What Tibetan Monks Can Do
I once read off a source; a book or an online article- I;m not sure that there were cases investigated by a group of American shrinks and psychics into what Tibetan monks experienced in Meditation, Qi Gong and OBEs can do.
Apparently a group of the monks focused on meditation to create an imaginary individual that becomes so "real" that it can be seen by others and can act like a real person over the course of months of continous meditation.
The article described how over the course of it, the facial features of the image gradually began to clarify and become solid; until the individual can respond to the environment and talk.
However, the individuals apparently may reflect the guilt, evil, deceit and selfishness that exists in the monks and could "rebel" and "refuse to cooperate". Trying to "meditate" the imginary individual away is according to the article very hard compared to creating it and would take significantly longer.
I just find it a little bit similar to how we imagine and order things to be done in Lucid Dreams; I also got a feeling if something like it can really happen, it may have something to do with OBEs too.
I find it too deep and a bit hard to believe myself, but being a Qi Gong practicing person myself, I don't deny the possibility of it entirely.
Excerpt from Reader's Digest Feature Book "Mysteries of the Unexplained"
I have this really old book which was sent by Reader's Digest (My parents subscribed to it ages ago :boogie:) and in the "Paranormal" chapter there is a big article (extracted from a single Reader's article) on Tibetan Monks using yoga to control body heat.
Here's the rough english translation (this is my own translation :) ):
A Tibetan monk's control of body heat using yoga
"It is quite a phenomenal feat you would unlikely come-across to endure an entire frozen Winter in a snow-covered cave at a harsh altitude of 11000 to 18000 feet!" wrote Alexandra David-Neel in the late 1920s.
She added: "There are numerous hidden Tibetan meditating-masters able of such a demanding & tough feat who are not known to most of us."
Alexandra outlined the "keeping warm in snow" technique in the book she brought together with the collective experience that she gathered from 14 years of travelling-living in Tibet.
She pointed-out that the endurance came from "power arising from a certain well-practised yoga technique" and elaborated that:
"This yoga techique is heat/warmth-related, which is; however; not conveyed as everyday conventional heat of warmth in the words of original Tibetan language. It is instead an exclusive term used by this mystical movement......
This skill is top secret to the everyone but the Larmas; who treat it with extreme caution; tasked to pass this yoga technique on. They also claim that training the technique by lecturing and from specialised books do not have any solid practical effect, beginners must be mentored by experienced predecessors in order to see successful results.
Sometimes believers training this technique have to undergo a test to officically complete the study.
On moonlit cold-breezed nights, faithful students who believe they can pass the test are led to the river banks or lakeside. If the river or lake is frozen holes would be carved into the ice sheet.
The faithful students would cross their legs like that in a typical Buddhist-Larma-Hindhu meditation, drop to the floor totally naked :boogie: lol.
Then they would soak their duvets (blankets) in the icy water and immediately wrap the ice-cold duvets around their bodies; they then attempt to dry them off by raising their body heat.
Once the duvets dry off they soak them back in the icy water and so on repeating the whole process again until dawm....
There is rumour that some can dry 40 duvets in a single night (wow better than your average drying machines! LMAO :D). This figure is probably over-exaggerated or miniscule garments might have be used lol. That said, I've seen some monks drying a large amount of long-scarf-size garments....
[these monks wears a single cotton apparel; regardless of the seasons and no matter how high the altitude is from sea-level.]
To what extent this yoga technique training is capable of unlocking forbidden human potential is a question of abstract uncertainty and of discretion. However what is certain is that there are evidently numerous monks "in hiding" without clothes or merely clothed in the simplest imaginable manner; witnessed by many more other than myself. Rumour has it that these monks were sighed by expedition teams on their way of challenging the 'Mount of Saint Mary' (Mount Everest)."
[Alexandra David-Neel, Magic and Mystery in Tibet, pp.216-29]
