By now I'm sure you've all heard of the latest cult called "The Secret", led by James Arthur Ray. If not, his theory to make money is referred to as "the laws of attraction". If you think negatively, it will bring you bad things and if you only think nice, happy thoughts, you'll live in bliss.
Well, he's going to jail now over the sweatlodge deaths that occurred last year in which 3 people died as a result of staying in a sweatroom sauna of death for too long as he continued to ramble on about positive thinking and making $200,000 per session. Apparently several people were fainting, vomiting and generally feeling sick, but he urged them to suck it up and even chastised those that left.
I guess he must have had a lapse in his positive thoughts and fantasized of going to prison or maybe he thought prison would be a happy place.
I'm fascinated by people that insist on putting their own responsibility on the spiritual world instead of with themselves. Their convinced some spirit or life force is going to magically solve all their problems instead of using rational thought to correct the situation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020303299.html?hpid=moreheadlines