> Western cultures tend to send the afflicted into a downward spiral rarely seen in less modernized cultures This reminds me of some of the "poet-saints" in In

> Western cultures tend to send the afflicted into a downward spiral rarely seen in less modernized cultures This reminds me of some of the "poet-saints" in Indian culture such as Kabir. By conventional wisdom, these men would have been deemed insane - vagrants who renounced all material possessions to walk about the earth, preaching a strange amalgamation of various religious ideas. Yet, they are a part of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh religious thought today.