There is a new series that I have seen where they deconstruct the megaliths (Angkor Wat) and (Teotehauacan) , (Giza pyramids).
I love to learn about them but the narrator stated the pyramids were built to house the dead Pharos and I find that speculation lacking any evidence.

Slight of hand to mouth. My son was a wizard at lifting up a cake and nibbling the underside.We still laugh about it decades later.

Food favorites include shrimp, cod , walleye ,corned beef, beef brisket , grass fed ground beef, Ham and most all pork, salad with avocado and pea pods
Pea or lentil soup from the ham bone, Chilli, Spaghetti, Dark meat from poultry....... I am hungry!

In the Carlos Casteneda
Books "tales of power" or "A Separate Reality" on an apprentice to the Yaqui Indian Don Juan (a shaman) they would turn into crows and fly. In their peyote ingested mind they did at least.

Indeed, I sort of think of it as an attempt to try Heinlein's "grokking" from Stranger in a Strange Land. Grokking involved a lot of understanding, thought, debate and "feeling". I still do not grok "breatharian" as it seems so opposite known laws, observed phenomena and "common sense". So, i leans towards "not quite the whole story" department.

There are always more of them....

Agreed,I do like to try to be open to all possibilities, since I recall there were "scientists" who proved you could not fly a heavier than air craft in the 1890's and 1900's and yet the wright brothers defied all know laws of physics (for that time). One reason I have a hard time with "settled science" as it rarely stays settled.

No, I can try to find it, I think it was either on science or Discover. I'll see..

Yes with only about 10 % of the entire site excavated that is what they come up with.
Hmmm , do you have a name of the show?

Can't speak to this particular couple- I know of some Breatharians who eat very little and survive quite well, not starving. Those who don't starve out maximize eating natural unprocessed foods when really needed. I know a couple from Sri Lanka who say they practice receiving sustenance from God, and claim their thinking is much clearer when there is less food. But even they eat from time to time.

Now I am a steak and potato Texan that manages a restaurant- so don't get this twisted. Fasting is the last thing I plan to do voluntarily. But many religions in the world- Christianity included- talk about the benefits of fasting and reducing their dependence on food. I can believe the benefit of it in small doses. I can believe some folks make a lifestyle of it. The idea that food is unnecessary for life for long periods of time... yeah, don't know about that. I prefer to just be thankful when I get to sink my teeth into a juicy ribeye- and meditate on how good it tastes to me.

I'd like to find some of the people who believe this so I could sell them some property I'd like to get rid of. If they believe this, they would believe anything. ;-)

I guess they missed boarding that comet, the first time it came around...maybe they'll live long enough to catch it, the next time it passes Earth.

US News and World Report had a story about this ~15 years ago.
Long story short, after interviewing a few so-called 'breatharians' -- the subjects admitted to having enjoyed a bag of cheeseburgers on occasion. I interpreted it as a sort of human interest piece of fluff.
As others have chimed in, the very notion of surviving on the universe's energy is pure BS.

Thank you... very much what I was thinking. Your choice of words are delightfully visual.

It's interesting that this kind of article ran without the usual opinion solicited from the mainstream scientific/medical establishment, violently shredding the whole concept.

What's refreshing too is the Gulch culture where people are willing to entertain and consider outrageous new ideas, neither believing naively nor summarily rejecting.

Gotcha. Well, I guess, then, that it falls to people like us to test for validity. I do see this particular story in a lot of places in the interwebz, with lots of questions attached.

Maybe people are at least a little tired of politics (one can always hope) and are casting about for the next sensational story.

Fake news is always easy to identify... look at how many ads are on the page, the only purpose of that is to create controversy and sensationalism to draw eyeballs, which increases their ad revenue. nothing more.

How often do you moult?

As far as Gobekli Tepe goes, Dob, I saw a science show last week that went through it in great detail and they have now assembled a total explanation for it, and all the symbols. They call it a dead worshipping site" where all these people went to hang out and watch the crows eat dad. They constructed a complete mythology to explain everything and decided a bunch of stone age hunter gatherers stoped, built these huge megaliths, and then sat around for death rituals, and in so doing, learned agronomy while waiting for dad to get eaten, and decided that they needed to stop watching the birds and start farming, gave up the ritual, buried the place as not needed any more. A nice train of logic, but really? Make the biggest investment in their history and then abandon it to go grow grain for beer?

Excellent point, in that they just arrested 2 people in Oregon who go to a church that believes in faith healing only, had 2 children die of easily treated conditions, one infection, the other a premature birth. Yet their church is funding their lawyers....So, there is some truth in your point.

Then politicians would have no need to eat?

Not exactly "falling for it" questioning how, in such times of available information, such claims can get around and no one ever "tests" them for validity. Much like "Russia screwed or elections"...

Nice...:)

That seemed off too.....

Nice...remember Biafra, in the 70's? Maybe they were continuing experiments. I just do not understand even making such claims with no evidence at all..I guess this qualifies as "Fake News"?

Something has to be putting metabolizing substances into their system to reproduce - ESPECIALLY -to reproduce-... Something had to be given up to form the chemical mineral components of the young'un... it either came from mom's cellular structure, or from something she ate. While solar energy is pretty remarkable, having it somehow form complex organic compounds is similar to taking lead, and turning it into gold...

My vote - is that it's a scientifically accurate article from The Onion...

New York Post - right up there with the New England Journal of Medicine. Right. Consider the source. My guess is they binge eat when hypoglycemia becomes clinical. Or, they are aliens from another dimension.