Anonymous ID: 358573 Sept. 21, 2026, 3:11 a.m. No.25060392   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>0409

Another unusual Aghori belief is that they attribute spiritual and physical benefits, such as the prevention of ageing, to the consumption of human flesh.

 

https://www.today.com/popculture/indian-doc-focuses-hindu-cannibal-sect-wbna9842124

Indian doc focuses on Hindu cannibal sect

โ€˜Feeding the Deadโ€™ looks at sect who believe eating dead can give powers

 

A new Indian documentary seeks to shed light on a secretive sect of Hindu ascetics who eat corpses in the belief that ingesting dead flesh will make them ageless and give them supernatural powers.

โ€œFeeding on the Dead,โ€ a 10-minute documentary, delves into the closed, little-known world of the 1,000-year-old Aghori sect, whose sadhus, or holy men, pluck dead bodies from the Ganges river.

While the sect has been written about, theyโ€™ve rarely been filmed performing rituals. Director Sandeep Singh, who shut down his transport business to pursue filmmaking, said it took him more than three months to gain the trust of an Aghori sadhu and convince him to be filmed while performing a cannibalistic ritual.

There are about 70 Aghori sadhus at a given time, and they remain with the sect for 12 years before returning to their families. Unlike other Hindu holy men, most of whom are vegetarian teetotalers, the Aghoris consume alcohol and meat.

But it is their consumption of human flesh โ€” a practice whose origins remain a mystery โ€” which has earned them the condemnation of other Hindus and relegated most Aghori sadhus to living around crematoriums in the hills of northern India around the holy city of Varanasi, where the documentary was filmed.

Singh and three cameramen waited with an Aghori sadhu โ€” whose name is not mentioned in the film โ€” for 10 days in June before finding a floating corpse. Hindus generally cremate the dead, but bodies are sometimes ceremonially disposed of in the Ganges.

โ€œThe body was decomposed and bluish in color, but the sadhu was not afraid about falling sick,โ€ Singh told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. โ€œHe sat on the corpse, prayed to a goddess of crematoriums and offered some flesh to the goddess before eating it.โ€

Singh said the sadhu ate part of the corpseโ€™s elbow, believing the flesh would stop him from aging and give him special powers, like the ability to levitate or control the weather.

Singh did not see any of those powers on display.

Anonymous ID: 358573 Sept. 21, 2026, 3:57 a.m. No.25060534   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>25060523

>The Paulite Movement has perished.

Paul's beliefs had some overlap with Jewish Christianity, but they deviated from this Jewish Christianity in their emphasis on inclusion of the Gentiles into God's New Covenant and in his rejection of circumcision as an unnecessary token of upholding the Mosaic Law.

Anonymous ID: 358573 Sept. 21, 2026, 5:56 a.m. No.25060774   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2016/mar/24/magneto-remotely-controls-brain-and-behaviour

Genetically engineered 'Magneto' protein remotely controls brain and behaviour

Researchers in the United States have developed a new method for controlling the brain circuits associated with complex animal behaviours, using genetic engineering to create a magnetised protein that activates specific groups of nerve cells from a distance.