Self-denial practices such as fasting or exposure to cold can collapse the body so consciousness shifts into the spiritual.
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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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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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"what these drugs do is they shift your neural system so that you see the world in a different way. When you do that,..."
"...this person is called Lent, which is the Christian virtue of fasting and showing restraint, showing temperance, okay?"
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