Bodily function control

As its name suggest, bodily function control is the ability of a person to control the functions of their own autonomic system.  Thus they can control pain – and thus negate pain messages coming to the conscious mind, as well as slow breathing, slow their heartbeat, slow the digestive processes and the evacuation processes.  In effect they can control every function of each organ. The Heat of the Mystic is a sort of highly specialised version of this capability.

 The culmination of control may be a form of suspended animation in which the person controls the slowing or suspension of the functions of life without death itself occurring.  It is a sort of hibernation in a human being.  The person himself or herself [it is usually a him] is in total control of the process, there is no external help or interference.  All the functions of the body are slowed to an almost imperceptible level - breathing, heartbeat, and other autonomic functions become almost imperceptible.

The suspended animation I refer to here is not that being pursued by the scientific community, which appears to be pursuing physical means such as drugs and hyperthermia.

Observations

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• Ades, Eduard and Marguerite - Mrs Ades feels no pain
• Andrija Puharich - Siberian shamans - The Tests of Bodily function control
• AwoFa'lokun Fatunmbi - Yoruba martial arts
• Azam, Dr Etienne Eugène - Hypnotism, Double Consciousness and alterations of personality – The side effects of hypnotism - hypersensitivity
• Chabert – from Miracle Mongers And Their Methods By Houdini
• Chabert – from Sights of London
• Chabert – from the Chronicle, London, September, 1829
• Chabert – from Timbs' Curiosities of London, published in 1867
• Cheyenne - Native American Indians - Roman Nose's protective medicine
• Cicero Newell - Indian Stories – How the Holy Men were tested with Winchester rifles
• Crazy Horse - Native American Indians
• Fakir buried alive
• Fakir buried alive for a month
• Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - The magic of the stonemasons
• Flames of a butter lamp
• Home D. D. – Bodily elongation experiments 01 – Mr. Jencken’s testimony
• Home D. D. – Bodily elongation experiments 02 – Mr. Jencken’s testimony
• Home D. D. – Bodily elongation experiments 03 – Lord Adare’s testimony
• Home D. D. – Bodily elongation experiments 04 – Lord Adare’s testimony
• Houdini - Being buried alive
• Indian yogis survive burial alive
• Inducing convulsions in patients
• Jacques Romano on the Dervishes of Sudan
• Jacques Romano on the feats of Kuda Bux
• John Selby - The yogis who could stop their heart
• Johns, Andrew Gary - The release from pain that is mania
• Johns, Andrew Gary – The match against Manly Warringah Sea Eagles
• Joseph of Cupertino - The incident at the Rosella friary near Copertino
• Keightley, Thomas - The Troll and Svead
• Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Rifai Sufi school
• Louise Lateau de Bois d’Haine
• Major F Yeats-Brown on the 'resurrection of the dead yogi'
• Masha Wasson Britten - Also takes the sacred mushrooms
• Messing, Wolf - My pulse cannot be felt, my breathing ceases, and the beating of my heart is barely perceptible
• Messing, Wolf - Self induced trance - The psychiatrist announced she couldn't feel his pulse
• Messing, Wolf - The Berlin Wintergarten playing a fakir
• Mircea Eliade - On heat and cold
• Mircea Eliade - The Heat of the Mystic
• Omofolabo Soyinka Ajayi - The transcendental dance
• Romano, Jacques - Cole Porter was terrified
• Romano, Jacques - Prophesies the death of Randolph Hearst
• Romano, Jacques - The power of suggestion
• Sankara Narayanaswami of Mysore - is buried alive
• Shereshevsky, Soloman - Feels no pain
• Shereshevsky, Soloman - Temperature control
• Shereston, Adam - Acquires superhuman strength
• Simon Magus - The battle of magicians
• Sister Veronica Laparelli – Both levitation and bodily elongation
• Starving yogi astounds Indian scientists
• Swami Rama - 02 The Swami increased the temperature difference between the left and right sides of his hand and slowed his heart
• Swami Rama - 03 The Swami stops his own heart
• Swami Rama - 05 The Swami turned on the subtle energy in a chakra so intensely that it became visible to the naked eye
• Swami Rama - 06 The Swami and the blood-cell experiment
• Swami Rama - 07 The Swami produces cysts and tumours on demand
• Swami Rama - 10 All of the body is in the mind, but not all of the mind is in the body
• Swami Vidyalankar - Stops his heart and pulse
• Tahra Bey - With knife in chest
• Tahra Bey - An account by Raymond Bayless of his stage act
• Tahra Bey - Breaking stones on his stomach
• Tahra Bey - Buried in a coffin
• The Comedian Sothern – Immunity from flame
• The incombustible Spaniard, Senor Lionetto
• The Samurai Art of Dying
• Tibetan Buddhism - Monks and Tummo
• Tibetan Buddhism - The art of warming oneself in the snow
• Tibetan Buddhism - The art of warming oneself in the snow
• Tikal - Mayan - North Acropolis Tomb
• Viscount Adare - Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr D D Home – 45 Home walked about and was elongated in the usual manner
• Walled up in a living tomb as his hands were eaten by ants
• William Kempe