by Paul Fassa

(The Best Years in Life) Going without food for a designated period is considered a way to boost one's health and more. According to New Testament scriptures, Jesus Christ fasted for 40 days in the desert at a crucial time in his life, thus garnering the spiritual strength to continue with his destiny on this physical plane.

During the 1960s, some of us took to fasting to gain insight and clarity of one's spiritual existence without psychedelics. I had a similar experience after undergoing a hunger strike to further a cause. Instead of victimizing myself to become a nuisance as planned, I was surprisingly bestowed with a centered sense of power and purpose after going through a brief healing crisis.

Mahatma Ghandi was known to go on similar fasts, publicized primarily as defiant hunger strikes for the cause of India's independence . . .

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See also:

"Fasting Boosts the Immune System and Creates New Stem Cells"

http://www.tbyil.com/Fasting_Boosts_the_Immune_System_and_Creates_New_Stem%20Cells_Tony_Isaacs.htm

"How Intermittent Fasting Can Improve Health and Lower Weight"

http://www.tbyil.com/Intermittent_Fasting_Improves_Health_Lowers_Weight_Sarka-Jonae_Miller.htm

"Natural Hygiene Part 2: The Miracle of Fasting by Chris Beckett"

http://www.tbyil.com/Natural_Hygiene2.htm