"Dakota of Earth" is the moniker of an American YouTuber who released a short documentary about the bizarre Aghori sect in 2021. It was shot in Varanasi at the shores of the Ganges.
In the new clip above, Dakota goes to Assam in northeastern India to participate in the Ambubachi Mela, a Shakta festival held at the Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati (apparently the largest city in Assam). Kamakhya is a Tantric goddess. The festival draws a lot of (male) Tantric "babas", including the Aghori, who seem surprisingly calm...perhaps because they smoke a lot of hash!
Maybe just as well, since the Aghori are mostly known for pretending to eat dead people (and threatening to behead the US reporter Reza Aslan - or pretending to do so). Dakota makes no secret of his interest in drugs, and the clip ends with him smoking ganya with the natives.
Before that, we get to see remains of sacrificed goats, regular Indians who refuse to inhale, and a baba explaining that it only takes ten minutes of intense meditation to see God. And yes, a garland of skulls and Dakota trying to explain the basics of Shaiva theology...
Not bad for a 10 minute clip, tbh.
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