--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amma's teaching = why some teachers misbehave > > > > > BTW: What do you call the first flight of the Wright Brothers, > > hopping ? > > > > Flying. Orville was airborne for 12 seconds, flying 120 feet: > > HYPERLINK > "http://www.aero-web.org/history/wright/flight.htm"http://www.aero-web.org/h > istory/wright/flight.htm > > Right. 12 seconds compared to the 24 hour flights of today. > > Right. But the Wright brothers plane didn't violate any known laws of > physics or aerodynamics. And neither do TM Yogic Flyers. I've never seen > anything that couldn't be explained in terms of muscular effort. The > champion yogic flyers (Blaine Watson, Eddie Gob, and Matt Boutrand) were > previously gymnasts and accomplished athletes. If superior consciousness > were responsible for the hopping, then Tony Nader, folks on Purusha and > Mother Divine, etc., should be the best flyers.
Here's a another way of looking at it. The Wright Bros first flight was in 1903. 24 years later Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic. By the 1940s, airplanes had become a major facet of warfare and would soon become a common aspect of modern life. And in 1969, man landed on the moon. There was continual progress in the history of flight and only 66 years from the Wright bros to landing on the moon. With yogic flying there has been no progress in 33 years, if anything there has been regression. If it were a real technology of levitation or flying, you would be seeing some progress in 30 yrs time. The sidhis served to divert meditators' attention from that fact that enlightenment in 5-7 yrs wasn't happening as promised, and now all this abstract talk about invincibility is a diversion from the fact that actual sidhis haven't happened in a few yrs as promised. (Not that I think those things should happen quickly or at all, but just commenting on how the TMO constantly goes from 1 thing to the next without fulfilling the prior and never talking why).
