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 sceptics. 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."