Wondery presents GURU: The Dark Side of Enlightenment

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🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

When we face challenges in life, we seek answers from people we believe can help us. When tragedy strikes an exclusive retreat with a self-help superstar, many people are left to wonder: how far is too far? James Arthur Ray was an Oprah-endorsed self-help teacher who achieved fame, fortune, and influence. But friends and family members of his followers questioned his unorthodox methods, and tried to stop him. From Wondery, the makers of “Dirty John,” “Dr. Death,” and “The Shrink Next Door,” comes a story about the dark side of enlightenment. Hosted by journalist Matt Stroud. Listen today at

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0:00.0	In the mid-2000s, James Arthur Ray was a charismatic self-help guru who promised his followers a path to wealth and happiness.
0:08.8	Sounds great!
0:09.8	Yeah!
0:10.8	But not all who followed him finished their journey.
0:15.0	Oh, shit.
0:16.0	Yeah.
0:17.0	This is the story told in a new True Crime miniseries from Wondery called Guru, the dark side of enlightenment.
0:24.0	It's really good.
0:27.0	James Arthur Ray wasn't really well known until he was in that movie The Secret.
0:32.0	Oh, yeah!
0:33.0	Mm-hmm.
0:34.0	And then was a guest on Oprah's TV show A Few Times.
0:38.0	Mm-hmm.
0:39.0	Hello.
0:40.0	Soon after that, thousands of people started attending his seminars and he was pegged to be the next great self-help guru.
0:46.0	Oh, dear.
0:47.0	But what many didn't know about were his more extreme methods.
0:52.0	Methods that pushed his pupils to their limits, giving some of the transformative life experience they dreamed of, and killing others.
1:01.0	Wow.
1:02.0	Yeah, that escalated quickly.
1:04.0	Yep.
1:05.0	Zero to 60.
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