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Breatharianism is spirituality or like a religion. It is centered around the personal experience of spiritual nourishment during times when hunger and sometimes also thirst spontaneously disappear.

Pranic vs Light Breatharianism
I teach and practice a branch of Breatharianism that I call light-Breatharianism. Light Breatharianism is based on the notion that a person's personal choices of food are a match in the vibrational quality of the food with the vibrational level of the consciousness and nonphysical aspect of that person. The thought is, that someone whose consciousness and nonphysical vibrational level is high enough, will begin to no longer resonate with the dense physical foods, hunger and thirst toward dense physical foods is naturally lost, and a person begins to take in alternative spiritual nourishment, which seems to nourish the physical body since the signs of physical starvation or dehydration that would normally appear, seem to be diminished or to not appear at all during the Breatharian state.

The vast majority of all practitioners of Breatharianism are engaged with pranic-Breatharianism. Prana is another form of experience of nourishing nonphysical material than is the white light. Pranic and Light Breatharianism each lead to a different experience. Practitioners of Pranic Breatharianism have the belief that they can be sustained by a nourishing substance found in the air, prana, and emphasize on the breathing as being the source of intake of this material. Pranic Breatharians often engage in breath exercises or pranic yoga. The term Breatharianism really comes from the Pranic Breatharianism, since breathing is an essential part of it.

Light Breatharianism instead brings the experience of white light entering in through the top of the head, and later through the arms and other areas of the body. This white light does not come in through the breath and breathing is by no means an essential part of Light Breatharianism. Instead, Light Breatharianism seems to induce the breathless states in which breathing spontaneously and naturally ceases for some periods of time, and a person may even find themselves able to run without getting tired and without showing any of the symptoms of exercise (such as increased heart rate, breath rate, sweating, getting hot, or feeling strain in the muscle), all while holding one's breath.

Spiritual or Physiological?
The question is, is Breatharianism an experience simply a natural consequence of physiological processes in the body and brain? Or is there a truly spiritual experience? For Breatharianism to be a truly spiritual, as opposed to physiological, occurrence, there would truly have to be something external to the body that is coming in. There would have to be an actual spiritual nutritional substance (be it the light or the prana, which are different things), or stretching it, to further validate Breatharianism as a spiritual not physiological experience, there would also have to be things such as the soul, the energy system of the body, the chakras, consciousness levels, Angels, and God. Because these are all things experienced during the Breatharian state, so the question remains are these actual things true and external to the human physiology or are these merely experiences that are extensions of the human mind, somehow induced or created in whatever the medical condition that is Breatharianism.

Breatharianism is a state that is a spiritual experience
Breatharianism involves an altered state of mind which is tremendously pleasant, soothing, satisfying, and expanding of the mind, awareness and consciousness. A Breatharian is not just a person who sits and doesn't eat or drink. The Breatharian state is an experience of an altered state of mind, in which the senses of perception are heightened. Vision, sound, scent and taste become enhanced and it feels like being more aware and alive than without this experience of heightened senses.

A Breatharian truly and honestly loses the desire to eat and sometimes also to drink. There is no hunger or thirst, and during times of not eating or drinking, hunger and thirst do not begin to appear either. The amount of time that a practitioner of Breatharianism can endure before hunger or thirst would begin to appear as a whisper, varies from individual to individual, and this timeline will also vary from experience to experience within a person.

Whereas an ordinary person wakes up in the morning hungry and thirsty, a Breatharian person is someone who does not wake up with hunger, and this condition will last for a day, or for several days, sometimes for weeks or even months.

It is important to realize that Breatharianism is a different state of body and mind. Someone who eats and who feels regular hunger and the need to eat, should not try to extrapolate their own life experience to the Breatharian one, meaning, that one should not assume that a Breatharian practitioner is actually feeling but perhaps ignoring hunger, just because oneself would feel that way if one did not eat. A Breatharian's body and mind is in a different condition altogether.

Breatharianism is not about inflicting or enduring harm to oneself and somehow learning how to endure suffering and from that suffering to derive a spiritual experience. There are religious practices in which practitioners, by following the instructions of that particular practice, give up wordly possessions or endure difficult physical experiences, in order to derive a spiritual experience from that pain. A Breatharian is not suffering from hunger or thirst, and experiences no physical discomforts.

For years I did not write or speak about Breatharianism and actually put it aside until I rediscovered it and am now unwilling to let go. It would be devastating if people read about the subject and are inspired to try it out but end up in starvation and dehydration and suffer physical or other personal damages. No one can do Breatharianism just by not eating or drinking. It really takes a spiritual activation, a change of mind and consciousness, to enable it. If you only take away the food and water from a person who eats, if no appropriate spiritual work is done, the person will starve and suffer. Meanwhile if you take away the food and water from a person who is in a Breatharian spiritual mindset, they will not starve or suffer and their body will not begin to show the same signs of physical starvation or dehydration along the same timeline as a person who needs to eat would.

By now I understand that there will always be people who are drawn to Breatharianism, whether they read about it or not. I seemed to have found it on my own, and many people do. That is why I think it is important that I talk about it in order to try to pass on information that promotes safety. When Breatharianism occurs naturally it can be a wonderful, and seemingly safe experience. But when someone instead has an eating disorder and is unable to put themselves into the proper mindset that seems to enable the Breatharian state, then they can be in tremendous danger. That is why it is important to talk about Breatharianism, so that we can attempt to raise the safety issues and make this thing safer. Because people are already doing or trying Breatharianism, but nobody - who understands and is themselves a Breatharian practitioner - seems to be talking about the safety issues.

It does not seem that a doctor could provide the Breatharian community with that safety information, because if that doctor is not an experiencer of the Breatharian state then it will be difficult for Breatharian practitioners to take their information seriously, since it seems to disregard, disrespect, and invalidate, actual experiences of the body and mind that do occur in the Breatharian practitioner, things which a doctor having only read conventional medical literature might be entirely oblivious about.

If purely physiological, then Breatharianism involves a process by which the body and brain have regulated itself to endure longer periods of not eating or drinking and found physiological ways of circumventing, or avoiding, the appearance of physiological and mental development of harm from deprivation of physical sustenance.

I do not promote Breatharianism. In fact I have concluded that a person who is able to eat foods and enjoy foods without having any desire toward reaching this higher place of Breatharianism, is someone who is doing great and can be happy. I do not think that anybody who enjoys dense physical foods should by any means try to achieve Breatharianism, because they can already find happiness in foods. But there are people who feel a calling to reach a higher state of mind and to live in an experience of light, and they are already called to do this regardless of whether anyone suggests this to them or not.

If an average person does not have food they will suffer in body and mind. But if someone who is a Breatharian practitioner does not eat they will instead have a beautiful spiritual experience and their body and mind will seem to improve in health and well-being. It is not about ignoring, denying or trying to endure physical or mental suffering, it is just that suffering does not appear to someone who is in the Breatharian altered state of mind. And instead the Breatharian practitioner experiences improvement to body and mind!

Genetic survival adaptation?
Perhaps, who knows, Breatharianism is a natural human trait found in some individuals. For sure throughout history humans have endured difficult periods of starvation. For instance both of my parents grew up under poor conditions where they were always hungry and didn't have enough to eat as children, and certainly every ancestor before them did too or had it worse. It would make sense for humans to develop a trait in which the person is able to comfortably endure periods where there is nothing to eat or drink, so that one can survive long enough until the next time when food or water is available again.

If an average person who is very attached to food would find themselves without anything to eat or drink they would quickly begin to suffer mentally and emotionally and their body would begin failing very quickly. They would complain and be weakened by their mental and physical lack of endurance and they would probably give up. Whereas if someone who is able to achieve the Breatharian physical and mental condition would be able to remain perfectly calm, clear and actually clearer in mind and senses, and their bodies would somehow readjust including seeming to give superhuman strengths and endurance. Furthermore, the appearance of a beautiful and rewarding spiritual experience, which seems to boost the will to live, that appears in the Breatharian condition, are all things that would make this kind of a person survive much easier in times when there is no food or water available.

A Breatharian genetic disposition would certainly make so much sense.

Perhaps then this adaptation for survival is in some so pronounced or enhanced that it makes the person willingly or regularly induce such a condition? For instance, people who are genetically predispositioned for good physical endurance and strength, they tend to like to put themselves through long hiking and other physical exercise, just because they happen to have that physical tool and they feel like using it even when they don't have to.

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