Hanging Around

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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.