Hugo, you like science. I'm completely uninterested in whether the TMO used a silly photo to insinuate that people were actually levitating or not. That's a done deal, game over. The TMO not only used such photos in the early days of the TM-sidhi courses, they *told* prospective suckers in meetings in TM centers that people were levitating. People who had *never even been on one of the courses yet* said that they had seen this with their own eyes. (This happened repeat- edly in the local center that was in the National TM Headquarters in Pacific Palisades. I sat there once listening to such a sales spiel sitting next to a good friend who had just returned from her TM-sidhi course. Her comment: "He's lying. And furthermore he's high up enough in the movement to *know* that he's lying.")
But here's where the "science" comes in. Several times on this forum I have suggested an experiment that, given my last-time-I-studied-it-back-in-high-school knowledge of physics, would prove one way or another whether the "flying" in Yogic Flying is due to anything other than muscle exertion. Simply set up high-speed cameras as TM-sidhas "known" for their ability to "fly" well do their program, and "fly." But instead of sitting on foam, they're sitting on a big, at-least-one-foot-deep water bed. If my physics is correct, any muscle force exerted downwards would be dissipated by the water in the bed, and they'd never budge off the surface. If they *do* budge off the surface in such an experiment, then "something good may be happening." :-) It seems foolproof to me. So much so that one would think that the TMO would jump on it like Iowa farmers on candy corn at the State Fair. If several of their "frequent flyers" can get off the surface of a water bed, then they've proved that there may be something to it other than muscle exertion. If they cant, well...
