James Arthur Ray
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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The spiritual people, so-called spiritual people, so-called personal development people, were the most hateful, most attacking, most non-accepting group of people, all kinds of horrific comments and stabbing in the back. And everyone that I knew and wanted to share the stage with me or wanted to joint venture with me, you would know the names.
quote the names and I won't, but none of them even sent me a text message to say how you're doing or any of those things, which is very telling. And so I was bitter. I was quite bitter. And I didn't want anything to do with personal performance or anything even close to that. And so it's been a long road back, John. It's been a very long road back. And yet through God's grace, I've healed.
And Beersheba has been a big part of that, certainly. And we've healed each other. We've worked with each other. for 13 years now, and it is work. It's work, but it's worth it. It's not something that you can do just quickly and easily when you have a lot of trauma and a lot of disruption in your life. But two things I really learned through my whole situation, two primary things.
There's a myriad of things, but two primary things I've learned is that you have to have a great relationship with God and you have to believe in that and have faith in that, irrespective. And then secondly, you have to know who you are. apart from what anyone else thinks, that's self-awareness.
You have to be able to take the hits and take the haters because that's what happens in today's world is haters hate. And it's unfortunate, but you have to be willing to take that and to say, I know who I am, regardless, I know who I am. I'll just say this and then I'll throw it back to you, John. But when I decided to finally come back and start working in leadership and performance,
Then I told my mom and she said, son, why would God rest her soul? She's gone now. But she said, why would you do that? After all you've been through, they're going to come at you and they're going to hate on you and they're going to attack you. And I said, I know. And I just was quiet. And she said, so why do you want to do it? And I didn't answer. And she said, I know why.
You don't have a choice, do you? And I said, no, I really don't. Obviously, we always have a choice. But I feel like God has a plan for all of us. And that to the degree we're going to live a fulfilling life and a meaningful life, we have to follow that plan, no matter how hard it is.
It's a really great question, John. I feel like I'm a better man today. I'm certainly, I do my best to be a great husband and to be the best human being I can possibly be. My intentions were always good. My methods were not always the best in retrospect, and I got carried away by what I'll call socialized mind. How we're conditioned in our world.
is that all the, whatever names you named, and I was one of them, is that they're so hugely successful. Well, let me tell you something. I was supposedly worth north of $20 million. I had a 7,500 square foot estate in Beverly Hills. I had all the accoutrements and they were gone like that. Just like that. And so what value do they have? They don't. They don't.
Everything in this world is transitory. The only thing that has true and lasting value are those things which can never be lost or taken. And those things are not ever outside, they're inside. If it can be lost or taken, it has use value. You can use them and enjoy them, but they don't have any intrinsic value.
And so I got carried away with all the fame and the success to a degree, and I got sucked into the system and I had to step back. When I was standing in the desert, homeless and alone and $20 million in debt in 2013, I had to do a deep dive and say, what's James Arthur Ray 3.0 going to be? Which presupposes there was a 2.0 and a 1.0, which are different stories. But who is he going to be?
What's he going to be about? And I reflected back on my study of the great philosophers, and this is without exception. You look at Plato or Socrates or Seneca or Plotinus, name the name, not one of them. without exception, not one of them taught us how to make a lot of money. None of them told us to make a lot of money. They told us to live moral and virtuous and principled lives.
And so that became my center. That became my focus. And I decided that's who I'm going to be. And if it brings worldly success, then that's up to God. That's not up to me. If it doesn't, then it doesn't. But I can lay my head down every single night and know that I've done my very best to do what God has sent me here to do.
And then I've lived a moral life and a principle life and a virtuous life to the very best of my ability. Not to say I don't ever fall off. Of course, we all stumble and yet you get back up and you keep going. And that's my real focus now today. It's not about the fame and the fortune and the recognition and all those kinds of things.
I ask a lot of our clients frequently, if you could do, and let me back up. A lot of people, particularly in younger generations, say, I want to make an impact. How many times have we heard that? I want to make a difference.
And so I would ask the question, if you could make an impact, if you could truly make a difference in the world, but you got no recognition, no one knew who you were, you got no fame, you got no glamour, you got no big money, but you knew you were doing God's will, would you do it? Most people shy away from that. And so they really don't want to make a difference.
What they want is to make a difference for themselves. And that's a very self-centric kind of approach. It's not an approach that wants to make a difference in other people's lives. It's an approach that I want to make a difference in my pocketbook, or I want to make a difference in my life. And maybe if I'm really magnanimous, maybe I want to do it for my family.
I'll spread it out that far, but it doesn't really go much further than that. In my latest book, God, Money, and Sex, I talk about how we have come to the altar in our traditional world today of money and materialism. And those things have become our God. We worship money and we worship materialism. And that's one of the main reasons we're in the situations we're in right now.
We're on the precipice of World War III, for God's sakes. How did we get here? We got here because look at all the people
who are in quote leadership who are on the take and they're just pursuing money and they're pursuing materialism and they're pursuing fame and they're pursuing fortune and we see it reported repeatedly not so much in the mainstream media because they keep it hush but nonetheless that's what's brought us to this precipice and we've got to get back to center we've got to get back to god and if i had not if i had not had that that incredible crash and burn
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