James Arthur Ray Pleads Not Guilty in Sweat Lodge Deaths

By: Edecio Martinez
Topics: Daily Blotter

(JamesRay.com)

(Yavapai County Sheriff)

CAMP VERDE, Ariz. (AP) Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray has pleaded not guilty to three counts of manslaughter in the deaths of three people at an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony he led last year.

Photo: James Arthur Ray.

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Ray was indicted and arrested on Wednesday for the deaths, which occurred in connection with an Oct. 8 ceremony intended to be the highlight of his five-day "Spiritual Warrior" event.

The ceremony was held at a retreat center he rented near Sedona.

Photo: James Arthur Ray mug shot.

PICTURES: Sweat Lodge Deaths

Ray's lawyer entered the plea Thursday on his behalf.

Ray is being held in the Yavapai County, Arizona, jail on $5 million bond and faces a minimum of 3 years and a maximum of 12 1/2 years on each count.

Ray's attorneys call the charges unjust and say they're confident he will be exonerated.

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by MortenTolboll February 17, 2010 5:08 AM EST: We can discuss whether James Arthur Ray is guilty in manslaughter. What I think should be common known is his, and the law of attractrion followers, abuse of quantum mechanics, their philosophical incompetence, and misuse/distortion of spiritual traditions. Precisely this led to the tragic incident. I include two links to articles on this:

1. The first is about James Arthur Ray, and his connection with the Secret/the law of attraction. It explains how quantum mechanics/Niels Bohr, actually disproves him, how New Age as such distorts spirituality, and how compensatory karma stroked back in the Sedona incident. No matter how James Ray?s supporters helps him, what the native Indians say again and again, is that you must never take a fee for a sweat lodge ritual.

http://friendfeed.com/mortentolboll/d2b0fbfa/critique-of-james-arthur-ray-and-secret

2. The other article explains what precisely it is the law of attraction supporters misunderstand in connection with true spirituality/spiritual laws such as karma. It also looks at how Rhonda Byrne, and The Secret uses manipulation, and abuse great thinkers such as Einstein and Bohr

http://friendfeed.com/mortentolboll/d8c97ace/critique-of-rhonda-byrne-and-law-attraction

Morten Tolboll

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by mcdanel_1771 February 6, 2010 8:28 AM EST: Please give this negligent, callous, fraud the legal come-uppance he so richly deserves.; Reply to this comment