Get a load of the steaming pile of BS the moonbats, James Shore, Kirby Brown and Liz Neuman died trying to believe in. Just start with the picture of a TeePee with a Yin/Yang symbol on it. Mixing mysticisms? That is your first clue that your cult is stupid. Here’s where you start the James Ray drinking game. For every New Age symbol or ritual, you have to do a shot.

From the TimesOnline here:

A survivor of the fatal Native American-style ‘cleansing ceremony’ in a US sweat lodge has spoken for the first time about the harrowing conditions inside the enclosed canopy which led to three deaths, claiming people were vomiting in the stifling heat, gasping for air, and lying lifeless on the sand and gravel floor beneath them.

Beverley Bunn was one of more than 50 followers of the spiritual guru James Arthur Ray who had endured five strenuous days of fasting, sleep-deprivation and mind-altering breathing exercises when he led them into the sweat lodge ceremony at a retreat outside Sedona, Arizona, on October 8.

It was supposed to be a religious awakening, the culmination of a $US9,000-plus-a-person seven-day program, aimed at helping people find a new vision for life.

But it was not long before the ceremony turned into a terrifying experience in which ultimately three people – Kirby Brown, a 38-year-old painter, internet executive James Shore, 40, and 49-year-old Liz Neuman – would die.

Ms Bunn, 43, said people began to show signs they were weakening midway through the ceremony, some vomited and others showed signs of confusion. One man was burned when he crawled into a pile of heated rocks, seemingly unaware of what he was doing.

She claimed when participants exhibited weakness, Mr Ray urged them to push past it and chided those who wanted to leave. Ms Bunn recalled hearing someone say: “I can’t get her to move. I can’t get her to wake up,” from two sides of the 415-square-foot sweat lodge. She alleged Mr Ray’s response was: “Leave her alone, she’ll be dealt with in the next round.”

Participants were lightly dressed in bathing suits, shorts and tank tops, and received a blessing meant to cut away negative energy before crawling into the sweat lodge.

She said Mr Ray led the group inside and sat next to the opening. A second row formed, their bodies closest to what would be a pile of heated rocks.

Ms Bunn said that Mr Ray sprinkled them with sandalwood meant for aroma. He led the group in chants and prayers in a Native American tongue during the ceremony, then poured a 5-gallon (19-litre) bucket of water over the rocks, sending a rush of steam throughout the makeshift structure.

As it neared the end, Ms Bunn said some participants found themselves physically and mentally unable to tend to those around them. After the eighth round they were instructed them to exit the sweat lodge just has they had entered — going clockwise, a movement meant to symbolize being inside a mother’s womb.

Ten grand for this collection of mish-mashed New Age mumbo jumbo? Can you get any more cliche’?

Let me break it down for you whackadoodles that believe this crap:

  • Indians were stone age people. They weren’t magical and they had no formal religion.
  • Indian sweat lodges cleanse your soul about as well as they wipe your ass.
  • Fasting does nothing for your soul.
  • Breathing and relaxation exercises do nothing for your physical body.  Neither does yoga.
  • If you don’t believe in God, there is no way possible to have a religious awakening.
  • California hippies have no ability to “cast blessings,” even if you pay them 10,000 bucks.
  • There is no such thing as “negative energy.”  But it seems that New Agers confuse “negative energy” with what us normal folk call “common sense.”
  • Herbs, rocks, crystals and other natural things possess no spiritual properties.  Your amethyst stone doesn’t have a “chakra” stupid.
  • Pretending to re-emerge from a womb is assinine.  Stop it.
  • Karma is not a force in the universe.  Bad things won’t happen to people you think are mean. (Thanks Diana!)
  • Firewalking does not prove you are protected by “teh gods.”
  • Hawaiian Kahunas have no special powers

See? A nice and simple list. Give this list to a New Ager you know. It could save their fool life.

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