--- In [email protected], "george_deforest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Angela Mailander wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, I can't remember the names and dates, > > but there are reports of levitation in the Neo-Platonic tradition, > > so the mysterious East is not the only source for such stories. > > Craig Pearson, of MUM faculty, wrote a book about levitation; > i dont think it was published yet; > > but, it includes the spontaneous levitations of > St Joseph of Cupertino, a Catholic saint from the Middle Ages. > > of course there wasnt much Science back then, so there is > not scientific "proof"; however, the suspicious Catholic Church > was convinced of what he was doing; they dont make just anyone > a saint; in their way, they investigate things quite thoroughly. > > this passes for me as: as scientific as you can be for that age; > this monk did float into the air. >
FWIW: suutra I 128 of /saaMkhya-suutras/ seems to be about the mutual difference of the /guNa-s/. Goes like this: laghvaadidharmairanyonyaM* saadharmyaM vaidharmyaM guNaanaam. Ballantyne's translation (my additions in parentheses): Through Lightness (laghu) and other (aadi; literally: beginning) habits (dharmaiH) the Qualities (guNaanaam; literally: of the qualities) mutually (anyonyam) agree (saadharmyam; literally: sameness) and differ (vaidharmyam; literally: difference). *)attempt at sandhi-vigraha: laghu+aadi-dharmaiH; anyonyam
