Kapalnath or Manson?

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The religion of Aghor

 

Aghor is a complex religion with an unknown number of variations.

Customs

from one individual aghori to another may differ wildly.

 

Every aghori is different, Yon said. There are some aghoris that

eat

human flesh all the time, while there are some that eat flesh only

once in a

lifetime.

 

Aghoris eat human flesh in order to gain the spiritual energy found

in every

person. They meditate over corpses in an attempt to control the

spirit of

the dead person.

 

Aghoris believe they should embrace what is considered repulsive to

society,

but different aghoris approach this in different ways.

 

In the Sonoma Valley of California, a sect of aghoris live in an

ashram, a

spiritual retreat, where they practice aghor extremely differently

than

Kapalnath.

 

I dont even call what Kapalnath did aghor, said Ramdev, a

practitioner of

aghor in the Sonoma Valley. The way we choose to embrace what

society is

repulsed by, [is] we take on people who have been rejected by society

because of bad habits or bad lifestyles."