een used to explain alleged spontaneous human combustion. "Cases of individuals capable of generating explosive bursts of electrical energy by manipulating internal organs appear throughout the world and... amongst the Chinese and Pacific Asian cultures" (Spontaneous). Some cases are reported in which electromagnetic fields are seen, and "...fluorescent light-tubes illuminate when held underneath... pylons, apparently from the intense ionization and electromagnetic field filling the surrounding air" (Randles 14). They have been associated with SHC. According to Yoga, Kundelini is "an energy that is supposed to pervade the individual's astral body..." (Bondeson 14). If it is released uncontrollably, it is believed a person could combust. Some have postulated "the existence of a pyrotron, a... particle, capable of starting a chain reaction that vaporizes the entire human being" (Bondeson 14-15). Such evidence for such a particle is still to be seen. Phosphinic farts and methane gases produced by the body during digestion have been used to explain SHC. It is known both of these gases are volatile and combustible. There are many believers that say SHC is started by static electricity:Some people have been known to build up... charges, occasionally generating up to 30,000 volts. Ordinarily this static electricity is harmlessly discharged through the hair, but in certain volatile situations, such as... hospital operating rooms using gaseous anesthetics, these people can spark off explosions. But these explosions have never been known to burn a person to ashes, leaving the room and furnishings undamaged. (Mysteries 91)This simple fact should deny static electricity as a cause of SHC. Last of all these phenomenon is, of course, alcohol. There are those that say SHC is punishment by God for alcoholism or that "believe that excessive use of alcohol may cause deposition of flammable, nitroglycerin like phosphogens in the muscle tiss...
