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[mindmetoo]

�Buddha boy� plans live burial: report

[ptarmigan]

This should be interesting. In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda wrote about people who could do these sorts of things. And there are other seemingly credible accounts.

Apparently, for those who have attained a certain level, these things are not especially difficult. Normally, they are not done as stunts, but as a way of focusing consciousness on the meditative state.

There is a famous photo of some yogi standing on his head with his head buried in the sidewalk as a man in a suit walks by, barely noticing. Presumably, the yogi was trying to tell us something.

On the other hand, there have always been the fakers, or fakirs, as they were originally called, who resorted to tricks or illusions.

[mindmetoo]

David Blaine was preparing to do the "buried alive" stunt, I believe. I don't know if he's going to go through with that. His stunts have been pretty big failures as of late.

Anyway, without proper controls, there's no way to tell if the boy is the real thing or just another in a long line of fakes.