Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00044)

Steve, you are right. It is not able for the common people.Of course 
not.That's why I wrote Yogi, the ones that are near or in Tathagatha.
Gr Christina










--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "stevestubbs" <stevestubbs@y...> 
wrote:
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "christinaleestemaker" 
> <christinaleestemaker@y...> wrote:
> > I know there are Yogi in the mountains it looks like they are 
> death, 
> > but they are not.They are still living from the ether only.
> 
> Does anyone know anything about this? There was a fellow who used 
to 
> tour this country teaching what he called "breatharianism" who was 
> ratted out by a fellow claiming to be his "cook." It was not clear 
> why someone who lived entirely on light, with no need for food or 
> water, needed a "cook," so some people got suspicious. Then there 
> was a story that he had been seen in a 7-11 store after one of his 
> lectures buying burritos and junk food and that he had left his 
hotel 
> room filled with discarded wrappers. This time it was the hotel 
> staff which had to clean up after him who ratted him out. Someone 
> seem to have bneen eating in that room. One of his disciples in 
> Pennsylvania starved to death and left a diary indicating that he 
> alternated between fasting and John Candy like pigout sessions. It 
> should be said that violently pigging out after fasting is 
dangerous 
> in itself and is common among people who claim to "live on light."
> 
> There is also a lady in Australia who claims to have lived on light 
> for years and to have a 21 day program for waning yourself from 
food 
> or water. One of her pupils died while implementing the program, 
> She did a seminar in this country and someone sold video tapes of 
> it "as is" (no returns allowed.) When I got the tapes I found out 
> why. You could see a blond talking behind a lectern but the sound 
> was so bad all I could hear was machine noise, a sort of growling 
> sound of unknown origin. It was like watching an Andy Warhol 
movir. 
> She claims to have eaten nothing for years but she looked well fed 
to 
> me. I have no idea whether her claims are true or not, but decided 
> it was too dangerous to attempt her 21 day program lest I end up 
like 
> the others who tried it and starved to death. Anyway, the object 
of 
> the exercise, assuming this is all on the level, is physical 
> immortality. If you stop eating you stop the netabolic provess, 
and 
> if you stop the metabolic progrss you stop the aging process, You 
> have to know HOW, though, mere fasting is not all there is to it.
> 
> Whether a yogi could live entirely on light or not is questionable 
> (assuming anyone can, which is also questionable). I found out 
> sitting in a monastery you can easily lose a lot of weight eating 
> three hearty meals a day just sitting and meditating. The brain 
> burns idiotic quantities of energy during intense mental exertion. 
> It is not necessary to be Jack Lalane or even to get up, except for 
> walking meditation.