This post is especially for people who complain their knees and backs hurt when they kneel for a few minutes in church.
But this video of a religious festival is not for the squeamish. Don't say I didn't warn you. This is old-time religion, really old-time. I think we were a lot tougher in those days or maybe it's that we took our religious practices more seriously. Yet I still don't understand why there's no blood.
Then of course there's also the pain. No, I don't think they're doped up; notice how much they have to function while they're swinging from the hooks -- all sorts of ritual gestures, and at one point the man closest to the camera picks up a child and carries her, then he carries a woman, as part of the ritual.
It would be the same for being hypnotized or in a trance, wouldn't it? They have to be very much aware of what they're doing. So how deep could the trance be?
As for some kind of topical anesthetic -- the hooks aren't topical; they dig deep into the flesh and out the other end.
Are they Yogis? Ya think?
********
No comments:
Post a Comment