--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yet, no one has flown. No one is flying. > > This problem could have been avoided by simply not calling > it "flying" or making the claims for "flying." > > I have the original print ads used by the TMO when they rolled this > program out. They were fraught with untruth, as the succeeding > decades have born out. > > And yet, the TMO continues to talk about "yogic flying."
MMY definitely didn't have to go the P.T. Barnum route with this. He had guys like me (back in the day) with TM. I think he is driven by a grandiosity that is part of his personality disorder. He really couldn't help himself. What is even more interesting is how each of his specific predictions for the timetable of actual flying have all come and gone with no real effect on the confidence of the practitioners. I can point no fingers here because my group was directly told by MMY that three years of sidhaland would perfect our sidhis. It was part of his hook to get our slave labor. We rounded our asses off, confident that we were just short of our goal. Do you think I popped up at the end of three years and asked "where's my Maypo?" ( a reference that dates me!) No. I just sucked it up and soldered on, confident that the man, who directly failed in his own prediction, would be right the next time. I think after a certain number of years, consistency and commitment, (described in the book Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini), kicks in too strongly. Challenging MMY's wrong predictions would put the whole thing on the table for re-examination. It is easier just to blame yourself for your own imperfections than to challenge the man who has failed by his own self-stated goals. The phenomenon is amazing on so many levels isn't it? > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Dave" <bikemaster@> wrote: > > > > > > > > So, let me get this straight: > > > > > > > > The TMO continues to liberally use terms like "yogic > > > flying," "group > > > > flying," "flying together," etc. MMY, Bevan, Hagelin, and the > > rich > > > > guys in the funny gold crowns utter those terms all the time. > > > > > > > > But what they really mean is "hopping." Obviously, they don't > > use > > > the > > > > term, "yogic hopping." They should. > > > > > > > > To be clear, I use the term "flying" to mean hovering in the > > air. > > > No > > > > one that we know of has achieved that. Were it to happen, I'm > > sure > > > the > > > > TMO would trot out the videotape. > > > > > > > > So that means that terms including the word "flying" are > merely > > > spin. > > > > After nearly thirty years, no one has "flown." And a > reasonable > > > person > > > > could conclude that it's probable that no one is going > to "fly." > > > > > > > > Claims need to be tested. Outrageous claims need to be tested > > even > > > > more rigoously. "Yogic flying" has failed. > > > > > > > It is a marketing term based on the name of the sutra. In any > > case, > > > its a good thing not to get too hung up on the common physical > > > manifestation of the sutra. The end goal is spiritual freedom, > > Self- > > > realization, and the 'flying' technique definitely hastens the > > > development of that. > > > > > > > > > Next to TM, my experience is that the "flying" technique was the > > best thing since apple pie. > > > > Having said that, I wonder what they trade off has been? I am > > convinced that, more than the 3 or 4 other major errors of MMY's > > reign over the TMO, the way he came out with the flying technique > is > > what is responsible for the almost total demise of the TMO and the > > popularity of TM. > > > > So: on the one hand, he came out with this wonderful flying > program; > > yet, on the other, the way he came out with it destroyed the > > Movement. > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/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/
