[UA] Ears, nostrils, mouth, eyes . . . hm, needs one more hole . . .

[Kevin Mowery]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stevens Dustin" <zoom2baba at yahoo.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: Re:[UA] Something UAish I just came across

> I had a surreal RPG moment this morning listening to
> the news on the radio. Apparently a man in Utah was
> just sentenced to jail-time for repeatedly drilling
> holes in a woman's head. Apparently, he believed (and
> I assume she did to) that through trephination she
> would be cured of depression, since He claims to have
> been cured in a similar way.

    Ken Hite did a whole Suppressed Transmission column on the subject, but
I'd be tempted to work it into UA in a couple of ways:

    1) The people who drill holes in their own heads are, as common sense
would indicate, deluded whack-jobs.  Yeah, there are a couple of medically
sound reasons to put a hole in your skull, but depression isn't one of them.

    2) It's a misunderstanding by mundanes of an epideromantic spell to open
the Third Eye.  Does it really increase brain-blood volume and all that?
Hell, no.  But if you're an epideromancer, you know that it's actually part
of a spell that lets you see astral parasites or get a glimpse of the
statosphere or something.  The guy who invented the spell would probably get
a good laugh out of all the idiots who believed the brain-blood volume
story, if his enemies hadn't found *another* use for that hole in his skull.

    3) For most people, the act of drilling a hole in your head does
nothing, but with the right ritual, you can force possessing demons to leave
through the hole.

    4) It's a supernatural con job.  The process is actually used by
unscrupulous adepts to *put something in* your head.

    5) Any or all of the above.

    A little adventure idea: A bizarre serial attacker is gassing people in
their homes and while they're paralyzed, he comes in and drills a hole in
their skulls.  Why?  See above.

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