Extreme Body Piercing: Face Piercing. 游境包贝爷 极限穿针:穿口针 降乩 乩童

June 4th, Singapore, a religious street parade (yew keng) where deities incarnate tranced through spirit mediums pay respects to deities in temples and rid the areas they visit of malevolent spirits. This video features a medium trancing a deity called Bao Bei Ya, an Underworld wealth deity being pierced with a fluorescent light tube.
It is common for mediums in trance pierce or strike themselves with various weapons associated with the deity they are trancing, but this is a new tradition.
Elliott (1955) states that the underlying assumption behind spirit medium practices is that "a spiritual being of vast and undefined powers possesses the body of a human medium and enables him to inflict injury upon himself without feeling pain, and to speak with divine wisdom, giving advice to worshippers and curing their illness". In essence, the medium is considered to be a deity incarnate, and through the medium, devotees can communicate directly with the deity.

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• Face Piercing
• 游境包贝爷
• 极限穿针
• 穿口针
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• spirit medium
• yew keng
• taoism
• chinese religion
• bao bei ya
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• 中國宗教

[fabian215963]

Yes, definitely coming back ... not sure when, but I love singapore, it's an amazing place. Guess I won't be back till the next Nine Emperor God festival ....

[fabian215963]

No - but I am researching for and working on a book about religion in Singapore and Taiwan. I was in Singapore for 9 months, and now in Taiwan ...

[fabian215963]

Note: the second subtitle should read "Spirit Medium trancing Bao Bei Ya", not "Bei Bei Ya" ... Bao Bei Ya is the Underworld deity of Wealth.

[starboi978]

@fabian215963 Ohh . Okay Okay See You Then !

[starboi978]

Are You Coming Back To Singapore ?

[starboi978]

@fabian215963 Oh . Nice . .

[starboi978]

@fabian215963 You From Singapore ?