<input type&equals;"hidden" value&equals;"" data-essbisPostContainer&equals;"" data-essbisPostUrl&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;yodoozy&period;com&sol;do-breatharians-really-survive-on-air&sol;" data-essbisPostTitle&equals;"Do Breatharians Really Survive On Air&quest;" data-essbisHoverContainer&equals;"">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">Wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t you want to offer the great solution for world hunger if you had it&quest; The Breatharians claim to have the solution to this global problem&comma; as well as other food-related diseases&colon; quit eating&period; Or&comma; more accurately&comma; live off &&num;8216&semi;prana&&num;8217&semi;&comma; a Sanskrit word that translates to &&num;8216&semi;life air&&num;8217&semi; or &&num;8216&semi;life force&&num;8217&semi;&period; Prana is a notion that exists in many different traditions&period; This sustaining life energy is known differently in China&comma; Japan&comma; and Polynesia&semi; accounting for local translation &amp&semi; adoption&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image"><figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;yodoozy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;10&sol;pexels-cottonbro-6739695-1024x683&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Do Breatharians Really Survive On Air&quest;" class&equals;"wp-image-34334" width&equals;"800"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Who started Breatharianism&quest;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">Breatharians are a cult which believes that a person may live entirely on prana without eating or drinking&comma; which they refer to as &&num;8220&semi;living on light&&num;8221&semi; or &&num;8220&semi;living on air&period;&&num;8221&semi; Jasmuheen&comma; originally Ellen Greve from Australia&comma; is credited with inventing the potentially deadly pseudo-scientific practice known as the Breatharian movement&period; She adopted the ancient Indian vocabulary in her self created pseudo-scientific curriculum for attaching authenticity&comma; and called it the &&num;8216&semi;Prana Program&&num;8217&semi;&comma; urging people to progressively transition to Breatharianism&colon; Become a vegetarian&semi; then a vegan&semi; then transition to raw foods&comma; fruits&comma; liquids&comma; and eventually prana&period; You substitute air and light for physical food&comma; as well as spiritual nutrition&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class&equals;"wp-block-embed&lowbar;&lowbar;wrapper">&NewLine;<amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"1160" height&equals;"653" data-videoid&equals;"PrxUjqEdcCY" title&equals;"Jasmuheen - The Benefits of Source Feeding - Introduction to the Pranic Festival Italy"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;PrxUjqEdcCY"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;PrxUjqEdcCY&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Jasmuheen - The Benefits of Source Feeding - Introduction to the Pranic Festival Italy"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading"><meta charset&equals;"utf-8">What do Breatharians believe&quest;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">In the most severe circumstances&comma; breatharians claim to refrain entirely from food and water&period; A somewhat more rational set of breatharian &&num;8220&semi;gurus&&num;8221&semi; advocates for tiny quantities of food throughout the week&comma; such as a piece of fruit or some broth&period; To enhance their receptivity to receiving prana from the air around them&comma; adherents are urged to practice meditation&comma; yoga&comma; and breathing exercises&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">Most Breatharian gurus advocate a two to three week &&num;8220&semi;tapering down&&num;8221&semi; phase during which devotees are led through the shift from eating using the methods described above&period; Though breatharianism has existed in some form or another for as long as 400 years&comma; the contemporary rebirth was driven by a group of self-professed breatharians&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">According to the stories&comma; Akahi Ricardo and Camila Castello refer to themselves as &&num;8220&semi;breatharians&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and claim to subsist on &&num;8220&semi;universal energy&&num;8221&semi; as well as bits of fruit and vegetable soup taken 2-3 times each week&period; This is not the first time this assertion has been made&period; A Wikipedia entry on the practice arguably best summarizes it by emphasizing that&comma; despite the fact that living beings require food to exist&comma; breatharianism persists&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Is Breatharianism an ancient spiritual practice&quest;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">This form of new-age pseudo-spirituality arose from a commercial interpretation of holy Hindu writings &lpar;the Vedas&rpar; by the Australian Businesswoman Ellen&comma; in which certain saints and a hermit named Mandakarni subsisted solely on air and solar rays&comma; a practice known as &&num;8216&semi;inedia&&num;8217&semi;&period; While we appreciate the Hindu belief system&comma; the way individuals have literally interpreted and commercialized this notion is a logical and ethical deviation from the Hindu canon that no reasonable person can accept&comma; especially when followers have died&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">Jasmuheen claims she has gone years without eating&comma; however she confesses to taking mouthfuls of food for flavor every now and again&period; Breatharianism&comma; on the other hand&comma; has claimed the lives of some of its adherents&period; Verity Linn&comma; 49&comma; was discovered dead in a rural area of Scotland after attempting the Breatharian conversion&period; Timo Degen&comma; a kindergarten teacher&comma; attempted the Breatharian method and fell into a coma&period; After four weeks of IV drips&comma; Degen healed only to pass away a short time later&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">As it appears&comma; these alternate cult practices may make up for a fascinating read&comma; but they should never be tried or experimented with unless under advice from an authentic medical professional&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>If you liked reading about this&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;d also love to read about <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;yodoozy&period;com&sol;ear-seeds-the-latest-fashion-trend-you-need-to-learn-more-about&sol;&quest;v&equals;a98eef2a3105" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">Ear Seeds<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;