Rolling Thunder

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Rolling Thunder (dt. Rolling Donner ; civil John Pope ; 1916-1997) described himself as an American medicine man who (presumably) falsely pretended to be an Indian . He later moved to Nevada to the tribe of Shoshone to his first wife Spotted Fawn (dt. Spotted Fawn ) after their ritual to marry. In his later years, Rolling Thunder suffered from emphysema . He died in 1997 of complications from diabetes .

Lore

“It was only in 1971 that Indian healers gave up their previously complete restraint. On April 15 of this year, the Menninger Foundation hosted the first international conference on a new branch of science, consciousness research, at the White Memorial Camp in Council Grove , Kansas. For the first time a 'medicine man', the Cherokee Rolling Thunder, spoke as a speaker on 'the self-control of mental states'. "

- HJ Stammel : The healing knowledge of the Indians , Reinbek 1986, p. 80f.

Allegedly, he immediately cured a seriously ill athlete whom he had never seen before. The esoteric author Doug Boyd published a book in 1974, which was published in German translation in 1981: He attested to him "amazing skills and knowledge [...] which on the one hand appear scientifically founded, on the other hand are still inexplicable."

The work of Rolling Thunders is also the subject of the story Rolling Thunder Speaks. A Message for Turtle Island , edited by his second wife, Carmen Sun Rising Pope , in 1998 .

Rolling Thunder plays a small role in the 1974 film The Trial of Billy Jack , starring Tom Laughlin .

literature

  • Doug Boyd: Rolling Thunder. Experiences with a shaman of the new Indian movement. Translation by Jane Woolverton, Trikont Verlag Munich, 1st edition 1978. (American edition: Random House, New York, 1974)
  • Doug Boyd: Rolling Thunder. Experience with an Indian medicine man . Foreword by Claus Biegert . Translated from English by Janet Woolverton. Maro, Augsburg 2001, ISBN 3-87512-257-7 .
  • Doug Boyd: Mad Bear. Spirit, healing, and the sacred in the life of Native American medicine man . Simon & Schuster, New York 1994, ISBN 0-671-75945-0 .
  • Rolling Thunder, Carmen Sun Rising Pope: Rolling Thunder Speaks. A Message for Turtle Island . Clear Light Publishers, Santa Fe 1999, ISBN 1-57416-026-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Panther-Yates, Donald N: The Eighth Arrow: Right, Wrong and Confused Paths according to Tihanama Elder Wisdom. Standing Bear Press, 2007.
  2. ^ HJ Stammel: The healing knowledge of the Indians , Reinbek 1986, p. 138. ISBN 3-8052-0406-X .
  3. ↑ Doug Boyd: Rolling Thunder , Munich 1981. Listed under this date in: HJ Stammel, 1986, p. 346f.
  4. ↑ In detail in: HJ Stammel, 1986, p. 81.
  5. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072317/fullcredits/
personal data
SURNAME Rolling Thunder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pope, John (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medicine man from the Cherokee tribe
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
DATE OF DEATH 1997