This time Barry missed "and excited on another." Of course, the "wish to find out" in and of itself doesn't mean "no possibility of sadness or disappointment" any more than it means no possibility of excitement. What's sad is the person who is so emotionally repressed as to suggest either.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Eh, well, it would be very exciting should it ever be proven to exist, for many reasons. Of course, if it is some arbitrary non-TMer, who ends up floating and it turns out to have nothing to do with spiritual growth ala TM, then I'd be sad on one level and excited on another. Ahem. That sadness identifies you more of a "will to believe" person than a "wish to find out" person. If you were the latter, there would be no possibility of sadness or disappointment, n'est-ce pas? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : Well, there's floating during TM-SIdhis pracice, and then there's floating during daily activity. Allegedly someone fully in Unity could perform any and all TM-SIdhis at any time, in any circumstance. But of course, MMY never demonstrated floating in public that I have heard of and never said that he had floated, only that he could if he wanted to. I personally think this levitation thing is overrated. I'm happy when I just witness someone being kind or generous or interesting. The only floaters I've ever seen (and are likely to see) are in my own toilet bowl. That's it! I guess Rama was just one big turd in the toilet bowl of life. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Could they float? Apparently that was a minor test for immortality in Maharishi's eyes: if they were well-enoughed established in Unity that they could float whenever they wanted, they might be immortal. Trying to ignore the nonsensical nature of the entire theory, I would suggest that if you believe in it then you have to admit that Maharishi was never able to float (levitate). There are no "minor tests" for immortality. There is only one test, and it's fairly major -- if you die, you're not. :-)
