Ready to Laugh Out Loud?
Jason Kuznicki on Feb 25th 2005
Okay, here goes:
For the past thirty years or so, [Wiley] Brooks has been claiming that we don’t need food, water, or sleep. He asks “if food is so good for you, how come the body keeps trying to get rid of it?…Man was not designed to be a garbage can.” He claims that adepts and yogis have been living on air for millennia. Brooks offers workshops at a Sierra Nevada mountain retreat for $2,000, meals included.
Meals included. Check out the entry on inedia from the Skeptic’s Dictionary (via the aptly-named Strange Doctrines).
“So… If you were really holy, you would [insert bizarre and dangerous feat here].” Why ever do we do such things to ourselves?
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