Kirby Brown and James Shore Are Dead Because of New Age Moonbattery
Noted Flim-Flam artist and New Age motivational speaker, James Ray, who is a pal of Oprah, was paid a total of a half million bucks by 60 people so he could starve them for three days and then attempt to kill them in a stupid home made “Indian Sweat Lodge” in the hot afternoon in Sedona, Arizona.
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The goal of this behavior? James Ray was promising that his suckers customers would “grow new neural pathways” to become enlightened in “harmonic wealth.”
Two people succumbed to their own stupidity inside the sweat lodge and croaked- Kirby Brown of Westtown, New York, and James Shore of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When I heard of James Shore, I was worried that it was the awesome artist who makes all of those painted Jim Shore creations. But no, it was the other Jim Shore, the dumbass marketing exec of Sunant, Interactive.
And amazingly, the press won’t question whether this new-age hokum is safe. In fact, they think it is an accident and go out of their way to point out that the dead moonbats were in good health and should be able to survive in a 140 degree dome without water for two hours crowded in with 60 other people after a three-day fast.
From the AP here:
A 38-year-old New York woman who died after sitting in a sauna-like sweat lodge at a scenic Arizona resort was an avid surfer and hiker who was “in top shape,” took self-improvement seriously and had a passion for art, a family spokesman said.
Kirby Brown of Westtown, N.Y., was one of two people who died Thursday evening after being overcome in the crudely built hut during a spiritual cleansing ceremony. Authorities on Saturday identified the other victim as 40-year-old James Shore of Milwaukee, who served as director of business development at an Internet marketing company in his hometown.
Nineteen other people were taken to hospitals, suffering from burns, dehydration, respiratory arrest, kidney failure or elevated body temperature. Most were soon released, but one remained in critical condition Saturday.
Brown had no pre-existing health conditions that would have kept her from participating in an otherwise safe activity, said cousin and family spokesman Tom McFeeley. That two people died and 19 others became ill at the Angel Valley Retreat Center indicates that “something went horribly wrong.”
Autopsies on Brown and Shore were conducted Friday, but the results weren’t disclosed pending additional tests. Authorities have ruled out carbon monoxide poising as the cause.
Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh is focusing on self-help expert and author James Arthur Ray and his staff as they try to determine if criminal negligence played a role. Waugh said Ray refused to speak with authorities and has since left the state.
The Angel Valley Retreat Center (where the deaths occured) was rented by Ray for a five-day “Spiritual Warrior” retreat that promised to “absolutely change your life.” The people at Ray’s retreat, whose ages ranged from 30 to the 60s, paid between $9,000 and $10,000 to attend.
Ray and his staff constructed the temporary sweat lodge with a wood frame and covered it with layers of tarps and blankets, Waugh said. The sweat lodge — a structure commonly used by American Indian tribes to cleanse the body and prepare for hunts, ceremonies and other events — was 53 inches high at the center and about 30 inches high around the outer edges.
Between 55 and 65 people were crowded into the 415-square-foot space during a two-hour period that included various spiritual exercises led by Ray. Every 15 minutes, a flap was raised to allow more volcanic rocks the size of cantaloupes to be brought inside.
The participants had fasted for 36 hours as part of a personal and spiritual quest in the wilderness, then ate a breakfast buffet Thursday morning. After various seminars, they entered the sweat lodge lightly dressed at 3 p.m.
Two hours later, a woman dialed 911 to say that two people, whom Waugh identified as Brown and Shore, did not have a pulse and weren’t breathing.
Kirby Brown, who grew up in Brooklyn and Westtown and spent time in Mexico, saw the outing as a chance to continue on a positive path in life.
And from the New York Times here:
The cost of the retreat was listed on Mr. Ray’s Web site as $9,695 per person. In it, he says its participants will “experience a new technologically-enhanced form of meditation that creates new neurological pathways.”
New-age religion claims two more stupid victims. James Ray should go to jail both for murdering these two people and for being a scam artist, as the only “harmonic wealth” that was being created in that sweat lodge was his own. And hey- James Ray the motivational speaker has already killed more people than James Earl Ray. How about that? For another story of a dead stupid woman/man on a quest for spiritual enlightenment and going about it the wrong way, click here.
Tom just sent me an email from his blackberry asking me to take down his threat from MC and swears it wasn’t him who made the threat. He apologized for “whoever posted that” but swears it wasn’t him. As it originated from a computer called TomMcFeeleyPC, which has the same IP and DNS name as the original poster of MC, it either means that Tom is lying, or an intruder has entered his home, hijacked his computer and sent a threatening message to a blogger.
This family has been through so much. First the death of Kirby Brown, and now this home intrusion to hijack Tom’s computer. I hope everyone is safe. They should get a guard dog.
Please before you type or even open your mouth ask yourself in what I am about to state is it kind, of love and or helpful? Jugdement is a very cruel poison of the mind, heart & community! One thing I believe for certain is that love and compassion is all that is needed everything else is destructive! James Shore was a brilliant man & he leaves behind many friends and family members who are just trying to focus on the unconditional love he represented. Out of all this chaos find your reason to be a better more loving human so we can heal the hearts of all humanity verses fighting and tearing apart others with what is otherwise just your ignorant human opinon. Many blessing of love and healing to all who struggle!And yes especially those who hold hate in their hearts! Mahalo
D,
By far yours was the most hilarious response yet. Judgement is a god-given organic sense that is possessed by everyone that only idiots like yourself choose to ignore. Ignoring judgement and common sense tends to get people killed like those that crawled into a Sedona desert easy bake oven.
Spare me the rest of your new-age claptrap. It makes no sense and has no real basis in reality. How’s that whole “healing the hearts of mankind” BS going? Done yet? LOL
Posted as a response on another blog:
Here is an interesting interview from blog talk radio from a witness who was there that night plus some commentary from a local native from Sedona about what went wrong
http://twsp.bravejournal.com/
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Pat said in October 20th, 2009 at 8:56 pm editThat was an interesting account. To me, what is most shocking is the head shaving. Odd that hasn’t been reported elsewhere?
Tom still checks this blog post. Hey Tom. Can you validate the account at the url above? Were people shaving the heads of the James Ray spirit warriors?
What’s hilarious is that you think your opinion matters & that you have any knowledge at all is hilarious! You’ve chosen big powerful words for a “little man” who hides behind his blog. Let me guess you got your ass kicked alot as a kid? LOL! And you were never really liked by anyone.LOL! Maybe you need to try charm school or perhaps Karma will just take care of you! LOL!All Good things in all good time:)
Typical liberal hypocrisy there, D. Your first post was to preach love, kindness and non judgement at me. Not you spit poisoned invectives at me. This kind of new age crap coming from someone at a Catholic school means you are a bad Catholic. And because you fail to maintain your new age idealism in treatment of me makes you a failure at new-age do-gooderism too.
Does Mt. Mary condone your eastern philosophy crap in their classrooms? So you believe in Karma? What did James Shore do to be in his current position now? Step on butterflies?
No judgement just fact! You don’t know anything about me or the people who have passed or the friends and families that are trying to survive this!You are choosing to spread lies and rumors no facts! You got more to say? Post your address and face to face state your facts! Why are you hiding behind your blog? You got something more to say say it to my face! Better yet say it to their Mother’s faces! Anyone can find courage anonymously!
someone actually chose the username “kirbyscousin?” wow, how’s that for not milking the situation…
Why on earth would you say this:
“But no, it was the other Jim Shore, the dumbass marketing exec of Sunant, Interactive.”
James was far from a dumbass. He was a stand-up guy. A loving husband and father of three. He died a hero, saving another’s life.
http://www.eprofitability.com/james-shore-1969-2009/
A loving husband and father of three would not spend half his annual salary to spend a week away from the very family he loved so much to indulge in brainwashing sessions with a lunatic. He didn’t save anyone else’s life. He is not a hero, but now he’s “An Hero” since you have dared to call him such.
But thanks for the link that validates what I have suspected about him- he was a liberal loon seeking new age spirituality to fill the godless void in his soul. Lived in a hippie commune and coverted a piece of shit car to run on french fry grease. Of course he did.
Seriously I mean really the only person appearing as a dumb ass is the person who wrote this article. Do yourself and the world a favor by not writing. You clearly have no respect for those who passed regardless of what the reason or who is to fault you show respect to those grieving and those who passed
I have shown the ultimate respect to the dumbasses who got themselves killed engaged in hippie mysticism- I’ve immortalized them on my awesome blog.