Ambassadors of Light

by Jasmuheen

The cofounders of the Tibetan Foundation bring you the first of a new level of teachings/techniques based on the technology of light. Vywamus says, "I am a spiritual teacher -- light energy, if you will -- who has seen and been inspired to come to Earth by the light energy of your planet. Through the process of evolution, the planet approaches the fourth dimension and thus has awakened responses from the fourth-dimensional perspective that are now adding light to it. There is a basic level of learning that has already been accepted that transcends anything else ever before within the history of your planet, and this includes that light civilization called Egypt. Many of you are beginning to utilize those abilities you used in Egypt. Light is the carrier of receptivity, and it cannot evolve until the receptivity area is lit up, until your heart is acknowledged as the means to light up the ways to create your life and your part of the Creator's plan for Earth. Each time you relate and

260 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Ellen Greve wurde als einzige Tochter norwegischer Auswanderer in Australien geboren. Die ehemalige Bankangestellte leitet Seminare mit esoterischen Inhalten, die sie laut eigener Behauptung als „Pressesprecherin“ der „Großen Weißen Bruderschaft“ medial von deren Mitglied, dem 1784 verstorbenen Grafen von Saint Germain, empfängt.

In den Jahren 1997 bis um 2000 wurde sie vor allem im deutschsprachigen Raum als Erfinderin des 21-tägigen „Lichtnahrungsprozesses“ bekannt. Bei der Lichtnahrung (vereinzelt auch „Breatharianismus“ oder „Liquidarismus“ genannt) soll es sich um eine „feinstoffliche Ernährungsform“ handeln, welche angeblich ohne die Zufuhr fester und flüssiger Nahrung auskommt. Greve behauptete ursprünglich, sie selbst käme ohne Nahrung und ohne Flüssigkeit aus.

Einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit wurde sie 1999 durch eine Reportage des australischen Fernsehens bekannt, in der sie aus Anlass der bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt bekanntgewordenen drei Todesopfer, die einen Lichtnahrungsprozess nach Greve begonnen hatten, interviewt wurde. Nach dem Interview stimmte sie einem Selbstversuch unter kontrollierten Bedingungen zu, der jedoch verfrüht abgebrochen wurde, nachdem sie lebensbedrohliche Symptome des Verdurstens gezeigt hatte.

Reviews

[Alexandra Chauran · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love reading controversial books. I read this one because Jasmuheen's Living on Light: A Source of Nutrition for the New Millennium has been blamed for several ardent followers fasting until they starved to death, and because this book is available for free on Jasmuheen's website. It is written as a follow up to In Resonance and reads as an apologetics manual for Living on Light. There's plenty of poorly introduced terminology to tip you off that she intends for you to purchase one or more of her other books before reading this one. This book jumps all over the place with a train of thought that is paradoxically repetitive and hard to follow. It is meant to be full of "research." Jasmuheen's definition of "research" is any perceived observations that are then put into writing in the form of a universal claim. Beware: Here there be dragons and a woefully poor understanding of microbiology. That said, this book seems well proofread, if not edited for content organization and clarity, and is lengthy for a free text.

Now, down to the nitty gritty. Jasmuheen does claim to believe that a human can live entirely without consuming nutrients or even water. The funny thing is that she and her other "Ambassadors of Light" believe this but do not carry it out consistently because they choose not to. This tickles me because in one of the novels I'm writing I have a character that is a talking dog that doesn't ever actually talk in the book, so yeah it's kind of like that. She can do the thing, but she eats chocolate in public instead because, like, y'know, whatever.

Jasmuheen is disgustingly dismissive about the deaths associated with her previous writings, blaming the caregivers of the deceased and misunderstood excerpts of her writing taken out of context and posted online. Dangerously, she paints horrific symptoms of malnutrition, such as hair loss, as a normal part of the process. And most despicable of all, she suggests that some of the victims of her philosophy may have simply completed their duties on this plane and have passed on to the great beyond gloriously.

Jasmuheen whines endlessly that the media focuses entirely on the quirky food aspect of her spiritual message, rather than on any of the other benefits of a connection with the "divine one within." Then she proceeds to continue the rest of this extremely long book focusing only on the quirky food thing without spending one hot minute on any other benefits of this divine connection.

I found myself inexplicably growing angry at the social ramifications of this book. Jasmheen presents herself as a savior for world hunger and impoverished nations, because she holds a technique to make food unnecessary. All the poor people need to accept her rich white lady solution are:

1.) Access to vegetarian food, quality raw food and fresh juice for an approximately decade-long preparation process.
2.) Access to quality medical AND alternative/holistic care.
3.) Devotion of approximately 3 hours a day to physical exercise.
4.) Devotion of an unspecified but presumably large number of hours a day to meditation, the only mechanism by which she believes humans truly "feed."
5.) The right spiritual attitude, which of course she can claim anybody doesn't have who fails at achieving the above.

Can you imagine telling a fifth generation chicken farmer to switch to a raw vegan diet, or telling a woman with six kids who works two jobs that she has to set aside half the day for meditation and exercise? Jasmuheen's ethnocentric solution for world hunger sounds like some rich kid saying: "Hey, I solved poverty. All the poor people can just get high paying jobs." But I digress. Getting angry at the social implications of what is essentially sci-fi is like being angry that the cartoon duck isn't wearing any pants.

But that's what this is, folks. Look, I'm a spiritual person and I'm not about censorship. I can see why Jasmuheen's books are controversial. Go ahead and read them, but remember. The cartoon duck. She has no pants.