---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote :
I just found it interesting - as I said I think, somehow this particular document had escaped my attention. I was told during the sidhi prep courses that we produce soma in the stomach and only if we have soma being produced can we have experiences of "higher" states of consciousness. That's what the governors who taught the courses told us and those would be Greg Palma, Walter Gibbons and Paul Potter (for those here who love to have sources quoted). But nothing was ever said about the gods eating it and giving us blessings as a result. It would be logical, I would think, for the Movement to have used some of their science-y minded people to test the stomachs of meditators for this supposed soma. Not that hard to do. Stick a scope down there and check it out, retrieve samples. I am sure there would have been hundreds of eager participants. Surely, this is so easy to prove or disprove - maybe not on the presence of soma-sucking Gods - but on the existence of soma at least. I had no idea such a tape existed and I wanted to hear from the TM teachers here to see if they had seen the tape and what they thought of it at the time they saw it. That's all.
