--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Hey, PaliGap, nice to see you here again. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > (snip> > > > I remember when I first started to hop, after a couple > > > days. I had found myself bouncing--involuntarily--without > > > getting off the foam. After awhile, I let go of something > > > somehow mentally, and then I immediately began to hop. "Let > > > 'er rip" describes it, but I don't know whether that's the > > > same as what you experienced. It's as if I had not been > > > letting the sutra do its job, rather than that I had > > > started voluntarily to push myself up off the foam. > > > > > > Experience does vary from individual to individual, and > > > it's impossible to know what it's like for anybody else. > > > > I don't think I am a 'TB'. On the other hand the facts is the > > facts. I find it hard to 'explain away'. Believe me - I've > > tried (though coward-like I remain agnostic). > > Me too. The various theories that have been proposed to > explain it away, it seems to me, raise as many questions > as they answer. *Something* unusual is going on > neurophysiologically. > > The only indication I have that it has anything to do with > levitation, however, is that on a couple of occasions for > a split-second at the apex of a hop, I've suddenly "known" > that staying up in the air would be perfectly natural--in > the same way I know I'm going to come right down again > on all other occasions.
Have you had the experience of going up, then down again but not quite to the ground before you went up again ? It's quite interesting, like having an invisible cushion beneath. > > But of course that goes away virtually instantaneously. > You wouldn't be able to capture any in-air hesitation with > any kind of measuring instrument or camera.
