---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote :
On 8/29/2014 5:56 AM, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... mailto:mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: And how did your course leaders respond to the lady's report of flitting about out of her body? > Probably about the way you respond ed to Barry's claim that Rama could levitate - with silence. Go figure. From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 2:00 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The flying saint, Joseph of Cupertino ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> mailto: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. 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.
