The Strange World of Breatharianism

[@AtrocityGuide]

Original Soundtrack by Ryan Probert: kzbin.info/aero/PL5a3UXdh_ybYHwzb-JFbMTmm3TWlFOJ1m Further reading/viewing: Naveena's Living on Light KZbin channel: kzbin.info/door/MBZdxVz9EnXolJn2sFenag Jasmuheen's 60 Minutes broadcast: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZ-mpq2LmZmYeZI&t Wiley Brooks' book: web.archive.org/web/20191116020344/www.breatharian.com/books/Breatharianism-Breathe-and-Live-Forever-by-Wiley-Brooks.pdf Wiley's website: breatharian.com/ PA Straubinger's website: www.lightdocumentary.com/ "The People Who Think Air is Food" by Breena Kerr: www.gq.com/story/breatharians-the-people-who-think-air-is-food Interview with Naveena: www.vice.com/en/article/9bnx4a/the-woman-living-off-water-tea-and-light-for-100-days Interview with Wiley: www.vice.com/en/article/kwpzwm/breatharian-leader-wiley-brooks-lives-on-light-air-and-quarter-pounders

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[@probablyjustanotherhuman8714]

'food causes aging' He isn't wrong, without food you get to die young instead. What a visionary.

[@TeChNoWC7]

That was actually the one thing he said that was correct lol. Not only as you have stated, but calories do actually cause ageing. The problem is you die without them. So pick your poison.

[@ZeKnife]

caloric restriction and intermittent fasting do slow aging, look up research by Jason fung or David sinclair. the reason so many fell for this breatharianism hoax is likely that there IS an element of truth to it: it works to a point, enough to convince superstitious people that there might be no limit to it if they're just dedicated enough.

[@BATCHARRO]

Ironically I read it's actually breathing that causes aging, and not in a "haha get it you'll die if you don't breath" way.

[@myriampro4973]

Common sense makes you old too, what a pity.

[@MisterClassic77]

😂

[@Gentlemenpickleesq.]

You know the cult is legit when someone dies and the leads say "they didn't believe hard enough". I mean they believed it enough to die following it...

[@starlitzone]

Just like convid xD only people I seen or heard of getting sick or those who be-lie-ve it and follow the guidelines like it's a religion.

[@InkDante]

@@starlitzone what

[@orderofdusk2382]

@@starlitzone Bullshit, give me statistics that prove your point or it didn't fucking happen, have you personally monitored every single person that has been infected to confirm that all of them without exception followed covid restrictions to the letter? No? Then shut the fuck up.

[@thatrandom_canadian]

@@starlitzone Like the president of the US that continually called it a hoax, refused to follow guidelines, actively opposed medical professionals, then caught it and had to be treated by the best medicine in the country on taxpayer money?

[@thatrandom_canadian]

@L Franco Is survival the only important thing? How about people who are permanently impacted by the effects of the virus? "It's 99% survivable" are words used by people that can't read past headlines that confirm their bias.

[@verablexitasap858]

"You will eventually need no foods, no water and no sleep..." . Very true. Most dead people dont need those things.

[@avrilavigne21]

MOST?!?

[@bellycurious]

@@avrilavigne21, obviously you haven't watched enough zombie movies. 😁 Everybody know they like brains.

[@abelis644]

😅😅😅👍👏👏👏👏👏 wait... "most"??? 😳😳😳

[@epicn]

hey guys some people are dead inside

[@tawkinhedz]

lol sounds like that movie gore verbinski made. Take the cure!

[@kikicogger2284]

I give Naveena credit. Not only did she admit she was wrong, but also came to realize how her experiment could hurt people. That sort of self-awareness and responsibility is sadly lacking in many religious leaders/scammers and more recently social media influencers.

[@OverlyBritish__]

⁠@@MrNickMoor she had like 100 views per video. She didn’t make money from it.

[@cjpatt]

@@MrNickMoor She was only able to survive because she wasn't eating. She was quickly running out of money to pay bills. She was very foolish, but I think she redeemed herself by telling people that even IF it is possible, it is too dangerous. I believe that she was mostly just trying to help people but was pretty delusional.

[@kronictonic]

The woman who wrote the book and championed the breath cult book is a piece of shit and a con artist. The woman who attempted this for three months was just very naive but had good intentions I guess I doubt the latter lady made any money out of this

[@jmc8076]

@@cjpatt We’re all just human and flawed. She learned from her mistake and was aware of the potential impact of her choices and behavior on others. That’s more then most ‘sane’ humans in this world.

[@bvdf84]

@@MrNickMoor it doesn't really matter because the amount of money she makes doesn't effect other people as much as her influence on them

[@asherael]

Funny we have so many organs devoted to something so apparently unimportant.

[@opinionday0079]

This is a brilliant comment, I wish it were pinned to be the top comment. It reminds me of something Spock from Star Trek would say. Pure logic.

[@natewilson111]

I think if we're supposed to mainly absorb sunlight, we'd have organs resembling solar panels

[@bunnie187]

I said this the whole ass video

[@Oscar4u69]

we would be green, like plants! 😂

[@genesisdenesis]

actually, we would have cells with chloroplasts in them, because that is the organelle that contains chlorophyll, the pigment which performs photosynthesis. we would also be green.

[@purity4all]

The first thing a newborn does after taking a breath, is root around looking for a nipple, if food was an acquired habit, why would a newborn do that?

[@Bringon-dw8dx]

The definition of a delusion is a fixed held belief that can withstand challenges- aka you can’t logic with these people. I’ve ‘challenged’ delusions in patients about all sorts that make even less sense- you never get anywhere until they are medicated

[@mohamedfawzy9945]

Just because its the first thing to happen doesn't mean its right

[@boonemorris]

@@mohamedfawzy9945 It's not about being right, it's about the debate/idea of food being a 'habit' rather than a necessity. Which shouldn't even be a debate, really. And of course a newborn looks for a nipple to feed from, because humans are biologically created to need food, water and air to survive, to keep our cells alive and keep our hearts pumping.

[@Bhnbhn]

@@mohamedfawzy9945 so you’re trying to say that baby drinking from a nipple may not be right, and that there’s an alternative which allows us to leave the baby alone and potentially die of starvation?

[@marshallallensmith]

Or maybe that just proves that boobs are naturally in our attraction database from birth.

[@Posit_Zero_Blue]

I'm a foodarian. I haven't breathed in 17 years.

[@bchin4005]

Watching this eating a delicious supper. You could say I... inhaled... it.

[@PeanutButterZombie00]

My mom says I inhale chicken.

[@rudimentaryganglia]

FAAAAKE!!! 😁😂

[@Theurbanmajor]

Omg thats incredible. Tell me more

[@ReginaCæliLætare]

Dependence on air is an acquired habit.

[@georgeblackley6028]

I havent eaten for 45 years. I have a deep breath for breakfast, a middle size breath for lunch, and an ever so small inhalation for dinner. I now weigh 3Lbs 2 Oz and get carried around in a bucket.

[@kendraheard8240]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS.... THIS DOCUMENTARY IS SO HILARIOUS ESPECIALLY TOWARDS THE END WHEN THE NEWS INTERVIEWER ASKED IF SHE COULD LOOK IN THE GUYS REFRIGERATOR HE SAYS NOOOO LOL

[@tylerrobertson2660]

It's not a bucket your getting carried around in its a urn...

[@rabbit3212010]

​@@tylerrobertson2660😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@rabbit3212010]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@nicofelie]

Hahaha awww that’s actually very cute hahaha ❤😂

[@fuferito]

A woman convinced herself that she could live without food, and on sunlight alone... In Scotland.

[@Ohhhwehere]

😂😂 she should have moved to sahara

[@it-s-a-mystery]

@I HATE TOUCANS No.. starvation definitely starvation. The point of highlighting she was Scottish was that the sun doesnt exist in Scotland

[@onyxpiston9485]

Best comment by far 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@agranger1087]

XDDD

[@zadinal]

Underrated comment of the video.

[@kadibookalways]

This....is extreemely cult sounding. Calling those who die not 'devout' enough is a typical cult reasoning, wow....

[@milkncookie]

Come and join us, The Sunlight Scripture. We teach photosynthesis and through prays, mental and physical fulfillment we live healthier lifestyles. All under supervision from qualifying Medical professionals. Most of the time you'll be tending to a plant for the photosynthesis... Oh you thought you could photosynthesis? Crazy...

[@KeltoiMagus]

Just like many Christian sects about those who pray rather than seek medical help but still die. Classic victim shaming.

[@traci0133]

You do have the rite to die or live your choice not anyone else and dor this bias story first let me share i do eat food im not affiliated with any groups once you starte one some get sabotaged when it affects some corporate pockets....and this story requires balance especially how the good and bad side of eating food and it killed millions of people in this video rhey found "what" a total of 10 death.......come on people wakeup and do the math.....now im going out to eat a piece of chocolate cake.....peace and love

[@kymberlynnethompson9306]

Obviously a cult

[@Alex-0597]

@@traci0133 Sure, I agree that someone can choose to end their life if they want to. But these people didn't choose to die. They chose to believe what these conmen told them about living on air and sunlight, which led them to their death.

[@CSFlock]

The digestive system isn't there for decoration.

[@R0GU351GN4L]

I disagree, they make quite a good replacement for tinsel.

[@adrianaricci5900]

Finally someone answered my question!! 🤣🤣

[@MaNuLaToROfficial]

its there for food huh?

[@mshomefire]

Best comment

[@edk2221]

Bill The Butcher: “I’ll festoon my bedchamber with his guts!”

[@space_martion]

i've had a restrictive eating disorder in the past and how these people talk about food is something i can definitely relate to, i saw food as something i had to overcome, something inherently bad i had to stop, my ability to restrict how much i ate was something i was really proud of. this mind set is so hard to escape, i still haven't been able to shake it years later, i can only imagine what being surrounded by people encouraging my ed would have done to me, it's so heartbreaking knowing how many people lost there lives and how many more were left with life long psychical and psychological damage.

[@Blablarrr]

Imagine being a well known public individual, whose fame is destroyed by being caught *consuming nutrients* .

[@TheRealVivia]

You can’t make this shit up Lmaoo

[@wingnutmcspazatron3957]

Hahahahaha

[@irinaiacob8833]

Well, if you search long enough, you'll see how some people fake being vegans on social media, and then they're randomly caught (and/or exposed, accidentally or on purpose) eating meat.. so... And the person you described most likely has an eating disorder. which is beyond sad.

[@jg1772]

Like Oprah?

[@baruchben-david4196]

Not for eating. For lying, and especially misleading people who could be harmed by the lies.

[@adelinehaley9428]

Try as I might, I'll never be able to come up with a line as unintentionally humorous as "When you walk into McDonald's, just know you are in a vortex of unconditional love." Because that is the last thing I feel when I go there.

[@krisu0100]

That line was so dystopically capitalistic, that I couldn't believe he would say that.

[@DogsaladSalad]

2020 is the year when satire loses its meaning

[@stormfischerr]

I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING DNDBDJKR I wanna make that into a fancy calligraphy sign even though I barely even like McDonald’s (and definitely don’t like capitalism) it’s just so fucking hilarious and out there

[@StunningPetiteFeminineDemoness]

Most fast food places have very toxic people working there lol

[@eleanormoody3859]

I went into McDonald's once about 30 years ago. Never again!

[@minhdo3482]

Ppl: omg shes dead.. Breatharians: that's normal & expected part of the process. Lol

[@Posit_Zero_Blue]

"She's not dead...she just ascended to level 5!!"

[@rinnhart]

"It's that simple!"

[@lindamaemullins5151]

😂

[@Aarongeddon]

its true you dont need food at all once you're dead!

[@rinnhart]

@@Aarongeddon just, you know, ride, now, ride- ride for ruin and the world's ending!

[@phrayzar]

I did a full termite building inspection on "Jasmuheen's" house/centre years ago. I didn't know who she was while I was doing the inspection, but researched her straight after, as I could see that she was some kind of "guru" and overheard a meeting with her accountant and her partner/assistant. They were talking about investment schemes and the the whole time they were eating lunch. Lunch that looked more like sandwiches than thin air.

[@Victoria-gq8gt]

Of course they were discussing how to get rich without doing actual work, off the backs of others! Speaks volumes.

[@lynnehuff7059]

Interesting

[@angiewolflove4040]

She's been seen coming out of Hungry Jacks many times with bags of junk food.

[@Sorrelhas]

​@@Victoria-gq8gtSpeaks volumes of the veracity of this comment They were conveniently talking about, and doing, something potentially incriminating while a total stranger was in the house

[@catfan913]

​@@Sorrelhas noo it couldn't be... people being dumb??

[@frogger-5meo152]

I am a Drugarian, I nourish myself with only drugs and nothing more. Through my spiritual practices I am able to reach alien dimensions and communicate with angelic entities.

[@susang82]

H aaa you got me to laugh for the first time today! These flaky nut bags are sickos with eating disorders...

[@shadowcween7890]

If carbohydrates are drugs then yeah

[@neilchapman5145]

Ok let me join your cult. I hope the drugs are top notch

[@shable1436]

Hahaha this vid is nuts, have you seen the Indian Jesus boy who didn't eat for a year? He was caught getting food slipped food at night by his followers

[@mikeabel7577]

Now this is a cult I would like to join.

[@LaPeppercorn]

Technically, you can go the rest of your life without eating.

[@AGenericFool]

*Insert classic Goofy laugh*

[@Restless_Hermit80]

Or breathe.

[@user-us1yu8gx9s]

I mean jokes aside yes? Many people get their nutrients through tubes

[@guigoGOGO]

@Filthy Fingers of Fury that's a great technique for flying for the rest of your life, highly efficient

[@Paranuui]

@Filthy Fingers of Fury Peggy gets to do it twice

[@chris-rq7dw]

That Jasmuheen woman is a monster. She wrote an actual death guide for profit and then blamed peoples lack of integrity as the reason they died when they followed it. Also saying that her vital signs being a disaster were part of the natural 20 day process... okay but she has supposedly been doing it for years so why is she going through this "clensing" period now, the same as people who just started and, according to her own dogma, needed their old spirit to leave their body?

[@PhaktTheIsolationist]

I know it borders on fascism, but we have to shut idiots like these down the moment they become responsible for the death of another human. She doesn't give a fuck if anyone else lives or dies so long as she's the leader of the pack. She should be spending the rest of her life locked up with other cult leader loons, where they can all try and convince each other.

[@vincecourts8740]

That's the problem with the world how can these people not go to prison. The government needs to start coming down harder on frauds.

[@theresajokeintheresomewher6240]

Good point well made.

[@fattesttitsincairo]

That’s what I was thinking, if she’d been doing it for years then she’d just have to keep living the way she already did, her body was (allegedly) already used to the lifestyle.

[@mahogara]

Would love to see them starting that cult in starving third world countries and then blaming the dying starved children for lacking integrity.

[@ابراهيم_محمد_الازهر]

Glad naveena pulled the plug and hope shes living happily today.

[@lassoroot]

Me too! She seemed like a sweet if misguided lady and the whole time I was SO worried it was gonna end with her death

[@KamillahM-q3v]

@@lassoroot She has that slightly ignorant grandma vibe, and I'm sad someone so genuine could be swept up in that cult. Makes me wonder about all the people who didn't stop.

[@SirDeanYawl]

“The body usually does what you ask it to do.” Yeah tell that to all the kids with cancer, the people who desperately want to get pregnant and can’t, and all the little kids in Michigan poisoned by lead in their water. Do they not “ask” “nice” enough?

[@jeanbastien9424]

No use trying to reason with these nuts, the ones that aren’t totally delusional, are money grubbing scammers that prey on the vulnerable and stupid.

[@grbgeslnger24]

@@jeanbastien9424 it’s very unfortunate

[@3asianassassin]

Not to mention that most alternative medicine charlatans and users are middle to high income white people usually woefully uninformed or uninterested in the plights that cause things like poverty, making it easy for reactionaries to get them to believe their crap

[@LonelyAssassin96]

Let's not forget people with mental illness. I mean, if a schizophrenic just asked their brain nice enough, the hallucinations will go away, right?

[@wrigglenight93]

At best, these people will ignore the question. At worst, they'll look you in the eyes and say yes

[@4thofEleven]

I honestly have to respect the audacity of the guy who just went straight from "I have spiritual insights that allow you to live without food" to "OK, but what if eating McDonalds is actually the most spiritually pure thing possible?" after he got caught out.

[@Thetarget1]

It sounds straight out of South Park

[@az8557]

HAHAHHAH

[@scantyer]

What a player

[@EarlFaulk]

He died six years ago apparently....

[@mytube92369]

That is hilarious and a great insult to the whole movement.😀

[@FredrikKnudsen]

Excellent work, as always. Using Naveena Shine as a framing device for the subject was extremely effective and well-written, and your dry humor was spot-on.

[@nosleep-animations]

Loved your recent video on Deep Blue! I'm finally learning how to play chess thanks to you!

[@BirdwellingtonAmalgamation]

Wow... praise from Ceasar. Must be on the right track!

[@joonasvareenmusiikki]

A dry fast requires dry humor.

[@janglyjohn4635]

high praise from da master

[@PigCake]

hey arent you that raid shadow legends guy?

[@byrgenwerthh]

i struggle with an eating disorder, and at the peak of my addiction - to not eating - i did a two month fast. obviously, it nearly killed me, even though i was convinced i could be a perfect being without food, stronger than if i ever ate anything. even healthy foods. i thought my period stopping, my frail body, and my ability to overcome what i thought was a disgusting vice made me feel perfect, and holy. i know many others with severe anorexia have felt the same way, and i wonder how many of the participants of this movement are motivated by poor body image and a feeling of desecration when eating. this video is well done, by the way. i like how you laid it out, with naveena's story being the focus, drawn out from beginning to end. its sad that she wanted to make the world a better place, since it gave way to such a dangerous movement. i'm glad i never found this movement during the height of my eating disorder.

[@birdenthusiast-km4en]

@@daytonasayswhat9333 It's a directly relevant anecdote that helps to explain why people might've gone along with the thing the video is about, chucklefuck. But feel free to make it about you and your need to comment when you've got nothing to say lol

[@Poppzrox]

@@daytonasayswhat9333 bro the entire video is about people not eating, why are you mad shes taking about when she didn't eat 💀

[@eliezra83771]

Thank you for sharing your experience ❤

[@AshaSara]

I hope you're doing well ❤ and yea this all just sounds like anorexia

[@EmiliaJay]

Why is simply being human not mystical enough? The human condition, and all it is made of, is complex and simply amazing. Why do people feel the need to mess with that?

[@lolaispure4296]

Ikr? They dont like Nature. Always trying to defie it.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

It reminds me of a largely forgotten Christian heresy/spirituality misconception called "angelism," the pretension that humans could be like angels on Earth if they were spiritual enough. That included not eating, not n1 or n2, and a bunch of mystical side effects. Craziest heresy ever. Theological librarian here. Saw that in an old book, but seen the idea in action in several saints bios, who then rejected it and embraced their redeemable, wonderful human nature.

[@chaosincarnate7304]

Exactly, being human is enough. It doesn't matter who you are, where you are from, or how you look or what you have. We are all the same species, we are all human. I do not see the need to feel or become higher than we already are by going on 'breathanarian diets' and following some nutjob cult's orders. Many do not realize the amount of mystery, amazement and miracles that lie inside us. Our cells, the way our brain works, hell we just recently discovered a new organ. We've managed to manipulate our surroundings and managed to LEAVE THIS PLANET onto OUR DAMN MOON. And if you wonder why that is such an achievement (for some reason), IS 384,400 km apart. A blue whale is 25 m long (On average females)

[@syndieouellet2763]

Most people dont care to learn how things work really.. even if it's the machine they live in everyday of their life.

[@kenpanderz672]

because they are board with a life without serious struggle, so they invent a way to make life more interesting. this doesnt explain religion, it explains cults. also mental disability, but that can be mitigated if the country actually cared enough to try.

[@jgriffin9084]

If we could live on light, then we would have organs for photosynthesis, not digestion.

[@elisabethchampagne7173]

maybe we’re going to “evolve” into plants? lol. if we start living “right” and living on light that is... 🙄🙄🙄

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

Even then, plants still require soil from which to extract vital minerals and nutrients, especially nitrogen, that they cannot get through photosynthesis or even through their stoma.

[@RewdAwakening]

They're called breatharians, not lightarians...

[@jgriffin9084]

@@RewdAwakening then why was the book called "living on light"?

[@jgriffin9084]

@@Gunners_Mate_Guns good point

[@c.w.8200]

One of my mom's idiot friends believes she's living on light. Also, she doesn't count anything liquid as food, so she gets to enjoy her Nutella smoothies while "living on light"...

[@xyzyzx1253]

That’s some big brain shit right there

[@elfodelputoinfierno]

Make a pizza smoothie real quick-

[@DanielBrownsan]

@@xyzyzx1253 "Check out the big brain on Brett!"

[@mysterylovescompany2657]

Saw an influencer with the same approach; claims he hasn't "eaten" in 3 years, later his partner let slip he just has soup everyday. 😂 Lol, it's like, there's more to eating than chewing, my man. 🤡 These freakin' ppl, ISTG.

[@spinecho609]

And in doing so failing to work out their jaw muscles...

[@seanb4380]

I always find it ridiculous to expect to uncover some ancient or secret knowledge that will set apart and for it to only tell you something that is obviously false. I think people enjoy the idea of being special or chosen and so things like this capture those type of people.

[@vicky248123]

I think your right. And people who obsessively search for "enlightenment" are often perfectionists. They want complete control over their minds, bodies, and fate. And are willing to do anything to achieve this 'perfect' state of being. Where breatharianism becomes an effective scam is that those who struggle with perfectionism are very susceptible to eating disorders.

[@heavenwaits]

the only thing more alluring than someone promising an easy way to get you something you really want, is to say it works if you’re special

[@cRobbone88]

In my strange country of Romania, we have a say "when you are stupid, why would you tell others?"

[@ariesmry]

I mean... if you can capitalize off of it... you tell those that lack critical thinking

[@technounionrepresentative4274]

Because you are too stupid not to tell others

[@Parrot5884]

Lol I love that

[@jaelrj2551]

I think this quote made me a breatharian cause I'm dying laughing

[@oliveryt7168]

@@jaelrj2551 good one

[@bozuteru2160]

"Don't eat anything" *Gets caught eating at mcdonalds* "Don't eat anything that isn't a double quarter pounder with cheese and a diet coke, as this isn't food for your stomach, but rather nurture for your soul"

[@Uchoobdood]

At least a diet coke tho. I mean quarter pounders are so good. 😌

[@PeanutButterZombie00]

McDonald's should hire him to do their advertising. God, that would be weird...

[@L0U_ZER]

Also, yellow fries

[@Hoodsonbr]

Don't eat anything that isn't two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.

[@CourtneyCoulson]

That was the most buck wild part of the whole video!

[@nameofthename]

as a result of watching this, i got scared and started gulping down water. i am being hydrated. my kidneys are praising the lord. my lifespan has been extended by 2 minutes.

[@daleicious1528]

Praise be!

[@Shockblock99]

And you spent those two minutes typing out this comment. It's a sick game life plays, isn't it

[@Joniness]

@@Shockblock99 generating engagement for a well made yt video isn't a waste

[@nameofthename]

@@Shockblock99 i really played myself this time

[@Zoëlle.Kawaii]

it's amazing how we'll let ourselves die before we admit we were wrong. The ego has way too much power over us.

[@KangwithoutaKangdom]

Seriously.

[@_thoughtcriminal_9102]

"Hunger pains are just the old spirit leaving the body" technically true because that's what death is lol

[@essies4294]

It’s pangs

[@_thoughtcriminal_9102]

@@essies4294 literally everyone who does this is a loser Go back to reddit

[@showproja]

Hunger pains are your body eating itself.

[@essies4294]

@@_thoughtcriminal_9102 you’re ignorant

[@themelanatednomad6989]

@@essies4294 Pang also means pain. He’s not wrong or ignorant.

[@henrymarckisotto9025]

everyone knows you have to chant "photosynthesis" or it doesn't work

[@shadowcween7890]

hhhh

[@boudicacelticwarrior1481]

That is too funny!

[@Anti_everything_and_everyone]

😅

[@grbgeslnger24]

😂

[@mindakahn9964]

I chant no carbs, no carbs, OM.

[@2357y1113]

Throughout the entire history of mankind people have suffered from hunger. If it really was possible to live without eating then surely someone would have discovered it by accident by now.

[@kevinzhu6417]

logical explanations wont work for these people, strawman arguments and avoiding the discussion is more their speed

[@Cussyzera]

" then surely someone would have discovered" Oh, but they did. All of those gurus in the video supposedly did. And the ones who did it before just died of natural causes and did so a long time ago (something like the 1800s), but they were very secluded and didn't record it in any form for us. Those who did it before them didn't even have a way to record it for future generations. *I'm not a breatharian and I don't believe in any of the bullshit I just wrote, that's ONE of their many explanations which are, just like this one, all BS.*

[@YY-wu7et]

bro they didn't bUhLeEv hard enough

[@12FU]

That’s sums it up really well

[@stiggles98]

Thats an entire other angle I hadn't even considered. Goddamn people are fucking stupid.

[@BaalBandit]

When Jasmine is asked how much food or water she's had, she answers "non. im not allowed". You'd think her answer would be "non. i dont need it"

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

That sounds like something someone being controlled would say, either by a cult leader of demons.

[@devams1]

"The old spirit leaving the body" Well, she's not entirely wrong there.

[@subutaynoyan5372]

''If you die, you'll live forever as a spirit so technically immortality is still possible with this diet''

[@TheNanamariam]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Ellen-hs7zb]

and a new one coming in

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

Hilarious Daniel :)

[@erinthesystem9608]

Everything they described about transcending the need for food just reminded me of somebody describing an Afterlife, wherein a physical body would be shed as being no longer necessary. It didn't sound at all like something you ever would have been expected to accomplish while you were actually still inhabiting that physical body.

[@eliseanderson5591]

my heart broke a little at "I can't think all of them are lying" it reminds me of when I was a little kid, before I got my mental illnesses diagnosed I was extremely gullible and impressionable even for my age… it's rough accepting disillusionment when you truly just want to see the good in everyone. Some people just… don't have good in them.

[@boogrlovr]

i fully understand if you don’t feel comfortable answering this, but if i may ask, what was your diagnosis? i didn’t know that being gullible could possibly be a symptom of mental illness. that’s so scary, and i’m glad you’ve gotten help!

[@eliseanderson5591]

@@boogrlovr I have a few diagnoses, but I think the one that really affected me in that respect was autism/aspergers- I had a much harder time determining social cues or the kinds of subtleties and minute expressions of people that would most likely tip off others to a person's lie, so by default I always took everything other people said at face value as the truth, no matter how ludicrous. It's probably not a universal experience even among people with autism considering how differently the disorder manifests from one person to another, but just in my case, learning to mask and imitate the cruelties of my peers was the only means by which I figured out the ways I was manipulated. (and thank you, things have definitely gotten much better since then! ^^)

[@mynameisnothere9465]

@@eliseanderson5591 Thank you for sharing. That is really interesting and I'm glad you're doing better!

[@Lesnooch]

Yeah, that's what I thought listening to this. So many of the followers seem to be just really sweet and slightly naive people who want to believe the best about everyone and the potential of humanity. Of course they're the prime target for grifters...it's sad.

[@missbelle13222]

@@eliseanderson5591 she seems like such a sweet kind hearted lady I feel for her, hope she is doing well

[@vedritmathias9193]

"These people are dead following your instructions." "They weren't spiritually qualified."

[@asdf9890]

I wanted to reach out and slap her at that moment.

[@BrandonWilliams-wf6hg]

Blaming the victim

[@mahadismail9569]

To be honest they were dumb enough to believe it

[@reinarforeman6518]

@@mahadismail9569 that's pretty dark.... I know people in cults like this. They're usually extremely depressed and lost, looking for answers. It's really sad.

[@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence]

@@reinarforeman6518 You just described living in the United States.

[@pinkfloweredsnake]

Moral/spiritual perfectionism/striving and restrictive/disordered eating are often found together. From more rare examples such as anorexia mirabilis, to all the fasting and restriction that occurs in practices such as Lent, Ramadan, Yom Kippur etc.

[@RussOlson-pl3kf]

I mean people don't drink or smoke because it's bad for them. You don't need religion at all. Your comment seems really poorly considered.

[@av3stube480]

Imagine being a child starving in Africa and some weird midwestern lady just tells you 'you don't need to eat, just photosynthesise'. I'd be speechless.

[@Anastasia2048]

Hell even plants need water to survive, some even eat meat. We have teeth, a stomach, and a digestive track for a reason haha.

[@oliveryt7168]

To be fair, those children don't know the master password 😂😂

[@carriemummy]

Yeah, that's what I kept saying to myself - why are all these African people dying during droughts if they have all that lovely sunshine! Unbelievable what some people will believe!

[@gsxrgoddess6]

I’m speechless now... depressing

[@guishenStreetB]

After the Child dies she’ll tell the vultures to eat the light

[@gameralex1001]

Lets humor the idea that they are telling the truth, that the human body does not need food. Wouldn't you have a moral obligation to share this with the less fortunate rather than charging exorbitant prices for secluded seminars?

[@catherinerainville4232]

Yep! 👍🏻

[@annahappen7036]

Not even kidding!

[@moonfestal]

I think that's part of why Naveena was trying to prove it, she mentioned at some point that if it worked, it could help starving people around the world. Although I don't think I can say the same of the other public figures in this video

[@jefschobert9765]

@@moonfestal I'd say tons of starving people over hundreds of thousands of year died from exposure to the sun and lack of food and water

[@amybaby04]

You'd think. It's all a scam. Just like any other religious, spiritual self help or healing program or group. When the first person walks on stage and says "follow me, I will show you the way" they become a messiah in their own eyes. If this was possible there wouldn't be starving children in the deserts of 3rd world countries.

[@Arionid]

I don't know if anyone else has noticed but... we aren't plants.

[@tiajoseph7309]

Even plants need water though! Lol

[@lindamaemullins5151]

😂

[@WobblesandBean]

Nooo. Noooooo, you're fooling me. You mean I've been standing in a bowl of water by the windowsill with my arms outstretched, all this time, for _nothing?!_

[@grandma2737]

WE NEED MORE PROOF APPARENTLY, GOD DAMNIT!

[@ger5956]

That’s true, but some people do seem to have the intelligence of a plant 🌱 🧠

[@insertfunnynamehere8984]

I think she was very genuine. It takes a lot of guts to confess to being wrong, especially to an internet full of haters. I'm glad she stopped in time.

[@arostwocents]

​@@MrNickMooryou don't come so close to death for anything but true belief

[@willisverynice]

She only ate “When the urge to experience a particular taste arose” Yeah that’s called being hungry.

[@tabbymoonshine5986]

It’s hilarious how airy fairy these people become semantically. Most of it is utter white noise.

[@karladizz]

Lol

[@Pedro-tm6ue]

The concept of "eating breatharians" is just brilliant as well

[@taybae6900]

@@tabbymoonshine5986 definitely definitely white

[@petegleeson.]

ıss also called entertainment.

[@caroles5258]

If she was already practicing her non-eating stance for years, then showing one week should have been the same, not a weight loss and all the health issues that arose.

[@adorimonroe1]

EXACTLY!!! But of course you can’t tell that to these followers. They will find an excuse to “debunk”

[@TheTubePoweredOne]

But the pRaNa

[@Mehki227]

Exactly there should have been no change. She's starving and her brain was getting no energy. I'm sure she was relieved.

[@TheTubePoweredOne]

@@Mehki227 Liars put under scrutiny will always be relieved when they're given an out like that.

[@creationbeatsuk]

Mate, the whole fucking time I've watched this I've thought the exact same thing! (My guys been doing this looking the exact same for 17 fucking years but 2 weeks into being filmed he looks like skeletor?

[@disgruntledcashier503]

Breatharianism, or "It's my religion, not an eating disorder"

[@DrMurdercock]

so her religion is a eating disorder lol

[@Justcallmestyles]

Lol next time I talk to my therapist, I'll tell them that. I'm cured hallelujah 🙌

[@naadilee1316]

@Sarah Hulsey not really lol im raw vegan and its not really that deep. Thus lady flat out crszy tho.

[@raebsen]

@Sarah Hulsey let me show you the way of my people how to be a fat vegan....join us...don't misrepresent what a choice against cruelty is. - Signed, a lifetime overweight vegan.

[@GeddyRC]

@Sarah Hulsey for not wanting to torture animals for no reason? Here’s some news - we don’t need to eat animals or their byproducts to survive, and eating them causes pandemics and is the biggest contributor to climate change. A vegan lifestyle aims to prevent unnecessary suffering of animals as practically as possible while also fixing problems that will plague the human race indefinitely. What’s YOUR lifestyle do to improve the world around us?

[@MikePuorro]

Name checks out. Narrator is a top notch researcher and communicator. Wish there were more channels like this one. Liked and subbed.

[@monicafan246]

I was a breatharian when I was a kid, but we called it being poor.

[@rbisme113]

Same lol.

[@sand4brainz506]

LMFAOOO SAME

[@robertasvaicius4437]

They're all breatherians in africa apparently.

[@nos480]

@@robertasvaicius4437 Yes we are. And on cloudy days we call it fasting.

[@karenwalkersginglass]

😭

[@jessielifton6158]

the whole movement just feels like a slap in the face of every person whose ever died of starvation

[@vickielberfeld2014]

Yes. Good point!

[@hotboxhearse]

and people with eating disorders

[@bobbowie5334]

A million Ethiopians just turned over in their graves.

[@heatherjsews]

Right... this is absurd. 21 day fasts are pretty common among people who fast, they sure as hell hydrate though.. but come on. Anyone with any physiology and nutrition background knows what crap this is! We live in a physical body that has physical needs.

[@dirkdiggler2430]

A slap in the face with a juicie steak they'll never eat.

[@wtfaiwpodcast]

There's something very disturbing about the growing popularity of easily-debunked lies.

[@jesseminns]

Think about how old Christianity is...same shit

[@drmantistobboggangonzodr3961]

@@jesseminns Yes, but compared to the availability of information we have now it should be so much easier to debunk or verify information to some extent, and with such little effort. It's literally at our fingertips (Although many things obviously aren't so simple and require study to understand or life experience. Also, some things are more nuanced and are not so black and white.). Of course, with that easy access to mountains of information to sort through, including legitimate accurate info, comes misinformation (intentional or otherwise) and if we don't teach critical thinking apparently many people cannot differentiate between the two. Then of course there are unfortunately those who are willfully stupid or are profiting from taking a position publicly (for example politicians bought by oil/ energy companies denying climate change for example when they know they are full of it and they also know their paychecks depend on them pushing a false narrative as they did after tobacco company lobbyists paid them to try to silence or at least delay the findings that smoking causes cancer and that their product is a carcinogen among many other instances throughout history unfortunately where people put greed over truth and the common good/ public welfare and health). Also every single one of us (myself included obviously) can fall prey to our own confirmation biases or putting emotions before logic and holding onto some belief stubbornly because we associate it with patriotism or tribalism and/ or see it as part of our identity or a billion other reasons that make little sense but appeal to our egos.. unless we are aware of it and work diligently to make an effort to not fall into those traps and logical fallacies which will help us avoid it but we can still once in awhile fail.

[@richardwicks4190]

I suppose the problem is that well educated and intelligent people have made life too easy for the imbeciles. I really can't feel too much sympathy for people who are this gullible.

[@MadsterV]

I used to think the Internet would bring an age of enlightment. I didn't realize lack of information was NOT the reason people were saying and doing dumb things.

[@jimbo5276]

@@MadsterV seems like some people are just genetically predisposed to idiocy

[@teebee3631]

This is so well done. I've never heard of this. The most recent information I could find on Naveena was in 2021. Her friend tagged her in some photos on FB, and she looked very healthy and happy. I hope shes still doing well.

[@elsakristina2689]

Good!

[@chaddumbbrat7174]

as someone who’s recovering from anorexia, how these people have failed to realize that this is textbook disordered eating is beyond me. it’s genuinely terrifying how easy it is to convince people to harm themselves under the guise of healthier living.

[@danielaboohene624]

Please take your time to recover well!🥺💙 Get well soon💝💞💪

[@chaddumbbrat7174]

@@danielaboohene624 thank you so much!! 💕💕💕 i’m trying my best! 🥺

[@grbgeslnger24]

Hope you are well. That is very tough 🙏🏻❤️

[@AngelCaz7]

congratulations on ur journey to recovery!!! i am in one too but for both BED and anorexia. we’ll get thru it!

[@thegreatdream8427]

It's essentially a religious equivalent of pro-ana.

[@LuizaCaldasC]

I have asthma so this is not a valid diet for me.

[@Janevelyn]

Not a valid diet for anyone is the point !

[@charitysChannels]

It took me half a beat then I just snort laughed when I got it. 😂😂

[@cortez2626]

Breath thru your nose

[@mies3892]

I just LOLED 😂

[@maranwe22]

😂😂😂😂

[@autobotrock4789]

"I can't imagine these thousands of people are lying." Yes, out of the billions of people on this planet there can't be thousands of liers among them. They're good, honest, well nourished people who stare directly at the sun.

[@Destroyer2150]

As someone who loves Science and History, I can't understand how someone can close their minds like this. How Flat Earthers, Conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, anti-masks and breatharianists can act in a such reckless way. I know how cult indoctrination works and how these groups prey on vulnerable people, but still... I can't understand how some dive into this deep hole...

[@stringerchick3650]

Ummm

[@stringerchick3650]

@@Destroyer2150 fyi flat earther are usually bible believing Christian's who understand that the heliocentric model is sub worship by occultist there is over 200 bible references, straightnscrioture about the earth that says its flat and doesnt move. Once you realize the globe model hides God and tries to disprove the bible with only theories of evolution. Does it make sense that we are flying through the galaxy everything spinning around in space yet we can predict the same meteor showers and not one asteoid has changed hahaha that's impossible sorry. Do your research and read the bible buddy

[@user-tr2dh4xx6u]

Liars

[@autobotrock4789]

@@user-tr2dh4xx6u Good for you.

[@Duneswalker]

I'm a food-breatharian. We believe in the coexistence of consuming nourishment through sustenance as well as the taking in and out of air.

[@GackFinder]

Sounds like a cult to me

[@Duneswalker]

@@GackFinder 🤣🤣

[@dano8902]

"I can't think all of them are lying..." I sure can.

[@Kampfender_Krieger]

How naive are you to think that if thousands of people believe in something than that thing is true.

[@ataridc]

See also qanon flat earthers 9/11 truthers and so on and so forth

[@Pleasestoptalkingthanks]

There will always be outliers, even among absolutes. If there's anything I've learned these past few years, its that you can gaslight anyone at anytime for anything.

[@KainaX122]

Same here. I have a basic understanding of biology

[@theplaybunnyarcade3375]

So what's actually happening is very simple. There is a small number of grifters, these people are at the top, they make a majority of the content. Under them is an equally small group of followers, these people tend to be mentally ill or lack critical thinking. They assume any failures they have with the process are their own fault. What happens tho is the grifters end up grifting for so long that they delude themselves into thinking they're doing it for real and any inconsistencies in how they live isn't strange. As we see with the lady near the start, she does this for so long that she deludes herself into thinking she eats food because she "desires the taste/experience" rather than the fact she's starving.

[@ArcaneEther]

I mean, like, I wish Breatharianism was real, because food is expensive, man.

[@spontaneousbootay]

And a hassle

[@MrPobanz]

And tastes nice. I wouldn't exchange the taste of bacon for the taste of air.

[@atmywhitson]

It really is. I struggle to make it through the month

[@bakingbulldogs3262]

Amen!

[@shaamilli3934]

I know some breatharians. They are doing fine and they fast for a time and eat whatever they want for a time and go back to fasting.

[@themotofixery]

Because starving people in Africa didn't realize all they needed to do is stand in the sun? Really?

[@Gnathorn]

LMAO

[@shawnfarrell9772]

They forgot to stare at it duuuuuuu.....

[@Mach19c]

Facts

[@mable90shaynne]

That was my thoughts exactly!

[@mediaguyking7045]

Maybe they need light skin for their bodies to properly feed of from the sun

[@Wyrmknave]

"Money is a kind of energy" is a hell of a bomb to slip into conversation

[@leenacw6844]

“Staring into the sun” ... always a great way to start

[@grbgeslnger24]

Yup, just look directly at it lol jk

[@Sentinel_Island_Tourism_Bureau]

Booya

[@YAHAWASHISKING]

Does this work with my cellphone? I have no light in my life

[@goon009]

Sun gazing is a common practice I have been doing it for years.

[@USMCasper]

Imagine kids starving in the world finding out people pay thousands of dollars to change their names and claim they don't eat. These people are evil.

[@Kayl1980]

Or incredibly stupid...

[@knowun]

@@Kayl1980 no... They're exploiting people desperate to be more than what they are.

[@Kayl1980]

@Jayspace I had the followers in mind. Yes the leaders are evil and irresponsible. Same goes for the whole new age bs. It's dangerous and misguided.

[@ceruleanc505]

This a woman who was sucked into New Age belief system. It's welcoming demons into your soul, literally.

[@thewilliamrobinson1]

your exactly right. Evil and oportunistic predators

[@timaeustestified3951]

lol when she said "i dont know why they didnt notice they were dying". I had anorexia for a long time and though I was often closer to death than most, one time in particular I developed a serious electrolyte problem thats known to cause excruciating muscle cramping from my fucked up water/salt intake that could have killed me in an instant and I "felt fine". only after i recovered and had a normal frame of reference did i realise that i had been in pain, exhausted, thirsty and aching every day. starving literally gives you brain damage and makes you delirious.

[@1Thunderfire]

I hope you feel better nowadays.

[@timaeustestified3951]

@@1Thunderfire thx chief i am

[@nhmisnomer]

I'm really glad you're better now. .

[@katiekane5247]

Kinda like those freezing to death taking their clothes off. Brain swelling makes one do/see/feel crazy stuff!

[@Amoreyna]

I think it's a testimony to how vulnerable these people are because the first few days of starvation/dehydration should be immensely distressing but they are so wanting to believe that they follow the lies that it's all normal. While anorixia can definitely feel normal to sufferers, typically it takes a long time to developed and gives the sufferer a new baseline of normal plus the effects of long-term starvation. One would think that during the first week of the 21 day transition here that the sudden onset of starvation before the delrium as your organs shut down would snap someone out of it. Instead, it becomes an uncomfortable example of just how desperate belief, the power of false promises, and wanting to belong can override self perservation. Grats on getting through what you did. I haven't worked with any anorexics but I have had a couple of patients that were severely underweight/malnurished from other reasons. It's kind of amazing how unaware people in these situations can be to how close to death they are until they finally begin to get better and experience actual health.

[@privatepilot4064]

Living on chi. Swiss chi, Provolone chi, Romano chi, Cheddar chi….

[@womanhoodisnotacostume7648]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 and don't ya forget Munster chi!

[@caro.caro.9578]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@ElegantHamster-d7s]

Mmm goat chi.....

[@elsakristina2689]

This just made me laugh so hard 😂

[@Leebo13]

It was all bought from a shop run by a Mr Henry Wensleydale with inside people dancing to someone playing the bouzouki, right?

[@wilvanwyk4478]

Part of the Buddha's journey to enlightenment was to refrain from eating. He nearly died from that experience and realised humans have to eat and that was thousands of years ago. Now these people are trying to convince humans they can go without food? Talk about wishful thinking!

[@njones420]

He also ripped off his own eyelids ... So i don't think he was particularly logical :)

[@Mateo-et3wl]

"Buddha" was an idiot

[@JennetPreston]

N Jones, the eyelid-cutting tale is an apocryphal story told about Bodhidarma, not the Buddha. Will Van Wyk has it right.

[@njones420]

@@JennetPreston I know, but it seemed more relevent than the original comment was to this video :) I just always find it odd that religions need to claim to be the source of common sense knowledge...I do appreciate any fact mcnuggets though, food for thought.

[@Bootystank99659]

@@Mateo-et3wl oh shut up you’re either an atheist that doesn’t actually study beliefs and science and rides on a high horse then wonders why no one likes you or a Christian that can’t follow the Bible properly you retard

[@kritikitti3868]

Eating chocolate truffles while viewing. I have told my body (nicely, of couse) to ignore these calories.

[@lulamax7942]

This is the best comment hahah so awesome!

[@ghq8982]

Well, in case your body does not cooperate with you in that regard, you could always sue your own body for "harassment".

[@0Alwina0]

This comment had me laughing/snorting so hard🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This is gold!

[@piningforfjords]

Omg me too! Chocolate is the light of my life!

[@OutragedPufferfish]

@@piningforfjords I love chocolate too 😋😋😋

[@teemcc4627]

And yet there are starving people all over the world, who don't have the privilege of making this a choice, who would disagree.

[@darrenyoung3102]

Absolutely spot on point!! Yes this insults the plight of such people

[@darrenyoung3102]

Absolutely spot on point!! Yes this insults the plight of such people

[@Tyranastrasza]

@WORK PLAYLISTS well, surely they are not mentally and spiritually prepared. Surely they can't feel "the life of the divine" internally.

[@papasscooperiaworker3649]

@@Tyranastrasza :/

[@momoneymoproblemz]

@@Tyranastrasza exactly they BELIEVED they would die, they didn’t have control over their body

[@kingofbirds]

im so so glad naveena was responsible, and that she saw what was happening and understood the danger.

[@OrestisKoutsoupias]

So no one's pointing out that "Living On Light" is L.O.L. ?

[@grbgeslnger24]

Nice

[@jacksmith4530]

She might be the funniest troll ever 🤣🤣🤣

[@brokebishboutique79]

😂🤣😂🤣🤪

[@Liitaro]

lol

[@oliveryt7168]

@@jacksmith4530 maybe one of the most dangerous too...

[@ccmesich]

47:25: "When you walk into McDonald's, just *know* you are in a vortex of unconditional love." thank you wiley, very cool

[@anthonylipira9526]

Weirdest way to say "I'm lovin' it".

[@spugintrntl]

McNaldo's needs to hire him for their marketing team.

[@crystalrose043]

Oh my god when i heard that I couldn't help but laugh

[@lucifer2b666]

I said this in another comment. But, I didn't know Trump was a breathairian.

[@tiajoseph7309]

McDonald's sponsored him.

[@squiggsum2245]

this just seems like an eating disorder for the spiritually inclined

[@BenziitOfemme]

There needs to be a class for this honestly

[@TravelingGaby]

It is, its how my mother has been justifying her anorexia. Shes beed diagnosed but hey the crazy will find a way to keep it going.

[@fullcapsethan]

nuns who didnt eat and died months later justified their eating disorder through spiritualism .. and at the times they were praised for it , and they still died :(

[@Mehki227]

@Alianova Preobrazhensky Really how so?

[@rigobertovillalobos3614]

Fasting?

[@BognaZone]

I first heard of breatharianism in the early 1970s. I was newly divorced at rhe age of 22. I was working temporarily in a factory, lifting and oacing all day long. I decided to try breatharianism. Ar lunch hour, I sat outside and took in light from the sun. People began offering me foid, and i said tgat i was not hungry. In fact, when you go through a long time of not eating, you actually do stop feeling the hunger. I kept doing this until i weighed 85 pounds. I wanted to travel, but my doctor said he would not sign the health rekease until i started eating and gained weight. I started out by eating one dry piece of tisst oer day. Then after about a week i added an apple each day. My mother notuved and began fixing lunches for me - raw vegetables, fruits, and oeanut butter on celery. Gradually i gained enough weight to please the doctor. Years later, I read about anorexua and realuzed that i had exierienced that. I still have anorexuc episodes now and then. But i am seriously overweight now!!! Please do not make fun of overweight people ir tell them to stop eating!!! That can be enough to bring in anorexia, resulting in serious metabolic disirders that can result in heart disease. Be kind. Allow people the space and the grace to heal. Thank you.

[@insertfunnynamehere8984]

Well said! I hope you get better

[@ekuude]

Thanks for sharing. Everyone has hidden struggles and we could all use a little more grace. Hope you continue to strive to be happy and healthy. You deserve it 😊

[@Alexandraincognito]

Thank you for sharing your story and completely agree with the point you made in the end! Much love ❤

[@kyce2742]

Well I'm sure glad you came to your senses in the end and add people who had your best interest at heart but being overweight is a problem too with its own set of adverse consequences so I hope you can find a middle ground

[@drosophilamelanogaster3121]

Thank you for sharing that. I hope you are well now 🙏

[@KnightsDisillusion]

This channel is quality over quantity.

[@jassie138]

Very much like Fredrik Knudsen. I love it.

[@marticusthe1st]

So true, but I neeeeed more.

[@Timjaro]

This guy gets it

[@id8989]

It's an hour, we get both 😌

[@marticusthe1st]

Not when you’ve run out of videos to watch.

[@katiekhabbazi6849]

I'm a voidarian. Not only have I not eaten, but I haven't breathed in the last 50 years. The breatharians are weak for still requiring air. I started at the age of 95 to help with some of the physical issues I've developed and I've never looked back. Despite being 145 years old, it's caused me to age backwards and now I look to be in my 20s or 30s, and I have far more energy than I've ever had.

[@DeMonOfRainingDay]

You still need a body? That's weak, almost as weak as breatharians. I've became a pure consciousness that projects a vessel on this earth a thousand years ago.

[@katiekhabbazi6849]

@@DeMonOfRainingDay It is an honour to metaphorically stand in your presence.

[@smashmouthegg570]

@@DeMonOfRainingDay Weak, I simply exist nothing else.

[@321scully]

Give us up to date photos and proof.

[@syphonwarlock7685]

@Larfg A strong statement for one who misspells words.

[@JBrodo]

The concept of breatharianism is so insulting to everyone who has starved due to poverty. Ridiculous. (Great video though! Fascinating.)

[@lucym7438]

It's bothering me so much that she's acting as though she's just cracked the code to life and will revolutionise the human race, like all those who have starved to death have chosen it. Very frustrating!

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

You said it! Do they think people sit in the African sun and die from starvation, because they don't breathe they right way? How is it possible people can be so stupid? Or so full of bs?

[@Annianapenda]

Exactly my thoughts! How dare this privileged woman call people, especially children, choosing death when they just didn’t have the Food to survive. And then she talks about love and peace and all the BS. Disgusting

[@mykolastrunce5457]

I feel the concept of breatharianism is insulting to anyone who didn't eat glue at school. Atleast the scam demographic is people that live well enough, to worry about eating too much

[@jonnyenough1531]

Yeah.. Nature has babies breast fed. Day 1 shows this is false

[@bromisovalum8417]

To think that during those famous wartime famines that drove people so mad they had to resort to cannibalism, whilst all they had to do was to re-align their prahnic energy.

[@mason9146]

Bruh the amount of money you can make just by straight up lying never ceases to amaze me

[@amyness3452]

Wait until you find out about politicians

[@Gretelsbetterhalf]

I might have to switch careers

[@tawkinhedz]

Flat earth, breatharinism, big foot, faith healers, these people are loaded

[@colacurciolaw7745]

P. T. Barnum lives! What an insult to the millions and millions of people who have starved to death.

[@jimbo5276]

I know, I swear I need to write a book full of new age nonsense and I'll probably get rich off of millions of idiots who will eat it up

[@Powersd451]

"I don't understand why they didn't notice they were dying." While her health is declining and she's blaming her own mindset for it. This is terrifying.

[@WolfgangDoW]

The brain is 2% the weight of an adult body but needs 20% of your daily recommended calories. You don't notice you're dying cos your brain is dying too, shutting down. The metabolism also changes, turning off hunger as the digestive system shuts down. Lack of any protein means the body has to cannibalise anything it can, eating your own organs. Protein is needed to make so many things, like digestive and metabolic enzymes. Anorexics most often die from heart failure (the heart is muscle, canniblised) or fluid filling the lungs due to lack of surfactants. The effects of starvation have been studied very well

[@RedboneUnincorporated]

Terrifyingly stupid.

[@TimVerhaal]

Nothing terrifying about natural selection

[@milkncookie]

This is not terrifying, This is spiritualism...

[@cornholius]

@@WolfgangDoW Terrifying

[@cassclare]

I went to a breatharian retreat when I was struggling with my health. It was awful and the man claiming to be the breatharian example straight up ate food in front of us while we starved and became completely dehydrated. He claimed it to be 'training for temptation of food. His name is Ray Moar He just recently released a video stating that he has begun eating again. Due to stress.. which obviously is an admission that he has SCAMMED countless people into the prana retreats. He claims in these retreats if you learn to exist on Prana alone, you will never need food again. These people pray on desperation. Its a god complex illness, an eating disorder. But there is a cult like aspect.

[@Jen-tn1un]

I hope you are doing ok now.

[@diannh2894]

Wow thanks for the insight. I'm so glad you saw through their bullshit.

[@missvincent7017]

I’m sorry you experienced that. Shame on him!

[@vivalaminion2936]

@Joby Fluorine Worked for trump

[@katethegreat4918]

@John S. That is baloney. Obviously, Brethairienism is wack, wrong, evil, and dangerous. That doesn’t mean all religions are. Everyone has a religion because we all know God exists. His existence is evident.

[@TimBitten]

I despise these people. Imagine if one of your vulnerable family members fell for their crap and ended up dying.

[@sawysauce1256]

Every terrible movement can be traced back to a “Smooth talking man from California”

[@crackedlogic8907]

Smooth talking man from California:Bard Florida Man: Barbarian

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

Or Karl Marx

[@vaultdweller1386]

It's only cause ours have a lesser tendency towards suicide and isolation that it's notable. Also big state with lots of people some of which have too much time and money.

[@asbritt0519]

Lol with a saxophone

[@TahtahmesDiary]

I guess we will ignore the clear Asian influence and origin, Jasmuheen being from Wales, and even one of the first recorded books of the subject being in French so we can continue the "California, amiright?" joke.

[@Rafu_Aeru]

As a type 1 Diabetic, I really hope that light has carbohydrates just in case my blood sugar gets low.

[@CurtisD01]

same

[@guyrations9635]

Diabetics just have to reflect the light off sugar and absorb that.

[@RegionalRadioShackManager]

Ok

[@fermiLiquidDrinker]

When my BG gets low I just stare into the sun. The blinding pain makes me forget all about the low.

[@Mikey-jv5fv]

Don’t worry the light energy should eventually fix your pancreas right up! Don’t forget to meditate and manifest! (/s)

[@bakuhatsubutsu]

I practice non-eating everyday. In fact, I spend eight hours per day not eating or drinking anything at all! I do this overnight, when the prana channels are strongest. I do it while staying in a supine position so that my body can most easily absorb the earth's energy. I cover myself with a blanket so that the nutrients I absorbed from the sun during the day will be kept from escaping into the atmosphere. I also close my eyes to improve my meditation.

[@KehnWay]

This comment is fucking gold lol

[@iwackadoodleyourmarbles9220]

I can't stop laughing out loud 🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

[@johnnywalker4517]

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[@allenmaa7064]

perfect! lol!

[@Meganthamac]

I died

[@robo8478]

Years ago when I was addicted to heroin fentanyl and meth/cocaine whatever I could get my hands on i forgot to eat or drink and barely slept, by some miracle someone realized and forcw fed/drank me around day 29/30ish, even when they slowly introduced me to food and water I didnt have bowel or urine movements for like two additional weeks after. I got sick as hell from reintroduction of water and food and barely survived, i didnt intend to starve i just had went so long without barely any sleep (maybe an hour every three days) from drugs and i had only enough money for drugs so i basically became so strung out and delusuonal that i only recieved nutrition from iv water that i put my drugs in. After barely survivinh reintro to food i then cut out the drugs one by one and this ordeal was a brural awakening. The several long month recovery sucked but i made it out, drug free and healthy. Seeing myself so imaciated vs the new healthy me looks likw two diffeeent people. I think the drugs carried me through i cant explaim how badly off i was, i was over a month wothout pooping or peeimg total insanity. Why anyone would willingly enter that hell sober is mind blowing to me

[@pinsandneedles3]

I'm glad your survived. I wish you well 💛

[@rotroom]

Congrats on your recovery ☆☆♡

[@Starlesslemon]

The algorithm is weird, but interesting enough to watch the entire thing.

[@mcq31mc]

@UR A Meathead now you dont even need meat. BOOM!!💥 💥 💥

[@basedimperialism]

"The dehydration [and] quickened heartrate, they claimed, was part of the 21-day process." *So why didn't she exhibit those BEFORE they started the experiment...?*

[@D0NU75]

they all overlook the fact that she was supposedly living on light even before the experiment so it should have been a week like any other for her, but of course it wasn't cus she was on diet shakes and smoothies

[@purgetheXYs]

And I oop-

[@byzantiphile7630]

My thought exactly.

[@ConcreteAngelx3]

I was wondering what her excuse for that was too. If she was already well past 21 days then she shouldn’t have had any symptoms just continuing it in front of the camera

[@hds66nl29]

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

[@Frac.Razoer]

this is the way

[@janrees4887]

Who is this quote by?

[@hds66nl29]

@@janrees4887 They say by Einstein but that is doubtful.

[@patrickcunningham540]

Well said mate!!!

[@slix96]

🤣

[@FrenkTheJoy]

I actually kind of admire Naveena. She did the research, made I think a reasonable assumption that with thousands of claims, they can't ALL be lies (although I don't know that there are THOUSANDS of claims anyway), she decided to experiment herself with a way for people to verify she was being truthful, and then realized the method was dangerous and stopped doing it. Pretty solid scientific method even if it sounds stupid that you'd think this would work in the first place.

[@FirstnameLastname-bn4gv]

It’s not reasonable to assume that they can’t *all* be lying, though. Some claims are just so implausible, the number of people claiming them has no bearing on their veracity.

[@randomchica23]

TW: ED This is screaming eating disorder with extra steps so that no one can question your eating disorder. These were the thoughts I had when I was the deepest in my anorexia. The "purity" of not eating and the starvation euphoria (followed by feeling like shit forever). When you're deep in it it can become like a religion, I can see how someone already struggling could fall into this.

[@oliverquach9614]

First off, I hope you’re well. This is incredible insight, it really should be categorized as a type of eating disorder. I can imagine seeing a bulimic-type breatharian one day

[@redactedredacted658]

@@oliverquach9614 wouldnt a bulimic breatharian be just a binge/fast cycle/to me breatharianism seems like a hybrid of anorexia, orthorexia and pseudoscience. like what op said just before, "purity" and "clean eating" (or just rationalising foods to be "safe" like my man wiley with his yellow haagendaas and double qps) when they do eat

[@disneyaddict7418]

This reminded me of the brief bouts of euphoria I had as well when I struggled with anorexia

[@sovereignindividual2625]

I just want to look good for ya

[@sovereignindividual2625]

Anorexia is actually healthy for you if you do it right. It's called fasting.

[@lemerdeposteur]

The bit about McDonald’s being a portal of love to the fifth dimension killed me

[@OurLadyOfSorrows4]

That's the only part that was true

[@MeatCatCheesyBlaster]

That’s why you sometimes find a fry at the bottom of the bag. It slipped through the worm hole

[@CodyHeredia]

@@MeatCatCheesyBlaster that must also be where all my missing dipping sauces are.

[@BB-vo8bv]

Well I've been in a fist fight in a McDonald's in the Lower East Side and I saw a guy kick a pigeon out the door of another one in Vancouver...not sure where the portal of love was, but then again I never used either restaurant's bathrooms so....

[@awilli182]

CLEARLY this guy never watched 'Super Size Me'! 😂😂😂😂

[@CoachJohnMcGuirk]

I wouldn't call this a movement so much as an eating disorder.

[@josephoyek6574]

*mental disorder

[@PatRick-sm5fe]

@@josephoyek6574 well ED's are mental disorders too

[@nunyabiznes33]

A movement to the other side.

[@FrancisR420]

@@PatRick-sm5fe but they eat normally

[@mophead_xu]

@@FrancisR420 no they eat disorderly and have terrible relationships with food, which made them qualify to be diagnosed with EDs in the first place lol. unless if by "normally" you mean they eat normal food instead of mimicking plants.

[@peterturner1957]

Great video. Well researched, and exceptionally presented. Looking forward to many more.

[@motog5s477]

Breatharian: "I don't eat food." Interviewer: "Can I look inside your fridge?" Breatharian: "Um...no... there's water in there."

[@miroslavkozolka5489]

Plants in my room are breatharians. I havent given them a single drop of water for 3 months and theyre obviously happy. Of course, their leafs turned yellow and fell off, but thats just normal side affect of getting used to it.

[@user-vw4xp5nt9f]

yes, it's just the old spirit leaving their body through their leaves! 😁

[@foundationforbuilding-scar2060]

Don't forget they can still survive yellow in hiding😉. Great comment.

[@TuberoseKisser]

My cacti are breatharians, still going good after a month.

[@Barakon]

Photosynthesis is what breatharians desire to be able to do lol.

[@lMllPl]

A mother would not produce milk if we don't need food. Sad that people truly believed in this movement and took it as far as death.

[@TheWendable]

I think her answer would be ...thats just for babies who don’t know how to get nourishment from light yet. My kidneys are crumpling at the very thought! 🙄

[@asmrme600]

Love the chicken 💋

[@kenpanderz672]

thats not really a good argument. itd be like saying that humans wouldnt be made of meat if you werent supposed to eat them. cannibal cultures have and do exist, and they seem to atleast be "stable" for the most part, but that doesnt make it justifiable or a good idea. id rather stick to more scientific approaches to the arguments against never eating again, like the mountains of evidence "suggesting" (more like objective fact) that if you dont eat, then at some point soon you will die because of it. this is even less convincing a concept than flat earth theory, and thats also insane. but vast time and distance is not something normally intuitive to humans, so maybe this will always be a problem to some extent...

[@gregorkorosec6131]

I agree with John O. this ain't really a good argument. They could probably say that we need to food to produce food (milk) and don't need it otherwise so only while having a baby or something like that.

[@gregorkorosec6131]

@B T Every breatharian ever has failed to live without anything for more than a week and they all say they've been doing it for years. This woman, who did it for 2 months is drinking water and that has been scientifically proven to be possible for some time and it's called fasting. I wound't even call it an attempt to a better civilization bc they're all just liars.

[@WizardOCaptions]

This is absolutely one of the best documentaries I have watched in a long time. Amazingly written and researched, and objective enough, but the splash of personal opinion to add colour to the narrative. I definitely subscribed and am excited to watch the other stories you have found! I also love that you provided some links for the information you used.

[@WizardOCaptions]

I will add my first introduction to 'Breatharianism' was with the movie "Hook", and since a child, to stymie hunger briefly, I used to try and gulp down air. Definitely never made it to more than 5% pranic nourishment ;)

[@one5nine2six5three5eight9]

as far as i know, hardcore buddhists have practiced insane asceticism but they still ate. there were some practitioners who did move on to eat nothing at all, but with the express purpose of DYING. They would eat some like, tree resin (?) i think and slowly wean off food. They wanted to starve themselves to effectively become living mummies. By reducing water-rich body fat, they essentially prepared themselves to be super-dry corpses which is important because moisture amps up decomp. Upon dying, their bodies wouldn’t decompose like a normal corpse and they would be considered “incorrupt”. Their well-preserved bodies are still on display and are called sokushinbutsu (at least in japan) anyways, fun facts aside, connecting this buddhism is cap!!

[@jordanmartin3434]

Yo, great comment. You are right on all accounts from my little experience knowing some of the fellas you speak on. They were all fasting in preparation for dying and be preserved so to speak....

[@luciddreams6210]

I wonder if that's the same thing as this "rainbow body" thing in tibet.

[@invisiblearchives]

With the express purpose of dying and mummifying themselves is the key part. Mainstream Buddhism as all about food. It's the main community support to monks. The well known enlightenment of the Buddha occurs after he had fasted and achieved nothing, someone brings him some milk and he realizes that fasting is less profound and healthy than conscious moderation.

[@swank8508]

i have to let you know that body fat is almost devoid of water, while muscles have tons of water. this is why men are less affected by alcohol than women even at the same weight, since a larger portion of their body weight is water (women have lower muscle mass than men and higher "minimum" body fat)

[@traversniemi5342]

That was damn interesting man thanks for that comment.

[@TroubledOnePaydirt]

I went four days without food once... but I was a “cocaine-arian” back then. Nothing but beer and yayo, no sleep or food. If u wanna venmo me $1500 I’ll share my secrets with ya. They call me... Mahatma Montana.

[@lindamaemullins5151]

😂

[@TroubledOnePaydirt]

Linda Mae Mullins 😉

[@OldSkoolGeneral]

Plenty of calories in beer.

[@Masturbation65]

@Sergeant Gutsy Can confirmed, was an honorary Metharian due to my high ranking status in the Heroarian fellowship. The shadow people are usually very nice by the 7th day, but rather frightening by the 11th. Cool lads.

[@publicserviceannouncement4777]

@Sergeant Gutsy I can confirm

[@tyrjilvincef9507]

Naveena is a very rare glimpse into an absolutely true believer and an absolutely naive person who ends up reporting the situation with total honesty.

[@ceeemm1901]

Now replace the word "Naveena" with "Hitler" in that sentence and see what you get....

[@aoifek9709]

@@ceeemm1901hitler killed people…. what an absolutely fucked comparison to make, those two things aren’t even slightly analogous

[@aoifek9709]

@@ceeemm1901also hitler did not “report the situation with total honesty” in the end 😭😭 get off of the internet please

[@ceeemm1901]

@@aoifek9709 I am getting off on the internet!🍆

[@big-gloom]

​@@ceeemm1901you really thought you did something there