Information About The Sacred Trust

Click Below   60+ New Instances of Plagiarism   This link opens a new window for a downloadable PDF of the 60 plus instances of newly discovered plagiarism along with their sources, as well as the earlier found plagiarism (at the bottom). The first page is blank, so please scroll down, and excuse some formatting issues we had. Paragraphs are meant to be aligned next to each other, but sometimes they are a little askew.   *while the below is a bit outdated as of feb 03, 2024, our suspicions and directions have been confirmed and the information is useful**   The PDF is a table of the further, and more extensive plagiarism we have found in The Shamanic Way of the Bee.  We were hoping to continue our investigations into the origins of the Path of Pollen work but it quickly became apparent that the surfacing volume of plagiarised material needed to be urgently addressed.  Although having said that, some of the unearthed material is proving very useful in piecing together the genesis of ou

  I've attached the portion of "Seeing with a Native Eye" edited by Walter Holden Capps containing the story about the Deer death by suffocation. Capps describes a ritual that I think Simon expanded on. The themes are the same in the book, same process, same philosophy about life/death, he sings, he knocks it over, prayers, ritual dismemberment, then creating a sacred object etc. The Major difference is that the "Path of Pollen" is bee pollen, and the Navajo Pollen Path is corn pollen  The sacred object created by the Navajo man is a pair of Moccasins, rather than a part of an ancestral rick.   If you have a kindle version of Shamanic Way of the Bee, you can easily search up this part of the book (or any part) and review. It's featured in the chapter titled "Vitamin Pan".          Simon also writes that he carries the deer out of the forest on his back, and while they are lighter after gutting, an adult Red Deer stag (as described) is an

The Shamanic Way of the Bee contains the plagiarized material word-for-word passages from the writers Darell Posey, PL Travers, Rudolph Steiner, Alan Bleakley, and Kabbalistic scholar Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi. The defunct mead website for  Sky River Mead was also heavily plagiarized. All of that is featured below, along with links. A 2004 10 page editorial by Timothy White for Shaman's Drum from before the plagiarism came to light is also included and makes a lot of comparisons of the book to other literature. There is also a deer ritual featured in his book, where a stag is suffocated with bee pollen, that is identical to a Navajo ritual, except it uses corn pollen (please see the post on indigenous appropriation to read about that). The rest is below. Buxton claims Travers' was his mentor. If we find any proof of this, we will post it. If you have some, please comment below with contact.  Alan Bleakley has confirmed that he did not give permission and does not look kindly u

 Please review the other posts, particularly the Plagiarism of Modern or Living Authors for the bulk of the Plagiarism with side by side comparisons, this post is a follow up with additional info and links of interest. Featuring some places to find study material or similar threads.  **PLEASE NOTE** There will be be a larger more detailed resource for origins and practice comings soon. The Links provided below are simple starting points, and data has been and is being collated on a large scale to help women in this work. For now here are a few starting points and general information. The ST website now has a very lacking statement on it's homepage, and have replaced the word "tradition" with "conclave" The photo of the woman on their site and in the 2008 interview labeled "Pall of Pollen Elder" is simply an antique photograph of a woman in mourning "telling the bees" and that they are not elders (and that there are no elders of the tradition)