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NO LONGER A MATTER OF CONCERN: David Singing Bear
educatedindian:
Claims Eastern Band Cherokee and Cheyenne, selling ceremony in Sedona, involved with many questionable things.
Tour guide at times, but also a ceremony seller.
http://www.lunavistabandb.com/tour-packages.html
"David Singing Bear, an Eastern Band Cherokee native guide and teacher, leads your customized personal 1 Day Tour. Singing Bear has led tours, Medicine Wheel teachings and Spirit Quests for those truly seeking a traditional and spiritual journey and true knowledge of the ways of Native People and life paths."
Works with fraud Adam DeArmon AKA Yellowbird.
http://www.ica8.org/pages/B_O_D.shtml
Some of his claims seem unlikely. Sells "elemental themed unions" online.
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http://www.lunacountryweddings.com/aboutus.htm
David Singing Bear is of Eastern Band Cherokee decent and an Elder member of Omissus Band of Northern Cheyenne. He is an international spokesperson for the Akicita Bowstring Society, Master Wisdom keeper of Tribal Creation stories and songs, Stone interpreter, Ceremonial leader, and healer/ teacher. As a holy man for the Red Spider Society and an ordained minister, Singing Bear provides for a unique experience in the bonding and wedding ceremonies he officiates.
Singing Bear brings decades of knowledge and wisdom, having studied with tribal Medicine elders and teachers on the reservation in British Columbia and across America. He also has a background as a certified therapist and counselor....
Singing Bear is an ordained minister from the Universal Life Church and holds a Doctor of Divinity degree.
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The site also sells "Native American Weddings" no tribe mentioned. Their "Apache Wedding Prayer" is English and Lakota.
The Cheyenne made an EBC one of their elders? If so what's he doing selling ceremony in Sedona and online?
The ULC is the famous online ordination anyone can do for a fee. There's no mention of where he was ceritified or got his degree, or why he doesn't use them to counsel instead.
Selling a mishmash of Reiki and crystals.
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http://www.reikiclasses.com/2009/appointment/david_singing_bear.html
David Singing Bear
Eastern Band Cherokee - Traditional Healing
in Magical, Mystical Sedona, Arizona
David Singing Bear offers sessions guided by Great Spirit, the wisdom of his ancestors, Reiki energy, and the medicine training he has recieved over the years.
With grace humor and knowledge Singing Bear helps clients find the depth of their own heart and to step into their personal power. Singing Bear helps them experience their own medicine path to set their life on a new and exciting course.
Singing Bear's sessions are custom tailored to the clients needs, incorporating a perfect blend of prayer, Reiki, drumming, singing bowls, chanting, and crystals.
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And here he claims Celtic descent.
http://www.shamansshop.com/SpiritWorldTours/indexGeneralItinerary3.html
A sidenote. Mr. Suoerspirchul also comes up on a lot of sites as having a lot of mining claims.
Defend the Sacred:
--- Quote from: educatedindian on December 04, 2009, 03:17:49 pm ---And here he claims Celtic descent.
http://www.shamansshop.com/SpiritWorldTours/indexGeneralItinerary3.html
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Geez, among these types that really is becoming the catch-all for, "My white ancestors were more spirchul than your white ancestors!"
Translation: He did his genealogy. Found some "Mac-whatever" and "O'-etc" names in there. Suddenly the Seekrits of Teh Droods filled his heid!!!!
from http://www.shamansshop.com/SpiritWorldTours/indexGeneralItinerary3.html
--- Quote ---David Singing Bear is of Eastern Band Cherokee and Celtic decent.
--- End quote ---
Guess he's not Cheyenne this week.
--- Quote ---He is a Wisdom Keeper of tribal stories and Historian, Stone Interpreter, Ceremonial Leader, Healer and Teacher.
--- End quote ---
Translation: He is a newager. He has learned all the catch phrases that will make lost people turn over their money.
--- Quote ---Having studied with tribal Medicine Elders on the reservations in British Columbia
--- End quote ---
All those Cherokee reservations in British Columbia, y'know.
--- Quote ---and across America since an early age, he has been well educated in the knowledge of the Medicine Ways of the ancients.
--- End quote ---
Translation: He's traveled around a good bit. Convinced a few people to let him tag along to some ceremonies. Probably moving on when he realized they weren't going to turn over their secrets, or when he got found out as an exploiter.
Washed up with the other detritus in Sedona, where the planes and rental cars bring in new marks every day.
educatedindian:
The link that SWskeptic found on the James Ray trial pointed out Singing Bear had a role and bears some responsibility for the deaths that happened there, though he denies and claims to have learned his lesson. What was an alleged Cherokee spirchul leader was doing as a consultant for a faux-Lakota sweat? He didn't say.
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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/02/sweat-lodge-trial-fuels-native-american-frustrations/
....Singing Bear is a 60-year-old Eastern Band Cherokee who calls himself a wisdom keeper, ceremonial leader and healer. He says he spent 20 years learning from tribal elders on reservations across North America.
So when he was asked to design a sweat lodge outside Sedona, where he lives, it mattered to him that it was done right. He says he selected the blankets and canvas covering that would breathe and offered the space traditional blessings and prayers, at no charge. And he says he worried when he heard how large they said Ray wanted it to be.
He says he told higher-ups at Angel Valley that what Ray wanted was too big and that only trained facilitators should lead ceremonies. Hamilton says, "I do not know what he said at the time."
Singing Bear, who’s been named a witness in Ray’s criminal trial, says he doesn’t allow more than 20 people in a sweat because each person needs to be looked out for and protected. Others add that Native Americans would never pressure anyone to stay. The allegation that Ray did this, again, is one the defense team denies.
With or without him, Singing Bear says, that lodge was going to be built because it was what Ray wanted. And he says he had no reason to believe the structure he designed and his nephew built, one meant to represent the nurturing "womb of Mother Earth," would go on to become a crime scene. Now, though, he'll stay away from these kinds of requests.
"They don't care about our ways. It's a dollar sign to them," he says. "I'll never mess with colonialists again."
Defend the Sacred:
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/02/sweat-lodge-trial-fuels-native-american-frustrations/
--- Quote ---So when [David Singingbear] was asked to design a sweat lodge outside Sedona, where he lives, it mattered to him that it was done right. He says he selected the blankets and canvas covering that would breathe...
--- End quote ---
Really? Photos and video of the DeathLodge clearly show blue plastic tarps as part of the structure.
--- Quote --- ...and offered the space traditional blessings and prayers, at no charge.
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No comment.
--- Quote ---And he says he worried when he heard how large they said Ray wanted it to be.
--- End quote ---
So if he was so worried, why did he agree to build it so absurdly big?
--- Quote --- Now, though, he'll stay away from these kinds of requests.
"They don't care about our ways. It's a dollar sign to them," he says. "I'll never mess with colonialists again."
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So why are his websites still up, offering all sorts of paid services to colonialists and other Sedona tourists?
Vortex Tours: http://www.nativeamericanjourneys.com/david_singing_bear.htm
"Self-Empowerment" and "Joy Centers": http://www.davidsingingbear.com/index.html
"Singing Bear will help people achieve self-empowerment and emotional and mental healing by taking the journey to sacred places within themselves. ... These are the keys to finding our true joy centers compatible with nature and the universe around us."
Healing Treatments: http://www.davidsingingbear.com/services.html
"Crystal Sound Healing Treatments
Crystal sound healing treatments bring your energy body to the proper balance and proper vibration. They unify all parts of your being back into one whole. They align your being to yourself, to the cosmos, to the earth, and to the mineral kingdom. They open our chakras to the universe, to life force. The sound healing tones us to the proper vibration. The breath work brings us back into our body. Experience true alignment.
Crystal sound healing treatments last approximately two hours PRICE ACCORDING TO TREATMENT"
http://www.davidsingingbear.com/about-me.html
"He brings decades of knowledge and wisdom to help people find their way, experience their own medicine path, and point their life in a new and fulfilling direction."
Hmmm... Cherokee Chakras, Celtic Reiki, NDN Breathwork and your personal medicine path. Wow.
wolfhawaii:
I just saw a program on TV that had DSB on it doing ceremonies for veterans with PTSD and their spouses at a center called Angelfire. Lisa Ling was the host of the program, which aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
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