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Living on Light - The Source of Nourishment for the New Millennium

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When the Australian television programme 60 Minutes challenged her to demonstrate how she can live without food and water, the supervising medical professional Dr Beres Wenck found that after just 48 hours, Greve displayed the physical symptoms of acute dehydration, stress and high blood pressure. Greve claimed that this was a result of 'polluted air'. On day 3, Greve was moved to a mountainside retreat about 15 miles from the city, where she was filmed enjoying the fresh air she said she could now live on happily. However, as the filming progressed, her speech slowed, her pupils dilated and she lost over a stone (6 kg) in weight. After 4 days Greve acknowledged that she had lost weight but stated that she felt fine, despite Dr. Wenck telling her, "You are now quite dehydrated, probably over 10%, getting up to 11%". The doctor also announced, "Her pulse is about double what it was when she started. The risks if she goes any further are kidney failure."[1]

Greve's condition did not thereby improve in the opinion of the medical professionals involved, despite her insistence to the contrary, and they decided that continuing the experiment would be highly dangerous and ultimately fatal. The film crew subsequently concurred with Dr. Wenck's opinions and ceased the experiment, claiming that she was deluded. Greve has since stated on her website that the program's presenter Richard Carleton, together with Dr. Wenck and the program's producers, conspired to discredit her with fabricated evidence.

She is quoted by the Correx Archives as saying, regarding how much she eats:[2]

Generally not much at all. Maybe a few cups of tea and a glass of water, but now and then if I feel a bit bored and I want some flavour, then I will have a mouthful of whatever it is I'm wanting the flavour of. So it might be a piece of chocolate or it might be a mouthful of a cheesecake or something like that.

When given her brief moments of media attention, Greve has stated that she has lived on approximately 300 calories per day for the last twelve years, maintaining full health through supplementing a fluid intake with 'cosmic particles' or micro-food, for which she has appropriated the word prana. Greve has also - confusingly - stated that she has not yet mastered the ability to be fluid-free for more than short periods.

She was awarded the Bent Spoon Award by Australian Skeptics in 2000 ("presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle").[3] She was also awarded the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for her book Pranic Nourishment -- Living on Light, "which explains that although some people do eat food, they don't ever really need to."[4]

Greve states that her beliefs are based on the writings and "more recent channelled material" of the Count of St Germain.[5] She claims that her DNA has expanded from 2 to 12 strands, to "absorb more hydrogen". The extra strands of DNA have not, of course, been demonstrated, and in fact when offered $30,000 to prove her claim with a blood test, she stated that "you cannot view spiritual energy under a microscope." She claims that such a challenge is a deliberate attack on her beliefs, and refuses to act as an example of her claimed paranormal attributes.[2]

1^ "Fresh-air dietician fails TV show's challenge", Yahoo News, October 25, 1999. Retrieved on 2006-12-09.
2^ a b Willis, Paul. "Jasmuheen - Can people live on nothing but air?", Interview with Jasmuheen (transcript), Correx Archives, 1997. Retrieved on 2006-12-09.
3^ Barry Williams (2000). Bent Spoon Winner 2000 - Jasmuheen. Bent Spoon winners. Australian Skeptics. Retrieved on 2006-12-10.
4^ The 2000 Ig Nobel Prize Winners[1]


You people that believe in this crap are idiots. Common sense should have told you this was ridiculous.

I am not trying to belittle any of the followers of the author but I just have a hard time believing in this notion when it's constantly contradicted. For instance the author makes a bold statement that she has gone years without food and then in the next few chapters indicates she has tea and crackers. I don't know about anyone else but the statement without food means just that WITHOUT FOOD. Not some food sometime. Nothing wrong with the ideas but it's not grounded enough in reality. What would have been better is more a fundamental approach to how it's actually done.

I was given this book as a gift by a more nutty member of my family, and after carefully browsing through it, I have only this to say: if you waste good money on this utter sillines for any other reason than laughs or using it as research material on the more stupid health fads, you have only yourself to blame. Btw, following it's ideas can make you a candidate for a Darwin Award....

You have GOT to be kidding me! As a Board-Certified physician liscensed in five states I HIGHLY discourage what amounts to a 21-day fast; if you are strong enough to withstand 7 days without any water (most human beings are NOT; six days is usually fatal) the subsequent fast is highly likely to finish the job. I strongly discourage anyone from adopting such suicidal behavior.

With this simple book you can learn to
1. Get rid of your addiction to food
2. Get rid of your addiction to water
3. eventually get rid of you addiction to breathing
4. get rid of your addiction to being a sentient being and just become one with the earth, literally
5. end your own guilibilty. PERMENTLY
6. line this womans' pockets and a coffin at the same time.

The book is excellent and the author in person is better still. The only human being that I have seen that positively glows. The information presented is controversial because it touches on one of humans basic unquestioned requirements: Food. But if one reads between the lines , this is not a book about food at all. It is a highly evolved spiritual text that explores the infinite possibilities of being a divine being having a human experience. It is not a book about the rejection of the physical plane but about the sublimation of it. For who wants to follow the "living on light" path, there are clear and precise guidelines, that must be followed as instructed. Three deaths have been reported following this method and on enquiry it has been noted that in all instances the guidelines had not been followed. It is a process and not for all and not to implement over night. Better suited to people that have been on the path for awhile and already on an "aware" diet.

I believe this book is for the completely lost and wandering souls that need some desperate attempt for guidance. If the author is so spiritually aware, then why does she bleach her hair? Think about it.

I absolutely love this book! Not only does it provide comic relief for those of us who are intelligent enough to know better, but it rids the world of people who are too dumb to know better.

As a spiritual seeker for many years, I found this book brilliant and totally unique.It lays out the facts for all to see.Jasmuheen explains not only who we really are and what we can achieve; but also practical steps for getting there.It is inevitable that there will be those with closed minds who will not understand the process at all, but these will not be drawn to a ground breaking book like this.Read it, and know why we are here!

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