wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" <jyouells@>
wrote:
>
> > As far as I know only Maharishi has ever asserted that levitation
is
> > an objective manifestation of unity. ... I certainly don't know if
> that assertion is true, and tend to doubt it.
> >
> > JohnY
>
>
> Because its inconvenient? To have some non-subjective
> non-self-interpreative means to point to higher states?
>
> Objective reality gets in the way of some story-tellers -- which to
> them [the stories] form a higher truth than measurement, multi-party
> verification or repeatability.
>
> Fred Travis' work is interesting. Though I have not dug that deeply
> into it. But physiological correlates to higher states and "more
> refined functioning of the nervous system" has always a theme with
> MMY, even back in the 60s.
>
> Its not clear why many appear so harsh, or negatively reactive about
> MMY's theme of siddhi's performance and higher states. (And I have
> heard him say it.)
>
> Its not clear why Fred and his gear are not invited to Satsangs.
Maybe
> he has been. Or maybe its the same propensity for stories over
> measurement, multi-party verification or repeatability.
>
> The latter is what brought the world out of the dark ages. But, hey,
> stories are good too, entertaining, inspiring and all. And the dark
> ages had their moments.
>
especially if you weren't all covered with shit...
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