Discoveries of a Traveller in Search of the Meaning of Life ( 10 chapters )
Foreword Around 2007, I first encountered the idea of living on light. I came across it while reading Living on Light , by Jasmuheen, as well as other texts from yogic literature that described this phenomenon. I cannot say exactly what Jasmuheen had in mind, but I understood “living on light” exactly as the words suggest: trying to feel the light of the Sun within yourself and, through this, replacing ordinary physical nourishment. For many years—probably fifteen or even more—I tried to bring this sunlight into myself, to become conscious of it and to make use of it. Towards the end of this period, when I saw that I was not achieving the results I had hoped for, I tried to imagine the light originating within my own Self, somewhere in my heart: powerful, white, red, gentle, vibrant, and taking many other forms. Yet I could not feel that this light gave me the strength and independence from conventional sources of nourishment that I would need to sustain my body and keep it alive. Duri...