In 1898, Therese Neumann, a nun in Southern Germany, stopped eating and
drinking. Apart from the wafer given at Mass, she did not eat again
until her death thirty-five years later. Similar cases have been
reported over the years--often holy men from the East--and have assumed
mythical status. Nonetheless, such accounts remain obscure enough to be
safely ignored by modern scientists. Michael
Werner presents a new challenge to skeptics. A fit family man in his
fifties and with a doctorate in Chemistry, he is the managing director
of a research institute in Switzerland. Unlike those who have achieved
such a feat in the past, he is an ordinary man who lives a full and
active life. Werner has become an open challenge to all
scientists: Test me, using all the scientific monitoring and data you
wish. Here, he describes one such test, in which he was kept without
food in a strictly monitored environment for ten days. Werner describes
in detail how and why he gave up food in the first place and what his
life is like without it. Life from Light also features reports
from others who have attempted to follow this way of life, as well as
supplementary material on possible scientific explanations of how one
could "live on light." |
