If you ask anyone who has had a transformative spiritual experience – the kind that gifts a person clarity and perspective beyond the realm of the physical – where exactly they happened to have this ...

Last week in Sedona Arizona, during a “spiritual warrior” retreat led by New Age, self-help expert James Arthur Ray, two people died in a “sweat lodge ceremony” and more than twenty were sickened.

CAMP VERDE, Ariz. — As a volunteer at a self-help author’s sweat lodge ceremony, Jennifer Haley said she treated participants who were burned, delirious and unresponsive. But the 46-year-old ...

FLAGSTAFF — 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 ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) – An author who saw his self-help business crash after he led a sweat lodge ceremony that left three people dead was paroled from prison on Friday after serving nearly two years ...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona jury on Wednesday found self-help guru James Arthur Ray guilty of negligent homicide in the deaths of three people who fell ill at a sweat lodge ceremony he conducted ...

For others, it was terrifying. Participants began to show signs they were weakening midway through the ceremony. By the time people started collapsing, Bunn had already crawled to a spot near the ...

A Patagonia woman has sued the organizers of a sweat-lodge ceremony that turned deadly earlier this month near Sedona. Sidney D. Spencer, 59, was among more than 50 people inside the sweat lodge Oct.

Hennepin County will pay to build two sweat lodges at the Adult Corrections Facility in Plymouth for American Indian inmates who want to attend ceremonies. The County Board approved a $30,000 contract ...

For others, it was terrifying. Participants began to show signs they were weakening midway through the ceremony. By the time people started collapsing, Bunn had already crawled to a spot near the ...