> > I wish you luck. Indeed, I believe that I am not > > out of line in speaking for the rest of FFL in > > saying that we all wish you only success and smooth > > riding in your quest to be deprogrammed. > > Rory Goff wrote: > Sorry, Shemp, if you are speaking seriously; I am more > or less with Barry on this one. Under the right > conditions levitation, dematerialization, etc. IME > are possible, and have been experienced by a number of > us simultaneously. > But, Rory, wouldn't you think that such a phenomenon would have been mentioned by someone, somewhere? Maybe I missed it, but could you point me to any comments that addressed this earth-shattering event. Barry didn't mention in in ten years of posting to Usenet; Freddy didn't mention it in his books: 'Surfing the Himalayas' or 'Surfing to Nirvana', and you didn't mention it in your autobiography. What's up with that?
> IME it wasn't astral or subtle-body projection, and > it felt quite physical and real. On what level(s) of > reality it took place I couldn't tell you, > On the level of suggestion? > but its effect was to fuse previously-differentiated > understandings of matter and spirit into ONE. > Is that what Marshy's "bum-hopping" accomplishes - fusing "matter and spirit into ONE"? What do you suppose people would say about this at <sci.skeptic>? http://groups.google.com/group/sci.skeptic/topics > As Barry says, this kind of experience is viceral and > *intense* and IME took many years to fully assimilate. > This kind of experience is usually described as being under the influence of a trance-induction state or hypnosis. Sometimes it's described as mixing up and passing out the kool-aid.
