--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Seraphita" <s3raphita@...> wrote: > > This is what has always puzzled me. Would you take tennis > lessons from a coach who couldn't demonstrate his own > proficiency in the game? Would you take cooking lessons > from someone who never prepared a delicious meal for you > to taste? If Maharishi and his trained teachers were unable > to demonstrate Yogic Flying in action how could anyone be > so trusting as to sign-up to the TM-Sidhi program? Caveat > emptor.
Frog-in-a-pot-of-water-slowly-brought-to-a-boil syndrome. They (we!, if you ever learned the TM Sidhis) had just heard so many promises from Maharishi, taken the value of them for granted, and accepted them without the intercession of critical thought that we did it again when told that we were going to learn a technique that would enable us to FLY. In retrospect, it seems outrageous, or even unbelievable. HOW could so many have been so gullible? The answer for me is "context." If this were the *first* or *only* outrageous claim being presented to people, chances are they would have reacted with a hearty, "Yeah, right," and blown MMY off. But by the time people *did* hear such claims, they'd heard -- and accepted and bought into -- dozens or hundreds of others. This was just the next one. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" wrote: > > > > > > Wiki: > > > > Musician Paul McCartney was with The Beatles in Rishikesh > > in 1968 for TM training and he asked if the Maharishi could > > provide a demonstration of levitation. According to McCartney, > > the Maharishi said "I personally have not practised this art" > > and did not personally know anyone in the area who did and > > was therefore unable to demonstrate it.[35] > > > > > > 35. Miles, Barry (1997). Many Years From Now. Random House. > > p. 425. ISBN 978-0-7493-8658-0. > > >
