Levitation....?

[beavis]

I know the relative sizes of the sequence of skills, at least to my level of skill, where I can sometimes roll cans an inch.

[-lines-]

If nobody has mastered levitation then an educated guess means nothing, really. I could state possiblities until I was blue in the face, and there would be no way of proving them anyways.

[Tom]

The world's population and technology are good models to look at. They develop at a crawl for a long time and then things start to get interesting. I think there are a few people here who are entering the stage where things are starting to get interesting. Maybe they will be levitating this lifetime. They might even be doing things that are much more interesting. Things like levitation are only improbable without the work leading up to them.

[-lines-]

Yes, that's what I was trying to get at. There's no way of knowing how the learning curve progresses until it is accomplished. It could be that it speeds up greatly after a certain point is reached, but there is no point in guessing simply because they are guesses.

[pod_3]

Terms, such as years and centuries, are figurative. One circulation of kundalini  can be called a life time, and indeed, several circulations cause lifetimes' worth of developement.

[-lines-]

Years and centuries are not figurative, which means not literal. Explain what you mean by saying they are figurative please.

[pod_3]

Something which is figurative is a metaphor. To say that someone is a stick in the mud is figurative in as much as they are not really a stick in mud. To call someone a piece of excrement is figurative as this could not actually be true. The saying is called a figure of speech; it is figurative. This might get difficult for non-English speakers who are reading an automatically translated page.

Similarly, many metaphysical terms have double meanings. These are meant to be felt out. The meaning is imaginary rather than taken literally.

Some schools of kundalini call each circulation of the energy one lifetime. It does not take an entire human life for the energy to make one circulation. However, the thought used to force each circulation can be said to cause as much spiritual developement as having lived one lifetime would. Therefore, each circulation is called one lifetime. It's just symbolism.