What do you think of this guy??

Yes I totally agree..

Sorry to disabuse you re: all the esoteric yogic explanations for this but actually it's quite well known that sadhus that live up near Badrinath injest small amounts of arsenic to raise their body temperature to allow them to bare the cold without much clothing. It's a very old trick.

Interesting. Got any links? Aren't there some pretty old tales of this phenomenon, and where would sadhus & yogis have obtained arsenic in times past

How does this tie in to the fact that sadhus can also withstand hot temperatures. I'd love to know what I can ingest or inject myself w/ to help me bear an Indian summer (will be visiting there soon). Ice water doesn't work!

Leenks? I don' need no steenking leenks! Not all wisdom or truth is in this old world is readily available in predigested form on Wikipedia. I lived around India for more than a decade. I learned of this old technique from a shopkeeper up in Almora who sold the stuff to sadhus. Besides Indians have been self-harvesting herbs and minerals and poisons of all kinds - for centuries - without the benefit of a chemist shop. Arsenic is not a difficult thing to extract if you know what to look for.

As far as heat is concerned: who ever said that Sadhus were more impervious to it than other Indians?

Oh yeah now when you put it that way - what's more reliable than "a shopkeeper up in Almora"!? Whatever!

Don;t quite agree with that theory of yours, have seen sadhus raising temperature body temperatures without ingesting any thing. As for bearing cold, I think it has more to do with your mental ability than ingesting anything.

I was in the shop in Almora when several sadhus were there and I asked the shopkeeper what the powder was that they'd all come in to buy. He told me his father and his father's father had been selling the stuff to sadhus for years for that very purpose. If you can invent some reason why the shopkeeper would have lied to me - I'm willing to give it a listen.

As far as belief in the mystic powers of sadhus - folks will believe whatever suits their romantic fantasies. More folks need to look into the work of the Bengali Rationalists Society - who have been going around recreating the alleged "miracles" of Indian holy men for years. Some people still think sadhus can climb a rope up into the sky. Some people still think Bob Marley was the second coming of Haillie Selassie. But the truth is he was just a guy who smoked too much pot and wrote some catchy pop-tunes. Sadhus are a very interesting and often charming cultural phenomenon about whom many apocryphyal stories are told. But the fantastic stories continue to be speculative, undocumentable tales to be told by the light of a good campfire. Having spent some years roaming around India - I have been fortunate enough to have experienced great kindness, wonderful generosity and at times wry wisdom coming from sadhus - but feats of magic . . . none.

Whoaa boyo, Reggae = Pop, That's like Hiphop is bubblegum...

It's not??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pm2wTGgYAw
Bhai, Hip Hop is rhyming couplets - a form of poetry
even lower than the limerick - written by juveniles using hand-held
electronic rhyming dictionaries, who wouldn't know iambic pentameter from ipecac. And
it's all nothing but bragging about big cars, big guns, robbing convenience stores, degrading impersonal sex acts and impersonal violence . . . all set to a catchy beat. Essentially, thuggish, violent, misogynist, chest-beating bluster about alleged gangster activity - wrapped up in a bouncy, finger popping melody. Of course that's just my humble opinion. Shh - what's that? Is that an off-topic warning I hear coming this way?

Crikey - i guess you must be right, hearing it all as you do from NuYawkCeety - But i must admit to liking deep roots music - Jah Rastafari.

Gee, you have it all figured. When is the new-age compendium coming out?

Remember - I never said I didn't love listening to reggae. I just don't buy into the drug-hazed rasta iconizing of Marley as some kind of spiritual savior.

No compendium coming anytime soon. Just sharing one fact at time. I figure that's enough. Don't want to get anyone riled up. Too many people say they seek the truth - but take offence when they hear it.

HIM was a deeply serious person and perhaps my favourite all time gig experience was BMW at the Lyceum, London '75, which is a smallish theatre and thus intimate - Yeah, Spiritual no doubt, Saviour? Your'e right - who has ears to listen...

Hi.

on my recent ride to Muktinath Nepal and China border, I came across a Naga again,

He was wrapped in woolens as it was the month of February and the temperature was down to -6 in Muktinath.

He offered me to smoke his chillam, with GRASS but I preferred smoking my cigarette. I spend a lot of time with him and understand his his thoughts, he had his own powers and refused to take any money.

He has been living in the temple for the past 21 years.

Eats what ever comes as prasad to the temple.

Cheers


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Good to see you online again, mate ! ! ! and sorry others for being off topic on the discussion.