The world-wide event was quite sucessful, IMHO. The collected newspaper articles book gives insight into how YOgic Flying is perceived in various cultures by various peoples. Some Western and Indian accounts were openly mocking. Others were respectful, if bemused. Others were angry that they had been deceived all this time. One interesting article, can't remember the country, was angry because the TMO was trying to pretend that it was NOT levitation, but merely hopping, since obviously no muscles were involved in the demonstration...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mrfishey2001" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ...I laugh - we were very naive - we just did whatever > we where told - without reflecting at all. > Ingegerd > > ------------- > > > Nice reflection Ingegerd, mine however is somewhat different. > > I was one of the performers during the first public event. The press > waited in attendance while we were off stage meditating, preparing as > it were for our flying demonstration. It was suggested that we > meditate for 10 Ð 15 minutes at which time we would be invited on > stage. After an hour of deep meditation we were summoned. My memory > recalls a room suddenly quiet as we entered - a white yoga clothed > procession of 12 young people filing in to take their seats on several > sheets of high-density foam. We meditated another 10 minutes before > beginning our demonstration. We hopped around for another 10 Ð 15 > minutes then rested off stage. We came back out to a thunderous > applause. For the next hour we were enthusiastically interviewed by > the press. The entire demonstration appeared on the evening news and > in the following dayÕs press. > > Two things remain in my mind from this time. First, how genuinely open > and hopeful the press was, particularly as the occasion was staged as > a World Peace event. Secondly, how profoundly private and intimate the > act of transcending is. To sit in front of several hundred people > whose sole purpose is to watch you only accentuated this experience. > > > ------------ 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/
