I found some interesting info on our dear Queen Mum or Royal Pain - oh, pardon: Royal Shame-On.
There seems to be a history of attempts of sliencing persons who seek to educate the public:
http://www.ligali.org/article.php?id=2105Fri 18 June 2010
Notice: Ligali faces Google censorship challenge
Ligali has received notice from Google that some of its published content may be censored following a copyright complaint sent by a representative of the Poo Naa cult
Over the last month the Ligali website has been the target of several online and offline attacks. This has included incessant blocked phone calls, our servers being bombarded with thousands of spam email, key news articles being deleted and hacked into and now the attempt of a covert legal attack through Google.
Whilst the identity of those behind the recent phone, hacking and spam attacks on Ligali is unknown, we have now obtained correspondence from Google with regards to an attempt to censor some of our content. We have copies of a letter that was sent by fax to Google on 15 June 2010 from fax no: 01580 752 8xx claiming Ligali is guilty of copyright infringement of literature produced by the Poo Naa cult led by disgraced messianic leader Khanyisa Amoo (real name unknown). [...]
The site also provides this info:
New Age Fraud
Ligali classifies the Poo Naa cult as a
manipulative group that through spiritual hustling preys on the spiritual and medicinal needs of the Pan African and other vulnerable communities. Our own investigation into its history reveals Amoo (then believed to be known as Kanysa Amoo) used to be the front person of a similar enterprise that originally started in Camden, London calling itself the Dagara Peace Commission for the Peoples of the African Diaspora (DPCFPAD). Amoo’s real name (DOB 2X/07/70) is unknown.
She claims to her followers/customers that’s she “comes from a long line of healers from Egypt who have always practised the ‘Amoon or Amoo’ path of getting to the light to find peace by cleansing all of the darkness within”. She also adds that
Credo Mutwa threw the bones for her in 1998 and gave her the name 'Khanyisa' which means ‘bringer of light out of darkness to find peace’” and that in 2008 she was “also given the name Pema Lhamo, after spending time with healers and Lamas in Nepal”
Ligali alleges that after failing her initiation for being of poor character and her unwillingness to modify her manipulative behaviour even after being the recipient of several attempts at corrective instruction from a world renown initiated elder, Amoo’s disgrace led to her finally being banned from ever returning to the Dagara people in West Africa by village elders.
She subsequently moved out of London to the rural areas before finally setting up and masquerading as a herbal, wellbeing and ceremonial sanctuary in Kent that abuses African and other indigenous spiritual belief systems for financial gain.
Our research also found several former ‘clients’ of the cult and those who have formally been in close relationship with Khanyisa who have spoken to us about the ‘evil’, manipulative and aggressive behaviour deployed by her devotees especially whilst working over vulnerable people or attempting to secure payment of cash for the cults alleged divine services and 'amazing' spiritual retreats.
Cult followers are charged several thousands of pounds for an apprenticeship, it is also believed that naïve university students have been coerced into using their student loans to finance her business whilst dropping out of study.
The cult also is involved in organising rituals with hallucinogenic DMT substances under the guise of “Ayahuasca ceremonies” which are unlawful in the UK. In a testimonial written by one of her business colleagues named ‘emma’ it reads;
“I can’t imagine what it would have been like to journey to the space I went to outside of a Ceremony but within the space with Rain Queen Mother I felt utterly safe and able to go through what felt like a death experience. During the Ceremony, Grandmother Ayahuasca told me that Rain Queen Mother was her sister, that her job is to heal the world’s people and that her work is fundamental to the shifts of 2012”
Whilst Ayahuasca, a botanical hallucinogenic brew used by indigenous people in South America, has legitimate medicinal purposes when administered by authentic medicine people in a traditional environment, its usage in the UK by Amoo and her followers during cash cow ‘spiritual retreats’ may qualify as an offence for possession, supply and illegal usage as a “Class A controlled substance under Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
In the research paper “Ayahuasca and Spiritual Crisis: Liminality as Space for Personal Growth” by Sara E Lewis she writes; “Although ayahuasca is an extremely powerful hallucinogen (see Callaway et al. 1999 for pharmacological description), its danger is not physical. It has been used for millennia and is not considered a toxic substance(Luna and White 2000); rather, potential danger is psychological in nature. Curanderos state they use the substance to leave their bodies, travel to spiritual realms, and engage with spirits. In a similar vein, many people (regardless of culture or religion) seem to have profound spiritual experiences when they drink ayahuasca. Although the ceremonies can be dif?cult to endure, people emerge feeling cleansed, revived, and empowered.”
Amoo claims her “Specialist GrandMama Ayahuasca Ceremonies are an unique opportunity for people to work with a Deity Healer” in the “Dagabah and Akan traditions” she also claims to uses the ‘Kontombles’ to provide spiritual justification for needing payment for cleansing rituals or to create long term fee paying subscribers to correct any ‘imbalance of labour’. From the now defunct raisingthedivinefeminine.com, one of the many websites of the cult that targets vulnerable African women, one such hustle reads;
“When we are sick or we feel that our life story is out of balance it is these Forces that a Mythic Diviner looks to, to see how a person has fallen out of alignment; and it is with these Forces that Rain Queen Mother, as a Deity child, gets in touch with during her Divinations on behalf of her clients.
Rain Queen Mother contacts her Kontombles to find out what Rituals the Deity Forces would have her client perform; what Prayers they would like the client to offer to them and what offerings the client can make in order to petition the help of these Deities so that they will come to their aid and assist them to change their lives, or help bring their life into perfect alignment. To achieve perfect alignment is to achieve Enlightenment. As with Buddhism you must work very hard and it can take many years or even lifetimes to achieve.”
Toyin Agbetu, is the founder of Ligali. He first became aware of the deceptive nature of Amoos activities after failing to be taken in after being exposed to a sham ritual and reading by Poo Naa in 2007. After ten years of direct service to community work he publically stepped down as the organisations head on 5 June 2010, retiring the front line campaigning side of the publisher. In response to these current attacks he said;
“As former head of the Ligali Organisation I did not always get it right, to those I may have wronged I am sorry, but my intent has always been one of striving for Truth and of dedicating my life in loyal service to African people worldwide. Not once did Ligali ever seek to exploit or manipulate our community for political power or economic gain despite having numerous opportunities to do so.
Today, Ligali continues to publish content that many believe is both educational and invaluable even if just as a historical archive. As many know, I am also a firm believer in the human right of expression and free speech, and will defend Ligali publishing against all attacks, from hacking to attempts at censorship, be the threat from government, racists, African, non African, personal and otherwise. It is my belief that our community does not need further conflict. To those that would seek to bring Ligali down I beg you please, please seek counselling, get some healing and let it go.”
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