---In [email protected], <anartaxius@...> wrote :
Accounts without evidence are hearsay. The boy without food or water is interesting. These accounts always tend to be superficial investigation in which the person is not placed in a real scientific environment where variables can be constrained. The person tends to be in control to some extent. There are a number of things one can look for. The film crew (videos on YouTube are missing) only films up to the upper limit of what is known about people living without water (typically three or four days). Yogananda gives a report of a woman who never ate, under completely uncontrolled conditions, but Yogananda was pretty gullible. Basically you would look for hidden sources of food and water, and extend observation to the full time period, and check the person for hidden pockets in clothing etc. If you postulate an alternative record keeping source to the 'akashic records', say a made up 'quantum gap storage field', and have similar accounts of people accessing it, how do you tell the difference? The number of people attesting to something does not provide concrete evidence of its existence. This is a basic problem with spirituality, why people tend to have wide disagreement as to what is true and real. Subjective verification of say, a state of consciousness, does not provide verification for someone else who did not have that experience. Prior to being born, I spent billions of years without food and water. Food shmood. As far as I'm concerned anyone who would choose, voluntarily, to sit for six months or more meditating is pretty off the charts in my book. Now that's unbelievable.
