BACKGROUNDThe making of "In The Beginning There Was Light" took 10 years of research and 5 years of filming.
Director P.A. Straubinger did ten years of research on the controversial topic of Inedia aka Breatharianism.
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BACKGROUNDThe making of "In The Beginning There Was Light" took 10 years of research and 5 years of filming.
Director P.A. Straubinger did ten years of research on the controversial topic of Inedia aka Breatharianism.
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P.A. Straubinger, director of "IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS LIGHT" has worked for more than 20 years for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. In spring of 2000 he met a meditation teacher, who allegedly stopped eating physical food completely for more than a year at that time. This personal encounter was the beginning of years of private research in which the open but still skeptical director studied this strange phenomenon of "Inedia". After finding a lot of contradicting information in books and on the internet, P.A. Straubinger started to search for first hand information around the world.
Starting point: A personal encounter with meditation teacher Dieter Hochegger who allegedly stopped eating in 1998.
During a period of 5 years of filming and travelling the globe with his camera, he visited people who claimed to live without physical food. He also interviewed several scientists, some who completely denied this "strange" claim, while others who tried to find answers and explanations to this mysterious phenomenon. The feature documentary "In The Beginning There was Light" is the result of carefully condensing and editing the roughly 200 hours of film footage taken during this 5 year period. The film exceeded all expectations when it was released in theaters, especially in the German-speaking countries.
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Following the surprising box office success a huge media controversy aroused around "Light" especially in the German-speaking countries. |
As I write this statement in the background section I will allow myself to answer the tagline of my film right away because it creates so much misunderstanding.
This is a "Spoiler" ;-) So if you have not seen the film and want to be surprised - Please STOP reading! O.K. - Is It Possible to Live on Light Alone?If we use the definition of classical physics, meaning light, as electromagnetic radiation, as a known part of the electromagnetic wave spectrum, we have to say definitely - NO. It is not possible to live on this light alone !
"IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS LIGHT" however is working with a wider definition of "light", scientifically not well explored and in the mainstream violently rejected, meaning the "LIGHT OF LIFE", this universal vital energy called Qi in den Chinese tradition or Prana in India. The traditional Chinese character for QI, the central principle of Chinese medicine, translated as universal "life force".
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Wilhelm Reich named it Orgone, others may call it "Free Energy" or Mana. It has many names in different traditions. Some biophysicists like Fritz-Albert Popp think they found scientific evidence for the "light of life" in biophoton-research. If we are speaking about this "light" then we have to see that there is a lot of presumptive evidence suggesting that there are and obviously always have been human beings who are able to absorb this mysterious energy directly. Actually there exists scientific proof that all human beings are "living on light" to a certain degree - some more, some less.
Some biophysicists see scientific indications for the "light of life" in biophoton-research.
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Wilhelm Reich, a scientific pioneer in researching the "light of life" , that he called Orgone.
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