My only reason for even broaching the subject was the comment that
they could levitate. This is something I question especially when the
practitioners get so defensive as to proving it, nothing like getting
called for proof to get people ticked enough to show their true
colors, I see it many times....<g>....ya can or ya can't, just like FE
and other subjects, it works or it doesn't...
---JCSnooky@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 98-09-19 15:27:40 EDT, you write:
>
> << Hi jmag et al!
>
> I've heard this for years from students of TM, even one lady with a
doctorate
> who rented an isolation tank which I had to try. She told me quite
freely
> that she had levitated using the TM process...
>
> ...People who have observed this say the photograph is taken while
the TMers
> pop their muscles is such a way as to throw themselves into the air
but... >>
>
> Jerry, It sounds like we are not talking here about sincere
practitioners of
> Transcendental Meditation but ego-maniacal parlour tricksters.
>
> It is not the fault of the founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, if some
people
> choose to abuse and misrepresent his teachings. "TM" was merely a
lable that
> Yogiji used to help westerners more easily understand the ancient
art/science
> (don't dare call it a religion) of yoga meditation.
>
> But the honorable practice itself, yoga, goes back many hundred if not
> thousands of years. Over the years, Yogiji has attracted thousands,
if not
> millions (not that mere numbers can prove legitimacy) of followers
throughout
> the world.
>
> <<There have been some interesting studies by TMers who claim that
their
> mediations on peace will have a broadcast effect and lower the crime
> rate in a community. I've always thought this was amazing if true.>>
>
> The above is true and not surprising, unless you believe in the
duality, (of
> subject/obect, mind/body, physical/spiritual, etc.)which run counter
to the
> teachings of all the great disciplines, such as the Tao, Buddhism,
Sufi
> Islamic, mystical Christianity, the Jewish Cabbala, and of course,
Yoga.
>
> "There is power in numbers" is real only if you consider that the
power of the
> group (that is meditating or, praying, if fou prefer) comes only
from the
> realization that we all are one (which, by the way, is the true
definition of,
> "E Pluribus Unum." Regards,
>
> JC Snooky
>
>
>
>
>
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