On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:57 PM, authfriend <jst...@panix.com> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall <thomas.pall@...> wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:37 PM, authfriend <jstein@...> wrote: > > > > > > I did a search for "+transcendental meditation +2099" and > > > found one such site here: > > > > > > http://goldendome.org/ > > >And nobody ever said the TMO hadn't claimed that taking > the TM-Sidhis course would enable you to fly etc. anyway. > That's Barry's fantasy, and a pretty dumb one at that, > given that this was the big attraction of the course in > the first place. > > > Yes, that is the picture. But in the OFFICIAL WEBSITE I remember, the picture occupied the top left of the site and there were no disclaimers. The website was definitely not as busy as this one and the drawing occupied a lot more real estate on the page, like about a quarter of it. As far as being able to do magical sidhis, I am not making it up. Candy Borlan, Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology, University of Texas at Austin) of the Houston TM center told us on a CAC prep course in Galveston that indeed she was the CB of Texas USA in the big something something Enlightenment book, that she had the flowing gold experience often even though she was busy teaching the sidhis on the 6 month course and often didn't get a chance to meditate. I swear once again that she told us that MERU gave away masters and ph.d. degrees to people who demonstrated the sidhis. The testers would put an object in a box and the testee (BTW, testify, test and the like come from the ancient Roman requirement to swear on one's testes, so I guess only Jane Hopsin and her bevy of feminazis could be tested this way) would use their sidhis to tell what was in the box. Two correct answers got you a masters in SCI, three correct answers got you a ph.d. in SCI. We had diplomas of masters in SCI hanging up in the office of the Houston Capital of the Age of Enlightenment (the one on Westheimer, on the second floor, above the meat market, halfway between River Oats and the Galleria) from MEMU which I was told were earned by governors via the "see what's in the box" test. Candy further told us to look up exotic fruits and berries in the encyclopedia, perform our sense sidhis on them once we learned them then go buy the items in the fancy fruit store in River Oaks to verify that the fruit and berries tasted, looked and smelled just as we had experienced with the sidhis. There was a very big mystique about governors when they returned about the super normal powers they possessed. The returning governors played along with this charade and many implied that they could read our minds. Finally a citizen sidha I knew spilled the beans to close associates: at most he got flavors of awareness and saw Consciousness as this stuff containing unmanifest seeds. No flying, no see what's in the box, no mind reading. So while there may only have been a short term official website showing the stages of crawling, walking and flying, there was a shared fantasy that lasted quite a number of years. The website was a decade after the mystique died. Anyone know if there's a way to google the Wayback Machine? IIRC the Wayback machine does not archive pictures so that might not even help. > > > BTW, in those days, TMO websites weren't particularly > > golden and didn't require special spy on you plug ins > > for your browser. The TMO was just discovering > > the Internet and wasn't exploiting streaming or VOIP. > > > > >
