This document from the Animal Liberation Front lists her full name as Jaya Bear Becker.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/168686424/Quotes---Animal-Liberation-Front
She also takes groups on 14 day Spirit Journeys to Bali, the Land of God, where they experience sessions with traditional Balinese Healers, daily yoga, Flower Purification Ceremonies, massages and spa treatments,and visits to temples and sacred places ,just to name only a few of the amazing moments on this deeply healing journey. Jaya is a world traveler, born in South Africa and now living in Taos, New Mexico, and is the widow of the great visionary Native American teacher, Sun Bear.
http://www.bbsradio.com/content/headlined-guest-jaya-bear
Oh brother. I lived a year in Indonesia, including a little over a week I went to Bali. That supposed spiritual journey is just typical tourist stuff.
And not just tourist, but the worst kind of very sheltered western tourist who looks upon the locals as exotic animals. That's the kind of thing I tried to avoid (not just for ethical reasons. It's also a lot more expensive.) From her own site:
"From the moment you step off the plane, you are taken care of completely, including all your travel, hotel accommodations, and activities. Now imagine that the hotel rooms are luxurious from fresh flowers artfully arranged on your bed, to private swimming pools, to being serenaded to sleep and waking every morning by exotic invocations of devotion that fill the air and flow over the rice paddies and onto your veranda."
Yes, nothing says sooper spirchul more than a private swimming pool and veranda.
The local doing the tours for JB is listed as Made Mangku. There's a former governor by that name, which I'm sure is not the same person. This seems to be JB's guide.
http://bali-driver-mademangku.blogspot.com/Yes, a driver who shows around the tourists. Not a healer, not a respected elder, just a driver for hire who will take you surfing or white water rafting.
Really, it's not hard to find very old temples there, or people doing Hindu ceremony. They are in almost every city on the island of any size. That's just the nature of Hinduism. And yet her site is filled with amazingly clueless testimonies from people not knowing you could get the same result if you went on your own and just stumbled around. Tourism is such a big industry there, it's all easy to find.
But then again, you wouldn't have a private swimming pool, or you wouldn't be convinced flowers on your bed was sooper spirchul instead of pandering to wealthy westerners. You wouldn't be telling yourself going to a spa for the day that costs more than an average Indonesian makes in a month somehow makes you spiritually centered.
Laduke also married another white woman, Wabun Wind, who last I checked was leading the remnants of the Bear Tribe, which declined quite a bit since Laduke's death. The two wives seem to have gotten along well enough. I found in an online preview a dedication from Wabun to Jaya in the Medicine Wheel book.
But since there can't be two cult leaders, it seems JB has turned to selling ayahuasca and Hinduism tours. So that makes her...
...a white South African who married an Ojibwe ex actor turned cult leader who sold faux versions of Lakota ceremony.
...passing herself off as an expert on Hindu spirituality.
...and passing herself off as an expert on ayahuasca ceremony by South American tribes.
Moved to Frauds. Not just a deceptive fraud but a dangerous one.
