On 8/29/2014 1:00 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote :
I'm healthily skeptical about such claims. (Notice how skepticism is
always described as "healthy"?)
I think "essential" is an even better term.
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But, apparently /not //essential/ in the case of Barry's Rama levitation
claims. Go figure.
Cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by
an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or
values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that
conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.
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But if there is anything to these tales I doubt if the saint
*physically* levitated. Ie, a Kodak Brownie would not have recorded
his flight. A more likely explanation (though still demanding a lot of
credulity) is that people witnessed his "astral" vehicle. He was,
after all, spending most of his time in prayer and contemplation -
ideal conditions for having an out-of-the-body experience. Perhaps the
veneration surrounding the holy man raised the witnesses' own level of
consciousness so that they could sense his astral form.
More plausible?
On that theme: do TM meditators in the Dome (sidhas or not) ever
report having an OBE?
Someone on my "flying" course did, she had all sorts of weird
adventures like that. I just got a head ache and forgot where I was, a
sort of Out of Mind Experience where my body wandered about on its own.
