--- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Llundrub"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Patrick Gillam 
> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
> > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 2:26 PM
> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purity of the
> teaching (was Honest answers)
> > 
> > 
> > L B Shriver wrote:
> > >
> > > The Knowledge have actually been compromised 
> > > by the University. For example, the principle of
> 
> > > innocence in practice-> absolutely foundational 
> > > as far as I'm concerned-was completely trashed 
> > > by the practice of grading students on their 
> > > performance in the Domes, where they are 
> > > observed by faculty and accorded a performance 
> > > rating based on how much they hop. Does anyone 
> > > seriously believe that a student who hasn't
> hopped 
> > > until the last minute of the session won't jump 
> > > up and down once or twice for the sake of the
> grade?
> > 
> > When I attended a reunion in 1999, I sat with the 
> > 5-minute flyers near the door. All those kids
> slept 
> > through the entire program, with no pretense of 
> > meditating or doing anything else. I wondered if 
> > they were recruited in one of the programs to get 
> > foreign students, for they were all non-Anglo and 
> > obviously had no interest in meditation. I expect
> that
> > program is no more. 
> > 
> > - Patrick Gillam
> > 
> > ----To join student purusha you had to be actively
> hopping. Of course you also had to 
> be actively hopping to move your 'flying time' up
> every six months. So I talked myself into 
> flying. I had been one of the non flyers.  Then on
> student purusha you could automatically 
> move up to the fifteen minute section and then
> advance your time five minutes every 
> month so that after three months I was sitting with
> the 30 mintue flying guys.
> > 
> > After I left MIU I decided there was no connection
> between hopping and levitating so I 
> never did it again.  How can bouncing help one
> stabilize in mid air?  I don't see the 
> connection.
> 
> 
> Well, you wouldn't (see the connection). I mean,
> "seeing the connection" is pretty advanced 
> stuff --the equivalent of floating during Yogic
> Flying, I suspect.
> 
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