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That Sweat Lodge Thing

If stupid is as stupid does, then pardon me for speaking ill of the dead here. But I will anyway, because the truth of the matter is that all 65 persons who were in attendance at that sweat lodge thing in Arizona last October, both the lucky survivors and the less fortunate dead ones, frankly must have been pretty half-baked already just being there. Those are the folks who were hustled by now-arrested motivational speaker James Arthur Ray into anteing up $9,000-plus a head for the trip to Arizona, there where they might escape toward attaining harmonic wealth and spiritual enlightenment. A five-day long recurrence that Ray lines up every year, the "Spiritual Warrior" retreat. That is Ray's business, helping others achieve enlightenment, which I would bet took off hugely since getting so much attention a few years back, when everyone started wanting to know what exactly is The Secret . First, he was in the movie to help explain it, and then later on showed up on Opr...