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all parts of the body with spears & removes vital organs. No need to say that these spirits are meat eater of human.
Native Americans - Spiritual seeker goes out into the wilderness alone digs grave in and lie in it throughout night without food & water explored to the elements & surrounded by the menacing darkness fears wild bear or ghost, lonely filled with doubt, face personal fears of death, those who undergo such initiation often reports with terrifying demons. Tibetan Buddhist teach such demons are manifestation of the initiates of own fears that are appearing so. Tibetan books of dead teaches "Apart from one's own hallucination in reality here are no such things existing outside one self as lord of death or God or demon or bull headed spirit of death.
According to St. Paul Christian Baptism through total immersion in water is type of ritual death in which entering the water signifies death immersion beneath it means burial emergence from it is resurrection. The enlighted masters masters understand that the body is not our true identity having abandoned the 'I am the body' but just another object is awareness, consciousness which is undying because it was never born. I will say if body is not yours you have no right to misuse the rented property which does not belong to you. You are not the owner of the body.
Another ritual death is custom of self-mummifying by Buddha monks for the good of society purification having heroic determination terrible powerful & spiritual act which is laudable monk mummify ownself in a box by tying rope around neck sitting in a way that knees are near chest and so difficult to breath & feel choking & one gets strangled this self mummyfying done even to day in China, Japan, India (Dehradun). In ancient religion in some countries child & lady were the objects for sacrificing for holy purposes.
Hunger is violence starvation is also violence A living cell is unit in construction of any living body Many parasites are also living in such living body if you don't provide food & water to these cells, cells dies out of under nutrition thirst & hunger. Is it not killing of millions of cells in our body? When your body is also not yours.
Mahavira says when you can't give life you have no right to take other's life then how can you take life of anyone same is in Euthanasia, suicide, mercy killing, sallekhana.
The image of slippery slope is called up as warning to those who ake easy step without looking to see where the next may lead or concepts themselves are slippery escaping sideways from the effort to grasp them problems of accelerated death demand intellectual honesty
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