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| breatharian: The Breatharian Jason Zeitler, 2024-01-01 Nine engaging stories involving varying degrees of madness and despair, with occasional doses of the grotesque and the macabre Spanning three continents, these stories take the reader all over the map, from Sri Lanka to the UK to the United States and back again. The plotlines are as diverse as the settings and range from coming-of-age stories to borderline horror stories. A Sri Lankan living in Boston visits a distant relative in London against his will. A psychiatrist has a new refrigerator delivered to his house, and one thing after another goes wrong. A Tucson teacher combats ground squirrels in his subdivision. A businessman goes to Denver to save his career and gets more than he bargained for. In the title story The Breatharian, a fifteen-year-old Sri Lankan boy obsesses over the appearance of a stranger in his village. He cannot rest until he discovers the truth. Is the breatharian a saint, a madman, or something else entirely? Read to find out. “Nine brilliant renderings of psychological realism. If you’re not a fan of stories with happy or pat endings, then this collection is for you.” – Maximillian Quidproquo, author of How to Get Published in Today’s Market and a close personal friend of the author’s |
| breatharian: Breatharian Pathways Jasmuheen, 2011-03-31 Breatharian Pathways - Memories & Motivations with Jasmuheen In this book Jasmuheen finally shares her memories and motivations over many timelines, with the path of the true Breatharian. From times with Jesus, and the disciple Luke, to times in Cathar country being starved to death during the inquisition, to the life of an woman in India whose great loss revealed the Breatharian way; to dealing with Sadhus and sages in India modern day - all of this and much more Jasmuheen shares in this book as well as finally revealing the details of some of her most spectacular media trials as she continues to educate the world into this phenomena. |
| breatharian: The breatharian process , 2014-11-25 This book brings short interesting evidence of the life of a painter and artist, who got through breatharian process. He brings valuable experience, discoveries and gained scientific knowledge connected to prana, prana nutrition, development of health, mind and spirit. Let yourself to immersion in the story full of emotions, facts, deep thoughts and spiritual atmosphere. We believe that this book will be very beneficial for you. |
| breatharian: Complete Science of Breatharianism Inedia Musings, 2015-04-27 Recent scientific report has demonstrated that the human can generate metabolically useful energy in the form of ATP from sunlight and intrinsic water. Within this book is the complete mechanism of human photosynthesis backed by peer-reviewed journal articles. Finally, research has reached an explanation for this amazing lifestyle. This book also includes a full analysis on the spiritual implications that coincide with the breatharian lifestyle. Jesus said it quite plainly in the Gospel of John: Jesus replied, Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. How can someone be born when they are old? Nicodemus asked. Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother's womb to be born! Jesus answered, Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit (which means breath). Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit (John 3:4-6) |
| breatharian: New Religions Eugene V. Gallagher, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo, 2021-02-15 A valuable resource for students and general audiences, this book provides a unique global perspective on the history, beliefs, and practices of emergent faith communities; new religious traditions; and religious movements worldwide, from the 19th century to the present. New Religions: Emerging Faiths and Religious Cultures in the Modern World provides insightful global perspectives on the emergent faith communities and new traditions and movements of the last two centuries. Readers will gain access to the information necessary to explore the significance, complexities, and challenges that modern religious traditions have faced throughout their history and that continue to impact society today. The work identifies the themes and issues that have often brought new religions into conflict with the larger societies of which they are a part. Coverage includes new religious groups that emerged in America, such as the Seventh-day Adventists, the Latter-day Saints, and the Jehovah's Witnesses; alternative communities around the globe that emerged from the major Western and Eastern traditions, such as Aum Shinrikyo and Al-Qaeda; and marginalized groups that came to a sudden end, such as the Peoples Temple, Heaven's Gate, and the Branch Davidians. The entries highlight thematic and broader issues that run across the individual religious traditions, and will also help students analyze and assess the common difficulties faced by emergent religious communities. |
| breatharian: Life from Light Michael Werner, Thomas Stockli, 2012-07-09 In 1923 Therese Neumann, a nun in Southern Germany, stopped eating and drinking. Apart from the wafer given at Mass, she did not eat again, despite living for a further 35 years. Other similar cases have been reported over the years - often holy men from the East - and have taken on something of a mythical status. However, they remain obscure enough to be brushed aside by modern scientists. Michael Werner presents a new type of challenge to sceptics. A fit family man in his 50s, he has a doctorate in Chemistry and is the managing director of a research institute in Switzerland. In this remarkable account he describes how he stopped eating in 2001 and has survived perfectly well without food ever since. In fact, he claims never to have felt better! Unlike the people who have achieved this feat in the past, he is an ordinary man who lives a full and active life. Michael Werner has an open challenge to all scientists: Test me using all the scientific monitoring and data you wish! In fact, he describes one such test here in which he was kept without food in a strictly monitored environment for ten days. Werner also describes in detail how and why he came to give up food, and what his life is like without it. This book features other reports from those who have attempted to follow this way of life, as well as supplementary material on possible scientific explanations of how one could ‘live on light’. |
| breatharian: Breatharianism Wiley Brooks, 1982 |
| breatharian: The Eccentropedia Chris Mikul, 2012-10-02 An A-Z of eccentrics! 250 true stories of the most original and outrageous people on earth, from bad poets to transsexual evolutionary theorists this encyclopedic guide covering ancient times to the present, includes reams of material never seen in book form before. Famous eccentrics like King Ludwig, Salvador Dalí and Howard Hughes rub shoulders with a host of lesser-known, but equally colorful, characters in these -- mostly -- life-affirming stories. There are unsuspected parallels and connections throughout creating an alternative, off-kilter history of the world. |
| breatharian: Cupboard Love 2 Mark Morton, 2004 Cupboard Love explores the fascinating stories behind familiar and no-so-familiar gastronomic terms. Who knew that the word pomegranate is related to the word grenade? Light-hearted and thoroughly researched, packed with linguistic lore and cultural trivia. |
| breatharian: Think You're the Only One? Seth Brown, 2004 |
| breatharian: August Callan Wink, 2021-10-19 A boy coming of age in a part of the country that’s being left behind is at the heart of this dazzling novel—the first by an award-winning author of short stories that evoke the American West. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • “August reads like early Hemingway, retooled for the present.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days Callan Wink has been compared to masters like Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane. His short stories have been published in The New Yorker and have won numerous accolades. Now his enormous talents are showcased in a debut novel that follows a boy growing up in the middle of the country through those difficult years between childhood and adulthood. August is an average twelve-year-old. He likes dogs and fishing and doesn’t mind early-morning chores on his family’s Michigan dairy farm. But following his parents’ messy divorce, his mother decides that she and August need to start over in a new town. There, he tries to be an average teen—playing football and doing homework—but when his role in a shocking act of violence throws him off course once more, he flees to a ranch in rural Montana, where he learns that even the smallest communities have dark secrets. Covering August's adolescence, from age twelve to nineteen, this gorgeously written novel bears witness to the joys and traumas that irrevocably shape us all. Filled with unforgettable characters and stunning natural landscapes, this book is a moving and provocative look at growing up in the American heartland. |
| breatharian: Man’s Higher Consciousness Prof. Hilton Hotema, 2016-01-18 In this book, first published in 1962, Professor Hilton Hotema provides his insights into how we could all live longer by learning the body's simple requirements of breathing fresh air, avoiding animal flesh, banning any cooked food, and by gradually lessening the amount of food consumed. Hotema firmly believes that breathing fresh air and consuming organic fruits and natural organic liquids alone could extend our lives and also lays bare his secret that what kills at an early age is not the illusion of time, but rather overeating, breathing in toxic, unclean air, and elements such as electronic radiation, dirty electricity and medications. A must-read for any health-conscious individual. |
| breatharian: Modern Day Mystic Thomas Lyons, 2005-04 Can we really bend spoons with our minds? Do regular people have prophetic dreams? Can spirits speak to us from beyond? What does it really mean to be enlightened? How you can develop healing hands. Author Thomas Lyons has seen it all and shares hundreds of stories of mystical experience. |
| breatharian: The Facts of Nutrition Holton Hotema, 1998 1957 the vitality of the organism depends not on food and drink, for experience teaches athletes to go into action with empty stomachs. the author gives as his concepts that the growth of the body does not result from food consumption, but from the divi. |
| breatharian: Activating Your Healing Energies -- Physical, Mental, Spiritual Ed Leary, 2011-07-25 Our Energy Spectrum Whenever I have a problem to solve, I know that both the problem and the solution are constructed from energy. If I really thought about it, I would probably conclude that all of my problems while on this planet earth were created by human energies. This is especially true of our health. Whenever I look for a solution, I invariably begin with physical symptoms and arrive mostly at a physical solution. I know that we all have energies that are not physical. We have energies of a higher vibration with varying polarities that manifest as thought, emotion, subconscious impressions, and even spiritual impressions. All of these energies are required to promote true holistic healing. The healing energies that Im referring to dont merely suppress symptoms either, as the general populations seem to prefer. Healing energies must treat the whole person both physical and subtle so that healing can be more permanent and more satisfying. In order to accomplish this, however, a change of viewpoint, a change of attitude, or even a change in beliefs is often required. In addition, no healing is possible without an understanding of the laws that govern the physical as well as the more subtle realms of mind and Spirit. Violation of these laws is the main reason that we get sick, suffer, and die. Therefore, those ancient barriers that our institutions have constructed between science, psychology and religion must come down. Then and only then will we understand what laws we violated that made us sick, and what we must do to get well. Ed Leary |
| breatharian: Fasting: an Exceptional Human Experience Randi Fredricks, 2012-12-20 Fasting An Exceptional Human Experience Since prehistory, fasting has been used in various ways as a means of transformation. As a spiritual practice, it is the oldest and most common form of asceticism and is found in virtually every religion and spiritual tradition. In psychology, studies have suggested that fasting can alleviate the symptoms of some psychiatric conditions, including depression and schizophrenia. In medicine, fasting is one of the most promising therapies, with research suggesting that fasting can cause certain drugs, such as chemotherapy, to work better while reducing drug side-effects. Hunger striking, sometimes called political fasting, may be the most powerful application of fasting. Proof of this occurred in 1948 when Gandhis hunger strike caused millions of Hindus and Muslims in India to cease their fighting. As a practical guide, Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. provides detailed information on the different types of fasting, where people fast, the physiological process of fasting, and the contraindications and criticisms of fasting. Using existing literature and original research, Dr. Fredricks focuses on the transformative characteristics of fasting in the contexts of psychology, medicine, and spirituality. The relationship between fasting and transpersonal psychology is examined, with a focus on peak experiences, self-realization, and other exceptional human experiences. Dr. Fredricks demonstrates how fasting can be profoundly therapeutic, create global paradigm shifts, and provide personal mystical phenomena. |
| breatharian: The Magic Temple Hilton Hotema, 1998 |
| breatharian: The Shape We're in Sarah Boseley, 2014 This demonization of the overweight by the media and politicians is unrelenting. Sarah Boseley, the Guardian's award-winning health editor, argues it's time we understood the complex reality of what makes us fat. Speaking to behavioral scientists and industry experts, yo-yo dieters and people who have gone under the knife, Boseley builds a picture of an obesogenic society - one where we're constantly bombarded by the twin evils of big budget food marketing and the diet industry. Filled with in-depth, original reporting, Boseley reveals just how widespread the problem is - 1 in 4 of us are obese - and makes the case that it is time to fundamentally change the way we live. The Shape We're In is essential reading for anyone interested in their health and the health of their children. |
| breatharian: Bloom Marva Easterly, 2014-09-09 Who'd a thunk it? Becoming a spiritual channel, a medium, an intuitive, and a past life regression facilitator were never on my list of goals to achieve. And yet I did. My story of evolving from normal to multidimensional is one of learning about expanding consciousness, unconditional love, and otherworldly possibilities. It is also a tale of having to confront death, near death, loss, and betrayal while keeping a sense of humor. Discovering that there is a presence, a spirit, a soul, a higher consciousness within each of us that is eternal and all knowing changed me. I went looking for the meaning of death and found immortality. Life is constantly full of surprises. |
| breatharian: Zen and the Art of Subration Ashoka Annamaya Ishaya, 2019-04-15 Zen and the Art of Subration is a three-part masterwork arising from the author’s thirty-five-year journey to overcome cultural conditioning and achieve the ultimate transformation: living on light and oxygen. Ashoka Annamaya Ishaya shares an intimate look into how she discovered tantric and Taoist practices for cultivating immortality and integrated them into her life. She follows up this first-person account with a teaching guide distilling knowledge and practices aimed at readers on their own transformative path toward achieving your immortal jing cycle. Ishaya believes that if a critical mass of humans commit to the process of sustainable immortality, we can affect the evolution of our entire species. Ishaya pursues an illuminating range of questions: • Are we as a species destined to be enlightened? • Can we apply mindfulness skills to evolve our physiology? • How can our health-care system better support the maturation of our species? • Can we become an immortal species? The treatise concludes with a scholarly overview of noted prophets from varied traditions and times who have taught and fostered transformation of consciousness and sustainability of culture. |
| breatharian: Glimpses Of Reality Benito De Donno, 2002 With A Vast Knowledge Of Physics, Metaphysics, Biology, Spirituality, Health And Cosmic Laws, De Donno Probes Over 150 Unexplained Mysteries, Providing A Unique Perspective Of Creation, Backed By Persuasive Scientific Data. In Fascinating Details, De Donno Explains Our Highly Complex Connection To The Spiritual Realms, And The Innate Power We Have To Attain Vibrant And Lasting Health, As Well As Happiness And Spiritual Fulfillment. Ignorance, He Says, Is The Only Thing Separating Us From Godliness. And Most Illnesses Are Caused By Nutritional Toxemia A Kind Of Slow Food Poisoning. When We Burn Or Metabolize Food, Says De Donno, We Get Heat, Not Life; Life Is A Different Type Of Energy Altogether. A Fruitarian For The Past Thirteen Years, De Donno Presents A Startling Approach To Health And Longevity, In The Contest Of An Entirely New Perspective Of Our Physical Reality. For Eye-Opening Insight Into The True Nature Of Creation, Our Purpose Within It, And The Means Of Achieving Lasting Happiness And Fulfillment, This Book Is Must-Read, For The Scientist And The Skeptic Alike.Disease Should Be Prevented Rather Than Cured, And There Is Only One Unfailing Way Of Doing That. The Key To Avoiding All Health Problems Is Already Built Within Us It Is Our Own Immune System. The Explanation Of How To Strengthen Our Biological Defense Mechanism Without The Use Of Drugs, So As To Become Virtually Unaffected By Microbes, Bacteria, Fungi, Free Radicals And All Other Forms Of Antigen, Is One Of The Objectives Of This Book. And These Are Not Just Empty Theories. The Principles Presented In This Book Have Been Repeatedly Proven By The Author And Countless Others, Who Have Become Virtually Immune To Disease.Besides Providing A Detailed Explanation Of The Spiritual World, Glimpses Of Reality Answers Many Of Life S Hitherto Unexplained Mysteries, And Is Sure To Appeal To The Rapidly-Growing Number Of Truth Seekers. |
| breatharian: Quacks! S. D. Tucker, 2018-11-15 A raucous history of medicine's more bizarre attempts to explain and preserve the human body. Prepare to feel queasy. |
| breatharian: Ambassadors of Light Jasmuheen, 2000 Ambassadors of Light is Jasmuheen's tenth book and the follow up to her best seller Living on Light, Nutrition for the New Millennium. No doubt this new work will be just as controversial as she continues to challenge the status quo and take the pranic nourishment discussion onto the global stage. In this book, Jasmuheen offers practical solutions to world health and world hunger related challenges through her Luscious Lifestyles Program and also effective ways to redirect global resources. This entails an in-depth look at global disarmament, the dissolution of prohibition, the forgiveness of Third World debt, holistic education programs, and the elimination of the need for personal pharmaceutical use through the elimination of all disease. Ambassadors of Light also looks at the undeniable long-term benefits of vegetarianism in relation to health and resource sustainability levels, and also at the lifestyles that those who are now free from the need to eat food usually adopt. Jasmuheen compiles statistics from the Light Ambassadry's Global Research Project as well as the research of many others into this phenomena. This book is a collation of research, recipes, and recommendations that if adopted, will radically alter the path of humankind! Imagine a world without war or hunger or fear? Imagine a world that is disease free and unified where all life is honored? These are the dreams of the Ambassadors of Light. |
| breatharian: Jaquie Brown's Guide to Everything Jaquie Brown, 2010-05-01 Everything you need to know, and more. If you're a modern, good-looking human, you need Jaquie Brown's Guide to Everything (and recipes and quizzes). From food and your body to animals, birds and the environment, from fashion and being cool to love, romance and dating, all the important stuff is in this book. And if you find it unsatisfying (unlikely), Jaquie has included some recipes and puzzles for your enjoyment.This book is full of tips and useful information on how to navigate life; for instance, how to lose weight by eating your lawn, what to do when your shoes intimidate you, and why your future husband is probably called Johnny. Plus she exposes the government conspiracy about swans, tells you why you need to remove the word cardigan from your vocabulary, and lets you in on the food rules for that special first date.Based around the character Jaquie Brown from the hit TV series The Jaquie Brown Diaries, this book is unexpected, whimsical and very funny. |
| breatharian: THE FOOD OF GODS Jasmuheen, 2007-08-01 The Food of Gods is Jasmuheen's 18th book on metaphysical matters and her third book in the Divine Nutrition series. It is not necessary to have read the previous books on this subject which cover her personal journey and the solution for world health and world hunger issues as The Foods of Gods takes the pranic nourishment discussion to another level and offers simple yet powerful tools to satiate all of our hungers. Jasmuheen writes: The most important difference with our focus with Divine Nutrition is that It has the ability to feed us on all levels and that we can still benefit from increasing Its flow through our bio-system even if we continue to choose to enjoy eating. Allowing this Divinely Nutritional stream to be increased in our system means that we can be fed emotionally, mentally and spiritually and as such the techniques and guidelines shared in this book, will benefit us all by freeing us from our current personal and global emotional, mental and spiritual states of anorexia. |
| breatharian: Breatharian Diet 101 Scott James Ph D, 2021-09-30 The Breatharian Diet, is obviously intense and if you try it, it is certainly a very drastic step in your life. If you do decide to try it then you need to try another type of diet or cleanse first. It is a good idea, for example, to ty to go on a soup diet for two weeks before trying; The Breatharian Diet. This is to reduce the amount of food you eat considerably, before stopping eating all food completely. If you don't reduce your food first, it is possible your body could go into shock and cause your body a lot of harm. The Breatharian Diet, is not new. It became well known in the United States in the 1990s and has been popular with a small number of people since then. These people want to abstain from food and believe that air and sun light will sustain them instead. Most of them, however, only try the diet for a short period of time, before returning to eat normally. The longer a person abstains from food and water the more prone their body becomes to turning an excessive amount of its fatty acids into ketone. Should a person's body produce too many ketone bodies for their body to handle, they will put themselves in danger of getting ketosis, which is described as a chemical imbalance that can threaten a person's life. |
| breatharian: Hoax: A History of Deception Ian Tattersall, Peter Névraumont, 2018-03-20 An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter Néaumont to tell this anti-history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece; Arctic explorers seek an entrance into a hollow Earth; a Shakespeare tragedy is rediscovered; a financial scheme inspires Charles Ponzi; a spirit photographer snaps Abraham Lincoln's ghost; people can survive ingesting only air and sunshine; Edgar Allen Poe is the forefather of fake news; and the first human was not only British but played cricket. Told chronologically, HOAX begins with the first documented announcement of the end of the world in 2800 BC and winds its way through controversial tales such as the Loch Ness Monster and the Shroud of Turin, past proven fakes such as the Thomas Jefferson's ancient wine and the Davenport Tablets built by a lost race, and explores bald-faced lies in the worlds of art, science, literature, journalism, and finance. |
| breatharian: Like Fire Theodore Schwartz, Michael French Smith, 2021-07-01 Like Fire chronicles an indigenous movement for radical change in Papua New Guinea from 1946 to the present. The movement’s founder, Paliau Maloat, promoted a program for step-by-step social change in which many of his followers also found hope for a miraculous millenarian transformation. Drawing on data collected over several decades, Theodore Schwartz and Michael French Smith describe the movement’s history, Paliau’s transformation from secular reformer and politician to Melanesian Jesus, and the development of the current incarnation of the movement as Wind Nation, a fully millenarian endeavour. Their analysis casts doubt on common ways of understanding a characteristically Melanesian form of millenarianism, the cargo cult, and questions widely accepted ways of interpreting millenarianism in general. They show that to understand the human proclivity for millenarianism we must scrutinise more closely two near-universal human tendencies: difficulty accepting the role of chance or impersonal forces in shaping events (that is, the tendency to personify causation), and a tendency to imagine that one or one’s group is the focus of the malign or benign attention of purposeful entities, from the local to the cosmic. Schwartz and Smith discuss the prevalence of millenarianism and warn against romanticising it, because the millenarian mind can subvert rationality and nourish rage and fear even as it seeks transcendence. ‘Like Fire consummates remarkable longitudinal ethnographic research on the Paliau Movement in Papua New Guinea, pursued from the 1950s into the 1990s by Theodore Schwartz, with Michael French Smith as his sometime assistant, and updated by Smith in 2015. The theoretical arguments are highly provocative and the book is well written and fascinating throughout. Like Fire poses important questions about the driving forces and contours of Pacific Island history and the place in it of cargo cults and other millenarian movements.’ —Aletta Biersack, Professor Emerita, University of Oregon ‘Like Fire synthesises old, but inaccessible, and new material on an important and long-lasting indigenous Melanesian movement, while making extensive use of the wider literature on cargo cults and millenarianism. I find the theorising in this book both very original and an important contribution to the debates on Melanesian religion, cargo cults, and millenarianism more generally. As the authors state, the topic of millenarianism has great relevance because of its ubiquity in the contemporary world.’ —Ton Otto, Professor of Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark, and James Cook University, Australia |
| breatharian: A Guidebook on Healthy and Unhealthy Foods and Diets Prof. (Dr.) Jai Paul Dudeja, 2025-05-19 In Sanskrit, they say: “Yatha annam tatha manam”. It means: “As is the food, so is the mind”. Your state of mind and your health depends on the type of diet or food you eat. With this theme in mind, I have written this book titled, “A Guidebook on Healthy and Unhealthy Foods and Diets: With Description of Over 80 Foods, Diets and Cuisines in the World”, for the benefit of each conscious citizen of the world, who is able to discriminate between healthy and unhealthy diets and foods. There are 79 chapters in this comprehensive guidebook. I sincerely feel that this guidebook will help all the persons of all the countries and of all the age groups (from one year to over 100 years) who wish to lead a mentally cheerful, physically healthy and joyful long life by taking healthy diets and avoiding unhealthy ones. |
| breatharian: Cult Following J. W. Ocker, 2024-09-10 “A must-read for those with a taste for cult narratives.”—Publishers Weekly From the author of Cursed Objects and The United States of Cryptids, an eye-popping compendium of the 30 most infamous, audacious, and dangerous cults in history Have you ever wondered how ordinary people end up enmeshed in extreme cults? Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about history’s most notorious cults—and the psychology of the people who join them—is packed into this accessible, engaging volume. Walk in the footsteps of those who were lured into such sinister groups as: Branch Davidians: This cult was waiting out the apocalypse when the FBI infamously raided their compound in Waco, Texas. Los Narcosatánicos: This group of drug traffickers in 1980s Mexico committed human sacrifice and believed their leader had magic powers. Breatharianism: Breatharians believe that humans can live on air alone, and their founder claimed to have gone without food for seventeen years. NXIVM: This twenty-first-century cult attracted Hollywood actresses and engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, and racketeering under the guise of personal development seminars. Heaven’s Gate: The Heaven’s Gate UFO cult ended in the suicide of thirty-nine members who believed they would ascent to a spaceship after death. In this fascinating collection, weird history expert J. W. Ocker sheds light on the terrifying attraction of cults, demonstrating the elasticity of belief, the desperateness of belonging, and the tragedy of trust. |
| breatharian: Is That a Fact? Joe Schwarcz, 2014-05-01 The bestselling “quackbuster” and “tireless tub-thumper against pseudoscience” fishes for the facts in a flood of misinformation (Maclean’s). Eat this and live to 100. Don’t, and die. Today, hyperboles dominate the media, which makes parsing science from fiction an arduous task when deciding what to eat, what chemicals to avoid, and what’s best for the environment. In Is That a Fact?, bestselling author Dr. Joe Schwarcz carefully navigates through the storm of misinformation to help us separate fact from folly and shrewdness from foolishness. Are GMOs really harmful? Or could they help developing countries? Which “miracle weight-loss foods” gained popularity through exuberant data dredging? Is BPA dangerous or just a victim of unforgiving media hype? Is organic better? Schwarcz questions the reliability and motives of “experts” in this “easy-to-understand yet critical look at what’s fact and what’s plain nonsense. “Takes its readers through the carnival of pseudoscience, the morass of half-truths and, finally, the relatively safe road of reproducible scientific knowledge. This journey is made all the more enjoyable by Dr. Schwarcz’s surgical use of words and his mastery of public writing . . . [He] can always be counted on to write about the chemistry of the world in a way that is both entertaining and educational.” —Cracked Science “Written with a light touch and refreshing humor, this book provides a solid, authoritative starting point for anyone beginning to look at the world with a skeptical eye and a refresher for those further along that path.” —Library Journal |
| breatharian: Autobiography of a Sadhu Rampuri, 2010 Rampuri is the first foreigner to be initiated into the ancient society of yogis and shamans known as the Renunciates of the Ten Names, or Sannyasis. |
| breatharian: The Sustainability Class Vijay Kolinjivadi, Aaron Vansintjan, 2024-12-10 An original argument that environmental sustainability has been co-opted by the urban elite, along with examples from around the world of ways we can save our planet “Caring for the environment means reclaiming ecology for everyone.” —from the introduction A sustainability apartheid is emerging. More than ever, urban residents want to be green, yet to cater to their interests, a green-tech service economy has sprung up, co-opting well-intentioned concerns over sustainability to sell a resource-heavy and exclusive “lifestyle environmentalism.” This has made cities more unsustainable and inaccessible to the working class. The Sustainability Class is about those wealthy “progressive” urbanites convinced that we can save the planet through individual action, smart urbanism, green finance, and technological innovation. Authors Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan challenge many of the popular ideas about environmentalism, showing that it is actually the sustainability class itself that is unsustainable. The solutions they propose work to safeguard an elite minority, exclude billions of people, and ultimately hasten ecological breakdown, not reverse it. From Venice Beach, Los Angeles, to Neom in Saudi Arabia and beyond, the authors explore with biting humor how investors around the world are rushing to capitalize on going green. By contrast, real-world examples of movements for housing and food production, transport, and waste management demonstrate how ordinary people around the world are building a more ecological future by working together, against all odds. In doing so, they show us how sustainability can be reclaimed for everyone. Sustainability isn’t about vibes and superficial green facades. It’s about building people power to reimagine the world. |
| breatharian: Life Without Food and the Timelessness of Spiritual Messages of the North American Indians Mira Omerzel -. Mirit Ph. D., 2019-10-03 In book one of the COSMIC TELEPATHY, Mirit describes her ten year experience of living without food, which has connected her permanently with the Source and with the different dimensions of our being and existence. She touches on ancient rituals without food andliquid of various peoples. Both in the past and today, every kind of abstinence from food has one single purpose - the body cleansed in that way and devotion to the cosmic primordial force of life offer an opportunity to connect to the Source, to our soul. This refines all of our senses (both physical and telepathic) so that we can perceive the sound of subtle levels of consciousness, the realms which make up our reality. Sound, which is in fact everything, both visible and invisible, tangible and intangible, is identified by the Ancient Ones as the axis of consciousness, a majestic tool and the technology of a distant past which brings messages and encouragements for the future. Through the wise thoughts of North American Indians, Mirit travels the blue road of spirit, rhythm and sound. Being frequency-energy undulation, sound is the communication system of the Universe. It is time for us to restore and revive the forgotten ecology of sound and the ecology of the inaudible resonance of our mind and thoughts. In book one, the author goes into the wisdom of the Navajo, Hopi, Apache, Cherokee and Mayan tribes. Mirit, a researcher, artist, spiritual teacher and medium for the inaudible life energy, describes her life journey from the bottom up, from despair and illness to the miraculous abilities of a human being - a cosmic telepath, medium, healer and spiritual teacher. The entire series speaks about the quest for the lost key to happiness, abundance and health. The author reveals the forgotten sparks of the wisdom of various cultures, so that the knowledge of the past might help us in the future once again to attain the enlightened goal, the multidimensional awakened awareness within the Great Mysteries of life. So that we might once again live within an alignment with the cosmic, to live the Sky on Earth. The Native American Sun Dance connects us to the earthly and cosmic dimensions; it reveals how to attain the watchfulness of an eagle, jaguar and snake, how to restore the medicine wheel and the wholistic consciousness of all-connectedness. It shows us how to uncoverour visions and the effective sound beyond the material world - the rhythm of resonance.How to awaken our own dormant (telepathic) abilities. The initiatory teachings of theAncient Ones offer the possibility of out-of-body travels across dimensions, across the worlds of reality, whereas Hopi and Mayan prophecies show us the gates leading to the cosmic-earthly evolution of consciousness and the current moment. According to Native American prophecies, we live in exceptional times, when human consciousness is able to reawaken within itself a knowledge dating back thousands of years. To revive it for the benefit of all beings on Earth. Consciousness is boundless. We are rediscovering its keys. And the ability to live without food might be useful in the future. |
| breatharian: Quackery Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen, 2017-10-17 What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices. Ranging from the merely weird to the outright dangerous, here are dozens of outlandish, morbidly hilarious “treatments”—conceived by doctors and scientists, by spiritualists and snake oil salesmen (yes, they literally tried to sell snake oil)—that were predicated on a range of cluelessness, trial and error, and straight-up scams. With vintage illustrations, photographs, and advertisements throughout, Quackery seamlessly combines macabre humor with science and storytelling to reveal an important and disturbing side of the ever-evolving field of medicine. |
| breatharian: Walking Through Walls Philip Smith, 2008-09-16 Running with Scissors meets Bewitched in this irresistible memoir, as Philip Smith describes growing up in 1960s Miami with his decorator father, who one day discovers he has the miraculous power to talk to the dead and heal the sick. After a full day of creating beautiful interiors for the rich and famous, Lew Smith would come home, take off his tie, and get down to his real work as a psychic healer who miraculously cured thousands of people. For his son, Philip, watching his father transform himself, at a moment's notice, from gracious society decorator into a healer with supernatural powers was a bit like living with Clark Kent and Superman. Walking Through Walls is Philip Smith's astonishing memoir of growing up in a household where séances, talking spirits, and exorcisms were daily occurrences, and inexplicable psychic healings resulted in visitors suddenly discarding their crutches and wheelchairs or being cured of fatal diseases. While there are benefits to having a miracle man in the house, Philip soon discovers the downside of living with a father who psychically knows everything he is doing. Surrounded by invisible spirits who tend to behave like nagging relatives, Philip looks for ways to escape his mystical home life—including forays into sex, surfing, and even Scientology. By turns hilarious and profound, Walking Through Walls recounts Philip Smith's often bizarre but always magical coming of age in a household that felt like a cross between Lourdes and the set of Rosemary's Baby, and shows how he managed to map out his own identity in the shadow of a father who, truly, loomed larger than life itself. |
| breatharian: Rhythms of Love - Jasmuheen's Travel Journal Jasmuheen, 2012-12-06 As a commitment to witness, stimulate and record humanityÕs co-creation of paradise on earth, Jasmuheen shares her experiences and insights on this as she travels the globe during 2006 to 2012. From Russia and the Eastern Bloc countries, through Europe to the jungles of Colombia and India, Jasmuheen reports on her work with many open hearted groups that gather with her. In this journal the reader gains insight on what life is like for someone who is in full time service with this Ôparadise co-creationÕ agenda. Spending nearly half of each year on the road, living in hotel rooms, airports and seminar halls, constantly adjusting to continually changing weather patterns, all the while being nourished only by prana, Jasmuheen manages to keep herself healthy and happy regardless of the many challenges she faces for despite all of this she grows and learns and thoroughly enjoys meeting with all the beautiful light filled people that she now constantly meets in this world. |
| breatharian: Light-Nutrition Aurélienne Dauguet, 2020 |
| breatharian: Breatharian Journey: Tony Musso, 2015-03-20 Breatharian Journey is a quick read about a year long experiment of dietary changes, fasting, and extreme asceticism. For those familiar with the concept of breatharianism, this diary covers some of the challenges one may expect along the way. Dive deep into the mystery of possibility, as determination and will are tested to extreme limits. |
| breatharian: PRANIC NOURISHMENT - Nutrition for the New Millennium - Living on Light Series Jasmuheen, 2007-08-01 NEW 2012 UPDATED VERSION - Pranic Nourishment, also called Living on Light, is Jasmuheen's fourth book of metaphysical interest. It is a fascinating story of her personal journey into being physically sustained purely by Light. It also touches on physical immortality, spirituality and sexuality, new millennium relationships and mind mastery utilizing the powerful programming of Dimensional Biofield Science. Pioneering new yet ancient pathways, many are now exploring the option of neither being a meat eater, a vegetarian, a vegan, a fruitarian but rather a 'liquidarian' or an individual sustained and nourished purely by the Light of their own Divine nature. Formerly a 'state of being' reserved for, or attributed to, the Holy men, Saints or Sages of the East; the process described in this text offers a practical and spiritual alternative for those wishing to practically begin to embrace physical immortality, cease the aging process or simply 'live on Light'. |
Inedia - Wikipedia
Inedia (Latin for ' fasting ') or breatharianism (/ brɛˈθɛəriənɪzəm / breth-AIR-ee-ən-iz-əm) is the claimed ability for a person to live without consuming food, and in some cases water. It is a …
How can a human live on only air and light? | HowStuffWorks
Sep 19, 2023 · What Is a Breatharian? The breatharian lifestyle requires that a person give up food and water altogether and live purely off prana, which they also call "living on light" or …
Breatharianism, The Bizarre Belief That Humans Can Live Off Air …
Mar 8, 2022 · Also known as inedia, breatharianism is a pseudoscientific practice promoted by gurus who insist that they can live off "pranic light" — which is contained in the air. What if you …
Do 'Breatharians' Survive Without Food or Water? | Snopes.com
Jun 16, 2017 · Claims about "breatharians," people purportedly living on light alone, do not offer proof that they survive this way. A Californian and Ecuadorian couple proved it is possible to …
Meet the Guy Who Says He Mostly Just Eats Air - VICE
Feb 9, 2021 · Breatharianism is a movement that claims people are able to live on very little food, and that a diet of air and sunlight is enough to sustain the human body. Specially, …
Breatharians: The People Who Think Air Is Food | GQ
Sep 7, 2017 · They call themselves Breatharians, a new-ish kind of spirituality that dubiously believes that the human body can—and should —sustain itself not on food but on air and …
What is breatharianism? Meaning and Origins | Ray Maor Breatharian …
In a detailed overview, Ray Maor explains the four distinct levels of breatharianism, ranging from those with a mere interest in the practice to those who achieve complete sustenance through …
The Breatharian Diet: Can We Live Without Food?
Jul 8, 2022 · In the most extreme cases, breatharians claim to abstain from food and water altogether. A slightly more level-headed group of breatharian “gurus” encourage small amounts …
35 Facts About Breatharianism
Oct 27, 2024 · Breatharianism is a belief that humans can survive without consuming food or water, relying solely on prana, or life energy. This concept has sparked curiosity and …
What is Breatharianism? - Definition from Yogapedia
Dec 21, 2023 · Breatharianism is the belief that survival without the consumption of food is possible and that prana alone can sustain one’s life. Also called inedia, a Latin word which …
Inedia - Wikipedia
Inedia (Latin for ' fasting ') or breatharianism (/ brɛˈθɛəriənɪzəm / breth-AIR-ee-ən-iz-əm) is the claimed ability for a person to live without consuming food, and in some cases water. It is a …
How can a human live on only air and light? | HowStuffWorks
Sep 19, 2023 · What Is a Breatharian? The breatharian lifestyle requires that a person give up food and water altogether and live purely off prana, which they also call "living on light" or …
Breatharianism, The Bizarre Belief That Humans Can Live Off Air …
Mar 8, 2022 · Also known as inedia, breatharianism is a pseudoscientific practice promoted by gurus who insist that they can live off "pranic light" — which is contained in the air. What if you …
Do 'Breatharians' Survive Without Food or Water? | Snopes.com
Jun 16, 2017 · Claims about "breatharians," people purportedly living on light alone, do not offer proof that they survive this way. A Californian and Ecuadorian couple proved it is possible to …
Meet the Guy Who Says He Mostly Just Eats Air - VICE
Feb 9, 2021 · Breatharianism is a movement that claims people are able to live on very little food, and that a diet of air and sunlight is enough to sustain the human body. Specially, …
Breatharians: The People Who Think Air Is Food | GQ
Sep 7, 2017 · They call themselves Breatharians, a new-ish kind of spirituality that dubiously believes that the human body can—and should —sustain itself not on food but on air and …
What is breatharianism? Meaning and Origins | Ray Maor Breatharian …
In a detailed overview, Ray Maor explains the four distinct levels of breatharianism, ranging from those with a mere interest in the practice to those who achieve complete sustenance through …
The Breatharian Diet: Can We Live Without Food?
Jul 8, 2022 · In the most extreme cases, breatharians claim to abstain from food and water altogether. A slightly more level-headed group of breatharian “gurus” encourage small amounts …
35 Facts About Breatharianism
Oct 27, 2024 · Breatharianism is a belief that humans can survive without consuming food or water, relying solely on prana, or life energy. This concept has sparked curiosity and …
What is Breatharianism? - Definition from Yogapedia
Dec 21, 2023 · Breatharianism is the belief that survival without the consumption of food is possible and that prana alone can sustain one’s life. Also called inedia, a Latin word which …
