Robert Vaughters & Sharon Melnick AKA Robert & Sharon Chinook & Chinook Aerie

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http://www.chinookretreats.com/about-us

Typical retreat center run by new ager hippies. 'Pay us to come to our retreat, we have a medicine garden (shaped like a medicine wheel!), celtic ceremony (puke), elders sweatlodge, etc, etc.'

Robert is an elder shaman who lives with the Spirits of this land night and day, while Sharon still drives twenty miles into town where she works as the "village shrink" three days a week. Robert offers an hour of energy healing developed from a core shamanism practice of twenty years. Additional hours are $100.

http://www.writersretreat.com/retreatdetails.php?id=157
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[Epiphany]

ROBERT & SHARON CHINOOK
Ritual, Ceremony and Retreats

Inviting Spirit * Courting Creator * Evolving Ego * Enlivening Self

~ Drumming Journeys, Soul Retrieval & Extraction, Recapitulation ~

http://www.workingwinds.com/

Checked whois info for both sites - the registrant,admin, tech contacts don't help with finding out who the "Chinooks" actually are.

Working Winds business corporation info, Robert Chinook is the authorized rep and registrant:

http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.show_detl?p_be_rsn=1445521&p_srce=BR_INQ&p_print=FALSE

She is Sharon Kay Melnick M.D., P.C. (P.C. means professional corporation, she is incorporated for business purposes) http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.show_detl?p_be_rsn=1297325&p_srce=BR_INQ&p_print=FALSE

http://dragonflytransitions.com/staff

[Epiphany]

Looks like he is Robert C Vaughters, known also as Robert V Chinook.

[Epiphany]

Robert Chinook
Shaman
Klamath Falls, Oregon (Medford, Oregon Area) Alternative Medicine

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-chinook/59/a35/1a4

Dr. Sharon Melnick is Psychiatrist/Medical Director & Clinical Consultant at Dragonfly Transitions -

Dragonfly Transitions is home-away-from-home for young adults who are struggling with the transition to healthy, productive independence. Our dedicated faculty support residents in their quest for independent living skills, personal growth and emotional maturation.

http://dragonflytransitions.com/transitions

Dragonfly Transitions has an organic garden project out on Sharon & Richard's land:

....at a Mayday party out at Sharon and Robert Chinook's Aerie (40 acres on the edge of the Bald Eagle nesting grounds of Bear Valley) where a large organic garden plot was being dedicated as a co-project with the Dragonfly Transitions youth program...

http://ancientway.com/blog/?cpage=ctfybrrgclhi&paged=24

Ideally the teaching kids to raise and market produce would be kept entirely separate from "core shamanism" and "we are all chinook" type beliefs.

[Epiphany]

The Circle of the Sacred Earth is a shamanic church founded in 1990 by its current Director Roy Bauer, D.D., C.S.C. The Circle (or the CSE) provides religious services both traditional and non-traditional.

http://www.circleofthesacredearth.org/index.htm

Local Ministers of the Circle of the Sacred Earth in Oregon include: Robert Vee Chinook

http://www.circleofthesacredearth.org/results.asp?state=OR

He was Robert Vee Chinook when he married Sharon Kaye Melnick in 1995.