--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], hermandan0 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > Anyone else see this story from the Cleveland Plain Dealer? > > > > http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/116 3928892287880.xml&coll=2#continue > > > > > > Especially of note is the comment on the third online page > > > where Zanna Fietler says full time yogic flyers (and some > > > non-full time, by implication) are hovering. > > > > > > Anyone else hear reports of hovering? > > > > Heard it but won't believe til I've seen with my own eyes. > > This brings up a very interesting question: *Would* you > believe it if you saw it with your own eyes? <snip> > *If* you don't trust your own perceptions, will you > ever trust your own perceptions of enlightenment > unless they are "confirmed" by someone you consider > an authority figure or by some "scientific" measure? > I don't think so.
There may be a difference in terms of one's perceptions between seeing someone else hover and hovering oneself. I should think the latter would be more convincing. And likewise with enlightenment: One may be more inclined to trust one's perceptions of one's own enlightenment than some authority's pronouncements thereof. Interestingly, though, in other discussions, those who assert that they *aren't* enlightened have been told they just don't want to *recognize* that they're enlightened. Funny how one is supposed to trust one's own perceptions of being enlightened, but not one's perceptions of *not* being enlightened.)
