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Whitewolf Switzer AKA Grandfather Whitewolf
« on: December 09, 2014, 12:10:52 am »
Total fraud, with lots of made up celtic stuff (or manipulated, and a background that is so outrageous that I can't believe anybody believes him for a second. Just another money stream for Erick Gonzalez. He's been mentioned in a couple threads on other people (such as Erick Gonzalez), but seeing this, I figured he should have his own 'outing'.

http://earthpeoplesunited.org/wisdom_keepers/12-grandfather-whitewolf

http://earthpeoplesunited.org/teachings/201-ancient-celtic-christmas-ceremony

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Grandfather Whitewolf’s approach to life and learning is to share from an Open Heart an Open Mind and a Willingness to look at ways of doing things differently.  Together with his wife, Alicia, they share healing and ceremony with love, humor, compassion, understanding and forgiveness, to help us reclaim the 'native wisdom' that they believe lies within each of us.
 
Grandfather Whitewolf is a Singing Healer, Folk Healer, Practitioner of Plant Spirit Medicine, Pipe Carrier, Fire Keeper, Leader of the Community Sweat Lodge and the Men’s' Sweat Lodge, Teacher and  Spiritual Guide, who blends Celtic and Native American practices with respect, understanding, gentleness and wisdom.
 
He has had the honor to learn and share with elders and teachers of the four directions throughout his life, and founded Natural Pathways dedicated to Healing, Traditional Learning and Complementary Medicine.
 
His mother's ancestors came from Kerry Vale in Central Wales.  His Welsh Tribe was known as the 'Cornovii, and the Welsh are reknown as the 'Singing People'.  His traditional title in Welsh is 'Dyn Hybss', meaning 'Wise man and Magician'.  His father's Irish/German ancestors healed themselves thru sweating, faith healing, herbal medicine and bone-setting.  And his father's people have for generations had friendship ties with Native Americans.
 
Grandfather Whitewolf was born in 1941 in Chicago, Illinois.  And as a youth, in scouting, he developed his love of nature thru the gentle guidance of his father, Chief Anawabe (adopted Chippewa).  In 1977, he was initiated as a priest of the Sun in the Church of Tzaddi by Mello Rye (Cherokee, Bear Clan and Irish Dragon Clan), from whom he received ancient teachings of the Celtic Christmas Ceremony...a ceremony of alignment with the energies of the Sun and the Moon.  In 1981 he received his name Whitewolf, in a family ceremony by the Clan Mother of the Island Band of the Chumash.  From 1981 to 1986 he learned with his Lakota teacher and spiritual guide at Pyramid Lake, Nevada, undergoing traditional initiations and ceremonies.   In 2011 he was adopted into the Metis Bear Clan of Medicine Creek (Laytonville).  In 2012 he became the carrier of the Skara Brae, the ancient goddess of the Celtic Sweat Lodge.
 
In college Whitewolf was an activist for Peace and Civil Rights.  In August, 1964 he became the first Conscientious Objector to the Vietnam War, for which he was imprisoned for 18 months by the federal government.  In 1977 he received a Full Pardon from President Carter.
 
Whitewolf is also a Veteran of 50 years as an activist and supporter of Native Rights.  And for 40 years he has been a supporter of traditional native ceremonies and gatherings including: the Sun Dances at Walker Lake in 1985 and at Pyramid Lake in 1986, the International Sun Dance in Hawaii in 2008 and the Eagle Dance of the Quero Apache (their last one of the 4th world) in Redwood Valley, California  in 2011.
 
His education includes a BA degree in Social Sciences from Shimer College 1971 and graduation from internationally recognized massage and polarity therapy (energy healing) training at Heartwood Inst. (Garberville, Ca) in 1992.  He is a Lifetime member of the American Polarity Assn., an International Assn. of eclectic healers.  He has been on the massage staff at Wilbur Hot Springs, a nature sanctuary and ancient healing site, for 16 years.  He has travelled and taught Energy Healing throughout the US, Ireland, Wales, and England
 
His wife, Alicia, is a Leader of the Dances of Universal Peace, a Song Writer/Singer and Ceremonialist. Together they hold a vision of establishing a harmonious and sustainable sea/land community.
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Re: Whitewolf Switzer AKA Grandfather Whitewolf
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2014, 02:36:52 am »
His linkedin profile gives last name as Switzer.

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https://www.linkedin.com/pub/whitewolf-switzer/14/a29/207
Grandfather Whitewolf
Tierra Buena
August 2009 – Present (5 years 5 months)|Spring Valley, California
Sharing my wisdom and knowledge of ancient traditions of healing and learning for the future generations.

Singing Healer and Sun Priest White Wolf Society
August 1986 – Present (28 years 5 months)|Spring Valley, California
Teaching thru workshops on Massage Therapy, Polarity Therapy and Hydrotherapy.
 Teaching thru presentations on Natural Healing.
 Sharing of Cannabis Teas in ceremony for personal healing and growth.

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http://www.polaritytherapy.org/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=7&sobi2Id=114&Itemid=
Whitewolf Switzer, CMT, RPE
3755 Spring Valley Road
Clearlake Oaks CA 95423
Whitewolf Switzer, CMT, RPP, RPE  is a singing healer and folk healer in native american and celtic traditions. He offers healing and traditional learning through 'apprenticeships'...

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The woman Switzer says trained him was named Margaret Pryor AKA Mello Rye, from Arkansas, claiming to be Cherokee and teaching in San Francisco in the 60s. It's pretty obvious she wasn't teaching anything even remotely close to Cherokee ways.
  http://books.google.com/books?id=fryWltky084C&pg=PA204&lpg=PA204&dq=%22mello+rye%22&source=bl&ots=G1ePhHWuhj&sig=lX-KKHkmf2-t40JD8ZcWnx6UWa0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i1-GVKD0L4HxggTYp4GgAQ&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22mello%20rye%22&f=false
 


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Re: Whitewolf Switzer AKA Grandfather Whitewolf
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2014, 05:20:36 pm »
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In 1977 he received a Full Pardon from President Carter.

This is written as if Switzer is special. But President Carter pardoned hundreds of thousands of draft dodgers http://www.justice.gov/pardon/carter_instructions.htm , this was not at all a special deal between Carter and Switzer.

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Requests must be made in writing  to: Grandfather Whitewolf  3755 Spring Valley Rd. Clearlake Oaks, California 95423

Switzer obviously believes he is special.

He does have his Certified Massage Therapist license in California, #10236, under the name Whitewolf Switzer

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Re: Whitewolf Switzer AKA Grandfather Whitewolf
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2014, 05:26:15 pm »
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Name:    Whitewolf Robert Switzer
Also Known As:    Robert W Switzer
2nd Also Known As Name:    Whitewolf R Switzer
3rd Also Known As Name:    Whitewolf Swintzer

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K1KJ-99Z


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Re: Whitewolf Switzer AKA Grandfather Whitewolf
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2014, 07:14:36 pm »
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In 1977, he was initiated as a priest of the Sun in the Church of Tzaddi by Mello Rye (Cherokee, Bear Clan and Irish Dragon Clan), from whom he received ancient teachings of the Celtic Christmas Ceremony...a ceremony of alignment with the energies of the Sun and the Moon.

 :o

Wow. This is one of the most ludicrous resumes I've seen in a long time. Christmas is Christian, not "ancient Celtic" and there is no "Irish Dragon Clan" except perhaps in the minds of modern fantasists. What a ridiculous, hilarious claim.

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Sharing of Cannabis Teas in ceremony for personal healing and growth.

Yeah, I think he took too much, much too much. Dude needs to sober up, he's making a fool of himself.

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Re: Whitewolf Switzer AKA Grandfather Whitewolf
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2014, 07:55:25 pm »
http://earthpeoplesunited.org/wisdom_keepers/12-grandfather-whitewolf
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  In 2012 he became the carrier of the Skara Brae, the ancient goddess of the Celtic Sweat Lodge.

Again, laughable to anyone actually from the cultures he lies about, but also hideously offensive.

Skara Brae is a neolithic settlement in the Orkneys. It's an area in the northern islands of Scotland where people lived in about 3180 BCE–2500 BCE.  It's hard to tell exactly what culture people were that far back, but the known cultures who later inhabited the region include the Pictish people, lots of Vikings, and some Sámi who came over with the Vikings.

Skara Brae is not a "Celtic Sweat Lodge" goddess, and as we've covered many times over, the stone sweat houses (teach an allais, or taigh an fhallais) found in the coastal, Gaelic-speaking areas of Ireland and Scotland are not set up like Turtle Island sweat lodges, nor were they used in the same manner. They actually bear more resemblance to Nordic saunas. This guy is your garden-variety newage pretendian, trying to tart up his thefts with some knotwork and tartan. He insults all the ancestors.

Fraud.

This guy is so ignorant, I think he looked at the stone constructions in the Orkneys, saw that, like all the other things built out of stone, they're not dissimilar from how the much later sweat house structures were built (come on, there's only so many ways to pile stone to make a hut or house), and just Made Stuff Up. Frauds like this prey on people's ignorance, and it's especially disgusting when they try to disguise their thefts by misappropriating and misrepresenting multiple cultures in the process.