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Breatharians
« on: May 17, 2010, 04:32:42 AM »
Inedia (Latin: "fasting") is the ability to live without food. The word was first used to describe a fast-based lifestyle within Catholic tradition, which holds that certain saints were able to survive for extended periods of time without food or drink other than the Eucharist. Breatharianism is a related concept, in which believers claim food and possibly water are not necessary, and that humans can be sustained solely by prana (the vital life force in Hinduism), or according to some, by the energy in sunlight. The terms breatharianism or inedia may also refer to this philosophy practised as a lifestyle in place of the usual diet.


A breatharian is a person who is nourished by light and has no need for food or drink. Breatharianism is within human potential, but for most it remains dormant. Those who feel drawn to living on light nourishment can activate this potential, but not said that it is an easy task.

Breatharianism is about having the choice whether to eat or not eat.
Most people demand that a 'true breatharian' would never eat or
drink no matter what. If so, then let us allow the name 'breatharian'
to define such a person. However, what can be more enjoyable is
to have the choices. To never hunger or starve when food is not
around, to never feel dependency or attachment to food, and to
have found what is there once food is no longer in the way of our
perception and focus. But to still have the choices to enjoy food
taste, and to in no ways stop living or limit oneself. This is what
breatharianism should be about. True happiness, and a full freedom
of choices. To feel fully alive, safe, independent, and happy.
At all times, whether there is food or not. Life is so much more than
what food lets us see.




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Re: Breatharians
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2010, 04:34:01 AM »
Why eat?
Then what makes people eat? Having thought about this, I found several reasons or categories to define the various causes that make a person eat. See more on the page about hunger. People, it seems, eat mainly due to reasons that are not based on an actual physical need of nutrients. This is why we have a huge amount of eating health damaging foods, foods such as drugs, white sugar, alcohol, white bread, and actually even vegetables or fruit is usually eaten without there being an actual demand of its nutrients by the body!

But isn't eating about pleasure and food sensations? Yes, it seems to for most people. Very very few eaters consider nutrient needs, or even the effects their foods have on their bodies. However, what makes a person feel pleasure from eating foods that give cancer, headache, colds, nausea, kidney stones etc etc? My answer is that we are drawn to foods that give us physical suffering that equals our emotional - and unknown - suffering. We are drawn to the foods that make us feel the same pains that we have within. This is why people who are open to themselves, loving and accepting and alert of their emotions and personality, usually notice a disappearing pleasure from eating foods that truly are - damaging!

Why not eat?
Then, why should a person not eat? It is not always a matter of choice. I, for instance, never sat down to think "Should I eat or should I not eat?" I started growing increasinly sensitive to foods, and by obvious reasons did not want to keep eating foods that made me uncomfortable. Hunger vanished, and I even started to lose sensations of pleasure from food. It just came to be, and this is the case for a number of people. It becomes a natural, normal part of life, none more peculiar than the eating is for the eating person!

But there are people who choose to live without eating, who want to acchieve it and do so with effort or by working on the subject either physically, emotionally, spiritually or in other ways.

Anything that can be found in foods, can be found even within the person. Just like some people really need a lot of money or to keep buying material items just to feel comfortable, and then we have people who do not feel the need of a lot of things but who feel the very same comfort and security. Money or no money, items or no items, food or no food. Some people need physical objects and physical occurences to acchieve a state of being which can just as well be acchieved without the physical counterpart. An example is that you can give a person a gift which is a physical item that is made to symbolise "gift", whereas you could also tell the person a friendly greeting or giving the non-physical form of a gift, and acchieve the same result in the person. Some people demand physical things, whereas other people are just as happy with the things that physical items symbolise. And it works.

http://www.angelfire.com/stars3/breathe_light/whyeat.html

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Re: Breatharians
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2010, 04:35:43 AM »
The nourishing light
- Light Technology

When reading in various sources about breatharianism, different sources for breatharian nourishment are mentioned; sunlight, prana, air. But I believe the nourishment to be LIGHT.

This light exists everywhere. It surrounds you, is within you, and it is what everything, including you, consists of. Therefore it is also what nourishes you.

Light Technology (something I came up with) is the science behind breatharianism. It is an understanding of it. And consciousness of light tech makes breatharianism easily accessed, being in my opinion a good or at least possible approach.

1 Everything comes from the rainbow
Light contains all colors, more colors than the ones our human eyes perceive. Soundwaves act as a prism, separating colors from the light into a rainbow so to speak.
... If we look at the smallest things there are - chemical substances/atoms/parts of atoms - we find that these physical particles have their auric aspect. A color. Each substance has its own color, according to its density. The color emanates a vibration, and this vibration is a sound, even if it can't be heard by our hearing.
Everything has an aura. The aura is the color aspect of things. Chemical substances have a color aspect, too. They are as much a color, as they are a physical substance. There are more chemical substances than the ones humans perceive.
As various colors/chemicals combine, they form molecules. These, in turn, form greater things, in the end, even our own body. We tend to look at the larger objects, instead of noticing the tiny particles that make it and the colors aspects they have.
If we look inside the smallest units there are, deep within the atoms, what do we find? Light. White light. If we look beyond the greatest galaxies and universes, what do we find? Light. The very same light. Light is within everything. It is the beginning, and it is the end.

2 Our body according to light tech/cosmology
We see ourselves as a physical body. But this is only one aspect of it all. (Read more about the universal.) Also, we rarely give it thought that we consist of organs, which consist of tissue, which consist of cells, which consist of even smaller parts and that it all has a color aspect.
Our DNA is what determines the way our body becomes. But DNA is not merely there to let us grow from an embryo into an adult. It will allow us to be what we are even thereafter.
The DNA instructs how the tiny parts that we consist of, will place themselves, manifesting us onto a physical form. The DNA itself in its deepest form is a combination of sounds. Normally, for those who eat, we need to rely on getting the material for building/manifesting our body, from the food we eat. That is a difficult job, especially since few even take consideration in providing the body with what it needs - food serves often a different purpose for eaters. Diseases, discomforts, ageing, and in the end death, follow when our body is incapable to be what it is meant to be. (Breatharianism provides with the solution to this.)

3 Light nourishment
Now what about the breatharian, who doesn't get the building material from solid foods or liquids? How does the DNA manifest itself onto the physical? What keeps breatharians alive?
Light constantly flows within everything. As consciousness is acquired and the body prepared (I will add specific information about this later on as I get the time) the light will no longer have blockages (will write about those too) to go through in order to reach the human body. Also, very importantly, the DNA of the breatharian will be activated in an increased advanced way. Consciousness is what activates the DNA. Now, as any part of the body needs to be manifested, the 'empty space' where new material is needed, will be a space on the DNA pattern which creates a magnetic pull. As the light flows through, the needed colors stick to this empty space. The colors combine and become an instant manifestation of the required cell or other part of the body.
Consciousness is what keeps us alive. Not food.

Why does the DNA manifest itself? The DNA is the sound aspect of us. The body is the physical aspect. The aura/color is the color aspect. They are all the same, but from different perspectives. It is like ice being cold, hard and transparent all at the same time, having different aspects but being only one thing. When we are conscious of ourselves, it is an instant manifestation of us. This is light technology, the use of consciousness and light, as well as the science that explains it.
Why do I claim these things?( Why I came to these conclusions.) This is what I see. No one has to believe it. I am glad if people are critical and sceptic... those two qualities in me is what made me find these very things. I have never taken things for granted, and I have always wanted to explain myself.


Light
Some sources of information about breatharianism says that 'light' is the nourishment which the breatharian lives of. This is the one I believe in, the source of nourishment which I have elaborated on in my search for understanding and explaining breatharianism, as well as with the information on this page. Light, the light which is within everything, containing all colors, contains all forms of existance and can thus manifest even nutrition and the human body independently.

Prana
Prana is very often mentioned as the source of breatharian nourishment. My experience says that prana is a yellow-white etheric substance, closely related to the pure light described above. Prana is like a thicker energy. Whilst all creation comes from light, prana is the source of biological life. Prana would be a specialisation which also has its origin from light. A breatharian can, I believe, live of light, prana or both.

Daylight and warmth
Daylight, nor warmth, are perhaps never mentioned as sources for nourishment, and I want to keep it that way. Daylight is energy from the sun, of a wavelength which we can actually see with our human eyes, whereas we can't see other wavelengths of energies. Warmth is the same as infrared energy, also originating from our sun. It's one of the wavelengths of energy which we can feel, we feel it as warmth from the sunlight. But I find that both of these two wavelengths are NOT nourishing for humans.
Why not? Each wavelength has an equivalent of a physical substance on the physical aspect of the world, out of which we humans don't perceive all. Daylight and infrared/warmth do not equal a physical substance which our body consists of.

Sunlight
But how about sunlight in general? It is very often mentioned as a source for breatharian nourishment. I would agree. It is well known that vitamin D is created independently in our body when we are exposed to sunlight. My intuition tells me that other types of nutrients are also created from sunlight, just that people haven't discovered these yet, and probably won't as they are of a density that people have difficulty in finding by means of traditional research equipment.
But what makes sunlight nutritious? Sunlight is a strong source of energy with a great variety of wavelengths. Many of these wavelengths equal physical substances that, according to our DNA, will make our physical body.
But will sunlight alone manifest our entire body? I will look into this, but still rely on 'light' for nourishment.
See my page on Skin Color for more of my theories on the nourishing effect of sunlight.

Air
After all, it is called breatharianism, isn't it? Breath and air does have a great role in it. Air contains nitrogen and other chemical substances which in fact can combine with other substances that are being provided to us from sources other than foods. And these substances can combine, into a variety of new substances, and place themselves according to our DNA, manifesting our physical body.
What about the saying that it is impossible for a breatharian to live in a polluted city? I have done my best to overlook all limitations to breatharianism, wanting to see beyond these to find a way no matter what. But pollution is, I admit, a problem. During days when I am a breatharian and neither eat or drink, and walk near traffic, I will feel sick, more sick than if I were on a day that I eat. Why? It is either because an eater is unaware of the pollution, or that the pollution would be more damaging to a breatharian. I will study this by looking at my reactions by traffic during one of my breatharian periods.

Comparing above mentioned nutrition sources
I would say that light is the only one that requires consciousness, as it depends on the DNA being activated by consciousness and putting light into use. Prana, too, requires consciousness but to a limited extent - merely to activate chakras and energy flow but not necessarily DNA as well. Light and prana could be called 'energies', as they are completely undetected by the average eating person. Sunlight, too, is a form of energy, but perhaps one that would be accepted to exist by the average person. Light contains precisely all wavelengths, whereas prana contains the ones directly needed by biological beings. Sunlight has limitations, but does provide with various useful wavelenghts, for example the well known vitamin D manifesting one. Air, more dense than any of the other sources (light, prana, sunlight), contains its limited range of - not wavelengths - but physical substances.
I would suggest that an aspiring breatharian gets accustomed to each of these sources for nourishment. But not air alone. Not sunlight alone. Perhaps prana alone. Perhaps light alone. But preferably a combination of each. Light and/or prana should be the largest percentage of the 'breatharian meal', whereas sunlight should be relied on not as greatly, and air least of these.


http://www.angelfire.com/stars3/breathe_light/light.html

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Re: Breatharians
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2010, 04:42:12 AM »
Hira Ratan Manek

Hira Ratan Manek (born September 12, 1937) claims that since June 18, 1995, he has lived exclusively on water, and, occasionally, tea, coffee, and buttermilk. Manek states that sunlight is the key to his health, citing the Jainist Tirthankara Mahavira, ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Native Americans as his inspiration.

According to his website, three extended periods of his fasting have been observed under control of scientific and medical teams, the first lasting 211 days in 1995-96, in Calicut, India, under the direction of Dr C. K. Ramachandran. During that period he is reported to have lost 41 kg.[29]

The second study lasted 411 days in 2000-2001, in Ahmedabad, India, under the direction of a 21 member team of medical doctors and scientists led by doctors Sudhir Shah and K. K. Shah, a past President of the Indian Medical Association and current Chairman of the Jainist Doctors' Federation (the latter group aims to "Promote scientific research and medical education based on principles of Jainism").[30] Dr K. K. Shah said "Fasting is a method of curing the meditation of mind and body which has been proved by great jain monks, sanyasis and munis of ancient times. There is a need to propagate these methods during this age of increasing diseases of the body and mind due to over consumptions and increasing with fasting would help maintain perfection.".[29] Dr Sudhir Shah was also involved in the study of Prahlad Jani.[31]

The paper[32] published by Dr Sudhir Shah makes it clear that dozens of people had access to Hira Ratan Manek during the study and he went on at least one excursion: "Most surprisingly, he had himself climbed the famous Shatrunjay mountain (Palitana hill) on 4.4.01, on 401st day of his legendary fasting along with 500 fellowmen without anybody’s help, within 1.5 Hrs. only". The paper reports that the subject lost 19 kg of weight during the study period. Neither the experiment, as described in the paper, nor the paper itself have been validated by any other well-known scientific or medical journal.

A third study allegedly lasted for 130 days in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Dr. Andrew Newberg and Dr. George C. Brainard. Dr Sudhir Shah, who led the previous study, acted as an advisor and consultant to the USA team. However, Dr. Andrew Newberg said that Hira stayed at the University of Pennsylvania only for brain scans on studies of meditation, not his ability to fast indefinitely. Following that statement, Newberg denied ever undertaking the 130-day study.[citation needed]


Prahlad Jani ("Mataji")

Prahlad Jani, an Indian sadhu who claims to have gone without food for decades,[33] spent ten days under strict observation by physicians at Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad, India, in 2003.[34] The study was led by Dr Sudhir Shah (http://www.sudhirneuro.org/), a well known and ardent proponent of Jain philosophy[35], the same doctor who led the study of Hira Ratan Manek. Reportedly, during the observation, he was given only 100 millilitres of water a day to use as mouthwash, which was collected and measured after he used it, to make sure he hadn't consumed any. He was reported to enter Samadhi state of consciousness almost daily during meditation.

Throughout the observation, he passed no urine or stool, but doctors say urine appeared to form in the bladder, only to be reabsorbed.[33] However, Jani was not engaged in strenuous exercise during the ten-day trial, and longer trials were not recorded under similarly strict observation. Further, his weight did drop slightly during the 10 days, casting some doubt on his claim to go indefinitely without food. Jani claims a goddess sustains him through amrit that filters down through a hole in his palate.[33] The Indian Rationalist Association has criticised the Indian Ministry of Defence for agreeing to take part in the tests, and for being taken in by a "village fraud".[36] Sanal Edamaruku of the Indian Rationalist Association claimed to have been repeatedly denied sending an independent team to survey the room where Jani was held. He also claimed that "this particular hospital, led by this particular doctor, keeps on making these claims without ever producing evidence or publishing research." The Indian Rationalist Association also said that individuals making similar claims have all reportedly been exposed as frauds.[37]

On June 26, 2006, The Discovery Channel aired a documentary called "The Boy with Divine Powers" featuring a 5 minute interview with Prahlad Jani and Dr. Sudhir Shah.[38][39]

As of April 22, 2010, new tests are being conducted on Prahlad Jani under surveillance of 35 doctors and researchers of Defence Institute of Physiology & Allied Science (DIPAS).[40][41][42]

Rajiv Sharma, CEO of Sterling Hospital, said, “We wanted to insure Jani’s life. However, due to certain legalities, insurance firms refused our request. Finally, the state government insured his life so that the study could be conducted.”[43]

Prahlad Jani was kept for fifteen days, until May 6 (tests were completed on Thursday at 3:30pm), and reportedly did not eat, drink or go to the toilet once during the time. This was apparently shown by blood tests, hormone profiles, MRIs and angiographs. The doctors also claimed to have found that he was "more healthy than someone half his age."

During the study, a protocol of round-the-clock surveillance was followed with the help of CCTV cameras and personal observation. Mataji (Prahlad Jani) was taken out for MRI, USG, and X-ray examination and exposure to sun under continuous video recording.[44]

“During the tests we found that in Prahalad Jani's bladder, the amount of liquid fluctuates even when he does not pass urine,” said a member of the team of medical experts that conducted medical tests. Mataji's lung functions is quite normal, as per reports by Dr. Mukesh Patel and his team.

Dr. G. Ilavazahagan, director, DIPAS (a heavily funded branch of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation), said, "The exercise of taking this yogi under a medical scanner is to understand which energy supports his existence, if not food or water. And if at the end of three months by which we plan to come out with observations based on this 15-day check up, we are able to reach to an explanation of this hypothesis - it would tremendously benefit mankind. The observations derived from this case study can help many soldiers, victims of calamities and astronauts - who often have to survive without food or water for long spells."[45]

Dr. Urman Dhruv, a physician, said, "We are collecting data on a person who has lived on an alternative pathway compared to an ordinary person. The comparative study of his reports of the tests conducted in 2003 and results of the recent and on-going tests would throw light on the process of aging in Jani's body - which seems to have undergone some type of genetic transformation."[45]

Prahlad Jani grew up in Charod village in Mehsana district.[33] According to Jani's version of events,[46], he left his home in Rajasthan at the age of seven, and went to live in the jungle.

When he reached the age of 11, he underwent a religious experience during which he became a follower of the Hindu goddess Amba. In her honour, he chose to dress as a female devotee, wearing a red sari-like garment, nose-ring, bangles and crimson flowers in his shoulder-length hair. In return, Jani believes that the goddess has sustained him ever since by feeding him with a lifegiving, invisible "elixir", which has supposedly given him the strength to continue without food or water.

For at least the past 40 years, Jani has been living, hermit-like, in a cave in the jungles close to the Gujarati temple of Ambaji. He rises at 4am, spending most of the day meditating. Amongst his followers and devotees he is commonly known as Mataji ("[a manifestation of] The Great Mother"). This name is also frequently used by Indians (regardless of their religious views) with reference to Prahlad Jani
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Re: Breatharians
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2010, 05:48:30 PM »
Thanks for that piper

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Re: Breatharians
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2016, 12:15:35 PM »
This is fascinating.  I know that for me, having lived in Winterland for almost 10 years, sunlight is essential and imperative to my health, mental and physical.

The absence of sunlight, or not enough of, has been shown to lead to problems such as SAD.  I wonder though how far reaching the effects of not enough sunlight really are??


 

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