Hindsight is 20/20 if you’re willing to see the truth.
As we wait for the charges again James Arthur Ray to be sorted out by Arizona Authorities, several questions come to mind.
- Is James Arthur Ray’s Legal Team negotiating a plea bargain for James Arthur Ray? (This would prevent a public trial leaving Ray controlling the information about what really killed 3 in Sedona & 1 in San Diego).
- Are the Arizona Authorities working deals and plea bargain with people in exchange for their testimony against Ray?
- Is Ray’s legal team negotiating settlements for Civil Suits against him?
- What is Ray grateful for this holiday season every morning when his feet touch the floor?
- Will James Ray send Oprah & Larry King Holiday Cards?
All I can say is, I trust James Arthur Ray starts practicing what he got rich preaching and does the right thing. Here’s an example of what James Arthur Ray got rich preaching in his “Open Letter to President Obama” dated January 25, 2009. Below are excerpts from that blog post. My Open Invitation to James Arthur Ray to, First: Practice what the hell you charged so many people so much to hear you preach. Second: Do the “right thing” by being responsible for your actions which killed 4 people and changed the lives of so many people, forever.
The following are excerpts (indented & italicized) from Ray’s letter to Obama followed by my personal thoughts and opinions about them. Remember my agenda is to Regulate and License the Seminar and Coaches to stop people from being harmed financially, physically and/or emotionally without recourse.
As you know, with great power comes great responsibility, …
Ray: People put their financial, physical and spiritual lives in your hands. You betrayed them. You killed them. You abandoned them. You continued business as usual. How can I say this? Simply put: The company is James Ray International, Inc. It’s your name on the door. You wrote the seminars. You poured the sweat lodge. Take responsibility for your actions.
While you and I both know that carving a new path is difficult, the good news is that we have a growing body of individuals who realize the old path has taken us as far as we can go. In many cases, nothing fails today like the success of yesterday.
James Ray: Your success from The Secret was failing. You needed more and more seminars to be sure YOU and Your company took every available dollar from your customers and their credit lines. You seem to have mastered doing so. Doing the right thing is indeed difficult. As you practice your daily gratitude, remember James Shore’s 3 children who no longer have a father in this physical world and the difficulty they will have carving their path in life without a father. You did that. Take Responsibility for Your actions.
To bring lasting transformation in any area, you must always deal with the cause versus the effects.
Jame Arthur Ray: What was the cause of YOU killing 4 people attending Your seminars? The lasting transformation I want to see is YOU in jail for the deaths you caused and compel Seminar & Coaching Industry Regulation and Licensing with proper disclosure of all pertinent facts prior to people buying snake oil in the form of weekend quick fix revivals or coaching for people whose lives don’t work.
Much more is required today than piecemeal action or a quick fix.
This is too funny coming from the master of selling piecemeal spirituality, quantum physics quackery and quick fix seminars. You made and lost your fortune based on the very thing you want Obama to recognize. YIKES!
Please let me reinforce my position that we must address those who misuse their power.
James Ray: What would you do to someone who was fascinated with death so much so, he finally killed people to just see what it was really like? The evidence of your misuse of power was after Colleen Conaway’s death. You and your cast of idiots covered it up. You are a seminar company salesman who started believing he was the GOD he liked to play during the weekend quick fix seminars.
We must become responsible for seeking our own interests while remaining in harmony with, and not at the expense of, other human beings and the environment. While capitalism works, we must move toward conscious (or enlightened) capitalism. Conscious capitalism is founded upon the ideal that we must consistently make decisions that are concurrently good for the individual, good for our country and good for the world.
I can’t even comment on this pile of horse sh*t. Were you on mushrooms or kava when you wrote this? It certainly is NOT the way you run your business. To me it looks like the only authentic part of the last statement was “We must become responsible for seeking our own interests”. James Death Ray your action indicate your only concern is for your own interests.
We must become responsible for not tolerating brutality or misuse of power here and abroad.
I can’t think of a more brutal death than a heat stroke in a 120 degree steam room with James Arthur Ray blocking the door and confronting anyone who was trying to survive the ordeal or help other people.
We must become responsible for ensuring that our corporations don’t continue a shortsighted pursuit of economic ends at the cost of others as well as the destruction of the very planet that allows us to live.
$9,695 for the seminar. No refunds. No Guarantees (except for Harmonic Wealth). James Arthur Ray you are some piece of work. Several people have justified your killing people saying “Ray has helped so many people”. I want those people to read this last statement. In particular Bob Proctor, Pat O’Bryan, Megan Fredrickson, Josh Fredrickson and Greg Hartel, the end does not justify the means.
As stated before, every significant breakthrough is almost always preceded by a breakdown. It’s normally only in our times of greatest challenge that we step back and take a hard inventory of our lives, where we’ve been and where we choose to go.
James Arthur Ray, your first breakdown was when an ambulance took a participant to the hospital from your “Spiritual Warrior” program in 2005. That was your wake up call. Your first breakdown. Step back and take a hard inventory of your life and the lives your have taken. The children you’ve left fatherless.
James Arthur Ray: When is NOW the right time to practice what you preach. Do the right thing.
Terry Hall
Mr Clean
Awesome post! Are you mailing copies of this to each person listed in the post.
I’d highly recommend President Obama receive a copy, as well as the editors of all the major news organizations.
Perhaps you could submit this to the Huffington Post. They have many guest writers from a wide variety of backgrounds.
I’ll look for your article at the news sites. I check every day for any articles & blogs that are exposing the man for who he really is.
Thank You Sherri,
No I haven’t spread the word or written any guest posts. I thinking that this message will be seen by interested parties via RSS feeds, Google Alerts and people sharing and bookmarking it…
The only reason James Ray wrote that letter to Obama was to look like the ‘God’ he tried to portray to all his loyal and unsuspecting followers in order to further con them and bilk them out of more of their hard earned funds. He didn’t believe a word he was writing – it was all “for show” only! If anything, he “wrote” it, knowing that the very points that you countered with here were what “he” was really all about! In other words, he was just revealing the inner thoughts and actions of the “real” James Arthur Ray, while projecting it onto Obama. Talk about not walking your talk!
Hi Bonnie,
Seems to be the case that James Ray had his profit angles figured out. Like all of us, James Ray’s true colors are revealed during times of adversity. The problem with the LOA sector of Self Help is that belief that one’s words are more potent that one’s actions. Or as my Pop used to tell me “Your mouth is writing checks your ASS can’t cash”…
I received James Arthur Ray’s Happy Holidays email and replied to JamesRay@JamesRay.com with the following:
James -
I’m amazed by your callousness about the deaths of the 4 people who entrusted themselves to your care. I’m literally sickened by your Happy Holidays message and hoping you have finally taken the deceased names out of your email group. Please remove my name as well. I’ll be content to stay updated with news of charges being filed against you.
Have the respect and decency to lay low at least until this whole mess is sorted out.
Karen Denovich
President, The Write Stuff & Marietta Business Association
I write the stuff you need written.
http://www.karendenovich.com
How can we help you?
http://www.MariettaBusinessAssociation.com
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Hi Karen, I saw on Facebook that James Arthur Ray’s personal email was inspire@JamesRay.com – I just sent a test email which did not bounce…
Thanks Terry -
Just resent to inspire@JamesRay.com with the Subject: Happy Holidays!
Loved your post – this guy is unbelievable. I met him when he did one of his “free” seminars in Atlanta. Talked with him one on one after and was really turned off by his arrogance. James Arthur Ray has got to be held accountable for his actions!
As a recovering seminar junkie and seminar insider, I didn’t want to be drawn back into “The Show”.
BTW – you have a typo in the 2nd to last paragraph “Spiritual Warriror”
Bozo strikes again… http://wp4b.com/terry-hall-bozo-disclaimer/ thank’s for being part of my bozo squad.
Aww, you’re welcome.
You can delete that post – then no one else has to know about it.
Delete the post? No thanks. I want to encourage others to join my bozo squad and point out any typos and grammatical mistakes they see.
Karen,
I hope James Arthur Ray does NOT “lay low at least until this whole mess is sorted out”. I hope he KEEPS putting his stinky rotten foot in his stinking rotten mouth, and I hope he KEEPS showing people (including the law!) just who he really is! Let him keep burying himself!
And isn’t it chillingly ironic that at least four people won’t be able to connect with their loved ones this holiday, nor count their blessings, nor celebrate all their accomplishments or do anything else for that matter, thanks to this selfish self-centered no conscience jackass! And he’s here to remind everyone with sick cheery updates like the one below! Sad. Just sad.
James Arthur Ray’s recent update:
“Happy holidays to all my friends and loved ones…
I just wanted to send out a quick message during this season to remind you to take time from all the typical rush to keep in mind the true value of what the holidays represent; to connect with your family; to count the many blessings you have in your life; to celebrate all your accomplishments for the year, whether great or small; to remember all the wonderful lessons you’ve learned, even if they came disguised as challenges; and to maybe most importantly take some time for yourself and reflect upon your dreams, intentions and values for the new year.
Happy holidays,
James Arthur Ray
President/CEO
James Ray International, Inc.”
According to Ray “his mission” is too valuable for him to NOT conduct business as usual in the first days after killing 2 people. This is further evidenced by his cover up of Colleen Conaway’s death.
For Ray to exhibit consideration for anyone other than himself is not likely. It is hard to read his crap knowing that James Shore was just laid to rest…
Bonnie -
You have a great point there. The more he talks (and doesn’t walk the talk), the more he buries himself.
And yeah, we all thought about those families when reading his email that so obviously didn’t consider, for an instant, the pain it would cause them.
His mission, it turns out, resulted in the deaths of 4 innocent people, not a mission I support and certainly not one that should continue.
Thanks to everyone for speaking out!
I haven’t heard that the sweat lodge ceremony has been scratched from the “retreat”. Can it be possible that he be allowed to do this again?
Terry, the really sad fact is that James really “believes” that he has this ‘great mission’, and he really “believes” that it’s doing so much good! – he’s too egotistical and psychopathic to see that the only thing he is accomplishing is creating a bunch of adoring fans and followers (that *he* created, with his mind control). He really does believe he is the ‘God’ that he portrays himself as and sees himself as. And THAT is why he should be locked up! He is a danger to society and to everyone he meets!
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And Karen, he is absolutely incapable of any kind of consideration or compassion for anyone. And I truly believe that *he* believes that he had nothing to do with those deaths (nor does he care about any of them “now”, nor did he ever!). Psychopaths don’t have that capability, and he has proven over and over again, since the deaths, that he is one, no doubt about it! It probably never would have become known, if it wasn’t for the deaths. Because he seemed to be able to hide it very well, and come across as this person that was worth ‘idolizing’. Well, his words and his actions have let the true James Arthur Ray show forth, and that’s why I applaud every time he opens his mouth and shows one more piece of the cold, uncaring, unfeeling and cruel and calculating heart and mind of James Arthur Ray. I hope they put him away for a long, long time!
Whoo Hoo, I figured out how to keep my paragraphs separated, like I wanted them!
(oh, it takes SO little to make me happy! lol)
we are quick to judge and judge we can but we are all no different than james ray. All it takes is the right situation and a choice.
Thanks Terry! Fascinating for someone like me who fortunately never bought the crap Ray was saying (perhaps because I had already been duped by other “spiritual teachers”). As a result I have never read anything he has written. He has stolen all the right words from all the right people (who probably stole the words themselves). What a complete fraud. If he hadn’t killed people I could say he was beautiful in his perfect embodiment of a fraudster. He perfected the art of the fraudster. It is like he has ice water running through his veins which allows him collect every last dollar with maximum cunning efficency all the while preying on people’s deepest emotions and desire for good in this world.
Thanks very much for exposing what you know!
Wow. I hope you feel good about what you have said about James… None of which is true. It’s clear you need a “job” or something to do with all of the time on your hands. What are you going to do when this is over? Perhaps hold yourself accountable for the time and money you chose to spend attending seminars?? You might want to look into an anger seminar, that might do you some good. As far as your wife Amy goes, she signed a disclaimer, which from what I read, she hasn’t adhered to. That will be addressed soon I’m sure. Good “luck” to you and your wife, you will need it.
James is innocent and good will prevail.
@James fan – thanks for stopping by. It’s funny how so many James Ray fans confuse my criticism with anger. Time will tell whether a jury will find Ray innocent. You seem to be an expert and have some inside information, please enlighten me as to what you feel Amy disclosed which was covered by the JRI agreements.