Breatharianism Articles
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org,
please feel free to visit the school website)
Introduction
Breatharianism In Recorded History
Modern Day Breatharianism
Jasmuheen's 21 Day Process
My Experience With Breatharianism
Techniques To Increase Our Body's Ability To Access Prana
Sources Of Prana
Fed By Love
Addicted To Food
A Global Perspective
Concerns Regarding Breatharianism and Breatharians
Who, What, Where, When And How
Bibliography
Written by Teri Callaghan, MS, MFT
Introduction
Breatharianism: Fed by Light
"The more you depend on forces outside yourself,
the more you are dominated by them."
—Harold Sherman
"Behind every mystery, there is a science waiting to be discovered."
—Rave Mehta
How do you determine your truth? Does someone else tell you what your truth is? Do you make your truth up? Do you try your truth on, live it and then decide? Is truth absolute? Are you afraid of the truth? Is truth relative? Does truth evolve, expand and change courses? Was the world really flat until we decided it was round? Did the low fat diets of the 90’s really make us fatter? Are our bodies affected more by what we eat or by what we think about what we eat, or even more by what we feel about what we eat? Do we live because we eat food or do we live in spite of the fact that we eat food?
Throughout the process of our traditional training we have been taught that we require intermediaries to truth. It is implied in the places where we are taught that we are not strong enough, smart enough or worthy enough to go directly to the Source of Knowledge. We must rely on parents, priests, politicians, professors and purveyors of traditional medicine to access the truth that we need. Then they deliver it to us after it has been dumbed down so that we can understand it. The consistent is that God, our health and every other basic manner of living and taking care of ourselves is somehow too far over our heads for us to be able to comprehend. Left on our own we would not be capable of understanding. On our own, we would perish. Later in life we also learn that when we think for ourselves we might be ostracized, the adult version of the childhood fear of perishing.
Of course, the truth is that we are absolutely capable of understanding all this and much, much more. As the Master Jesus taught, “These things I do you will do, and greater things than these will you do.” (John 14:12)
Somewhere along the path of our evolution it was decided that humanity would be more easily controlled if the truth of our Divine Nature was hidden from us. We were taught the opposite of our souls. We were taught that we were unworthy, that we had to strive our whole lives to follow rules of impeccability that the makers of the rules don’t themselves have to follow. We were taught that we would probably fail, but that we needed to strive anyway. For these efforts, sacrifices and sufferings we might be rewarded in another life. Maybe.
We were taught that we have to eat food or we will die, that “everybody needs milk.” Food is offered as a reward, a way to show love and a sign of success. Food is a party, a date, a business transaction, a way to compete. We must eat everything on our plates or we are wasteful and ungrateful. We were taught that to hunger is to suffer.
I am not saying that the things that we were taught are not true. I am suggesting that the things that we were taught are not absolute, Universal truth. Under some circumstances, not eating food does lead to death. In other circumstances not eating food leads to a fuller, richer way of living. Sometimes when we are hungry we suffer. Sometimes being with our hunger is a path to the Divine. Maybe these truisms were truer in the Piscean Age of Duality that we are currently leaving, and less true in the Aquarian Age of Oneness that we are now beginning.
This is a course about the philosophy and practice of breatharianism as one of many paths that can lead to increased physical mastery and spiritual enlightenment. It is not intended to be an instructional manual to teach how to change to a breatharian lifestyle. Anyone who may be interested in this path would require research and preparation far beyond the scope of this course. The information presented here is intended to answer basic questions on the topic and to provide possibilities for very initial preparatory thoughts, experiences and practices in the philosophy.
According to Jasmuheen in her book Living On Light (1998), “Breatharianism has been around since the dawn of time. The Akashic records reveal that there was a time where all beings were sustained from the pranic forces. Breatharianism is the ability to absorb all the nutrients, vitamins and nourishment one requires, to maintain a healthy physical vehicle from the universal life force or chi energy. A being who practices this does not need to eat food. In order to be a breatharian one must be a tuned instrument who practices mind mastery?that is conscious reprogramming of cellular memory for the elimination of any limiting and non-honoring beliefs.”
Wiley Brooks says on his website “A breatharian is a person who is in alignment with the philosophy of Breatharianism, just as a Catholic is a person who is in alignment with Catholicism and a Mormon is a person who is in alignment with Mormonism. Whether a breatharian eats food or not is a choice, not a demand.” He also says, “Breatharianism is spirituality. They are one and the same. The very essence of remembering yourself as a Breatharian goes hand in hand with the realization that we are Spiritual Beings sustained by the Breath of Life and that we are all one big family. Breatharianism is just one of the many processes or tools that can be used to aid anyone traveling on the road to Self and God realization.”
In this course you will learn about people who have in the past and still do in the present sustain their physical bodies by accessing prana as their nutritional source. Prana is the universal life force and it is known by many names. It can be called chi, cosmic life energy, liquid light, or the love of God. Another way to describe breatharianism is to say a person is “living on light” or practicing “pranic nourishment.”
As you study this phenomenon it is initially important to distinguish the practice of breatharianism from the practice of fasting. The term “fasting” refers to the practice of going without food for certain set, finite times, in order for the body to rest and cleanse and facilitate a healing process. When a person practices breatharianism one is not going without food, one is being fed by another source. The person is receiving nutrition from a higher source and frequency. Living on light, then, is not a path of self-denial or ascetism. It is a path of richness and fullness of life, sensation and experience.
The information in this course will be based on the work of several well-known people who have blazed the trail in this field and also my own personal experimentation and experience with these practices. In my definition, truth is not absolute. Truth is ever evolving and unfolding. I will be presenting what is most currently available in the research and thinking. As stated in the quote above, “Behind every mystery there is a science waiting to be discovered.” Perhaps you will be someone who will discover another piece of the wisdom and truth contained in these practices, and that discovery will bring breatharianism to a whole new level of understanding and accessibility. We are all here to share our particular piece of the pie, so that we can see what a magnificent whole is being created. That’s how this current new energy of Oneness works.