Yeah, so...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" <babajii_99@> wrote:
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> > Maybe it has nothing to do with levitating the body, and more to do with
> > 'flying' through space on the level of consciousness...
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> > Because Maharishi was appealing to the 'West' and the west is generally
> > materialistic, hence the concentration on the body and material
> > wealth...rajas and hierarchy's...
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> > I don't think Maharishi himself ever went hopping around in order to become
> > enlightened...nor to I feel that Swami Bramahnanda Saraswati ever taught
> > hopping around...
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> > Patanjali himself states in all of the sidhi practices, that one should
> > remain detatched from any particular result...
> > Just as in TM one needs to be detatched for any particular outcome...
> > If one is attatched to an outcome, one could be disappointed if the outcome
> > is not achieved...
> > When one is promised that one will levitate or fly with the body, and it
> > requires effort for the body to hop around, and one gets very sweaty and
> > tired then something seems off...
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> But that is exactly what people in the TMO under Maharish's approval,
> encouragement and guidance have been doing since 1976!
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote:
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> > > > If humans psychologically need fairy tales (I think we might) then
> > > > science these days can serve up stuff that is pretty fantastical. If
> > > > you have seen the new Nova: universe-multiverse shows on PBS you know
> > > > what I mean. Multiverses, with one being born (exploded via a Big Bang
> > > > into existence) every second into something (space?) that is
> > > > ever-expanding, resulting in something looking like swiss cheese (the
> > > > holes are separate universes) that is also expanding. Wow. Makes me
> > > > think we are mere miniscule bacteria waging our own little battles in
> > > > some huge organism that is going thru a growth spurt of adolescence.
> > > > Maybe that is one of the next steps in human evolution - the brain will
> > > > modify so that it can understand more and more of advanced science and
> > > > the cosmos - so the universe can evolve enough to understand itself.
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> > > > As far as mere levitation goes, it does not sound so impossible give
> > > > the right brain and a healthy body and maybe a dip into some other
> > > > dimension that has different laws.
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> > > Based on Einsten's theory, objects with a large mass, like the sun, bends
> > > the fabric of space so that any planets in the vicinity are trapped to
> > > revolve around the sun like marbles in a deep cavity.
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> > > It would appear that the TM Sidhi sutra for levitation bends the fabric
> > > of space in the opposite way. Thus the person using the sutra bends the
> > > fabric of space like a hill or a mountain. He would thus appear like he
> > > is rising or flying from our point of view.
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> > > IMO, this phenomena would demostrate that consciousness affects time and
> > > space either to increase it or decrease it. IOW, consciousnes is the
> > > basis of the higher dimensions from the 5th to the 11th dimensions. With
> > > this view, we can believe that humans have the unique capabilities that
> > > we originally thought only belongs to beings living in the higher
> > > dimensions.
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> > > Or, it can be argued, as MMY does, that the entire phenomenal world is
> > > based on consciousness. This idea is the support for MMY's insistence on
> > > performing the TM Sidhi Program.
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