--- 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 Of course, that warning was rescinded once we got the last sutra 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
> > >

Whoa! Those mattresses seem quite thin... :0

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