--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 10/17/05 11:34 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> Even now though, when Maharishi and others talk about it, they > >> imply that something other than muscular thrust is causing the body > >> to lift up, i.e., that Newtonian physics is being defied, which it > >> isn't. > > > > What do you think accounts for the phenomenon that > > some people *appear* not to be exerting enough > > muscular effort to hop as high and as far as they > > do? I hop like a Mack truck myself, but I've seen > > folks hop in a way that just doesn't seem right to > > my kinesthetic sense of how people move in relation > > to their weight. > > Ever see Michael Jordan play basketball in his prime? A physically > fit person can make moves that appear to defy gravity, but don't.
Yeah, but in full lotus? I realized after I wrote the above that it isn't so much the height and distance versus the effort apparently being expended, as it is the lightness of the touchdowns, even on foam. When Jordan lands after a leap, he has the full length of his legs to act as shock absorbers. And even with athletes like Jordan, or ballet dancers, I don't get the same sense that something is awry in my eye's calculation of what it *should* look like when a particular body lands. > I do believe people can levitate and even that people in the TM > movement may have done so momentarily on rare occasions, but I > doubt it has ever happened regularly in group flying sessions. > There was an old guy named Elliot who was a plumber at MIU-CNL in > DC and later at MUM. A friend of mine, whom I believe, told me > that Elliot went through a phase when he first got the sidhis where > he was levitating a lot. Couldn't even sit on the toilet sometimes > without floating into the air. My friend said he saw him (not > necessarily the toilet episode) and took pictures. I'll see if I > can get them, scan them, and post them. The TMO might be *very* interested in such photos... ------------------------ 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/
