Is there anything even remotely close to Cherokee ways in what she does? Seems typical generic Nuage.
Satiama.com seems to be the ones at fault more than her, being almost a clearinghouse for fraud central.
This one appears with her at several Satiama.com sponsored events. Even more obvious, blond woman posing as African healer working with a number of frauds.
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http://www.ancestralwisdom.com/Biographies.htmlGretchen Crilly McKay is a sangoma and shamanic practitioner. She has studied with master healers Michael Harner, Tom Cowan, and Sandra Ingerman and apprenticed with Traditional Doctor P.H. Mntshali in Swaziland, Africa.
She uses the African divination system of throwing the bones to diagnose the spiritual issues underlying dis-ease and family patterns; provides shamanic healing through spiritual extraction, soul retrieval and healing with spiritual light.
Gretchen Crilly McKay
Sangoma / Shamanic Practitioner
African Bone Readings &
Connecting with the Ancestors,
Soul Retrieval & Soul Remembering, Extraction, Numerology,
Psychopomp, Sacred Ritual & Ceremony,
Herbalist & Aromatherapist,
Shamanic Teacher & Life Coach
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And this one seems fairly silly and self delusional.
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http://satiama.com/katherine-skaggs/#more-533As a shamanic practitioner and metaphysician, Katherine works with intention, Spirit, allies and nature, as well as breath, sound, art and shamanic techniques and practices.
Katherine is part of an advanced multi-cultural shamanic study. She enjoys traveling to remote areas to
learn from wise shamans of the indigenous worlds.
http://satiama.com/owl-medicine-blessings-by-katherine-skaggs/....I suddenly threw on my brakes and began to pull off the side of the highway. There were no cars around me which enabled me to come to a screeching halt to the side of the roadway, stopping and backing up some 100 feet or so. Denise didn’t know what was happening, and I kept saying, “There is an owl or some large bird on the highway…
I have prayed for 3 years for owl medicine to be given to me from Spirit in such a way…” Though
owl has been one of my animal totems medicine for this life, which I have recognized along the way, a blessing of an owl body in this way was big for me....
Denise and I got out of the car and found a beautiful owl body awaiting, no blood, no destruction, though clearly this one had given its earthly body over to a truck or some vehicle to bring us the Spirit of the medicine in an earthly form. Great honor and initiation were recognized as we asked if this gift of owl medicine was for us. A clear “yes” was heard and we began prayers, an offering of tobacco with a mapacho and recognition for the Owl Medicine of Spirit being given. We could barely speak we felt so moved by this event.
We pulled a black trash bag out of the car, which is unusual for me to have, so we could properly wrap our friend for her journey to ceremony in Santa Fe. There we would also have wise ones who could give us instruction on removing feathers properly, as well as the talons and how to dispose of the remains in honor and love and ceremony.
We put our friend into the back of the car and drove down the road, sharing our amazement and blessings, discussing the message and the medicine of owl.
Several more hours on the road seemed to disappear into timelessness as the owl medicine was being received deeply within our hearts, minds and personalities.
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Really? All these supposed cultures you supposedly studied under actually would think it a good idea that you take an owl carcass off the road, and you drive off with it in your backseat, laughing away and feeling blessed?
Seems like some of the "core shamanism" frauds teach that owl is a blessing rather than a fearful omen...
http://www.owlmedicine.com/about.html