Former James Ray Employee Appears On ABC, Accuses Him Of Not Helping Sweat Lodge Victims
December 9th, 2009 - 7:25 pm ICT by GD ( 1 comment )By Gina Gomez
Dec.09, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Melinda Martin, a former employee of James Ray’s Create Harmonic Wealth enterprise appeared on ABC television on Tuesday, where she gave details about the sweat lodge tragedy and how James Ray did not take any steps to help the victims when the tragedy stuck. The tragic incident that took place on October 8, witnessed the death of 3 individuals and also resulted in 21 people being hospitalized.
James Ray is a professional speaker who organized a “Spiritual Warrior” retreat at the Angel Valley Retreat Center on the fateful day, which was attended by large number of his customers. However, the retreat ended up being a disaster as two participants died due to the sweat lodge exercise and another participant died few days later after being in a state of coma.
While recounting the horrifying incident, Melinda Martin who at that time worked for the speaker, added that she was shocked to see James Ray’s indifferent reaction despite the fact that his customers were injured and were almost dying in front of him. Moreover, she also added that as everyone who was present was trying desperately to help the victims, the speaker did absolutely nothing and just stood there watching. Melinda Martin was terminated few weeks after the dreadful incident.
However, the fact that James Ray did nothing to help his customers has also been reiterated by Andrea Puckett, daughter of one of the victims, who added that the speaker did not bother to know the condition of her mother- who died after struggling for few days. Following the incident, multiple lawsuits have been filed against the speaker.
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March 5th, 2010 at 1:48 am
Holy crap! I really liked his speeches but after this… I dunno he sounds more like a monster than a man!