Words New Age Self-Help Gurus Should Not Say

“You will have to get to a point to where you surrender and it’s O.K. to die.”
 — Arizona self-help guru James A. Ray, to participants in his $10,000 “Spiritual Warrior” seminar, on a recording played at his trial for negligent homicide. In October, 2009, three participants in the seminar, held annually in Sedona, died after it got too hot during a two-hour session in a make-shift sweat lodge. Though everyone who signs up for the course signs a waiver acknowledging the risk of death, a jury found Ray guilty yesterday of negligent homicide yesterday.