Jasmuheen

Jasmuheen

Jasmuheen (born 1957 as Ellen Greve) is an Australia-based proponent of 'pranic nourishment' or breatharianism, defined as the practice of living without food or fluid of any sort. [cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/703279.stm | title=Guru condemned as 'dangerous' | publisher=BBC |date=6 April, 2000 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-10-10] She appears at New Age conferences, conducts spiritual retreats in many countries which are in part funded by the sale of her books and audios.

Biography

Jasmuheen was born Ellen Greve in 1957 in New South Wales, the fifth and youngest child of Norwegian migrants who came to Australia after the Second World War. Jasmuheen dropped out of an art degree to travel but met her husband with whom she had two children. After seven years the marriage ended, and Jasmuheen took a job in the finance industry. In 1992, she began to focus on her interest in meditation. She held workshops and seminars and sold her home and car to focus on her writings. Jasmuheen has now published twenty six books translated into eighteen languages.cite web |url=http://www.jasmuheen.com/htm/who-author.asp |title=Jasmuheen Published Work |accessdate=2008-09-28 |work=website |publisher=Jasmuheen |date=2008-09-28

Breatharianism

When the Australian television programme "60 Minutes" challenged her to demonstrate how she could live without food and water, the supervising medical professional Dr Beres Wenck found that after just 48 hours, Jasmuheen displayed the physical symptoms of acute dehydration, stress and high blood pressure.cite news | url=http://www.rickross.com/reference/breat/breat13.html | title=Fresh-air dietician fails TV show's challenge | publisher=Yahoo News |date=October 25, 1999 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-10-10] Jasmuheen claimed that this was a result of 'polluted air'. On day 3, Jasmuheen 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 Jasmuheen acknowledged that she had lost weight, but stated that she felt fine. Dr. Wenck stated "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." Jasmuheen's condition continued to deteriorate rapidly in the clearly demonstrated context of acute dehydration, despite her insistence to the contrary. Dr. Wenck concluded that continuing the experiment would ultimately prove . The film crew concurred with this assessment and ceased filming.

She is quoted by the Correx Archives as saying, regarding how much she eats:cite news | first = Paul | last = Willis | title = Jasmuheen — Can people live on nothing but air? | url = http://www.abc.net.au/science/correx/archives/jasmuheen.htm | work = Interview with Jasmuheen (transcript) | publisher = Correx Archives | date= 1997 | accessdate = 2006-12-09]

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.

Jasmuheen has stated that she has lived on approximately 300 calories per day for the last fourteen years, maintaining full health through supplementing a fluid intake with 'cosmic particles' or micro-food, which she describes as prana. Jasmuheen has also stated that she has not yet mastered the ability to be fluid-free for more than short periods.

She was awarded the Bent Spoon Award by Australian Skeptics in 2000 ("presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle"). [cite web |url=http://www.skeptics.com.au/spoon/2000winners.htm |title=Bent Spoon Winner 2000 - Jasmuheen |accessdate=2006-12-10 |author= Barry Williams |year=2000 |work=Bent Spoon winners |publisher=Australian Skeptics] She was also awarded the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for her book "Pranic Nourishment — Living on Light", "which explains that although some people do eat food, they don't ever really need to." [The 2000 Ig Nobel Prize Winners [http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2000] ]

Jasmuheen states that some of her beliefs are based on the writings and "more recent channelled material" of the Count of St Germain.cite news | title = All they need is the air ... | url = http://www.rickross.com/reference/breat/breat06.html | publisher = BBC News | date = September 22, 1999 | accessdate = 2006-12-09] She states that her DNA is expanding from 2 to 12 strands to take up more hydrogen. The extra strands of DNA have not been demonstrated, and in fact when offered $30,000 to prove her claim with a blood test, she stated that "you cannot view spiritual energy under a microscope." She claims that such a challenge is a deliberate attack on her beliefs, and refuses to act as an example of her claimed paranormal attributes.

In 2005, James Randi offered her the James Randi Educational Foundation $1 million prize to demonstrate her claims. [cite news | url=http://www.randi.org/jr/070105quality.html#14 | title=I'll Bet She Eats | publisher=James Randi Educational Foundation |date=July 1, 2005 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-10-10]

Deaths

Three deaths have been directly linked to breatharianism and her publications.cite news | first = Tom | last = Walker | coauthors = Judith O'Reilly | title = Three deaths linked to 'living on air' cult | url = http://www.rickross.com/reference/breat/breat08.html | publisher = The Sunday Times (London) | date = September 26, 1999 | accessdate = 2006-12-09] Jasmuheen has denied any moral responsibility for this. In reference to the death of Lani Morris, for example, she said that perhaps Morris was "not coming from a place of integrity and did not have the right motivation." Verity Linn starved herself to death and her "diary mentioned the teachings of self-proclaimed prophet Jasmuheen who believes people can draw nourishment from the 'divine life force in the form of liquid light'." [cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/453661.stm | title=Scotland: "woman starved herself to death" | publisher=BBC |date=6 April, 2000 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-10-10] 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 leaderFact|date=February 2007, although the French government department 'Miluvides', which is responsible for investigating cults and sects in that country, stated in 2006 that her ideas were dangerous and exploitative.

Jasmuheen (on a superseded but still available website) refers to at least one death with a warning that breatharianism requires substituting light for food. In the article, she distinguishes "breatharianism" from "food deprivation". "If you haven't found the light that will nourish you, you may have the intention to become a breatharian, but in fact you may be putting yourself through food deprivation. There is one known case where a person died when trying to become a breatharian." [http://www.angelfire.com/stars3/breathe_light/warnings.html] She discusses all of this freely in her manuals on the topic.

Publications

* "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"

References

External links

* [http://www.selfempowermentacademy.com.au/ Jasmuheen's "Cosmic Internet Academy"]
* [http://www.jasmuheen.com Jasmuheen's personal website]
* [http://youtube.com/jasmuheen Jasmuheen] on YouTube
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/453661.stm BBC: Scotland: "woman starved herself to death"]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/703279.stm BBC: Guru condemned as 'dangerous']
* - episode of "60 Minutes" (Jasmuheen's aborted experiment)


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