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World Council of Elders & Woody Vaspra
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--- Quote from: seeker on September 28, 2008, 09:05:24 am ---I get the feeling from people who have met him that he is very convincing. He probably got connected to the Kanaka Maoli on Kauaii through the person he has been staying with. I looked up the records for the "Council" which lists his name as Lenwood H Vaspra. At that time (2006) he had an address in Boulder Colorado which is also where the group was headquartered. It truly is scary because so many Kanaka Maoli take people at their word when they say they are indigenous. A few years ago there was a guy calling himself Jack Happy Bear putting on sweats in 20 foot "Costco" tents for $250 a person on Hawai'i who had everyone convinced he was the real deal.
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Maybe Hawaii is becoming the new Sedona??? Although I know there alot of staunch and traditional elders there on the islands..alot are also very trusting which leads them to believe the garbage these people feed them...
So the question is.. who are the Lakota Elders (if there are even any)who gave Woody this right to run this sun dance...
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Just found this - does anyone know Frank Settee? I am "assuming this is the elder that Woody is saying gave him this altar.
shortened link to Google cache
Hello, my name is Kymberlee Ruff, MFT and I have just returned from the World Council’s First International Sundance. The Sundance was sponsored by the “World Council of Elders??? that was formed in 1999 by Woody Vaspra at the request of Grandfather Martin Gash-weseoma of the Hopi Nation. Grandfa-ther Martin said that all of the Indigenous People have calendars and Prophecies that coincide with major Earth shift changes from the years 2000-2012. If you would like to read more about this, you can investigate the web site at: www.worldcoucilofelders.org. I will explain a little about how I came to attend this magnificent event. I am 1/4 Cherokee and was born in a town in the Cherokee Nation. In the last few years, I have been blessed to be able to get to know the “Old Ways??? of my An-cestors and it has affected me profoundly. I believe that it has deepened the way I practice psychotherapy. I have worked in the field of psychology for the last thirty years and I’ve been licensed since 1986. In the last few years, I have seen such an increase in the levels of anxiety, dread and hopelessness in my clients and in the world in general. My experiences in the last few years have been the great-est antidote to all of the global fear. The Indigenous People believe that we are at the threshold of a New Beginning where all races love each other.
In 2002, I was asked to come to the Hopi Reservation to meet with Grandfather Martin Gashweseoma. He is the last liv-ing Elderly Elder of the Traditional Hopi Nation. He is the Keeper of the Sacred Tablets of the Fire Clan. Last year Grand-father Martin gave me the great honor of becoming an Honorary Hopi Elder. Last February, a group of people gathered at the Hopi Reservation at Grandfather’s request to make a documentary of the Hopi/Tibetan Prophecy. This is where I met Woody Vaspra and it was at this time that Woody invited me and my two sons to the First International Sundance. “The Sundance??? is one of the Seven Sacred Rites of the White Buffalo Calf Woman. For many years the Native Americans were forbidden from perform-ing their sacred ceremonies and rituals even though the U.S. Constitution guar-antees the Freedom of Religion. The Na-tives practiced their Sundances and Ghost Dances “underground??? at great risk to keep the traditions alive so that one day, the vision of all nations dancing together would come to pass.
The American Indian Religion Freedom Act was passed in 1978 and this opened the door to begin the creation of the First International Sundance. The Opening Ceremonies began on August 28, 2007 to coincide with the Lunar Eclipse, fol-lowed the next evening with the Tree Ceremonies coincidentally, there was a huge electrical storm in Santa Barbara and around the West that night. The Sundancing began on August 30 where the Sundancers fasted and danced for four days. This Sundance was called the “First??? Sundance because there is to be a Sundance every year in a different loca-tion until 2012 which will be in the Ma-yan temples of Tikal to coincide with the ending of the Mayan calendar. When I was at the Sundance, I saw the beginnings of hope for the future of our world. There was this moment when I was standing in the Sacred Circle of the Opening Tree Ceremony. I looked around and saw all of the Elders and Wise Ones who were there representing all of the cultures and races of this world. It was a sight I will never forget. Every culture was represented. The Elders came dressed in their traditional regalia. There was Woody Vaspra in his lava-lava and kukui bead, Michael Tamura in his Sam-urai skirt and fans, Maria Yraceburu in her traditional Apache dress, there was even an Aborigine they call “Major??? with a bone through his nose. The Mayan and Inkan Elders were adorned with bright clothes and feathers.
I feel incredibly lucky to have been able to attend this wondrous occasion and to bring my two precious sons, Jesse and Joe, with me to participate in the events. The most powerful moment of all for me was when we were gathered together in the Sacred Circle around the Sacred Tree that we had brought up together. The drumming stopped and you could smell the sage and looked around at the cloud formations in the sky of the White Buf-falo. At this point “Uncle??? Frank Settee the Lakota Grandfather of the Sundance spoke. He is the descendant of the last Chief at the Battle of Little Big Horn and the Massacre at Wounded Knee. Uncle Frank brought the Sacred Bundle of the Peace Pipe of Wounded Knee and we all smoked it together. Uncle Frank said:
“I don’t have to tell you what difficult times we live in. We are all here together help restore the Peace and Harmony to our Mother Earth.???
The Hopi have a saying: “We are the Ones we have been waiting for.??? It was a moment in time when I had complete faith that everything is going to work out perfectly on our troubled planet. I only hope that I can carry that feeling into my sessions with my clients.
Please see the next page for a photo of me, Sal Yepa the Elder from the Pueblo Nation and Jesse and Woody carrying the Buffalo Heads of the Four Races up to the mountain. We placed them around the Sacred Tree in the Four Directions. I cannot even find the words to adequate-ly describe what a magnificent and life changing experience that week on the top of that mountain was for everyone. I can only say that for that short time, we were living in The Fifth World: we were all ex-tremely happy and committed to creating a society of World Peace. I will spend the rest of my life trying to live up to the hon-or of being part of such an historic event.
Asqauli (which means thank you in
Hopi), Kymberlee
Kymberlee has an office at
1035 A De la Vina St.,
you can reach her at
(805) 962-5564, or email
KRuffMFCC@aol.com.
Thoughts and sayings of the H
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http://www.ralph-abraham.org/new/fulspec/sedona.html
Meeting Tribal Elders
Sedona Arizona, January 25-28, 2008
A sporadic dispatch from Ralph Abraham on February 05, 2008
Background
Long ago I met Andrew Bailey in London. He stayed in Santa Cruz for a time during the Hip days of the 1960s, and we met again in the 1990s in East Hampton NY when I first began consulting at the Ross School. We kept in touch over the years and almost met here and there. Eventually he divorced, left the Hamptons for points West, and met up with Connie Baxter Marlowe. I think it was about four years ago that they decided to include a short interview with me in a documentary they were working on, and we met a few times to record interviews. The film --- IN SEARCH OF THE FUTURE. What do the Wise Ones Know? --- featured elders of various indigenous tribes. My role, I supposed, was to represent the views of the lost tribe of Hippies. Last summer an early draft of the complete film was shown at the Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa, CA. Some of the tribal elders attended but I was unable to go. So when they planned a further gathering of elders in January I decided to attend.
Friday, January 25
I flew to Phoenix where I was to meet some of the group upon arrival at the "Sky Harbor". Even if I had not seen photos I could not miss John Renesch (like me, a non-indigenous elder), Woody Vaspra (Native Hawaiian, founder/president of the World Council of Elders), and Chief Sonne Reyna (of the Yaqui-Carrizo Nations). After rendezvous and introductory hugs we found Nicoloa Gradon, our ride to Sedona. Two hours later we arrived at the INNstitute, where at dinner we met the entire cast, including of course our hosts, Connie Baxter Marlow and Andrew Cameron Bailey, and also Sakina Blue Star (Sioux, Choctaw-Cherokee and Scottish heritage), Mona Polacca (International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers), Wachan Bajiyoperak and wife and daughter (Incas from Cuzco, Peru), and some Sedona regulars who dropped by, such as Suzy Chaffee, the 1968 Olympic skier from Rutland, Vermont, and cofounder of the Native Voices Foundation, and Adam Yellowbird.
Saturday, January 26
This whole day was devoted to a public event, opened with a dance and ritual by the Inca family. Each elder gave a brief exhortation, then the audience participated in a talking circle. The day closed with a performance of tribal chants with Adam Yellowbird, Chief Sonne, and Woody Vaspra. Revolutionary socializing filled the evening and into the night, with me and John Renesch boggled by a plethora of native stories, myths, alternative histories, and so on. This crowd has a lot of fun and warm hugs.
Sunday, January 27
Breakfast and the whole day we continued the subtext of the public event: our own private gathering of elders. In addition to more stories, myths, tribal lore, and so on, we learned of various efforts to unify indigenous peoples all over the globe, send native teams to the Olympics, recover native lands, etc.
Monday, January 28
I flew home. Most memorable, for me was the revelation of the global integrative movement involving the World Council of Elders, the International Sundance Movement, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, and the Eagle-Condor Project. The tribal elders are fully functional with the internet, and are rapidly evolving an intentional global society. Besides grokking the global system comprising biosphere and human population, and the primacy of love, they are given to good times, hospitality, much laughter, and of course, high wisdom.
Links:
* Visioning the Future
* In Search of the Future
* World Council of Elders
* The INNstitute at Sedona
* The Native Voices foundation
Cat:
I tried to attach a jpeg of Woody with something that looks like a sundance crown but..it appears to be one of those plastic leis?????? If it doesnt upload here is the link...
http://www.robertdespain.com/node/120
educatedindian:
"Kymberlee Ruff, MFT and I have just returned from the World Council’s First International Sundance. The Sundance was sponsored by the “World Council of Elders??? that was formed in 1999 by Woody Vaspra at the request of Grandfather Martin Gash-weseoma of the Hopi Nation. "
And yet on Ruff's online workshop and seminar selling site, it says this:
http://www.thedreammasters.org/hopi/martingashweseoma.php
"I get dozens of emails a month for Grandfather Martin requesting he look at websites, come to events or call people. At this time he does not want to travel at all to anywhere. He cannot hear and does not use computers or phones. So, please know these requests will not be fulfilled. -Lisa"
It appears Gashweseoma is very elderly and ailing and being badly used, much like Roy Steevensz did to a Hopi elder.
Some other strange things on that site.
"A note from Kymberlee Ruff....
Dear Friends,
....Miriam Delicado drove all the way from CANADA when to talk to the Hopi Tribal Council. Even though in the end, they said "No", they almost agreed and it was still the respectful way to proceed."
But you went ahead and did it anyway. So you were not being respectful.
"I also would like to thank Michael Mohoric who did a Qigong session IN the car on the road driving through the Navaho reservation when the Navaho police stopped us."
What the...?
"The trip was an enormous success. The Hopi Tribal Council said that we could not film on Hopi land so we went to the Painted Desert.
Bet you're proud of yourself, weaseling around what the elected Hopi officials explictly told you not to do.
Bio of Lisa Rhyne, that Ruff works with on dream masters:
"....a promoter for the biggest names in entertainment including Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, Garth Brooks....a guest correspondent on A Current Affair and has also been a featured guest on numerous international talk shows such as The Phil Donohue Show, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, The Maury Povich Show, The Jane Whitney Show, CNBC's America's Talking and The Oprah Winfrey Show....
Her studies are nurtured and guided by some of the greatest living Teachers, Mystics, Healers and Shamans including Hopi Elder Martin Gashweseoma, Hank Wesselman & Jill Kuykendall, Alberto Villoldo...but most are in other Dimensions and those realms of Light and Love - the ethereal realms....
Lisa's Certifications and Trainings:
Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications/Theater from Ball State University
Master Hypnotist<<<
Master Ericksonian Hypnotist<<<
Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)<<<(commonly used by cult leaders to control others)
Master Trainer of NLP
Master Practitioner of Creation Technologies™
Master of Neurological Repatterning
Master Results Coach
Master Performance Consultant
Chekhov Technique Master
Yuen Method of Chinese Energetics/Energetic Healing
Matrix Energetics"
Here Ruff claims to be an "honorary Hopi elder" and "carrier of the Tibetan/Hopi prophecy." She tried to set up an event for fraud Maria Naylin/Yraceburu.
http://sanjosecircle.com/category/special-events/
And here she claims to be a Cherokee shaman.
http://realityshifters.com/pages/archives/jun08.html
Back to the worldcouncil link and Ruff:
"I am 1/4 Cherokee and was born in a town in the Cherokee Nation."
What town? Which of the three Cherokee tribes? And it's been my experience that it's PODIAs who say "part tribe X."
"In the last few years, I have been blessed to be able to get to know the “Old Ways??? of my An-cestors and it has affected me profoundly."
There's nothing even vaguely Cherokee I can see in what she does.
"I have worked in the field of psychology for the last thirty years and I’ve been licensed since 1986."
Working unlicensed for 10 years?
"...Grandfather Martin Gashweseoma. He is the last liv-ing Elderly Elder of the Traditional Hopi Nation."
Oh please, more racist "traditional Indians are dying off" nonsense.
" Last February, a group of people gathered at the Hopi Reservation at Grandfather’s request to make a documentary of the Hopi/Tibetan Prophecy. This is where I met Woody Vaspra and it was at this time that Woody invited me and my two sons to the First International Sundance."
It's not the first one by a long shot, you just claim it is.
"The American Indian Religion Freedom Act was passed in 1978 and this opened the door to begin the creation of the First International Sundance. The Opening Ceremonies began on August 28, 2007"
Why did it take you almost 30 years then?
"Every culture was represented.... There was Woody Vaspra in his lava-lava and kukui bead, Michael Tamura in his Sam-urai skirt and fans, Maria Yraceburu in her traditional Apache dress, there was even an Aborigine they call “Major??? with a bone through his nose. The Mayan and Inkan Elders were adorned with bright clothes and feathers."
There's thousands of cultures that aren't represented, and at least two of those elders are frauds. Three counting Ruff. One man cannot make you an "elder."
"....Frank Settee the Lakota Grandfather of the Sundance spoke. He is the descendant of the last Chief at the Battle of Little Big Horn and the Massacre at Wounded Knee."
Big Foot was the chief at Wounded Knee, and he was killed along with most of his family.
"Uncle Frank brought the Sacred Bundle of the Peace Pipe of Wounded Knee and we all smoked it together."
Smoking a bundle? Maybe she just worded that wrong.
Found these on Settee:
http://www.shared-vision.com/20061101/the_healer
http://www.hellocoolworld.com/assets/WAVAW_GCC_Smudge_Backgrounder2.pdf
He looks to be a serious man. Perhaps he's unaware of just what this "council" really is and is up to.
"The Hopi have a saying: “We are the Ones we have been waiting for.???
We have a thread on that. It was a Black civil rights leader who first said that.
"Please see the next page for a photo of me, Sal Yepa the Elder from the Pueblo Nation"
Yepa is a pottery maker and artist who is promoted by the fraud Naylin/Yraceburu.
"I can only say that for that short time, we were living in The Fifth World."
Don't the prophecies say that this already is the Fifth World?
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