[FairfieldLife] Re: YF'ing Yogic Flying Evidently is Out

[upfron...@ymail.com [FairfieldLife]]

I always thought that 1% did seem to be too nice a round arbitrary figure to 
take literally.
  
 I want to thank the community. I have not spoken to anyone in the TM world for 
nearly 3 decades (what? where did that time go?) except for a short moment in 
the foyer of the hospital in which I work. I thought it was just me that 
questioned the great claims.
  
 I was devoted to Maharishi. I only saw him once but it seemed like I knew him 
because His giant picture was on the wall behind the two giant gas ovens in the 
kitchen that I cooked in at the Towers (“British Capital of the WGOAE”…or 
something like that). I never considered him to be my ‘guru’ but rather I 
thought him to be a special seer who knew more than any man alive. Somewhat 
traumatised beforehand, I considered his meditation and the aforementioned 
Academy to have saved me - and it did actually…
  
 While I thought M knew most things, I took some things with a pinch of salt. I 
understand some people need to believe their guru’s knowledge is infallible and 
literal truth or they can’t function as fully as they do at that point, and 
anything else would seem to them as fairy-tales and I find it inharmonious to 
drive a rumbling chariot through the peace-loving existence of others. 
  
 It’s refreshing to know that there are people who revere M for being the true 
Vedic master of meditation who has firmly established an age-lasting foothold 
of grace in a sometimes foolish world - and yet can identify and discern the 
lines between the fact, doctrine, personal opinion and experimentation which 
emerge from human fallibility.