
Founder and Director of EarthKeepers One Tribe Trading Company, an organization dedicated to manufacturing and distributing a broad menu of healing products and educating people of all ages on the importance of relationship with the earth and each other.
Tom is a healing artist as well as a deep ecologist. He has been initiated and confirmed in the indigenous tradition as a BaVenda Sangoma in Africa, an Ainu Shaman in Japan, and an Ani-Coosa Medicine Keeper/Song Maker in the Americas. He has followed the Ways of the Lodge and the Pipe as a Lodge Keeper for more than 40 years. Tom was born in Southern Alabama, raised and taught in the traditional ways by his Creek Grandparents. Tom is from the "Little Bear" Family and has tribal affiliation with the Y’falla Band, Star Clan of the Eastern Lower Muscogee Creek Nation.
He is a charter member of the World Council of Elders, The Indigenous Healers Association and travels the world teaching workshops, conducting ceremonies in his grandfathers tradition for incarcerated brothers in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and inspiring hearts with the message of peace and harmony with “All Our Relations”. He is a board member of several local, regional and national Environmental Organizations and active in many roles with youth Programs around the country and around the world. He has appeared on many radio and television programs as well as film projects,written hundreds of articles to present the views of the EarthKeepers Organization and has received numerous awards and acknowledgements for his work with EarthKeepers. Tom and his family now reside and enjoy the beauty of a loving community life in the Cohutta Wilderness area of the Chattahoochee National Forest in the South Eastern United States.
A native of Brazil, Carlos began studying Spiritual Healing and Brazilian Spiritist Depossession work as a teenager around 1978, and received his primary training from his own family.
In 1981, he came to the United States living in Big Sur, CA where he spent 20 years at Esalen Institute working and studying Shamanic Healing.
His primary teachers were Michael Harner PhD, anthropologist and founder of The Foundation of Shamanic Studies (FSS), and Hector Gomez, a Native American church roadman from Argentina.
Other teachers include Nelson Turtle, a Cheyenne Native American church roadman elder and Carlos’ adopted father, and Crow Bear, Sun Dancer from the Mohawk tribe. He was the coordinator and facilitator for the Esalen Institute Sweat Lodge from 1996 to 2004.
Carlos taught Depossession trainings for the graduate students of the FSS for 6 years in US and currently teaches for the FSS in Europe.
He also teaches workshops privately in the US, Europe and Brazil, and continues to facilitate Sweat Lodge ceremonies.
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