Has anyone taken Barry's assertions serious enough to even google the issue? You'd think that with thousands of followers, there'd be all sorts of sites still dedicated to adoring Rama and that, online, there would be ample citations of levitation to point at. Got any?
Not worth the googling to me cuz any levitation in front of hundreds of folks has to produce at least a 30% bystander-to-full-believer rate of conversion, and those folks would be doing puja even now based on that evidence. Where are they? And why is Barry so willing to spread the news of levitation being a real phenomonum and yet he is no longer a true believer? Levitation, if real, is a very serious proof that the levitator, while not necessarily enlightened, has mastered a siddhi that can only come from having purified his mind to an almost perfect degree, and such a mind would most likely be filled with deep insights and wisdom. Keep in mind that a few loaves and fishes did the same to manifest true believers. So, any leader who could get even a 100 followers is certain to have cameras always around; brought by those who would make the leader into a idol. To have levitation witnessed once and not captured on film is understandable; to have this happen many times and not have at least one true believer be there ready for the moment with a camera is not understandable. Hell, to imagine Barry not lugging a camera around, given his addiction to name dropping, is a gimme. Where's yer photos, Barry? When Barry weasels on this like he did by using "cameras can't see auras," as his reason for no photographic evidence, then, hey, what's new in the wonderful world of rationalization? Let's face it: Barry could be sitting in his underwear in his Mom's basement in Gary, Indiana; a 400 pound pock marked puter geek who makes it look like his posts come from Europe enough to fool Alex; a stack of pizza boxes next to him testifies why his keyboard is covered with the gunk that can only come from pizza grease and dust commingling over years; a pile of Kleenex tissues overflowing his basket that's next to his bottle of Exxon Jumbo Lubricant; yellow teeth almost hidden by a foul mortar of plaque; and let's complete this imagined scenario by picturing him forming his nose mucus into small Judy voodoo dolls as he awaits her next post. Just sayin! Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" <waybac...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" <willytex@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Tell us the truth. Were you hallucinating > > > > > when you saw the levitation? > > > > > > > RD: > > > Too bad all those thousands of people who > > > experienced Rama levitating pre-mobile phone > > > days didn't upload a video of him hovering in > > > mid-air... > > > > > Too bad Rama levitating in front of thousands > > of people isn't mentioned by any of the Rama > > followers. This feat isn't even mentioned in > > Mark's book about Rama. But being high on drugs > > is mentioned over forty times. Go figure. > > > > Even Mr. Lenz himself doesn't claim this siddhi > > in his book, 'Surfing the Himalayas'. Apparently > > it's much more fun to use a snowboard than to > > levitate. Floating face down in the water with > > a dog collar around his neck seems to be Fred's > > favorite magical show. > > > > Hovering in mid-air isn't even listed on Rama's > > own website where it mentions that Rama is a > > 'Black Belt'. > > > > I'd suppose, if thousands of people saw Rama do > > hovering or turning rooms into golden light, at > > least more than one would have reported it by > > now. It's not mentioned by any of the former > > Lenz students who went over to Franklin Jones. > > > Actually, I had a friend, a former TM teacher now deceased, who was a student > of Rama's around the time Barry must have been there. This friend also > talked of seeing Rama levitate on many occasions. He also saw him move > clouds around in an outside gathering and I think he said Rama could make > himself invisible (not sure on this one). This friend, Jack, did not know > exactly how the levitation or other things occurred, but he was very certain > he had seen them. As I recall, the outside events were in the desert, so it > would have been pretty difficult to fix up the props of a magician. > > The last time I saw Jack, perhaps a year before he died, he was still > involved with Rama. But he refused to hug me hello, did not even want to > shake hands, and had some sort of compulsion about washing his hands several > times during dinner. I was never certain if those were Rama's rules or his > own problems. > > > Apparently some people are very much prone to > > suggestion. Turq is a case in point. If he had > > not posted so much misinformation about the > > Maharishi, he would be more believable. > > > > But, since he has fibbed so much, who would want > > to believe him now about the levitation siddhi? > > > > Titles of interest: > > > > 'Take Me for a Ride > > Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult > > By Mark Laxer > > Outer Rim Press, 1993 > > > > 'Surfing the Himalayas' > > A Spiritual Adventure' > > By Frederick Lenz > > St. Martin's Griffin, 1996 > > >
