Would you like to pay a lot of money for a colorful piece of plastic billed as ‘healing technology’? You may want to first read why this group’s previous incarnation was booted out of Maine.

Search engines reveals lawsuits, allegations about misconduct, and dozens of news stories about the Gentle Wind Project…most of them calling it a cult…and many people warning others to stay away.

Once based in Blue Hill, GWP manufactured healing instruments that it claimed were based on designs received through telepathic impressions from the “sprit world.� Distributed worldwide, the group claimed its products could effectively treat everything from high blood pressure to Alzheimer’s disease.

The Gentle Wind Project has agreed to drop a defamation lawsuit against two former members who wrote articles comparing the self-styled spiritual healing group to a mind control cult.

The Gentle Wind Project drops its lawsuit against former members who call the business a cult.

DURHAM - The disbanded Gentle Wind Project is back in business with a new website and reorganized leadership.

DURHAM — The Gentle Wind Project's law firm is refusing to represent the organization any longer, citing nonpayment of legal fees.

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KITTERY, Maine -- The Gentle Winds Project is no longer able to operate in the state of Maine, must liquidate all of its assets for distribution to its customers and eventually to mental-health agencies, and several directors must pay penalties, in an agreement reached recently with the Maine Attorney General's office.

A Kittery-based nonprofit that sold "healing instruments" purportedly designed in the "spirit world" has agreed to stop doing business in Maine and turn over all of its assets to the state to resolve a civil lawsuit filed by the Attorney General's Office.

State enters into consent degree with The Gentle Wind Project for deceptive practices and violations

AUGUSTA (AP) -- The state has entered into a consent decree with The Gentle Wind Project that dissolves the organization and forbids its founders from making false claims about its so-called "healing instruments," officials said Monday.

Maine AG: Spiritual group is run illegally

Maine's attorney general is suing the Kittery-based nonprofit Gentle Wind Project, alleging 13 violations of the state's Unfair Trade Practices Act.

The Gentle Wind Project, which for 22 years has distributed "healing instruments" built on designs adherents claim were transmitted from the "spirit world," has been sued by the Maine Attorney General's Office for allegedly violating the Unfair Trade Practices Act.