"Hi I'm TM - Fly Me"
It is an unlikely twist of a familiar airline advertising slogan, but for practitioners of Transcendental Meditation (TM), it has special significance. Recent breakthroughs in Transcendental Meditation research have revealed advanced meditation techniques which, TM spokesmen say, allow humans to "fly" and to become invisible.
Meditation teachers Dan Teglia and Ted Weissman plan to begin teaching the principles of these advanced techniques this week in Reno to local persons who already have learned to meditate.
Teglia, a Renoite, and Weissman, of Great Falls, Mont, recently returned from the Transcendental Meditation movement's international headquarters in Switzerland. Each spent much of the last five years there studying and learning the new meditation process which, in their words, "helps create an ideal society."
Now they're based in Reno, with two other TM teachers. The four instruct in Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Idaho. They're now offering instruction in the advanced TM technique, with weekend and week-long classes every five weeks through next January.
According to Teglia, the meditation form of flying is a matter of mind-body coordination He explains that once mind and body are In perfect working harmony, anything the mind suggests can be done - including flying, becoming invisible or seeing long distances with the naked eye.
To reach that harmony, Teglia adds, one learns the basics of Transcendental Meditation, which seeks to eliminate everyday stress and focus within the mind on thought sources.
Teglia and Weissman repeatedly mention terms and phrases like "a state of pure order," "total coherence" and "supernormal powers" as products of the advanced techniques or formulas which are called siddhis.
The two teachers claim to have seen Swiss practitioners of siddhis "flying" — or rather, hopping across rooms without help from feet or legs or muscles The fliers simply sit in a lotus meditation position, with feet and legs tightly crossed and hands together on their laps.
Teglia and Weissman say when the fliers are deep into the meditation process, their bodies rise off the floor and move across the room, sometimes rising as high as six or eight feet and traveling 12 feet or so in a single "flight".
Teglia says the deeper meditation process which produces flying isn't an easy one to master. "You use the formulas like a telephone book. The formula shows you the number, but doesn't tell you how to dial." Weissman adds that he has seen persons become nearly invisible "They become very fuzzy", and has heard accounts of people going completely invisible.
And what is all this flying and invisibility good for?
The two visiting teachers say TM devotees are out to create a perfect society by eliminating stress from everyday life through meditation. They say crime rates in cities reduce significantly with increases in the number of residents practicing meditation.
The flying and invisibility, they ad, are only byproducts of the real fruit of the advanced meditation - the bringing of mind and body into complete harmony.
"We're out to create an ideal society," Teglia says "The siddhis help create that ideal society and develop mind-body coordination. But once you reach a state of enlightenment and total fulfillment (through TM), you won't need them.
Whether you actually belive these experiences or not is not really the point - I still believe meditation is a great thing, and a great way to get started is with some free meditation music.
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