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Title: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: educatedindian on December 08, 2005, 04:51:46 pm
Claims to be Purepecha. But his name seems to be Nahua/Aztec. There are reports he held sweats in England where participants were forced to take peyote and not allowed to leave the lodge.

Also a painter.
http://web.uccs.edu/library/el%20pomar%20art/tekpankalli.htm
"Tekpankalli is a Purepecha Indian from Michoacan, Mexico, where he was born August 4, 1954. Most of his work is in Chicago and Mexico City, but his murals have also appeared in National Geographic and Américas Magazine.... The artist, Tekpankalli, was married to a former CU-CS student, Virginia Alvarado (deceased)....
Today Mr. Tekpankalli lives in Michoacan, Mexico, and is no longer doing any painting. He travels all over the world, conducting ceremonies with indigenous and non-indigenous peoples and focusing his energies on the Peace and Dignity Movement. This movement is based on the Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor in which the Native Nations reunite as one. Tekpankalli is the spiritual chief (Roadman) of the Native Church (Sacred Fireplace) of Itzachilatlan and President of the Condor and Eagle Confederation. He is also a Sun Dance Chief ordained within the Lakota Territories of the Rosebud Sioux"

Listed by an NAC site
http://www.utah-nac.org/nacindex.html
Native American Church of Itzachilatlan and the Western Hemisphere and Affiliates
         Aurelio Tekpankalli Diaz
         9726 S Hickory Crest Palos Hills Illinois 60465
         (719) 256-5155
         Aurelio T. Diaz, President
        (708) 599-4599
         Leticia Zavala, Secretary/Treas.

Works with other questionable characters and outright frauds, plus some I don't know about.
http://www.siberianshamanism.com/inglese/1997report.html
"THE CIRCLE OF  UNITED TRADITIONS
In the month of March 1997 we received the information that Nadia Stepanova and Where the Eagles Fly had been invited to an interreligious meeting organized by Lama Denys at Karmaling in France during the visit of H.H. the Dalai Lama.... Immediately we saw some well-known faces: they were the representatives of Tuva, a Siberian republic of shamanic faith adjacent to Buryatia. Kantchyyr-ool, President of the Tuvinian shamans, had met Costanzo Allione in Tuva....
During our meeting in France the Bonpo had words of high recognition for Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche....
Nadia Stepanova explained that she was the first person after Perestrojka who had the courage to announce publicly she was a shaman....
The two Mexican representatives, Aurelio Diaz Tekpankali from the Purupeska tradition and the elder Tlakaelel of the Atzec tradition, explained that only five years ago they obtained freedom to practice their own religion. They had been persecuted for five hundred years !
The Bonpo explained that they are the representatives of the traditional religion of Tibet that derived from the mythical reign of Shang Shung, whose existance many Tibetan question, but in which the Bonpo firmly believe .
A very moving testimony came from Dick Leichletner, President of the Papuan Council, a native Australian, he spoke of the law of the white man that in his country has replaced the original law of his people, one of the most ancient people on earth....
Since the first day a very warm communication arose between Nadia Stepanova and the North American delegation. Historically the American "Indians" could have arrived to America from Siberia passing by the Bering Straits or viceversa as explained, Morgan Eagle Bear, great grandson of Geronimo from the Apache Nation....
Other very moving presences at the meeting were two elders from Canada and Alaska: Grandmother Anna Haala, of the Tlinquit Nation and Grand Mother Sarah Smith of the Mohawk Nation....
Tlakaelel performed his ritual from the Aztec tradition: the Medicine Wheel....Sparky Shooting Star helped us to understand the rituals that Mary Thunder and Chief Jeffrey Hubbel performed during the meeting.
Another participant at the meeting was Don Hilario Chiriap of the Shiuar tradition who was born and grew up in the Amazon jungle of Equador. Together with his "brother" Aurelio Tekpankalli he performed a beautiful ritual.... Nadia Stepanova suggested that each delegation of the Circle could write a list of the power places and holy sites that belong to their tradition to publish a world map of these holy places."
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: piya on March 19, 2006, 11:21:17 am
It seems this guy is associated with a group here in the UK called " Red Path ".

I have been looking into them for a while after Ric sent me some details.

Seems they operate around Glastenbury and in Wales, unfortunately I have been unable to get any response from them as to meetings etc.

The group, seems to be run by a Claire Edwards (Pipe Council), Fiona Shaw who conducts the Sweats and a Michael ? who conducts other ceromonies.

Apparently Aurelio was due to be in England for ceromonies on the 11th March at a field in Somerset, again I could not get access to details so I could pay them a visit.

However they ste that:

One of the prayers of Aurelio and the Vision Council is that of an alliance with the tradition of the Santo Daime. If you are interested in Santo Daime works then contact Rex and Alaea beijaflor@supanet.com 01792 371421. Over 14th-16th October they will be hosting a weekend of spiritual works in Wales with Padrinho Paolo Roberto from Brasil.


If anyone has more info on this group please post the details or let me know.

Steve
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: AndreasWinsnes on April 03, 2006, 11:49:16 pm
When I was a newbie, I unfortunately attended a Peyote-sweat lodge with John Tindall who has a herbal medicine shop in London. He cooperates with Aurelio. A friend of Tindall told me that he had been forced to stay within the lodge even when he panicked and wanted to get out. Here is a link:

http://www.yuantmc.co.uk/healing/temcamp.htm

If I remember correctly, ? friends of Tindall said that he had done the Sun Dance, and done the hooks... without being prepared, so he ended up in quite a bit of pain. I wonder how he was allowed to do this. ?  

Aurelio, Tindall and Vincente was building a center in Spain the last time I heard, and they have a project teaching acupuncture and Qi Gond to a tribe in Columbia.

I apologize for attending a sweat lodge without cheking out of if this was proper for a non-native.

Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: piya on April 04, 2006, 04:02:37 pm
I followed the link, to the telephone number. Gave them a call, only to find an answer machine.

I left a message saying who I was, with my number, and I would like to attend.

Somehow I don't expect a reply, but you know, I have some spare time, so I think I will go and visit. Anyone in the UK wanna come along
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: AndreasWinsnes on April 04, 2006, 06:07:41 pm
I have lost Tindall's address, but found it on the Inernet:


The Green Healer ?
7A Clapham High Street
London
SW4 7TS
tel: 020 7720 8181

Registered PRACTITIONERS, TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE Herbs Acupuncture Massage, HERBAL PHARMACY Genuine, Lab Examined Chinese Herbs, YUAN CLINIC - John Tindall - Hepatitis C HERBALIST

Ask him what he thinks of giving Peyote to children or lying to the police if one gets caught. If you talk to him, please say hello from me.

Is it justifiable to write the above on a public web page? I have thought a lot about this question. I don't want to be a snitch. Some harnerists may object that Tindall showed me confidence, and now I betray it. But he invited me and a friend not only to partake in the sweat lodge, but also to talk about arranging ceremonies in Norway. So we traveled from Norway to London, used about 300 pounds each as I remember, but we never got a chance to talk to Tindall because he traveled to Sweden after the sweat. So much for confidence...

I decided to tell this story after I read that several people have died because of sweat lodges arranged by incompent persons. Not doing so, would have been unethical.


Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: piya on April 07, 2006, 10:03:04 am
I have heard back from the Yuan Clinic in London, Tindall's secretary says I should call him at his Spanish home where he is at the moment. ( Seems his job!, pays well ), and talk with him about the Native American Sweat. If anyone would like to call him I have the number.

The fact is this is a definate fraud, and if peyote or any other halocegenic substances are used, this is most definately DANGEROUS.

Maybe John Tindall should be put under the fraud section now.
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: Cetan on April 13, 2006, 10:16:11 pm
I remember hearing about him a while ago - He was supposedly the intercessor at a Sundance in southern Illinois where from what I've heard from very reputable sources many strange things were happening.  I also heard that his wife died after he put her out on a "vision Quest" in Mexico for 7 or 10 days.  He clained to have been taught about the NAC by a relative of mine but my relation says he only met him a few times and he has no business feeding anyone medicine
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: Bryant on September 29, 2006, 07:46:59 am
I am just now browsing the website of this siberianshamanism.com site and I am already seeing little red flags. First of all, as far as I am concerned, anything that involves the Dalai Lama is suspect from the gitgo.

The first thing I noticed was that one of the VIP's of shamanlandia worldwide is Ani Choying Drolma - who, I am sure is a nice lady, and I know she is a lamanist nun, but she is mainly known for her CD's which are a mainstay of newage world music for neoshamianism buffs. She never set out to be any sort of a self promoter. She just happened to be one of the singing nuns at a lamanist nunnery when a western guitar player with a new idea for a world music project showed up and recorded her and her sister nuns there, and then he added some guitar riffs to it, and a rythm section or whatever, and the rest is show business history. So, the point is that they seem to be more interested in fluff than in substance with choices like that.

Another thing that has me a little confused is what are these Bonpo doing there since it should be clear that they cannot stand the Dalai Lama and, according the the Trimondi's, they would not be shy about saying so. They consider the lamanists to be nothing but brutal oppressors who subjected them to centuries of persecution, having rose to power as quislings of the Chinese.

I stumbled onto these seeming contradictions just at a glance. I am not through!

Bryant
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: Bryant on September 29, 2006, 08:01:12 am
Looking through this website, I can see that there is a collection of people from different cultures who likely do not have the wherewithal to see that could be used as props, sort of, in the hands of the organizers of these events wherein whatever they are doing or represent is coopted and fit into something that has little to do with their own activities or desires. I also think that, in the case of some of the Asian shamans who are part of this - these people, because of the various eras of persecution - have lost parts of their roots, and in seeking to find them, they are getting way too much input from outsiders who are influenced by newage paradigms. So you might have someone who was born into a shaman family, but received no training, and now they are searching around to find their roots in ways that at times just do not suit them very well, it seems.
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: Bryant on September 29, 2006, 08:23:28 am
La Ley de Cultos, dictada en 1937, no se ha reformado y ha permitido la calificación de los más disímiles grupos religiosos. Por ello es que entre el ministro de Gobierno y la Conferencia Episcopal Ecuatoriana se han cruzado sendos proyectos de reglamento a la Ley de Cultos. Hasta que este instrumento legal no esté aprobado se habría detenido cualquier trámite o solicitud de nuevas iglesias y cultos, aunque oficialmente se dice que las carpetas continúan en estudio. La última en ser aprobada fue la Iglesia Nativa Americana de Itzachilatlan del Ecuador. Este grupo religioso agrupa a los llamados shamanes, que ofician los ritos indígenas de curación y adoración a la naturaleza. Tiene sedes en los países andinos, en México, Centroamérica y Estados Unidos. http://www.sectas.org.ar/ecuador.html

The Law of Cults, dictated in 1937, has not been ammended and has permitted the qualification (legalization) of the most disparate religious groups. Because of that, between the Government and the Equadorial Bishops COnference they have crossed paths with weighty projects of rulesmaking regarding the Law of Cults. Until this legal instrument is approved they should have held up whatever solicitation or application of new churches and cults , although officially they say that the files are still being studied. The last to have been apporved was the Native American Church of Itzachilatlan of Eduardor. This religious group groups together the so-caled shamans who condunt the indigenous rites of healing and nature worship. It has centers in the Andean countries, in Mexico, Central America, and the United States.

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By the way - and correct me if I am wrong - but the Native American Church is a bible based religion, is it not?
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: Bryant on September 29, 2006, 08:59:37 am
this guy is connected with a bunch of idiots with made up names and declarations about them being sort of the world spokesmen for indigenous people worldwide, and they carry on about the Aztec religion and Aztlan, try to act like they believe that everyone is set on using the Aztec calender for now on, and other stuff which amunts to sort of like a catalog of favorite neomexican newage staples. The thing that really nailed it for me was when they were taking about the connection between what they claim is an Aztec rite and the Cinco de Mayo celebration. It is sort of shocking that they actually passed themselves off as official representatives of the "Indian Nation" of the entire Americas in a session of the UN, and then went on to tout their brief speech as an official document of the UN now, as if that somehow gives them the imprimatur of that organization.

Besides that matter, I would like you all to take a look at this and tell me if this is not unabashed newagerism:
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Ehecatl
El Viento de Aztlan
Primavera Xihuitl Nahui Acatl Spring
2003

Indigenous Peoples Peace Initiative
Year 4 Reed, Day Two Crocodile
Wednesday, March 12, 2003

Izkalotlan, Aztlan

Emerging from a three day traditional gathering of Indigenous Nations and Pueblos, a legation of Indigenous Peoples initiated today a global Indigenous Peoples Peace Initiative intended to restore the principles of yectlamatcayetoliztli (PEACE) as a mandate of humanity from the future generations. The proclamation was made from the NAHUACALLI, Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples located in Phoenix, Arizona.
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*Embassy of the Indigenous Nations and Pueblos* ?!! What kind of pretentious crap is that?

Let me mention one thing. I know a lot of Nahua speaking Indians, and they have no use for newagers thinking that they are somehow reviving the culture of their ancestors or claiming that it has survived secretly somehow. It is lost, and there is no chance of reviving it other than by way of forming folk dancing groups and such, because their religion has completely disappeared. In addition, the pretend religion that they are erecting in its stead is simply a hodgepodge of new age notions staubed onto a hollywood style vision of indianism - sort of an aztlan orientalism.
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: educatedindian on September 29, 2006, 03:34:16 pm
That embassy is about five minutes walk from where I used to live in Phoenix. They seemed a fairly serious and dedicated group to me. They held fundraisers and sponsored speakers having to do with Chiapas, NDNs facing violence in Colombia, Peru, etc. Never met them, but some of the local NDN activists sometimes worked with them. They gave themselves Nahua (or what they thought were Nahua) names, but then again I've had Mexican students whose parents named them Xochiquetzal or Cuahtemoc. I'll take that over Mexican kids named Tiffany and Trevor any day. (Yes, I've met those too.)
It seems to me much more in line with Mexican nationalism that assumes Aztecs are stand ins for all NDNs or even all Mexicans.
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: debbieredbear on September 29, 2006, 04:25:19 pm
Bryant asked:

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By the way - and correct me if I am wrong - but the Native American Church is a bible based religion, is it not?

Some are some aren't. I know a Roadman who is Christian, but his wife isn't. They both belong to the NAC.  I think probably half NAC members are Christian and half aren't. I have been to both kinds of meetings. One led by a Christian and one led by a non-Christian.
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: Cante on January 23, 2007, 10:46:55 pm
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By the way - and correct me if I am wrong - but the Native American Church is a bible based religion, is it not?

There are two types of ceremonies, the Half-Moon and the Cross-Fire (or Big-Moon). The Cross-Fire has elements of the bible, the Half-Moon doesn't... But the Half-Moon is the more common of the two.

btw - IMO, Aurelio Diaz is another scammer. This is how he introduced himself in a speech: "President of the American Native Church of Itzachilatlan, heir of several native traditions of Mexico Canada and the USA" How can you be "heir" to several traditions across three countries?
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: AndreasWinsnes on May 10, 2007, 12:54:23 pm
Found this link on a discusion board:

http://ayahuasca.tribe.net/m/thread/83fe6a40-ab8a-4a8d-a7f9-438ef5045265 (http://ayahuasca.tribe.net/m/thread/83fe6a40-ab8a-4a8d-a7f9-438ef5045265)


One member of this forum writes:

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These are his own words. It makes no sense to me how he can be "heir" to traditions in three different countries:

"President of the American Native Church of Itzachilatlan
heir of several native traditions of Mexico Canada and the USA

Our ceremonies use, by their divine and sacred character, plants like the Ayahuasca, the Cocaine Leaf, certain Fungi and the Peyote. These are used in ceremonies to pray to the Creator, the Great Spirit and the grandfathers, with a sacred Fire and a Cane, with Pens of Eagle, a fan, one sonaja, a drum, with incense of cedar, salvia, sweet and copal grass. Our altars are sacred spaces that have been consecrated to be used spiritual and medicinally."

This is from a relative of the person he supposedly got his NAC Fireplace from:

"I remember hearing about him a while ago - He was supposedly the intercessor at a Sundance in southern Illinois where from what I've heard from very reputable sources many strange things were happening. I also heard that his wife died after he put her out on a "vision Quest" in Mexico for 7 or 10 days. He claimed to have been taught about the NAC by a relative of mine but my relation says he only met him a few times and he has no business feeding anyone medicine"

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the problem with carrying all those traditions (NAC, Seven Rites of the Lakota, Daime, Ayahuasca, Velada, etc), that he claims to be heir to, is that each one takes a =major= commitment. How does one find the time, and give the proper respect, to study each of these ways? Praying behind the Canupa and carrying that pipe for the people (he claims to be a pipe carrier) takes daily practice and is a life long commitment. You aren't just gifted with a pipe and told to go pray with it, there are many ceremonies you must learn in order to hold it in a proper manner. And as my Lakota Elders tell me, you must also know the language. People can, and will, get hurt when American Indian ceremonies are not conducted in the proper manner.

btw - I just found a mural of a NAC ceremony that he painted for his "NAC of Itzachilatlan." In the painting the ceremony is being conducted improperly (the Water Drum carrier is on the wrong side of the person singing).




Another link. Scroll down a bit and they start to discuss Diaz:

http://tribes.tribe.net/vegetalismo/thread/ce3fc936-b047-4521-be42-fd275058bb38 (http://tribes.tribe.net/vegetalismo/thread/ce3fc936-b047-4521-be42-fd275058bb38)


This post is from the same person quoted above:


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Aurelio Diaz Tekpankalli is supposably a Roadman in the NAC, a Sun Dance Intercessor, Pipe Carrier, and holds Inipi's with Peyote. Quite a mixture if you ask me. It's also not clear if he lives in Mexico or Chicago. He claims to be Purepecha, but his name seems to be Nahua/Aztec (so how did he become a Roadman and Pipe Carrier?). Here's a post from a relative of someone who Aurelio claims to have gotten his Fireplace from:

"I remember hearing about him a while ago - He was supposedly the intercessor at a Sundance in southern Illinois where from what I've heard from very reputable sources many strange things were happening. I also heard that his wife died after he put her out on a "vision Quest" in Mexico for 7 or 10 days. He claimed to have been taught about the NAC by a relative of mine but my relation says he only met him a few times and he has no business feeding anyone medicine"

Here's a quote from a spiritual meeting that happened in France:
"The two Mexican representatives, Aurelio Diaz Tekpankali from the Purupeska tradition and the elder Tlakaelel of the Atzec tradition, explained that only five years ago they obtained freedom to practice their own religion. They had been persecuted for five hundred years!"

"Another participant at the meeting was Don Hilario Chiriap of the Shiuar tradition who was born and grew up in the Amazon jungle of Equador. Together with his "brother" Aurelio Tekpankalli he performed a beautiful ritual."

Here's a quote from a speech he gave to the COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE O.N.U. (whatever that is):

By: AURELIO DIAS TEPANKALI
* President of the American Native Church of Itzachilatlan
heir of several native traditions of Mexico Canada and the USA <<<< WTF is that? Heir to "several" traditions?

"Our ceremonies use, by their divine and sacred character, plants like the Ayahuasca, the Cocaine Leaf, certain Fungi and the Peyote. These are used in ceremonies to pray to the Creator, the Great Spirit and the grandfathers, with a sacred Fire and a Cane, with Pens of Eagle, a fan, one sonaja, a drum, with incense of cedar, salvia, sweet and copal grass. Our altars are sacred spaces that have been consecrated to be used spiritual and medicinally.

In our altars ceremonies are made to bless marriages, ceremonies to give name to people, to adopt people, to make the velatorios and the funerales. Also the Baths of Purification, the Dances of the Sun are part of our espiritualidad,
Dances to the Spirits, the encounter with the Fire, the Search of Visions, the Ceremonies of the Pipe, Amarre de Cañas, the Tribute to the Mother Earth, the Memory of Our Ancestors, the Tobacco Offering, the Affirmation of Relations of Friendship and Brotherhood between the Towns. "


Another member of this forum writes:


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Yeah, he does seem to care (as most plastic shaman do). But I'm not really sure if I trust him. This says a lot to me: "President of the American Native Church of Itzachilatlan - heir of several native traditions of Mexico Canada and the USA". Several traditions? From all over the continent? How do you become an heir to all these things? Plus the fact that he listed all these ceremonies and medicines in reference to the Purepecha tradition. The Purepecha, or Tarasco, were wiped out by the Spanish hundreds of years ago. How did they retain, or relearn, this knowledge? To me it seems like he's trying to mix everything on the continent into whatever his vision is...
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: AnnOminous on September 21, 2009, 08:12:31 pm
I realise this is a very old thread.  I have recently been re-alerted to this man and am wondering if anyone else has information.  I will be inviting my friend to join this thread with first-hand information and questions.

In the meantime, here is a translated website of interest:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://ahometakiase.blogdiario.com/tags/TEKPANKALLI/&ei=5dW3SpSFBIiwswO3qbyeDQ&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=6&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAurelio%2BTekpankalli%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us%26sa%3DN%26start%3D10

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A VOICE FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE EARTH
de Aurelio Diaz Tekpankalli Aurelio Diaz Tekpankalli

  VOICE FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE EARTH
de Aurelio Diaz Tekpankalli Aurelio Diaz Tekpankalli

 
Ha llegado el momento, de alguna manera, de regresar a casa. It is time, somehow, to return home. Esto esta basado sobre todo, en los sueños y las visiones de nuestros antepasados, que nos llegan a través de la memoria de las enseñanzas que nos dejaron nuestros abuelos. This is based mainly on the dreams and visions of our ancestors, that come through the memory of the lessons that our ancestors left us.
Estamos aquí tratando de recordar, tratando de retornar a la verdad original. We are here trying to remember, trying to return to the original truth.
Creemos que estamos viviendo un tiempo muy crítico, un tiempo donde es necesario unirnos; unir todas las piezas para poder tener la visión clara. We believe we are experiencing a very critical time, a time when the need to unite, unite all the parts in order to gain insight.

Sabemos que estamos viviendo uno de los momentos mas críticos de la existencia, en el que se ha hecho mucho daño a la Madre Tierra; contaminando los ríos, el aire de las ciudades, dañando de tal forma la Tierra que hay lugares donde ella ya no da frutos, donde ha perdido su fuerza. We know that we are experiencing one of the most critical moments of existence, which has done much damage to Mother Earth, polluting rivers, the city air, damaging the earth so that there are places where it no longer bears fruit, which has lost its force. Nos damos cuenta que estamos en un tiempo muy critico, nuestra Madre Tierra tiene que tomar por si misma su propio remedio, y si ella lo hace sabemos que nosotros somos parte de la enfermedad. We realize that we are in a very critical time, our Mother Earth has to make for itself its own remedy, and if she does know that we are part of the disease.

Estamos tratando de sanar y también de poder vivir una buena relación con todos los seres de la Tierra, con todas las personas de la Tierra. We are trying to heal and be able to live a good relationship with all beings on Earth, with all people of Earth.
El propósito es el de traer conciencia a la gente. The purpose is to bring awareness to people. No queremos que las personas a quienes llegan estas palabras crean que no hay esperanzas, las hay, pero debemos asumir responsabilidad. We do not want people who come to believe that these words there is no hope, there are, but we must take responsibility.

Proponemos tratar de eliminar todas aquellas cosas innecesarias que han causado este caos en el que vivimos. We suggest trying to remove all unnecessary things that have caused this chaos in which we live. De no abusar de la energía creadora, de la energía fina del espíritu; que podamos conducirnos de una buena manera y que podamos ser útiles y ser verdaderos conductos, verdaderos medios de transmisión. Not to abuse the creative energy, energy of the fine spirit that we behave in a good way and we can be useful and be true ducts, true means of transmission.

Que podamos transmitir el amor y el respeto a todas las formas de vida que existen, a todos los seres. May we communicate the love and respect for all life forms that exist, to all beings.

Que vivamos esto en nuestro vivir diario; que reconozcamos un ser sagrado cuando veamos un perro o un pájaro o un pez o quien quiera que sea este ser, vegetal, mineral o en la forma que sea. May we live it in our daily lives, we recognize a sacred being when we see a dog or a bird or a fish or whoever it is that being, plant, mineral or in any way.
Que podamos reconocer lo sagrado de la vida que existe dentro de este misterio donde nos encontramos. May we recognize the sanctity of life that exists within this mystery where we are.

Ahora estamos viviendo en esta confusión, en esta contaminación legal y que es totalmente falsa y que no se aplica a todos los seres. Now we are living in this confusion, this legal pollution and that is totally false and that applies to all beings.
Un águila vuela de un rumbo hacia otro sin tener el problema de donde es. An eagle flies from one course to another without having the problem where it is. Y así es como nos gustaría ser. And that's how we like to be.

Se dijo a toda nuestra gente que eran los descendientes de gente salvaje, de gente caníbal y todo esto es mentira. He told all our people who were descendants of wild people, of cannibal people and this is all a lie.
Lo dijeron para castrar el espíritu de todos los nativos de América. They said to emasculate the spirit of all Native Americans.

Y es triste que hasta hoy en día esta historia se enseña oficialmente en las escuelas públicas. And it is sad that even today this history officially taught in public schools.

Uno debe ver la mentira dentro de la verdad y la verdad dentro de la mentira. One must see the lie into the truth and the truth within the lie.
Hay verdades que esclavizan, y esta es la verdad que mi pueblo vive. There are truths that enslave, and this is the truth that my people live. Vive una verdad que le ha dado la esclavitud, mas que nada de su mente, de su corazón y de su espíritu. Live a truth that slavery has given him, but nothing of her mind, her heart and spirit.

La verdad de todos es la que te libera, es la que te hace aspirar a ser parte de la verdad Universal. The truth of all is the one that released it is that makes you aspire to be part of the Universal truth.
La verdad Universal que guardaron nuestros antepasados ni siquiera es conocida, porque trataron de destruirla, de enterrarla, porque como iban a explicar al mundo tantas barbaridades que cometieron. Universal Truth that kept our ancestors nor even known, because they tried to destroy it, to bury it, because as they would tell the world that many atrocities committed.

Yo no quiero que mi gente viva una vida de lamentación, de dolor, de pena, quejándose por lo que pudo ser. I do not want my people to live a life of regret, sorrow, grief, complaining about what might be. Yo quiero que mi gente se vuelva a levantar y viva una vida digna por lo que si puede ser. I want my people back up and live a decent life so if you can be.




Note the name of his blog:  Metakiase Aho!  (I think I could die comfortably knowing that now I've seen it all.  ::) )

Here he is selling sweats in the UK:  http://www.yuantmc.co.uk/healing/temescal.htm
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Yuan Temazcal
The Sweat Lodge, also known as ‘Innipi’ or ‘Temazcal’ is a sacred ceremony from the Native American People.

The Temazcal is made of wood and covered in blankets – it is representative of the ‘Womb’.

The rocks, known as the ‘Grandfathers and Grandmothers’ are baked in a fire and then placed inside the Temazcal. They represent the wisdom of time.

The ceremony is conducted according to the design of the Medicine Man Aurelio Tekpankalli.

There are four rounds to celebrate the four directions and the medicine they bring.

Inside the lodge we say prayers and sing songs while water and herbs are placed on the ‘Grandparents’. In this space many people may experience a powerful homecoming, spirit retrieval, inspiration, instruction, purification, visions, understanding, release and rejuvenation.

Inside the Temazcal, women need to wear a nightie or sarong and men need to wear shorts.

Location: Northcourt Farm, Church Lane, West Stourmouth, Kent, CT3 1HT

Cost: £40.00 / £30.00 concessions.

Temescal Dates
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th July 2009 - Sweat Lodge Weekend Kent
Saturday 10th October 2009 Kent
Saturday 7th November 2009 Kent
Saturday 5th December 2009 Kent
 
Please call the Yuan Clinic on 020 7 622 9079, on the day before the temazcal  is due to run, to check that the event on that date is running


 And he teaches others to sell ceremony also:http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:ObhJefthZxkJ:www.liveheavenonearth.com/resources/LONG_GMANAC%2520_description2.pdf+tekpankalli&hl=en
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Great Mystery AllianceNative American ChurchCrestone, CO719-256-5307Chris4andrea@yahoo.comwww.GMANAC.comAtekokolli is a native born Choctaw Cherokee holy man. He has been ordained a spiritualleader and roadman in the Native American Church by his teacher Tekpankalli, a SundanceChief, Yuwipi Man, and a Peyotero. Atekokolli is the founder of the Great Mystery AllianceNative American Church. He is offering a wide variety of sacred ceremonies to the publicincluding the sweat lodge (Inipi), Sacred Peace Pipe (Chanupa), and all night peyote ceremonies.The sweat lodge is one of the most powerful and ancient ceremonials on earth. Our sweatlodges can be done Lakota style (plains), as well as in the Mexica tradition (temescal). Thisunique tradition represents the fulfillment of the ancient prophecy of the eagle and the condor.It is the alliance of the central and South American (condor) traditions with the North (eagle).The Chanupa Ceremony is a profound and simple ritual. As a pipe carrier, Atekokollioffers this sacred Ceremony to all who ask. Handling this pipe can be very healing and profoundbecause it is connected with the White Buffalo Calf Woman pipe. All are welcome to jointogether as this Chanupa facilitates connections to everyone who has ever smoked this pipe.This is an actual peace pipe of the Plains Indians that Atekokolli had a dream of when he was 13.Great Mystery Alliance is dedicated to the practice and preservation of our sacrednative heritage. We uphold our most ancient lineage through keeping a rapport with ourancestors. We come into alignment with the earth by the performance of our sacred rituals, andcustoms in an unbroken line of living tradition. We are a completely intertribal, non-denominational, and interfaith alliance with the Great Mystery. Through all our ceremonies wecelebrate life and gain new insight on the meaning of “All My Relations”.Located in the mountains of Crestone, Colorado, The Great Mystery Alliance is a religiousorganization dedicated to the spiritual growth of all life, sentient and insentient. As a chapterof the Native American Church, we are protected by state and federal agencies in our use ofthe sacred sacrament peyote. All night meetings occur at least monthly featuring the SevenArrows Lineage of the Half Moon Fireplace. The location of these ceremonies is up to thesponsor. We treat addictions, depression, infertility, and help a person with just about anythingthey need help with in their life. Peyote ceremonies are also a celebration of life in the form ofpersonal, land, fertility, love, and baby blessings, spiritual transformations, weddings, pubertyrites, rites to manhood, funerals, and Thanksgivings. We are open to all faiths and traditions.There is no discrimination against race, color, or creed. In fact, we encourage the unity of allpeoples. As long as we see all paths to source as one, we will get closer to understanding whatit's all about. Aho Mitakuye Oyasin!

I hope in resurrecting this thread that this dangerous man can be brought to task.

/Ann
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: AnnOminous on September 21, 2009, 08:19:31 pm
There are some very interesting comments that follow the blog posting here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://ahometakiase.blogdiario.com/tags/TEKPANKALLI/&ei=zdq3SuPREY3WsgO_wZyeDQ&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAurelio%2BDiaz%2BTekpankalli%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us%26sa%3DN%26start%3D30

When I try to copy and paste I exceed the posting limit here.
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: AnnOminous on September 21, 2009, 08:26:46 pm
I would also add that Tekpankalli is considered to be authentic by those he is in contact with due to the peoples' understanding that he was made a "chief" by Leonard Crowdog.  It seems to me that the general understanding is that Leonard is like a head chief of all sundances and nations and that this "Pope-ified" Leonard goes around bestowing Medicine Man powers on those worthy of receiving it.  So pay lots of money and follow him to the ends of the earth.....

I hope my friend-in-the-know will share the prices charged for sweats, peyote ceremonies, vision quests (which incorporate the use of peyote) and sundances in South America by this man.  It's horrifying, to say the least.

/Ann
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: Cetan on September 22, 2009, 03:55:18 pm
As far as I know he was never made "chief" by Leonard, and Leonard does make a lot of chiefs, although they are not recognized by many of the oyate since he doesnt have any authority to do so, all he can do is make people helpers at his Sundance (not chiefs) and he can give a NAC fireplace to someone but I do not believe he has ever given a fireplace to Aurelio Diaz. 
Title: Aurelio Diaz
Post by: tiago2010 on January 28, 2010, 06:10:07 am
My first post. Here you have some links about the "Native American Church" or the "Sacred fire from Itzachilatlan" a thing that Aurelio has build and has a strong partipation in South America. Almost every link is in spanish, but I would try my best to translate different parts of it:

The blog from this...
http://ahometakiase.blogdiario.com/1187280120/

It says at the begging: "Sacred fire of Itzachilatlan" is the old organization from the traditional Red Path, spiritual way of our ancestors from the four races. The Red path, since millions of years ago, has been preserved in our continent (itzachilatlan, abya yala or turtle island, in the lenguage of the original people) is the spiritual path of every son from mother earth"

A picture from the "Chiefs from the Sun Dance of the Itzachilatlan Nation Ecuator Sacred Fire"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuegosagradoecuador/1372153256/

Here, some information (in English) from them in Wales... you can read the "Statement" of the "Sacred Fire"
http://www.htmr.co.uk/Itzachilatlan.html

Here you have a link of the in Colombia, I dont know how much they charge because is in colombian pesos...
http://inipimedicinanatural.ning.com/events/busqueda-de-vision-fuego

Well.. and so on.. also in Chile...

What I have heard here is that they charge about 600 USD for a Vision Quest. They change the Vision Quest for a structure of 4 times and "in crecendo" days...
1st vision 4 days, no water or food
2d vision 7 days, with some medicine up (mostly peyote, or san pedro, or ayahuasca)
3d vision 11 days.. with spice too
4d vision 14 days (or something..) with spice again.

I undestand at the 4th vision, when they get back to the camping, the vision seekers are honored with a Chanupa, because they have accomplishment the "original path of the Native American Church".

Also they're sharing Sun Dances in Ecuador "in alliance" with people from there. Does anyone knows if Aurelio Diaz has any relation with an original Sundance? I believe they are having something called "the Spirit Dance" in Ecuador and Chile, that consist of 4 nights having different plants mixed as peyote, sanpedro, mushrooms and ayahuasca..

In another articles.. he describes Imself has "Medine Man related to the legendary Native American Church and spiritual leader of the Sacred fire from Itzachilatlan, The Native American Church is a frame trough different tribal red skin groups from USA founded a legal recognition in the States"

I would kindly ask for some information about him, ¿are they related with any sundance from US? ¿Do they represent the interests from Native people from US? Is that Native American Church a true gathering from people of the north...?

Gracias
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: educatedindian on January 28, 2010, 03:56:00 pm
Merged your question with the older topic. As you can see he's made many questionable claims and worked with many people who are frauds. He may have some knowledge, but much of what he does is clearly not right.

The NAC is a genuine Native church, but there's no sign that Diaz is or could be a member. It's also, incidentally, a Christian church, mixed with older traditions. They don't charge for ceremony like Diaz and consider that unethical. And while individual members of the church may also take part in Sundance elsewhere, Sundance is not part of the NAC ceremonies as far as I know. (If I'm wrong, someone correct me.)
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: Cetan on January 28, 2010, 06:37:28 pm
The Sundance is not part of the NAC however many participate in both. The NAC is not necessarily a Christian church; those who use a Crossfire fireplace use the bible but in halfmoon fireplaces the bible is not used and there is no mention of Jesus unless someone is singing a crossfire song
Also wanted to add that I seem to remember a while ago Aurelio Diaz putting someone,m I believe it may have been his wife, on a vision quest for 7 days and she died.
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: tiago2010 on January 31, 2010, 02:39:35 am
Thanks for the information. So it seems the Sundance and Visions the're handling, are like a "folklore" ceremony, changed in their trully roots? Because if it doesnt have the bless from an original fire, or if is changed... maybe its a fraud... lots of people from the south are going to their ceremonies, to my point of view abusing from the medicins like peyote or ayahuasca and mixing things... Many people believe in ecuador, chile or colombia, that the Red Road "its" what Aurelio has sold to the people... and also at high prices. Traditionally speaking, its a strange mix of things what he has done with the visions, sundances and everything..

Well.. the great spirit, or whatever the name of the keeper that its above us, handles the thing and puts by is own desition things in order. Hope Aurelios work goes well and light for his people.
Title: Re: Aurelio Diaz "Tekpankalli"
Post by: OldWiseWoman on January 29, 2011, 04:54:25 pm
Hello My Brothers and Sisters...I met Aurelio Diaz in a western suburb of Chicago, IL (USA)  back in 1992.  I attended a peyote medicine rite in a teepee with Aurelio and his wife at that time Virginia and 2 other people.  We took the Peyote as a tea... with no ill health...it was very beautiful...I had visions with no long lasting affects.  On the other occasion, it took place at Aurelio's home in Chicago.  Because I was suffereing greatly after a divorce at that time, I was very open to spiritual experiences.  Aurelio is a very simple person who truly believes what he says.  He may have gathered some followers who are not enlightened.  Peyote originates with the huichol indians of mexico. Aurelio told me he was to travel to Geneva Switzerland to speak to the UN in behalf of indiginous people whose practice is to ingest peyote so they can speak to God.  Please write to me if you would like more information.  Jheree