If we can replace our energy source with light, I’m curious, what happens to our intestines when we do so? Do they atrophy like other muscles that aren’t used? What about our gut biome, something that gets talked about so much these days? Does it continue to promote itself, possibly from nutrients in the liquids we take in, or from the nutrients our bodies make from light energy?
And if we don’t need our guts for digesting food and ridding ourselves of the waste it leaves inside of us, then why do our bodies have them?
Interesting things to think about. I don’t know any full-time sun gazers myself.
Great questions. And urine is the answer I believe. Probably should have mentioned this in the article. So, faeces is a waste product and if we don't eat, it will no longer be produced. However, urine is far from a waste product, packed with so many useful things which are beneficial to the body when re-ingested. I have written posts about this in the past but in a nutshell urine is our personal feed-back medicine, incredibly beneficial if you drink it on a daily basis. Which I do. Personally I just have a glass in the morning (giving me instant information about how my diet was the day before) but I know of other people who just drink everything they produce. So, I believe our ancestors drank their urine. Obviously I cannot say for sure but I imagine the gut & intestine health is maintained perfectly in this way.
I am also in contact with a person who did a 30 day urine fast. He drank everything he produced for 30 days with no other input except water. Rather than getting sick in this period (as people might imagine based on their brainwashing around urine) instead he felt great and cured himself of many ailments, so continued to drink it every day and now lectures around the world on the subject of urine therapy (UT).
Worth noting here than plenty of mammals regularly drink their own urine (monkeys included). And humans are mammals, most similar to monkeys in terms of anatomy.
So is it really such a crazy idea? I don't think so. Perception is just such a powerful thing and we have been taught to think of it as disgusting & dangerous if ingested. All by design.
Being a full-time sungazer is a dream of mine but sadly unachievable on the north side of a mountain. This is a good time of year for me but in a month the sun will already be too bright by the time it gets over the mountain in the morning. So I am a seasonal sungazer. But one day I will live in the perfect spot to maintain the whole year!
I was walking around at 5:30 this morning doing some sun gazing and thinking about my question and realized that location and seasons would be one reason why we would need to eat for at least some of the year and so need intestines and whatnot.
Watching my baby breastfeed this morning and thinking about how that creates fecal matter, that added to the mystery a little. Perhaps, if as you postulate, in the past people weened themselves off food (at least partially) as they grew older.
Urine, that’s an interesting addition to the equation. A few years ago, I drank mine in the morning for a month or so, but for one reason or another discontinued the habit.
What is the man’s name you mentioned in your comment? I’d be curious to read about his story and UT.
I don't really follow why seasons or location would dictate our need for food?
Good point with the breast milk and yes, perhaps we are cursed (or blessed!) to be born with a physical need for food. And it is our job attain a less physical type of existence as we grow older.
The man I mentioned is called Dave Murphy. He can be found on YT as dmurphy25 or allegedlydave.
A decent interview with him on the subject here.
Excellent you tried it a few years ago. Why did you stop?
I just meant that depending on our location or season, our access to sunlight would change. It’s similar to you living on the north side of a mountain. I live in a very overcast and rainy/snowy region for much of the year, so if I were to try going food free, it might be more difficult (or impossible). I don’t know.
As for the urine, I didn’t really care for the taste or the feel it left in my mouth, I couldn’t tell if it was having any results, and mostly I was worried that my wife and kids would think I was losing my mind if I brought it up and talked about it with them. Plus, I didn’t research the topic deeply. I had just heard that it could be beneficial and thought I’d give it a try.
Ah right! I see now.
Probably should have explained more in the post but sungazing is not the only way to achieve the non physical food goal. Breatharians claim to be able to do the same thing just by breathing! And for what it's worth, it is written in the Mahabharata that one can achieve this goal also through meditation.
I know the family thinking we are weird feeling! haha. I have been drinking my urine in front of them and encouraging them all to drink their own for many years now. For a while the children seemed interested and had no problem drinking their own, but it didn't stick. Now they just think I am weird again! But even when I have drunk it, washed my face with it, put it in my ears & up my nose, Sabrina never comments that I smell bad when she gives me my morning kiss ;)
Did you know that if a person gets bitten by a venomous snake, the anti-venom is produced instantly by the body in the urine. So those of us who are capable of drinking down the golden nectar in such moments will very likely survive the bite, while those of us who don't may not. I like to imagine that my children will remember how they already used to drink it a long time ago, so this won't be a problem for them. Should we ever happen to encounter this situation!
Ah yes, one other story from an elderly German lady I know here who remembers a time in her childhood when everyone in her village would put their urine into a large container in a public space. In this way people could get easy access to it when they needed a lot.
Mostly I just use it as a plant fertiliser ;)
One part urine / ten parts water.