Why does the Sedona sweat lodge deaths toll keep casting negative spotlight on guru?
(CBS) Last week, nearly two dozen people were hospitalized after participating in a retreat at a Sedona, Ariz., sweat lodge, and three people died. The sweat lodge ceremony was part of a $9,000 per person retreat run by spiritual guru James Arthur Ray. Dr. Beverley Bunn, an orthodontist from Texas, was one of the participants at the retreat. She spoke with “The Early Show”‘s Harry Smith this morning, telling him that Ray had “abandoned” them, refusing to let anyone leave the sweat lodge while the door was closed. “If the door was closed, you couldn’t leave,” she said. “If the door was open, you could leave. But the fifth round, a woman passed out and she was taken out. At the sixth round, they’d said that she passed out, she isn’t breathing, but they yelled it out and stuff and by the time that they had actually said that and announced it, the door was closed. No one can leave when the door is closed,” Bunn said on The Early Show. Bunn said that when she finally left the sweat lodge sh
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — More than 50 followers of spiritual guru James Arthur Ray had just endured five strenuous days of fasting, sleep-deprivation and mind-altering breathing exercises when he led them into a sweat lodge ceremony. It was supposed to be a religious awakening, the culmination of a $9,000-plus-a-person retreat outside Sedona, Ariz., aimed at helping people find a new vision for life. But it wasn’t long before the ceremony turned into a terrifying experience. People were vomiting in the stifling heat, gasping for air and lying lifeless on the sand and gravel floor beneath them, according to participant Beverley Bunn. One man was burned when he crawled into the rocks, seemingly unaware of what he was doing, she said. Ultimately, three people would die. When participants exhibited weakness, Ray urged them to push past it and chided those who wanted to leave, she said. “I can’t get her to move. I can’t get her to wake up,” Bunn recalls hearing from two sides of the 415-square-f
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(CBS) Last week, nearly two dozen people were hospitalized after participating in a retreat at a Sedona, Ariz., sweat lodge, and three people died. The sweat lodge ceremony was part of a $9,000 per person retreat run by spiritual guru James Arthur Ray. Dr. Beverley Bunn, an orthodontist from Texas, was one of the participants at the retreat. She spoke with “The Early Show”‘s Harry Smith this morning, telling him that Ray had “abandoned” them, refusing to let anyone leave the sweat lodge while the door was closed. “If the door was closed, you couldn’t leave,” she said. “If the door was open, you could leave. But the fifth round, a woman passed out and she was taken out. At the sixth round, they’d said that she passed out, she isn’t breathing, but they yelled it out and stuff and by the time that they had actually said that and announced it, the door was closed. No one can leave when the door is closed,” Bunn said on The Early Show. Bunn said that when she finally left the sweat lodge sh
