That would have freaked them the F out! Very funny. I think I was there that Summer getting my sidhis on the student's course. The Summer before my senior year.
When I was studying other perspectives that ultimately led me to come to the conclusion that I had not in fact stumbled onto the most important knowledge for all mankind (damn what a demotion that was!) I remember reading descriptions of a group hypnotic experience remarkably similar to our flying room ones. And seeing people being slain in the spirit or even any of those primal emotional processes where people are invited to go into a group trance and feed off each other's cues reminds me of what we were up to. But seeing this rehash version really drives it home for me. This is an odd thing our brains can do. And no one has a clue what it does to us to practice it. As much as I can enjoy meditation to this day, I have never had a desire to go into the "flying" brain once I stopped. It has an epileptic fit quality to it that seems so unappealing now. And yet I remember all the heightened state bliss of it all but sort of have it in the same category as pounding 3 hits of blotter and going to a Dead Show (RIP). I have nothing but good memories of the experiences, but just have no desire to put my brain into that extreme a state. And when I am in the nursing home and I can't turn my freak'n neck because of cartilage crushed in my neck from the weird whipping around my head used to do in the "flying room", I can thank the misplaced trust of my youth. --- In [email protected], "marekreavis" <reavismarek@...> wrote: > > The "governor" training course I took was at MIU in the summer of '78. It was > a small course of only 12 guys. We lived in one of the "high rise" dorms and > our course leaders were Greg and Georgina Wilson. They used to come visit us > in the afternoons in the foam room where we would meet each day. We were the > only course happening on campus at that time and we were isolated from the > rest of whatever else was going on at the time. But school was on summer > break and there wasn't much, if anything, happening elsewhere on campus. > > We met in the foam room on the second or third floor of our dorm long before > we got the flying sutra and one afternoon as we were sitting around and doing > whatever we were doing we saw through the big windows of the foam room Greg > and Georgina walking across campus to visit our little group. We knew nothing > about what the "flying" technique was actually about at that point, but > someone had the idea that we'd all start yelling and hopping when Greg and > Georgina came in. > > And that's what we did. And the expressions on their faces was really > something. They were visibly startled and nonplussed. Here we were, only a > couple of weeks into the "siddhis" and, inexplicably, we were demonstrating > what is still apparently the end result of the most powerful and refined of > the techniques authored by Maharishi. > > If I remember correctly, Georgina turned around and immediately left the > room. Greg stayed for a moment, then left for a few minutes, and then they > both came back in and very sternly admonished us to never do anything like > that again. Of course, that warning was rescinded once we got the last sutra > and were encouraged to hop. > > The whole thing is funny now, but I admire the earnestness we had, even if I > cringe a bit at our naïveté and willingness to be led down such a wacky and > ultimately indulgent path. > > *** > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: > > > > That was totally hilarious! They did everything but claim that they were > > saving the world with their hopping like toads. They even mentioned the > > same sutra. The same bliss talk, really like a parallel universe. > > Excellent find. > > > > But remember, their hopping is not the real hopping. It just sounds the > > same when they describe it and looks the same, but deep down inside, it is > > not dome-worthy, official version. We just know it! > > > > > > --- In [email protected], pranamoocher <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > Did anyone else see this video on YouTube, titled "Art of Levitation > > > Unleashed by Nithyananda?" > > > It looks like a direct copy of the TMO levitation technique, complete > > > with skinny, flexible, lotus-sitting "hopping" and shaking about, with > > > an Indian voice narrative that is very OOGA BOOGA sounding. > > > > > > The video also goes into some details re other "Samana" practices. > > > http://youtu.be/K78t2-W2jag > > > > > >
