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Friends claim influencer injected himself with gold to gain “superhuman” powers before his death (townflex.com)
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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Eh... I wouldn't be surprised if they did exactly this in the 60s, just with more LSD involved in the experiment.

[–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

i heard of people drilling holes in their skulls for spiritual reasons in roughly that period so this tracks

[–] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That’s afaik mostly an urban legend, originated from the “third eye” book by Lobsang Rampa.