what I don't get is not that someone would hallucinate such a silly thing, but that others would willingly just take their word for it and happy start chopping off their own dicks. maybe there's a metaphor there.

and in case you're about to say "just the tip", origen actually did and to himself, though in his case it was that his sect of christianity had the syncretized elements from the mystery traditions of cybele and attis.