I know very little about Buddhism but in Celtic traditions fasting or prayer fasting is a type of vision quest. Normally for a period of 3 days and 3 nights you would abstain from food and isolate yourself. The old druidic view of this act is that the power of fasting affects the shamanic reality of things, the soul energy of a person begins to influence the shape of the world. By ignoring the body, you raise your consiousness and see things that ordinarily you would have missed.
Lulu Reviewed by Lulu on . A few things on Buddhism I could use some clarification on... I've read about buddhism a lot in the past year, but I'm still not totally clear of their views on the after life and devine (I do know they don't have a god). anywhoo, the way things work is that ignorance and craving are the cause of suffering, which is the cause of continuous rebirth. When one reaches enlightenment, you're freed of suffering, ignorance, craving, and apparently have the "final extinction" at which point the cycle of rebirth is stopped. Now my first question is, why Rating: 5