Author: 1X2Willows1X2Willows Date: Sep 19, 2008 11:07
"Searles O'Dubhain" wrote
> "1X2Willows" wrote in message
>>>> [....]
>>>> Conversely, being "birched" is one of the eight-fold-ways that some
>>>> esoteric practices use to alter states of awareness. The use of drugs
>>>> is another
>>>
>>> - which can be one and the same, provided we'd call birch sap a "drug"
>>> in the medicinal sense. Quite potent stuff, depending on...
>
> This might well be but I was referncing the word "birching" as a synonym
> for being "flogged." I think Christians and Wiccans do this, though in
> some cases, I've read suggestions that people being tortured to the point
> of death was also used by early societies to communicate between the
> living and the dead by sending messages...
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