I keep telling my family and friends how good it feels to have an empty stomach, an empty feeling in the intestines, a feeling of lightness, of deep relaxation in that area.  There’s even a feeling of renewed strength and energy, which is an empirical observation that most people experience after a good bowel movement.   Now you feel better, you feel lighter, you feel stronger, you feel happier.   Did it come from eating, or did it come from eliminating?    It proves that the body has innate energy, which is blocked by food and by the whole process of digestion, and that by removing these obstructions, the body’s innate energy is restored.

I remember the first time I had a colonic irrigation, when I was about twenty years old.  Afterwards I felt so great, it was indescribable.  I felt like I could jump ten feet high, and I truly felt "high."  I felt like the best  I ever felt, on the finest spring morning, in my earliest childhood memories.   I’m sure the reader can remember times in their youth when they felt so great.  Well, that was the feeling I had after I had my first colonic irrigation.   I had the same experience when I tried it about a month later, and then one month after that...

I was 22 years old at the time, and had been a strict vegetarian for about 3 years, and most of that time a fruitarian.   I had fasted on occasions, and taken enemas on occasion, because I understood the importance of a clean colon and intestines.   Prior to this first colonic, I fasted on just fruit for a few days, and also gave myself an enema before undergoing the process.

The colonic doctor laid me down on the table on my back.   The warm water went in and out for about 45 minutes, and the doctor described things I had been eating several days before.   I kept feeling lighter and lighter, as every time he let the water out, I could feel my belly emptying its contents, and shrinking, getting smaller and smaller.  Finally, after about 45 minutes of this, I thought the process was done.   I thought he had cleaned me out completely.  I was laying on my back all this time.  The doctor told me to sit up, and go to the toilet.   I thought to myself: "This doctor is crazy. There’s nothing in me."  But was I wrong!! 

I was lucky that the room with the toilet was only a few feet away. By standing up, gravity began to pull down what the colonic had loosened.  The doctor told me to go use the toilet.  But laying on my back, I didn't feel like I had to go. But as soon as I stood up, I felt this strong, sudden urge to defecate! and Lucky the toilet was right there, because as soon as I sat on the toilet, the stuff just started coming out of me, like black water, with a color that was literally "black" and it smelled absolutely putrid!   This was stuff I was carrying around in my intestines for years, as dried up fecal matter that stuck the walls of my intestines. (By the way,  I have always been a  relatively slender person). This black stuff had been stuck in my intestines for years, as dried-up fecal matter.   Neither short fasts, nor enemas, nor fruitarian diet (for 2 years) was able to loosen or remove this vast amount of intestinal crud and debris, which took only about an hour at the doctor's office, including 20 minutes sitting on the toilet, where I had constant, watery, black, putrid-smelling diarrhea for about 20 minutes without let up, and had to flush the toilet about once every 2 minutes, just to clear the air, so I could breathe, because it smelled so bad!  I'm glad this stuff came out of me, because, as I described earlier, I felt afterwards so good,  like I had never felt in many years.   I felt totally rejuvenated!

This experience with the colonic irrigation also gave me insight into the vast amount of "crud" that accumulates on the walls of the intestines. Up until now,  I could never understand the explanation in the Essene Gospel of Peace where it describes the cleansing process by fasting.

The Essene Gospel of Peace narrative describes this process as follows: "...many unclean and sick followed Jesus' words, and sought the banks of the murmuring streams. They put off their shoes and their clothing, they fasted, and they gave up their bodies to the angels of air, water, and sunshine.  And the Earthly Mother's angels embraced them, possessing their bodies both inwards and outwards.  And all of them saw all evils, sins and uncleanesses depart in haste from them. ... And the breath of some became as stinking as that which is loosed from the bowels, and some had an issue of spittle, and evil smelling and unclean vomit rose from their inward parts.   All these uncleanesses flowed by their mouths.   In some, by the nose; in others, by the eyes and ears.  And many did have a noisome and abominable sweat come from all their body, over all their skin.  And on many limbs great hot boils broke forth, from which came out uncleannesses with an evil smell, and urine flowed abundantly from their body; and in many their urine was all but dried up and became thick as the honey of bees; that of others was almost red or black, and almost as hard as the sand of rivers. And many belched stinking gases from their bowels, like the breath of devils.  And their stench became so great that none could bear it." (Quote from the Essene Gospel of Peace).

I also noticed when I fasted, several times for 3 days at a time, with no food, liquids, or even any water, that I nevertheless urinated profusely.   I never peed so much until I stopped eating and drinking!!!    Too bad I didn't know anything about drinking my urine, as one's own human urine is almost a supernatural living food, that would be ideal to use for fasting, fresh and plain and warm, drunk and poured on the skin, in sickness and in health.  There is more about this on another page of this website (click here on urine, or at bottom of page).   You will find there, and in the links and resources page, and bibliography page,  evidence from scientific research and even medical-proof of urine therapy, an age-old healing art, which was practiced for thousands of years in ancient China, ancient India, ancient Egypt, and ancient Greece.  One's own fresh warm human urine, drunk on an empty stomach, is valuable to the human system for its nourishing, cleansing, and medicinal properties.  To understand its healing properties, you have to understand that it is a live food.   The Bible says that the life of the flesh is in the blood, but the urine is a by-product of the blood, and thus contains the life-force of the blood.   Urine may be likened to the "fruit" of the blood.   For most people, their own fresh warm urine is probably the most vital liquid they could drink, more rich and vital than the food they eat, Unfortunately, for the human race, most people associate urine with something that should be flushed down the toilet, sent away away into oblivion.  To re-consume one's own urine is just the opposite of flushing it into oblivion.    But urine is a rich source of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and hormones, and other factors which are both nutritious, medicinal, .and cleansing..   Also very important to rub on skin,  but please see more on Urine: the Fountain of Youth!    
Another thing I noticed was that when I fasted, my sex drive got very strong, while I was fasting.   (If I had been drinking my urine, it may have felt even stronger).    At first, this didn’t mean anything to me, but in retrospect,  that feeling of strength and renewal is part of the whole concept - - that the body is strengthened by rest and fasting from food.    Also, fasting causes the pituitary gland to secrete HGH (acronym for Human Growth Hormone), which is well-documented for its ability to rejuvenate.    According to Dr. Ronald Klatz, president of the American Association of Anti-Aging Medicine, and author of the best-seller "Grow Young with HGH" (1997), HGH is the most highly effective source of rejuvenation he has ever researched, and his life work is the science of rejuvenation.

So fasting increases HGH production.    That explains the increase in sex drive.   Also, it explains why Arnold Ehret (a famous faster) noted his own rapid hair- and beard- growth during his long fasts.   Ehret is the author of two classics called "Mucusless Diet Healing System" and "Rational Fasting," both highly recommended reading, detailing his personal accounts of his discovery and use of the raw-food, mucusless, fruitarian diet and its many benefits.   I remember crying out of joy when I read the story of his young bicycling companion, who had a serious case of stuttering.   His wealthy father had taken him to the best doctors in Europe, but all to no avail.   But after 2 weeks fasting, in the countryside, with long bicycle rides, and then eating just grapes and grape juice, the young companion one day vomited a large amount of mucus, whereupon his stuttering suddenly vanished completely, for the first time in his life.  That young bicycling companion, rumor has it, was Paul Bragg, who later became another popular health teacher and writer.

By eliminating obstructions, by cleansing, detoxification, and purifying the intestines, the blood, and the cells, we can overcome many of our physical ills or handicaps, and increase our enjoyment of life and also have more time to do it.   Fasting not only removes obstructions and helps the body to heal itself, it is also rejuvenating and life-extending.  

Fasting lengthens the experience of time, from a subjective point of view.   If you need more time, try fasting.   Time will slow down, and the hours spent shopping for food, preparing it, sitting down and eating it, and time spent in digestion and elimination, will all be bypassed, so there will be a huge gain in experiential time.   Time is money is the old saying.   But time is also life, and to expand the time in your life, try fasting.   If you’ve ever fasted for 24 hours or more, you will probably admit that time seems to go by a little slower, and that’s good if you want to lengthen the experience of time.

There are so many stories of healing and near-miraculous cures, attributable to fasting and cleansing the body internally.   Herbert Shelton, founder of the Natural Hygiene Society, supervised more cases of fasting (at his sanitarium in Texas) than almost any other fasting doctor, and has written extensively on this subject with many case studies of people who healed near-incurable diseases with fasts ranging from a couple of weeks up to 90 days.     Shelton authored the following books, and more: Fasting Can Save Your Life; Fasting For Renewal of Life;  Food Combining Made Easy;  Getting Well;  Superior Nutrition; Facts About Fasting;  Health For All;  Health For the Millions;  Living Life to Live it Longer;  Rubies in the Sand; Natural Hygiene: The Pristine Way of Life;  The Science and Fine Art of Fasting; The Science and Fine Art of Natural Hygiene;      Human Life:  Its Philosophy and Laws;  and also:  Human Beauty: Its Culture and Hygiene.

I still recall the days of my childhood, when I felt great, I felt light, full of energy.  I remember Saturday mornings, when I didn’t have to go to school.  My mother didn’t make me eat breakfast, and usually I didn’t eat anything, and on those days (when I didn't eat breakfast, or anything, until dinner) I experienced great energy and happiness all day.   I ate primarily on account of the encouragement from my mother and father (who insisted that I eat) rather than from any internal real hunger or appetite.

In her book "Living on Light: The Source of Nourishment for the New Millennium" (published 1998), the author, Jasmuheen, describes how some children have no desire to eat.   She writes: "Many children are easily influenced away from their natural intuitive abilities by less aware adults, who the children may be led to believe know more, due to their adult status."   But most children are more instinctive, more intuitive.

I feel one of the greatest problems with most of the diet books available today is that they focus on the so-called "nutritional values" of certain foods, but don’t focus on the necessity of healthy appetite and digestion.  It's the chemical theory of nutrition: whether you pop a pill in your mouth, or food, the theory is that your body is able to deal with it.  But it's not always that simple...   ...

In the "Essene Gospel of Peace," Jesus warns us: "Never eat unless you are called by the angel of appetite…. Here below, are Jesus’ guidelines for eating, as recorded in the Essene Gospel of Peace:

"Eat only when called by the angel of appetite... Cook not... Neither mix all things with one another, lest your bowels become as steaming bogs... Be content with two or three sorts of foods, which you will always find around you...  Never eat unto fullness...  Satan and his power tempt you to eat more and more, but live by the spirit and resist the desires of the body... Your fasting is always pleasing in the eyes of the angels of God… So give heed  to how much you have eaten when you are sated (satisfied), and eat less always by a third... Let the weight of your daily food be not less than a "mina" (a Hebrew weight approximately 99/100ths of a pound), but mark that it not go beyond two... ie., between one and two pounds of food a day). Trouble not the work of the angels in your body by eating often. For I tell you truly, he who eats more than twice in the day does in him the work of Satan...  Eat only when the Sun is highest in the heavens, and once again when it is set...  and if you will that Satan shuns you afar, then sit but once in the day at the table of God... Eat not unclean foods brought from afar, but eat what your trees bear, for your God knows what is needful of you, and where, and when... Eat not as the heathen do, who stuff themselves in haste, defiling their bodies with all manner of abomination.  Eat always from the table of God: the fruit of the trees, the grasses and grains of the field, the milk of beasts, and the honey of bees.   For everything beyond these is of Satan, and leads by the way of sins and diseases unto death... breathe long and deeply with all your meals, and chew well your food with your teeth, that it become water, and that the angel of water turns it into blood in your body...  And eat slowly, as it were a prayer you make to the Lord.   For I tell you truly, the power of God enters into you, if you eat after this manner...but Satan turns into a steaming bog the body of him upon whom the angels of air (breathing long and deeply at meals) and water (chewing food into a liquid) do not descend at his repasts...  Put naught upon the altar of the Lord when your spirit is vexed, neither think upon anyone with anger in the temple of God. And enter only into the Lord's sanctuary when you feel in yourselves the call of his angels, for all that you eat in sorrow, or in anger, or without desire, becomes a poison in your body. Place with joy your offerings upon the altar of your body, and remember every seventh day is holy and consecrated to God.   On six days feed your body with the gifts of the earthly Mother, but on the seventh day sanctify your body for your heavenly Father.  On the seventh day, eat not any earthly food, but live only upon the words of God." (Quoted from the Essene Gospel of Peace)

I remember a friend of mine, who was a body-builder.  He regularly ate canned tuna fish, in the belief that it was a good source of "protein," which he believed he needed to develop his muscles.   He would tell me proudly, every day, how many grams of protein he had eaten.    It was in his mind to keep track of the fact that he needed protein, and also that a source of it was from tuna fish, and he even remember to keep track of it by the gram.   But his breath smelled like a sewer!

By now, everybody knows that bad breath doesn’t just come from unclean teeth, but is a reflection of putrefaction or fermentation in the stomach, bad blood, and general unhealthy bio-chemistry, which goes right to the cellular level. 

A popular expression says: "You are what you eat."   But I, who was an analytical contrarian, thought that just wasn’t true.  I would tell people: "You are NOT what you eat - - because no cells in the human body were ever made by food."   I would say, instead: "You excrete what you eat." But now I’m back to thinking that food really does influence the physical body, emotions, and even thoughts and thought processing, and it’s common knowledge that people who stop eating for a long enough time, begin to experience an unusually clear mind, and even clairvoyance becomes common. This is a gift of God.

Perhaps the most instructive testimony as to the acuteness of mental powers during fasting comes from Dr. Herbert Shelton who supervised the fasting of more than 40,000 people over a period of fifty years.   His message is that the freer the body is of toxic materials flowing through the blood and lymphatic system, the clearer is the ability to think.  

The following is a quote from Dr. Shelton’s volume of the Hygienic system devoted to fasting: "The mental effects of fasting have been known for ages, and have been much discussed by all writers on fasting… All the purely mental powers of man improve while fasting.   The ability to reason is increased.  Memory is improved.  Attention and association are quickened.  The so-called spiritual forces of man - - intuition, sympathy, love, etc. - - are all increased.   All of man’s intellectual and emotional qualities are given new life.  At no other times can the purely intellectual and aesthetic activities be so successfully pursued as during a fast...   People seem to learn better when hungry, and rate higher in intelligence tests when hungry than when the stomach is full.   As the old Romans used to say: "A full stomach does not like to think."  This well expresses a fact that is known to all mental workers. A full meal leaves the mind dull, unable to think clearly... and often makes us stupid and sleepy... When I was in high school, I used to miss a meal entirely when I knew I had an examination ahead.  At that time I knew nothing of fasting, but had discovered that I could think better on an empty stomach.    These facts are due to physiological causes.   Large amounts of blood and nervous energies have to be sent to the digestive organs to digest a meal.    If these energies are not required there, they may be used by the brain for better thinking.      In my experience with fasting, I seldom see any increase in mental powers at the beginning of a fast.   This is because we deal with the sick, and these people are all inebriates and addicts - - food inebriates, coffee and tea inebriates, tobacco and alcohol addicts.   As soon as these things are taken away from them, they suffer a period of depression with headaches and various pains.   After a few days of fasting, when the body has had sufficient time to re-adjust itself and overcome the depression, the mind brightens up.    The other senses also become acute. …Mental powers and clarity of thought are extraordinarily increased.   Memory develops itself in a wonderful way, and imagination is at its best.   One of the most remarkable things about fasting, that impresses patients even more than the mental gains, is the mental benefits that accrues… The clearness of the mind, the ease with which previously difficult problems can be handled, the improvement of memory, etc., all surprise and please the patients.  These improvements must be attributed to clearing the body of toxins. …The almost universal testimony of fasters is that their mind becomes clearer and their abilities to think and solve intricate problems are enhanced.   They are more alert, and their minds seem to open up into new fields… …Fasting results in an increase in mental abilities, primarily, I think, because it affords the body an opportunity to throw off its load of toxins, hence the brain is fed by a cleaner bloodstream.   Secondarily, I think that the rest of the improvements in all the functions of life that fasting provides, supplies the brain with more power to think.    Who can doubt that modern living tends to dull the mental powers?    Especially our national drug addictions and our almost universal overeating tend to reduce mental abilities."

Have you ever experienced a really heavy meal, and felt the lethargy, the tiredness that follows?   Have you ever eaten so much that your mind couldn’t think clearly?   Have you ever eaten so much, that your body has to lie down, and often even falls asleep, just to recuperate?  The fact is, that eating requires a large amount of energy just to digest the food. And of course much of the "food" of modern man (which are so many liquids and solids we call "food") was not even meant for human consumption by our intelligent Creator.   On the other hand, have you  noticed how good you feel after a good bowel movement?  Perhaps it’s time to re-examine our perspective on this issue.

All human beings have a desire to feel good, to be healthy, to look good, and to be mentally sharp as well.  What really convinced me about fasting was when I saw the results in some people I knew.   One girl, who I thought looked rather homely, plain and relatively unhealthy, fasted on pineapples and pineapple juice for 30 days.  When I suddenly saw her after 30 days, I couldn’t believe how gorgeous and healthy she looked!   Another friend, who weighed about 200 pounds, fasted on green papaya juice for about 30 days and lost about 40-50 pounds, looked great, and with the body of a teenager, in perfect proportions. 

Pineapples and green papayas are high in the digestive enzymes bromelain and papain respectively, and the enzymes in these fruits may be helpful for weight-loss and cancer.    At our farm in Hawaii, we grow "white" pineapples,  a super-sweet low-acid variety, with cream-colored fruit, and also make fresh juice from the same.  

Another girl I knew fasted for 40 days on the banks of a river.  Afterwards, she was absolutely radiant, with a joy that was tremendous.   When Jesus returned from 40 days of fasting and prayer in the desert, his countenance was also radiant.

Again, we have to look at the opposite of eating, which is not eating, or eating a lot less, and of better food choices.   If for no other reason, than for the reason that there might come a time on this planet, when food becomes hard to get.  For example, if there’s a nuclear winter, or rapid advance of the polar cap, with advancing glaciation, due to greenhouse effect, the growing season will be shortened, and famine could result, even in the United States.    At that time, you might also want to know about urine therapy.   A breatharian will also have advanced knowledge and experience with urine therapy, which is safe and beneficial.   There is a long write-up about urine therapy on another page of this website.

This book is called "Stop Eating,"  but it’s not a call to stop all eating.  It’s a call to stop eating for the wrong reasons, and the wrong food.   Many people would be happier, more healthy, and more beautiful, and have more energy, and be more creative, simply from not eating, or by eating less, or by eating less frequently…   It's a battle against eating, the original sin.

Food is thought by many to be the one great pleasure, from the tasting of the rich delicious food, and the belief that the identified substances we call vitamins, minerals, protein, etc., are causing a gain in health.   But let’s look at this, and prove to ourselves if this is so.   If food is so full of vitamins and minerals, and all those good things, how come it doesn't always make us feel so good after we eat?     Wiley Brooks said one of the reasons he quit eating was simply because he was tired of going to the bathroom all the time.   Food, he found, was wearing him down, and the cause of aging, and unhappiness.  

The often unpleasant smell that comes out of you is something that many people don’t even connect with the act of eating.    In my world, when food comes out the opposite end, we call it "doof," as a reminder that it is the opposite of food.   But is it?   Isn’t doof really food that has been processed by the body?  Then why does it smell so bad coming out of us, and why do we salivate for it, and even lick our plate in the desire for it?  We put it in our mouths, and relish every bite at one end, but at the other we hardly look at it, and just want to flush the toilet, and send it on its way to oblivion.   Isn't it a wonder that food is so desirable and tastes so good at one end, but at the other end, it is quite undesirable, obnoxious, and detestable.  Strange stuff, that food!

In the "Essene Gospel of Peace," Jesus instructs those who are taking enemas, in order to clean their intestines (the sewer of the body): Jesus urges them to: "Look with your eyes, and smell with your nose, at the abominations which hitherto have defiled the temple of your body."

If it smells bad, it is bad, which is obvious on a certain level, but we may prefer to put this thought behind us, and don’t care to think about it, just like when we flush the toilet, and send the doof into oblivion.   Most of us don’t know where it goes, and don’t care where it goes, but it sure feels good getting it out of us.  And that’s just regular eating.  How many of us have ever felt constipated at one time or another?  What a horrible feeling!  What a relief to move the bowels.  

We have to question our assumptions about food.  It may not be all that it has been touted to be, while much of what we call "food," can hardly meet the definition, except that some people eat it.   Food science, from now on, should include digestion science, and health books should be sure that readers understand the importance of digestion, rather than just pushing the simplistic theory that states "eat this" and "get well."  

I have seen many books in which the authors pronounced a variety of different foods, vitamins, and nutritional supplements as beneficial for a variety of conditions, but I myself would get sick eating most of these things.

The body is not just a chemical factory, but also a mechanical factory. It’s the difference between the traditional chemical theory of nutrition vs. a mechanical theory of nutrition.   The chemical theory only accounts for certain invisible substances (chemicals we call vitamins, minerals, protein, etc.) being present in the food.   But tree wood also contains minerals, vitamins, protein, and fiber, although it’s not edible.  The natural and healthy motive for eating should be because you are hungry, and have a strong appetite for aparticular flavor or taste, and the food is edible and palatable.   The wrong reason to eat is because of mental beliefs that favor acquisition of these invisible substances.   Hunger and appetite should be the guide, not mentals beliefs in nutritional values.

The body knows what it needs by instinct.    But even the so-called nutritional substances in food must come under scrutiny, because if they are so good for you, why is the excrement so rich in it?    Human excrement (pee and doof) contain high levels of "nutrients" which if properly composted, may be applied as a fertilizer and soil conditioner. Much of human illness could also be avoided, simply from wise choice of food, and moderation in eating.  We’ve got it backwards.  We eat the wrong food, and too much of it.   I believe we should eat for pleasure,  based on instinctive appetite...                                   
... Listen to your stomach, not your mind.   To eat for pleasure is a healthy habit, compared to eating because of because of mental beliefs that certain foods have invisible substances with magical powers.

If we eat for pleasure, there are 2 kinds of pleasure.  The pleasure of taste, and the pleasure in the abdomen.  The abdomen is the center of the body, and what happens in our abdomen, in our bellies, in our stomach and intestines, in the region of the solar plexus, radiates throughout the body, influencing our pleasure or unpleasure.   One important verse to note from the Essene Gospel of Peace states that "…on the seventh day of  fasting, all pains went away."  

Food and eating cause more pain and misery, which we may recognize in ourselves occasionally, but only see the tip of the iceberg in others. People who suffer from indigestion need this advice more than those who don’t.    But even for those who appear healthy, there is occasional pain caused from eating wrongly, either too much food, insufficient digestion, bloating, gas, various pains in the abdominal area, and even going to the bathroom can sometimes be painful or embarrassing. 

Of course, for the obese person, there is the physical risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and a number of other diseases, as well as the psychological factor of embarassment at being over-weight.   In today's slick and fast-paced world, "Thin is in, and stout is out."   Leading models have a waif-like appearance.   The saying goes: "You can never be too thin, or too rich." 

One of the problems with eating, for those who suffer from it, is the emotional pain, caused by eating, in those who have lost their childlike figures, whether or not they have a weight problem.  But all these things can be corrected, because the body is a marvelous instrument, that works even when we are asleep.  It is self-healing and self-regulating.   And sometimes it has to force us to go to sleep, so it can have extra energy to work and heal the damage.

By using instinct in our eating habits (choice of food, amount eaten, etc) we are in touch with "mother nature" which appears to be intelligently designed by the heavenly Creator, God.   Instinct is the body’s ancient and wise intelligence.  This was our natural way to make food choices, before the mind was "corrupted" by food scientists who told us about the beneficial substances in food, called nutrients, which is exploited by the food industry.   "Every body needs milk" for example, "because of" its calcium content.   Breatharianism, on the other hand, holds the belief that these things are not necessary, or are far overplayed in importance, compared to the peace of our bellies, which feel best when there's nothing going through them.

The food industry is one of the largest industries in the world.   Doesn't it make sense that there has been a world-wide conspiracy to make all the gullible people in the world believe there were invisible magical qualities in different foods?  I’m not paranoid, but it is true that "original sin" was a dietary sin.  Be careful what and how you eat!

Instinct is not created by human intelligence.   Whoever or whatever created this amazing universe to evolve as it did, also created instinct. Instinct is something you are born with it, and it’s beyond your control. Like your heartbeat and respiration are beyond your control.  Instinct is built-in to your being, and by using it, the body is extremely intelligent, and can heal itself (in most cases that are self-repairing) - - if given the chance. Dr. Shelton writes repeatedly that the best cure for any illness, is to remove the cause, and the body will do the rest.

One time, when I was in college, I came down with hepatitis, and I was extremely nauseated, and had no appetite at all.  Two different doctors who saw me told me that I "had to eat," because my body "needed protein" to repair the damaged liver.   I escaped from the 8-day hospital force-feeding of cheese omelets and butter, and commenced a month-long orange-juice fast, from fresh-squeezed organic oranges (with a little garlic juice added), and daily enemas.    After just 2 days on the orange juice, garlic, and enemas, my eyes turned from a sickly jaundiced yellow color, to a clear, bright, radiant luminescence, clearer and brighter than I can ever recall! 

I continued on this regime, adding whole sweet oranges, until I was consuming about 20 oranges a day, and nothing else, for about a month.  I resumed my school activity, and even had energy to run up steep hills on campus, with a book bag in my arms.  Just a week earlier, the doctors were trying to force-feed me cheese omelets, although I intelligently protested, claiming that I was very nauseated, and even asked the doctors "Isn’t this nausea a sign that I shouldn’t eat?"   But the doctor disagreed.  

This was in 1972, and it followed the summer when I discovered the Essene Gospel of Peace.  Almost all that summer, I ate fruits that were in season, and stayed healthy as far as I could remember.    Then as October set in, the air became colder, and my girlfriend introduced me to omelets, with cheese in them.   I ate omelets almost every day for a week, and it felt ok, and thought maybe this was "good" for me, and if a little was "good," then more would be better.  By about the seventh day of eating eggs and cheese, I believe I had eaten 12 eggs in one day, and also began eating cream cheese (with butter).  Lovely, except there was no fruit in my diet anymore!  To balance the heavy feeding, I had also taken up coffee (another one of my least favorite foods, but which has its place occasionally).   Anyhow, after seven days, my girlfriend pointed out the yellow in my eyes, and insisted I go to the hospital to get it checked out.  At the time, I really didn’t feel that good, and I was sitting in a smoke-filled café, at night, under electric lights, drinking coffee.

So my case of hepatitis (evidenced by the jaundice in the eyes) followed a week of eating almost nothing but eggs, cheese, butter, cream cheese, and coffee.   (The yellowing of the eyes was a sign that the bile is blocked, because the liver and gall-bladder were congested by too much consumption of fats and animal protein).  The doctor who saw me said I had the worst case of hepatitis he had ever seen, and told me that I’d be "bed-ridden for six months," and he also told me that I "had to eat" (to rebuild a damaged liver).  

I wanted to leave the hospital, to go back to the sunshine and fresh air (which I knew would heal me), but the doctors locked me in the hospital room, for fear that I would "infect" the whole campus.  For eight days, I was locked in a dark, cold, sterile and depressing hospital room, and at the doctors insistence, I ate the hospital food, which was almost exclusively cheese omelets, with butter, chocolate pudding, and drinking whole pasteurized milk, [i.e., note that these were the very same foods which made me sick in the first place].   On or about the eighth day in the hospital, I looked at myself closely in the mirror, to see if there were any signs of improvement.   I appeared to be far worse than the day I entered the hospital.   I tied the bed-sheets together, and thus escaped from my second floor locked room, and I felt thrilled to be back in the outdoors, with the sun shining, and the wind blowing in my face.

It was autumn, and the brisk fresh air gave me enthusiasm to live.   I began to search for a remedy, a natural health remedy, how to cure hepatitis.  One friend told me that when the soldiers came down with hepatitis in Vietnam, they’d be given blood to drink, and that I should go to the local butcher shop, and pick up a quart of blood!  I shudder now, and shuddered even then, at the thought!  But maybe there’s something beneficial there, because blood may be a rich and healing liquid.   If I had only known about urine-therapy, which is frequently mentioned for jaundice (more about urine-therapy later).  

Another person said I had to eat lots of liver (to re-build my own liver).  Another person told me drinking milk was good for hepatitis.  In my own mind, the doctors in the hospital, the Vietnam vet, etc., all seemed ludicrous, since I was already committed to being a vegetarian, and had read extensively the works of Arnold Ehret, Herbert Shelton, Paul Bragg, the Essene Gospel of Peace, etc., etc.   

Finally, I placed a call to a person respected for his understanding of natural healing, Vik Kulvinskas, and asked him what to do.    He told me he had just helped another person with a similar condition, and suggested the fasting on orange juice, with some garlic juice, and daily enemas for 3 days, and then follow with whole oranges (which I did for a month).

As I said, I felt and looked completely healed within just a few days of leaving the hospital. That month, November ’72, I ate nothing but sweet navel oranges, and I had more energy than I’ve ever felt in my life.   I also began sleeping outdoors at the same time, for the fresh air.   Later, I heard a talk by Vik, who told another story of an individual who had severe hepatitis, whose urine was almost black, and nothing seemed to work.  The individual started to drink his own (black) urine, and within a few days, the urine became clear and the hepatitis went away.  

An excellent book on urine drinking is called The Water of Life (1957) by JW Armstrong.   In the Bible, Jesus says that   "rivers of living waters shall flow from your bellies." (John 7:38)    The living water is your own urine, and many cases of remarkable cures have come from sick people drinking their own urine.  The body is an amazing bio-chemical factory, and you don’t need all sorts of pills and potions, when you have rivers of living waters flowing from your own bellies.  Urine is not a waste-product, but a by-product of the blood, and is a rich source of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, etc., as well as helping to build immunity.   It is anti-biotic and anti-septic, anti-viral, and anti-bacterial.   It is one of the best skin creams, very high in urea, and is noted to be highly effective when applied topically to just about every kind of skin disease.

JW Armstrong was a pioneer in urine therapy, and fasted himself, as much as 45 days at a time on just urine and water.   He also recommended massaging the whole body with urine, with excellent results for energy and skin tone and smoothness and softness.  Armstrong quotes Jesus saying that "when you fast, you should "anoint your head" and "wash your body," which he did with urine, with excellent results.  Urine is "structured water,"  and about 80% percent of the water in our bodies is "structured water," a kind of water which passes quickly through the cells. 

If drinking your own urine, collect in a glass bottle, and drink warm.  Drink all your urine, and keep recycling it, until you begin to feel better. You may soon find yourself drinking about 1 pint every 20 minutes. There are about 6 books in print, specifically on the amazing health benefits of auto-urine-drinking (drinking your own urine), and they can be found in an internet search of "urine-therapy."   A better book than Armstrong's is Martha M. Christy's Your Own Perfect Medicine (1995) -- subtitled The Incredible Proven Natural Miracle Cure That Medical Science Has Never Revealed! which offers vast references to modern scientific research on urine therapy, as well as interesting historical records of its use in ancient Egypt, ancient China, Rome, and India.    A recent prime minister of India , Morarji Desai used to drink his own urine daily, and encouraged his countrymen to do the same.    Indian jokers nicknamed urine "Morarji Cola."

The thought of drinking one's own urine brings up snickers, or jokes, or in some people, disgust.   In Martha Christy's book she recounts the experience of an AIDS patient, who refused to try it, and instead always made jokes.  The he heard it could be applied topically to a variety of skin conditions.    He had a bad case of ringworm and athlete's foot that wouldn't go away.    He had tried everything.   After 3 days of rubbing his skin with his own urine, both skin problems suddenly went away.   When he saw the results of using urine on his skin, he suddenly found that he had no problem drinking it, and shortly thereafter, all of his AIDS of the symptoms disappeared as well.     The books by Armstrong and Christy detail hundreds of cases of remarkable cures by people who drank their own urine.   See more complete review of urine therapy within this web site, by clicking on "urine therapy-the fountain of youth."

Another rare book that influenced me was Healing By Water, by a writer named T. Hartley-Hennessey (1950). In it, the author describes the ancient belief in drinking, and bathing in-, "sun-kissed" surface waters.

Fasting is an ancient practice, also used by many animals in nature when they get sick. It has been well-known throughout human history, and has been well-researched.   Fasting is a practice that it safe and effective, and hundreds of books have been written on the subject and are available (see bibliography).   By not eating, the body saves a lot of energy it would normally use on digestion.   Fasting allows a deep, physiological rest of the digestive organs, and the energy saved goes into self-healing and self-repairing.

Before continuing, and before I lose your attention, another aspect of the Stop Eating diet is that it offers a possible cure to world hunger, as well as great health to those who follow it.   "Stop Eating" is a catchy title, and it reinforces the main theme, but it doesn’t mean to stop eating altogether, or forever.   It just means "watch it!"    And "watch out!" Because eating food can be like playing with fire, and you don’t want it to backfire on you!

This book may not be for everybody. If you feel satisfied that you keep perfectly healthy, you probably don’t need this book, although I believe anybody might get some helpful hints.   When I first took a course on breatharianism (with Wiley Brooks in Hawaii), I learned that I already was a breatharian, except that I just didn’t understand it or recognize it. See: "Breatharianism: the Secret You’ve Been Looking For!"

Sure, food is pleasant to look at, and to smell, and it can be very appetizing, but eating it without moderation, or without strong can be very debilitating.    There have been times when I ate the wrong foods, or too much food, or got gas so bad which caused me to be so bloated, that I couldn’t work, walk, or even bend over.  I could only peacefully lay down, on my back or on my side.  This has probably happened to many of us, on occasion.  Overeating and/or indigestion also distract from clear thinking.

Especially now, so many people in the modern world have sedentary occupations and sedentary lifestyles, which also contribute to ill health, or dis-ease, which is the lack of ease.   Such sedentary lifestyle, combined with the affluence of the west, and the smorgasbord of food choices available in the modern supermarkets,  is a major contributing cause of obesity and other associated health problems.   Wiley Brooks told the story of an obese man who explained he had a "gland problem." "Sure, he has a gland problem," joked Wiley, "It’s called his mouth!"

The supermarkets are full of thousands of items, thousands of choices are available, thousands of questionable concoctions and mixtures of different things, that all have to pass through our genetically-evolved intestinal tract.   But man is not meant to be a garbage can.  Man is not even meant to be an omnivore, although many people are, and have adapted, but at a cost.

Meanwhile, we are brainwashed and programmed through the encouragement of food advertisements, which appear all around us, on billboards, in magazines, and on TV, and even in health books touting the latest "secret" health-food. At the same time, food industry scientists are always coming up with a new pill or potion that concentrates the magical qualities of different foods into a pill or potion.

The automobile is another convenience that contributes to the eating problem, because now we can go shopping and carry tons of food in the back of our car.   And let’s not forget the convenience of refrigerators, stoves, microwave ovens, and flush toilets.   If we didn’t have these things, or didn’t use these things, we might be more conscious of our eating activity.

The natural food of man is fresh, ripe fruit.    The Bible says so in Genesis 1:29, and it is also evident in comparison of man’s physiology and anatomy (the saliva, the teeth, the kinds of fingers and fingernails, and the digestive juices, and the length of the alimentary canal), which is similar to that of the fruit-eating animals.

As people age, their powers of digestion weaken, or diminish.  Many old people eat very little, and also have little appetite.   That’s one reason you don’t see too many old people, who are fat or obese.  If you think about all the oldest people you know, many of them are skinny as a rail.  Another thing among old people is that they can’t or don’t sleep, either very long or very deeply.  Perhaps this is related to the fact that they don’t eat much.  My own theory has been that this is God’s way to force them to do some soul-searching and deep meditation.  Because if you can’t eat, or can’t sleep, you’re going to have to do something with your time, (like meditate and repent).

There have been scientific studies that prove the correlation (at least with animals) of the relationship between calories and longevity.   The famous story of Luigi Cornaro (see his story in chapter in "Jesus’Diet", or read Cornaro’s own books).   Cornaro lived in the 15^th century Italy, and when he was in his 20’s, his doctors gave him up to die from so-called "incurable" diseases.   But, on advice from one particular doctor, Cornaro changed his diet, in one main way, by limiting the weight of his daily food and drink, to no more than 12 ounces of solid food, and 16 ounces of liquids per day (or maybe it was vice-versa).   At least, in those days, Cornaro didn’t have the problem of too many food choices.  Cornaro not only overcame his poor health, and his diseases, which were pronounced incurable, but he lived until he was 90 or more, in a time when the average life expectancy was in the 30’s.

This is just another story in a mountain of evidence proving that fasting and restricted diets are beneficial to health.    However, fasting is generally not recommended for those who suffer from malnutrition.   But, with most people in the modern, western world, the problem is with over-nourshment, and congestion from too much eating and wrong food availability.   Actually, it has been pointed out that many people in the modern world are overfed, but undernourished at the same time.

Cooking destroys nutrients.  Man is the only animal in nature that cooks its food.   Cooking destroys vitamins, enzymes, and other food factors, and re-arranges the composition of amino acids. One healthful transition is to the enjoyment of raw food, and to freshly-picked raw food.  Again, some people cannot digest raw food that easily.  Perhaps fasting first, is again key to any successful dietary transition.

As most people know, the dietary transition mode would be thought to be to stop eating all junk food and useless calories, and from there to eliminate the flesh of dead animals, transition to vegetarianism, raw foods, then raw food vegan, then fruitarian, liquidarian, and then breatharian.  We’re all breatharians anyhow, but we just don’t know it.  I mean that we stay alive from breathing, first and foremost.  The nourishment the body needs most is air, and it works best with fresh, clean air.  People have fasted for 40 days or more, just drinking water, although in the Bible, it says that Jesus fasted for 40 days "without food or water."  Wiley Brooks claimed that one time he himself went for 90 days without food or water.  The body can go for long periods of time without food, and possibly without water (if the system is pure enough, and if not put into a desert-dry environment).

However, the requirement for air is constant, and breathing, or respiration, is another instinct that is beyond our control.  In fact, all living things display an amazing innate bio-chemical intelligence, that is ingrained, right down to the cellular level.  There was once a TV show called "The Six Million Dollar Man."  One health writer, the Peacock (see bibliography) speaks of our "billion-dollar bodies." With all our vast resources and scientific knowledge, man can still not create life, except by reproduction from living things that already exist.

Do you tell yourself to breathe when you go to sleep each night?  Of course not.  So who’s in control?  Let’s exercise a little humility, and realize that our bodies contain an innate intelligence that controls the heartbeat, circulates the blood, controls breathing, and performs thousands, if not millions, or billions, of chemical reactions constantly, in our bodies, in every one of our organs and trillions of cells.  In fact, our bodies are composed of about 100 trillion cells.

Something else besides eating food sustains us, and gives us life.   Eating food is not what sustains us, or gives us life.  Too often than we care to admit, eating food is a cause of pain to the body, a cause of unsightly weight-gain, and slows us down physically.  Again, food is not the problem.  The problem is eating it, or too much of it, or too fast, or in too many combinations, or without sufficient appetite.  That’s why the emphasis should be on not what to eat, but how to eat.   Fasting, and moderation in diet, does the opposite, and empowers us to act in ways that improve our lives.

And why not be happy? Wiley Brooks said that the breatharian diet was the fast track to happiness. And he said that he didn’t care if people believed him or not, because he was going to keep on being happy, and he knew the secret of happiness, which is being in control of your life, instead of letting things from outside of you control you (like food).

The first and main requirement to truly understand the philosophy of breatharianism is to know that it’s not whether you eat or not eat that makes you a breatharian, but knowing that food is not all that it has been promoted to be. T here’s a down side to every food.  For example, the milk industry ran some false advertising many years ago with its campaign slogan "Every body needs milk."  That’s false, because it is well-known that many people (especially many black folk) are lactose-intolerant, and do not produce the enzymes necessary to digest milk.  There’s so much hype for this or that food product, when really we need more information about the power of fasting, and undereating.  If the money McDonald’s spends annually on advertising were put into this kind of health message, the world would be a far happier place, (and McDonalds would save millions or billions every year).

As we cleanse and purify the body by fasting, the body is able to respond better, and to heal itself more efficiently.  Fasting restores good digestion and elimination, and peristaltic action is quickened. This alone is a good enough reason to fast on occasion, because the way you feel in this region has a major bearing on the mind and on the emotions. Fasting removes the obstructions that interfere with the body’s use of its own power.   Arnold Ehret’s famous formula was P=V-O, or Power (or energy) equals innate Vitality, minus Obstructions.   That’s why as soon as you have a good elimination by way of a bowel movement, suddenly your energy picks up, and you even may become cheerful again.  You didn’t put food into your body; the opposite, you got rid of it. That’s the cause of that energy, the removal or elimination of obstructions.

Now there is a big difference between fasting and breatharianism. Breatharianism is a philosophy of understanding how the body works. You can eat if you want to; that’s your prerogative.  But knowing that food is not giving you energy or life is the key (to breatharianism). Fasting, on the other hand, is practiced between rounds of eating. (Of course, we’re all fasting between meals, although some people graze all day, like animals.   And most people fast overnight, and then eat break-fast).  I remember during some fasts, I began to crave some real junk foods that I had eaten decades before, and wondered why. My only explanation why I craved this complete junk food was because I was experiencing what I called "psychic vibrations" from the dross of junk food residues which my body was eliminating, due to the squeezing of the cells by fasting, thus eliminating not only obstructions, but psychic vibrations as well…

Another strange thing happened to me when I fasted, without food or water for  3 days at a time, on several occasions.    I had to pee more than ever!  To break the fast, I’d eat some fresh fruit in season, and experience a tremendous bowel movement, which made me feel so light, and filled me with an energy that could not be matched from sitting down to a so-called "hearty meal."  But all fasting experts point out that it is important to resume eating very lightly, and very gradually, in exact relationship to the duration of the fast.  Therefore, if breaking a 40-day fast, you may want to start with only small quantities of fruit juice for several days up to a week, before actually resuming with solid food like regular fruit.

I knew another man, who was a survivor from the Holocaust.  He told me tales of how so many of the survivors died like flies, after being liberated, because of what they ate, and the fact that they ate too much, and too fast.  He himself was liberated from the concentration camp at age 21 and weighed only 80 pounds. When I met him, he was in his 60’s and weighed 230 pounds, and his belly looked it had a beach ball in it, or almost like he was 9 months pregnant, and he suffered from cancer and diabetes.  He made a regular habit of sitting down to multi-course meals, and even breakfast was a ritual that took many dishes and bowls, and lots of time.   But eating isn’t the way to health and salvation.   Fasting is.

In the Bible, Jesus teaches how to fast, saying "Show your fasting unto no man… Fast in secret... and thy Father who sees in secret shall reward thee openly."   I say to all aspiring breatharians, the same thing about eating.   Eat in secret, if you must, but don’t tell anybody, they’ll just be envious or negative, and maybe think you’re crazy.    Keep it a secret.  Fast and pray.  Meditate.  Don’t be a martyr for breatharianism.  If you understand it, that’s your business.   Other people will understand it in due time.  You can suggest reasons why the breatharian philosophy appeals to you, but I suggest you don’t proselytize. It’s a very individual matter, and only you should be in control of your body. But do consult whomever you know that you can trust, and is knowledgeable in this subject.

You won’t die from missing food every now and then, but you certainly can hurt yourself if you believe you have to have food, even when you’re not hungry.  That’s why I say, if you must eat, eat with "belly consciousness," and for instinctive pleasure in the abdominal region,   not with "mental consciousness," which is eating because of belief in nutrition, or for pleasure of the taste buds only.  (The mental consciousness around food is the belief in the magical qualities of vitamins, etc., that scientists have discovered in food, which we agree  is there, but it is not clear that these magical substances actually do all they’re claimed to do, merely on account of ingesting or consuming them).

I’m sure that this book, and this philosophy, will receive some negative attention, because eating and food is so ingrained into our social consciousness and social activities, and the food industry is one of the biggest industries in the world.  Did you ever look at the lines at the supermarkets, and consider the billions and trillions of dollars spent annually on food?  And meanwhile there are vast areas of the planet, where people suffer from hunger, famine, and malnutrition, and where children die every day from too little nourishment.

The breatharian philosophy is obviously linked to higher consciousness, and it is not wise to give up eating until and unless the body is cleansed and purified, by way of eliminating any and all obstructions in the intestines, purifying the blood, and the cellular structure of the body.  The Bible states: "Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?" Therefore, purify your body so that the Holy Spirit of God may dwell therein, and occupy a place that is worthy of him.  Was it Aristotle or Plato or Socrates who wouldn’t accept any students until they passed through a 40-day fast?  The mind becomes clear, and for once the super-senses can operate without obstruction.  Wiley Brooks said he found it "hard to talk to God in a garbage can."  The human body is not meant to be a garbage can, like it is with so many people. Many religious fasts have been undertaken both for repentance (thus Jesus’ Diet for Your Sins!), as well as a ritual or rite to higher consciousness and religious ecstasy.

Even marriages can be healed by fasting and prayer.  In the Bible, St. Paul recommends fasting and prayer instead of divorce (I Corinth 7:1-2, 5, 7-9).  The fasting part of it would probably help many women retain their youthful figures, as well a more healthy, radiant beauty.  Also, many men would physically benefit from fasting, as well as rejuvenate the sex drive of their youth.   I believe real fasting, combined with real prayer, could save many troubled marriages. In Corinthians, chapter 7, St. Paul writes: "...it is good for a man not to touch a woman… Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband ... Defraud ye not one another, except it be by consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your lack of self-control....   For I wish that all men were as myself.  But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, another after that. I say therefore, to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them to abide even as I.  But if they cannot contain (sexual continence), let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn." (I Corinth 7:1-2,5,7-9).

I also believe that coffee-drinking can be a cause of division between couples, because the caffeine in coffee tends to raise blood pressure, and this can result in some negative confrontations between people who expect so much of each other.   So instead of divorce, quit the coffee (and get rid of that stale coffee breath), and fast and pray.

Fasting and prayer at the same time are recommended in the Bible, as well as in the Essene Gospel of Peace. "Show your fasting unto no man, but unto God, who is in secret, and who sees in secret, and great shall be your reward." (Matthew 6:18).

In Matthew 6:16-18, Jesus says: "And now about fasting. When you fast, declining your food for a spiritual purpose, don’t do it publicly, as the hypocrites do, who try to look wan and disheveled so people will feel sorry for them. Truly, that is the only reward they will ever get. But when you fast, put on festive clothing, so that no one will suspect you are hungry, except your Father who knows every secret. And he will reward you." (New Living Bible translation).

This chapter goes on (verses 25-27, and also 31-34): "So my counsel is: Don’t worry about things - - food, drink, and clothes. For you already have life and a body, and they are far more important than what to eat and wear. Look at the birds! They don’t worry about what to eat; they don’t need to sow or reap or store up food; for your heavenly Father feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than they are. Will all your worries ever add a single moment to your life? …So don’t worry at all about having enough food and clothing. Why be like the heathen? For they take pride in all these things and are deeply concerned about them. But your heavenly Father already knows perfectly well that you need them, and he will give them to you, if you give him the first place in your life and live as he wants you to." (New Living Bible).

Another one of my favorite sayings from the Bible states that "it is better for the heart to be strengthened by grace, than by foods, through which, those who were thus occupied, were not benefited." (Hebrews 13:9) Those who are occupied by food, are not benefited from it. The thing that benefits us is to do God’s will, which is that we do good and help others. Food and eating are not the key to salvation, to life, or to health.

We don’t get our life from eating, we don’t get salvation by so much eating (even the best foods are worthless without good morals, holy intentions, and righteous activity).

God knows every hair on our head, and his glance can penetrate to the most hidden recesses of our bowels. Therefore, it makes sense to try to be pure and holy and righteous. Judgment day is coming. Or just in case it is. The breatharian philosophy or lifestyle is just another way to commune with God. There is an uplifting of the soul. There is a joy to the spirit. There is a call to do good, to be useful, to be helpful to others. The body has more energy, more freedom, more time. I believe fasting is used for religious rites of passage in this way, as it causes a cleansing and purifying, not just of the physical body, but it also cleanses emotional and mental problems as well. In the Essene Gospel of Peace, Jesus says "Your fasting is always pleasing in the eyes of God." In the Bible, Jesus promises: "And when you fast…your Father shall reward you openly."

Another one of my favorite sayings from the Bible, which applies to the breatharian philosophy is "Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, then all these things shall be added unto you." What better way to seek the kingdom of heaven, but to do the activity which causes that heavenly feeling, which is fasting.

Fasting is always better than eating. If there’s ever any question of whether or not you should eat, listen to the advice and warnings of Jesus in the Essene Gospel of Peace. "Eat only when called by the angel of appetite... Cook not... Neither mix all things with one another, lest your bowels become as steaming bogs... Be content with two or three sorts of foods, which you will always find around you... Never eat unto fullness... Satan and his power tempt you to eat more and more, but live by the spirit and resist the desires of the body... Your fasting is always pleasing in the eyes of the angels of God… So give heed to how much you have eaten when you are sated (satisfied), and eat less always by a third... Let the weight of your daily food be not less than a "mina" (a Hebrew weight approximately 99/100ths of a pound), but mark that it not go beyond two...(i.e., between one and two pounds of food a day). Trouble not the work of the angels in your body by eating often. For I tell you truly, he who eats more than twice in the day does in him the work of Satan... Eat only when the Sun is highest in the heavens, and once again when it is set... and if you will that Satan shuns you afar, then sit but once in the day at the table of God... Eat not unclean foods brought from afar, but eat what your trees bear, for your God knows what is needful of you, and where, and when... Eat not as the heathen do, who stuff themselves in haste, defiling their bodies with all manner of abomination… Eat always from the table of God: the fruit of the trees, the grasses and grains of the field, milk of beasts, and the honey of bees. For everything beyond these is of Satan, and leads by the way of sins and diseases unto death... Breathe long and deeply with all your meals, and chew well your food with your teeth, that it become water, and that the angel of water turns it into blood in your body... And eat slowly, as it were a prayer you make to the Lord. For I tell you truly, the power of God enters into you, if you eat after this manner... but Satan turns into a steaming bog the body of him upon whom the angels of air (breathing long and deeply at meals) and water (chewing food into a liquid) do not descend at his repasts... Put naught upon the alter of the Lord when your spirit is vexed, neither think upon anyone with anger in the temple of God. And enter only into the Lord's sanctuary when you feel in yourselves the call of his angels, for all that you eat in sorrow, or in anger, or without desire, becomes a poison in your body. Place with joy your offerings upon the alter of your body, and remember every seventh day is holy and consecrated to God. On six days feed your body with the gifts of the earthly Mother, but on the seventh day sanctify your body for your heavenly Father. On the seventh day, eat not any earthly food, but live only upon the words of God." (Quoted from the Essene Gospel of Peace).

This way of eating is very spartan-like, an exceedingly very small amount of food, and it is very close to complete breatharianism.   In fact, it is a diet for breatharians who eat only a little. The word "spartan" refers to the ancient Greek warriors, from sparta in ancient Greece,   who were well-known for their great strength on a very small rations.     I believe that one of the simple foods they ate, which was considered to give them their great strength, was "halvah" a confection of crushed sesame seeds and honey. Spartan-like eating is what is called for in the Essene Gospel of Peace.   Again, "spartan" means "marked by simplicity, frugality, avoidance of luxury, strict self-discipline, austerity, indomitableness of endurance, etc."

Remember, it’s not whether you eat or don’t eat, that makes you a breatharian. People make fun of Wiley Brooks when they hear that he eats on occasion. He says that he knows that the food is not giving him energy.

About a year after the seminar with Wiley, I caught the end of a radio interview with him, in which he was asked this question:   "What was the last food you ate, and how long ago did you eat it?"    Wiley’s answer: "A teaspoon of peanut butter, about two weeks ago."   I was amazed at his choice of foods, since most all fasting experts recommend that the last foods eaten before a fast should have a laxative effect.  Dr. Norman Walker, who lived past 100 years old, and recommended drinking fresh-sqeezed juices from raw fruit and vegetables, wrote that the two most deleterious (i.e., "injurious" or worst) foods for human health were peanut butter and popcorn.    Dr. Walker wrote a number of books, including: "Colon Health: the Key to a Vibrant Life," "Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices," "Natural way to Vibrant Health," and "Become Younger," aw well as several other titles, and is also the inventor of the hydraulic Norwalk Juicers, which are considered the most efficient and nutritious way to extract fresh juice.

Yesterday, on my way to the beach, I was feeling great, like most breatharians should feel.  I had a completely empty stomach, empty bowels, was full of energy.  I stopped in town to do some errands, stopped at my friend’s restaurant, and decided to drink a fresh-squeezed organic carrot- and beet-juice, with a little garlic and ginger. I drank about 12 ounces, and proceeded to the beach. Immediately, I could feel my energy brought down. It felt as if this "foreign fluid" had entered my body. At least it was headed into the right place, past the stomach, and into the alimentary canal, bladder and kidneys, which would be used to process and eliminate the substance.  I didn’t feel sick or anything;  just a little weighted down.   The carrot-beet juice was red, like blood, from the beet juice, and I realized that these were just tubers, grown thousands of miles away, in some other state, in a world far apart from me, and suddenly I was carrying around inside of me millions of molecules of this foreign substance.

Now, I know that my stomach and intestines, seem like they are "inside of me," but in a way they are not. They’re like the hole that goes through the donut. Be happy and thankful that you have this major organ of elimination, and your entire digestive system, but just don’t abuse it.    The less you use it, the better it will work; and vice-versa, if you over-use your digestive system, the less efficient it works.   And the better it works, the healthier and happier you will be.

Some people will ask, "What’s the purpose of the intestines, if not for eating?" and the answer is "The purpose of the intestines is for eliminating wastes and foreign substances from the body."    Even non-eaters like Wiley Brooks, and Jasmuheen admit to occasionally having to go to the toilet to eliminate solid material.   There are the body’s own dead cells, as well as environmental contamination that  also must be eliminated.

Wiley Brooks transitioned for about 20 years, and recommended his 3-week transitional "yellow diet," although he is most memorable for saying that every individual must discover for themselves what works, and what doesn’t work. In his case, only full-time breatharianism worked.   Every time he fasted, he said, he felt great, and all his pains and symptoms of disease went away, but every time he returned to eating, even what he thought was the best foods, the old symptoms returned. He claimed that he tried fruitarian diet, liquidarian diet, etc., but nothing worked for him as good as not eating.

Jasmuheen also was a strict vegetarian for 20 years, transitioning eventually to just fruits, then liquids, and then occasionally soup or tea, mainly for the taste sensation only (not out of any true hunger), and also just to be sociable.

Both of these self-proclaimed breatharians note the ridicule and disbelief by society, so I warn you to not advertise your not-eating. Remember the teachings of Jesus: "When you fast, show your fasting unto no man." (Matthew chapter 6) Keep it secret. Stay high.

In the Bible, Jesus tells us what happens to food. "Do you not know, that when food goes into the mouth, it proceeds into the belly, and from there, is cast into the sewer?" (Matthew 15:17)

By eating, even the best foods, we are not doing the highest thing, which is fasting. Food turns to doof, which is a relatively obnoxious substance, and this is what we are putting out because of eating. I’m not saying don’t eat. I’m just saying that fasting is generally always better than eating (except in certain cases, like malnutrition). "Your fasting is always pleasing in the eyes of God," counsels Jesus in the Essene Gospel of Peace. 

Jesus said his burden was "light," and his yoke was "easy." What a relief, to not have to carry the burden of chasing after food, or even of believing in food. Once you see this and really comprehend it, you won’t need much discipline to avoid certain activities which hurt or cause pain, one of which is from eating certain substances, which we call food. As Wiley said: "It takes no discipline to move out of the way of a moving car. Once you know that the food you are eating is a foreign substance that may cause pain, and that you can live without it, or at least most of it, then it will take no discipline to stop taking it. If you believe food is good for you, and that you need it, you can never be a breatharian, and even fasting will be difficult.

Again, breatharians can eat, and do eat occasionally, usually out of instinctive hunger, rather than from the modern paradigm of trying to eat a balanced diet, believing that the so-called "nutrients" in the substances swallowed are beneficial or necessary. Breatharians eat just for the pleasure of it, via the taste, sensations, and experience it provides to the breatharian’s body. Even the original commandment regarding man’s natural food, in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, reads: "Of every tree of paradise, thou mayest eat freely." It doesn’t say: "…Thou must eat…"

Wiley recommended a transition to breathariansism via his "yellow" diet, but suggested that each individual should discover for themselves what works best for them, and follow that. Jasmuheen also admits to occasional eating (soup, tea), and I personally have no problem with a breatharian who likes to eat occasionally. After all, that’s why we have an alimentary canal: to get rid of wastes from the body.  It’s ok to eat if you’re hungry, and it doesn’t cause the body any pain or discomfort.

One who has evolved to breatharian diet, has usually transitioned away from the lower kinds of foods, to a lighter way of eating, which is more suitable and more peaceful. Both Wiley and Jasmuheen, as well as Dr. Barbara Moore (discussed later) all describe how they spent about 20 years transitioning. Compare a breatharian eating to the burden on the alimentary system of someone who is constantly eating, because of "belief" in food (even when one is not hungry!) Overeating, even the best foods, is of course not good. But even the person who eats three "square" meals a day, in the belief that eating food is necessary to the maintenance of health, is burdening his or her intestinal system with constant work in digesting and eliminating, not to mention just carrying the food around.

I feel really sad for people who are extremely overweight, or who have very large distended bellies, from too much eating, chronic eating of the wrong food and too much of it. Besides the heavy burden of carrying around all that weight, there is the emotional burden of a mis-shapen body. Wiley Brooks used to joke that people actually do pick up traits of the food they eat. Have you ever noticed, he asked, that people who eat a lot of beef get beefy? People who eat fish may begin to smell fishy. And one empirical observation that can be made is that in certain places in the world where people have been eating pigs for generations, their faces eventually start to look a little like a pig, which is unfortunate but true.

I’m not saying that if you eat a mango, that you’ll look like a mango.

But stick with the breatharian philosophy of detoxification and cleansing by belief in- and practice of- fasting and of bodily purification (including blood and lungs). Then, if and when hungry, eat mainly fresh, ripe, nutritious-organic, juicy, colorful fruit, as needed, slowly, just to satisfy your hunger.

Your good health will be evident when you see your cheeks developing

a more colorful hue, your face may change shape a little more handsome, and with a radiance that is unusual in this world, and you will have more physical energy, better spiritual thoughts and experiences, and your weight will probably return to its normal or ideal. This seems to work for me - - but even I, who am so far from the ideal, am also far away from the usual, in modern western society, where this message is aimed.

In 1975, I had a revealing experience, in Boston, where I spent the winter. Boston was (and still is) a main center for macrobiotics, which is related to a kind of eating system, originally developed by George Osawa in Japan and then later expanded upon by Michio Kushi in the Boston area. The macrobiotic diet is centered around cooked food, brown rice and other grains and beans, steamed vegetables, some fish, plenty of salty things, and little or no fruit, which is thought to be "too yin." At this time I was a fruitarian, although I was making a transition in climate. Besides the macrobiotic movement, Boston was also the home of Hippocrates Health Institute, Ann Wigmore and Viktor Kulvinskas, who were into raw foods, especially sprouts, wheatgrass juice, and fermented seed sauces. The month was January, and it was bitter cold. I immediately noticed a big difference between the raw food enthusiasts and the macrobiotic folk.

Almost everyone I met who was into macrobiotics had skin color that was wan, pale, pallid, or pasty, a color like that of cooked brown rice. On the other hand, the raw foodists, even in the middle of January, had colorful, rosy, red cheeks, seemed happy and excited about life, with bubbly happy personalities. These two types of dieting seemed to create definite demarcations of personality type and appearance.

The macrobiotic men all had short hair, and almost all wore the same white or subdued colored shirt, and sweaters, and many if not most of them, even spoke with a slight Japanese accent. They also carried handkerchiefs, with which to blow their noses, which was very often, as the macrobiotic diet (rice, cooked food, etc) seemed to cause a lot of mucus in their noses. Many of them smoked cigarettes. Michio Kushi, their main teacher in the Boston area, also smoked cigarettes, and drank coffee on occasion. I believe George Osahwa had a problem with drinking hard liquor, which he cured with his so-called macrobiotic diet. I was already basically a raw-food fruitarian, but after making these empirical observations, I was totally confirmed.

One of my mentors a few years earlier was a raw-fooder, who strictly ate only 12 meals a week, which is only twice a day, six days a week. He was one of the healthiest-looking people I’ve ever kn