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What these "native american wannabes" don't realize is one cannot just go into a sweat lodge - there is ritual involved and health is an issue. This I know as my own father when told he had three to six months to live decided to give homeopathic medicine a try along with his chemo and radiation therapies. He went to his family in Pine Ridge and began a rigorous therapy program - although I don't attribute it ALL to the sweat lodge sessions, he did live almost another three and a half years.

This nutcase deserves whatever they can throw at them, imhb.

"spiritual warrior" my ass. More like earth and human idol worshiping self centered nihilists fighting the last vestiges of Christianity on a part time basis and pursuing personal pleasure full time.

This is why I am SO-O-O-O-O opposed to the Nanny State. The Darwin effect MUST be allowed to run its course. By not letting morons kill themselves the gene pool is getting stupider and stupider by the year.

Sometimes a really dumb Follywood movie actually catches the truth - think "Idiocracy". Welcome to the new America.

I think you guys are being a little too harsh.
My brother and I almost went through a Sweat Lodge ceremony while on vacation in Canada this summer, but ran out of time and had to at least postpone it until next year.
It was suggested by my cousin's wife, who is a Canadian- Indian (She is a conservative Republican and a Christian, I think she views it as more of a cultural thing among her people than a religious rite).
I was looking forward to it, but hopefully I'll be able to do it next year.

The benefits of a church pew over a sweat lodge is a good point.

Finding problems with Christianity does not insure that the alternative is correct.

The idea of sweating out toxins is pseudoscientific quackified garabage, and subjecting one's self to enduring heat for some kind of religious experience is similarly, ridiculous.
Unless of course, your idea of a religious experience is to push your body toward hyperthermia and hallucination and heart failure. (I'm almost positive that survivors of the ordeal get some sort of religion.)

But then, you could get the same effect in a foxhole.

The Christian experience works because it is contemplative of an irrational world, and therefore reduces rather than invites even more physical stress.

Crap I thought this type pf nonsense went out with the 90's at the peak of the fad. Were they scheduled to do some firewalking as well?

The Statue of Limitations

I think she views it as more of a cultural thing among her people than a religious rite

The New Age moonbats who seek out these experiences are cultural appropriators, so it shouldn't be a surprise when they make a mistake and something goes wrong. After all, they are copying various practices from those cultures that have refined such practices over generations.

I would suspect that those whose heritage includes such ceremonies aren't the ones making mistakes and killing customers - that would be the domain of New Age weirdos holding these for profit based on a script they found on the Internet.

A feew years ago in KALIFORNIA some deathrow inmate just before his exiction wanted a sweat lodge to go to he was rejected

The Capitol building should be turned into a giant sweat lodge to weed out those with weak DNA and RNA.

"Good Lord, moonbats have to pay someone to tell them that?"

Not only did these people pay for this, they payed $10,000 each. If you want to sweat out some "toxins", get a JOB working in the hot sun. You'll sweat all right, and when you actually accomplish something with your time, you'll feel good about it. I work outside in Florida. The summer heat and humidity will do all that silly sweat lodge can do and then some. Follow that with a cold margarita in the shade and now you're living. 10 grand? idiots.

The Scientologists consistently do this stuff. They call it the 'Purification Rundown'.

I call it the kill your liver/heatstroke special.

Good insights in these comments today

And yet your fine senators and congressmen are, even as we speak, looking to provide coverage of "religious or spiritual" health care, which may include faith healing, detoxification pseudoscience, perhaps even reiki, who knows? Your money at work:

It's more than just Senator Tom Harkin and woo

Kaleidoscope at October 19, 2009 12:51 PM

This was what happened in the UK. All kinds of quackery was advocated for whatever ailed you...homeopathy, reiki, chrystal therapy, magnets, unpalatable herbs from VietNamese mudholes, etc.
The overly-inbred Prince Charles (BO's big-eared counter-part) ran around loose for a while, extolling upon the merits of swinging around a sack of pigeon feces at the full moon.

The reason for all this of course, is that it is cheaper for the NHS to provide medical care for patients once they're dead.

The cracked urns that run loose are the real ones who should in a padded cell rather then running loose like that are THE NUTS ARE FALLING SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK HYUK,HYUK,HYUK

Survival of the fittest bites 3 more liberal morons right in the ass. I love it.

I think I have a fever.
Maybe I need to bleed.
Anyone got a couple-dozen great big leaches I can borrow?

what total fools. i would have liked to see 55 to 65 dead fools.

They lost 3 of approximately 60 lib numb skulls for a 5% success rate. I would gladly contribute to a fund to erect sweat lodges throughout DC, Hollywood, and Frisco offering free admission to anyone that can show they are a registered Democrat.

No sweat.
I liked the "Darwin award tryouts."
I'm still laughin over that.
I gotta wonder though if these fools think the lifestyle of the noble red man is as romantic as they believe?
Theyr'es more to it than Tonto and Iron Eyes Cody.