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I'm seeing the Light, Blog post

Can some people learn to live without eating or drinking? Some seem to think so. There exists a pseudoscientific cult called Breatharianism, whose followers strive to achieve sustenance on light nourishment. As a former foremost promoter of this woo, I intend to offer some rare insight into this seemingly strange ideology, examine its highlights and dangers, all from the skeptical angle.

My past in Breatharianism

How I discovered living on light When I was a teenager I had a life changing experience where eating some meat made me feel very heavy and dizzy. It was life changing because I realized that what I had eaten had caused that, and so I discovered what no one had ever told me - that food can actually affect how we feel. Prior to that, I had lived under the common assumption that all we need to do is to make sure we eat and stay full, what we eat makes no difference and any health problems are entirely unrelated and out of our control. It reminds me and is similar to how a few hundred years ago people did not understand what happened to the food that we eat and knowledge about digestion and metabolism was limited. I felt as if I had made a huge discovery. I begun to read about foods and nutrients and was learning about how certain foods were supposedly harmful to the body and how other food choices would be better. After a lifetime of eating everything I changed to vegetarian, then vegan. Being a vegan was a challenge in itself, I felt as if I was the only thinking person in the world. It is a burden for a young woman to go through. Losing a sort of innocence and becoming conscious, of body and food at least, and more responsible of actions and reactions. It makes the world a very lonely place, being the only vegan in a school of 1500 people. Why would I make this choice and no one else? At the age of 17 I came across a book by Jasmuheen called Living on Light and somehow it all made sense. It was, as if it was what I had been moving towards without having the name or the word for it yet. Now I knew. Everything fell in place.

Yours truly as a 21-year old Breatharian guru. Six years ago, feels like forever

I still today haven't read the entire book, rather, coming across the topic of "living on light" awoke a knowing in myself for what it was. I did not read her instructions, or explanations, I discovered my own.

Breatharianism, or living on light, is the idea that certain people can learn to draw nourishment from alternative, invisible sources, that become sufficient and replace the need for physical food and drink.

My experience with the 21-day process
Jasmuheen's book describes what she calls the 21-day process. She says that years of meditation and guidance from the ascended masters that she supposedly communicates with led her to construct the condensed program that will activate breatharianism in a person. The program is done during 21 days, three weeks. In short, during the first seven 24-hour days the person does not eat or drink anything, not even a drop, nothing. During the second week of seven days the person must drink diluted juices or water. A daily minimum amount to drink is given. During the third week the person drinks diluted juices also but less diluted. That is only the physical aspect. The 21-day process is an intense process for the mental, emotional, spiritual - things which I collectively call the non-physical.

I was 17 when I decided to do the 21-day process. I made it through the first week of no drinking, and when I was on day 8 or 9 and was drinking diluted juices again I happened to walk by a mirror and see myself in the mirror. There was a bright light around me and what I saw looked like an Angel. What I saw was so beautiful that it was unbearable for me to go on living and knowing what I could be and what I had not been in the past and which had been forgotten. I could not bear knowing that we live without it. And so although I was doing great, I forced myself to drink and eat so that my beautiful light would go away, and it did.

I have since still not dared to go back, to discover how beautiful we are.

Does this all sound like nonsense? I bet so, but I will explain everything that I've just said in more detail. But behind those words lies a very beautiful, real and deep spiritual experience of mine. It is more than words.

From my seminar video I think this was in 2004

How I became a Breatharian guru Somehow, living on light made sense to me. When I found it through Jasmuheen's book, it was like I had always known but only forgotten, or as if it was something I had always tried to say but not known the words. As soon as I had come across it I would hold on to it forever and not let go again. Do you feel that way when you hear the words "living on light"? That is all it took for me, and to many of the others who grasp onto this. And as amazed as you probably are that anyone would ever feel so strongly positively about this, I am just as amazed that someone would not. And that is where our roads divide. Some of us walk to the light, and the others remain where they are and left behind. Those that go toward Breatharianism will know it and understand it, those that do not go to it will not understand what it is and will think that it is a nothing and that it does not even exist. And as much as I would love to describe Breatharianism to even someone who does not fall in love with it at first sight, so many elements of it will never come across unless you are in it yourself. I begun writing about my ideas about living on light. I will stop here and not go into detail, because otherwise we would enter into yet another topic of pseudoscience that I am not ready to discuss here. Other people who were involved in Breatharianism loved the way that I described it. Turns out I was a source for rare and new Breatharian teachings, and that I had all the answers.