 Robert Todd Carroll
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levitationLevitation is the act of ascending into the air and floating in apparent defiance of gravity. Spiritual masters and fakirs are often depicted as levitating. Some take the ability to levitate as a sign of blessedness. Others see levitation as a conjurer's trick. No one really levitates; they just appear to do so. Clever people can use illusion, "invisible" string, magnets, and other trickery to make things or people appear to levitate. There are people in Transcendental Meditation who will sit cross-legged and hop up and down on their butts, claiming that they are flying. Perhaps they are: for a fraction of a second, a few inches off the ground, until gravity brings them back to earth. Watch magician Chris Angel teach you how to levitate!
See also faith and Indian rope trick. More levitation:
further reading Keene, M. Lamar. The Psychic Mafia (Prometheus, 1997). Rawcliffe, Donovan Hilton. Occult and Supernatural Phenomena (New York: Dover Publications, 1988). |
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