Montreal Woman Dies of Hyperthermia at New Age Retreat

[Mr. G]

MONTREAL — Quebec police officers have completed their report into the bizarre death of Chantale Lavigne — who was “cooked to death” at a personal development seminar — and investigators are expected to meet with the Quebec prosecutor assigned to the case as early as next week.

It will be up to the prosecutor “to decide whether any charges will be filed, and, if so, what they would be,” Rene Verret, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, said Thursday.

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[gad rgyangs]

"Lavigne died in hospital after she and eight others in a personal-development seminar called Dying in Consciousness were covered with mud, wrapped in plastic, put under blankets and immobilized with their heads in cardboard boxes for about nine hours, under instructions to hyperventilate."

how could you even be retarded enough to let someone do this to you?

[Mr. G]

• According to Radio-Canada, Frechette has been running self-improvement courses for about two decades, and claims to be channelling Melchisedech, a Biblical figure

[rose]

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." ~ Bertrand Russell



Regards,

[gad rgyangs]

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." ~ Bertrand Russell

or, as Yates put it:

The Second Coming

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[justsit]

That would be W.B. Yeats?

[Bhavana]

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." ~ Bertrand Russell

or, as Yates put it:

The Second Coming

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

I don't think there ever was a poem that filled me with more dread than this one. Downright creepy.

[MrDistracted]

This version is better:

[DGA]

how could you even be retarded enough to let someone do this to you?

Samsara happens to smart people too. Look at the followers of James Arthur Ray: ordinary people with ordinary aspirations (a promotion at work, say... "increased life competence" &c) willing to take a chance on extraordinary means to get ahead.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/us/23sweat.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"Sharpening stones, walking on coals
To improve your business acumen..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2wET1OlK4Q" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[gad rgyangs]

how could you even be retarded enough to let someone do this to you?

Samsara happens to smart people too. Look at the followers of James Arthur Ray: ordinary people with ordinary aspirations (a promotion at work, say... "increased life competence" &c) willing to take a chance on extraordinary means to get ahead.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/us/23sweat.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"Sharpening stones, walking on coals
To improve your business acumen..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2wET1OlK4Q" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

sweatlodge is a legit and pedigreed practice, you just have to know what you're doing. hyperventilating with your head in a box is not.