PS. if you want to see a fun movie, go see A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey. We did so last night and finally starting to feel in the Holiday Spirit! (Thursday won’t hurt either )

To me, the Ray tragedy features a devils brew of Outward Bound and positive thinking with odd bits of spiritual thrown in as an afterthough. To me, a spiritual warrior is one who seeks surrender to their own inner being, not someone who succeeds in walking on hot coals or the like. If a teacher or guru is involved, there’d better be a lot of caveat emptor, because there are a whole, whole lot of people who think they’ve reached guru-status without knowing exactly what that is. Best to stick with a tried and true lineage in which the teacher has been approved by his or her own enlightened teacher. If anyone features prosperity, they have no right to use the word spirituality. Nothing wrong with being in a state that draws prosperity, but that would be a side effect and not something to feature unless you’re heavy into marketing.

Another observation is surprise that Ray had so bought into his own hype that he couldn’t discriminate when something really bad was going down in front of his eyes. You could fairly say he is terribly deluded. Hurting people was certainly not in his own interest, but he couldn’t see what any child could have. Really bad stuff was happening.

As for Sedona, maybe the forces that be in the universe sought to teach the town a lesson. Right livelihood involves more than selling crystals and other bling bling. The land on which Sedona rests is very special and powerful. Abuse it with overemphasis on spiritual commerce, and there may be karmic consequences.

Hope you are all okay and up and running soon!