Hi - thanks for your response. I totally agree with you about taking a look at the power that is presented from the stage at personal growth events. I do get a lot of value from these events, and they can serve a need. People are vulnerable and they don't know where to go. The failure, in my eyes, is that having been to a lot of these - trainers talk a lot about how this kind of breakthrough work can affect your relationships. While I've seen that to some degree in folks who I have followed at these kinds of events, I think this is really the fatal flaw of this work. Let people have an experience - sky diving, breaking boards, sweatlodges, whatever ---- but then teach them how to be contribute to the people in their lives. Teach them how to be vulnerable with their words and their presence. You don't need 120 degree heat to do that. Feelings are hot enough.
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This is a great piece about a very sad situation. I got to meet James Ray on a flight several months ago, and I found him to be very accesable and very deep - and we got into some comments about Judaism and the Holocaust - and as someone who comes from that world - I found the discussion refreshing in that it went beyond the victim mode of my own people. I hope he takes some accountability, even seppuku as you suggest. I talk about in my blog today how, while I love sweatlodges, there is nothing that will sweat out your insides and your heart like being in a committed relationship.
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