--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > I agree that JohnR seems sincere. I'm not so sure about Chopra. > > Who I understand does still in fact hold a medical license but > > doesn't claim to practice. Go figure. > > > > Anyway, I am drifting. > > > > You claim to have seen people levitate. You are probably more > > open to a Joytish claim than most other people here. :) > > Not really. > > I actually *did* see someone levitate, hundreds > of times over a period of 14 years. So did liter- > ally thousands of other people. > > WHAT we saw and why we saw it is up for debate. > But the fact that we saw it is not. It has been > written about by many people in many places. > > Having seen it was one of the most real exper- > iences of my life. As far as I can tell, Jyotish > has nothing real about it. To me it's a pseudo- > science that depends on the projected belief of > its adherents, their gullibility, and their > desire to be told the things they want to hear > that keeps it going. > > I could be wrong about this. If JohnR manages > to "see" my friend's medical condition from his > perusal of the chart, I will be the first to say > so. That won't "prove" that Jyotish is valid, but > it'll sure raise my eyebrows, and I'll say so. > > The having seen someone levitating thang, however, > is another ball of wax. I'm not trying to convince > anyone that I have, and understand fully that I > can never do that, ever. It was my subjective > experience, and the subjective experience of many > other students, but subjective it will stay, forever. > The possibility does not exist to "prove" it one > way or another, because the dude who did the > floatin' is dead. > > But the accuracy of Jyotish CAN be proved one way > or another. I have proposed such a way. Whether > JohnR takes me up on it is up to him. He's the > one claiming that Jyotish is a science, and worth > the money people pay for it. I'm selling nothing, > and championing nothing that is for sale. All I'm > saying is that I was lucky enough to have seen > some neat stuff. :-) > My only implication was that your mind may be more open than some think.
I for one have closed the door on Jyotish.
