Some religions require piercing of the body in a religious or magical context, and can offer an extraordinary experience for the person at the time of puncture, which helps to achieve a religious test for an altered state of consciousness. In the men's ceremony in honor of the "Great White Ghost," The Sioux Indians, pierced nipples of both breasts, they are tied to the sacred pole or a tree, they dance the sacred Sun Dance. In the dance they pull force of gravity of the body whip, tearing her nipples, releasing "soar like eagles in the sky."