Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00091)

Ha, ha... What are you on these days? I used to think I levitated in the 
60's when I was on homegrown hash brownies (and deep into Egyptian and Tibetan 
mysticism). Drunks used to come over to me and say they saw me doing it (at 
one of those kind of parties). But, I never saw anyone else do it. (Even after 
I showed them how.:-) In those days, I never remembered eating either 
(besides the brownies) although I seemed to be in robust health. I once tried to 
stop breathing for a few days, but I can't remember if I was successful, since I 
slept through most of it. I even talked to a guy with a long black beard and 
saffron robe who showed up one night at one of those parties and, said his 
name was Master Morya. I think it was in Andy Warhol's loft (or maybe at one of 
the all night swim pool parties on the roof of my apartment house). He told 
me he was a reincarnation of Akhnaton, and that I was once his brother (or was 
it cousin) Moses. But, later, when I asked where he had gone (after 
levitating with me and disappearing in a puff of smoke) none of the awake people 
remembered he was even there. When I spoke about it with Joe Namath, who I bumped 
into the next day in the elevator, he said, yeah, he remembered, "Lenny Morya 
was there, but he was asleep most of the time." He didn't recognize me, 
though. I wondered why, since we parked our cars next to Sammy Davis' Rolls Royce in 
the building garage where we lived. Maybe he thought I was Sammy -- since we 
were both of Hebrew descent (isn't almost everybody in New York?:-) -- and 
Sam did look a bit like my grandfather. (Or, perhaps, the brownie effect hadn't 
worn off Joe yet.:-) BTW, all that happened just about the time I wandered 
into the ULT lodge which was just around the corner (although I passed by it 
for a couple of years and never noticed it). After that, I gave up brownies, 
and started eating regular food. Do you think I'd be a credible witness if I 
happened to be at one of HPB's parties when she was part of that same sort of 
uptown New York scene? (I heard she liked brownies, too, but also gave it up 
after she founded the TS.) </:-)>

In a message dated 01/05/04 4:39:13 PM, stevestubbs@yahoo.com writes:

>--- 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.