James Ray Trial Tweets :: March 18th

• I notice that @CNNLive air quoted “sweat lodge” on their video description today :: good job. #JamesRay – Mar 18 11:13:59 2011

• “Okay Sheila … okay?” #JamesRay #FirstNames #RhetoricalQuestions – Mar 18 11:16:45 2011

• @TonyRobbins I just wanted to warn you about a poisonous spectre. So … you know … now you’re warned. #JamesRay #BFF’s – Mar 18 11:19:25 2011

• Mr. Hughes continues his direct of Dr. Armstrong. #JamesRay – Mar 18 11:22:21 2011

• Dr. Armstrong asked #JamesRay if an AED {heart shocking machine} was available :: Mr. Ray walked away to look … came back without one. – Mar 18 11:24:56 2011

• Truc Do begins her gangland homicide style cross of Dr. Armstrong. #JamesRay – Mar 18 11:31:51 2011

• Truc asking questions about Dr. Armstrong’s medical qualifications :: quotes from the Hippocratic Oath … #JamesRay – Mar 18 11:36:55 2011

• Truc going with “Would you let Mr. Kelly die?” questions. #JamesRay – Mar 18 11:38:17 2011

• I wonder if Dr. Armstrong would render aid to Mr. Kelly if Judge Darrow ordered her to stop? I’ll bet not. #JamesRay – Mar 18 11:41:24 2011

• Do :: “Was the hair cutting mind control?” Dr. Armstrong :: “No.” – Mar 18 11:51:11 2011

• The “vision quest” not quite hardcore enough for Dr. Armstrong. #JamesRay – Mar 18 11:53:09 2011

• Dr. Armstong was offended by the post #sweatlodge cult talk in the media. #JamesRay – Mar 18 11:57:26 2011

• TomMcFeeley Almost nobdy in the media used the word “cult” – trust me, I had a lot to do with that. #jamesray – Mar 18 11:56:27 2011 via TweetDeck Retweeted by RayShouldPay

• Dr. Armstong helped @greghartle out of the lodge. #JamesRay #ToughGuys – Mar 18 11:59:26 2011

• This would be a great witness for the prosecution to push the cult point. #JamesRay #JustDoIt – Mar 18 12:00:45 2011

• Dr. Armstrong mostly kept her eyes closed within the lodge. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:02:44 2011

• Dr. Armstrong also reports no perception of time inside the lodge. 100% of witnesses so far … #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:05:01 2011

• Dr. Armstrong walked out of #sweatlodge “like Rocky” :: she was worried about Amy and Lou but didn’t have many other concerns. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:06:41 2011

• Truc reading from transcript of Dr. Armstrong police interview :: Mr. Hughes wants a big section read for completeness. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:11:29 2011

• Truc :: Dream Team were there to help … safety first! … correct? Dr. A :: Not really … they were kinda just participants. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:14:51 2011

• Dr. Armstrong correctly sees the Dream Team as mostly symbolic. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:15:31 2011

• Truc shows Dr. Armstrong that she said she heard “Amy’s passed out” not “Amy’s unconscious” #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:21:02 2011

• Dr. A assumed Amy passed-out cause of her petiteness. Her experience by the door had not been that dramatic. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:22:33 2011

• Dr. A would have tried to help if she thought she needed to help. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:23:22 2011

• Dr. A didn’t hear Dennis M. screaming about having a heart attack. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:24:14 2011

• @TomMcFeeley But she wasn’t the medic … she’s paid him big bucks … totally reasonable to assume she could “have her own experience” – Mar 18 12:26:04 2011 in reply to TomMcFeeley

• Dr. A says that “foaming” is overstating it. More like forthy sputum. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:27:38 2011

• “Foaming” at the mouth was much better for the defense’s case than “frothy sputum” #JamesRay #GoodJobTruc – Mar 18 12:29:47 2011

• Dr. Armstrong says both James and Kirby were dead on site. #JamesRay :( – Mar 18 12:31:41 2011

• Dr. Armstrong thought EMS was taking a long time. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:33:32 2011

• Dr. Armstrong half remembers #JamesRay saying something like “don’t look good … any chance?” after not finding an AED – Mar 18 12:35:17 2011

• Dr. A didn’t see anyone getting hosed off. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:36:00 2011

• IMO :: an AED wouldn’t have mattered anyway … they were cooked … literally. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:37:10 2011

• Truc asking about the medical term “the golden hour” implying that you might actually have more than an hour. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:40:36 2011

• Dr. A impies that in modern days “the golden hour” is far less than an hour. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:41:58 2011

• Dr. A thought it strange that she was doing CPR on someone much younger and healthier than she. #JamesRay #ByTheFlap – Mar 18 12:43:07 2011

• Fat girl CPR’s skinny girl … news at 11. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:44:45 2011

• Truc wants to ask Dr. A lots of medical questions because the medical experts coming later are going to be hard to cross. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:46:53 2011

• Dr. A :: If you passed out … but got taken out quickly … then things would be less serious. #JamesRay Truc is my hero! – Mar 18 12:49:01 2011

• Truc’s leading questions showing that toxic poisoning and heat stroke share some symtoms in common #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:52:29 2011

• Cross complete. Recess. #JamesRay – Mar 18 12:53:44 2011

• CassandraYorgey So do syphilis and herpes, but #JamesRay only has one of them. RT @RayShouldPay toxic poisoning & heat stroke share some symptoms in common. – Mar 18 12:58:39 2011 in reply to RayShouldPay Retweeted by RayShouldPay

• Two possible causes for public collapsing :: Coronary – @JustinBieber :: the same … but different. #JamesRay – Mar 18 13:02:45 2011

• Mr. Hughes begins re-direct of Dr. Armstrong. #JamesRay – Mar 18 13:16:09 2011

• Dr. Armstrong didn’t notice unconscious people after the lodge because she was keeping her eyes on the pit on her way out. #JamesRay – Mar 18 13:20:53 2011

• If there was a toxin in the air :: Dr. A would assume that everyone would have gotten ill. #JamesRay – Mar 18 13:22:27 2011

• Dr. A :: Heat scale goes from Rash to Death #JamesRay – Mar 18 13:25:17 2011

• TomMcFeeley Dr. Armstrong: Impairment due to heat is low on the “heat illness spectrum” #jamesray – Mar 18 13:25:33 2011 via TweetDeck Retweeted by RayShouldPay

• Dr. A didn’t notice frothy sputum on Kirby or James Shore. #JamesRay – Mar 18 13:31:21 2011

• Gist of Mr. Hughes questions :: Would it have been easier to save them with medical equipment? #JamesRay – Mar 18 13:33:26 2011

• Gist of Dr. A’s answers :: The sooner the better … unless they’re already way dead. #JamesRay – Mar 18 13:35:15 2011

• Q: Do IV’s change hydration levels? A: Yep. #JamesRay – Mar 18 13:37:12 2011

• Re-direct complete. Jury question sidebar. #JamesRay – Mar 18 13:39:02 2011

• Jury Question 1 :: Was the flap open when Amy was removed? – Mar 18 13:41:20 2011

• Jury Q. 2: Was the flap open when you heard “Amy’s passed-out”? A: Basically … yes. – Mar 18 13:43:17 2011

• Q3: Was it possible that you fell asleep during the final three or four rounds. #JamesRay A: Pretty deeply meditative .. chanting .. focus. – Mar 18 13:44:34 2011

• Dr. Armstong is excused. #JamesRay – Mar 18 13:44:59 2011

• Lunch recess. Truc Do … you had me at hello … call me! #JamesRay – Mar 18 13:48:24 2011

• It is advantageous for the State to call witnesses the defense might want to call. Tactical advantage & “not hiding” anything perception. – Mar 18 15:01:35 2011

• Ms. Polk doing direct on {name?} :: {name?} was hoping that at Spiritual Warrior #JamesRay would finally “get to the beefy stuff” – Mar 18 15:43:55 2011

• {name?} knew Laura and Lori before the event. #JamesRay – Mar 18 15:44:50 2011

• “Mostly, to me it meant, do as he says.” #JamesRay – Mar 18 15:47:53 2011

• “It was like being back in Jr. High School” #JamesRay #GoodOne – Mar 18 15:48:37 2011

• She thought the head shaving was pointless for her :: but she did it to “stop the taunting” #JamesRay – Mar 18 15:49:31 2011

• “recapitulation” of sexual experiences instead of sleeping not fun. didn’t get more than 3 or 4 hours of sleep all week #JamesRay – Mar 18 15:51:17 2011

• Had done Bill Harris’ crap frauduct Holosync before :: but never multiple times in a row. “meditation overdose” #JamesRay – Mar 18 15:53:01 2011

• dotfreedom “If it’s possible to overdose on meditation, that’s basically what we were doing.” -Laurie Gennari Witness – Mar 18 15:52:48 2011 Retweeted by RayShouldPay

• twinkiewrangler The whole weekend is starting to sound a LOT like a $cientology auditing session #JamesRay #NDNZ #skeptic – Mar 18 15:53:12 2011 Retweeted by RayShouldPay and 1 other

• The camera is moving :: but never on the witness. Yesterday’s camera request was likely not made by Lou Caci then. #JamesRay #Speculation – Mar 18 15:55:24 2011

• Holotropic breathing basically just “intentional hyperventilation” :: #JamesRay – Mar 18 15:57:42 2011

• “altered states” were presented by #JamesRay as something “appealing” – Mar 18 16:00:50 2011

• #JamesRay is a Yoga Bully … – Mar 18 16:01:25 2011

• Laurie Gennari says the Spiritual Warrior theme was :: “death” :: #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:03:08 2011

• Laura G. was already feeling like #JamesRay’s “teachings” didn’t contain enough nuance to be useful to her. – Mar 18 16:07:05 2011

• Laurie knew the “Jekyll & Hyde” moment was coming. #JamesRay Objection! Sustained. – Mar 18 16:09:57 2011

• ToxicMoxxie “Objection your Honor–my pu**y hurts”….Luis Li. – Mar 18 16:08:30 2011 Retweeted by RayShouldPay

• OMG Laurie G. hates the crap out of #JamesRay … – Mar 18 16:11:56 2011

• God game = “I thought it was a dumb game” #JamesRay … some people “got ugly” by playing full on. – Mar 18 16:14:37 2011

• abwrites Jekyll/Hyde, Yoga Bully, Snake Oil Shaman #JamesRay = Renaissance Mess! – Mar 18 16:15:15 2011 Retweeted by RayShouldPay and 1 other

• Laurie G. not cool with not eating or drinking during the “vision quest.” #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:17:58 2011

• Laurie loves lunch. #JamesRay Instead she got a #sweatlodge – Mar 18 16:19:23 2011

• “I had seen Mr. Ray get upset with people who left according to their own body’s timing …” #JamesRay #PeeHolding – Mar 18 16:20:43 2011

• Laurie G. :: Feeling almost nothing by the end. Exhausted. Done. Me wants to go home and eat meats. #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:22:34 2011

• Laurie G. thought she’d be able to handle the heat. #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:24:36 2011

• By the end :: “I wouldn’t have considered leaving the group.” #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:25:32 2011

• Everything we did was “we” … #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:25:54 2011

• Laurie also thought the tobacco pouches were stupid. #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:28:37 2011

• Holding hands in a circle before the journal burning. #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:29:33 2011

• Laurie G. and Laura T. entered the #sweatlodge together. #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:32:23 2011

• Laurie sat with Laura until #JamesRay instructed Liz to sit between them. – Mar 18 16:33:42 2011

• Laurie quotes Liz Neuman early in Spiritual Warrior saying :: “Now you get to see me like I really am!” … quite happily. #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:34:53 2011

• Laurie G. remembers #JamesRay ordering 12 stones on the first round. #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:36:20 2011

• Laurie remembers Laura and Liz talking about positioning after Round 3 #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:39:22 2011

• Liz sounded “mostly normal” after the 3rd round. #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:40:28 2011

• Laurie felt better laying face down :: she dug her hand under the lodge. #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:42:46 2011

• Round 3 :: Liz was still sitting :: knees pulled into her chest. #JamesRay – Mar 18 16:44:00 2011

• Round 3 :: someone whimpering :: people saying “you’re more than that” :: LG says “you need to do what’s right for you” #JamesRay #GoodJob – Mar 18 16:45:34 2011

• Ms. Polk :: “Did the rounds stop when Lou fell in the Pit?” A: No. – Mar 18 16:47:14 2011

• Laurie G. thought the pre-talk about passing out in the #sweatlodge was just more #JamesRay marketing hype. – Mar 18 16:50:04 2011

• Laurie G. the first witness to wager a guess about which fire was the rock fire. #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:15:56 2011

• Commence the “full on” drinking game … the rules are obvious … play impeccably. #JamesRay #Beer – Mar 18 17:17:15 2011

• LG :: Mr. Ray “ranting and raving” “angry tone of voice” :: when someone lifted up the back and escaped in an effort to not die. #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:19:50 2011

• Wow. This is epic. #JamesRay weekend ruined. #lol – Mar 18 17:24:20 2011

• Laurie G. glance at Liz at round 6 :: she looked awful :: her face looked “very drunk” #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:25:55 2011

• Laurie heard so many times :: “let them have their own experience” :: she did … not really like her. #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:27:47 2011

• “I had suspended normal me in order to have this experience.” #JamesRay #OMG!!! – Mar 18 17:28:47 2011

• “From where I am now it just sounds stupid.” #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:30:29 2011

• Laurie G.’s magnificent introspection destroying #JamesRay forever. – Mar 18 17:31:40 2011

• “At the time we both believed her…” :: Laurie G. says about Liz’s semi-crazy “I’m okay” #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:33:46 2011

• twinkiewrangler FYI: I have NEVER heard of a sweat lodge where ppl weren’t sitting up and participating in sacred songs/prayers. #JamesRay #NDNZ – Mar 18 17:34:12 2011 Retweeted by RayShouldPay and 1 other

• Laurie basically saw Liz collapsing :: Laurie was starting to panic about herself. #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:35:41 2011

• Laurie remembers #JamesRay saying “Liz knows what she’s doing” when Laura Tucker told Ray she was in trouble. – Mar 18 17:36:49 2011

• Laurie’s impression of Liz saying “no, no, no” very sad. #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:37:24 2011

• LG tries to make her desperate escape in the clockwise circle :: “I wasn’t thinking I was panicing” – Mar 18 17:38:35 2011

• #JamesRay starts the next round while Laurie was trying to escape in a “full on” panic. – Mar 18 17:39:35 2011

• TragedyInSedona there we have it, #jamesray stopping someone from leaving – Mar 18 17:39:05 2011 via TweetDeck Retweeted by RayShouldPay

• dotfreedom “No, you’re too late. The door’s closing. Find yourself spot”- Laurie said that #jamesray bellowed at her – Mar 18 17:39:05 2011 Retweeted by RayShouldPay

• TomMcFeeley Gennari: Ray said “You’re too late, we’re starting another round. Find yourself a seat.” She was four feet from door. #jamesray – Mar 18 17:39:40 2011 via TweetDeck Retweeted by RayShouldPay

• Laurie started whimpering as the flap closed. #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:40:59 2011

• TomMcFeeley Gennari: “It was much, much, much hotter on the other side” where James Shore and Kirby Brown were. #jamesray – Mar 18 17:41:07 2011 via TweetDeck Retweeted by RayShouldPay

• Laurie feels like someone threw her out of the lodge at the end :: then they start hosing her :: bucket of water up the nose. #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:43:52 2011

• Laura Tucker comes and wipes the mud from Laurie’s eyes :: looked like “rehearsals for M.A.S.H.” :: #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:44:50 2011

• “I was tired, I was hungry, I was panicing, none of my rational systems were functioning” #JamesRay yelled stop in an authoritative voice. – Mar 18 17:46:12 2011

• yakaru309 Laurie G had ripped skin off hands and knees and face on the gravel trying to get out & being thrown out. #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:48:54 2011 Retweeted by RayShouldPay

• After some hose and buckets :: Laurie was cold. According to #JamesRay’s defense that means she was never hot. – Mar 18 17:51:28 2011

• Remembers “she’s not responding” and “she’s not breathing” while still in the #sweatlodge – Mar 18 17:53:40 2011

• Laura T. tells LG to go and hold S.Ray’s hand. LG does. His hand “felt dead … it was really creepy” #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:56:17 2011

• LG trying to get S.Ray to squeeze her hand. He couldn’t. #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:57:27 2011

• Q: How long were you with S.Ray? A: Until the backboard pick him up … a long long time later. #JamesRay – Mar 18 17:58:42 2011

• Laurie doesn’t know that S.Ray was helicoptered out. #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:01:20 2011

• LG blacked out as she was trying to leave the faux #sweatlodge. #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:04:53 2011

• Q: “Did the events of the week effect your mindset going into the lodge?” A: “Certainly … we were well trained to do as we were told.” – Mar 18 18:11:00 2011

• LG didn’t hydrate during the week because she didn’t want to get “berated” for standing up for a drink or a pee. #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:12:21 2011

• “Any attempt at questioning was usually shut down by Mr. Ray” :: #JameRay – Mar 18 18:13:16 2011

• “I had been told repeatedly not to help people.” :: #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:15:02 2011

• Ms. Polk :: Have you thought about your own actions? #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:16:38 2011

• LG :: Intellectually she understands that she’s been manipulated … but in her heart she regrets not saving Liz. #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:17:32 2011

• Sean R. was punching people and flailing around in the middle of the lodge. #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:19:08 2011

• Mr. Li begins his cross … literally. #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:19:27 2011

• LG has a degree in applied mathematics #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:22:21 2011

• LG :: “I could stand on my head in the middle of the place … but that’s not why I was there.” #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:27:17 2011

• luckygalnj Li :: if she could do whatever she wants, she would punch you in the face #jamesray – Mar 18 18:27:12 2011 Retweeted by RayShouldPay

• Li :: “You could have choose not to come to the event … correct?” #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:29:08 2011

• TomMcFeeley Nobody was doing drugs at Spiritual Warrior except James Ray #jamesray #juicing – Mar 18 18:34:49 2011 via TweetDeck Retweeted by RayShouldPay and 2 others

• Mr. Li explaining to LG how she’s made choices and stuff. #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:40:57 2011

• #JamesRay week over … dismissing jury and witness. – Mar 18 18:45:13 2011

• Mr. Kelly asking about the length of the trial :: State still thinks it will end by June. #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:47:54 2011

• Mr. Kelly complaining about State’s continued questions about undisputed facts. #dumb #whocares – Mar 18 18:49:33 2011

• Defense worried about the effect of 70 witnesses when #JamesRay’s guilt feels proven after less than 10. #JamesRay – Mar 18 18:51:54 2011

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