Man lives for 11 years nourished only by looking at the sun

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Theb

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Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
These things are SO easy to prove or disprove, and yet no one does it...

A reporter kept a Jasmuheen isolated and she started to starve. clip
but she's a breatharian so maybe there's more sustenance in staring at the sun.
Someone should isolate a breatharian and one of these sun starers away from food somewhere and see which one dies first.
 

Kadarin

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Originally posted by: TheGizmo
yea i dont know about this one...... a while back, i had heard another similar story... except that instead of the sun, the guy claims to make a hole in the ground and stand in it, staying that he receives all his nourishment from the ground the same way that plants do....


teach me and i'll believe... til then i call shens too

This guy?
 

Theb

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Originally posted by: sygyzy
Originally posted by: Theb
Hira Ratan Manek claims that since 1995 he has lived many days solely on sunlight and water.

Sun gazing is the practice of staring directly at the sun to receive ?nourishment? from it.

The practice is controversial since some believe that looking directly at the sun for even brief periods of time may cause blindness or severe damage to the eye. Most eye care professionals advise against looking directly at the sun.

?Sun gazing is a relaxed look at the sun just as we see sunrise and sunset,? Manek said. ?It gives all benefits for health. Those who practice sun gazing get total health of mind, body and spirit without any cost ? but only at safe times of the sun.?

Sun gazing is often practiced with the bare feet in direct contact with bare earth. Some sun gazers only sun gaze during the so-called safe hours, one half hour after sunrise and one half hour before sunset, while others feel that sun gazing can be done at other times of the day.

Manek, 69, from Bodhavad, India, has studied sun gazing for several years and claims that since June 1995 he has lived only on sun energy and water. Occasionally for hospitality and social purposes he drinks tea, coffee and buttermilk.

According to Manek and other proponents, sun gazing was practiced by a number of cultures including the ancient Egyptians, Aztecs, Mayans and Native American tribes as well as practitioners of Indian and Tibetan Yoga.

When asked how depriving the body of food would lead to adverse effects, Manek said the human body requires energy and that the sun is capable of providing the body with all the energy it needs to function.

?What we traditionally eat is nothing but a secondary source of sun energy,? he said. ?But the body has a mechanism to receive energy directly from the sun and store it to use as it requires.?

Some positive results reported by sun gazers are increased energy level and decreased appetite.

Pravda.ru has recently published an article about another case of so called ?sun eating?.

Nikolai Dolgoruky calls himself a ?sun eater.? He lives in the Dnepr region of Ukraine. He feeds only on prana and solar energy.
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1. stfu
2. I'd like to observe him staring directly into the sun for a few days and then give him a vision test
3. I suspect there aren't enough biology and anatomy teachers in India


1. Why don't you stop posting tabloid news and STFU yourself?


You hurt my heart. Now I'm going to cut myself and start frequenting myspace.
 

yllus

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Pravda has also, at least twice by my count, posted about nutty Russian scientists who've figured out a way to create unlimited sources of energy.

I'm sure the oil companies buried it.
 
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SlitheryDee

I've lived off of beer and the radiance coming from my computer monitor since before I can remember (which isn't very long incidentally). Buttermilk, tea, and sunlight is a cakewalk by comparison.