http://www.nytimes.com/...
James Arthur Ray is the guru.
SEDONA, Ariz. — Midway through a two-hour sweat lodge ceremony intended to be a rebirthing experience, participants say, some people began to fall desperately ill from the heat, even as their leader, James Arthur Ray, a nationally known New Age guru, urged them to press on.
Investigators looking over a sweat lodge at a retreat center near Sedona, Ariz. Three people died after an event there this month.
"There were people throwing up everywhere," said Dr. Beverley Bunn, 43, an orthodontist from Texas, who said she struggled to remain conscious in the sweat lodge, a makeshift structure covered with blankets and plastic and heated with fiery rocks.
Dr. Bunn said Mr. Ray told the more than 50 people jammed into the small structure — people who had just completed a 36-hour "vision quest" in which they fasted alone in the desert — that vomiting "was good for you, that you are purging what your body doesn’t want, what it doesn’t need." But by the end of the ordeal on Oct. 8, emergency crews had taken 21 people to hospitals. Three have since died.
This shows how the New Age cults are no different from all the others. They leave their brains at home and become fanatics, attaching themselves to a charismatic leader.
This guy has made himself rich on promoting this; I wonder if HE even believes this shit. Yet another sick MF with 150 brilliant teeth, smiling from all the books and infomercials; hooking the gullible and the ignorant.
This is NOT intended to knock new agers; this is to knock those who become fanatics and form dangerous cults -- dangerous when they check their brains at the door as in this one.