--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <fintlewoodlewix@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > 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. > > > > > > Except that it would be an attempt to disprove a straw > > > man, which isn't very scientific. > > > > > > Nobody denies muscular exertion is involved, at least > > > these days. > > > > Don't they? How are we supposed to progress from stage 1 > > (hopping) to stage 2 (floating) if some sort of extra > > gravity defying process isn't involved? > > They aren't claiming anybody's doing anything but > hopping yet.
So why not call it "yogic hopping"? That would be truthful. Calling it "yogic flying" is not. You believe it is an entirely involuntary action, right? How do you explain in the film that all begin hopping together, all know where the corner of the foam pad is, and all start hopping when the camera happens to be filming? I was a hopper for several years. It was obvious to me towards the end of that time that the biggest thing going on in those rooms was group think and group action. Now that was what....30 years ago. Nothing has changed. Nothing. Same old hopping, albeit with a few more strained knees and backs. This isn't "yogic flying". It's the yogic equivalent of waiting for godot.
