Here’s a guy claiming to want to teach you to create harmonic wealth, whatever that is, yet his attorney says that “James is not a wealthy guy.” I guess the attorney didn’t see any of the materials that Death Ray put out where he brags about how wealthy he is.

Hats off to Salty Droid for creating the video!

1. For a guy that taught people how to have “harmonic wealth” the fact that he doesn’t have the $500,000 to post for bail reinforces his status as a phony. Even his attorney said: “He’s not a wealthy guy.” So, Death Ray was teaching people how to become wealthy, but he wasn’t wealthy himself, he just put on a facade and pretended to be wealthy.
2. Attorney’s will say douchebaggy things to defend their clients. This attorney says that there was no crime, this was an accident. Sorry hoss, but 3 people died in the sweat lodge that your client organized, accident or no accident when people die there is definitely a crime somewhere.
3. Larry King is represented by the same agent that represented Death Ray, and Larry King promoted Death Ray back when being associated with him was a good thing. Even this little performance by Death Ray’s defense attorney is nothing more than a publicity stunt to try and influence the potential jury pool.
4. Don’t believe people with 3 first names, or 2 first names for that matter.

Here’s the video, in case you want to watch it.

I think the thing that really disgusts me about this whole thing is that Death Ray’s attorneys are talking about $5 million being “unconscionable” as in “oppressive, not right, exceptionally unfair” and so on.

You know what I think is “unconscionable?” That 3 people died while Death Ray was in charge. 4 people when you include Colleen Conaway who died at a different event that Death Ray was running in San Diego.

After watching the video again, it seems like Brad Brian, the attorney, is wanting the same people that Ray almost cooked to death to pony up the bail money for their wealth gooroo to get out of jail.

Unbelievable.

Don’t believe the hype.

Over the years I’ve spent lots of money looking for “spiritual growth” and “spiritual guidance” etc. I’ve read lots of books by people like Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins and other big name people, yet they all seemed phony to me. I just had the feeling that they were just rehashing other people’s writings.

Now that I’m older and maybe a little wiser, or at least better versed in public speaking, I’ve realized that those big name gooroos are nothing more than information marketers with a product funnel. They create product that they need to move and clear out so they can create more product and so on. Very few, if any of them, really care about your personal or spiritual growth.

Your Mileage May Vary

If you want some really good motivation, read “Poor Richard’s Almanack” by Benjamin Franklin, or read the Henry IV series of plays or Hamlet by Shakespeare. There’s no need to pay some fake gooroo like Ray almost $10,000 to go to a “spiritual growth, harmonic wealth death camp.”

If you really, really need help, find yourself a licensed and medically trained psychiatrist, or a psychologist and get professional help. At the very least, find a Bible based church and get spiritual guidance from a pastor. Although I’d classify myself as a “work in progress, ” both licensed professionals and spiritual guidance from a pastor have worked for me.

Seriously.

The video below, is about the sociopath James Arthur Ray, and features an interview of a former staff member of his.

The gems from the video are:

• James Ray is a sociopath and a megalomaniac
• Up to 10 people are expected to be charged with felonies in connection with the sweat lodge deaths in Sedona
• People are now, finally, talking about Colleen Conaway. She died in a July James Ray event
• James Ray and his company James Ray International are still not cooperating with authorities investigating the deaths

After the above video, CNN interviewed Deepak Chopra. Apparently, the problem with the self help industry is that it’s not regulated. The fact that a bunch of Charlatans with high priced PR people can get on as many TV “news” shows and “news” magazines to do as many self promotional “interviews” as they please has nothing to do with it.

Here’s a sample of the “news” programs investigating Death Ray’s credentials etc.

Here’s Chopra’s video, in case you want to watch it and listen to him pitch his program while bashing Death Ray’s program:

So basically, according to Chopra and Anderson Cooper, in order to prevent another Sedona death lodge and another Death Ray from rising up, we need regulation. We need some kind of agency to over see self help gooroos and regulate what they can and cannot do and say. Self regulation is the best way to go, according to Chopra.

I’m not entirely convinced self regulation is the answer.

The takeaway from all of these videos, in my opinion, is that:

• “The Secret” is a pile of cow manure.
• The “Law of Attraction” is no law at all.
• News reporters are not in the business of actually telling the news.
• If you need help, find a fully qualified professional, in a properly regulated industry to help you.