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Oprah Guru’s Deadly Sweat Lodge Involved Induced Vomiting, ‘Vomit Everywhere’

So, that horrifying sweat lodge where Oprah-endorsed guru James Arthur Ray may or may not have inadvertently killed three people? NYT has some new eye witness reports, and they’re as scary, icky, and infuriatingly New-Agey as you thought. Texas orthodontist Beverley Bunn told The New York Times that the sweat ceremony was the rebirth phase of a “vision quest.” Much like an actual birth, disgusting things spewed from everyone’s orifices and a lot of pain was involved: “There were people throwing up everywhere” based on the kinda-bulimic advice that vomiting “was good for you, that you are purging what your body doesn’t want, what it doesn’t need.” Apparently the body doesn’t need consciousness, either, because at least three vision quest-ers passed out during the session, Bunn and others claim

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Oprah Guru’s Deadly Sweat Lodge Involved Induced Vomiting, ‘Vomit Everywhere’