Two Dead In Arizona During 'spiritual Cleanse' Options

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topst...at_lodge_deaths

Here's one link to the story, I'll get back and comment later when I've got more time.

sweat lodge - a simulation of the underworld - hot as hell, dark as pitch - in a real sweat lodge they don't use blue tarps and even the poles that hold up the coverings are related to the paths of planets and stars - it is all about stressing the body/awareness until the awareness leaves the body, usually with the aid of something placed into the fire, deep within the ceremony - shamans are picked and trained from youth, but nowadays everybody thinks they are of shaman material, and then they have problems, sometimes severe, especially with entities, and convincing an entity that gets called to a feast that such a git isn't worth their feasting upon can be an even bigger problem than letting them just go for it, so i can see how this sort of thing can happen

redneck sweat lodge = dig a hole, build a fire, throw on a pound of pot, cover it with a thick blanket, crawl under the blanket - sort of a 'be the bong' kind of thing