TurqB, if this took some courage to post, which I'm guessing it did, I thank you for that. Also for scrambling my brains nicely in reference to my opinions about you. This scrambling will definitely take some time to settle out.
IMHO, you are the Biggest Mystery Man on FFL. And given the presence of So And So and You Know Who, that's saying a lot. ________________________________ From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 11:21 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Eyewitness accounts of levitation that ring true --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@> wrote: > > > > > > http://www.miraclesofthesaints.com/2010/10/levitation-and-ecstatic-flights-in.html > > > > It's just a shame that they seem to have stopped just before > > the invention of cinema. > > I am so glad that I didn't offer my wordy response before you nailed everything > I could have said in just sixteen words! Just to pour gasoline on already-roaring flames, and to save a certain someone from bringing it up in an attempt to demonize me :-), I shall weigh in on the subject of levitation from a unique point of view. Other than Nabby, whose credibility I submit is in the same ballpark as Rush Limbaugh's or Paul Ryan's, I think I'm the only person here who has claimed to have witnessed real, hang-there-in-mid-air levitation. And I have. Not once, but dozens of times, over a period of 14 years. And it wasn't only me. Often I was one of a group of 200-500 students watching the guy do this, in various locations, ranging from out in the desert in the middle of the night to the Los Angeles Convention Center to Carnegie Hall. In those environments, Rama - Frederick Lenz didn't hop on his butt like a frog, he just lifted gently up off of the sofa or the sand he was sitting on or standing on, and hovered there in mid-air in exactly the way that a brick doesn't. For extended periods of time -- minutes, not seconds. That said, I can tell you nothing whatsoever about the nature of what it was that I saw other than I and others saw it. I do not know whether video or movie cameras trained on the guy as he lifted off would have captured it; I strongly suspect that they would not have. If I had to speculate, I would suspect that the phenomenon we witnessed was -- if it truly existed -- taking place on an alternate level of reality that might not have been captured by technology on this level of reality. I am equally comfortable with the notion that it didn't really exist at all, but that brings up more unanswerable questions. I don't know about you, but I have a harder time with the notion that someone can hypnotize 200-500 people at a time into seeing the same thing -- *without ever pre-announcing what it was that they were going to see* -- less believable than that something was actually happening. Something else. WHAT that something else was, I have no idea. Do I feel somewhat uncomfortable saying this? You betcha. I share almost all of Curtis and salyavin's skepticism about such things. But I really *did* see this shit. Over and over and over, for an extended period of time. Am I supposed to *deny* that I saw it, or come up with some convenient skeptic's "explanation" for what it was I and hundreds of others saw? That, to me, would be the "easy path," a cop-out. I *did* see it. I have NO FUCKING IDEA what exactly it was that I saw, only that I saw it. Many times. Lemme tell you, that is a great deal harder to live with than those who think that witnessing levitation would be a Good Thing That Would Make Their Incarnation might think.
