My wtf wikipedia find of the day: Sokushinbutsu, where buddhists slowly mummify themselves alive
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Learned more about it after watching a documentary on mummies in different cultures. Fascinating stuff.
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What actually makes this more likely to result in a mummy than just leaving a corpse in the same dry environment? Wikipedia leaves that unclear.
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I imagine the internal experience of meditating to death over the course of 10 years is very similar to your experience of taking acid to death over the course of 10 months, especially wrt “the Knowing”.
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This is the basis for the 136 Sheikah monks enshrined throughout The Legend Of Zelda:Breath Of The Wild.
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