Kim Chance's yogic flying farce in WA.

According to Bush Telegraph (Peter Lee) in Farm Weekly, WA 15/11/07, the debate about GM has now descended to farce, with Ag-Minister Mr Kim Chance calling on Jeffrey Smith, anti-GM author of Seeds of Deception and Genetic Roulette for scientific advice.

Peter Lee mentions Jeffrey Smith's main claim to fame is his ability to levitate using his transcendental meditation skills. Peter also mentions that Jeffrey believes it (transcendental meditation, not GM) can reduce crime and increase individual IQs too.

Hopefully these boosts to IQ will bring some clarity to the GM front, as there's sure lots of dumb rumours flying around about "GM free premiums". Peter's article exposes these fictitious premiums as a real sham.

Lets hope also that Mr Chance is affected positively by the yogic flying too, and comes to his senses about GM.

Key quote from Peter Lee:

"Mr Chance was probably uncomfortable when Prof Roush and Dr Norton revealed 99.6 pc of WA's canola exports go to countries where there is no discrimination against GM varieties and that exports of modified grains and oils are now accepted into the European Union."

Maybe that's why Chance blackballed Prof Roush from his recent GM debate. Such facts would have need some yogic flying to calm the debate, and an outbreak of yogic flying would have surely ruined the spin being put out by the "Minister for opposing GM".



Post Script

The Daily Illini newspaper

October 29, 1996

That's transcendental: Natural Law Party candidate holds “unusual” press conference at the Illini Union

News Story by Kris Kudenholdt, 10/28/96

It was an unusual campaign appearance, with a press conference by a U.S. Senate candidate combined with a demonstration of transcendental meditation. But that was the point.

James Davis spoke Wednesday afternoon at the Illini Union about the Natural Law Party, outlining the general tenets of the party and his campaign.

Davis said the fact two major candidates were debating handgun control underlined what he feels is the problem in American politics.

"Ultimately, it's not the gun that's the problem, and it's not just the hand that holds the gun," Davis said. "It's the mind, and actually, the rage and anger that drive the mind that drives the hand that holds the gun."

Davis highlighted his proposals to reduce crime, one being reducing the anger and sponsoring societal coherence through "yogic flyers."

After his introduction and an explanation by a campaign aide about the idea of yogic flying, Davis sat down and watched three yogic flyers on four white mats laid out in front of a table bearing a multicolored banner that read: "Natural Law Party: Problem Free Government."

The yogic flyers, after sitting motionless for a few minutes began to hop around the mats with their legs crossed.

Jeffrey Smith, a Davis aide and one of the three flyers, explained the idea and effects of yogic flying, which relies on practicing transcendental meditation, to the small crowd.

Smith presented charts with evidence of a correlation between the presence of yogic flyers and an increase in the quality of life and a decrease in crime. Smith cited limited yogic flying programs in Washington D.C. and near the Middle East that resulted in less crime and more harmony.

"(This is why) Jim Davis as the Senate candidate for the Natural Law Party believes that any city that has a group of say 7,000 yogic flyers practicing together will not only generate great coherence and cleansing effect for the nation and the entire world, but will enjoy a dramatic reduction in crime rate within the city," Smith said.

"The simplest explanation of this technology is based on the concept of collective consciousness. We've all had the experience of walking into a home and feeling very good in the home instantly. We've had the other experience of walking into a home and feeling very uncomfortable, maybe tense, maybe angry. ...

"What we're experiencing is the collective consciousness. On the level of the home, it's the collective consciousness of the family.

"So at the simplest level, what this yogic flying technique does is it reduces the stress in collective consciousness, increases the purity and harmony in that collective consciousness, and everyone within that collective consciousness is influenced."

Noting that the idea of radio and a heliocentric model of the solar system had once been scoffed at, Smith said more than 500 studies have shown transcendental meditation has its benefits including more creativity, intelligence and energy, better health and higher IQ over the long term.

On a wider scale, Smith said the minds of yogic flyers act like radio transmitters that radiate a positive influence, resonating through the surrounding the mental environment. Smith estimated that a corps of about 7,000 yogic flyers could help relieve stress and the problems associated with it around the world.

That a U.S. Senate candidate would affiliate himself with such an out-of-the-mainstream concept seems to run contrary to conventional political wisdom.