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By Phylameana lila Desy, About.com Guide to Holistic Healing

Law Firm Soliciting Interviews with Sweat Lodge Participants

Friday November 13, 2009
Last week, after I reported that a third person is suing James Ray and the owners of Angel Valley Resort near Sedona, AZ I speculated if this was an indication that a class action lawsuit might be in the making.

James Ray is the self-help entrepreneur who lead a sweat lodge ceremony inside an ill-conceived dome-shaped structure on October 8th. There were approximately 50 to 60 participants. Twenty one of these individuals were taken to area hospitals after becoming ill for treatment. Three people died. Dennis Mehravar joined the earlier civil law suit filed in Flagstaff AZ on behalf of another survivor Sidney Spencer. Mehravar passed out in the sweat lodge, was hospitalized, and is still experiencing pain and dizziness.

Sure enough, it has been brought to my attention by one of my readers (thanks tbode) that the law firm representing Spencer and Mehravar have created a Web site -sweatlodgeinvestigation.com- for the purpose of soliciting interviews from other participants.

The first lawsuit resulting from this tragic event is a wrongful death suit filed on behalf of the family of Liz Neuman, a Minnesota woman who was the third person to die after the tragic Arizona sweat lodge ceremony.

You can follow the time line of events and ongoing updates on this story here.

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