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Jasmuheen (born 1957 as Ellen Greve) is an Australian proponent of breatharianism, or living without food. A former financial advisor, from 1994 – 2000 she was probably the most widely known advocate of breatharianism, and is still strongly associated with it. She has published many internet books and held many seminars on the topic. She claims to be able to live without consuming food or water, but has failed to demonstrate this ability in a controlled environment. Her parents emigrated to Australia from Norway. Jasmuheen (photo Wouter Hagens) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Inedia is the alleged ability to live without food. ...
Breatharianism When the Australian television programme 60 Minutes, challenged her to demonstrate how she can live without food and water, the supervising medical professional Dr. Berris Wink found that after just 48 hours, Ellen displayed the physical symptoms of acute dehydration, stress and high blood pressure. Ellen claimed that this was a result of 'polluted air'. On day 3 Ms Greve was moved to a mountainside retreat about 15 miles from the city, where she was filmed enjoying the fresh air she said she could now live on happily. However, as the filming progressed her speech slowed, her pupils dilated and she lost over a stone (6 kg) in weight. After 4 days Ellen acknowledged that she had lost weight but stated that she felt fine, despite Dr Wink telling her, "You are now quite dehydrated, probably over 10%, getting up to 11%". The doctor also announced, "Her pulse is about double what it was when she started. The risks if she goes any further are kidney failure." [1] 60 Minutes premiered February 11, 1979. ...
The stone is a unit of mass in the Imperial system of weights and measures used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and most Commonwealth countries. ...
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Ellen's condition did not thereby improve in the opinion of the medical professionals involved, despite her insistence to the contrary, and they decided that continuing the experiment would be highly dangerous and ultimately fatal. The film crew subsequently concurred with Dr Wink opinions and ceased the experiment, claiming that she was deluded. Ms Greve has since stated on her website that the program's presenter Richard Carleton, together with Dr Wink and the program's producers conspired to discredit her with fabricated evidence. Richard Carleton Richard Carleton (born 1943 in Bowral, New South Wales, died 7 May 2006 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania) was an Australian television journalist most noted for his work on 60 Minutes. ...
She is quoted by the Correx Archives as saying, regarding how much she eats: [2]
- Generally not much at all. Maybe a few cups of tea and a glass of water, but now and then if I feel a bit bored and I want some flavour, then I will have a mouthful of whatever it is I'm wanting the flavour of. So it might be a piece of chocolate or it might be a mouthful of a cheesecake or something like that.
In many other interviews she has stated that she has lived on approximately 300 calories per day for the last twelve years and maintained full health through suplementing her fluid intake with cosmic particles or micro-food also known as prana. She says she has not yet mastered the ability to be fluid free for more than short periods. Several interviewers have found her house full of food, but she claimed the food is for her husband. They lived in a house in Brisbane's Chapel Hill. Ellen alleges that other interviews when she lived without her family, found her fridge to be empty, but this has not been verified. As at 2006, her fridge now carries baby food for her grandchild's visits. When challenged as to her claims that people could be nourished by an alternate internal energy source and be free from the need to eat physical food and water, she said: "Remember there was a time when we thought the sun circled the earth, and that the earth was flat and that man would never walk on the moon. New information and research often challenges the status quo." In Hinduism, Prana is the infinite matter of which energy is born. ...
Brisbane (pronounced ) is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland. ...
Chapel Hill is a suburb in Brisbane, Australia. ...
The website www.jasmuheen.com contains a forum for readers to express their views, but recent persistent challenges from forum visitors such as Tim Dobson and John Hunsley have revealed that Jasmuheen will not agree to try and prove her claimed abilities to anyone, and consequently Jasmuheen has now closed the forum to all users except herself. In response to this she said: That the forum would remain active if intelligent discussion that was respectful of all views could be held without abusive entries.
Jasmuheen was awarded the Bent Spoon award by Australian Skeptics in 2000 ("presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle"). [3] She was also awarded the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for her book "Pranic Nourishment". The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early fall — around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced — for ten achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. ...
Jasmuheen has claimed that her beliefs are based on the writings and "more recent channelled material" of the Count of St Germain.[4] She claims that her DNA has expanded from 2 to 12 strands, to "absorb more hydrogen". When offered $30 000 to prove her claim with a blood test, she said that she didn't understand the relevance.[5] Channelling or channeling is the alleged communication of information to or through a physically embodied human being (the channel or medium), from a spirit or other supernatural entity outside the mind (or self) of the channel. ...
Count of St Germain by unknown artist The Count of St Germain (allegedly died February 27, 1784) was a courtier, adventurer, inventor, amateur scientist, violinist, amateur composer, and a mysterious gentleman; he also displayed some skills with the practice of alchemy. ...
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Deaths To date, three deaths have been directly linked to breatharianism and her books. (See Breatharian for details.) Jasmuheen has denied any moral responsibility for this. In reference to the death of Lani Morris, she said that perhaps Morris was "not coming from a place of integrity and did not have the right motivation."[6] After an investigation by the Australian and Scottish police, Jasmuheen was not charged in connection with these deaths. She was also fully investigated in 1999 by UK Cult Investigators who were unable and unwilling to label her a cult leader. A breatharian is someone who believes that food (and possibly water) are not necessary for human sustenance. ...
During a seminar she hosted in the village of Devesset in France in November 2005, however, Jean-Michel Roulet — head of the French government's Anti-Sect unit MIVILUDES — described the prolonged fasting preached by Greves as "aberrant", and went on in a statement to Le Parisien newspaper to say that Greve's group had used "a veritable attack on an individuals freedom by way of mental manipulation." The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...
Le Parisien (The Parisian) is a French daily newspaper covering both international and national news, and local news of Paris and suburbs. ...
Publications Available as e-books from Jasmuheen's own "C.I.A." ("Cosmic Internet Academy") (Cosmic Internet Academy) It has been suggested that Digital books be merged into this article or section. ...
Some titles of these books are:
- The Prana Program — Eliminating Global Health & Hunger Challenges
- Harmonious Healing and the Immortal's Way
- The Law of Love & Its Fabulous Frequency Of Freedom
- The Food of Gods
- In Resonance
- Pranic Nourishment — Living on Light
- Ambassadors of Light — World Health & World Hunger Project
- Divine Radiance: On the Road With the Masters Of Magic
- Four Body Fitness: Biofields & Bliss
- Co-creating Paradise
- The Madonna Frequency Planetary Peace Program
Jasmuheen's books are now allegedly published in 17 different languages. She calls her current efforts The Prana Program which she claims involves world statesmen in helping her to eliminate health and hunger problems among the people of the developing world. Unwilling to divulge the identities of those receiving the benefit of — or assisting in — this program on her forum, she writes instead; "the field of Grace will connect all those who need to be connected and that the pure of heart are always eventually supported as they work for a more enlightened and loving world". Jasmuheen has also claimed on her website forum that 1 billion people have heard her message, and that 64,000 people in 'the west' — as well as the population of a village in rural Brazil — no longer need food or water. Ellen has refused to provide evidence of these claims. Jasmuheen also created what she refers to as "The Madonna Frequency: Planetary Peace Program", which purports can healthily feed, clothe, comfortably shelter and provide Holistic Education for Earth's people by 2012. Important points to achieve this are: - All countries are to immediately cease/decrease the productions of weapons of war and military spending.
- The immediate forgiveness of all Third World debt by all countries.
- All countries to immediately begin the implementation of Holistic Education Programs and a lifestyle including meditation, prayer, programming, vegetarian diet, exercise, service, time in silence in nature and the use of chanting and devotional songs.
Third World debt is external debt incurred by Third World countries. ...
For animals adapted to eat primarily plants, sometimes referred to as vegetarian animals, see Herbivore. ...
A chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, either on a single pitch or with a simple notes and often including a great deal of repetition or statis. ...
Devotional songs are hymns that accompany religious rituals. ...
See also Wiley Brooks is a breatharian, and founder of the Breatharian Institute of America. ...
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