“A Cambodian man cut off his penis when he said he was visited by four hungry spirits in a dream and he had no chicken or duck to offer them. According to police, 33-year-old Soun Ney told the spirits to go away when they first appeared to ask for food, and waved his penis at them in defiance. ‘Devils, I don’t have any chicken or duck for you,’ he was quoted as saying by local police chief Phoeung Vat. ‘If you want to eat anything, you can eat my penis.’ Soun Ney said the spirits agreed to eat his penis. He was rushed to a hospital near the capital Phnom Penh after he castrated himself with a butcher’s knife. ‘He is lucky to be alive,’ Phoeung Vat told Reuters.” — Reuters (US)

(Thanks to alanr for the link.)

It’s amazing. For more than two millenia philosophers have struggled with the relation between body and mind, material and immaterial. Plato thought ideals were incarnated in matter. Descartes thought the brain was floating in a kind of sensory deprivation tank. Now here comes a brash individual able to brush aside such metaphysical doubts. “If spirits want to eat my penis,” he must have thought to himself, “then who am I to doubt that these immaterial entities can gobble up my most precious material possession? Off with my penis!”

You wonder, though: just how does a guy go about feeding his penis to spirits? Do you throw it up in the air so that the spirits swoop it up like vultures in mid-flight? Do you throw it on the ground and then, as the invisible spirits chomp it down, it just kind of disappears before your eyes, like some cheap special effect in a low-budget horror movie? Or do the spirits eat only the essence of your penis, thus leaving behind the corporeal husk like a banana peel?

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