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sun staring
    #5816797 - 07/03/06 05:21 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Did you hear about it? What do you think about that?

Well for those who haven't heard about it. There is a special sort of Yoga that teaches how sun is the source of life and how you can survive vitually for ever without food or anything else, exept for staring into the sun, directly recieving energy through your eyes.

There is some kind of a Yogi who demonstrated before a "commision" of westerners a revival of a bird. The bird was dead, and he focused sun into its eyes with a loupe, the bird woke up, and lived for about an hour before it died again.

Also there was this guy in India who recently lived for 7 years without anything but sun staring into the sun and drinking watter.

There were also some experiments done by western scientists and medical doctors on some volunteer Yogi's who lived more than 200 days under lab conditions without any food or watter, just sun staring.

So much for real world examples..

now some legends..

they say you can live for thousands of years that way, and some say that there are old wise people living in caves in mountains of India and China hundrets of years old, if not thousands

Even Nasa took some of it seriously and considered finding a way to exploit it for food savings on space yourneys.

Doctors still say staring into the sun can make you blind, but
Yogi's say the key is faith. You won't go blind if you have faith.

Makes me kind of remember the words of Jesus when he said how we don't have to worry about anything, that god will take care of us even if we don't do anything that humans do. Perhapse this is what he had in mind, a life without any existential sanctions, just some sun and faith.

Also makes me remember how many religions worshiped the sun.


Interesting.

I've seen it on a documentary on TV, so I don't have any links to post, but I'm sure you'll find a lot on google if you want to read more about sun staring.


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    #5818045 - 07/03/06 10:41 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: sun staring [Re: soulcircus]
    #5818574 - 07/04/06 01:19 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Oh great balls of fire !! My retina's are now partially destroyed because I used to do this exact thing when I was a young stupid kid. Yeap, I blame the ultra violet rays for my visual depletion, though my complexion is mysteriously fair looking. Hmmm, quite interesting, I could have used some of this Yogi sun training before I went and had fun makeing swirling CEV's blotches from burning cone optic-nerve receptors.

Sheesh! Well, I guess I feel somwhat better, larger penial glands you say.. :strokebeard:


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Re: sun staring [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5818797 - 07/04/06 03:45 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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Also there was this guy in India who ...




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Re: sun staring [Re: WIZOLZ]
    #5819303 - 07/04/06 09:52 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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Oh great balls of fire !! My retina's are now partially destroyed because I used to do this exact thing when I was a young stupid kid. Yeap, I blame the ultra violet rays for my visual depletion, though my complexion is mysteriously fair looking. Hmmm, quite interesting, I could have used some of this Yogi sun training before I went and had fun makeing swirling CEV's blotches from burning cone optic-nerve receptors.

Sheesh! Well, I guess I feel somwhat better, larger penial glands you say.. :strokebeard:




Yeah, you probably need a LOT of training to get any benefit from it.  Not something to just try for kicks one afternoon  :wink:


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Re: sun staring [Re: thatiAM]
    #5819794 - 07/04/06 12:23 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Well anyway, if Nasa took it seriously, it must be something

they didn't put a man on the moon for being superstitious.


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Re: sun staring [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5819900 - 07/04/06 12:51 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

you can survive vitually for ever without food or anything else, exept for staring into the sun, directly recieving energy through your eyes.

is this a joke? the human body has no mechanism by which it can turn sunlight into food energy, let alone vitamins (with the exception of vitamin D), minerals, or water. you will go blind by doing this and that is all.

Also there was this guy in India who recently lived for 7 years without anything but sun staring into the sun and drinking watter.

where did you read about this?


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Re: sun staring [Re: wilshire]
    #5820050 - 07/04/06 01:33 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

http://www.irevolution.info/media/E%20Books/Philosophy/HRM%20Sungazing%20Method.pdf

Here's the method summed up. It's very simple and doesn't require any training. The way Manek lays it all out is the most simple and elegant sort of yoga I've ever seen:

Day 1: Gaze at the sun for 10 seconds. Just look at it. No sunglasses. Be well hydrated before and after. You must gaze only during the first and last hour of sunlight when the UV index approaches 0. Chose one or the other, morning may be preferable.
When gazing, stand barefot on bare earth. Sand is best, soil is second best, grass is unacceptable, concrete and cement are ok, but not so great. If you have to, say in winter, it's ok to not go barefoot, or to sungaze from indoors (although Manek did say at one point that the barefootedness helps protect the eyes). You will still have benefits, but at a slower pace.

Day 2: Gaze for 20 seconds

Day 3: Gaze for 30 seconds, and so on, adding 10 seconds each day. If it is cloudy on a certain day, don't add any time that day but gaze, where the sun would be visible were there no clouds, for the same amount of time as the day beofre. Then, on the next sunny day, begin adding 10 seconds again.

At most, you will continue the progressive sungazing for 9 months so at the end, you will be gazing, at most, 44 minutes a day. After this time, you stop gazing and then for one year you walk barefoot on the earth, 45 minutes a day at least. If you complete this process, it is said it is possible to never have to eat again. You glands will have made the conversion, your batteries charged, your windows to the soul opened, whatever. Manek says that after 3 months of gazing, all mental illness disappears, at 6 months, all bodily disease is eradicated and at 9 month, the necessity of food is gone, but only if you want it to be. You can sungaze and still choose to eat. It is very important in this process to cultivate a belief that what you are doing is beneficial, and that you body is being healed. If you complete the 9 months of gazing and one year of walking, you will never have to sungaze again. The amount of sunlight you receive in normal; activites will be enough to keep you topped off so to speak. If you don't complete 9 months, you have to walk for the rest of your life, that is 45 minutes a day on bare earth. I think this clause is not meant as a consequence or as something that you actually have to do. Instead, it's another path of sungazing, or even an incentive the complete the process al the way through.

As for what happens throughout this process, much of it is not divulged because it's meant to be experienced, but it should be highly transformational, even if you still choose to eat food. Simply making a 21 month, daily commitment and sticking with it is something that people these days are too fickle to even consider. That's pretty much the essence of the process. Read the link for more info. Drink lots of water.


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Re: sun staring [Re: Viveka]
    #5820178 - 07/04/06 02:19 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Is there any proof that this works? Why hasn't NASA or the U.S. army adapted these techniques to help their personnel on extended missions? Why isn't it more widely used? Could this be the answer to world hunger? May I suggest that you travel to Africa and help all those poor starving souls who have yet to figure this out? I think there are a lot of them without shoes walking on bare earth and in the sun a lot, it should be a natural 'fit.'


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Re: sun staring [Re: Viveka]
    #5820210 - 07/04/06 02:32 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

just because someone wrote it down doesn't mean it works or that it is true. plants can use light energy to charge ATP because they have chloroplasts and can do photosynthesis. human beings cannot. there is no way for the biological processes of a human being to generate ATP from sunlight. even plants cannot live on sunlight alone, as it provides only food energy, but must also obtain water and minerals nutrition from the soil.

energy budget aside, here is a question:

a human being actively transpires large amounts of water through the skin, mucous membranes, and lungs. these surfaces actually must remain wet in order to function, and so must transpire water. one component of the water molecule is hydrogen, which is not abundant in the air a practicing 'sun starer' would breathe, the only form of matter they consume. since a sun starer is not consuming water, nor hydrogen or hydrogen ions, how does such a person replace the water which is unavoidably lost through transpiration?

how does such a person grow (how do they get heavier) if they are not consuming any matter at all? where does the iron in their blood come from? the calcium in their bones?

read about this phony:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmuheen

i know my tone in these posts runs contrary to the "don't ask questions" rules of this particular forum, but i hope the moderators will let it stand. we're talking about a practice which is very unhealthy, not only posing the risk of malnutrition, dehydration, and death, but compounding it by suggesting a person stare into the sun. people have actually died from practicing this sort of stuff.


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Re: sun staring [Re: wilshire]
    #5820507 - 07/04/06 03:46 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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you can survive vitually for ever without food or anything else, exept for staring into the sun, directly recieving energy through your eyes.

is this a joke? the human body has no mechanism by which it can turn sunlight into food energy, let alone vitamins (with the exception of vitamin D), minerals, or water. you will go blind by doing this and that is all.

Also there was this guy in India who recently lived for 7 years without anything but sun staring into the sun and drinking watter.

where did you read about this?




Then why don't these people go blind?


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Re: sun staring [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5820679 - 07/04/06 04:43 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Fuck man, In the 70s we used to take Acid and stare at the sun for hours. No big shit. :sun:


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Re: sun staring [Re: Trepiodos]
    #5821031 - 07/04/06 06:42 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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May I suggest that you travel to Africa and help all those poor starving souls who have yet to figure this out?



You should suggest to Hira Ratan Manek the idea of travelling to Africa to help all the starving. I'm not making any claims about sungazing. I'm simply providing information about a concept that I read about and found very intriguing. Earlier in the thread, people seemed curious and were asking questions so I summed up the process from what I recently read and now poeple are suggesting I go to Africa. Such is the reactionary nature of ignorance.


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Re: sun staring [Re: wilshire]
    #5821086 - 07/04/06 06:58 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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just because someone wrote it down doesn't mean it works or that it is true.


just because someone on the internet said that "just because someone wrote it down doesn't mean it works" doesn't mean it doesn't work. Yeah, and?

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plants can use light energy to charge ATP because they have chloroplasts and can do photosynthesis. human beings cannot. there is no way for the biological processes of a human being to generate ATP from sunlight. even plants cannot live on sunlight alone, as it provides only food energy, but must also obtain water and minerals nutrition from the soil.



We're not talking about photosynthesis, were talking about a mystical process for purportedly converting the way the human organism derives energy from the sun, ie:from metabolizing other organisms that have already done this to absorbing it directly. No one within this thread is claiming this is possible. Also, Manek never said to not drink water. But apparently you choose to deride the information without actually being aware of the content. Way to go killer!

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i know my tone in these posts runs contrary to the "don't ask questions" rules of this particular forum, but i hope the moderators will let it stand. we're talking about a practice which is very unhealthy, not only posing the risk of malnutrition, dehydration, and death, but compounding it by suggesting a person stare into the sun. people have actually died from practicing this sort of stuff.



Sound the alarm! Heaven forbid somebody on the Shroomery should stumble across any information that could potentially put them in jeopardy.


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Re: sun staring [Re: Viveka]
    #5821179 - 07/04/06 07:23 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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Such is the reactionary nature of ignorance.



I dare say that one would be hard pressed to find anyone more ignorant than those who could swallow the bilge about staring at the sun providing sustenance for a human body. This is not to imply that you are taken in by such bunk, but apparently some poor souls are.


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Re: sun staring [Re: Trepiodos]
    #5821288 - 07/04/06 08:05 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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Trepiodos said:
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Viveka said:
Such is the reactionary nature of ignorance.



I dare say that one would be hard pressed to find anyone more ignorant than those who could swallow the bilge about staring at the sun providing sustenance for a human body. This is not to imply that you are taken in by such bunk, but apparently some poor souls are.




Really, why is getting energy from sun less reasonable than getting energy from food? Ever used photo cells in calculators?


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Re: sun staring [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5822862 - 07/05/06 09:17 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Ahem, were are discussing the human animal, not a calculator that is designed to run solely on electricity and has no need for repair and building of tissue. Can you cite any other animals that get their energy directly from the sun, with no need for other nutrients? How is nitrogen miraculously extracted from the air and used to build protein in people supposedly using these 'techniques?' How are minerals provided for the functioning of their bodies? If this were a valid concept it would have caught on rather quickly towards the purpose of human survival. It has not. People living in the regions of the world where there is plenty of bare earth, lack of shoes, plenty of sun and plenty of death from starvation have not benefited one bit from these 'techniques.' Further, there is no verifiable evidence behind it, no science behind it, no plausible theory behind it. It also comes from an area of the world with the reputation for the perpetration of balderdash upon the ignorant and gullible who look to India as a New Age Mecca. By an 'odd' coincidence, the pdf file linked to by Viveka itself has a link to a web site selling CDs & DVDs for prices that would go a long way to providing plenty of food for a scam artist living in India (the cost of living is pretty low there). I can get some great movies at K-Mart and Walmart for less than the price of his CD.


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Re: sun staring [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5822873 - 07/05/06 09:23 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Really, why is getting energy from sun less reasonable than getting energy from food? Ever used photo cells in calculators?

it isn't. sunlight is a great source of energy. however, there is no mechanism by which a human body can use sunlight as energy to fuel its metabolic processes, just as a calculator has no mechanism by which to use a bowl of rice to fuel its electronic ones.

even if human beings could perform photosythesis (i assure you they cannot), sunlight energy would still not provide mineral nutrition or protein. like plants (and all other forms of life on earth), they would still have a requirement for mineral nutrition not met by sunlight.

"By an 'odd' coincidence, the pdf file linked to by Viveka itself has a link to a web site selling CDs & DVDs for prices that would go a long way to providing plenty of food for a scam artist living in India (the cost of living is pretty low there). I can get some great movies at K-Mart and Walmart for less than the price of his CD."

surprise!


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Re: sun staring [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5823174 - 07/05/06 11:11 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

As Ram Dass said long ago, 'the re are a lot of very far out stories in India.' With regard to looking at the sun - any focus of the lens will result in a burning of the retina, resulting in permanent blindness with perhaps only a periphery of light. Allegedly (prolly propaganda) some 'hippies' were blinded while on acid doing this. I once answered the door for friends while tripping on acid and I accidentally took a long look at the sun. My eyes filled with blue-white light and I felt instant warmth at the back of my head, which incidentally is where the occipital lobe of the brain (vision center) is anatomically located. I have no perverse desire to go blind.

Resurrecting the dead with solar energy cracks me up. Living on 'prana' is a yoga theory. One needs to go from vegan to fruitarian to whatever one call 'living-on-air' which is a physical vehicle for the pranic life-force. Hey, even plants require minerals and other molecules unless you're suggesting that yogis can turn energy into matter. Very sci-fi.


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Re: sun staring [Re: Trepiodos]
    #5823466 - 07/05/06 12:39 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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I dare say that one would be hard pressed to find anyone more ignorant than those who could swallow the bilge about staring at the sun providing sustenance for a human body.



I say a more lamentable form of ignorance is displayed by the mind that outright rejects the possibility. Of course one should remain skeptical when encountering something like this. But to refuse to give the theory or its proponents a little bit of neutral examination means that one might be missing an opportuniy to learn something. Furthermore, the habit of immediately rejecting possibilities because they don't align with one's empirical construct of the world is no good for the imagination.


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Re: sun staring [Re: Viveka]
    #5824225 - 07/05/06 04:16 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

But to refuse to give the theory or its proponents a little bit of neutral examination

what theory? there is no theory. how does this work? are yogis able to transform energy into matter? can they perform nuclear chemistry and photosynthesis in their bodies? how? i'm all ears here.


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Re: sun staring [Re: Viveka]
    #5824527 - 07/05/06 05:39 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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I say a more lamentable form of ignorance is displayed by the mind that outright rejects the possibility.



Huh? That is not ignorance, that is rejecting the possibility. Two different concepts.

It is perfectly reasonable (pending more information) to dismiss something with no basis in verifiable facts, with no precedents in the animal kingdom, with no theory whatsoever. If you care to respond to the following which I already have asked, I am perfectly willing to consider the subject in greater depth:
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Can you cite any other animals that get their energy directly from the sun, with no need for other nutrients? How is nitrogen miraculously extracted from the air and used to build protein in people supposedly using these 'techniques?' How are minerals provided for the functioning of their bodies?




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But to refuse to give the theory or its proponents a little bit of neutral examination means that one might be missing an opportuniy to learn something.



Many of us would gladly examine the theory should one exist. I have already asked about mechanisms which underlie the claims, but no intelligent responses have been forthcoming. If you care to defend the claims, perhaps you can provide some facts to back them up, or in the very least a plausible explanation.

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Furthermore, the habit of immediately rejecting possibilities because they don't align with one's empirical construct of the world is no good for the imagination.



If the claims cannot be verified, if there are no precedents in biology, should one blindly accept any assertion no matter how outlandish? If I were to post here that I can grow wings and fly through mere wish alone, would it be an intelligent response by you to accept it without a reasonable explanation and verification? The purpose of keeping an open mind is to be able to grasp something of substance should it be encountered, it is not to blithely shove under your hat any bovine excrement that happens to be plopped onto your path.


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Re: sun staring [Re: Viveka]
    #5825659 - 07/05/06 10:30 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

:lol:

I tried this for a few days...

results were sunspots...


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Re: sun staring [Re: wilshire]
    #5825975 - 07/05/06 11:52 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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what theory? there is no theory.




The theory in essence is simple.  Nutritional requirements derived from digested food can be replaced by obtaining energy directly from the sun.  This is possibly accomplished through a conversion of exisiting glandular or other biological machinery or possibly an awakening of latent capability already present in said machinery. It could also be attributed to some other process in addition to or different from this. If this doesn't merit the term 'theory' to you, replace the word theory with idea, hypothesis, purported phenomenon, whatever is acceptable to you.  This theory, like all theories, is a conjecture based on limited information.  If you would like more detail from the people allegedly studying this in more depth, read pages 68-70 of the link I initially posted.  Read more of it if you like.  The more you read of it, the less you'll have to ask me to feed you information about the subject you wish to debate.    :smirk:


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Re: sun staring [Re: Viveka]
    #5825999 - 07/06/06 12:02 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Dude I just found out from some sources that I won't show you. NASA tested it out and is still working on it but here is how it works.

OK first you have to lay on one of though memory foam beds made by NASA. Then you have to pee on yourself in the bed. Then flip over and shit and roll it down your back. Once it gets to your head flop it next to you and breath its therapeutic smell for 10 seconds. Every day breath for 10 more seconds. After breathing you must then consume half and put the other half back up your ass. Repeat and if you are fasting and no longer pooping its OK just don't fast for more than 2 weeks.


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Re: sun staring [Re: Trepiodos]
    #5826336 - 07/06/06 01:57 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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I say a more lamentable form of ignorance is displayed by the mind that outright rejects the possibility.


Huh? That is not ignorance, that is rejecting the possibility. Two different concepts.




I said outright reject, as in "from the get go", without first considering the material in any more depth than the basic statement of the purported phenomenon.

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It is perfectly reasonable (pending more information) to dismiss something with no basis in verifiable facts, with no precedents in the animal kingdom, with no theory whatsoever.




Perfectly reasonable yes, still a form of ignorance, arguably yes. This is evidenced by your assertion of no theory whatsoever when, in fact, there are statements, principles and hypotheses, albeit loose ones, stated by mystics and endocrinologists alike regarding sungazing, some of which can be found in the link i posted. But this is my point, your outright rejection of the idea led you to remain ignorant to these.

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Can you cite any other animals that get their energy directly from the sun, with no need for other nutrients?



Irrelevant to the purported phenomenon of human beings doing the same.

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How is nitrogen miraculously extracted from the air and used to build protein in people supposedly using these 'techniques?' How are minerals provided for the functioning of their bodies?



It is not my burden to demonstrate to you in emprically acceptable terms how this is possible, since i am making no claim that this is possible through sungazing. My interest in the topic has almost nothing to do with proving or disproving this alleged feat and everything to do with exploring this world and all the nuances of life within and without from perspectives that stimulate the imagination. I also enjoy texts like Mahabharata, the Vedas, Bhagavad Gita which allude to a similar mystical aesthetic. Non-eating is secondary to the practice of sungazing, even Manek himself says that sungazing shouldn't necesarily lead to it.

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If you care to defend the claims, perhaps you can provide some facts to back them up, or in the very least a plausible explanation.



I really don't care to. As i stated in another reply, feel free to peruse the document I posted yesterday. The essence of the scientific, however speculative, side of the theory involves the endocrine system. Glands in general have always been an interesting topic i think. Secreting all sorts of stimulating fluids and molecules into the soup, altering chemical pathways and encouraging new tissue responses. I am intrigued by the virtually mythical status the pineal gland enjoys. Less than 50 years ago it was believed to be a useless remnant of a larger organ, but it has since been shown to produce little understood hormones. I am not asserting anything by this, only that the unfolding mystery of the human organism continues to be just that, a mystery.

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If the claims cannot be verified, if there are no precedents in biology, should one blindly accept any assertion no matter how outlandish?


Who said anything about blindly accepting assertions? The other extreme would be to cast the information away at first glance, along with any insights it may lead to.

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If I were to post here that I can grow wings and fly through mere wish alone, would it be an intelligent response by you to accept it without a reasonable explanation and verification?


Nope, just like it wouldn't be intelligent for you to accept at face value a post I made claiming that I could gaze at the sun instead of eating food. Good thing neither of us did either of those things or we'd both be idiots.

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The purpose of keeping an open mind is to be able to grasp something of substance should it be encountered, it is not to blithely shove under your hat any bovine excrement that happens to be plopped onto your path.


Another value of an open mind is recognizing that substance is also to be found beyond the realm of emipirical falsification. If you feel you might derive fulfillment and meaning from debunking Manek's claims of non-eating and the alleged scientific verification of his feat then by all means, I encourage you to do so. You'll find no resistance from me as I have no attachment to the outcome one way or another. I value critical thinking highly and I'm inclined to believe he's faking it. Also, I'm not entirely sure it's impossible. What's more important to me is that the concept captured my attention for whatever reason and in my experience, I find it is often valuable to further examine something that captures one's attention, even if the initial substance of it appears preposterous.


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Re: sun staring [Re: Viveka]
    #5833105 - 07/07/06 07:27 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

i looked at the book.

there are some psuedoscientific claims about how the pineal gland acts as a sort of solar cell which can be charged by the sun to produce energy needed for life. it doesn't say a thing about how the process works at the molecular level. maybe that just isn't understood yet...

it says nothing whatsoever about how one is to obtain the mineral nutrition required for life by staring at the sun.

i don't think i'm being overly skeptical here. some life forms on earth can derive energy from sunlight. there are biological mechanisms for doing that. no one has ever shown human beings to have this ability, but it's not a physical impossibility. it could happen.

however the part that i find the least plausible is that staring at the sun can also serve as a replacement for mineral nutrition. this would imply the ability to not only turn energy directly into matter, but to do so in extremely complex configurations like amino acids. this is extremely unlikely, but as we do not have full understanding of the universe, perhaps it is possible, and if there was credible evidence for this, i'd have to reconsider.

there is no such evidence. i've done quite a bit of searching over the past hour or two and the best i can gather about Hira Ratan Manek is that he's a total phony. the only scientific tests he's ever claimed to have submitted himself to have been to the same team of doctors. i find that rather suspect. there are also a bunch of "alternative" type sites around claiming that he was studied by NASA, or a study at the university of pennsylvania funded by NASA, where he fasted for 130 days. his own website claims he fasted for 130 days under observation at the U of PA. there is an onsite link to a PDF document that exists nowhere else on the web, and in any event doesn't support his claim. NASA has denied knowing anything about the guy. i couldn't find anything from the U of PA or the doctors who are supposed to have overseen the research there. there were certainly no articles published in any scholarly journals, as i would imagine there would be after such a feat.

his wife claims that he occasionally does eat, but just a little.

the guy doesn't live on sunlight and he doesn't do it under medical supervision. he does, on the other hand, make a lot of money taking advantage of gullible people. he's a scam artist and a liar.

other inedia scammer have humorously been caught with houses full of food or sneaking out for junk food at burger king or 7-11. several people who have tried to do what they claim to be able to do in earnest have died.

people die if they don't have food to eat. they die by the thousands every day. it's undeniable. human nutrition is well understood, and the fact that you must have food to survive is beyond question. there is not a single credible instance of a human being not dying after not eating. nor is there any plausible theory as to how something like that would work if it were observed. there are only a few far out hoaxers and a bunch more suckers who believe them.


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Re: sun staring [Re: wilshire]
    #5833142 - 07/07/06 07:38 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

You see this thing in plants alot, but I think that if humans could do it, then other animals would be able to as well. It is a nice thought, and kinda fun to believe, but it is kinda silly to think its true.

Humans might over indulge, and take more than what they need...and for that reason is why I think massive amounts of animals would be able to figure this out before us, as they are as earthly as it gets.

And as far as ancient civilizations worshipping the sun...

Whether is because you can stare into the sun and not have to eat, allowing us to live...or if it is because the sun allows plants and animals to survive, giving us food, and allowing us to live.

its all the same.

I really dont mind eating...I enjoy it.

You dont have to live off gas station food, and be overweight to enjoy eating. Food is a pretty important part of life...and even if you could survive without it, I wouldnt give it up.


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Re: sun staring [Re: tak]
    #5834977 - 07/08/06 12:24 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

You dont have to live off gas station food

Hey, what's wrong with gas station food? You've obviously never eaten at Stucky's.  :tongue:


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Re: sun staring [Re: soulcircus]
    #5848288 - 07/11/06 07:20 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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iv read about this, hrm phenomena, it does sound pretty amazing, its known to make your pineal gland grow also.




Reports in rodents suggest that the pineal gland may influence the actions of drugs of abuse such as cocaine [1] and antidepressants such as fluoxetine (Prozac)[2]; and contribute to regulation of neuronal vulnerability[3]. In addition, it has been proposed by Rick Strassman that the pineal gland is responsible for manufacture of endogenous dimethyltryptamine (DMT) although this is only speculation. There are some who believe DMT has a role in dreaming and possibly near-death experiences and other mystical states, and, although not proven, it was hypothesized in 1988 by Jace Callaway that DMT is connected with visual dreaming. -Wikipedia.com :cool: Thought that was interesting


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