--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well, his sidhis led to suicide, so go figure. > > > > > > Not sure I understand this comment. I believe performance of > > > siddhis were a small part of what he did, and he did not revel > > > in their performance. From what I understand he demonstrated > > > them to show one facet of what kundalini energy can do. > > > > Can someone summarize or point to a link explaining what sidhis he > > performed? > > Don't know of a link, but what kinda siddhis ya want? > Gotta big bag of 'em here. :-) > > They don't all necessarily map to the siddhis described > in the Yoga Sutras, although some do. Over the years, > I saw him levitate, as in sitting in lotus and just > lifting up off the chair and hovering there in midair > for minutes at a time, sometimes telling a joke the > whole time. Or in the desert, he'd just step up off > the sand and onto a "staircase" that wasn't there, and > just climb up and down it for a while, several feet > above the ground. > > I've been sitting three feet in front of him and seen > him go invisible, to the point where you could see > stars through the outline of his body, and then no > outline. I've seen him do the same trick from the > feet up, leaving only a Cheshire Cat smile before > it went pop! and disappeared, too. > > I've seen him project the double, as described in the > Castaneda books. One of him was standing a few feet > in front of me and another one was up on top of the > mountain we were in front of, waving. > > I've seen him -- so help me -- move the fucking stars > around in the sky, shift whole constellations, draw > smiley faces with them. That's a real corker to digest, > because you know that physically they weren't moving > around, at least in this dimension, or a bunch of > astronomers would've had a hissy fit. Yet they moved > around. I saw it, and hundreds of other students saw > it. Go figure. > > There was lots of stuff, from filling a room with > golden light to opening up portals to other dimensions > and letting us see what was on the other side. It was > really neat. > > And it wasn't just watching. He didn't teach how to > *do* these things, at least not in words, but there > was an energetic component to these things that you > could not help but experience yourself, subjectively. > It was as if there was a certain state of attention > from which these things could be performed, and he > took us with him to that state of attention when he > performed them. > > And he *also* killed himself. See what I mean about > the mindfuck? :-) > > Unc
************* Yeah, imagine that: "Rama used a variety of so-called mind-control techniques to seduce his disciples. He had his subjects stare at him for long hours until they would hallucinate and "see" Lenz begin to glow or change shapes. Lenz told his followers that having these "visions" meant they were psychic." http://skepdic.com/rama.html To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
