Here I present articles, letters and videos about
my Indigenous Peoples' rights advocacy initiatives, accomplishments and related leadership mission in today's New Age hippie religion and counterculture revolution. There is a
grassroots and
top down
revival of the 1960s hippie religion and counterculture revolution occurring today.
Learn more about this topic by going to my Facebook group located here.
On this site, I first present an introduction to my indigenous peoples' rights advocacy work. Then I
present an article about my related New Age hippie counterculture mission. Then I present a link
to my Rum River Name Change Movement site. Then titles and links to my articles, letters and videos
are presented. My e-mail addresses are displayed at the end of this homepage.
An introduction to my indigenous peoples' rights advocacy work:
I started my indigenous peoples' rights advocacy work by initiating the Rum River Name-Change Movement.
After initiating this movement I soon became a co-founder of the
Rum River Name
Change Organization, and I have been its director since its origins.
My advocacy work to change the derogatory name of a Minnesota river:
Our effort to
restore the sacred Dakota name Wakan (Spirit) to the "Rum River" has
received support from two Mdewakanton Dakota communities, as well as many organizations
and individuals, including several nationally and three internationally renowned Indigenous
rights activists, a Roman Catholic archbishop, bishop and MN state representative, etc.. We've also
received a letter from the Vatican and support from a representative of a UN Indigenous organization.
Many local businesses, parks, trails, etc. now have the name Spirit River, such as Spirit River Nature Area.
West Rum River Drive was changed to Spirit River Drive. And there is a Watpa Wakan Trail.
My advocacy work on a Minnesota bill to change 13 derogatory geographic place names:
At my request (now retired) Representative Mike Jaros wrote up a 2007 bill to change 13 derogatory
geographic place names. Then, after I addressed the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and received
its support for Jaros to introduce the bill to the legislature, he did so. The Council also asked
me to write a letter to the legislature expressing its support for the passage of
the bill, which I did.
My advocacy work associated with a USA Today/Arizona Republic article:
Several years ago, I was corresponding with a leader of the
national movement to restore Native names to sacred places. His name is Robert Satiacum. At the time, a USA Today/Arizona
Republic article presented our names and information about our work. The article is titled Tribes embrace native names to preserve culture.
The article is subtitled Return to original place names preserves cultures, fixes
wrongs. After this article was published, Minnesota's best-selling daily newspaper, the Star Tribune, subsequently
published an article titled Time to fix Rum River error?
My advocacy work on a Minnesota House Concurrent Resolution:
In 1992 Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape)
and Birgil Kills Straight (Oglala Lakota) started a campaign to set their people
free from the subjugated state of existence imposed upon indigenous peoples around the world by an
international legal construct known as the Doctrine of Discovery (DoD), a doctrine based on a
series of 15th century papal bulls. Newcomb recently met with Pope Francis to ask him to
revoke one of those infamous papal bullsInter Caetera and to
also give the pope an article and book he authored. The campaign that Newcomb and Kills
Straight began in 1992 is now a global movement.
At my request Newcomb gave some input into
a Minnesota resolution that I, with Chief
Leonard Wabasha's supervision, wrote and Representative Dean Urdahl edited and introduced
to the MN legislature. The resolution includes a statement about the Doctrine of Discovery.
My advocacy work associated with both, 1.) a Newcomb & archbishop approved meeting on
the Doctrine of Discovery that I had with the Head of a Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Commission, and 2.) my
related DoD-topic dialogue with three other prominent Minnesotans:
Mr. Newcomb helped edit an environmental article of mine that I publicly posted and then
sent to the Minnesota Council Of Churches. Along with the article I also sent a personal message. In response,
Kim Olstad, the Interfaith/Multi-faith Program Director at Minnesota Council of Churches, informed me that she was involved
with a Saint Paul interfaith organization named SPIN and that it was going to present a series on the
Doctrine of Discovery, called, "Disavowing the Doctrine of Discovery." She also requested a meeting
with me.
I then sent related messages to both, Archbishop John Nienstedt, the (at the time) Head of the Saint Paul
and Minneapolis Archdiocese, and to Jason Adkins, Executive Director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference. In
the messages I stated that I believed that Minnesota was coming into the forefront of the global movement
to rectify the injustices caused by the Doctrine of Discovery.
In response to one of the messages, I received a message from Jason Adkins. We began to dialogue. I then received an indirect message from
Archbishop Nienstedt wherein he informed me that Father Erick Rutten, the Head of the Archdiocesan Commission on Ecumenism
and Interreligious Affairs would meet with me. We met and had a good dialogue session. Steven Newcomb indirectly participated
in the DoD dialogue that I had with these high ranking Roman Catholic officials.
My advocacy work associated with both, 1.) a MN sesquicentennial reconciliation event, and 2.) a Winona Daily
News guest editorial of mine about this event.
In 2008, Minnesota celebrated its Sesquicentennial. At the time, a sesquicentennial reconciliation event was held in
Winona to primarily bring the Dakota hereditary chiefs and Minnesota Governmental officials together to address issues
that have caused painful conflicts between the two groups, and to also find solutions to heal the painful wounds
that still exist-mostly for the Dakota people. During the event Chief Leonard Wabasha invited me to speak
to the two groups during a circle gathering, which I did. After the event I submitted an editorial article
about the event to the Winona Daily News. It was published. The newspaper titled it STATE LOOKS TO SETTLE UP WITH THE PAST.
My advocacy work associated with a Wikipedia promoted article of mine, entitled: A History Of The Dakota
People In Minnesota:
A Wikipedia Lakota information web page has a sentence in it that reads:
Sioux land underwent expansion...armed firearms
[3].
The reference number link [3.] goes to my article titled "A History Of The Dakota People
In Minnesota." In the NOTES section there is a sentence that reads: 3. by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer A History Of The Dakota People In Minnesota.
My advocacy work associated with my many published letters in a Mille Lacs County newspaper:
My many letters and a few articles that have been published in a Minnesota county newspaper, the Mille Lacs Messenger,
present information about my campaign to help the Dakota Oyate regain their sacred Mille Lacs traditional ancestral
homeland and independent sovereign nation status and rights. A web page of mine presents links to
these letters and articles. It also presents some excerpts from them. The web page is titled
Regaining The
Dakota Oyate's Mille Lacs Ancestral Homeland.
My advocacy work associated with the National MultiCultural Institute's promotion of my
article titled: Independent Indigenous Sovereign Nations:
My article Independent Indigenous Sovereign Nations was first posted
in Indigenous Peoples Literature. Then Paul Gorski, a nationally and internationally renowned multicultural educator and activist,
posted it on his MultiCultural Pavilion digest forum. Then Amy Kasi, Program Manager for the National MultiCultural
Institute, displayed a quote from the article and a link to it in the spotlight section of the
institute’s October 2008 newsletter. In respect to my article, Amy Kasi wrote: I think it would
be a valuable resource for anyone interested in not only indigenous peoples but also the history of
the US and human rights violations in the US.
My advocacy work associated with my writing contributions to a Native news source:
Steven Newcomb is co-founder and co-director of the Indigenous Law Institute. He is a
world-renowned Indigenous rights activist. And he was a columnist for Indian Country Today
Media Network (ICTMN). This newspaper recently came to an end. It had been for years
the world's largest Native news source. This news source occasionally posted a selective comment or two on its
articles. It regularly posted
my comments on Newcomb's articles.
In a
comment of mine that was posted on an ICTMN article
by Newcomb (an article that was published soon after he met with the pope) I presented the
title and some other information about an article of mine related to his article. I am
referring to my article
Native Rights, Pope Francis And The New World Order. I
believe that Newcomb's ICTMN articles were being closely monitored by the Vatican. And I believe
that it is likely that my comments on Newcomb's articles were also monitored and that this website
was (and still is) being monitored by the Holy See.
My advocacy work to establish a peaceful cultural revolution to set indigenous peoples free
The Circle is the Native American newspaper of Minnesota, covering Native issues, culture
and arts for 35 years. In 2014, the world's largest Native news source published an article by the Chair of the
Minnesota Indian Affairs Council. The article is titled The Truth About Our Origins
Will Set Us All Free. It has three selective comments on it. One sentence in my comment on it reads: This Kevin Leecy's article
is a sign among a number of other signs that indicate that Minnesota is coming into the forefront of the American and global movement that is shining a light on the dark chapters of colonialism, with the aim "to move beyond guilt
and anger to real healing."
My entire comment on Leecy's ICTMN article is presented in an article of mine titled Reconciliation. My article
on The Circle's website is titled Healing The Dakota's Painful Wounds Of Genocide. This article was not
publicly presented in The Circle until after I wrote and posted an article titled
New Age Panentheism. Its first sentence reads:
It appears to me that the whole world is moving toward the acceptance and practice of a One World Religion that will
be similar to the Lakota religion.
News: On March 30, 2018, the Union Times, a newspaper that covers news in
Mille Lacs and Sherburne counties, published the following linked to letter of mine. It includes a lot of the information in the
above two paragraphs. It calls for the governor of Minnesota to establishment a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A commission
that would start a peaceful cultural revolution that would set Indigenous Peoples free. The letter was given the title
Let real healing begin, continue
This letter (along with reference links)
is also posted on my website. I entitled it Establishing A Peaceful
Cultural Revolution.
More News: On July 11, 2018, I received Mark Charles' approval to present links to his
articles and videos on my website. Mr. Charles is the son of a Navajo man and a woman of Dutch heritage. The introduction speaker to
one of Mr. Charles' video recorded lectures
to a large Christian audience said: "He is one of our nation's leading voices articulating the need for First Nations reconciliation." An excellent video of
his on this (mentioned above) Truth and Reconciliation Commission topic is located
here.
My advocacy work associated with an article of mine that is presented on the Republic of Lakotah's website.
The Republic of Lakotah is a sovereign Lakota territory advocated for by the late Russell Means.
Mr. Means was an internationally renowned Oglala Lakota activists. I once spoke on the phone with Russell Means. He gave his
written support for the effort to restore the sacred Lakota/Dakota/Nakota name Wakan to the badlly named "Rum River."
He also gave his support for my environmental activist work in the "Rum" (Wakan/
Wahkon) River
Watershed. After his death his Lakota friends took over the management of the Republic of Lakotah's website. My article
entitled
Ending Catholicism And Related U.S. Imperialism is
presented on this site. This article (plus reference links) is also located here. A related article is located here. A related letter is located here.
My advocacy work associated with both, 1.) Tom Wisner's nation-wide radio broadcasted support for my effort
to restore the sacred Dakota-Lakota-Nakota name to the badly named "Rum" River, and 2.) Mr. Wisner's related support for
my "Rum (Wahkon) River Watershed" Native eco-spirituality inspired environmental activist/advocate mission..
Tom Wisner (1930-2010) was a nationally renowned singer, song writer and environmentalist. He made
the movement to restore the sacred Dakota-Lakota-Nakota name to the badly named "Rum" River the centerpiece
of his 2005 Winter Solstice radio broadcast, a two hour show that was presented live on the radio and internet.
He also gave his support for my "Rum (Wahkon) River Watershed"
environmental mission.
Mr. Wisner was known nationally for his song "Chesapeake Born," a song which, during his life time, became
the title song for the 1986 National Geographic Special on the Bay region. Wisner's classroom techniques
were filmed by Washington-area NBC-TV and other stations, and he received national, state, and local awards for
excellence in teaching. He was given citations by two governors and was named a major figure in land-conservation
work by President Reagan's Commission on the Out-of-Door.
My advocacy work associated with an article of mine that the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community,
at my request, posted on its facebook site.
On June 17, 2017, the title of my article Fighting Racism Against Natives In Mille Lacs County, MN, plus
the link to it, along with a map highlighting Mille
Lacs County, was posted here on the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community's
facebook site.
My advocacy work associated with Hippyland's promotion of my article entitled: UN, Natives And Hippies Unite
To Save The World:
I recently posted an article
here on Hippyland's "New Age" forum. Hippyland is an
over 290,000 registered members interactive website. Its founder and webmaster is Skip Stone. Skip added his "like" to the
article and then initiated e-mail correspondence with me. We have been occasionally corresponding for years. He has my
article
UN, Natives And Hippies Unite To Save The World prominently displayed
on his Hippyland site. It is located
here on my site, including reference links and pictures.
Article about countreculture mission:
My New Age & Hippie Counterculture, One-World Mission
by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer
In an online Wikipedia encyclopedia
document about the history of the New Age
and its popular expression within [today's] hippie counterculture revolution there is a statement that reads:
From a historical perspective, the New Age phenomenon is rooted in the counterculture of the 1960s.
I have a Facebook group that is about my New Age & hippie counterculture, one-world revolutionary mission. It is titled "The Mr. & Mrs. I. (I) C. (See) Rainbow Family Mission."
Several of my Rainbow family relatives have joined this group.
Both, my Facebook group's introduction and an
article of mine present evidence
as to why I believe my extended Mr. & Mrs. I. C.
(I See) Rainbow family is destined to lead this revolutionary counterculture mission to its ultimate
goal. The establishment of the New Age of peace, love and unity. Wherein humanity will be religiously
liberated and also united in a one-world government, religion and economic system.
“One-World Church Expected This Year,” this is the title of an article published in Catholic
Culture. In the article, its author Cornelua R. Ferreira wrote: Global ethicists are actually
following Helena Blavatsky, founder of the New Age Movement. Blavatsky said she wished to revive
Second—and Third—Century theosophy, which aimed "to reconcile all religions, sects and nations under
a common system of ethics" and "to induce [religions] to lay aside their ... strifes, remembering
only that they [all possessed] the same truth" or "ancient wisdom"
During the late Pope Francis' reign he said at an interfaith gathering that
"Every religion is a way to arrive at God" It seems to me that the Roman Catholic Church is now
believing in and promoting the New Age "common system of ethics."
New Age/Hippie countercultural religiosity manifests as a syncretistic
ecumenism of the world's religions, religious revolution seeking to unite humanity in a one-world
religion within an emerging new astrological age. It is highly influenced by Hinduism and Buddhism
and, to a lesser extent, by Christian Gnosticism. It is also highly influenced by a minor religion,
the Lakota religion.
"Although not common throughout the counterculture, usage of the terms 'New Age' and 'Age of Aquarius' – used in reference to a
coming era – were found within it, for example appearing on adverts for the Woodstock festival of 1969, and in the lyrics of 'Aquarius',
the opening song of the 1967 musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical." -
encyclopedia
The international hippie "non-organization" called the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a family nicknamed the "New Age Rainbow"
has many adherents of the New Age hippie
counterculture revolution.
A few years before a 2015 Time Magazine article chronicled "today’s hippie counterculture movement," the world's
largest Indian news source, "Indian Country Today Media Network," published an article that promotes a book titled
Hippies, Indians and the Fight for Red Power. This same book is
promoted in a 2015
article by Dina Gilio-Whitaker, an associate scholar at the Center for
World Indigenous Studies.
In the article, Gilio-Whitaker wrote: "The uproar about the Rainbow Family Gathering in the Black Hills reminds us that the
counterculture is alive and well in the US. Not just a relic of a forgotten era..." In the article she also states that
"in the 1960's and 70's counterculture hippies were important allies" who "helped advance the Red Power movement."
I have been an Indian/Native/Indigenous rights advocate for decades. I have recieved correspondence and support from several internationally
renowned Native activists for an advocacy iniatative of mine. I have also received correspondence and support from both, the United Nations
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Pontifical Council Of Peace And Justice.
"Those who attend Rainbow Gatherings usually share an interest in intentional communities, ecology, New Age
spirituality and entheogens." (ref.)... At Rainbow Gatherings: "New Age beliefs are prevalent." (encyclopedia ref.)(ref.)
There is an over 290,000 registered members interactive website named Hippyland. Its founder and webmaster, Ship Stone, has
posted and prominently displayed articles of mine that promote my New Age/hippie counterculture, Rainbow Family Mission.
This video of a rainbow over the City of Wahkon, Minnesota was produced by yours truly. This rainbow appeared on the day I sent a
letter to my kinship Rainbow family relatives calling them to come and join me in Wahkon to usher in the New Age. I believe that
the appearance of this rainbow is a divine sign.
When referring to the hippie spiritual revolution that began in the 1960s, a spiritual revolution that was the
prominent expression of the New Age spiritual philosophy at the time, a spiritual revolution that was highly influenced
by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda and the Beatles, Peter R. Jones, an internationally renowned
Christian theologian, lecturer and author, wrote: Indeed, the Sixties was a spiritual revolution that
has now morphed into a worldview that promises to alter how we all believe and act in the planetary era.
In a popular contemporary video (presented below)
produced by the
author of the best-selling book Gods of the New Age, a video about the Beatles' late 1960s
promotion of the New Age spiritual philosophy.....the video's anti-New Age narrators (including Caryl Matrisciana, the video's producer) present evidence
and acknowledge that the Beatles' promotion of the New Age spiritual philosophy was originally accepted, globally...and
because of this Beatles' inspired and promoted spiritual and religious revolution, a revolution "that radically changed
a generation's perspective on the meaning of life, it is still rapidly gaining global acceptance, today."
Here is the (mentioned above) Matrisciana video about how the Beatles' late 1960s
spiritual philosophy is still rapidly gaining global acceptance, today.
Because of this wide-spread Christian propaganda, a lot of people wrongly believe that the New Age religion is about
pantheism or the type of pan[en]theism that is essentially pantheism. These panentheists perceive
God as being just a little bigger than the Universe. Or, they believe the infinity of
God beyond the universe is essentially irrelevant. Helena Blavatsky, the mother of the New Age Movement,
and Paramahansa Yogananda, the father of yoga in the West, both make it clear in their teachings that
the ultimate goal of the devotee is to become One with the Infinite Spirit beyond the Universe.
In THE SECRET DOCTRINE Vol. 1, Page 274, Blavatsky wrote "The Universe is called, with everything in it,
Maya, because all is temporary therein, from the ephemeral life of a fire-fly to that of the Sun.
Compared to the eternal immutability of the One [Spirit]." Yogananda wrote: Spirit is not the universe;
Spirit is that which was and will be whether the universe does or does not exist.
The Infinite Spirit is also in the Universe. This aspect of Spirit outwardly manifests
as the Universe. Yogananda said the Universe (God) is essentially an undifferentiated mass of light.
[Albert Einstein wrote: "What we have called matter is energy....matter is spirit....there is no matter.]
The devotee has to become One with the Divine (light-energy but no-matter) manifestation of the
Universe before he/she can go through It to become One with the Infinite Spirit beyond the Universe.
Yogananda's Guru wrote: Jesus meant, never that he was the sole Son of God, but that no man can obtain
the unqualified Absolute, the transcendent Father beyond creation, until he has first manifested
the ‘Son’ or activating Christ Consciousness within creation. - Swami Sri Yukteswar
Yogananda's classic book:
Ananda, a global movement with roots in the 1960s counterculture:
Some more evidence of the contemporary "global acceptance" of the New Age spiritual philosophy can
be found at
Ananda and, even more so, in an Ananda Sangha Worldwidearticle
about Ananda, a global movement that promotes the late 1960s
spiritual consciousness of the Beatles. In the late 1960s, the Beatles (mostly George Harrison) were promoting the
teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. I believe in Ananda!
Here is a video titled the "Beatles Inner Light With Joanne DiMaggio." DiMaggio was the national
chapter director of the "Beatles USA Limited," the official national Beatles fan club. In the
video, Joanne talks about how the Beatles "planted the seeds" of New Age Eastern/Hindu spirituality and how
these "seeds" are now sprouting and growing, creating a revival of the Beatles late 1960s
spirituality. In the video, there is a clip of the Beatles with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India.
Paramahansa Yogananda's name is also mentioned in this video.
An American best-selling author and internationally recognized speaker, Dr. James Lindsay, produced a
video titled "The Occult Theosophy Of The United Nations," wherein he says this occult religion of
the UN is the "hippie religion." An article of mine on this Dr. Lindsay's video is titled "The Gnostic
Theosophical Movement Of The United Nations."
Michael Matt is the leader of a large and fast-growing global movement of traditional Roman Catholics who
believe the late Pope Francis was, as Mr. Matt said, "the hippie pope trying to finish the revolution." An article
of mine on this topic is titled "Traditionalists' Perspective On Pope Francis' Legacy And
My Vision For The Church."
ABOUT THE EMERGING ONE-WORLD NEW AGE SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY: A HIPPIE
WORLD UNITY SIGN (pictured below) is prominently displayed in a Caryl Productions 2012
video about a large contemporary New Age/New Spirituality "Christian" movement that is portrayed
as a new expression of the "1960s young people's" (or hippie's) Hindu spiritual philosophy. The video is titled: WIDE IS THE GATE - The
Emerging New Christianity
VOLUME 1 and
VOLUME 2. There is also a green hippie peace
sign on the cover of the video's advertised DVD.
A Mille Lacs Messenger newspaper
letter to the editor of mine is about my global decolonization environmental mission.
An article of mine on this topic is posted on the Mille Lacs Messenger's newspaper website/blog. It is titled
New Age Globalization And The Coming New World Order. In this article I
promote a decolonization global paradigm shift based primarily on
a radical transformation of Christianity, a transformation that is already beginning to occur by way of both, the
massive infiltration of New Age/Hindu or Eastern mysticism and yoga meditation into Christian churches and the
renunciation of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination of Indigenous Peoples by the World Council
Of Churches and several mainline denominational Christian Churches.
Because of modern-day
scientific discoveries that expose an essential Christian dogma as false and
the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination of Indigenous Peoples radical injustice as well as other
reasons, I do not believe in historic and traditional Christianity and I seek to put an end to it. However,
I am a devout New Age "Christian" follower of Jesus Christ, who I believe is a New Age/Hindu guru. I believe that there
are Bible scriptures that
prophecy this coming global paradigm shift that I am promoting.
Google has a web page with a few pictures of me-along with many pictures
that I have displyed on my website. It is located here.
Yahoo's search engine links to a number of my articles and sites is located here
AVG's search engine links to a number of my articles and sites is located
here
Several years ago, the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council
asked me to write a letter to the MN Legislature wherein I would express the
Council's reasons for why it wanted the legislature to pass Rep. Mike Jaros's and
my bill to change 14 derogatory geographic place names, a bill that I initiated
(and drafted) and Rep. Jaros edited and introduced to the legislature. My MIAC
requested letter and link to the bill is located
here
The internationally renowned theologian and indigenous peoples' rights advocate, Rev. Matthew
Fox, has a Facebook site where he presents a Daily Meditation. Each day a team chooses a few comments
to be posted on Fox's Daily Meditations. My posted comments are located
here (1.),
here (2.) and
here (3.)-(4.)
here (5.).
here (6.)
here (7.)
here (8.)
"Creation Centered Spirituality Communities" is the main organization promoting Rev. Matthew fox's spirituality. In a CCSC's
Nov/Dec 2019 Newsletter there is an
article of mine, titled: "A Critique of Creation as Original Blessing." The
article cordially contradicts (with presentations of sceintific evidence) Fox's
teaching that... the creation was "very good" and an "original blessing" at
the time of its origins.
Reverend Matthew Fox has a Facebook site where he posts Daily Meditations. Each day
a few comments are selected and posted on the Meditations. My comments are
automatically posted. Some of my posted comments are as long as a letter to the editor.
On 7/27/2020, a comment of mine about my revolutionary article titled Pope Francis Preaches Eco-Tribalist/Hippie New Age Beliefs
was posted on Fox's Facebook site. The comment contains several
paragraphs from the article and is an introduction to the article. And the comment also presents
the link to this article. The comment
is located
here.
A Minnesota House Concurrent Resolution
To view and read the March 17, 2010 house concurrent resolution
expressing regret for conflicts between Native Americans and
European settlers, a resolution that is made up of mostly
wording from the draft resolution that I wrote, click resolution
Indian Country Today Media Network is the world's
largest Indian news source. Links to ICTMN letters and comments of mine are
presented below. ICTMN generally only posts a comment of two on its article. A lot of
my comments are on articles by Steven Newcomb, an ICTMN columnist and nationally and
internationally renowned Indian/Native activist. ICTMN recently changed its name to
Indian Country Media Network.