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<\/p>\nBreathariansim refers to the practice of sustaining oneself without the need for food. This concept is not new; in fact, for thousands of years, various cultures around the world have written of this ability.<\/p>\n
In the third book of the\u00a0Yoga Sutras<\/b>, for example, approximately twenty-five siddhis are listed as having extraordinary abilities.<\/p>\n
This is a common theme throughout Buddhism, and various other spiritual traditions as well. Clairvoyance, psychokinesis, and many more are all special traits attributed to the siddhis, as is the liberation from hunger and thirst.<\/p>\n
Though modern day science has seen evidence of extended human capacities like telepathy, remote viewing, and pre-cognition, very little work has gone into examining breatharianism. Some brilliant minds do believe it\u2019s possible, however, including\u00a0Nikola Tesla<\/b>.
\nIn 1901, he made the following argument:<\/p>\n
\u201cMy idea is that the development of life must lead to forms of existence that will be possible without nourishment and which will not be shackled by consequent limitations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy should a living being not be able to obtain all the energy it needs for the performance of its life functions from the environment, instead of through consumption of food, and transforming, by a complicated process, the energy of chemical combinations into life-sustaining energy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Liberation from food and hunger does indeed sound unrealistic and, from what we know of modern day biology, impossible.<\/p>\n
But the history of science has shown us many times that the impossible can become the possible in an instant. A great example of this is the recent discovery that\u00a0humans can actually influence\u00a0their autonomic immune system using the power of the mind.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s take a look at what happened when people who claimed that they don\u2019t eat were examined by science.<\/p>\n
Breatharianism<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Qigong<\/b>\u00a0practice of Bigu, and Qigong practices examined by science have yielded some extraordinary results.<\/p>\n
A study published in the American Journal of Chinese Medicine, as seen in the the US National Library of Medicine, demonstrated that a woman with special abilities was and is able to accelerate the germination of specific seeds for the purposes of developing a more robust seed stock<\/a>.<\/p>\n