Something else equally thought-provoking: “Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment” by C.J. Good. I thought I could finish it in an hour but soon put the brakes on, slowing my reading pace down to savor every word. The book is short and simple, yet enthralling. C.J. Good is an author of deep insight, intellectual honesty and true caring.

Both books have been an excellent source of strength and support to me. Roberta Minton – St. Louis, MO.

As a news junkie, I have followed this terrible story closely.

But I never knew that people would pay that kind of money to anyone – even Jesus Christ himself – for a seminar.

Personally, I would have bought a nice segment of the World Cruise on the QueenMary2.

I know people who have done sweat lodges and it always has scared me. Besides, I hate heat. We had a real Finnish sauna in our house and after 10 mnutes, I could hardly walk up the stairs.

But they are people who try anything woo-woo new age.

Like my cousin. I even wrote a poem about her. And a lot of her friends.

Thought it might amuse you.

http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/consciousness-circuit-the-way-it-was-back-then/

Your point about choosing your guru with care is an important warning.

Thank you.

James Authur Ray, the author of “The Secret”, might be conducting few $10,000 week long seminars in the new future as he is a potential suspect in an investigation of the death of three people during one of his “sweat lodge” ceremonies.

See below for part of the story from the AP.

I’ve attended over 40 sweat lodge ceremonies myself, all conducted by people who where real Native Americans (in contract to New Age Gurus) and there were never any injuries, yet less deaths. So my question is if you are smart enough to make a fortune selling self help books, why aren’t you smart enough to hire somebody who knows how to run a sweat lodge and thus avoid killing your customers. This kind of things is bad for business. The answers is likely that this guy is so lost in his own ego that common sense, yet less spiritual wisdom is absent.

Let the buyer of this kind of thing beware…you risk your life in addition to wasting your money.

Jerry

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – An Arizona homicide investigation now includes three deaths after a woman died more than a week after participating in a sweat lodge ceremony that hospitalized nearly two dozen people.

Liz Neuman of Minnesota died Saturday at a Flagstaff hospital, Yavapai County sheriff’s spokesman Dwight D’Evelyn said.

The 49-year-old suffered multiple organ damage during the Oct. 8 ceremony at a resort near Sedona, a resort town 115 miles north of Phoenix that draws many in the New Age spiritual movement.

Authorities were treating all three deaths as homicides, but no charges have been filed.

D’Evelyn did not provide a city of residence for Neuman, but public records showed an address in Prior Lake, about 25 miles southwest of Minneapolis.

Neuman was among more than 50 people crowded inside the sweat lodge run by self-help guru James Arthur Ray.

I liked what Arlene called her rant.
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I haven’t seen it but I’m not surprised by your experience. New Age/Personal Transformation promoters abound, with a very few being of some value and most just used car sales people without the garish checkered sport coats and mis-matched slacks. In fact the really bad New Age types will dress in robes, usually white, or have a glow from sloppy Photo Shop editing.

They mostly have a run of a couple of years where they are IN, then slowly fade like a washed up musician playing ever seedier clubs and bars. Remember Gary Zukov? Once a high flyer, now playing 75 seat auditoriums if he can get that. Caroline Myss? Where did she go to? Wayne Dyer is still spouting the same inane drivel he has done for the last decade…no change there.

My advice: save your money or spend it on chocolate or beer. NOBODY is going to sell you the answer to anything of any value for $29.95.

Jerry

Jerry

Sounds like the text in A Course in Miracles. Are you a student of ACIM?

In essence we are not what we think we are. One view is that we are separate beings existing in space and time; we have sides, stories, karma, home mortgages and so on. All this is just an appearance generated from and refreshed from instant to instant by the mind which hides what we are creating the separation, the story, the light, dark, the gods and whatever else we apparently perceive.

When separation is seen as an illusion all that falls away. The search for answers is over as the questions are illusionary as well, all based on the incorrect perception that we are an object coming from somewhere and going to someplace else. It’s all total perfection just as it is. Nothing needs to change or stay the same. “THIS” is all there is.

Jerry