Nov 05 2009
Would you stay in a sweat lodge where people around you are vomiting, passing out, and you are beginning to feel yourself losing consciousness?
It’s easy for us to say “no”, but people just as smart as us did not out in Arizona. Three of them died, and almost half of the other participants became very ill.
Mind control. These people weren’t taken into a room and hypnotized. They still had the ability to think and make decisions.
Nov 05 2009
You may know by now the police are treating the three deaths in the Arizona sweat lodge led by James Arthur Ray as homicides.
Ray is not a licensed therapist of any kind, so he did not have the help of any professional ethical code to guide his behavior.
Whether he will ultimately be viewed as a huckster operating a sweat lodge wildly out of control or a thoughtful professional who led an experience where three people were killed accidentally remains to be seen.
There seems to be a lot of evidence right now pointing to the former possibility. Here are just a few of the ethical principals (see NASW Code Ethics) he may have violated:
Also, here are a few ethical standards which he may have violated:
Based on the information gathered from police, participants, James Arthur Ray and his
Nov 05 2009
The most vulnerable among us are often persuaded to believe in someone who tells us they have the answers we need. We are vulnerable, unable to trust ourselves, and become susceptible to various forms of mind control.
I recently watched a video of Beverly Bunn, a seminar participant who was in the sweat “box oven” (my words) with James Ray on that tragic day. She states that people were vomiting, passing out, a man became delerious and crawled on the hot rocks and burned himself, and were pressured to stay by James Ray.
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