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Showing posts with label LaVaughn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LaVaughn. Show all posts
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Highlights from the LaVaughn James Ray Trial Blog
Since I got so late to the game I wanted to start covering some of the earlier discussions that were launched at the outset of this trial. I begin with some highlights from LaVaughn who as I keep mentioning is doing an extensive blow by blow of the entire trial, as she puts it - front and center with the popcorn.
The idea that the prosecutor Ms. Polk is using James Ray's own words to incriminate him seemed to be a good strategy for LaVaughn, and she pointed out several aspects of cult programming that she felt jumped out at her from some of the statements of James Ray leading up to the sweat lodge.
Here is a quick list for you to contemplate:
1. Building Urgency "Time is short"
2. Raising Fear "if you're not going to die"
3. Sleep Deprivation "some of you went to bed last night"
4. Food and Water Deprivation
5. Watermelon Fast Breaking (Sugar-Shock)
Then there is the topic of Holotropic Breath Work developed by Stan Grof, who claims James Ray was not certified to teach, LaVaughn provides the link.
Another activity of note during the 5 days of Spiritual Warrior 09 is The Samurai Game which caused some participants to lay "dead" for an extended period of time before the Vision Quest which entailed 36 hours without food and water.
And finally the opening remarks for the defense that came from Luis Li centered around the fact that adults have the right to choose, and thus must be held responsible for any actions they take.
Here you have some albeit disjointed points in their presently concocted form but important touchstones of the trial nonetheless. So when you get a chance go over to LaVaughn and thank her for all her insights, I'm sure she'd really appreciate it.
The idea that the prosecutor Ms. Polk is using James Ray's own words to incriminate him seemed to be a good strategy for LaVaughn, and she pointed out several aspects of cult programming that she felt jumped out at her from some of the statements of James Ray leading up to the sweat lodge.
Here is a quick list for you to contemplate:
1. Building Urgency "Time is short"
2. Raising Fear "if you're not going to die"
3. Sleep Deprivation "some of you went to bed last night"
4. Food and Water Deprivation
5. Watermelon Fast Breaking (Sugar-Shock)
Then there is the topic of Holotropic Breath Work developed by Stan Grof, who claims James Ray was not certified to teach, LaVaughn provides the link.
Another activity of note during the 5 days of Spiritual Warrior 09 is The Samurai Game which caused some participants to lay "dead" for an extended period of time before the Vision Quest which entailed 36 hours without food and water.
And finally the opening remarks for the defense that came from Luis Li centered around the fact that adults have the right to choose, and thus must be held responsible for any actions they take.
Here you have some albeit disjointed points in their presently concocted form but important touchstones of the trial nonetheless. So when you get a chance go over to LaVaughn and thank her for all her insights, I'm sure she'd really appreciate it.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Arizona Sweat Lodge Deaths Trial
For those of you still living under a rock, or perhaps merely bombarded by the threat of earthly devastation in the form of news of earthquake tsunami's tipping Japan's Nuclear Reactor's (see photos) into deadly territory, or the domino of Government's toppling in the Middle East and North Africa, interspersed with dug-in tyrants massacring their own people. I could see why that could also take much of your attention, or the myriad of other concerns such as survival or enlightenment, what have you...
There is a trial underway in Arizona for the manslaughter charges levied against James Arthur Ray, and his sweat lodge which caused 3 people to die, and 18 injured. Ray is well known for his appearance in the movie The Secret, and his appearance on Oprah. The deadly sweat lodge occurred in Sedona in October 2009, and was part of his Spiritual Warrior program, a 5 day endurance test in which around 60 participants pay $10,000 each to experience James Ray's brand of self-help wizardry. This year things go terribly wrong, well that is not to say this is the first time things have gone wrong at a James Ray sponsored event, as a matter if fact it is not even the first time death has been associated with a James Ray group encounter. Earlier that year Colleen Conaway jumped off a ledge while performing a homeless exercise at a James Ray led event in a San Diego mall. The poor victim's suicide made even more atrocious on the part of the Ray gang by the fact they cleared out of the mall without her, and then threw a big party replete with dancing the night away. Not exactly good PR, I might imagine.
I am by no means an expert on all these shenanigans and as fact this is the first writing I've allowed myself to do on the topic after a week reading the blogs of Salty Droid and LaVaughn, following the tweets of the hashtag #jamesray and my twitter list, and catching the CNN live feed of the trial.
There is a trial underway in Arizona for the manslaughter charges levied against James Arthur Ray, and his sweat lodge which caused 3 people to die, and 18 injured. Ray is well known for his appearance in the movie The Secret, and his appearance on Oprah. The deadly sweat lodge occurred in Sedona in October 2009, and was part of his Spiritual Warrior program, a 5 day endurance test in which around 60 participants pay $10,000 each to experience James Ray's brand of self-help wizardry. This year things go terribly wrong, well that is not to say this is the first time things have gone wrong at a James Ray sponsored event, as a matter if fact it is not even the first time death has been associated with a James Ray group encounter. Earlier that year Colleen Conaway jumped off a ledge while performing a homeless exercise at a James Ray led event in a San Diego mall. The poor victim's suicide made even more atrocious on the part of the Ray gang by the fact they cleared out of the mall without her, and then threw a big party replete with dancing the night away. Not exactly good PR, I might imagine.
I am by no means an expert on all these shenanigans and as fact this is the first writing I've allowed myself to do on the topic after a week reading the blogs of Salty Droid and LaVaughn, following the tweets of the hashtag #jamesray and my twitter list, and catching the CNN live feed of the trial.
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