Sweat lodge tragedy highlights lack of self-help industry regulations

Few, if any, standards safeguard the self-help industry. And that led to tragedy for three people who died in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony in 2009.

James Arthur Ray Sentenced Today

It’s been over two years since three people died and more than a dozen others were hospitalized, following a sweat lodge ceremony, near Sedona.  Self-help author James Arthur Ray has been convicted of three counts of negligent homicide in connection with those deaths. 

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