cool!

PuhLEASE! i remember the "breatharian"who popped into Santa cruz some time ago and was followed and found to be scarfing McDonalds and cokes!

Let the buyer beware!

This is not the first time I've heard of this.
It's sort of at the same faith level as homeopathic. There are those who cry "Show me the proof! Where is the documentation?" And even if you were to provide documentary evidence, they will cry out "This is a shonky operation. It has to be done here in OUR university, under OUR conditions."
I presume that because Dr Desai is an Indian and in India, that would mean that any study within his/her scope would not be valid?
And how long would the observation have to go on before it would be validated to and accepted by the sceptics? One month of incarceration, two? A year or two maybe?
Because incarceration is what we're talking about here isn't it? It is the only way to PROOVE that no food or water was secretly delivered to the fakir.

Prahlad Jani, a sadhu, spent ten days under strict observation by physicians in Ahmedabad, India, in 2003. The study was led by Dr Sudhir Shah, 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. Throughout the observation, he passed no urine or stool, but doctors say urine appeared to form in the bladder, only to be reabsorbed.[30] However, despite Jani's claim to have gone without food for decades, 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.[30] The Indian Rationalist Association labels him a "village fraud".[31]

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.

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an opposing view ..

Gullibility of the week award

"Duncan Gill referred us to an article in The Australian about a man in India who claims he hasn't eaten or taken a drink in 68 years, a veritable inediate. Prahlad Jani also claims he hasn't gone to the bathroom in all those years. The story claims that Mr. Jani (whose name means Lying Through My Holy Palate) was put under round-the-clock surveillance at a hospital. Neurologist Sudhir Shah (whose name means I Am Too Smart to Be Fooled) said Jani was under watch for 10 days with a closed-circuit camera running and they didn't see him eat or drink anything or go to the bathroom. The story was sent to The Australian by "correspondents in Ahmedabad, India" Ahmedabad means City of the Credulous and is the commercial capital of the western state of Gujarat (which means Gotcha!). When The Australian was contacted and asked if they had verified their sources' claims, they replied: "No. Why do you ask? It could be true, you know." Skeptics accuse Jani of surreptitiously sucking in prana through his nose ring.

The award must be shared with the BBC, CNN, Der Spiegel, China Daily, and the Hindustan Times. All report that Jani says he survives without food or water because of a hole in his palate and that his followers call him "mataji" or goddess. He also says he has lived in caves since he was eight, so how he attracted a following is not known, nor is it clear how a man who lives in caves and doesn't eat grew in size from a child to an adult as if he were an eater."

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Celestine may get a synchro kick out of this subject since it is what we have been talking about the last few days and I have been re-researching it myself.

Longest I have gone without solid food whilst physical is two weeks.. that was a 'master cleanse' and is well documented.. its not even much of a challenge if you choose to do it completely rather than half heartedly..

As for eating and drinking nothing at all, I'm pretty certain it is possible...

the core of this is twofold as I understand it..

1. choosing to no longer be a 'creature of habit' is very revealing. In breaking a habit that was thought to be essential the mind wakes up that much more to the nature of reality and what is possible (i.e. pretty much everything!).
"Ohhh, flying is impossible"... "oh look, a plane!"
"Ohhh, space travel is impossibke"... "oh look, a shuttle"
"ETs aren't real!"... "Oh look, a lightship!"
"oohhh, not eating for weeks is impossible".. "oh look, I just didn't eat for weeks!"

the choice to perceive impossibility is also a habit, just as much as eating.

2. The fundamental key to such transformation lies in the reference point of who you are. If your reference point of who you are says something like "I am a human being made of meat and bone who needs to consume matter to live" then that is what you will experience.
If your reference point says "I am manifesting experience both from and AS the source of all manifestation" then illussiory limits dissolve and the truth is understood.

I recently watched a video which was highly amusing (I think from the early 1990s) whereby an Australian reporter attempted to debunk the quite famous Australian lady breatharian called Jasmuheen: video.google.com/videoplay

The tone of the reporter is unusual compared to what is usually encountered even in the so called 'controlled press' (it is not controlled in the way people often perceive, it is simply that the PERCEPTION is highly limited and people get aggressive and highly biased for various reasons, which are not 'wrong'; it is right that we have unique perspectives.

In this video the lady comes across as being a fraud and quite insane.. choosing to continue the experiment even though appearing ill and the doctor says she will die!

On the surface this may seem cut and dry. "oh she says she can do it and clearly here she did not, she must be a scammer".
However, having spent the last 10 years or so exploring these type of phenomena (essentially reality creation) I can say confidently that the outcome of any one 'experiment' is dependant on far more than is often given credit for.. the TOTAL state of consciousness is paramount and even being surrounded by lots of people who expect failure can influence greatly the outcome.. If the individual does not, for example, wish to 'compete', 'challlenge', 'battle' etc. in their soul then this may translate to the will of other individuals pervading when there is no need.. And this serves a purpose too.

In the video you may also notice how she is mentally evasive and uncertain.. This is uncertainty within herself about what is going on... It is one thing to not eat, it is another to understand the vasntess of how this is possible when we look around and see virtually no-one else even believes this is possible. In a sense it is not disimilar to a person who is sent to a mental hospital becoming more and more unstable because they are surrounded by other people who are unstable and constantly reinforced by medical staff who expect and project 'unstable' at all times... "I don't feel that crazy but everyone else seems to be and that is the agenda I experience each day, so I guess I am" .. (*this thought in itself may lead to dis-ease if believed*).

Here are a couple of other videos I watched after watching that initial one:

video.google.com/videoplay

www.youtube.com/watch


The reality is that 'you are what you eat' is true BEFORE you eat 'it'.. thus there is not a need to eat. ;)

www.youtube.com/watch

Video on the original yogi