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QuoteJeremie Lynn Jackson Leckron
Birth 21 Oct 1943 Los Angeles County, California, USA
Death 17 Jan 2025 (aged 81) Orlando, Orange County, Florida, USA
Burial Cremated

Birth name was "Jerri Lynn Jackson".

Seen in United States Census 1950, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Enumeration District 30-46, Line Number 16, Page Number 2
Listed with her parents, brother, sister. Everyone identified as white. Her first name spelled "Jerrilyn".

Prior married surnames include "Harris" and "Ragland".

She said she was a member of the Hopi Tribe. She was not a member. of that tribe or any tribe. She had no tribal heritage. She named herself "Grandmother Medicine Song" and gathered many followers.

QuoteSpiritual dance artist, circle teacher & storyteller
[...]
Formed by sacred teachings Guided by wisdom keepers
Jeremi Rise has walked a path of deep and beautiful teachings. For eight years, he received guidance from Grandmother Medicine Song — a wisdom keeper of Hopi tradition as she remembered and lived it.

He is currently in a seven-year apprenticeship with Satya Henkes, who carries and shares these teachings. The wisdom Jeremi carries is rooted in the tradition of the Hopi and other Native tribes. With the blessing of Grandmother Medicine Song and Satya, Jeremi now shares sacred stories and original songs inspired by these teachings — always with care and respect.

QuoteThis sacred Hopi teachings are passed on to me and are shared with the permission of Grandmother Medicine Song and Elder Satya Henkes, Wisdom Singer.

The main teachings for 2026 are the Vibratory Centers. They are vibrating energy centers of the human being. They are connected to the different worlds known to the Hopi.

The teachings are about activating these energy centers through: memory (dreaming) and the relationship with a number of resources from the animal, color, stone and plant world. The energy centers represent someone's unique personal strength and authenticity. Also called original medicine.

QuoteI had the privilege of meeting Grandmother Medicine Song, a Hopi Elder"

My commitment to promoting Hopi philosophy, indigenous practices, and holistic healing is a central part of my work

QuoteHopi Wisdom
for modern life
Lessons originated and based on the work of Hopi Grandmother Medicine Song

QuoteThe Brief
A San Francisco woman was sentenced in Phoenix federal court after netting over $92,000 selling counterfeit Native American jewelry on eBay.

Molly Breivis, 57, imported knockoffs from Asia and falsely marketed them as authentic pieces by Apache, Laguna, Navajo and Zuni artisans—ignoring multiple federal warning letters along the way.

Breivis was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine, sentenced to time served and forced to post an official letter of apology to tribal artists on a federal website.

QuoteUsing a comparative analysis of Navajo healing ceremonials, acupuncture and biomedical treatment, this essay examines placebo studies and ritual theory as mutually interpenetrating disciplines. Healing rituals create a receptive person susceptible to the influences of authoritative culturally sanctioned 'powers'. The healer provides the sufferer with imaginative, emotional, sensory, moral and aesthetic input derived from the palpable symbols and procedures of the ritual process—in the process fusing the sufferer's idiosyncratic narrative unto a universal cultural mythos. Healing rituals involve a drama of evocation, enactment, embodiment and evaluation in a charged atmosphere of hope and uncertainty. Experimental research into placebo effects demonstrates that routine biomedical pharmacological and procedural interventions contain significant ritual dimensions. This research also suggests that ritual healing not only represents changes in affect, self-awareness and self-appraisal of behavioural capacities, but involves modulations of symptoms through neurobiological mechanisms. Recent scientific investigations into placebo acupuncture suggest several ways that observations from ritual studies can be verified experimentally.
Placebo effects are often described as 'non-specific'; the analysis presented here suggests that placebo effects are the 'specific' effects of healing rituals.

Keywords: placebo effect; ritual; Navajo healing; placebo acupuncture; biomedicine

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QuoteI've had many lifetimes of being persecuted and killed simply for being me, and being abused for what I can offer others.

QuoteQ What is one thing about getting older that your younger self is so proud you grew through?

A I hope I can articulate the answer to your question in a way that does not polarize anyone. In all honesty, it was the journey of several major let gos:

1) Forgiving myself for willingly choosing to incarnate into the daily torture of human trafficking. I was enraged with myself for years about choosing this mission.

2) Surrendering into a public mission, which I never wanted, as a painfully sensitive psychic. Learning how to ignore the haters, the jealousy, the slander, the constant judgments and misunderstandings of others. Still learning how to grow a thicker skin, but I am getting there, and I am really really proud of that.

3) Learning how to serve others without giving myself and everything away. Still evolving on this one. Invaluable self-examination to manage the marathon of service

4) Letting go of society's shaming that a woman has to be in a committed partnership to feel whole in herself. This one took years to fully extract from within. This one may be the one I am the most proud of. There are simply no words to describe how happy and fulfilled I feel in a relationship with my own heart.