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NO LONGER A MATTER OF CONCERN: Rebekah Simpson & Royce Taghon - Sedona Shamanic
Epiphany:
The Has Sedona Gone Mad??? thread is definitely relevant here too http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1522.msg34279#msg34279
This photo of Royce was labeled "Sacred Pipe Ceremony Shamans Cave"
(Later edit: deleted family history info)
earthw7:
sick people
Epiphany:
--- Quote from: earthw7 on July 06, 2013, 06:35:52 pm ---sick people
--- End quote ---
Yeah, that says it all.
(Later edit: deleted family history info, due to Taghon's clarification later in this thread)
educatedindian:
Simpson contacted us. Below is her email, unedited, followed by my response. I'll post anything else she sends.
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To whom it may concern, Recently I discovered a bunch of bad-mouthing about me in regards to sedona shamanic journeys on your website posted « by Piff on July 06, 2013, 02:45:16 PM ». I am asking you to please remove any and all talk about me, sedona shamanic journeys, royce medicine bear and anything else related to me that you and others have posted on your website named newagefraud.org and NAFPS. Also, if I have done something wrong and unlawful then I am open to cooperation on fixing my wrong doings. Please reply promptly as to the status of this. Dated this day September 6th 2013
Kind regards, Rebekah Simpson
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Ms. Simpson,
We do not remove evidence of wrongdoing simply because the person in question objects.
Your claims of being Native are very contradictory and dubious. You sell ceremonies that are clearly New Age. faux Hinduism, or European pagan and falsely present them as Native.
Your teacher and longtime partner is also of entirely European heritage according to the many censuses of his ancestors.
We always welcome more information that can clear these matters up. Could you provide evidence of being Native? Can you point to a Native community that knows you?
Can you explain why you falsely pass off non-Native ceremonies as Native? Do you just not realize they are not Native?
If so, shouldn't you realize just how little you actually know?
We will post your request below and our requests in turn to you.
We would welcome any statement of yours.
You also are welcome to join and post a response yourself, and answer questions from our members.
Al Carroll, moderator
educatedindian:
More good news to report. Simpson says she no longer sells ceremony, and neither does Taghon. First is her email then my reply.
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Dear Al, thank you for your quick response. Just to bring things up to date, I no longer sell my services. In fact I work a full time job now and offer my services an a very small scale. Bear and I no longer work together and now have searate lives. He actually was learning this all from me and eventually decided that this is not for him. At this time I can't locate records of my ancestory, I've only been told by my mother that my great, great grandmother is Seminol and on my father was part blackfoot. I have updated the website best I could to cooperate with what you are saying. Please help me to help you clear my name and images off of your forums. Best regards, Rebekah
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Ms. Simpson,
We certainly appreciate when someone offers to, and actually does, change and reform their ways and admit wrongdoing.
As of now, the shamanic journeys site still shows claims your mother was the medicine woman of an unnamed tribe, and has many elaborate claims about you.
There are 17 different articles on the site about or by you, making various claims. Thankfully several of those links showing you selling ceremony now appear to be gone. There is at least 1 link still up calling for customers for the medicine wheel ceremony, originally taught by the fraud Vincent Laduke/Sun Bear.
I will pass along your email to the forum, and we will discuss further moving your thread to Archives once we see all false claims removed online.
Typically once someone is no longer acting unethically, we post a message in all caps across the thread: NO LONGER A MATTER OF CONCERN.
Thanks again for being willing to take steps to doing the right thing, and I look forward to speaking with you more.
If your former partner is no longer doing anything unethical, this all applies to him as well. I believe the notice about doing medicine card tours is the only thing needing to be removed.
Al Carroll
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