Jerry Wayne Decker wrote:
>
> Hi JC!
>
> 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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