A Sri Lankan man claims he has survived without food for the last five years.
Although experts believe humans can only live for two months without a meal, Kirby de Lanerolle insists he has only needed fresh air as nourishment.
The breatharian also claims his lifestyle - which he says harnesses light, wind and the 'vibrations of God' - can reverse the ageing process and make him immortal.
'Calories come from photons and light and vibrations and wind. Anything can feed you if your energy centres are open.'
He admits to having eaten seven 500-calorie meals over the last ten months, but claims they made him feel ill.
He said: 'In this consciousness, when I do eat food, it makes me feel very tired. And my alertness goes away when I eat now.'
VITAL LIFE FORCE OR DANGEROUS PSEUDOSCIENCE?
Breatharians believe food and possibly water are not needed to sustain life.
Instead, all that's required is prana, a vital life force in Hinduism also known as 'living off light'.
Jasmuheen, formerly Ellen Greve, is credited with starting the Breatharian movement.
She advises followers to convert gradually, first becoming a vegetarian, a vegan, moving to raw foods, fruits, then liquids and finally prana.
However, many in the scientific community believe it is a dangerous pseudoscience that has caused many people to starve to death.
Instead, all that's required is prana, a vital life force in Hinduism also known as 'living off light'.
Jasmuheen, formerly Ellen Greve, is credited with starting the Breatharian movement.
She advises followers to convert gradually, first becoming a vegetarian, a vegan, moving to raw foods, fruits, then liquids and finally prana.
However, many in the scientific community believe it is a dangerous pseudoscience that has caused many people to starve to death.
But he has gone on to become a Gold medalist at the Junior National Level Championship for Rifle Shooting in 1995, winner of several boxing medals, Executive Advisor to the Ministry of Social Services in Sri Lanka and a successful entrepreneur.
He is also believed to be the only person known to have completed a marathon having only consumed water for three months.
He claims he owes his dramatic turnaround in fortunes to the breatharian lifestyle.
Around five years ago, he read about people who didn't eat for up to six years and didn't drink water for 40 days and 40 nights.
He was also convinced by the writings of a guru who said that cancer, diabetes and heart disease are caused by food.
He now wants to teach others to be breatharians, but experts are worried about his claims because some people have died trying adopt the lifestyle.
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Your article and also the news paper THE SUN and the DAILY MAIL uk has got it wrong. The man Kirby never claims in the documentary that he hasn’t eaten for 5 years. He clearly says that he has eaten 7 time in 10 months. We need to get our facts right before publishing something. The “Significantly Plumper” photo, as you have captioned it is taken from a TV interview aired on the01st Of January 2012 called “Good Morning Sri Lanka”. he actually says on the Nat Geo Documentry that he has reduced food consumption during the past five years. Here is the link to the Nat Geo Documentary http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/taboo/videos/breatharian/
ReplyDeleteThis is unbelievable how can be without eating food, is immortality possible for mankind?
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