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==Cooperation with other plastic shamans and vendors on the Newage Market==

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Apparently, Talbot participated in the Rainbow Gatherings already fairly early, according to an account rendered in a publication from the first gathering in 1972.<ref>Steve McFadden: Profiles in Wisdom: Native Elders Speak About the Earth, 1991, 2001 Lincoln NE (originally published by Bear and Co.)</ref> The Rainbow Gatherings, however, are no indigenous meetings but attract a largely white clientele from the hippie subculture and from counterculture environments. They organise annual meetings at differing locations in the USA, usually on land in federal ownership and very often at or close to sites sacred to one or more indigenous nations.<ref>The main 2015 US meeting was scheduled to take place in the Black Hills which are held sacred by several indigenous nations who strongly objected the meeting and particularly opposed drug abuse there as well as free sexuality taking place in areas sacred to them. Part of the Rainbow Gathering clientele then withdrew from the plan to gather in the Black Hills, while another part, not bothered by facts, insisted they were welcomed by the indigenous nations and had their permission. Another smaller meeting organised at Mount Shasta, California in July 2015 was closed down by a cease and desist order effected by the Winnemem Wintu Nation.</ref> <ref>http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/14/protect-he-sapa-stop-cultural-exploitation</ref> <ref>http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/winnemem-wintu-tribe-gives-cease-desist-order-to-rainbow-family/</ref> As of late, Talbot seems no longer actively participating in these events, presumably since they are scheduled at the beginning of July annually, at which time Talbot will usually stay in Europe for seminars and camps.

 

This organisation was founded by Vincent LaDuke a.k.a. "Sun Bear", who was enrolled Ojibway. However, LaDuke was no medicine person and had no respective training but sold a spirituality and ceremonies tailored to attract an affluent white clientele. The range of commerce e.g. included an alleged traditional "Indian astrology" which based on the usual system, simply replacing the terms used for the signs of the zodiac with alleged indigenous terms (so e.g. "Aquarius" becomes "Otter").

 

 

In 2015, Talbot participated as a lecturer in the annual "Medicine Wheel" camp organised by the German Bear Tribe and made an appearance alongside persons from the US Bear Tribe as well as Brooke "Medicine Eagle" Edwards<ref>https://blog.psiram.com/2015/04/brooke-medicine-eagle-edwards-plastic-shaman-with-some-40-years-of-experience-in-fleecing/ </ref>, another plastic shaman active since the 1970ies who has also cooperated with Bear Tribe for several decades.

 

Calumed e.V. is a German non-profit association active on the Newage market since the 1980ies in various ways. One part of their activities is selling a course in self-management, while another main pillar has been engaging in and selling indigenous spirituality. Their name indicates both fields by employing a pun including both the term "calumet" for a pipe, adding "med" for alternative medicine. However, Calumed e.V. also includes sexuality into the spiritual mix they teach, which is not in accordance with indigenous practice.

 

 

===Intentional Communities and Ecovillages===

These umbrella organisations do not only include projects exploiting and/or selling indigenous spirituality and do not seem to pay much attention to indications that a particular member community may be influenced or even dominated by a cult or cult-like organisation, so that GEN-Europe, as one example, also accept as members eco-villages like "Krishna Valley" from Hungary who are also organised in [[ISKCON]] which is viewed as a cult, or Italian Damanhur, Tamera from Portugal, and [[ZEGG]] from Germany. Another dubious member is "Stamm der Likatier" [Tribe of Licatians, formerly "Stamm Füssen, i.e. "Füssen Tribe"] in Germany which gained some notoriety for having given reason for investigations due to sexual abuse of children, but also managed to raise enough money from their membership to have secretly bought much of the real estate in their home town. The „tribe“ also owns and runs two shops selling Newage gadgets, a publishing house, a real estate company, a health food shop, and its vice president owns a company organising Newage fairs.<ref>https://www.psiram.com/ge/index.php/Stamm_der_Likatier</ref>

 

In the case of GEN-Europe, it is perhaps not very likely they may detect such influences or view them as problematic, since their council consists of a member of Damanhur (council president), as well as one member each of ZEGG, Tamera, Krishna Valley, and LaBase/Spain (they sell e.g. sweat lodges).<ref>http://gen-europe.org/about-us/gen-europe-council/gen-europe-council/index.htm</ref>

 

The entry on Talbot published by the Wiki of Intentional Communities again repeats Talbot's claim of being the "ceremonial medicine man of the Assonet Band" as well as other aforementioned claims, although they do include two sources critical of Talbot.<ref>http://www.ic.org/wiki/manitonquat/ </ref> Over all, the ICWiki views Talbot positively and indicates a far more intense commitment in this environment:

:''"Manitonquat has also spent over forty years with various intentional communities around the world — as founder, participant, and observer — and so has gathered a wealth of intimate knowledge about their various strengths and weaknesses, as well as effective techniques in communal living."''<ref>http://www.ic.org/wiki/manitonquat/</ref>

 

At the same time, they aim at minimising criticism raised due to Talbot's cooperation with projects like ZEGG and Tamera. The reliablity of such tactics is somewhat hampered by the fact that the aforementioned projects are also members of the Intentional Community movement, as becomes apparent from a look at their directory<ref>http://www.ic.org/directory/listings/?cmty-country=Germany </ref>: ZEGG, as one example, has been a member since 1999, "Stamm der Likatier" since March 2005. Another dubious member is a project "12 Tribes Klosterzimmern"<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tribes_communities </ref> <ref>https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zw%C3%B6lf_St%C3%A4mme_%28Glaubensgemeinschaft%29 </ref> which gained notoriety recently for denying their children access to medical care and for practicing continued severe corporal punishment on children of all age groups. This project joined in May 2005.

 

 

 

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