--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 8/12/06 8:27 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > How does any of this apply to a TM-Sidhis practitioner > > referring to hopping as "levitation" while being aware > > that hopping isn't actually levitating in the standard > > sense of the term? > > > ³Maharishi sez² it¹s levitation. On the Merv Griffin show and > elsewhere, he refers to hopping as being something that verifies > meditators¹ command over the laws of nature.
In the first place, that falls into the "handle on the nature and mechanics of consciousness" category, not the "Absolute Truth" category. In the second place, you ignored the context, which I included in the "while being aware" part of my question. Bill had claimed his former GF was "absolutely convinced" she was levitating, which makes her sound ipso facto delusional, believing she was hovering in the air when she in fact was only hopping. Believing, on the other hand, that hopping with the Yogic Flying sutra verifies that one has command over the laws of nature is not *ipso facto* delusional, however unlikely one thinks such a belief may be. It's possible (if unfalsifiable) that the nature and mechanics of consciousness are such that the mechanism of hopping with the Yogic Flying sutra involves some degree of control over the law of gravity. To call such a belief delusional would therefore be just an opinion, whereas the conviction that one is hovering when one is actually only hopping would be delusional as a matter of fact. This is a subtle but by no means insignificant distinction; to deliberately blur it constitutes an attempt to load the argument, as I said to start with. Were you ever convinced you were actually hovering in the air when you were only hopping? Or were you simply using the term "levitate" to refer to the immediate physical effects of practicing the Yogic Flying sutra, i.e., hopping? 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/
