Boy allegedly survivies for years with no food or water, in meditative state

[Stillwater]

I thought this one was interesting- it is a fairly old story, and many are probably familiar with it.

There is a boy living in Nepal who is purported to be an inedic: one of the people who don't appear to eat or drink (and in this case sleep or excrete) for massively long periods of time. Around five years ago, he began several ten month long meditations, stating his goal wa sto meditate for 6 years straight an achieve enlightenment. As far as anyone can tell, he appears to be doing as he claims.

Several documentaries have been made about him, in which he is filmed for 6 days continuously, day and night, and not only does he not ingest anything, he does not even move. That alone would be enough to nearly prove that what he claims is true, since a normal person cannot go past 4 days without water.

Now I can think of elaborate ways in which this could be faked, such as running an intravinous tube through the ground, providing him nutrients and water directly into his blood, but nonetheless, simply staying in a trance for that long is a feat in itself. The Discovery channel's crew also inspected the first site, stating that they found no trace of foul play or underground pipes, so if it is indeed fraud, they managed to dupe their crew.

I most definitely admit of the possibility that he might actually be what he claims. Others have attempted to discredit him in these few years, but I have not read a convincing dismissal yet.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW3BV18oPqA  Discovery Documentary on Youtube (4 more parts are linked to it)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Bahadur_Bomjon  Wikipedia Article

[personalreality]

that's pretty cool.

i took a class called learning and cognition last year and the prof. started talking about how humans can't control autonomic functions in the body.  she said people can control like their heart rate or bp for brief periods of time but that they can't make "permanent" changes. 

that bothered me so i spoke up about examples like this kid (though not him specifically) and she said, "see me after class".

so i waited and talked to her and she said that the school won't allow her to discuss non-scientifically discovered evidence like that.  i was shocked to say the least.  but we talked for like an hour and apparently she thinks people are entirely capable to absorbing sustenance from their environment and from a non-local energy source.  i was very happy to meet a professor who was interested in that kind of thing, but i was also very happy to hear confirmation that my university intentionally tries to prevent discussion of things beyond science.

[Stillwater]

That is slightly surprising, since science requires a plurality of viewpoints in order to progress and develop; on the other hand, I can understand where policies like that are coming from, since otherwise an instructor could bring fundamentalist creationism, natural law, and all sorts of other things into the curriculum- and if ideas are taught which have not been verified by the scientific community, there is no filter to assure that they reflect the world we live in. Which is not to say that modern science is a perfect filter either, since the people who control its direction also have prejudices and un-founded beliefs of their own- but I suppose it is a starting point.