Monday, March 24, 2008

I've Got a Black Magic Shaman...

This is totally freaking awesome!
India TV, one of India’s major Hindi channels with national outreach, invited Sanal Edamaruku for a discussion on “Tantrik power versus Science”. Pandit Surinder Sharma, who claims to be the tantrik of top politicians and is well known from his TV shows, represented the other side. During the discussion, the tantrik showed a small human shape of wheat flour dough, laid a thread around it like a noose and tightened it. He claimed that he was able to kill any person he wanted within three minutes by using black magic. Sanal challenged him to try and kill him.

The tantrik tried. He chanted his mantras (magic words): “Om lingalingalinalinga, kilikili….” But his efforts did not show any impact on Sanal – not after three minutes, and not after five. The time was extended and extended again. The original discussion program should have ended here, but the “breaking news” of the ongoing great tantra challenge was overrunning all program schedules.
Read the whole thing. I giggled through all of it, and then thought back to when I was in high school and read tarot cards ... and blushed.

1 comment:

Olivia said...

Haha...that's funny :). That guy actually thought he could do it! He really believed he could kill someone with some playdough and a string. LOL!!