"In some cultures people can actually will themselves to die with thought alone if they feel their time has come."
I know people like this. The "time has come" mind set is part of the death conditioning many buy into and thus program our bodies for entropy.
Thought------>Projected reality.
If we take our ques from the already projected "reality"(spiritual distortion) then we begin the process of a feedback loop. We no longer create freely from a feild of ALL possibilities but begin to pattern ourselves by waht we "see" out there. Then we create within that experiencial box.