Jane Ely

[educatedindian]

I received this email about Ely, altered in order to protect the individual:

"She claimed...to be [Cherokee] and used this to her advantage but...her mother is white which [means she can't be the clan she claims]. She also claimed to be Eastern Band. The registrar for SECCI [says] that she was enrolled there.

She also claims Micmaq and is originally from Canada. Her deceased husband Donald Ely was American. She is here on a green card.

Her full legal name is Thelma Jane Ely. She claims to have a PHD in Psychology and another in Theology. Her resume appeared to be fabricated.

She travels back east to do seminars...energy medicine, sells sweatlodges, vision quests, and teaches a Hollow Bone ceremony in which she teaches students to open themselves up to spirit possession to guide them to cross over, such as after plane crashes and other traumatic incidents. She also teaches and offers counseling, housecleanings. 

She is also mixing and appropriating Hawaiian and other traditional beleifs...She claims to be a Keetoowah but is of the Nuyagi variety. She also drinks alcohol which is strictly against Keetoowah beleif and practice. She is the former partner of Sam Beeler, who left her in 2006."

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Ely has a couple different sites.

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http://www.peacemakerschool.org/about.html
Jane Ely, Ph.D., D.Min. is the Dean and co-founder of The Peacemaker School.
She is trained in psychodynamics, journey and imaginal therapy, integrative energy
healing, and traditional American Indian medicine practices. She is a spiritually
traditional American Indian, an enrolled Cherokee and Mi'kmaq.
non-linear aspects of our true self that hold the creative potential of empowerment and healing needed to navigate through the times in which we are now living.

Jane has a private professional healing practice in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania; Wilmington, Delaware; and Lihue, Hawaii. She developed and teaches a four-year apprenticeship program on transformational energy psychology and hands-on-healing. She teaches world-wide on the subjects of: peacemaking, death and
dying - the art of transformation, environmental awareness, the laying-on-of-hands, and the healing power of ceremonial practices.

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In spite of its name, the "Peacemakers" basically are selling ceremonies which she says are Native but often seemed more like feel good claims.

"Peacemaker School retreats....Each retreat includes techniques for: meditation, spiritual practices, ceremony, the creative arts, and discussion/participation in the form of talking-stick council circles. Retreats are built on the principles of: high play, experiential exercises, self-awareness training, reflective integration time and feedback."


"Jane offers, the 'skillful means'  taught encompass both personal self-reflection exercises working with ingrained and often unconscious behaviors and
energy medicine healing techniques [working with the human energy field. She will teach techniques that arise directly from ancient Native American "laying-on-of-hands??? methods of healing. Students will also explore some very old indigenous practices known as "mask work??? to grow their self-awareness, to shift troublesome behaviors, and to help them grow their souls. She incorporates American Indian
Ceremony into many of her teachings."

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http://www.drjaneely.com/about.html
"Jane Ely, Ph. D., D. Min., enrolled Cherokee-Mi'kmaq
Jane is trained in transpersonal psychology, imaginal therapy, dream work, journeywork, and energy medicine for transformational healing. Most recently, she earned her Doctor of Ministry from The University of Creation Spirituality with an emphasis on Indigenous Spirituality. She follows the traditional spiritual practices of her American Indian ancestors and combines both academic and indigenous wisdom approaches to healing in her private, therapeutic practice. She is also a graduate of the Brennan School of Healing Science Training, 1994."

That "university" is basically one guy, an ex priest kicked out for mixing the Catholic faith with just about anything and everything.
http://www.matthewfox.org/sys-tmpl/htmlpage20/

According to wikipedia, (not the most reliable of sources) that included mixing in sweatlodges and Wicca.

The "Brennan school" is another place that seems to be largely one person doing all the teaching. It has no accreditation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Brennan

Back to Ely's claims.

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"In 1998 she founded and is presently the Dean of The Peacemaking School of Spiritual Healing (www.peacemakerschool.com). The School is dedicated to fostering peacemaking skills in the world and is modeled upon the tenants of the Great Peacemaker of the Iroquois Confederacy."

I've nver heard of Iroquois doing "high play" and "experiential awareness."

"In 2002, she founded The American Indian Speakers Bureau, comprised of a group of elders dedicated to dispelling American Indian stereotypes and to providing accurate educational and cultural traditions, history and contemporary knowledge in lectures and classes for schools and community groups of all ages."

There are at least two different groups by that name. None of them mention her.
http://www.wisdomoftheelders.org/
http://www.turtleislandstorytellers.net/

The only place that mentions her as being part of these groups (much less founding them) is her own website.
There is another questionable person who also mentions being part of that "speakers bureau".
http://healing.about.com/od/hptx/p/hhp_dancingelk.htm


"She is a writer, Remembering the Ancestral Soul: Soul Loss and Recovery, AuthorHouse Publishers, www.authorhouse.com "

Authorhouse is a vanity press, self published. They publish anyone who will pay them.

Also:
http://www.gohawaii.com/event?id=11221

[bls926]

What is an "enrolled Cherokee-Mi'kmaq"?
Enrolled with which Nation?


Edit to add:
SECCI = Southeastern Cherokee Council, Inc.

SOUTHEASTERN CHEROKEE COUNCIL - SECCI
The Southeastern Cherokee Council, Inc., a non-profit organzation registered in the state of Georgia with Bands located in all 50 states.
http://www.secci.com/

Southeastern Cherokee Council - http://www.shelbynet.net/~secci/ Information and online applications from this mixed-blood group based in Georgia. ...

This group doesn't have federal or state recognition. So basically, Jane Ely is enrolled in a cultural/heritage society.

[frederica]

Years ago they(SECCI) was a oart if the State Recognized Georgia Tribe Southeast Cherokee Confederacy, but they split from them, now a non-profit.

[bls926]

Georgia never recognized the Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy. They petitioned, but were turned down.

Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Inc. Letter of Intent to Petition 03/09/1978; Declined to Acknowledge 11/25/1985 (50 FR 39047). Became the American Cherokee Confederacy on 1/31/1996, with a breakaway group Southeastern Cherokee Council forming on the same day.

http://www.aaanativearts.com/tribes-by-states/georgia_tribes.htm

Neither the American Cherokee Confederacy nor the Southeastern Cherokee Council are recognized by Georgia.

[frederica]

Yhat's good to know, I know they has been a hassle down there recently over who is who.

[educatedindian]

More on her. For a supposed Cherokee and Micmaq, she keeps referring to Iroquois as "her elders" a lot, along with lots of human potential, pop psychology, and Nuage buzzwords and claims.

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http://earthharmonyhome.com/conscious-language-1-jane-ely-episode-34/
Conscious language describes energy in the present now
Words as a tuning fork of clarity
Accessing more of ourselves
Where is your passion
The potential of who we are becoming
Dissolving the old paradigm
How to manifest now

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For a supposed Cherokee, she uses the medicine wheel a lot. Not sure if she's knocking off H Storm or Sun Bear.

Could our Cherokee speakers tell us if what she's speaking is what she claims it is?

http://jp.kauaihealthguide.com/directory/display.htm?listID=5043&lspecial=featured&hhsid=88af68935cbee3712750a60b24b7ca4e
"The foundation for these teachings is the Medicine Wheel - a circle of life representing all creation.
The four aspects represented are the physical world - Mother Earth and our own bodies; the emotional world of fluidity and flexibility; the mental world of clear mind and wisdom; and the spiritual world of inter-relatedness with all life forms...
In the southern direction, with the physical Mother Earth and our selves, is the principle of community....
Community balance needs mutual respect and appreciation of differences of others, both culturally and spiritually. The Cherokee word for balance is u-ti-yv-hi. This is a concept of wholeness.
The second aspect of The Medicine Wheel represents cooperation, the emotional world of flexibility, the ability to change and remain fluid - "moving with" rather than moving "against." This is also the home of moving through life changes such as illness and walking into the time of transformation. The Cherokee word for co-operative energy is a-li-go-sv.
...The northern aspect of the Medicine Wheel is the home of our mental well-being.
...The Cherokee word is harmony - nv-wa-to-hi-ya-dv. It embodies the concept of to-hi, the word for peace.
The fourth aspect of the Medicine Wheel is the most significant. It is the practice of spirituality....There is a natural living presence that arises with inclusiveness. In Cherokee the word is a-tlo-ya-s-to-di."

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And here she makes some dubious claims about the Six Nations.

http://jp.kauaihealthguide.com/directory/display.htm?listID=5043&lspecial=featured&hhsid=88af68935cbee3712750a60b24b7ca4e

"In 1992, Jane had a powerful vision that spoke of becoming a bridge-builder and peacemaker. She went on a Vision Fast, part of her American Indian tradition for prayer, insight and renewal, and came back with the vision of offering a series of retreats for others who are in the helping professions and public service. "Creator spoke very literally to me and I saw the beginning of The Peacemaker School it took several years and a few starts to implement the vision."   

Drawing on the Six Nations (Iroquois Confederacy) White Roots of Peace that emerged from the Peacemaker who brought together five warring tribes in c. 1450"

Yeah, well...1450 is the date that white historians USED to claim the Confederacy was founded. More recently they've started to aggree with what the Six Nations themselves have long said, that it happened much earlier, as much as a thousand years earlier.

So her alleged elders were somehow repeating what white historians once said, instead of their own actual traditional accounts.

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Here she is knocking off what she says are Six Nations teachings again.

http://www.new-mind.com/HemiSyncChildren/hemisyncchildren.htm
"Turtle Island (a bedtime story by Patricia White Buffalo and Jane Ely, PhD.) An American Indian "Creation" story for bedtime with Hemi-Sync sleep enhancement frequencies.  This delightful tale is about how "two leggeds" came to Turtle Island - the land most people know as North America.  It is a part of a revered Iroquois oral tradition for conveying spiritual and ancestral knowledge about eh origins and history of their native culture.  The narrative teaches children the importance of honoring Mother Earth and all of her creatures.  Track 1:  Turtle Island voiced by Jane Ely, PhD., with Hemi-Sync sleep enhancement to guide your child into sleep.  Track 2:  soothing ocean surf (pink noise) with Hemi-Sync sleep enhancement."

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Some very Nuage stuff she claims is Cherokee.

http://jp.lanaihealthguide.com/healthtalk/display.htm?id=520
"We are powerful beings of light.  We can shift our inner awareness and consciousness to live in presence, balance and in harmony with all life....

In my mother language [Cherokee] we say " nv-wa-to-hi-ya-dv, a tlo-ya-s-to-di???

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Three different people she's franchised out.

http://www.agapehealingcenter.com/html/reiki_training.html
"Candy Nicolson is a Master Practitioner and teacher of Usui, Gendai and Karuna Reiki and has been teaching Reiki for over seven years.
....Recently, Candy also  completed a four year intensive training program in transformational healing and psychology including shamanic and Buddhist techniques, studying under Jane Ely, PhD., DMin., practiced in the MicMac and Cherokee medicine ways former teacher  for the Barbara Brennan School of Healing."

A former teacher now? And apparently claiming to teach Buddhist techniques.

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Second franchisee, whose been trained by many of the more famous frauds.

http://www.hummingbirdwoman.com/bio.asp
"Carol R. Lindsay M.A. has worked in the holistic health field since 1987. She is a graduate of The Institute for Therapeutic Touch (1987) and the Barbara Brennan School of Healing (1997). She has studied the medicine way with Sun Bear, AmyLee and Jane Winyote Ely, shamanic studies with Jane Winyote Ely (Native American), Tom Cowan (Celtic shamanism) and Larry Peters (Tibetan shamanism), taken workshops with Babatunde Olatungi, Stephen Levine, Shelby Hammitt and a wilderness encounter with Doug Elliott through Omega Institute."

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The last one she claims to be starting a shamanic school with. Another alleged Cherokee claiming to be an expert in Lakota traditions (along with just about everything else, even Egyptian!).

http://www.schoolofsacredministries.org/school/faculty.html
"Shirley and Dar Khabbaz - Lakota Traditions
Shirley specializes in working with death practices and is of Cherokee descent. She is currently working with Jane Ely in starting a Shamanic School. Shirley has an MS in Education, has taught twenty-six years in the public schools, and was voted one of the top teachers of the gifted in the state of Pennsylvania in 1986. She has worked with Lakota elders on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota for the past twenty years. She has been working with shamanic teachings from South America for the past five years and has studied ancient Egyptian healing practices and Kahuna healing. Shirley is a Ceremonial Leader, a grandmother and is especially interested in empowering abused women."
Dar, Shirley's son, is an expert in the Lakota tradition and is also of Cherokee descent."

[educatedindian]

As for Patricia White Buffalo, who did the kids CD with her....

I haven't actually felt sorry for one of these fraudulent practitioners in a long time, but she seems so obviously lost, even after decades of trying everything but the kitchen sink.

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http://www.beheavenonearth.com/index_files/Patricia.htm

....Then what seemed to be the worst turn of events happened: Patricia was laid-off from her job, and her businesses failed. This forced her to sell her home and most of her earthly possessions were lost.  Her sense of loss and despair were great, her sense of what life was about and her place in it was destroyed. Little did she know that this great loss would become the catalyst that began her spiritual journey.

....she began studying metaphysical literature and working with her first teacher, Ginny De Angles. Ginny introduced her to the basic laws of metaphysics, astrology, the chakra system, the Tarot Deck, and the spiritual teachings of Ernest Holmes, author of The Science of Mind....

Shortly after ending her work with Ginny, Patricia met Amitá, who became her next teacher.  She opened the door to Shamanism for Patricia by taking her on guided journeys where she would enter altered states of consciousness. Guided outwardly by Amitá and inwardly by her power animals and spiritual guides, Patricia discovered and healed deep childhood traumas....At the end of their work together, Amitá gave Patricia her spiritual name, "WhiteBuffalo???, which means "abundance of light???.

....During this time of self-discovery, Patricia came across the book, Hands of Light by Barbara Brennan, Ph.D., a study of the Human Energy Field and its relationship to health and disease which combined spirituality and psychological processes with hands-on-healing. She was intrigued by Brennan's scientific background. This satisfied Patricia's logical mind for more tangible knowledge of the realm of metaphysics.  She enrolled in the Barbara Brennan School of Healing (BBSH) and began formal training in the Healing Arts.  The four-year program required a deep level of personal transformational work with a combination of energetic exercises, personal therapy, and receiving and performing hands-on healings. She graduated in 1993 and entered the teaching program.  She became a teacher at BBSH as well as becoming one of the program's Assistant Deans.

....Patricia was inspired by John Pierrakos' work, the founder of The Institute of Core Energetics... She enrolled in the Institute's four-year program that specializes in body-psychotherapy...Patricia graduated in 1995 and became a Core Energetics Therapist.

Patricia was guided to return to California and felt called to share her rich Shamanic experiences. She founded the "Winds of Change,??? a group of Shamanic healers coming together to create transformational journeys through sound....The "Winds of Change??? performed for 8 years and hosted "Awakening Our Earth Heritage and Spirit in Concert.???

Continuing her quest for psycho-spiritual teachings, Patricia enrolled in The Center for Intentional Living, a three-year program covering the full-spectrum of psychological principles....She graduated from the program in 1998.

Patricia still felt a void in her own development not yet filled by all her training and personal work.  This void guided her to find her next teacher, Dona Monterelli....

She felt guided to study Eastern Spirituality and to "sit??? with several Indian Guru's.  The first was Guru Mayi at the Siddha Yoga Meditation Ashram in Oakland, Ca. She then traveled to Germany to see Mother Mira, and finally her quest led her to India to see Sai Baba. It was at this time that Patricia experienced her most profound ego death. Rising at four in the morning, standing for hours in line with hundreds of people, sitting for hours on a cool cement floor, and taking her turn to crawl on her knees to receive Darshan from the Guru started the process.... 

Patricia returned from India full of desire for a devotional practice. This desire led her back to Guru Mayi, also known as Swami Chidvilasananda.  Patricia has been devoted to the Path of Siddha Yoga since 1997 practicing mantra repetition, meditation, and devotional chanting.

[educatedindian]

And a really ugly note. One of the people Ely works with, Dar Khabbaz, was convicted of domestic violence and also sued by his ex wife in civil court. The name doesn't seem that common to me, but I suppose it's possible there could be two Dar Khabbazes. The Dar Khabbaz in both stories is from roughly the same area of Pennsylvania.

It's especially ironic since the Khabazzes did several peace actvist events. There's a photo of him here about halfway down.
http://allnationspeace.com/

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http://lists101.his.com/pipermail/smartmarriages/2000-February/000066.html

Domestic abuse victim sues spouse
for damages

Bucks County woman's civil court action is uncommon,
experts say.

02/18/00

By DIANE MARCZELY GIMPEL
Of The Morning Call

After her husband hit her, Laura Khabbaz took steps many do
under similar circumstances: She got a protection-from-abuse
order, helped in her husband's criminal prosecution and filed for
divorce.

The upper Bucks County woman recently took an additional step:
She sued her husband for damages.

Khabbaz's decision to go after her husband in civil court is one that
is not commonly made by abused spouses in the region, area
attorneys and anti-domestic violence advocates say. And though it
is not uncommon statewide and nationwide, it should be done
more often, according to a lawyer with the Pennsylvania Coalition
Against Domestic Violence.

''It's definitely underutilized,'' said Dawn Marron, a staff attorney for
the coalition, which is working on a national project studying legal
justice for battered women.

In her lawsuit, Khabbaz of Kintnersville said her husband, Clifford
Dar Khabbaz of Richlandtown, hit her repeatedly with his hands,
fists and other parts of his body on April 23, 1999. The attack left
Laura Khabbaz with cuts, bruises and damage to her teeth and
eye. Court records indicate Khabbaz accused his wife of hitting and
biting him during the altercation, but she was found not guilty of
harassment in district justice court. Khabbaz pleaded guilty in
county court to harassment and simple assault-mutual combat.

Laura Khabbaz is seeking more than $50,000 for assault,
intentional infliction of emotional distress and other damages
stemming from her physical pain, mental anguish and humiliation.

Her husband could not be reached for comment. The lawyer who
represented him in the criminal proceeding, Charles Gordon of
Hellertown, also could not be reached.

[educatedindian]

I received this information about Khabazz.

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He works with David Winston from the White Path Society. [Khabazz] is an "apprentice" to David, He also runs "Lakota" sweats at his mothers home near Quakertown, PA.  He was adopted into the Fools Crow family and studied Lakota ways untill he had a "vision" and switched to Cherokee. This is how [Khabazz] hooked up with Winston. 

This Dr. Ely is the ex-partner of Carroll "Medicine Crow" Halloway, a newage "Shaman" from the Sandhill Band of Indians in NJ, a group that Winston bought his way into through Sam Beeler, the former "Chief" who stepped down to allow "Medicine Crow" to step up and fix things.  At one time the Sand Hill were considered legit folks but as of recent it seems they are as fake and new age as many others in the East.

[wolfhawaii]

http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfAPR08/nf040808-5.htm
http://www.medicinecrow.com.au/
I met Medicine Crow in 2006, he was quite personable to me although others found him abrasive. First i've heard about him and Jane being former partners; is my "sister" been keeping secrets from me?

[Moma_porcupine]

I know about a year ago I did a lot of digging around on things related to the SECCI and Sand Hill Band and Medicine Crow.

I found a lot of questionable stuff on all of them, and especially Medicine Crow.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050912093129/www.medicinecrow.com.au/about/index.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20031222094411/www.medicinecrow.com.au/medicinebag/visionquest.html

Below is a link to a Womans retreat he was advertising ;

http://web.archive.org/web/20031222094208/www.medicinecrow.com.au/medicinebag/womensretreat.html

There is a whole thread on Medicine Crow here ;

http://forum.americanindiantribe.com/viewtopic.php?t=1489&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
sand+hill+beeler

The last post on page one says the womans retreats above were advertised for $650 , though I don't see a price advertised anywhere.

The guy looks like a typical commercial New Age Shaman to me.

[dabosijigwokush]

does any one know of a way to check if some one is a real Dr. Phd.
she is the dean of her own school
go figure

[TRIBALMOONS@yahoo.com]

Hmmmmmmmmmm..........

"Rev Medicine Crow is an elder and an enrolled member of the Sandhill Band of Indians. Who are Cherokee- Delaware descendants. They are the oldest documented tribe on record in the state of New Jersey. "

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Brother  ::)

[wolfhawaii]

Where's Ray Writenhour when we need him?He seemed to know a lot about folks up there.

[matt e]

her doctorates seem to be bogus. not attained from accredited schools, thus meaning less.

even an honorary degree from a real university carries more weight than the ones she has.
neither the ones she has, or an honorary degree allows someone to teach at an accredited school. since her degrees are bogus, and on her site she mentions at least one "school" as if it were a reputable place of learning which it is not (first time I have ever heard of it was on here),  as far as I am concerned she is bogus.