--- In [email protected], 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. >
At that point, he may well have believed that. In the late 70's, a famous sports physician was brought to MERU to test Yogic Flyers and he concluded that there was no sign of anything except muscular hopping. MMY's response was that Hopping like a Frog apparently meant hopping like a frog. EVen so, the impulse to move comes during a different state of conscioiusness: Fred Travis's research clearly showed a different EEG pattern just before hpping during Yogic Flying as compared to just hopping while not doing Yogic Flying. Since MMY has always made it clear the real reason to practice the technique is for the effect on consciousness, I don't see an issue. Do you? 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/
