{"id":6481,"date":"2009-10-14T11:51:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T18:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6481"},"modified":"2009-10-14T11:50:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T18:50:19","slug":"carlsbadistans-sweat-lodge-disaster-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6481","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbadistan&#8217;s Sweat Lodge Disaster Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sweatx-large.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sweatx-large.jpg','popup','width=490,height=301,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sweatx-large-tm.jpg\" height=\"122\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Sweatx-Large\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesray.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Arthur Ray<\/a><\/strong>, the self-help author whose five-day &#8220;Spiritual Warrior&#8221; retreat at Arizona&#8217;s Angel Valley Retreat Center resulted in two deaths and 19 other injuries during a &#8220;spiritual cleansing&#8221; in a &#8220;crudely built sweat lodge,&#8221; is apparently based in <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em>, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2009-10-10-sweat-lodge-deaths_N.htm?csp=usat.me\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ray&#8217;s company, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesray.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Ray International<\/a><\/strong>, is based in Carlsbad, Calif. His publicist, <strong>Howard Bragman<\/strong>, declined to comment Friday and didn&#8217;t return a call Saturday from The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The victims had reportedly paid between $9,000 and $10,000 for the five day retreat. Apparently that fee included a day-and-a-half of no food. According to the story it will be between three and four weeks before they know if criminal charges will be filed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2009-10-10-sweat-lodge-deaths_N.htm?csp=usat.me\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Arthur Ray, the self-help author whose five-day &#8220;Spiritual Warrior&#8221; retreat at Arizona&#8217;s Angel Valley Retreat Center resulted in two deaths and 19 other injuries during a &#8220;spiritual cleansing&#8221; in a &#8220;crudely built sweat lodge,&#8221; is apparently based in Carlsbadistan, according to a story in USA Today. Ray&#8217;s company, James Ray International, is based in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6482,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions\/6482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}