[greenbunny]

I for one do not say that it is impossible - I actually believe that it is possible even if just based on E=Mc2. I aspire to it. What I do not condone are simplistic non-logical statements unverified by others that could cause serious harm to followers if naively believed and acted on without prudence. If your body no longer needs food because of your evolution, why would you have to starve it slowly over time? Wouldn't the desire for food wane slowly or abruptly (as some have said it has) without the loss of weight or the needs for force? Wouldn't your energy levels stay the same or increase? Wouldn't this be easily verified by putting someone under surveillance 100% of the time for a period as short as 3 - 4 months? Just because one doesn ??t need food it does not stand to logic that one would necessarily not need water, but it does make one question why if one can go without food one couldn ??t just as easily go without water.

There is only one case that I have read of with a man (Prahlad Jani ?? an Indian - a Sufi fakir) that has been watched closely that survived without water and food for 10 days that made for physiological proof as humans are not supposed to be able to survive 10 days without water. It was the only case I have ever read of that had any validity to it but still his weight did drop during the 10 days even though he claims to have gone without food decades. It would be fabulous if that test could be performed a second time (perhaps for a longer period) for verification with different testers. The sungazer guy is a sixty-four-year-old retired Indian mechanical engineer named Hira Ratan Manek. He is a Jain - Jainism is a religion that is quite extremist believing so strongly in ahisma ?? doing no harm to any living being ?? that some Jains won ??t walk around in fear of accidently stepping on an insect and other extremities of caution are taken with food intake in fear of killing bacteria by some Jains. He was watched by Jains and Jain doctors examined him. I can ??t believe that they didn ??t want very much to prove that the ideals of Jainism were possible as they were represented in Manek and hence they were biased. Manek was not watched closely enough in my opinion and moved all around and stayed at people's homes. He lost a lot of weight during the experiment. He also sells CDs and videos and gets the great reward of being regarded as a guru.

There have been many so-called breatharians that when put to the test fail and many that say that they only eat just a little bit of certain items like coffee or candy. How suspicious is that?! Even the interviewee said at the end of her interview, "and do not forget some self-lenience now and then ?? ?? What does that mean exactly? Many breatharians say they will eat just for entertainment or to fit in with others, not because they actually need it. Hogwash says my skeptical mind. That is what the woman who was responsible for the deaths (Jasmuheen) said, but when tested was unable to go without food for any prolonged amount of time. We won ??t even talk about Wiley Brooks who will compassionately charge you only 15 million dollars to teach you how to be a breatharian and eats big macs and cokes to balance his light body. Either he has a very good sense of humor or is insane.

If breatharianism is possible (which I hold my mind open to) my plea is for people not to do anything foolish based upon totally unverified claims. Trying to eat all raw food to see if it does do what you expect and what many people claim to be their experience is a no-brainer in my opinion. It makes so much logical sense and can be tested with no harm to oneself or others. To test out starving yourself slowly to see if you can stop being hungry or can live off of air or the sun ??s rays, or to ask someone else to do this, is irresponsible imho ?? even if it is just an experiment on yourself if you have anyone at all that cares about you. If you truly have evolved into a new order of human, why would you say that anyone can evolve so and expect to be believed and why would you expect to be believed if you do not put yourself under scrutiny and pass simple tests?

Just because we are obviously designed to eat food just like all other mammals does not necessarily preclude the possibility that the next step in human evolution is not possibly the absorption of energy from other sources. I will grant that. Plants do get there energy without eating. We wouldn ??t be the only beings on the planet that didn ??t eat if such a state was our next step in evolution. The issue is, if this has already taken place in some humans, why is it not proven when to prove it would be so easy?

I should mention that James Randy, a skeptic of the paranormal, and his followers, have offiered a one million dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power. A breatharian (I can ??t remember the name at present) made an appeal to be tested. The breatharian and Randy could not come to an agreement as to testing criteria, but really, it came down to the fact that James Randy thought it to be impossible and simply refused to test him.

I will declare right now that when I become a breatharian or pranarian I will set myself up for 4 months in a beautiful secure place and make myself available to be surrounded by skeptics and believers 24 hours a day so that all can verify what I say. It ??s so easy to verify such claims that if anyone claiming to be a breatharian refuses to undergo testing they beg the question, why?

Now, there might be some quiet breatharians out there that do not want the lime-light, that want to be left in peace and are not claiming that anyone else can do this, that aren ??t selling anything, or causing anyone any harm or disquiet. This might well be, but we can ??t know that. All we can go by as to whether this can really be achieved is the open claims of such people as this interviewee. She might very well be a breatharian. What I am saying is that I have absolutely no reason what-so-ever to believe her claims unless she undergoes scrutiny by skeptics. What makes me believe that it is even less likely that she is actually evolved to another form of human, is that she says that such evolution can be achieved by ANYONE by starving themselves slowly. Shame on her. There are many gullible people out there and to say such things in a public forum is in my opinion reprehensible.

Greenbunny