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Self-denial practices such as fasting or exposure to cold can collapse the body so consciousness shifts into the spiritual.
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Fasting
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang explains religious visions as experiences believers take as real, possibly produced by psychedelics, hunger, or meditation shifting perception.
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"...is self -denial. Okay? So it's possible you can starve yourself, fasting. Okay? It's possible that you go out naked in the cold. Okay?..."
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"They knew a lot about the way the stars worked, okay? So, basically for them, this is science, okay? Today we say this is..."
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"what these drugs do is they shift your neural system so that you see the world in a different way. When you do that,..."
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"them for two days then fasting had more force than grief okay all right so the story is um at this time in history..."
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"...all. And he would say, like, it's a person who's, like, fasting. They still—they're still hungry, right? And it's that hunger, that desire that's..."
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"...Talmud, holy obligations would no longer apply in the Messianic time. Fasting days became days of feasting and rejoicing. Sabbatians encountered and practiced and..."
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"...time about your own connection. And you say, no, you know, fasting and keeping yourself clean and pure, no caffeine, no alcohol, these things,..."
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"...this person is called Lent, which is the Christian virtue of fasting and showing restraint, showing temperance, okay?"
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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