[WIKIPEDIA]
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/09/the-therapeutic-experience-of-being-suspended-by-your-skin/262644/
THIS,LINK,ABOVE,IS,INTERESTING,TO,ME.
[NOT,THAT,I,WANT,TO HANG AROUND,FROM,A BUNCH,OF,HOOKS!..I,DO,HOWEVER,WANT,TO KNOW,ABOUT, THE HISTORY, AND,SUPPOSED,THERAPEUTIC,VALUE,OF,THIS,UNUSUAL,PRACTICE?]
[QUOTE,FROM,ABOVE,LINKED,SITE]
'People have been hanging themselves from hooks for perhaps 5,000 years.
The most ancient suspensions likely occurred in India, where suspension
was a sort of religious penance. Devotees at the ancient Hindu festival
Thaipusam, which continues to this day throughout Southeast Asia and is
popular among Tamils, sometimes suspend themselves as part of a practice
called vel kavadi, a rite in which worshippers undergo some form of
hardship as an expression of debt bondage to the war god Murugan. Some
who perform the vel kavadi pierce their flesh with skewers -- stand-ins
for the spear that Shiva's wife, Parvati, gave to the god of war Murugan
to kill the demon Soorapadam -- and hooks. The pierced worshippers
sometimes attach ropes to their hooks, which are pulled by other
devotees or used to suspend the worshippers in the air. The level of
pain the worshipper feels correlates with the level of devotion -- the
more pain, the more sincere the worship. Suspensions also occur at the
Chidi Mari festival, another Tamil holiday.'
AS,THIS,PRACTICE,IS,APPARENTLY,OF,INDIAN[HINDU]ORIGIN..I,AM,SOMEWHAT,BEMUSED,
THAT,THE NORTH AMERICAN,'INDIANS',USED,SIMILAR,METHODOLOGY?..
IT,WAS,DEMONSTRATED,IN,THE MOVIE,'MAN CALLED HORSE',BY,RICHARD HARRIS, THE,'WIZARD DUMBLEDORE', ACTOR,OF,THE 'HARRY POTTER',MOVIES.
MR HARRIS,APPEARED,IN,SOME,VERY,INTERESTING,MOVIES, IN,HIS, EARLY,CAREER.
MY, FAVOURITE, WAS,'THIS SPORTING LIFE' , A GRITTY TALE, OF,AN,OVERPAID,RUGBY LEAGUE,PLAYER,WITH,A POINT, TO PROVE..
HE,ALSO,APPEARED, IN,'CROMWELL',AND,MANY,MANY,MOVIES, OF, AN,ESOTERIC,NATURE.
MR HARRIS, WAS, A CATHOLIC ,AND, A COCAINE, ADDICT.
THE PRACTICE, OF,'BODY MODIFICATION',FINDS, 'FORM', IN, OTHER,DRUG BASED, MOVIES, SUCH, AS,'THE BIG LEBOWSKI', WHERE, THE 'MAUDE',CHARACTER,IS,
'SUSPENDED'...[SEE, MY, OTHER, BLOGGER, LINK, ON,MY, PROFILE].
IT,IS, INTERESTING,[ TO,ME,]
THAT,THE,SO-CALLED, FREUDIAN,SADO-MASOCHIST,'PLEASURE/PAIN', PRINCIPLE,AND,CHEMICAL CHANGES,IN,THE HUMAN,BRAIN,ARE,PERHAPS?..
THE SAME THING.?..
HANGING AROUND,IS,NOT, FOR, ME,AMIGO, BUT, THE 'HANGED MAN', OF, THE ESOTERIC,GEOMANTIC SYSTEM,OF, TAROCCHI,IS,PERHAPS? RELATED, TO, DRUG, USAGE?, - I, THINK, THIS, IS, PROBABLE..
BUT,FINDING, 'GOD', USING,
PAIN?.IS,PATENTLY,AN, INCORRECT,METHOD..IT,IS,ONLY, THE MOTHER,WHO,UNDERGOES, THE TRAVAIL, OF, CHILDBIRTH..ANY, DOG-EARED,MALE,
WHO,TRIES, AN, 'IMITATIO',IS,PATENTLY, ONLY, A FOOL, FOR,THE TRUE,GOD, JUST,LIKE, THE,SACRED, FEMALE, IS,PAINLESS, AND, FREE.
USING, DRUGS,ONLY,SERVES, TO PERPETUATE,FALSITY.