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Yogic flying

Yes, sometime last century.

Still, they seem to have fun hopping, and it looks like good exercise.
 
I can't watch the video because of my interim inferior ancient POS computer, but I saw this years ago on TV. IIRC they claim they stay in the air longer than just bouncing on their butts would allow and also claim longer "air time" when their is no camera is around (how convenient). The claims are even more embarrassing than the butt bouncing.
 
Puppycow said:
Have you seen this nonsense? More like yogic hopping to be more accurate. And they use bouncy mattresses too. There are claims of religious people who used to be able to fly but no-one can reproduce that today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHwhGUo90jw


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This video is like a Monty Python sketch. They gotta be kidding.
 
For a moment, I thought this thread (Yogic Flying) was levitating once again.

I will only add at this time that it has been nearly ten years since that thread, and the "proof" supporting claims of actual flying is still crappy.
 
When the TM people began to promote this nonsense, years ago, the then-still-publishing Life magazine published pics of students apparently floating in the "lotus" position.
Randi rapidly countered with a picture of his own, a young volunteer achieving the same levitation...
Strobe photography. The TM folks promptly pulled the photos, but didn't stop the "yogic flying" lessons...For which they still soak students an extra fee.
 
If you want to puke and laugh at the same time, you need to watch "David Wants to Fly" about David Lynch the director who believes that this can solve crime. Some kid who idolized Lynch started making a movie about him and trying to learn TM stuff from him, Lynch loved the idea until the kid turned on him after learning more and turned the doc into an attack, *********** brilliant filmmaking. Yeah Lynch goes around trying to get the cult in schools and **** like that, Ringo and Paul, Donovan helping him sell it.... yadda yadda, bunch of stupid wankers.



I'm a little bit of an expert on the trash cult that is TM... I have an inextinguishable hatred for their ******** and a deep knowledge of their history. They ********** up John Lennon worse than Yoko or heroin.

eta: There is a bay inhabited by pirates where you can find this film
 
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shemp said:
This video is like a Monty Python sketch. They gotta be kidding.
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Those were my words, on finally seeing this (and yogic flying in general ) for the first time.

This is what they're talking about?!

They gotta be kidding!
 
Wolrab said:
The claims are even more embarrassing than the butt bouncing.
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Yes, I agree. One of the claims they make in the video is that it doesn't matter that no-one has been able to make it beyond "stage 1" (the hopping stage) because the true purpose is to achieve world peace. And they can achieve world peace if they could just get "a critical mass" of people practicing TM.
 
Jim_MDP said:
Heh... you mean the mat, or matress or whatever padding they lotus hop on.

Want to impress me TM Masters?

Show a pic of "floating" 3 feet above a bare concrete floor. Ouch!

:D
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Better, over very pointy 3" spikes.
 
Randi went after these guys pretty relentlessly for awhile, some good work done there.
 
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