James Ray Conducted Near-Deadly Sweat Lodges in Past, According to Testimony

New Age Huckster and Shamanic Fraud, James Ray, had been dangerously cooking his followers in stupid sweat lodge ceremonies for the past few years according to new evidence presented at hearings in Camp Verde this past week.

From Verde News here:

Debra Mercer said her first year operating Ray’s sweat lodge, in 2007, “it was a shock” at what she saw.

She described one girl emerging from the sweat lodge and passing out unconscious in the doorway. “Her eyes were rolling back in her head and she was drooling,” Mercer said. She said the girl came out of the door and fell flat on her face and broke a tooth and was bleeding from the face, nose and eyes.

She repeatedly described the scene in 2007 when 40 people were lying on the ground “convulsing, throwing up, their eyes rolling in their head. That is a dangerous situation and there was no one there to care for them.”

Mercer described another woman participant in 2008 who had rolled into a ball, was having convulsions and had no control, and looked like she had an epileptic seizure.”

Mercer said after the sweat lodge in 2007 and 2008, James Ray exited the sweat lodge and kept separately from the other participants, drank a little water, talked with some people who approached and then left.

Mercer compared James Ray sweat lodges to “traditional” sweat lodges. “They are extreme, extreme! It really cooks people,” she is quoted as saying.

So it seems that it was only a matter of time before James Ray wound up killing one of his idiotic followers. See more here.