Comments by "William Burke" (@cornholio812) on "The Occult #244: Spontaneous Human Combustion" video.
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I did a study of SHC... to the extent it's possible to study the dozen or more recorded cases. One thing apparent is that there is a sort of profile for SHC victims. ONE, they are women over about 50 years of age. TWO, they live alone. And THREE, they are heavy drinkers.
Several of the victims I studied were NOT particularly fat at all. In fact they were of a pretty average weight. As to ball lightning... you don't have ball lightning, like regular lightning, without a storm. And I am not aware of a single case that happened when there was a storm, in fact, some happened during winter.
If I were to hazard a guess, I think it may be an electromagnetic phenomenon of great rarity, and starts as a malfunction in the body's own electrical network.
Styx, Tibetan monks study a meditation discipline called TUMMO, which is a great heat that can be generated within the body as a way to avoid freezing (there is more to it that just avoiding freezing). The monks go to a mountaintop in the dead of winter, and strip naked. They then put on soaking wet sheets and see who can dry the most soaking sheets with their own tummo heat in a given session. This is absolutely true! I've had the opportunity to study it myself, but did not have the time or money at the time.
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