The Pranic Festival is a gathering of the most well known breatharians from all over the world. They shared their experiences, lifestyle, knowledge and journey through live talks and online conferences over a 3 day retreat in Maroochydoore, Sunshine Coast in 2019. The festival was the first of its kind in Australia and served to bring information about how to live in harmony with our planet.
The Breatharian lifestyle utilises ‘prana’ as a form of nourishment for the body. This has been translated in various cultures and ages as ‘Qi’, ‘mana’, or in scientific terms, ‘energy’. Listening to the experiences of these teachers revealed that the path to subsisting on prana was both a spiritual and physical one, training the mind and body to adjust to new conditions and circumstances over time, and to make full use of the boundless energy that surrounds us.
The achievements of these luminaries opens the door to question certain biological concepts we’ve come to accept as fact, and begs the question; can humans photosynthesize? There is a biological scaling law that suggests this might be the case. Kleiber’s law has been definitively shown to apply to the smallest of microorganisms all the way up to the blue whale, and informs that the metabolic rate of organisms scales to the ¾ (0.75) power of an organism’s mass. Put another way, the larger an organism, the less energy per unit mass that organism needs to stay alive. This phenomenon still defies mainstream explanation, but the solution could lie in the recognition that larger organisms also have a larger surface area to absorb radiation from the sun, a source of energy. The body may make use of the sun’s energy through the organic molecule of melanin, the pigment that gives colour to the skin. With it’s fascinating and unique ability to absorb radiation over an incredibly broad range of the entire electromagnetic spectrum, this molecule could be the equivalent of human chlorophyll; using radiation from the sun to disassociate water.
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