Aghori
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Sep 21, 2026
Nolan SealeGUEST
One step below that.
Nolan SealeGUEST
Sh- should I roll with, like, Aghoris, and should I, like-
ConnorHOST
What's that?
Nolan SealeGUEST
You know what Aghoris are.
Nolan SealeGUEST
You've been to Varanasi, right? You know the-
ConnorHOST
The cannibals? The cannibals?
Cameron GrantGUEST
You said it here.
Cameron GrantGUEST
And yeah, I mean, do you know about like the Aghori? Yeah.
Cameron GrantGUEST
In India? Yeah.
Cameron GrantGUEST
I saw one Aghori there.
Cameron GrantGUEST
No way.
Cameron GrantGUEST
Yeah, and he had, like, a skull, and it was really groovy, but we kept our distance.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
But it spoke through this person and said, "No priest can, can harm me like that.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
Ha ha ha." And then my response to it was so far, I was like, "You know, we are Aghoris.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
We are no priests.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
You cannot desecrate our offerings because our offerings are already desecrated." And like that really like, like threatened that spirit where it was like, "Oh my God, you're right.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
And his biography then has very wide circulation.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
So the first place that you're likely to encounter the Aghori or the Kapalika or the Tantric, the Shaiva, is probably in that book.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
And so a lot of people's depiction or understanding of the Aghoris is from the Shankara Digvijaya.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
And there they're like villains, right? So that's why I think the current hatred and fear of Aghoris, coupled and mingled with a weird reverence also, I think a lot of that comes from the presentation that we get from the Shankara Digvijaya.
RaghunathHOST
Tapasvis.
Kaustubha DasHOST
Aghoris?
RaghunathHOST
Aghoris-
Kaustubha DasHOST
Yeah
RaghunathHOST
... and everyth- everything.
Dakota WintHOST
You're going to tell me this is the eternal cure and you guys are all like completely... lost so i mean this rejection put me on a big journey of being an atheist and being whatever you know until i discover mushrooms and then i realize oh my god okay well maybe there is something i was missing maybe i shouldn't throw out everything every spiritual thing because okay what is this and then slowly slowly you know i find my way back to the formless there's a lot of healing to be able to begin working with that to begin working with the things you rejected can you love the things that can you love the things that you hate can you love the things that you rejected in your child that all the things that gave you the traumas and and you said oh absolutely not Can you return full circle and hug that part of yourself? Talk about shadow work.
Dakota WintHOST
You know, I had to go hang out with Aghoris and watch people meditate on bodies and human ash cremation ceremony, all this stuff, you know, just to realize that God is with me all the time, all along the whole journey.
Dakota WintHOST
And whatever I want to call it, call me that, okay? In time, all names are acceptable.
Dakota WintHOST
You know, you want me to be this, then here I am.
Frank Garcia-HejlHOST
I feel like that's, like, a low key.
Frank Garcia-HejlHOST
I think that might be the muzzle or mayonnaise of Aghori.
Frank Garcia-HejlHOST
Yeah.
Frank Garcia-HejlHOST
Because it's, like, not the first thing you go to, but a lot of people really love it.
Alok PandeyHOST
Tantra spa and Tantra God knows what.
Alok PandeyHOST
[laughs] Aghori.
Alok PandeyHOST
Aghoris are not people who have, uh, living in Shamshan.
Alok PandeyHOST
For God's sake, they're crazy people who live in Shamshan, who eat meat, uh, human meat.
Alok PandeyHOST
Aghoris are, you see, uh, it comes from there.
Alok PandeyHOST
They're very, very proper, regular people, but they have done this sadhana.
Alok PandeyHOST
I mean, I have met couple of them, so I know that Aghoris have nothing to do with all...
Alok PandeyHOST
Of course, there are all kinds of people, and people do all kinds of things.
Catherine EdwardsHOST
He is a former US Army Special Forces soldier, independent war correspondent, photographer, author.
Catherine EdwardsHOST
has spent decades going directly to places quite honestly most of us only experience through a screen so from iraq and afghanistan to hong kong darien gap michael has reported firsthand on war migration political upheaval and societies under enormous pressure But one of the things I'm really interested, another part of Michael's background, he has spent years studying cults and cult behavior, including traveling through India and Asia, investigating the Aghori.
Catherine EdwardsHOST
and has spent what he's and has applied what he's learned to understanding the propaganda mass behavior control and how human beings can be influenced and we're even going to be talking cannibalism today um so today Michael and I can have a great conversation not just about what's happening in the world and he's going to be filling us in on a few things that are on his radar But also what he's learned because he's got such unique experience studying decades of human beings under pressure and why we behave the way we do and why those seeking control and those being control what we can learn from it and hopefully to apply it to create a better world.
Catherine EdwardsHOST
So Michael, thank you so much for joining us today.