--- In [email protected], "geezerfreak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "wayback71" <wayback71@> wrote:
> >> Geezer, You have provided me with some great laughs - I like your
> sense of humor. 
> > thanks
> >
> Thanks Wayback. Nice to meetcha. Here's something that I remembered a
> few days ago that got me chuckling. Some may not realize this but
> "flying" did not always involve foams pads and bouncy bouncy. I was in
> the very first group to do...um..."research" into this particular
> sutra. We (a select group of Selisbergers) sat in a circle of chairs
> trying it out. Needless to say, not much was happening. One day I
> rigged a coathanger in my tie in such a way that I could manipulate
> the tie....cause it to "levitate"...with my hand in my pocket.
> The chosen did their thing the next afternoon and sure enough, as
> everyone was slowly opening their eyes, the end of my tie was floating
> aloft trying to get it's dim witted owner to follow suit. You could
> hear the collective gasps in the room as everyone came out. Only when
> I lost it and started laughing did the camp divide into those
> (thankfully many) who thought it hilarious and those (the usual sad
> sack hard core) who thought humor should be kept OUT of spiritual
> development.
> Achtung! There vill be no yokes.....NO YOKING in this room from now on!
> Ahh yes, good times.
>

Humor has its place, but  in that context, you were out of line. That's Mel 
Brooks sort of 
humr, where Jesus prays for a sign and someone pulls a prank that leads to 
legends of 
miracles. Works in the movies but NOT in real life.

Well, maybe the legend-of-miracles part.





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