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Ken Pope, PhD is a widely respected psychologist and author. His website offers one of the best discussions of dual relationships and I highly recommend it.

To read it, click here.

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A video of Reynolds talking about his gullibility and feelings of betrayal by James Arthur Ray. Watch it here.

Read his article here.

If you carefully evaluate the structure of his words and sentences, you will see that he is appealing to the ultra conservative, wealthy Americans who probably hate people on welfare.

Ray takes some very, very cheap shots at people on welfare, as well as people who are sick, need healthcare, or obese.

To him, these are all lazy people

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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.

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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:

• Helping people in need to solve problems

• Respect for the integrity and worth of human beings

• Acting with integrity and competence as a professional

Also, here are a few ethical standards which he may have violated:

• Commitment to the well-being of clients

• Provide full explanation of services so client can make an informed decision about their participation

• Competence in whatever service offered as demonstrated by completion of educational, training, and professional experience

Based on the information gathered from police, participants, James Arthur Ray and his

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Ok, making the symbolism easy, Pat Bowlen and Josh McDaniels represent the shallow, narcissistic leaders in our world who have been exposed as the “emperors without clothes!”

I have really enjoyed this story. Just as McDaniels and Bowlen have been trying to manipulate Jay Cutler, treating him slightly less than a piece of property,

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Click here. This is pretty grainy video, but it has all the components of the mind control process used by cults and cult like organizations. If you view it, you will see similarities to many organizations, including organized religion, self-help programs, get-rich quick or weight-loss schemes, personal growth programs and LGATs, Large Group Awareness Trainings. There is some humor in the video…I guess you have a sense of humor when looking at these issues.

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Scholars and researchers studying LDATs suggest that each of the programs, large or some of their smaller cousins follow three basic strategies to enlist their participants in the pyramid process of creating more followers, believers, adherents, or whatever words they use to describe their paying customers:

1. Creating an altered sense of reality to help people let go of their sense of self and prepare them to accept the new definitions of themselves influenced by the larger group
2. Encourage “catharsis” or the release of deeply held emotional memories through “confessions” and disclosures
3. Rebirthing or the rebuilding of the person’s identity through positive reinforcements
4. and recruitment of others to join the LGAT

Of course, we can look at almost any larger group activity, even political parties and find these steps in the life of an individual within these groups.