In this video story, an Indian hermit is shown whom sources (and the local hospital) say has survived for countless years without food or drink. He doesn’t pass stool or urine either.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/7764884/Indian-hermit-stuns-doctors-by-surviving-without-food.html

This is the stage of inedia. The school of Chinese Taoism describes it– you survive on only chi alone. Naturally, the Indian yoga school has it. It’s mentioned in Christianity as well for quite a few saints, including women saints. Basically it is a stage you reach in chi cultivation. It is not samadhi, not dhyana, not enlightenment or the Tao, yet a stage you can reach when you cultivate your chi to fullness.

Scientists always claim such things are impossible but they are documented in countless spiritual traditions, we have plenty of historical examples including this yogi here, and it goes to show that the cultivation path is non-denominational in terms of the gong-fu stages you can reach. My new book coming out on HERCULES will go into such things in detail.

The big thing is this: I don’t care what religion or spiritual school you’re in. If you cultivate you attain gong-fu, if you don’t meditate you don’t achieve gong-fu. This is a non-denominational stage of gong-fu from cultivating your chi (qi). Some people attain this and others don’t — it depends on your karma. In terms of principles, when jing is cultivated to fullness you don’t think of sex, when chi is cultivated to fullness you don’t think of eating (and you see light within your body), and when shen is cultivated to fullness you don’t sleep. This yogi’s cultivation is far past the stage of this saying, but I just wanted you to see that you cannot dismiss the results and teachings of other schools just because no one in
your tradition achieved these things. They do exist. There’s nothing mysterious or abnormal about them. It’s because you are HEALTHY due to your chi channels opening that you can attain this. Spiritual Gong-fu falls out of standard cultivation practices when you work hard at meditation.

Stay turned for the release of “The Little Book of Hercules” that will go through all the non-denominational stages of the spiritual path like this – linking Greek, Egyptian, Taoist, Indian, Buddhist, Christian and Tibetan traditions — starting from the arising of kundalini to opening of the central channel on through countless other spiritual phenomena.

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3. From the Forthcoming Book, Christian Cultivation
4. The 4 Turtles – excerpted from “Christian Cultivation”
5. Cultivation Talk About “Afflicted Determination,” or Wrong Resolve