Name: The Deadly Cult Led by the Woman Who "Doesn't Eat" | 60 Minutes Australia
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What you're about to watch comes straight from the vault labeled "Strange Story 60 Minutes Has Reported." It's from 1999,

but today it continues to be an important warning about the dangers of extreme wellness cults.

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Australian woman Jazz Mahine claimed she didn't need food or water to survive, only fresh air.

but the New Age practitioner was able to build a thriving business out of this baloney, even though a number of people who followed her teachings ended up dead.

To test the so-called Breatharians' beliefs, 60 Minutes reporter Richard Carlton challenged Jazz Mahine to an extraordinary experiment: one week locked in a room with absolutely no food or water.

She says she talks to spirits and sees the future.

But most fantastic of all, Jazz Mahine claims that, unlike the rest of us, she can live without either food or drink.

I live well, everybody lives on fresh air.

I've been known to, over the last six years, it gets really boring not eating sometimes.

And as the energy continues to flow through your body out into the world, the one that represents the Divine Mother to you steps forward in your mind's eye.

It's six years since this mother of two made the dramatic transformation from Ellen Greave, Brisbane housewife, to Jazz Mahine, New Age dietary guru.

She now travels the world converting those with a spiritual hunger to her highly controversial food-free lifestyle.

Well, I live on the divine one within me is what I like to call it.

It doesn't bother you that you're laughed at or ridiculed?

Well, that's Drakul, Yogananda, Cthulhu, Pythagoras, Babaji, Kuan Yin, the goddess of myth.

These are Jazz Mahine's cosmic colleagues, spirits with whom she claims to regularly communicate.

Master Alchemists could turn base metal into gold.

He's not in the physical form anymore, but yeah, we work together.

It was during a visitation from the very late Saint Germain, he's said to have died four centuries ago, that Jazz Mahine claims she underwent her remarkable conversion.

He told you that you should reveal yourself to the world?

Yes, because most people, sane people, would not come out with such a revelation.

Sane people, yeah, would not how many people would dare to come out on the public stage with a revelation that, "Excuse me, I really don't need to eat"?

And there are many people who are telepathic now.

I beg your pardon, no, you can't do that.

Jazz Mahine says she does drink tea and sips water from time to time,

but in this household, the only eaters are pet rat Honey and husband Jeffrey.

Well, my husband's a vegan, so he has fruit juice and he has tofu and vegan food and soya milk when we have guests for tea.

Now, no one would bother much with this nonsense if it wasn't for the fact that Jazz Mahine's teachings are linked to the deaths of a Melbourne housewife, Lani Morris, and

Timo Deegan, a German schoolteacher, and Verity Lynn, an Australian who lived in Scotland.

All were following the radical fasting regime promoted in Jazz Mahine's book Living on Light.

Is what you're doing and what you surreptitiously advocate dangerous?

In fact, I've spent three years traveling the world telling people that it's completely unnecessary and not to do this unless there is a calling so deep within them that they are guided beyond anything to do that.

And do it with care if it involves starving yourself.

If you'd read my literature, it's not about starvation.

It's about matching frequencies with this divine force that drives every breath.

Well, going without food involves starving yourself.

Verity Lynn died here in remote Scottish moorlands where she'd been camping alone.

By her side was a copy of Jazz Mahine's book and a diary with an entry noting she was into the seventh day of the 21-day fast.

So this woman died following your regimen.

It's a regimen that's been practiced for thousands of years that I happen to report on.

I support it as a wonderful initiation for people who are very well trained.

That you effectively promote by writing books like this.

No, it's not a promotion, more of sharing research.

No, effectively promote by writing books like this.

The act of writing books like this, I suggest to you, is effectively promoting that regimen that resulted in the death of this woman and others.

And I effectively promote in that book absolute self-responsibility, use of personal discernment, and self-mastery.

Your responsibility to people who are silly enough to starve themselves.

None of the people who are involved in this see it like that.

but Jazz Mahine prefers to spread the word here on Earth via lecture tours and her internet site.

And she earns her daily bread with a thriving mail order business selling her tapes and books.

Physical reality operates in bands of seven with seven subplanes or sublevels, octaves in each band.

There are seven chakras, seven colors of refracted white light, and so forth.