Jasmuheen

Ellen Greve aka Jasmuheen

Jasmuheen , real name Ellen Greve (* 1957 ), is an Australian esotericist and author .

Life

Ellen Greve was born in Australia as the only daughter of Norwegian emigrants. The former bank employee conducts seminars with esoteric content they own, according assertion as "press officer" of the "White Great Brotherhood" media of its member, the 1784 deceased Count of Saint Germain receives.

In the years 1997 to 2000 she was best known in German-speaking countries as the inventor of the 21-day “light nutrition process”. In the light food (occasionally also "Breatharianism" or "Liquidarismus" called) there should be a " subtle acting form of nutrition", which manages allegedly without the supply of solid and liquid food. Greve originally claimed that she could do without food and fluids herself.

She became known to a wider public in 1999 through a report on Australian television in which she was interviewed on the occasion of the three fatalities that had become known up to that point and who had started a light-feeding process to Greve. After the interview, she consented to a controlled self-experiment, which was stopped prematurely after showing life-threatening symptoms of dying of thirst .

Teaching

Lack of food

Ellen Greve claims to have been nourishing herself exclusively on Prana (life energy) since 1993 . She describes this so-called lack of food as light fasting . After several incidents in which, contrary to her claims, she was seen eating meals, she stated that whether she was eating was irrelevant to her teaching. Visitors had previously reported that their kitchen was always full of food - the food was for her husband, Greve had claimed.

Although she claims to be light-fed, Greve, according to her own admission, drinks tea with milk and eats honey and chocolate .

The so-called light feeding process

Light food believers claim that there are 5,000 to 6,000 people in German-speaking countries and a total of 8,000 to 9,000 people worldwide who, predominantly in the period from 1997 to 2000, underwent the rigorous three-week “light food process” (LNP) for the initial food conversion that Greve propagated in her first work, light food and described it as an experiment of a "sweet revolution". Most of the test subjects eventually returned to normal eating habits of their own accord, although around 2 percent of them claim to have lived or live without food for a period of several months in the sense of Greve even after their initiatory withdrawal phase.

In the autumn of 1999, triggered by a Focus article , the press reported three deaths in connection with the LNP - in Germany (as early as 1997), Scotland and Australia. Those affected had exposed themselves to food deprivation according to the guidelines of the Greve book, alone or with someone else. Presumably they died from the consequences of organ failure and dehydration due to the complete dehydration required in the first LNP week . In 2000, an Australian court sentenced the couple accompanying the trial of 59-year-old Australian woman, Lani Morris, who had suffered a stroke and kidney failure , to prison terms for manslaughter . Greve rejected responsibility for this tragic development and claimed about a victim: "She was not pure (pure aura) and also did not have the right motivation." Esotera magazine assisted with the remark that a dead person is not too much in view of liberation the world of hunger. After massive criticism from various camps, Greve switched to the “gentle path to light nourishment”, which she presented in book form in 2004.

In 2011, a fourth death related to Ellen Greve's publications occurred. Inspired by the documentary film In the beginning was the light of the Austrian director Peter-Arthur Straubinger , a middle-aged Eastern Swiss woman underwent the "light nourishment process" and afterwards wanted to live permanently on prana . The woman was found dead in her home a few months after the fast. During the autopsy , the public prosecutor's office determined death by starvation .

Unsuccessful self-experiment

In 1999, Greve agreed to undergo a medically supervised test week of light fasting without food or fluid, hosted by the Australian television program 60 Minutes . The test person, isolated from the outside world, was filmed around the clock in a hotel room. After four days, due to the progressive dehydration and rapid weight loss, the accompanying doctor stopped the experiment against the will of the test person. Greve claimed to have been lured into the test out of "arrogance and naivete", but only moved away from her claims that were potentially fatal for customers much later.

Change of course

She has withdrawn or rejected other medically monitored projects to prove the lack of food, whether on groups, as she originally planned as a 33-day large-scale experiment, or carried out on herself.

For her book Lichtnahrung ( Living on Light ) she was awarded the satirical Ig Nobel Prize for "Literature" at Harvard University in 2000 .

Starting in 2004, Greve recommended instead of the 21-day “light nourishment process” the “gentle path to light nourishment”, in which one can live from prana and continue to enjoy food. The switch from food to light should only take place very slowly over the years. After this change of course in her teaching content, the Australian said in an interview in the summer of 2006: “The discussion of whether she eats or not is irrelevant.” Greve still fails to provide any evidence for all of her claims. Questions of principle, for example why she only preaches her teachings for a fee in the affluent first world countries and not in starving areas of Africa, always remain unanswered.

DNA peculiarity

Greve also claims that her DNA consists of twelve instead of just two strands, as is the case with all other living things. The Australian Skeptics offered her $ 30,000 for a blood test to verify this statement. In an interview, she stated that she needed to think about it, but did not understand the relevance of this test to her claim. The James Randi Educational Foundation raised the amount for the blood test to over $ 1 million. To date, she has neither had this blood test carried out nor has she backed down on her claim that her DNA has twelve strands.

Fonts

• Light food. The source of food for the coming millennium. Koha-Verlag, Burgrain 1997, ISBN 3-929512-26-2 .
• In response. The secret of the right vibration. Koha-Verlag, Burgrain 1998, ISBN 3-929512-28-9 .
• together with her husband Jeff: Bliss. Biofields and bliss. The art of living successfully. Bliss edition, 2002, ISBN 3-936862-00-1 .
• Gentle ways to nourish light. Live on prana and continue to enjoy food. Koha-Verlag, Burgrain 2004, ISBN 3-936862-18-4 .

See also

• In the beginning there was light , a documentary about light nutrition. Greve is one of the protagonists in the film.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jasmuheen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Ellen Greve (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Definition of Asitie = lack of food Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} light, air and corpses. Focus, No. 29 8/1999 Collection of articles on the subject of light nutrition of the Action for Spiritual and Psychological Freedom (AGPF), sect warning [1]
3. ^ Quote Greve: [...] because the masters wanted to experiment with a very specific type of person. In: Elraanis. No. 6, end of 1999, p. 13.
4. ^ Greve: Life without food and drink. Seminar impressions and brief information about people after the 21-day initiation process in prana nutrition. Bärbel Mohr, in: Sonnenwind , autumn 1998 [2] .
5. ↑ 3 deaths in connection with the 'light food cult' , Tom Walker and Judith O'Reilly in The Sunday Times , September 26, 1999 (Eng.) [3]
6. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger : Nourished by light - until death , April 25, 2012 (accessed October 23, 2013)
7. ↑ Herald Sun : Swiss woman starves to death on daylight diet , April 26, 2012 (accessed October 23, 2013)
8. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Tödliche Esoterik , May 15, 2012 (accessed on October 23, 2013)
9. ↑ Video about Greve's medical and television camera-monitored LNP test week (English) [4]
10. ↑ Fresh-air dietician fails TV show's challenge Yahoo News, October 25, 1999; from cult watchdog RickRoss.com; Yahoo report on the light fasting test week with Greve and the TV station 60 Minutes (English), which was prematurely terminated by the doctor. Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ magazine Elraanis , No. 7, pp. 5-6, 2000
12. ↑ Jasmuheen: Gentle ways to nourish light. 2004.
13. ↑ The Voice of the Heart , Ute Thomsen in Lichtfokus , No. 15, p. 21, autumn 2006
14. ↑ correx archives; approx. 5 min. web radio interview with Ellen Greve [5]
15. ↑ I'll Bet She Eats. In: Swift: Online Newsletter of the JREF. James Randi Educational Foundation , July 1, 2005, archived from the original July 21, 2012 ; accessed on September 15, 2013 .