Powers attributed to sadhus, unlike religious teachings, are largely consistent across cultures, across massive distances.
Weeeeird.
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It's conceivable that steppe-roving ancestors carried the seeds of the ideas from Mongolia, or that people believe the same things everywhere they are found, but...
That is not consistent with many other aspects of belief formation in humans.
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Astral projection, communion with ancestors, curses, blessings, healing, reincarnation...
The same myths, over and over and over.
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