--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@...> wrote: >
<here are documented accounts of saints in the Roman Catholic Church who have floated in the air during their meditations. These saints included St. Teresa of Avila and St. Thomas Aquinas.> Is "documented" too strong a word to use in this context? I mean I am pretty skeptical of claims of things that are supposedly "documented" in today's paper. These stories were recorded in a time when authority was the ultimate epistemological criteria and "facts" as we know them were not considered more important than the cause. I am not sure that these writings were figurative writing to express something inner rather than a factual account of the outer. What makes it compelling for you? > > > St. Francis, too, as well as Catherine of Sienna, St. Joseph of Cupertino, > and others. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jr_esq" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > > > > As much as anything, he is rationalizing things for himself. > > > > > > That said, there's no real contradiction in believing that some unusual > > > state will have unusual correlates. That is pretty much the definition of > > > "unusual state" anyway. > > > > > > Hagelin's desire to reconcile his beliefs with the current situation vis > > > a vis Yogic Flying does make him seem silly to most people, but how could > > > it be otherwise? > > > > > > If Yogic Flying, floating-phase, was being demonstrated, there would be > > > no question that something unusual was going on, and theoretical and > > > experimental physicists would be flocking to Fairfield to figure out what > > > makes Yogic Flying, floating-phase, tick. > > > > > > Until that time, his assumption that Yogic Flying, floating-phase, is or > > > will be a real phenomenon makes him silly in most people's eyes. > > > > Hoppping is by itself a phenomenon. It's a form of the floating-phase, > > although this has not been proved by the TMO. However, from a historical > > perspective, there are documented accounts of saints in the Roman Catholic > > Church who have floated in the air during their meditations. These saints > > included St. Teresa of Avila and St. Thomas Aquinas. > > >
