--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > <snip> > > > I am also convinced that many of them also have reached the required > > > physiological degree of purity to sustain that state which allows > > > them to levitate, but that the ambient atmosphere is fore- checking > > > this and holding them back. > > > > My guess is that there is some level on which most > > yogic flyers don't *really* believe true levitation > > (i.e., hovering and beyond, not just Really Big Hops) > > is possible. They may believe it on an intellectual > > basis, but not in their gut. > > Exactly. I think that's the factor that makes > all the difference. And in my opinion it can't > be overcome intellectually. The belief you > speak of is *not* at an intellectual level. As > you say, it's a "gut" experience. Quite literally, > your *body* has to believe that the sidhi is > possible.
I don't know whether it's the body or something else. But awhile back I wrote about an experience I sometimes have at the apex of a hop: for a split second, it becomes self-evident that levitation is possible. It's not a belief or even a conviction, it's *knowledge*, as sure as the knowledge that if I decide to lift my hand to scratch my nose, that's what's going to happen. But it doesn't last. If it did, I wouldn't come down. > > Interestingly enough, one of the benefits of > witnessing the sidhis is being able to sit in > their energy field. If you are sitting close > enough to witness the sidhi, you are sitting > within the aura of the state of attention > that makes the sidhi possible. It is a > transformative experience. The energy field > is so powerful that your *body* can't resist > it. You get to "wear" that state of attention > for a little while, to experience first-hand > what it feels like to be in the mindstate from > which that sidhi is possible. It's just the > damnedest thing. Words fail me. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
