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Webpages of note about the Breatharian conspiracy:
- http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-58.html - (22 September 1999, Scotland)
- Breatharianism 1999 Darwin Award Nominee Confirmed True by Darwin "Airhead Extends Principle to Abdomen" (22 September 1999, Scotland) A Scottish follower of Breatharianism demonstrated a comprehensive misunderstanding of biology during her recent attempt to "Live with Light" in the Scottish Highlands.
- http://www.rickross.com/reference/breat/breat16.html
- Breatharian couple convicted of killing fasting woman
- The Sunday Mail/AAP, November 21, 1999
- A COUPLE who believe they can live on air alone have been convicted of killing a fasting woman for whom they delayed getting medical aid. Jim Vadim Pesnak, 60, and his wife Eugenia Pesnak, 63, both of Beckwith Street, Ormiston, in bayside Brisbane, had pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of Lani Marcia Roslyn Morris, 53, between June 12 and July 2 last year.
- The jury took only three hours to bring in the manslaughter verdicts. The Pesnaks are followers of the breatharian philosophy and believe humans do not need food to survive and can live on air alone.
- http://www.skepdic.com/inedia.html - inedia (breatharianism)
- Inedia is the alleged ability to live without food. Some inediates become breatharians, like the stigmatic Therese Neumann (1898-1962) of Bavaria, who said “one can live on the Holy Breath alone.” She claims to have done this from 1926-1962, during which time she says she only consumed her daily serving of transubstantiated bread.
- Fasting has long been considered a way to purify one’s body and mind. Fasting reminds us of our dependence and weakness, and links us to those who suffer hunger as part of their daily lives. Inediates strive to be spiritual beings and carry fasting to an inhuman level. If restraint, self-control, and reducing one’s intake of food and water are good, then eliminating all physical nourishment must be better. Spiritual beings don’t need food, water, or sleep. Maybe so, but food, water and sleep are not optional for human beings.
Garnet’s NOTE: This is clearly connected with the Greek idea of dualism that the body and soul are separate, that the soul is good, but the body is bad, and that any kind of body or material pleasure is evil, and especially that the body should be tortured with various discomforts to free up the soul. Unfortunately this idea has infected and majorly screwed up many Christian religions since the first century, and fundamentally denies the goodness of what God originally created. This flies in the face of God’s proclamation after creation:
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. (Genesis 1:31)
Every other time God looked at his handwork each day and claimed “it was good”, but in this case at the end He could truly say “It was very good”… By proclaiming it as good, How showed us that He took pleasure in His creation… When we are condemning parts of God’s creation, we should be careful and meditate on what it meant for his creation, which included us, to be very good... We might look at the autumn and say what a waste it is for trees to shed their beautiful green leaves, look at all those decomposing red leaves, and yet there are creatures and other new life that springs up from the bed of nutrients that “litter” of leaves represents to us… Who are we to question the “waste” of a creation that preceded us?
Some of the saddest people I know are the people who think they’ve done away with sleep, or the need to eat vegetables, or the need for clean air, or various other reasonable needs of the body… To the ancient Greeks it was a mystery of how God could design his character into the fabric of the world and how we are made. As we saw above, one of the attributes of God is taking pleasure. With modern science, we've learned that pleasure is fundamentally wired into every higher animal's nervous system. Biologists have long ago discovered pleasure centers in the brain, and how to activate them with small electrical stimuli. Unknown to the Greeks who frowned on any kind of physical pleasure, (resulting in ascetism and monasteries and self flagellation), we now understand that pleasure centers are fundamental to enabling our survival. In the last 100 years scientists have traced the exact pathways in the brain, the exact chemistry wired into us that connects to the pleasure centers when we are doing the things we need to do to survive as individuals and as species.
For example, did you know that cats actually have their hunting behavior wired into their pleasure centers, so that when a cat does what it is supposed to, which is to hunt and especially chase things, it activates its pleasure center, and the cat feels pleasure every bit as much as we might feel from something we really like? I not only know this from studying everything I can about genetics and how brains are wired, I know it from first hand experience. My Monkey cat gets really excited and high when we play fetch, or I bring a moth into the house for her to chase, and she is so happy that she vocalizes her excitement and pleasure. I’ve found these ways to help her connect with her innate wiring and naturally enjoy what it means to be a cat…
Even the crab in my aquarium appears to get excited when he discovers a piece of food I’ve dropped next to him. Is it possible even in his primitive nervous system that eating is not just getting rid of a feeling of hungry discomfort, but that it actually produces something akin to satisfaction or pleasure…
We can do well to follow these example, to find for ourselves healthy pleasures with no drawbacks... One could say that learning our true balanced place in the universe is the best path to becoming happy… God has wonderful things in store for our futures, but He also gave us a life to live now that has pleasures that are part of what we are to be enjoying in preparation for the greater pleasures to come… Meditate on the perfect creation, accept God as your personal Creator, then ask how you can honor Him by helping to glorify His creation.………
End of soapbox! From God Created Our Pleasure Centers by Garnet ...
- One inediate who has been attracting followers to breatharianism is Australian Ellen Greve, a.k.a. Jasmuheen. According to Greve, a former financial advisor, we can get all the nutrition we need from prana, the universal life force. She is the author of Living on Light: A Source of Nutrition for the New Millennium, a 21-day program that will allow the body to stop aging and attain immortality by living solely on light.
- Greve claims she hasn’t eaten since 1993; yet, she admits “she drinks herbal teas and confesses to the occasional ‘taste orgasm’ involving chocolate or ice cream” (Sunday Times Online UK, Sept. 26, 1999). She also admits “if I feel a bit bored and I want some flavour, then I will have a mouthful of whatever it is I’m wanting the flavour of. So it might be a piece of chocolate or it might be a mouthful of a cheesecake or something like that.”* Several interviewers have found her house full of food, but she claims the food is for her husband, who once went to prison for misappropriating a pension fund. Apparently he hasn’t seen the light and is unable to live on prana yet (Walker and O’Reilly 1999).
- http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/60/stories/1999_10_24/story_57.asp
- She calls herself Jasmuheen and she claims to be able to live on just fresh air.
- Trouble is, many people not only believe her, they try to emulate the fasting regime she preaches.
- This Queensland health guru is now linked to the deaths of three people who read her books then died while trying to enrich their lives by not eating or drinking.
- But with a fortune coming in from a thriving mail order business and lectures round the world, Jasmuheen is not ready to admit any liability.
- The rest of the story is here: http://www.skepticssa.org.au/html/breatharianism.html
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