June 30, 2003 - NASA, the US Space Agency, has invited Hira Ratan Manek, an engineer from Kerala, India, to the US to study how he has managed to survive on a diet of sunlight and liquids for several years.
Last June, scientists from the US space agency verified that Manek spent 130 days surviving only on water, the report said. They even named this subsistence on water and solar energy after him: The HRM (Hira Ratan Manek) Phenomenon. Mr Manek is now in the US to show NASA's scientists how he survives without food. The US space agency hopes to use the technique to solve food storage and preservation problems on its expeditions.
Mr Manek said he "eats through his eyes" in the evening, when the sun's ultraviolet rays are least harmful.
I shall be posting quite a few items of interest like this. I think they are an important tool in helping us to overcome our preconceptions on what life is all about ... ?!
Miracles are really just things we don't understand - yet.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
I read an article just this week about a man surviving on just a few drops of water. The scientists are taking a very keen interest in him. The man is a 'holy' man.
There is also the story of Teresa Neumann the famous German mystic and stigmatist did not sleep and lived without food or liquids except for the daily Eucharist, from 1926 to 1962. She was 'tried' and 'tested' and 'observed' by many scientists, doctors and churchmen and none could disprove the claim.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
