media out here right now. he was once a popular motivational speaker, and he appeared on oprah and in the movie the secret, but james ray spent two years behind bars after a deadly sweat lodge in 2009, and today after paying his debt to society, about two years in prison, he s about to be released. i think that s him. you think it s him, or no? i think it is, too. james ray was indeed released from the lewis prison, and he will be on probation for the remainder of his sentence right here in phoenix.