--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" <willy...@...> wrote: > > > > > > > Tell us the truth. Were you hallucinating > > > > when you saw the levitation? > > > > > RD: > > Too bad all those thousands of people who > > experienced Rama levitating pre-mobile phone > > days didn't upload a video of him hovering in > > mid-air... > > > Too bad Rama levitating in front of thousands > of people isn't mentioned by any of the Rama > followers. This feat isn't even mentioned in > Mark's book about Rama. But being high on drugs > is mentioned over forty times. Go figure. > > Even Mr. Lenz himself doesn't claim this siddhi > in his book, 'Surfing the Himalayas'. Apparently > it's much more fun to use a snowboard than to > levitate. Floating face down in the water with > a dog collar around his neck seems to be Fred's > favorite magical show. > > Hovering in mid-air isn't even listed on Rama's > own website where it mentions that Rama is a > 'Black Belt'. > > I'd suppose, if thousands of people saw Rama do > hovering or turning rooms into golden light, at > least more than one would have reported it by > now. It's not mentioned by any of the former > Lenz students who went over to Franklin Jones.
Actually, I had a friend, a former TM teacher now deceased, who was a student of Rama's around the time Barry must have been there. This friend also talked of seeing Rama levitate on many occasions. He also saw him move clouds around in an outside gathering and I think he said Rama could make himself invisible (not sure on this one). This friend, Jack, did not know exactly how the levitation or other things occurred, but he was very certain he had seen them. As I recall, the outside events were in the desert, so it would have been pretty difficult to fix up the props of a magician. The last time I saw Jack, perhaps a year before he died, he was still involved with Rama. But he refused to hug me hello, did not even want to shake hands, and had some sort of compulsion about washing his hands several times during dinner. I was never certain if those were Rama's rules or his own problems. > Apparently some people are very much prone to > suggestion. Turq is a case in point. If he had > not posted so much misinformation about the > Maharishi, he would be more believable. > > But, since he has fibbed so much, who would want > to believe him now about the levitation siddhi? > > Titles of interest: > > 'Take Me for a Ride > Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult > By Mark Laxer > Outer Rim Press, 1993 > > 'Surfing the Himalayas' > A Spiritual Adventure' > By Frederick Lenz > St. Martin's Griffin, 1996 >
