If he’s been passing off a book as his own and grabbing credit for it when he didn’t write it, he needs to answer that allegation.

And if the book’s real author claims it was made-up, not a true story as Buxton says it is, that’s another serious matter for Buxton to answer.

If he answers neither charge, at the very least, he may be conning people out of the price of the book under false claims (which is fraud, I think), or even out of hundreds of pounds if they go on workshops with him as a consequence.

What would answer this once and for all, is proof from Buxton that he wrote the whole book himself and proof that it relates his personal and real-life experiences.

In the absence of either, Buyer Beware, and it doesn’t matter in the slightest who drew Buxton’s deceit to public attention. It’s still deceit.

I notice that Buxton’s been very quiet about all of this, and as far as I know he’s offered neither of the proofs this matter needs in order to be resolved and his name to be cleared. I wonder why.

Geo Cameron is arrogant and bad-tempered and believes herself God’s gift to Celtic shamanism. She will vigorously attack anyone she believes is stepping on “her” turf (even though she’s never published a book so she actually doesn’t have a turf!)

Howard G Charing is arrogant and goes beyond bad-tempered into outbursts of anger towards and in front of his students and has real control issues, including violently insulting a prominent shaman in the Amazon recently during an ayahuasca ceremony and alientating himself from the whole community.

Simon Buxton is well known in shamanism as a plagiarist and a fantacist who is only in it for the money. He didn’t appear aggressive to me like the other two, more weak, insipid, and creepy.

Ross Heaven, compared to that little lot, was like a saint on the workshop I went to, if only because he just got on with it, taught us some good techniques and insights and didn’t bring his own issues, ego, neediness, or dramas into the weekend.

I don’t think Heaven has done himself any favours by getting tangled up with people like Buxton, Charing, and Cameron, because, of course, if you hang out with filth for long enough some of the dirt will attach itself to you, but I think it’s entirely wrong to call him a ‘bad penny’ when he has in fact disassociated himself from the frauds, conmen, and control freaks as soon as they revealed their true natures.

Maybe he’s learned his lesson by getting himself taken out of Buxton’s softback book, which wouldn’t be that surprising either as it’s widely known that Buxton ripped it off from Heaven and took all the credit as well as wrongly presenting it as a true story when it is actually a work of fiction.

My opinion? The previous poster seems to know a lot of toxic people. Heaven isn’t one of them.

However, the whole POINT of ghostwriting is that the ghostwriter’s name isn’t mentioned anywhere! If Heaven wanted credit he should’ve arranged for coauthorship instead. Does he not know what ghostwriting means? I don’t get the impression that he was invited as a collaborator and then his name got dropped afterwards…