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Plagiarism of Modern or Living Authors + Articles

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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...