Lorraine Simone AKA Deep Arrow Woman, Moonfire Meeting House

[Sandy S]

A top follower of Joan Scheer is still active. "Deep Arrow Woman" / Lorraine Simone is still doing her deep arrow woman thing.

Moonfire Meeting House, a center for holistic wellness, earth education and spiritual unfolding, was founded in 1990 by Lorraine Simone, M.S. Ed., also known to many of you as Deep Arrow Woman.

https://moonfiremeetinghouse.com/about/

THE Rev. Lorraine Simone, also known by her Indian spirit name, Deep Arrow Woman, held a stick festooned with yarn and seashells. She instructed a group of 10 women and one man to pass it around and feel its vibrations, telling them the stick contained the energy ''of a lot of lives.''

During a five-hour workshop called ''The Goddess in Winter: a Guide to Rebirth,'' Ms. Simone, 53, sometimes broke into chants she identified as coming from an Indian tribe in the Pacific Northwest. At other times she shook two brightly colored rattles.

''I'm going to try and teach you how to die and to prepare for a new life in the spirit,'' she told the group.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140220121124/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/nyregion/it-s-not-what-they-taught-in-catholic-sunday-school.html

Ms. Simone said she had been initiated as a ceremonialist by Oh Shinnah Fast Wolf, an Apache and Mohawk elder and author, and had studied tribal cultures for 18 years. ''I don't feel I'm some non-native person ripping off native tradition,'' she said. ''I've put in my time and am constantly studying.''

https://web.archive.org/web/20150527202723/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/nyregion/it-s-not-what-they-taught-in-catholic-sunday-school.html?pagewanted=2

"Indian tribe in the Pacific Northwest" - which one? If we define PNW as roughly WA, OR, ID states, that is over 40 federally recognized tribes. Probably she was singing something garbled and made up. If not, did she have permission?

[educatedindian]

Continuing from the Scheer thread, the notorious fraud calling herself Oh Shinnah Fastwolf, an obvious German American con artist who posed as Apache and Mohawk and passed off bits of pretend Buddhism as pretend Native. Her follower and fellow con artist Simone's fraud:

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https://bbsradio.com/guestson/guest-lorraine-simone
Lorraine Simone, M.S. Ed. in Environmental Science...In 1990 Ms. Simone founded Moonfire Meeting House on Eastern Long Island...also the editor of its newsletter called Ways of the Talking Stick. Ms. Simone started The School of Women's Ways in 1995...programs such as Compassionate Communication, A Goddess for All Seasons, and Vibrational Medicine Ways, and teaches workshops...

...her retail store, Planet Earth, in Manhattan in 1985, she met Oh Shinnáh Fast Wolf, a renowned Apache-Mohawk teacher, with whom she has maintained an apprenticeship for eighteen years. Oh Shinnáh dreamed the Spirit name Deep Arrow Woman for Ms. Simone, as is the tradition of her people, and performed a naming ceremony for her. Today Deep Arrow Woman initiates her own apprentices who form the back bone of Moonfire Meeting House as the Deep Arrow Lodge.

...leads groups of non-native participants on an annual quest for transformation called The Journey of the Waters, an ancient cellular healing and initiation ceremony of the people called Apache.

Ms. Simone's inspirational CDs and forthcoming, "Spiritual Quest - Tools and Practices for the Everyday Shaman..."

Deep Arrow maintains a spiritual counseling practice in Southampton and Manhattan and facilitates "A Circle of Women" from Montauk to Manhattan...

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"Cellular ceremony?" Whatever that gibberish means, it's not one bit Apache. Neither is her phony name. Just like Fastwolf, it's an obvious imitation of Plains tribe naming.

"Moonfire?" Do these European play actors hear how silly they sound? Just call it the Flaming Menstruation Hangout.