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Totally and completely different now? >> there will be no stopping me. >> that fundamental human need to express your pain and find a way to ameliorate it is at the center of this. the self help industry is a huge industry. it is $10 billion a year. and the desire to improve yourself is not going anywhere. its the history of america. we have always been seekers on one level. >> its scary to have to get into your emotional issues. it gets uncomfortable. but you know what is scarier? is not. >> ja...

Be totally and completely different now? >> there will be no stopping me. >> that fundamental human need to express your pain and try to find some way of ameliorating it is at the heart of all this. the self-help industry is a huge industry. its $10 billion a year and that desire to improve yourself, thats not going anywhere. its the history of america. weve always been seekers on one level. >> its scary to have to -- to get into your emotional issues. because its uncomfortable, but you know wha...

And something troubling about officer slager suggesting that he was in such great fear that he shot a man in the back a number of times running away from him. >> cedric, i have to go. motivational speaker james arthur ray convicted in the death of three clients in a sweat lodge. now he wants a second chance in the self-help industry. ♪

Billion dollar self help industry. in 2009, james arthur ray was a leading self help guru until one day at his sweat lodge in arizona, one of his challenges went too far and three people died. ray went to prison, but now hes out and sara sidner explains how ray is trying at the least to make a comeback. >> a state trooper came to my door and said do you know kirby brown. >> reporter: this is kirbys mother and that day she learned her daughter was dead. >> she was cooked to death. thats how she d...

Boundaryies. he had this idea that he was going to -- once you got past -- you had to have a break -- in order to have a break through, you needed to have a breakdown. and these challenges were designed to cause some sort of breakdown. do something that you didnt think you could do. the sweat lodge was very, very long. it was two hours long. it was extraordinarily hot and the goal in james mind is that when you emerged, you were going to to have been so relieved to be out of this sweat lodge but...

Who went from prophet to prisoner after three of his followers died in a sweat lodge. he is trying to make a comeback in a self-help industry in a new film. well talk to the director after a quick break. ready, go! hi, juice universe? one large rutabaga, with eggplant... done! thats not fair. glad i had a v8. the original way to fuel your day. our mission is to produce for african women as they try to build their businesses and careers. my name is yasmin belo-osagie and im a co-founder at she le...

Flaps and people were free to leave, come and go. some people wanted to quickly exit and one of the things i told them in the setup was to go out clockwise carefully because obviously theres a pit of hot rocks in the center. >> reporter: the punishing heat generated by water poured over a pit of hot rocks sent 21 overcome people rushing for help. >> i had systems in place and the systems broke down. >> reporter: now a free man, he didnt rule out returning to the self-help industry but this time,...

It is a really loud and clear message to people in the self help industry, especially providers that if youre going to misuse your power, if youre going to convince people to follow you, if youre going to convince people to trust you and be vulnerable with you, and then you lead them into harms way, you are now going to be held accountable. >> strong words from an eyewitness at the sweat lodge. now is back after spending months in prison. james ray. i have to say a lot of this condemns in nature...