I am finding my way. So I bought one of their courses, but on reading it I find that because their is little information on the Celts/druids they have to 'borrow' spiritual practices from other spiritual groups...so once again I am left feeling disappointed.
On my search for authenticity I found this forum and I have to say my eyes have been well and truly opened to just how far from authentic these 'new age shameons' really are - even the ones who truly believe what they are doing is genuine.
And the person you had doubts about, and which was the original name of this thread was Pixie Campbell, who now goes by the name Pixie Lighthorse. I just like to keep to the "integrity" of the thread as much as possible.
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Thanks, mods, for restoring the title of the thread.
Pixie talks about the Scar Clan which she was "initiated" into:
During the process of honoring my grief, I was blessed to be surrounded by a pack of elder women who made a healing space around me with their love, knowing and compassion. They had the life experience to know that my transition required the care of other women, and so I was initiated in a very special way to the Scar Clan, and blessed with innumerable teachers who are with me still today, guiding me along this sometimes dark path. It takes me back many generations and beyond, into the cosmos and into the core of existence itself. I was able to experience rites of passage which are non-existent in western culture today.
(bolding mine)
In the email from Pixie (which was deleted by Mads), she mentioned that the Scar Clan was an idea of the author Clarissa Pinkola Estes. This is what Dr. Estes has written about the Scar Clan:
Members of the Scar Clan
A river of tears is one of the strongest evidences of a "crash and burn" initiation into the Scar Clan.
Scar Clan is part of an ageless tribe of human beings, not defined by geography, racial color, national affiliation, nor language.
-- Scar Clan membership comes from having lived through a great something, which, in some way, has forced, cajoled, seduced one into believing a promise of a nourishing and honorable thing, but then those were denied, souls misled instead, bled-out spiritually.
-- Scar Clan is made of tribal members who have been spiritually assaulted, insulted, imprisoned, long embattled in some unjust way. Scar clan is made of those who cry out, but no one hears; those who are heard, but not listened to; not responded to in effective healing ways.
-- Scar Clan includes those who have suffered being in the midst, unrelievedly so, of others' ongoing sufferings, yet have somehow managed to maintain sanity and deep heart, despite lack of both sanity and heart "by others for others."
-- Scar Clan membership comes to those whose hearts have been carved deeper by registering fully, instead of turning away, who have been in the line of fire instead of protected, thereby being charged ever after to follow both a burdened and compassionate pathway for life.
-- Scar Clan members bear pain in seeing how some fight to maintain the ruins of power rather than using bare hands to rescue the brilliant lights lying buried under the rubble.
-- Scar Clan is a gigantic group of souls who are in the midst of healing self and others, who at least halfway have reset their own bones, who still move with standing-room-only heart, despite certain fragilities that come from scar tissue aching at unpredictable times, many years after wounding.
-- Scar Clan in this tribe, despite stuns and harms to spirit, despite white bandages still trailing, despite shards in the heart, still stands. Still rise. Still carries warmth. Still will not be stilled.
Thus, when the great "they" question why such upheaval was brought to the church in 1962, asking why did the pope convene a Vatican Council instead of just more letters to cardinals and bishops with only local effect...
http://ncronline.org/blogs/el-rio-debajo-del-rio/scar-clan-lost-story-vatican-ii
It is from her book "Women Who Run With the Wolves" (which I have not read), and she seems to speak about the Scar Clan in the context of Pope John XXIII, so it seems like a stretch to me for Pixie to say she was initiated into the Scar Clan and to put it on her website (just MHO).
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Thanks Autumn and mods for this, good we can keep the important info.
I went back and corrected a post with the info that the supposed clan in question is the "scar clan".
Pixie of course has the right to make money, she has the right to create her own brand. We then also have the right to critique her products and brand.
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Raising Kings Boot Camp: Honoring Men and Boys with Golden Eagle
The key phrase for this session is SACRED MASCULINITY
Shamanic journey
http://pixiecampbell.com/raising-kings-boot-camp-honoring-men-and-boys-with-golden-eagle (http://pixiecampbell.com/raising-kings-boot-camp-honoring-men-and-boys-with-golden-eagle)
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And only $79! Cheap! It's all virtual and live too. :P
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And only $79! Cheap! It's all virtual and live too. :P
Yeah, the "live virtual course" bit, how does that work? This will be customers staring at their computers for her videos. She lists "Shamanic journey" as one of the forms that "Boot Camp content" is delivered.
The focus of this course is to find new ways to perceive and honor the men and boys in our lives, as well as to draw upon the inspiration of those who have dedicated their lives to the study of men’s rites of passage.
So this is"mythopoetic men’s movement" stuff, which can be learned about for a lot cheaper than $79.
Iron John: A Book About Men, by Robert Bly
Men and the Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of Men, by Michael J Meade
Check out copies for free through a public library, or buy used copies online. For instance through Amazon you could buy used copies rated in "very good" condition for pennies, plus shipping, total about $10.
"Guided meditation" and "journal prompts" - easy enough to find books on meditation and on keeping a journal. Book lists can be found online, like http://www.menstuff.org/books/byissue/mythology-general.html (http://www.menstuff.org/books/byissue/mythology-general.html), along with reviews and criticism of the mythopoetic movement.
People interested in "Shamanic journey" can read Michael Harner.
Informed readers can then make wise choices, including deciding to not appropriate cultures.
By paying $79 customers get Pixie's packaging of all this, plus membership in her own personality cult. Because personality cult is what is left when everything else is stripped away.
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Raising Kings Boot Camp: Honoring Men and Boys with Golden Eagle
The key phrase for this session is SACRED MASCULINITY
Shamanic journey
http://pixiecampbell.com/raising-kings-boot-camp-honoring-men-and-boys-with-golden-eagle (http://pixiecampbell.com/raising-kings-boot-camp-honoring-men-and-boys-with-golden-eagle)
Ick.
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Raising Kings Boot Camp: Honoring Men and Boys with Golden Eagle
The key phrase for this session is SACRED MASCULINITY
Shamanic journey
http://pixiecampbell.com/raising-kings-boot-camp-honoring-men-and-boys-with-golden-eagle (http://pixiecampbell.com/raising-kings-boot-camp-honoring-men-and-boys-with-golden-eagle)
I read her website page and was trying to figure out why "Golden Eagle" is part of the course name. It doesn't really come up on the page other than the phrase "Sacred Masculinity".
Here is what Wiki says about Golden Eagles:
Because of the nature-based culture, religions and lifestyles of the people living there, eagles were often even more prominent in ancient North America than in Eurasia. The eagle is a sacred bird in some of the cultures there and the feathers of the eagle are central to many religious and spiritual customs, especially among some Native Americans in the United States and First Nations in Canada, as well as among many of the peoples of Mesoamerica. Some Native American peoples revere eagles as sacred and the feathers and other parts of bald and golden eagles were prominent possessions amongst tribes. Feathers are often worn on Native American headdresses and have been compared to the Bible and crucifix of Christianity. Eagle feathers were also used to construct prayer sticks, doctors’ rattles and medicine pipes. Per Thomas E. Mails: "in the mind of the Plains warrior in the 18th and 19th century, the male golden eagle flew above all the creatures of the world and saw everything. Nothing matched his courage and swiftness, and his talons had the strength of a giant's hand. The eagle was very holy."
(my bolding)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_eagle
Other than the use of Native American sacred symbols in her course, she is also into the royalty theme, since the purpose of the course is "Raising Kings" and the women who supposedly would be interested in getting the men and boys in their lives enrolled in the course are willing to "share the throne with you".
http://pixiecampbell.com/raising-kings-boot-camp-honoring-men-and-boys-with-golden-eagle
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Answering my own question here, I discovered that all of Pixie's Boot Camps have an animal attached, so I guess she is into Totem Animals.
January 12-23 New Year Boot Camp: Journey Circle and Intention Setting with Horse
February 9-20 Parenting Boot Camp: Sacred Little Agreements with Coyote
April 13-24 Prosperity Magick Boot Camp: Manifesting Abundance with Buffalo
May 25-June 5 Raising Kings Boot Camp: Honoring Men and Boys with Golden Eagle
http://pixiecampbell.com/soulodge-boot-camps-2015
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Pixie is providing a case study of Nuage. Her branding and marketing choices are all lined up with that market. She writes eloquent, verbose b.s.
On her bio page she claims she has "LOTS" of "animal allies" and "power totems".
Along with the royalty theme here she has the miliaristic thing going on too with the "boot camp." All I suppose in order to market this to white midlife women who want their men and boys to be King Eagle Soldiers. Or something. So we women can sit on our colonizer thrones and play shamans.
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Something that is very disturbing to me about Pixie is that in the letter that Mads had posted (which she later deleted) I recall that Pixie stated that we are lacking "integrity" in today's world.
I really question Pixie's "integrity".
In the video titled "Better Parenting with Coyote," she stated that she had a "Master Certificate in Parenting Coaching" from the Institute of Professional Parenting.
http://pixiecampbell.com/blog (about 3.15 mark on the video)
This is the organization she was referring to:
http://www.theparcfoundation.com/
I emailed the organization to find out if they offered a Master Certificate in Parenting Coaching and this was their reply:
We do present a Master Parent Certificate in parenting, not in parent-coaching. In order to be a coach, you have to be under our auspices, and you have to have taken correction and attended relationship skills workshops until we can certify that one has excellent interaction skills, as well as parenting skills. I only saw her parent once. I didn't recall that Pixie Campbell became a Master Parent, but I'm sure she did if she said she did. I don't remember her being around that long. We can look into it, but she did not receive a certificate in parent-coaching, and I didn't see any outstanding parenting to make me think she was headed in that direction.
(Since it was an email to me, I am not posting the name of the person who responded, but if anyone wants to PM me, I will give them the name.)
IMO, if Pixie wants to sell parenting classes, that is her prerogative -- but she should not claim to have special qualifications which she does not have. After all, she has her "integrity" to uphold!
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Good work Autumn.
I noticed that Pixie has cover images on her pixiecampbell.com site of rune stones and some sort of animal cards. The animal cards used are the Jamie Sams Medicine Cards.
Jamie Sams is discussed elsewhere on this site. Yells At Pretendians says the cards are to blame for a lot of b.s. Pixie is a living example of this fact.
Despite Sams's changing backstory, the newage white women love her. It's very common for hippie enclaves to have a women's group that use her books as gospel. Her pan-NDN/Nuage "Medicine Cards" are to blame for much of the b.s. out there about "Animal Totems."
Yells At Pretendians
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=688.msg34423#msg34423 (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=688.msg34423#msg34423)
This "virtual, four-part, foundational certification program for the student" http://www.pixielighthorse.com/soulodge-earth-medicine-school/ (http://www.pixielighthorse.com/soulodge-earth-medicine-school/) includes:
Creating Relationships with Animal Medicine & Spirit GuidesPixie Lighthorse Medicine School
This module will introduce how a healer embodies her animal spirits and also accesses information from Non-Ordinary Reality in order to retrieve, interpret and apply it in the modern culture. Students will be required to utilize journey and trance states as a portal to higher visions and guidance for themselves and/or their clients. Practical application includes journey, movement, embodiment, song and effective dialogue technique with guides. Ethics/language about how to interpret and relay information is a vital element in this section.
The entire program costs $599. There are no refunds.
Refunds are not offered on this course. Please be certain of your commitment when you register.
Pixie writes a lot about integrity and ethics but that does not automatically mean that she has integrity or applies actual healthy ethics.
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Thanks, Piff, yes, it is classic New Age.
I don't know if Pixie's photographer is also a student of hers, but she sounds exactly like Pixie:
Her name is Morgan Wade.
I am a daughter of the natural world.
Part pixie, part yogi, Native American blood runs through my veins,
gifted to me by grandmothers and fathers. My feet are bare, my hands are in prayer,
and most days there’s hip-hop playing and a dance party going in my kitchen.
Camera in hand, standing on the same sacred ground as the women I photograph,
I offer you permission: Meet yourself in your wildest heart. Somewhere in you, it’s there:
the battle cry of your Soul.
http://www.morganwadephoto.com/blog/aboutmorganwadephotographer/
I'm Morgan Wade.
I hail from the deserts of California but have found home in the mossy forests of the Pacific Northwest.
As a photographer and a woman, I'm inspired by what is Natural; be it Love, Truth or the Wild running through us all.
I photograph women coming home to themselves & develop visual branding for creative entrepreneurs.
http://www.morganwadephoto.com/blog/
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Morgan Wade is a "coach" too http://www.morganlovesyou.com/coaching-pricing/ (http://www.morganlovesyou.com/coaching-pricing/) Both Morgan and Pixie say they are pixies and Native Americans, without identifying tribe. (I'm personally getting weirded out by all this "pixie" stuff. :) ) Most likely they hope to sell more things by claiming they are NDN.
Pixie Campbell herself didn't make any friends in this discussion of a cartoon about hipster headresses, she commented:
Are we still on about what someone's ancestors did to my ancestors? Seriously. Live in Kindness, in the Present. Walk in Beauty. Aho, Mitakuye Oyasin. The End.
http://jenmust.blogspot.com/2010/03/native-appropriations.html (http://jenmust.blogspot.com/2010/03/native-appropriations.html)
Anonymous responded:
pixie campbell, your attitude of "just forget the past" is exactly what this picture is addressing. youre talking about ignoring an issue addressing people that are still alive and well today. So take some of your own advice and live in kindness, but how about respecting the past instead of living in the present, or should i say living in ignorance..
Pixie Camapbell, as "Medicine Keeper," aka, the lady who's spending big time + energy using her Native Roots to fool white ladies into thinking they have permission for cultural appropriation because they have a Native Guru or Native Friend, I'm not surprised on your take up there.
Anyone who takes the time to research you will see that you are teaching work directly lifted from your teachers, and taking public credit while stealing the heritage of those learnings from your students by not acknowledging the source. Nice. Keeper indeed.
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I'm a card carrying American Indian (at least part of me is legit) who wears dreadlocks and suffers a mild form of Yiddish Turrets.
http://pixiecampbell.com/2010/12/medicine-bundles-mad-rant.html (http://pixiecampbell.com/2010/12/medicine-bundles-mad-rant.html)
(I assume she means "Tourette's".)
Doesn't everyone have a tribal ancestry from somewhere? Don't we all share a primitive undercurrent handed down thousands of years to each of us, they whose customs were so similar in many ways though continents divided them? Does it forward our connection to each other and to Creator to continue to loiter in the past and fingerpoint? Don't some of us who live on this continent naturally jive with the vibe of the history of this land and it's people?
Blood does matter a great deal to some who are preserving an extinct people and their ways. I understand, and I honor it as sacred. And I don't know very much about it, as I was not raised in a household that showed me the sacred way, so let it be said that I only know what I know right now, what I've been taught by my teachers and the Earth Herself.
Extinct?
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I have just watched this video about Prayer Ties (https://vimeo.com/29931711) that Mrs. Campbell made a few years back. It's almost innocuous the way she smudges, throws in a 'namaste' with a Lotus Bud hand mudra now and then, and talks about Coyote. I could almost write this off as just being flaky New Age spirituality, if I didn't know that people did not want their traditions mixed up and diluted by strangers in this way.
Do you want to guess how I found this video? I was searching for information about 'prayer ties' with Google to educate myself about just what Martin Renaud is doing in the videos over in this thread (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4718.0). All I was looking for was some general information on the practice, but I ran into another Plastic. I can see how people can get ensnared by them; they are just everywhere! :-\
Is there something we could do to bury these kind of fraudulent ads way down in a Google search so that they would get less hits from the public? (I mean legally, of course.)
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Pixie does try to appear unique, but her framework is the usual fraud.
I'll start a thread down in Etc. for a search results discussion.
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Sandra Ingerman is (or was) married to Michael Harner. They both are mentioned many times on this site. In order to read what is written about them, go to the Home screen and then type in their names in the search box.
For the record: I have watched Harner and associates develop their shamanist commerce for more than 30 years. I cannot find confirmation that these two were a married couple. That has also been claimed elsewhere in the forum, and I asked this question:
I just asked a question about the relationship between Michael Harner and Sandra Ingerman in these two forum threads:
Michael Harner and The Way of the Shaman (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1117.0) & Harner's Foundation Becoming a Cult? (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=161.0)
Does the poster claim that Michael Harner at that time [2004] was married to Sandra Ingerman? At the time of his death almost a year ago, his wife, Sandra Harner, was clearly a different person than Sandra Ingerman. I remember clearly there was much to find about Michael Harner and Sandra Ingerman cooperating and referring to each other, now that kind of references are hard to come by. What happened?
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According to Alameda City, California records, he in fact married Sandra Dickey on 16 Jul 1966. I have found no record of Sandra Dickey and Sandra Ingerman being the same person. Attaching the record. Hopefully the attachment works.
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According to Alameda City, California records, he in fact married Sandra Dickey on 16 Jul 1966. I have found no record of Sandra Dickey and Sandra Ingerman being the same person. Attaching the record. Hopefully the attachment works.
Thank you! I can see the attachment. I will quote you in the topics I referred to in my previous post, so that this misinformation will not be perpetuated in this forum.
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Thanks Sparks! Both for bringing it up (again) and putting it where it needs to go.