--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> 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/ > 1163928892287880.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? > > > > I ask because there are a few on this forum who have > > stated that they wouldn't. Sparaig has been outspoken > > about not trusting his own perceptions. And, whenever > > I have been honest about my own experiences of seeing > > someone hover in mid-air (which I have seen hundreds > > of times, but which was never captured on camera, and > > thus cannot be proven), many have been quick to tell > > me that I was hallucinating, or moodmaking, or that > > I had been hypnotized. > > The real issue is that you also said that others in the > same room with you did NOT see what you saw...
It's only a "problem" if you think that hovering is something that happens on a gross physical level. It may be, but you've never seen it and no one else here has either. It's the stuff of myth. What I saw was seen by literally hundreds of people at the same time, but yes, some in the room *didn't* see it. That could mean that the phenomenon we witnessed was taking place on a subtle physical level, a level that not every- one can perceive. Me, I don't know. I only know what I saw and what literally thousands of other people (not all of them Rama's students) saw over the years. Who *knows* why some saw it and some don't? It's really not my concern. Maybe the ones who didn't see it were all fucked up on Prozac and wouldn't have seen Madonna if she walked into the room, either. :-) My concern is dealing with what *I* experienced. I have no need to believe that all of the phenomena I witnessed over the years happened on the gross physical level. That's *your* hangup, because you're trying to make reality conform to how Maharishi describes it. It might. But then again, reality might be *far* more varied -- and interesting -- than he has ever imagined.
