Before you can speculate on how the TM-Sidhis work, it would be good to establish that they DO work.
What DOES seem to happen is that the brain tends towards a Pure Consciosuness-like state around the time that hopping (and presumably other "flavors") occur. This supports MMY's claim that their practice stabilizes PC along with more "subtle" activities of the brain. In the case of Yogic Flying, there's a physical side-effect of this "subtle activity." Long-term, TM-Sidhis practice does, as MMY asserted, seem to hasten the stabilization of higher states of consciousness, as he defined them. So, with respect to THAT claim, the TM-Sidhis work, and the mechanism is at least somewhat understood: the brain remains in a PC-ish state while specific activities are occurring. Simple plasticity explains how this promotes "higher states": it's the same general mechanism by which TM promotes CC. If you're looking for explanations of how "flavors" transition into full-blown "powers," that aint going to happen until "powers" are documented. But why do you care, unless you're hoping for external confirmation that the internal perception that Self is atman is Brahman really is how the universe works on an "objective" level? L ---In [email protected], <anartaxius@...> wrote : No. Some think siddhis are techniques for consciously activating the brain's mechanisms that come into play during dreaming sleep, but when the mind is still awake. Thus various internal experiences people report would be dreams, and things like 'flying' would be like sleepwalking, but in a more conscious state. This hypothesis provides an alternative explanation as long as actual proof of the siddhis are not scientifically confirmed, for things like real levitation have observable physical consequences that would have precise differences from, say, hopping; conservation of momentum would be broken if real levitation occurred and then stopped. ---In [email protected], <hepa7@...> wrote : Are siddhis mainly based on activating some "junk-DNA"??
