“Freshen up with vital consciousness and you don’t want to eat. Nectar descends from the brain.”

“Mental labour diminishes the quantity of carbonic acid in the expired air. Hence the Yogís are recommended to avoid physical exertions, and to engage in meditation.”

According to the same source …

“When the mind is abstracted from its functions the amount of carbonic acid is lessened. Hence the Yogís are recommended to fix their sight on the tip of the nose or upon the space between the eye-brows. These peculiar turns of the axes of vision suspend the respiratory movements and generally produce hypnotism. This process is called Trátaka in Sanskrit.”

Trátaka is not to be confused with candle gazing (candlelight insight).

According to Wikipedia (lat edited

N. C. Paul (1829-1880) was a 19th-century Bengali physician and scientist. He described studies of physiologic changes in persons performing yoga, and introduced yoga to a wider Western audience.”

“The oriental fakirs produce self-entrancement by fixing their eyes on the tip of the nose or on the navel, the ears, at the same time, sometimes being closed by the thumbs. The self-entranced soul may then act independently; while, on the other hand, the sensitives mesmerically entranced become the mediums for the will of the operator. Both states are states of more or less entrancement, but what is entrancement?

“Entrancement is a state in which the soul or mind or ego has more or less left the body — so that the body can be cut to pieces without experiencing pain; because the ego is outside, and is acting independently of the senses, as an autonoetic power, clairaudient and clairvoyant, and at times controlling its vacant body automatically.”

Some illnesses can be quickly resolved.

A case of cataract BLINDNESS took four years