yg recounts his memories of the Chinese medium, or tang-ki, and describes one episode of a trance state that would happen in the temple. In an attempt to connect to the other world, the spirit mediums would often enter into an altered state of consciousness and perform acts of self-mutilation.

when i was young, i was in awe of the tang-ki, the chinese spirit medium, especially the men who could perform feats which would have normally maim them but when they came out of the trances, they always appeared none the worse for it. in the neighbouring kampong, at lorong sinaran, there was this small taoist temple which would stage chinese wayang once at year.

Read on more about the Tang-ki in ygblog.

Tags: Chinese Spirit Mediums, Tang-ki