His comments, though guarded, were unsettling. On his journeys into Manitoba and his frequent work among the Cree, he had sought to verify her claims. No one had even heard of her. In November , an affidavit was filed with a lawsuit brought by David Carson, a writer and former live-in companion of Andrews, contending that "as a result of our personal relationship, she and I composed a series of literary works that includes Medicine Woman, Flight of the Seventh Moon , Jaguar Woman , and Star Woman.
David Hall, a longtime acquaintance of Carson who said he watched the two work together, claims that Andrews supplied rough sketches from her experiences in Beverly Hills, and Carson wove them into a fictional narrative describing her exotic adventures with various shamans based on his own knowledge of Native American culture. Carson has claimed he is of Choctaw descent Adolph and Smoley wrote that several Native American leaders contend that Andrews had made errors regarding geography and custom, especially in her descriptions of ancient ceremonies.
Two of the exotic ceremonies performed by Crees in Medicine Woman are unknown among the Cree people of Manitoba, according to Flora Zaharia. A review of Andrews's Medicine Woman confirms Zaharia's claim, indicating that Andrews is ignorant of the culture she claims for her teacher:.
I come from Manitoba and have lived there for over 50 years. It's not part of their culture. The last and final huge mistake is the fact that most of this story could not have taken place outside without huge, huge bottles of mosquito repellant as anyone who lives in the bush in Manitoba knows, especially those who may have a reason to go naked in the woods. I am amazed that Lynn Andrews thinks we are dumb enough to believe this is an autobiography.
Give me a break!! After doing some research on the internet, I am also amazed to find out that her live-in companion at the time this was written was David Carson co-author with Jamie Sands of Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals who, at the time, claimed HE helped her write it.
Also note that in the Medicine Cards book, David dedicates the book to three aunts, and two happen to have the names Ruby and Agnesthe same two female characters in Medicine Woman. True to a Californian's perception of Manitoba, the narrator steps off a plane in Winnipeg and sets off across "the Canadian tundra.
Prairie grass does not get long enough to blow in the breeze until July, which means that the narrator either does not know what season it is, or believes that it is cold enough on the "tundra" at all seasons to justify her "sweaters, wool socks, and flannel pajamas. Andrews's first encounter with the Cree in Crowley typifies her misguided and often insulting perception of native people.
Throughout the book, the natives treat her with indifference, insult, or degradation, and the narrator is either too slow-witted, or too taken with the esoteric nature of her experiences to realize it. Although supposedly a reserve town, Crowley is just like all the Western towns in Hollywood movies. It consists of some houses and a "Trading Post" full of "brown round-faced children eating Hostess cupcakes. The Manitoba Cree undoubtedly practice cattle roping during the summer when their trap lines are inactive, although Andrews has not suggested what they would use for cattle in the black spruce and muskeg marsh lands in which most of them live.
The directions which Andrews obtains from the Indians at the Trading Post are sufficiently vague so that she does not know whether to follow the road or to search for Agnes Whistling Elk up on the "Black Mesa. It would appear that the evidence strongly suggests that Andrews is not the shaman she says she is. She is available for bookings as a keynote speaker, and she has an online store Lynn Andrews Productions Inc.
Her store motto is "Giving the Gift of Spirit. Would she lie? She's giving you the opportunity to introduce the Sisterhood of the Shields to a whole new generation of shamans. This offer expires soon. See also Carlos Castaneda , shamanism , and Jean Houston. This is injustice, and Andrews does profit from it. But worse, in a period of cultural genocide, when Indian societies are under unprecedented assault by the mass media, her portrayal of their traditions threatens to drown out authentic expressions.
Sarangerel Odigon one of the critics in "Lynn Andrews Exposed". Without fail, every hit that comes up is put up by an individual who is engaged in some type of fraudulent activity. Lynn Andrews may have a glimmer of glee and greed in her eyes, but she doesn't have blood on her hands like another fake medicine man, James Arthur Ray:.
Jail for self-help guru James Arthur Ray over sweat lodge deaths James Arthur Ray was sentenced to three two-year terms for the deaths of James Shore, Liz Neuman and Kirby Brown, who died after attending a personal growth seminar he led near Sedona, Arizona, in Books by R. Print versions available in Dutch , Russian , Japanese , and Korean. Permission to print Site Statistics. From Abracadabra to Zombies View All a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Lynn Andrews "Lynn Andrews has been instrumental in propagating the non-existent Sisterhood of the Shields.
Hagan The Plastic Medicine People Circle According to her website , Lynn Andrews is a New York Times and internationally best-selling author of the Medicine Woman Series, which chronicles her three decades of study and work with shaman healers on four continents. I became skeptical of her authenticity when I read the following on the first page of her website: She is initiated as a member of the Sisterhood of the Shields, 44 women who are healers from cultures as diverse as Panama, Guatemala, Australia, Nepal, North America and the Yucatan.
As Jon Magnuson , co-chair of the Native American Task Force of the Church Council of Greater Seattle, put it: What is important to understand is that Native spirituality takes specific forms among specific people, places and communities.
He considers Andrews's posing as a shaman reprehensible Jon Magnusun writes: An even more devastating illustration of the selling of Native American soul is embodied in the controversy surrounding Lynn Andrews. A review of Andrews's Medicine Woman confirms Zaharia's claim, indicating that Andrews is ignorant of the culture she claims for her teacher: I come from Manitoba and have lived there for over 50 years.
Another disgruntled reviewer writes: I am amazed that Lynn Andrews thinks we are dumb enough to believe this is an autobiography. Lynn Andrews may have a glimmer of glee and greed in her eyes, but she doesn't have blood on her hands like another fake medicine man, James Arthur Ray: Jail for self-help guru James Arthur Ray over sweat lodge deaths James Arthur Ray was sentenced to three two-year terms for the deaths of James Shore, Liz Neuman and Kirby Brown, who died after attending a personal growth seminar he led near Sedona, Arizona, in These women the shamans feel the earth is in danger of wobbling off and dying due to nuclear war or other man-made catastrophes and they feel the reason for this is the imbalance of male and female power.
A number of men--as well as women--have responded to the message in her books, Andrews said. They come to her seeking to restore their personal balance of male and female energies. She is not the first non-Indian to be enticed by the rich world of Native American culture, but Andrews said she is trying to avoid the mistake made by others--she will not pretend to be an Indian.
And she does not intend to take up residence on Cree lands. Home is the same year-old converted hunting lodge in a Beverly Hills canyon where she formerly lived with her family. In some parts of Canada, people would bring me a horse and a blanket in exchange for my work. Here, it just happens to be money.
There are things Andrews can do in the city to spread the word of medicine women that Agnes or Ruby could not, Andrews said. They would be lost, for instance, when it comes to dealing with actors and directors. Saying that she shares half the profits from the books with Agnes and Ruby, Andrews denied that she is exploiting Cree secrets. In addition to her counseling, Andrews keeps in touch with Agnes and Ruby and other members of a group known as the Sisterhood of the Shields. A society of shaman women from cultures around the world, they share a desire to apply the concept of balance on a global scale.
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