On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Rick Archer <r...@searchsummit.com> wrote:
> > > *From:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto: > FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Joe > *Sent:* Friday, January 14, 2011 11:02 AM > > *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: The Dome Numbers > > > > > > > Bullshit. > > (unless you were bouncing on a trampoline) > > If you’re not in lotus, it’s easy to “bounce” so high that you’re standing > on your feet at the peak of the arcs. I used to see guys do it all the time. > They sort of bounced and stood, bounced and stood. Newtonian physics and the > everyday limitations of human physiology were very much intact. > > I saw some remarkable things in the flying room at Cobb Mountain during the first five minutes of our practicing the flying sutra that I'll have to bring back and re-examine. Perhaps I wasn't seeing everything clearly. Except for those five minutes, I've often had the need to open my eyes and watch myself and when in a group watch others. I've never, except for those first five minutes seen anything I couldn't explain with Newtonian physics. Each time I come to the dome for the first time after being away for a while I look at myself, I look at others, calculate that there is nothing but throwing up of hands, jerking legs that's causing the "hopping". I observe how guys are in lotus position but jerk up their legs nonetheless, jerk up their hands, which accounts for their "hopping". I ever have to decide to forget it and suspend belief in what I see or I can't "innocently" do the flying. I have also done the landing on my feet hopping. It was the result of well timed jerks of the arms and legs, nothing more. The thing that keeps me going is that the impulse to hop, the rush of energy upwards that precedes a hop. That comes from the flying sutra. But does that impulse really have anything to do with flying? I wonder, I wonder then I tell myself to shut my mind of from this and just hop. Why do I sometimes defend TM and Maharishi here, often take pot shots at TM and Maharishi here? Because it's not an after all these years thing for me. I struggle with things like "Am I flying? every day. Despite my dissection, I still find Maharishi to be sort of like an optical illusion. I can see where he was telling the truth here. No, my eyes shift looking at the "illusion" and I see that he wasn't telling the truth. Then my eyes shift...
