Life from Light: Is it possible to live without food?A scientist reports on his experiences

by Michael Werner, Thomas Stockli

In 1898, Therese Neumann, a nun in Southern Germany, stopped eating and drinking. Apart from the wafer given at Mass, she did not eat again until her death thirty-five years later. Similar cases have been reported over the years--often holy men from the East--and have assumed mythical status. Nonetheless, such accounts remain obscure enough to be safely ignored by modern scientists. Michael Werner presents a new challenge to sceptics. A fit family man in his fifties and with a doctorate in Chemistry, he is the managing director of a research institute in Switzerland. Unlike those who have achieved such a feat in the past, he is an ordinary man who lives a full and active life. Werner has become an open challenge to all Test me, using all the scientific monitoring and data you wish. Here, he describes one such test, in which he was kept without food in a strictly monitored environment for ten days. Werner describes in detail how and why he gave up food in the first place and what his life is like without it. Life from Light also features reports from others who have attempted to follow this way of life, as well as supplementary material on possible scientific explanations of how one could "live on light."

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Jerry Jordison · Rating 3 out of 5]

The research in this book can change scientific views of reality.

[ronald matthews · Rating 5 out of 5]

excellent book

I had heard about living without food for years but I dismissed it as just fantasy. With Michael Werner’s book I can see the reality

[Blair · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read it in English, under the title "Life from Light", co-authored with breatharian chemist Michael Werner. It´s "Living on Light" by Jasmuheen only without channeling and violet light, and much more agreeable to my way of thinking. Werner and Stockli draw on anthroposophical sources as well as the experience of German friends to describe the phenomenon of prnaic nourishment, including his telling of his 10 days under 24-hour medical supervision.

[Sadie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fascinating.