The strange, sad Bay Area cult that fell apart over a pot pie

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A trip to 7-Eleven should have done Wiley Brooks in. Instead, his movement went global.

to argue once again that anyone could subsist exclusively on air and sunlight.

“There is only one thing that keeps the human body alive, and that is breathing. The food that we take is the same as any other thing we take into the body as it becomes a habit. In other words, eating is an acquired habit, just like alcohol or smoking cigarettes.” “All the things we've heard about, ‘we must get old, we must get weak,’ ... that is not the case,” he told Snyder. “When a person gets older and wiser, he should get younger. He should not die in an unhealthy body.”, which called Breatharianism a “diet cult” — Brooks soon had a healthy cohort of followers. He opened the Larkspur-based Breatharian Institute at the end of 1982 and began teaching classes. Dozens of adherents paid $500 for lessons from the master himself.

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