A resident of Brazil’s Cludinho desert, Cordeirude Silva, or simply Lau, remains a mystery to doctors.
Since childhood, this old man has not eaten or drunk, while maintaining excellent health. He has been married twice, has 23 children and has never been sick. His wife makes him drink a glass of mango juice half-mixed with milk in the morning. That is the end of the meal. Lau can stand in 40-degree heat for hours without drinking a drop of water. He doesn’t even sweat, on the contrary, he is sometimes even cold. The camel-man phenomenon was first noted back in 1957, when a consilium of doctors could not answer how this man, who does not eat, does not drink and very rarely goes to the bathroom, is still alive.
European illusionists are undoubtedly talented and inventive, but they are still far from the Indian yogis and fakirs.
A resident of the Hindustan peninsula has stumped modern medicine – this man has not eaten or drunk anything for 68 years and still looks great. To dispel all doubts of critics, the yogi agreed to a medical examination and round-the-clock observation of TV cameras. Pralad Jani has been dwelling on the sinful earth for 76 years, and 68 of them he does not take food and water. At the age of eight, Pralad had a vision of a goddess who blessed the boy. Since then he has been living in a cave, constantly in a state called samadhi in Hinduism. Naturally, the newly-appointed saint has a mass of devotees who make pilgrimages to his cave. Along with the believers there were also critics, who are sure that a man cannot live without food and water. Then the saint ventured into a medical examination which was conducted at Sterlig Hospital in Ahmedabad. Video cameras were installed in the saint’s room to capture every movement of the unusual patient. The entire time of the experiment, the fakir does not shower so that he is not accused of drinking water. The only liquid he is brought is 100 ml of water used to rinse his mouth. The fakir takes the water into his mouth, rinses his mouth, and then spits it out into a special bowl with a scale that marks the amount of water spit out.
The doctors made a thorough analysis of their patient’s medical condition and concluded that his body was functioning perfectly normally. Pralad Jani has not been found to have a single disease or organ dysfunction. Despite his advanced age, Jani is in excellent physical shape. It is true that he does not produce feces at all. According to doctors, the patient’s body regularly produces literally a few drops of urine, which accumulate in the bladder and are then absorbed by the walls. During the entire observation period, the saint never once used the restroom. The experiment lasted ten days, but no change in the subject’s health was noticed. Apparently, this way of life is indeed habitual for him. Pralad Jani’s mental state was also recognized by the medical profession as perfectly normal. He is sensible, not nervous, not irritable and always in a good mood. The doctors have no explanation for the phenomenon they have observed.
A delegation of European scientists is going to Nepal to investigate a unique phenomenon, which some call almost the reincarnation of the Buddha.
A 15-year-old boy, Rama Bahadur Banjan, has been going without food and water for six months and meditating in the shade of a tree. Scientists say it is impossible, but no one has been able to prove the deception yet. The place where Rama Bahadur sits has become a place of mass pilgrimage.
Secrets of the Japanese monks
In the process of aging, the reserve capabilities of all our organs and systems melt away every year. Therefore, in order not to grow old, it is necessary to train reserves, or, more precisely, adaptation reserves. To train means to use them regularly, and they are used first of all when something is missing. The body may lack food, water, oxygen, information. Their conscious, artificial restriction stimulates the use of reserve capabilities. If we limit the food intake, we will get an excellent method of organism recovery known since ancient times – starvation. This is a temporary voluntary complete refusal of food. The purpose of such fasting is the transition to internal nutrition, i.e. the use of reserves.
If water intake is also stopped, we get dry fasting, which is an even more effective method of purification, recovery and rejuvenation. When there is a lack of oxygen, for example in high altitude conditions, hypoxia, i.e. oxygen starvation, occurs. In this case, a powerful antihypoxic system is mobilized, and its stimulation affects the body in the most favorable way. With regard to information, nature has provided a natural periodic information starvation in the form of night sleep. The role of adequate sleep for health and longevity can hardly be overestimated.
If you combine the methods based on restriction, it comes out that the ideal means of restoring the body is a long sleep on absolute fasting high in the mountains. But “…nothing is new under the moon!”. In ancient times, Japan was home to the Yamabushi monks. They are the most mysterious sect that ever existed in Japan. Their services were used by the ninja, the famous medieval Japanese special forces. After they mastered in their schools the extraordinary abilities to walk on the ceiling, to fight with and without weapons, to see in the dark, to be impervious to pain, etc., they were sent for “advanced” training to the Yamabushi from the age of 15. Ascetics and hermits, who lived high in the mountains, taught “ninjas” hypnosis and psychic abilities, recipes for poisons and balms, acupuncture, the ability to go without food and water for long periods of time, ways to preserve health and prolong life, etc. They passed on their secrets. They passed their secrets from mouth to mouth, they were forbidden to write them down. But still let’s try to open the veil of mystery over their secrets, namely the secrets of preserving health and prolonging life. What do you think the word “yamabushi” means? It means “sleeping in the mountains”!
There are many people living and, naturally, sleeping high in the mountains. Statistics show that their average life expectancy is higher than on the plain, but it’s not just that. After all, the name “yamabushi” emphasizes that these are not just people in the mountains, but exactly sleeping, that is, their sleep was something different from the usual. Most likely, it was long. But you cannot sleep for a long time, you need a state of hypnosis, self-hypnosis, the effect of sleeping herbs, and they possessed it perfectly. Long sleep high in the mountains is a combination of mountain hypoxia, sleep and absolute starvation (during sleep we naturally do not eat or drink). Each of these influences has a powerful stimulating effect on the body’s adaptation reserves, how powerful their combination should be. Since ancient times people have associated with mountains their hopes for salvation, healing, purification. Many peoples have their own sacred mountains. The Japanese, characterized by the longest life expectancy, have Mount Fuji-san (Fujiyama). Each of them considers it his duty to climb to its summit. Tibetan Kailas, Hebrew Sinai, Altai mountain Altyn-Tu, Mount Meru – Hindus, Mount Ararat – Armenians and many, many others. The famous Elbrus was a sacred mountain of the ancient Persians.
Effects of prolonged mountain hypoxia:
● New capillaries begin to form in all organs, especially in vital organs. Every cell in our body begins to receive more nutrients and oxygen.
● The lungs begin to work more efficiently as a result of hypertrophy of lung tissue and an increase in the diffuse surface area of pulmonary alveoli. In addition, the mass of respiratory muscles increases.
● The blood becomes able to carry more oxygen due to an increase in the number of red blood cells and an increase in hemoglobin. It also increases the level of adrenal cortex hormones – adaptation hormones. In this regard, the blood of donors-mountaineers or people living high in the mountains, as well as preparations made from it, for weakened patients are of particular value.
● There is an intensive training of the cardiovascular system, because the response to hypoxia is an increase in heart rate and cardiac output.
● Myoglobin, a protein that provides oxygen reserve in the muscles, is increased.
● The overall energy level, which falls during the aging process or as a result of disease, is significantly increased.
● This occurs, firstly, due to an increase in the activity of mitochondria. In normal conditions, part of these miniature “energy stations” of the cell is in reserve. Secondly, by increasing the number of mitochondria – they begin to multiply. Thirdly, by “revitalizing” the ancient, oxygen-free energy system.
Our mountaineering instructors, told me a very interesting story about a unique person “Berendei”.
Before the ascent, an outlandish grandfather with a thick white beard appeared in the climbers’ camp. The group was preparing to climb Belukha, the highest peak in Altai – 4500 meters. The grandfather asked the climbers to take him with them! From surprise the men were speechless. And then they explained to Berendey that the Belukha area is avalanche-prone, and he had no equipment. Well, they could not tell him directly and rudely: “Are you, grandfather, out of your mind? What are you doing? Just like that to climb the Belukha itself!”. Nevertheless, Berendey took offense at the climbers and went up alone, without equipment, as it was, in rubber boots, even before the group was on the route. One climbed Belukha, left a note there according to the rules and went back down to the camp without “cats” and ropes. After this ascent of a strange alien, the climbers could not come to their senses for a long time, thinking about what had happened. The grandfather “ran” to the top, which required a high technique of climbing, as a walk, and returned unharmed. Who was he?
It was the traveler Pyotr Grigorievich Nikitin. True, he preferred the status of a traveler. This fall Pyotr Nikitin left Moscow (on a bicycle), going to Karelia and the Kola Peninsula. For a long time “stuck” near Medvezhegorsk, studying petroglyphs and other monuments of ancient culture, as well as healing properties of minerals, collected shungite and even bathed in a quarry with shungite water. And again got on the saddle of a bicycle. I arrived in Kandalaksha, set up a tent in a pine forest not far from the city, spent the night, and in the morning went to get acquainted with the northerners.
– Very interesting nature in the North! – admires the traveler. He was especially attracted by the mystery of the Seids, the sacred stones of the tundra. – The ancient Slavs also had their own sacred stones – family, ancestral. Our ancestors turned to them for help, and they materialized these requests, – says Peter Nikitin and admonishingly remarks: – You need to know your roots! The wanderer Nikitin sees his spiritual mission in making the world around him kinder and fairer, and the goal of his travels is to achieve harmony of mind and body, that level of consciousness in which there is unity between God, man and nature.
Peter Grigorievich does not forget about his mission. In the forest near Kandalaksha, armed with a chisel, he hollowed out the commandments of the ancient Slavic god Svarog on a huge boulder, and left an amulet by a stream. Then he continued his way to Monchegorsk and Polyarnye Zori, and then to Murmansk. The restless traveler entered the capital of the Polar region on his old bicycle in the evening. He again pitched his tent in the hills outside the city, and in the morning went to get acquainted with it. Found a place to stay, too. While he was waiting for his visa to Finland to be opened, he not only got acquainted with Murmansk, but also held numerous meetings with the townspeople. He especially likes to meet with young people. Peter Nikitin is an active propagandist of healthy lifestyle. – Healthy, not healthy. I insist on it, – corrects the traveler. – The ancient Slavs had a wonderful word for “health”.
Peter Nikitin at first aroused curiosity of others by his unusual appearance. The white-bearded grandfather in a shirt with Slavic symbols embroidered on it and belted with a girdle looked like a woodsman. He spoke before students of the technical university, in other educational institutions, clubs, creative associations and even bathed in the Semyonovsky lake with polar walruses.
– The water is good,” Pyotr Grigorievich said approvingly of the bathing. – I have done the impossible with God’s help,” he recalls his ascents, especially the first one, the one on Belukha. I visited the Krasnoyarsk Pillars and the Alps. In the Himalayas he climbed the seven-thousandth peak. He usually travels by bicycle and on foot. He has traveled through the European part of Russia, Siberia and the Far East. Foreign travels of the Russian traveler are Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, China, Tibet, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia… He complained that he did not get to India, although he had a visa. He is proud of the fact that he has already circled the globe twice along the equator. In a plump album of the traveler collected photos from different points of the planet. Nikitin is shot with Tibetan monks in orange robes, then under the hot tropical sun on the ocean shore, then on the glaciers of the Himalayas. There is also Kamchatka and Baikal. In Kamchatka, restless Peter Grigorievich visited five volcanoes, had to communicate closely and with bears, which feel at ease in these wild places. He rides a Soviet-made bicycle. He keeps silent about his age. Or says: “The soul has no age!”. Sturdy and lean, the traveler with one look already changes the ideas about the inevitable decrepitude in old age. He ran marathons, participated in peace marches, and became a follower of Porfiry Ivanov’s system.
He has not eaten meat and fish for almost fifteen years. In the Altai Mountains he fasted for forty days, like Jesus Christ in the desert, with a dry fast lasting fifteen days. And now I am sure that if a man can endure sixty days of fasting, he can live for years without food. In one of his travels in the Urals Nikitin met a woman who has been without food for five years. Adherents of “solar nutrition” (those who do not eat at all, but assure that they take energy from sunlight) – and there are several thousand of them – gather at their forums in Australia. But Pyotr Grigorievich has not yet reached Australia.
Extreme physical and psychological exertion seems to have become the norm for the Russian wanderer. He walks barefoot in the snow, hot coals and broken glass: “Nothing is impossible for me!” says Nikitin. – says Nikitin. In his travels, he got into such bindings that he miraculously stayed alive. He has been under avalanches and rockfalls, and once ran into bandits who maimed him. But nevertheless he met kind people everywhere, in all countries.
Russian wanderer Nikitin is sure that very bad things will not happen to him, because he tries to live according to conscience and does not reject God.
