This just seems like FUD. Either she's suitable for the role or she's not, and the measure of that isn't the presence or absence of shamanism in the resume, but what she's able to do. The proof is in the pudding.
That's the way it's supposed to be tho.
EDIT: Well, it might be the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37920624
Posing as a theocrat to soak up the money of the gullible is nothing new. Plenty of people in this scene are ordained priests in the church of Satan, UU and others; BFD.
The woman managing ARKK claims to take investment advice from God himself. That one, I'd be more wary of.
this is absurdly anti-science and pro-pseudo science POV.
'group shamanic energy clearing' and selling 'spiritual medicines' is absurd than a psychiatrist following clearly debated, adjudicated, well-researched cited scientific procedures.
This is not the most horrible of things, but I have a feeling some people would defend GNOME foundation even if they started chucking babies in the air.
Psychology is basically ground zero for the replication crisis. There's been an insane amount of bunk coming out of that and adjacent fields for decades. When only 20-30% of published findings in a field can be replicated, there's problems.
“a professional shaman, an artist, an herbal medicine maker, and a micro-homesteader” as the background for gnome kind of needs some justification, because it’s very unclear what anyone was thinking here