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Dare Sohei & Animist Arts

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Sparks:

--- Quote from: fairbanks on June 29, 2022, 04:03:30 pm ---… Larissa Kaul (trained by Jai Medina at The Balanzu Way School of Shamanic Arts, who also has a thread on NAFPS).
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Jai Medina is here: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5222.0
[Jai Medina — Two-Spirit Shamanic Healing]

fairbanks:
I reached out to Larissa Kaul to see which Shoshone and Cherokee Elders she claims taught her (per website bio). The response was an explicit No, saying that I don't "relate well" and that she doesn't want me in their "field". I don't know what that means about being in the "field" but it sounds pretty new agey to me. Of course, when exploiters are confronted with their using of native elders to prop up their "animism ritual performance" business they can't even give you any names. For the unassuming buyer of these "animist" consulting services, all it takes is a simple line like "taught by Shoshone elders" to hook them in and fork out their hundreds of dollars per hour for services.

fairbanks:
More about Dare Sohei from his website: https://bodyaltar.org/acknowledgments

A new-age shopping mall mix from Daoism to Witchcraft to a "courtship with Indigenous medicine ceremonies and practices".


--- Quote ---is supported by my study in Steve Hoskinson's Organic Intelligence.
is inspired by the work of Shirley Turcotte's Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy.
arose out of my long courtship with Indigenous medicine ceremonies and practices.
is informed by the blessed teacher Liu Ming of Da Yuan Circle.
is guided by my friendship with my blessed mentor Henry who is trained by Victor and Cora Anderson's Feri Tradition of Witchcraft.
follows certain principles from interdisciplinary, dance and movement artforms/methods, such as Axis Syllabus, Authentic Movement, Devised Physical Theater, clown/bouffon, poetry and many forms of Improv.

I also trained in ancestral healing with Daniel Foor, though I am not offering their method of work due to issues I have stated publicly (link below). There are many effective paths toward practicing ancestral healing.
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Defend the Sacred:

--- Quote from: fairbanks on July 22, 2022, 05:11:25 am ---More about Dare Sohei from his website: https://bodyaltar.org/acknowledgments

A new-age shopping mall mix from Daoism to Witchcraft to a "courtship with Indigenous medicine ceremonies and practices".
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What a mess.


--- Quote ---... guided by my friendship with my blessed mentor Henry who is trained by Victor and Cora Anderson's Feri Tradition of Witchcraft.

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Victor Anderson admitted later in life that he based a lot of his "Feri Witchcraft" "tradition" on a freely mixed combination of Satanism, Appalachian folklore, Gardnerian Wicca, plus stuff he read about misappropriated/made-up "Huna".

Of course, he and his followers didn't know the books he read on Huna were fake ceremonies and "traditions" made up by colonists, so they were fine with the idea they were appropriating from Indigenous people. Other bits of "Feri" seem to have come from misappropriated Middle Eastern iconography, with is very ironic; they've cherry-picked deities from heavily patriarchal traditions and imported them into hippie feminist, often naked, newage rituals. They claim to be an "other-than-Gardner" Witch/Wicca tradition, but their ritual structure is the same as Gardner's made-up one he misappropriated from his ideas of Native ceremonies (four directions, four elements, casting the circle, etc).


--- Quote ---...follows certain principles from interdisciplinary, dance and movement artforms/methods, such as Axis Syllabus, Authentic Movement, Devised Physical Theater, clown/bouffon, poetry and many forms of Improv.

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Clowns and Buffoons. Well, they said it first.

It's performance art, not spirituality.

fairbanks:

--- Quote from: Defend the Sacred on July 22, 2022, 10:04:58 pm ---It's performance art, not spirituality.

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They do actually call their pay 2 pray BS, "performance-rituals" of "non-dual animism." I read on Dare Sohei's website that they "play with Indigenous world-views".

Sohei also claims to be Taino, maybe this is something we can look more into.

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