You make some good points. We may be drawing the line of advertising accuracy differently. Since so few people see this kind of chart it makes no real difference.
--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > Thanks for posting the link. I am really surprised that they are > > continuing with this blatant lie! Arrogance, pure and simple. They > > don't give people enough credit that they would know that this claim > > is as physically impossible as humans flying in the air. It must be > > discouraging for his current students to see that no attempt is being > > made to be truthful in this absurd claim. But practically speaking, > > no one will ever see this other than people who have already bought > > in, so accuracy is a moot point. > > Hi, I can appreciate your feelings regarding the misrepresentations of > the flying technique. But, after considering how I personally would > sell it, I would probably end up doing the same thing, if it were > solely up to me, for a couple of reasons: > > 1. How could it be sold if potential consumers were told, "...well it > IS a flying technique, a sutra- I'll explain what that is shortly- but > the stress on the planet keeps us ordinary folks from doing much but > bouncing around. Except that the subjective experience is every bit as > transcendent as flying. You do feel weightless. Oh, and the point is > not to fly, but to serve as a washing machine so to speak for global > stress...Oh right, the sutra explanation: so there's this bubble > diagram..." No one, ever, would buy into THAT. Hence the alternative. > > 2. Reason number two is just pragmatic; the words 'false' > and 'advertising' go together. Whenever something is advertised, a > subset of its qualities are emphasized. In every case: house, car, > music, doctor, salad dressing, spa treatment. Its the game of the > name. So, how else does one advertise yogic flying? Absolutely deny > the method used, and you'd never buy anything again. > > Is it right for Maharishi and the TMO to do such a thing? I don't > know, but I can see why they did, beyond seeing them as arrogant, > which is too easy an answer for me. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/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/
