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Four Executive Governors of the Age of Enlightenment
visited Eugene Thursday to expound upon a recent
"Breakthrough " of human potential, wherein trans
cendental meditation can enable persons to fly
across rooms, make themselves taller or smaller and
make themselves invisible. More than 100 persons
attended their program
Meditation crusaders advocate
human potential ‘breakthrough’
1
More than 20 years ago
I Maharishi Mahesh Yogi began to
r expound on the Science of Crea
■ tive Intelligence, popularly known
' as Trancendental Meditation
(TM). Now over 600,000 persons
reportedly practice TM in the Un
ited States alone. However, lead
ers of the movement have an
f nounced it is about to take off —
^ literally — on a new course.
[Four Executive Governors of
the Age of Enlightenment were in
Eugene Thursday to present a
“breakthrough in human poten
tial'' that enables people to fly a
cross rooms, make themselves in
^ visible or make themselves smal
ler or taller. More than 100 people
paid $5 each to hear Peter Lyda,
iJoe Repp. Henry Eckstein and
Gary Gill describe how the break
through was achieved.
Meditation allows the prac
titioner to reach what Lyda termed
if a “state of least excitation, or pure
consciousness.” He said this
state is paralleled in physical sci
ence by a “quantum mechanical
vacuum ground state.” Since the
states are closely analogous, TM
leaders reasoned it should be
possible to use TM techniques to
> generate external physical man
ifestations, such as levitation.
Since the theory was clear,
Lyda said, the problem was how to
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utilize the level of least excitation
without at the same time destroy
ing it.
Repp then described how
teachers of TM met at Maharishi
European Research University in
Switzerland in the fall of 1975 and
began to develop the new tech
niques.
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“We were extending the natural
ability of the imagination,” Repp
said. We can all form a clear
thought of an apple, but we were
able to extend that to the point
where we could eat the apple, ex
perience its taste and feel satis
fied afterwards.”
Repp said the teachers found
the extension of mind-body coor
dination made easier by the use of
ritualized patterns of thought
called “sutras.” Using the "flying
sutra,” the participants first ex
perienced a faint vibration. After a
week or so of meditation, the body
begins to wiggle "very naturally,"
dtiu men u unexpectedly moves
two to three feet.
While meditation generally is
practiced with eyes closed. Repp
noted the first “flights" were often
very entertaining and “you
couldn’t help but peek."
Repp described some of the
sutras available, including ones
for friendliness, compassion,
strength, calmness, knowledge of
bodily systems, seeing objects
hidden from view and knowing
anything.
When asked why they did not
demonstrate any of the extraordi
nary skills allegedly available
through the new techniques, the
governors said they would like to
but had to be careful not to bring
unwanted notonety on the move
ment. Repp said the focus should
not be on the skills themselves.
"The sense of bliss was tremen
dously more important than the
actual flying,” he emphasized
Eckstein then summarized
tests performed at the move
ment's Swiss university. In
addition to changes in electro
encephalogram brainwave co
herence patterns during the
performance of a given exercise.
Eckstein said researchers found
lasting increases in creativity as
measured on "all creativity
scales.” Independent research
ers at Harvard and UCLA have
found reduced blood pressure
and oxygen consumption in prac
titioners of "old-fashioned'' TM
The final governor to speak,
Gill, described the impact of TM
and the new formulas in more
grandiose terms. "When five per
cent of the population begins to
practice TM,' he said, "the quality
of life for all will become ideal.”
With that as a goal, Gill said he
was delighted to make the pro
gram available to the public. He
invnea memoers oi tne audience
to "become citizens of the Age of
Enlightenment."
But citizenship is not cheap. To
reach the flying sutra level, it
would first be necessary to have
paid for a course in the basic medi
tation technique. Then one must
pay $265 for attendance at a
week-long residence course
where the more advanced sutras
are learned. Additional weeks
may be required at the discretion
of one’s teacher.
Persons interested in more in
formation or desiring to register for
a residence course held in Port
land soon should contact the
Eugene World Plan Center for the
TM program at 343-8738.
Literary awards given
Two literary pieces which have appeared in Northwest Review, the
University’s literary magazine, have been selected as 1977 prize win
ners in a competition sponsored by the Coordinating Council of Literary
Magazines, a national nonprofit organization that aids literary
magazines.
Selected among the 10 national award winners were John Woods’
poem ‘Why Adam and Eve Came Sadly to Love,” appearing in the
Fall-Winter issue of Northwest Review, and Shannon Applegate
Muellers The Applegate Family,” published in the Spring issue.
The awards bring cash prizes of $300 to the individual authors and
companion prizes of $200 each to the magazine.
Northwest Review was the only publication honored with two award
winners. More than 270 writers representing 177 literary maqazines
were entered in the awards judging.