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ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

helps us again by making similar contortions. as against this, it may be argued that your mind appears to be perfectly normal. there is, however, one particuliar point of consciousness, the sensation of almost total loss of weight. this, by the way, may sound a little alarming to the instructed alienist. there is a similar feeling which occurs in certain types of insanity. 27. the fourth state is levitation. the hindus claim that 'jumping about like a frog' implies a genuine loss of weight, and that the jumping is mainly lateral because you have not perfected the process. if you were absolutely balanced, they claim that you would rise quietly into the air. i do not know about this at all. i never saw it happen. on the other hand, i have often felt as if it were happening; and on three occa

xisting; in samadhi the many and the one are united in a union of existence with non-existence. this definition is not made from reflection, but from memory' 15. but that was written in 1911, and since then i have had an immense harvest of experience. i am inclined to say at this moment that dhyana stands to samadhi rather as the jumping about like a frog, described in a previous lecture, does to levitation. in other words, dhyana is an unbalanced or an impure approximation to samadhi. subject and object unite and disappear with ecstasy mounting to indifference, and so forth, but there is still a presentation of some kind in the new genus of consciousness. in this view dhyana would be rather like an explosion of gunpowder carelessly mixed; most of it goes off with a bang, but there is some

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

sitters, and from the medium herself. altogether, a most poisonous performance. and what do they get out of it? even when the "spirits" are really spirits, they only stuff the party up with a lot of trashy lies. to this summary the laws of probability insist that there shall be occasional exceptions. love is the law, love under will. yours fraternally, 666 chapter xxv fascinations, invisibility, levitation, transmutations, kinks in time cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. dear me! dear me! the world's indeed gone topsy-turvy if you have to ask me for the secrets of fascination! altogether tohu-bohu and the temurah thash raq! so much for a display of old-world courtly manners; actually rubbish, for you might very well be fascinating without knowing how you worked t

way of snaring desdemona, but subtleties of timbre in the voice. yes, yes, you say impatiently, but there isn't any miracle about all this in the ordinary sense of the word. true, but why the devil do you want me, so long as you're getting what you need? just being childlike, i suppose! no? merely that you can explain such matters to yourself well enough. all right; on to no. 2. shall we look at levitation for a change? this power- if it be one- is very curious indeed. it connects more directly with magnetism than almost any other. the first thing we think of when someone says "magnet" is picking up iron filings as a child. age before honesty! let father poulain s.j. speak first! he is obliged to admit the phenomenon, because the church has done so. but precisely similar accounts of the l

te unconscious that anything unusual had happened. but he had evidently been thrown there by the mysterious forces generated by pranayama "there is no doubt whatever about this phenomenon; it is quite common. but the yogis claim that the lateral motion is due to lack of balance, and that if one were in perfect spiritual equilibrium one would rise directly in the air. i have never seen any case of levitation, and hesitate to say that it has happened to me, thought i have actually been seen by others, on several occasions, apparently poised in the air. for the first three phenomena i have found no difficulty in devising quite simple physiologi- 32 magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 178 cal explanations. but i can form no theory as to how the practice could counteract

occasions, apparently poised in the air. for the first three phenomena i have found no difficulty in devising quite simple physiologi- 32 magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 178 cal explanations. but i can form no theory as to how the practice could counteract the force of gravitation, and i am unregenerate enough to allow this to make me sceptical about the occurrence of levitation. yet, after all, the stars are suspended in space. there is no priori reason why the forces which prevent them rushing together should not come into operation in respect of the earth and the body" the allan part of this is the best evidence at my disposal. he couldn't have got where he did by hopping, and he couldn't have got into that position intentionally; he must have been levitated

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ation, just at their own sweet valuation, for by this culminating scene, close of that wondrous life of woe 305 before and after death, we know how to esteme the nazarene. where s the wet towel? let us first destroy the argument of fools, 310 from paul right downward to the schools, that the ascension s self rehearsed christ s godhead by its miracle. grand! but the power is mine as well! in india levitation counts 315 no tithe of the immense amounts of powers demanded by the wise from chela ere the chela rise to knowledge. fairy-tales? well, first, sit down a week and hold your breath 320 as masters teach49 until you burst, or nearly in a week, one saith, a month, perchance a year for you, hard practice, and yourself may fly yes! i have done it! you may too! 325 thus, in ascension, you and

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

pantheists" and endeavour to produce "a state of stupefaction" in "their mental powers which are very low" and a "comatose condition" of their body, whose joints they dislocate. how well this describes such people as the buddha and the author of the bhagavadgita! what a ring fence is romanism against not merely truth but information! we then examine father poulain on the scientific side. how does levitation of the saints take place "the simplest explanation, and that most in conformity with the order of providence, consists in saying: since the angels have power to move corporeal bodies, god makes use of their ministry, so as to avoid intervening himself without necessity" 146 (this is not the translator's blundering, though perhaps much more may be hoped from a lady who says that "socrate

the real poulain, 50 per cent. above proof. i am sorry for this hobble-skirted atalanta. he must not study mystic facts; all he is allowed to do is to arrange, invent, delete as may suit dogma. he is obliged to accept the nymphomaniac nun gertrude, and treat her blasphemous maunderings with reverence, or ascribe some peculiarly foul outburst to an "early temptation" he must accept every orthodox levitation, and explain it by weight-lifting competitions among the angels; he must deny every heterodox levitation, or explain it by demonic power. and as one's bitterest enemies are always one's nearest relations, so his bitterest polemics are against the quietists who are absolutely indistinguishable from the orthodox, and in favour at rome until the intrigues of the beast of blood of the socie

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

n. as it was, i broke down during the passage of the pylons, luckily not till i had reached that of tahuti. but it is a good rule; when in doubt play pranayama. for one can no longer worry about the path: the question is reduced to the simple problem: am, i, or am i not, going to burst? i got all the sweating and trembling of the body that heart could desire; but no "jumping about like a frog" or levitation. a pity! 11.45. i shall read for a little in the yoga-shastra as a rest. then for the end of the day and the beginning of the ninth day. zoroaster (or pythagoras? informs us that the number nine is sacred, and attains the summit of philosophy. i'm sure i hope so! 11.56. i get into asana and so endeth the eighth lesson."the ninth day" 12.2. thus i began this great day, being in my asana

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4

the same thing happened again. therefore the "dh ran tion" of my nose dividualizes me and my nose, affects my nose, disproves my nose, abolishes, annihilates and expunges my nose. 259 a mantra. shi= peace, va= power. it means "thy peace by poser increasing in me by power to peace" 260 the four characteristic results of pr n y ma are (1) perspiration (2) rigidity (3) jumping about like a frog (4) levitation. p. never experienced this last result. but it is possible that, if there was an actual loss of weight, that this was at least a step towards it. 261 we do not know what this means, unless the note of shri m itr nanda's bell was different from that of frater p's. 11.25-11.24 dh ran on end of verendum.262 p.m. p.m. 7th 7.0-7.7 pr n y ma. 5. 10. 20. a.m. a.m. 7.15-7.35 pr n y ma. 5. 10. 2

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

fects. the ray of harmony, beauty and art, or the second manasic aspect (adaptability being the third) will work out in the following ways: in the development of the intuition by the means of the knowledge of sound vibration, and the higher mathematics. this is being already touched upon exoterically. music, as a means to be employed in building and destroying, will be recognised, and the laws of levitation and of rhythmic movement in all forms, from an atom to a solar system, will be studied. the manipulation of matter of all kinds by the means of sound will be practised on the two lower planes, and when the synthesis of the four rays into the third is in process of accomplishment, then a similar knowledge will be displayed on the mental plane. the laws of fire will be gradually permitted

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

ous force or energy found in the top of the head becomes active and through its correct control and through mastery of it, the right direction of the pranas of the body becomes possible and man reaches liberation; through it, noncontact in the three worlds is brought about. the language used is necessarily symbolic and its meaning must not be lost through a materializing of its real significance. levitation, the power to walk on water, and ability to withstand the gravitational pull of the earth is its lowest and least important significance. 1. freedom from water is a symbolic way of stating that the astral nature is subjugated and the great waters of illusion can no longer hold the emancipated soul. the energies of the solar plexus no longer dominate. 2. liberation from the thorny path r

s universally spread throughout all aspects of divine life. 2. magnitude. mahima. this is the power to expand one's consciousness and thus enter into the greater whole as well as into the lesser part. 3. gravity. garima. this concerns weight and mass and deals with the law of gravity which is an aspect of the law of attraction. 4. lightness. laghima. this is the power underlying the phenomenon of levitation. it is the capacity of the adept to offset the attractive force of the planet and to leave the earth. it is the opposite to the third siddhi. 5. the attainment of the objective. prapti. this is the capacity of the yogin to achieve his goal, to extend his realization to any locality, to reach anything or any place he desires. it will be apparent that this will have an application on all

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

rtunity to populate and experience this magnificent new planet. genetic manipulation, both positive and negative, has continued ever since to advance or control the species, depending on the mindset at the time. in those earlier times, i think the nature of the physical form was not as dense as it is today. it was more etheric, lighter and less dense, and capable of manifesting and demanifesting, levitation, and floating above the surface. all these things are possible now if the power of our thought is concentrated sufficiently, but it was available to everyone then, i believe, as an everyday part of life. in those periods, there was no physical 'death. the consciousness withdrew from the body when it chose to do so. we will be doing this again as the transformation of this planet and hum

DAVIDSON DAN SHAPE POWER

tians built the pyramids. we must take him seriously because he left the entire castle as a physical proof of his ability to move large stones without the use of equipment. neighbors said he 'sang' to the stones, but there was never an eyewitness to testify to this technique. perhaps he discovered the words of power that could be used to produce an aether and gravity deflection pattern leading to levitation. one of the greatest problems with shape power at its current stage, is the lack of instrumentation that can directly detect quantified changes in aether. the secondary and tertiary effects of aether which manifest in the forms of magnetism, electricity and gravity fluctuations as well as the use of sensitives is a truly inspired approach. along with the use of the vol tmeter, gaussmete

end brown effect where a high electric gradient across a capacitor would affect its weight. the effect can be amplified by moving the entire mass which synchronizes aether flow through the mass. synchronization of aetheric flow into the nuclei of a given mass has been achieved by two main methods; namely, rotation or movement and sonically. analysis of various apparently disconnected events where levitation was witnessed provides some important clues to a means of effecting synchronization of the nuclei. this was explained, in detail, in a paper by davidson and decker6. also, t. towsend brown was quite open in publicizing his experimental results even though they were being funded in part by the office of naval research out of san diego. however, when he started rotating his gravitors on t

ained, in detail, in a paper by davidson and decker6. also, t. towsend brown was quite open in publicizing his experimental results even though they were being funded in part by the office of naval research out of san diego. however, when he started rotating his gravitors on their axis the results suddenly became classified and all information on his experiments ceased. it is suspected that major levitation resulted and this breakthrough was classified to protect the discovery so it could be exploited for national defense. analysis of the phenomenon of inertia provides the major clue to how rotation could act to synchronize the flow of aether into the nuclear substructure of the gravitors. a pivotal paper in physical review, 1994, pp 678-694, by haisch, rueda, and puthoff 7 theorizes that

that inertia was a result of the resistance of mass to the local aetheric field. hence, it is easy to see that movement/rotation would cause the aetheric flows of the mass to reorient with respect to the direction of movement. sonic stimulation performs the same thing by getting all the atoms of the mass to resonate together, which synchronizes aetheric flows into the nucleus. several interesting levitation effects have been observed where sonic stimulation assisted in the levitation. 1.3 engineering the aether some of the most interesting orthodox physics research relates to early work by wheeler and bohm. they postulated the idea that electromagnetic (em) radiation is the result of interacting enfolded energy stresses in the zpe stratum (i.e, aether. tom bearden has expounded extensively

omena associated with each of these energy levels within the nucleus. some of these included energies which governed how the brain and mind operated, how gravity was produced, and what the forces were that created electricity and magnetism. perhaps one of the most astounding demonstrations was keely's ability to control the force of gravity. he could make substances either lighter to the point of levitation or make them heavier than their normal weight. as part of his control of gravitational forces, keely demonstrated a working model of our solar system complete with a simulated sun and planets that was tuned to the actual forces which governed each planet and the sun. this model would even have the simulated sun and planets rotate about their axis and the planets orbit about the simulate

r from the back of the crowd caught my attention and said he had duplicated the experiment using a piezoelectric like the chemist used, gotten similiar results, and stated that the experiment did not need near as much power as the chemist had used. in the ensuing questions from the crowd, i lost track of the young researcher and was never able to get the details of his duplication effort. 2.2.3.3 levitation of 4 ton iron sphere after keely's untimely death in 1898, several investigators from the scientific american magazine staf went to keely's laboratory looking for evidence to support the idea that keely was a fraud. they thought they found what they were looking for when they lifted the floorboards of a section of the laboratory and found a large cast-iron sphere from which protruded pi

y, the ponderous globe slowly lifted a few inches off the floor. keely then "floated" the iron sphere over the hole in the floorboards and allowed the huge mass to settle to the ground below the floor level. after a few adjustments to the belt mechanism keely again seemed lost in rapt concentration. this time the globe slowly but inexorably settled itself into the earth, buried by the opposite of levitation; namely, supergravity. keely had evidently caused the apparent mass of the sphere to increase to such an extent that it sank into the firm earth much as a heavy rock sinks into mud. the inventor told the reporter that he was making room in his lab by clearing away outmoded equipment. this is the sphere later found by the scientific american expose group. it is theorized that the belt me

ty. keely had evidently caused the apparent mass of the sphere to increase to such an extent that it sank into the firm earth much as a heavy rock sinks into mud. the inventor told the reporter that he was making room in his lab by clearing away outmoded equipment. this is the sphere later found by the scientific american expose group. it is theorized that the belt mechanism keely wore during the levitation feat tuned the atomic structure of the iron sphere so all the atoms were synchronized and aetheric force directed through the sphere caused it to levitate or gravitate. 2.2.4 summary of keely's research studying keely's writings and trying to make sense out of them is a painful process. keely invented his own vocabulary and it took me many years to understand in a small part what he had

y much higher and faster than any known aircraft of the day and developed free energy devices which achieved tremendously higher output power than input power. the gravity machines resembled flying saucers or unidentified flying objects (ufo) seen and documented by thousands of observers in the past 60 years. a couple of these craft are shown in figure 2.4.1-1. figure 2.4.1-1 two of schauberger's levitation craft built for nazis in wwii. in 1934, viktor was "requested" to meet with hitler 13. hitler offered schauberger a job as a scientist developing aircraft based on the antigravity discoveries. when schauberger refused, hitler put viktor's family in a prison camp which forced viktor to work on his inventions for hitler. viktor worked for the third reich on anti-gravity craft from 1938 to

oms of the fluids to collect an electrostatic charge. gravity was also found to be related to diamagnetism. by moving the aether in a vortical pattern, matter within the vortex would lose weight and levitate. this effect was the basis of his disc flying machines. schauberger experimented with various hydrodynamic fluids such as water, air, and sand as the basis for the material he ran through his levitation motors. healthful life-giving effects were also discovered to be associated with diamagnetism. viktor found that when foods and beverages were charged with diamagnetism they improved a person's health. 2.6 bibliography 1. keely and his discoveries. clara bloomfield moore, london, kegan paul, trench, trubner& co, ltd, 1893. 2. a dweller on two planets. phylos, borden publishing company

motor at nearly every conduit and mine doesn't. evidently, the interaction of the forcefield with the aluminum stanchions in joe's version causes enough resistance to burn out the motor. during experimental operations, the weight of the experiment can drop from 0 to -6.5 grams. when one considers that the gravity wheel with the copper triangles weighs about 12 grams, the total normal operational levitation effect is on the order of 50% weight loss. this by itself is a remarkable experimental effect and deserves acute attention. the scale which is used in the experiment is an ohaus precision plus purchased from cole parmer. the scale can measure accurately within 0.5 grams over a range of 0-4000 grams. the scale has an rs-232 figure 7.3.1-1 dan davidson's gravity wheel experiment serial in

s an aether pump across the capacitor plates, only a small portion of the atoms become synchronized to this aetheric flow so the entire mass does not respond at the same time; therefore, all the atoms don't try and move at the same time. an interesting experiment suggested by paul stowe to test the grad e effect is shown in figure 8.4- 1. analysis of various, apparently disconnected, events where levitation was witnessed provides some important clues to a means of effecting synchronization of the nuclei. this was explained, in detail, in a paper by davidson and decker 16. synchronization of the nuclei with the aether has been achieved by two main methods; namely, rotation or movement and sonically. townsend brown was quite open in publicizing his experimental results even though they were

wo main methods; namely, rotation or movement and sonically. townsend brown was quite open in publicizing his experimental results even though they were being funded in part by the office of naval research out of san diego. however, when he started rotating his gravitors on their axis, the results suddenly became classified and all information on his experiments ceased. it is suspected that major levitation resulted and this breakthrough was classified to protect the discovery so it could be exploited for "national defense. analysis of the phenomenon of inertia provides the major clue to how rotation could act to synchronize the flow of aether into the nuclear substructure of the gravitors. haisch, rueda, and puthoff 8 theorize that inertia is a result of mass's resistance of movement thro

that inertia was a result of the resistance of mass to the local aetheric field. hence, it is easy to see that movement/rotation could cause the aetheric flows of the mass to reorient with respect to the direction of movement. sonic stimulation performs the same thing by getting all the atoms of the mass to resonate together which synchronizes aetheric flows into the nucleus. several interesting levitation effects have been observed where sonic stimulation assisted in the levitation. figure 8.4-1. paul stowe's experiment to test hydrodynamic gravity model 8.5 summary of nuclear structure a new model of the atom has been presented in this chapter. the old idea of electrons rotating around the nucleus has been dispensed with and replaced by a four-basic-particle-structure where the particle

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

reatively, dramatically, heartily, need for recognition, pleasure seeking, dramatically. levi-zaed, eliphas [nee alphonse louis constant: famous 19th century occultist whose writings helped begin the "french occult revival" that led to the founding of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d. wrote several influential works including, transcendental magic, and interpreted, the book of splendor. levitation: the occult suspension of a physical body without apparent support. usually applied to the suspension of a human being. christian saints, hindu yogis, and victorian spirit mediums were sometimes credited with this ability. libra "the scales" in astrology (q.v, the seventh sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of cardinal (q.v) and air (q.v) and is ruled by the planet venus (q.v

en added to the tetragrammaton it forms the pentagrammaton, showing how we can purify ourselves by uniting and bringing the spirit of divinity within ourselves. showstone: a crystal ball or globe used for divination and scrying. the magician uses the stone as a focus to induce a trance that causes images to appear in the depths of the stone. siddhis: magickal abilities such as clairaudience (q.v, levitation (q.v, telepathy (q.v, and clairvoyance (q.v) that manifest themselves as the by-products of yogic/magickal practices. they are not denigrated by hindu and buddhist yogis but are actively sought in their own right by sensitives (q.v, psychics (q.v, and some magicians. most magicians train to accept these abilities as part of who and what they are, but do not get to hung up over the manif

DONALDTYSON MIRACLES

ith saints than sinners, even when no prayer or action has been taken to induce them. indeed, holy men are to miracles what adolescent children are to poltergeist activity. they seem to act as facilitators of the wondrous events without conscious intention. this is most obvious in the case of stigmata, the spontaneous appearance of the wounds of christ on the bodies of devout religious believers. levitation and the appearance of glories or halos around the head or upper body are also common. the chronicle of christian miracles is overwhelming in it number and variety. only a few brief examples may be cited here. those interested in the subject should consult the 19th century text a dictionary of miracles by the reverend e. cobham brewer, an excellent compendium of christian wonders that ru

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

significance for human life. therefore, occultism (or its currently preferred term paranormal) entails a wide spectrum of experiences.from clairvoyance and telepathy to visions and dreams, from ghost sightings to the pronouncements of mediums and channelers. the paranormal encompasses the phenomenon known as psychokinesis (commonly referred to as mind over matter).whether in the dramatic form of levitation or teleportation, or in the more commonly experienced phenomenon of spiritual healing. it also covers experiences related to death, such as out-of-body travel and deathbed visions. the occult also includes a host of techniques and practices originally designed and created to contact the extrasensory realm. most frequently associated with the term occult are the techniques of magic and d

given to abductions in 1987, the number of reports would rise considerably. these hundreds of cases, which have arisen from people independently of others or awareness of abduction stories in general, while varying immensely in details, tell a very similar story. the abductee s life is interrupted by strange beings and their will to resist is impaired. they are taken aboard a spaceship, sometimes levitation being an instrumental part, and are subjected to an invasive physical examination. generally, the victim is forced to forget the incident and only years later, prompted by troubling emotions possibly manifest in nightmares, the victim engages in psychotherapy or hypnosis, during which the memory of the abduction emerges. the element of memory loss coupled with the intrusive invasion of

hung up at the four corners of the house. academia de estudo psychicos cesare lombroso cesare lombroso academy for psychical research, founded in sao paolo by jose de freitas tinoco in september 1919. the academy investigated the mediumship of carlos mirabelli. in 392 sittings, mirabelli produced what were considered to be remarkable results as he demonstrated a wide variety of materializations, levitation, psychokinesis, and automatic writing. the academy proclaimed mirabelli the greatest of all mental and physical mediums, but its 1926 report was called into question by theodore besterman, who studied mirabelli for the american society for psychical research in 1934. the academy continued to exist into the 1930s. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsych

rs on the voices. when anson began his book on the story, he was not allowed into the house and he never interviewed the lutzes. he had only several tapes they had made from which to work. he seems to have borrowed heavily from his own screenplay of the exorcist to fill in the gaps and make an entertaining story. many of the strange events mentioned in the book simply never occurred: there was no levitation, no marching band, no door torn off its hinges, no tracks in the snow (as it had not snowed during the lutzes time in the house, no pig s face, etc. in the court hearing in september 1979 on the defeo case, the lutzes admitted under oath that almost everything in the book was fiction. because of the powerful impact of the movies, few are aware of the fictional nature of the story, which

nd information concerning these phenomena. anomaly is defined as irregularity, deviation from the common or natural order, exception condition or circumstance, and anomalous phenomena cover a wide field of the paranormal as well as fortean phenomena, including altered states of consciousness, apparitions, electronic voice phenomenon, extrasensory perception, falls, firewalking, healing, hypnosis, levitation, ley lines, metal bending, out-of-the-body experiences, poltergeists, telepathy, ufos, etc. assap, an integrating body with no corporate views, discouraged dogmatism while it adopted a scientific approach at all times. it did not wish to replace existing organizations in the field but rather support and encourage them. it published assap newsletter. its quarterly journal, common ground

that the slate, instead of being put half under the table, forced itself by a series of jerks on to my neck, and reposed quietly under my ear, in the eyes of everyone present. the scratching then commenced; i heard the t s crossed and the i s dotted by the moving pencil, and at the usual signal i opened the slate, and found an intelligible reply to the question put .the next manifestation was the levitation of one of the sitters in his chair about a clear foot from the ground, and the levitation of the table about two feet. i ought to have mentioned that during the whole of the seance there was a good deal of by-play going on. everyone felt the touch of hands more or less, and the sitters chairs were twice wrenched from under them, or nearly so, but the psychic could not possibly have done

tion only accepted it on the casting vote of the chairman, dr. alfred russel wallace. the paper contained an exposition of the professor s experiments in telepathy, the existence of which he considered proved, holding that this method of communication is probably explainable by some form of nervous induction. barrett was inclined to attribute the more marvelous physical phenomena of spiritualism (levitation, the fire ordeal) to hallucination. he declared that he himself had heard psychic raps in broad daylight, out-of-doors under conditions that made trickery impossible. in january 1882 barrett called a conference in the offices of the british national association of spiritualists. at this conference the society for psychical research was born. during a visit to the united states in 1885 h

tions under which such phenomena could more readily occur. sources: batcheldor, kenneth. contributions to the theory of pk induction from sitter-group work. journal of the american society for psychical research 78 (1984. notes on the elusiveness problem in relation to a radical view of paranormality. journal of the american society for psychical research 88 (april 1994. report on a case of table-levitation and associated phenomena. journal of the society for psychical research 43 (1966. batcheldor, kenneth, and d. w. hunt. some experiments in psychokinesis. journal of the society for psychical research 43 (1966. berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. brooked-smith, coin. data-tape recorded experimental

he air that we breath, and management of prana has a special effect on the human organism in energizing the chakras, or subtle centers in the body associated with spiritual development and psychic side effects. pranayama involves special techniques of breathing alternately with right and left nostrils, with a special period of retention. other exercises involve rapid breathing. in some instances, levitation is said to be achieved by breathing exercises. baron schrenck-notzing recorded the case of a young man who thus levitated his own body 27 times. in his book mysterious psychic forces (1907, camille flammarion stated: the breathing seems to have a very great influence. in the way things take place it seems as if the sitters released by breathing an amount of motor energy comparable to th

t the apparent ease with which the subject is lifted by fingertips is related to the distribution of weight on several points, rather like the principle involved when a fakir lies on a bed of sharp nails without injuring himself. carrington s method of measuring weight loss was too simple a procedure, ignoring such factors as sudden thrust exerted by the lifters. the association of pranayama with levitation has been revived more recently by the special siddhi program of maharishi mahesh yogi, whose system derives from such standard hindu texts as the yoga-sutras of patanjali. bhagwan shree rajneesh, another modern indian religious leader, also prescribed special breathing techniques for his followers, although these did not appear to have similar spectacular psychic results. they were more

lizing in representation of famous psychics and spiritual teachers for lectures and demonstrations. the company represented such well-known personalities as jeane dixon, doris collins, leslie flint, and harold sherman. last known address: 9000 sunset blvd, ste. 319, beverly hills, ca 90069. campagni, roberto contemporary italian psychic who reportedly demonstrated abilities of materialization and levitation. a surveyor by trade, campagni discovered his psychic gifts at the age of sixteen after the death of his brother ruggero. an aunt persuaded the family to hold seances, at which campagni found himself the medium. campagni continued to sit regularly with a seance group known as circle 77 in florence, at which, it has been claimed, apports materialized. psychic researcher gemma lasta descr

3.1940) italian physical medium. he was widely tested by baron l. von erhardt and the society for psychical research of rome, further studied at paris by cesar baudi de vesme, lemerle, and m. mangin, and also investigated at geneva by professors clarapede, theodore flournoy, and batelli. he sat in darkness, tightly bound, and produced strong telekinetic phenomena, such as making objects float and levitation, and occasional materializations, of which flashlight photographs were taken. several times he was accused of cheating, but baron von erhardt remarked that the hypothesis of fraud in this case implied that the experimenters were absolute imbeciles. nevertheless, such charges were made by w. w. baggally (1910) and by others (see annales des sciences psychiques, 1913, pp. 243.47. sources:

tomatism are dispensed with and messages occur in apparent independence through the operation of a mysterious psychic force. observers have seen tables move without being touched and heard percussive sounds that could not be traced to the medium s organism. sir william crookes recorded the following observations with the famous medium d. d. home: one of the most amazing things i have seen was the levitation of a glass water-bottle and tumbler. the two objects remained suspended above the table, and by tapping against each other answered yes to questions. they remained suspended about six to eight inches above the table for about five minutes, moving in front of each person and answering questions. at another time crookes observed: during a seance with mr. home a small lath moved across the

is work began in 1931 when he won the arts, sciences and letters silver medal. he was presented the chevalier, legion d honneur at the end of world war i (1945. his distinguished scientific career included assignment to the national center for scientific research in 1952. he began his service in the documentation center of the center in 1958. he has written on clairvoyance and mathematics, and on levitation in relation to gravity. his parapsychological interests included telepathy, clairvoyance, levitation, and psychokinesis. copernicus, nicolaus encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 338 cordovero, moses a famous kabalist of the sixteenth century who was influential in the safed school of mystical interpretations of the torah. his writings include shi ur lomah and padres rimmo

eight as objects were lifted and displaced. he found that the weight of the levitated table was beared by the medium. her increase in weight was usually well within five percent of that of the table. the difference was beared by the sitters. similarly, if the table was glued down to the floor by the psychic force, the medium s weight decreased in proportion to the pressure borne by the floor. the levitation itself was effected, he reasoned, by an invisible substance that streamed out of the medium s body and became more or less solidified into what he called psychic rods. these rods, which consisted of ectoplasm, found leverage in the medium s body and acted as cantilevers. if the weight to be lifted was too big, an elbow formation, transferring the pressure to the floor, was used. these p

ses, snaps, crackling noises were reportedly heard at the davenport home during the night. in 1850, in the wake of the widely reported events in hydesville, the davenport boys and their younger sister elisabeth tried table-turning. according to their father, the table soon moved, raps were heard, messages were spelled out, and ira s hand began to write automatically. a little later a simultaneous levitation of the three children was witnessed by all present. on the fifth night of the experiments, to comply with rapping directions, ira fired a pistol into a vacant corner of the room. at the instant of firing the pistol was taken from his hand and in the flash a human figure was seen holding it and smiling at the company. the apparition was the first appearance of john king, their self-appoi

ff ethnologist at winter veterans hospital. subsequently he became a professor of research in ethnopsychiatry, at temple university school of medicine, philadelphia. in addition to his many publications in anthropology and psychology, devereaux made several contributions to parapsychology. he edited the important volume psychoanalysis and the occult (1953) and contributed a variety of articles on levitation, haitian voudou, superstitions, and dreams.many of which grew out of his early anthropological fieldwork.to parapsychological journals. devereux died in may of 1985. sources: devereux, george. basic problems of psychiatry. chicago: university of chicago press, 1980. bridey murphy, a psychoanalytic view. tomorrow (summer 1956. devereux, george, ed. psychoanalysis and the occult. new york

d prominently in spiritualism. du potet began his experiments in 1821 and recorded his experiences in le propagateur du magnetisme animal, a journal founded in 1827, and in the journal de magnetisme, which was founded in 1845 and continued until 1861 and was subsequently revived by hector durville. he claimed to have discovered in animal magnetism the magic of antiquity. apports, fire resistance, levitation of the human body, and spirit communications were frequently observed and studied by him. on a visit to england he introduced dr. john elliotson, the first exponent of animal magnetism in great britain, to the phenomena. over the years he wrote a number of books that kept the issue of animal magnetism alive in france. sources: du potet de sennevoy, baron. cours de magnetisme animal. n.p

g rise to the possibility that ectoplasm acts as a solvent on material particles through which it passes, reducing them to an unknown fluidic state. crawford also noticed that if he passed his hand between the medium s ankle and the levitated table, the table dropped to the floor. if his hand was gloved, the table dropped more slowly. if he passed a glass rod between the table and the medium, the levitation was unaffected. similarly, he found that if the medium touched the levitated table, the psychic energy became short-circuited and the table dropped. the medium s touch with a gloved hand retarded the drop, whereas a touch with wood or paper had no appreciable effect. schrenck-notzing was able to get a fragment of ectoplasm into a tube. the moment he tried to trap it, it vanished with li

beginnings of organized psychical research. the sittings were mostly held in light, which greatly impressed the early observers of his work. it was also noted that from the time he turned professional until 1883 he never gave a seance in his own rooms and complied with all conditions of control, his hands restricted by his sleeves being sewn to his knees or behind his back to his coat. his first levitation is described by archdeacon thomas colley in the spiritualist, june 2, 1876: encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. eglinton, william 477 the medium was next entranced and carried by invisible power over the table several times, the heels of his boots being made to touch the head of our medical friend [dr. malcolm. then he was taken to the further end of the dining room, and

perform in token of the divine origin and efficacy of their religion over that of all others. as interesting as these feats are, many indian religious leaders have observed that there is nothing inherently spiritual about them and indeed they may become an obstacle to the realization of spiritual progress. in the treatise the yoga sutras of patanjali (ca. 300 b.c.e, various occult powers, such as levitation, invisibility, and mastery over the senses, are said to result from the practice of yoga. however, the author also warns that such powers should be ignored lest they prove an obstacle to spiritual progress. among the phenomenal feats attributed to fakirs, who operate in india as entertainers, is levitation, the so-called indian rope trick. reports of this phenomena emerged in england in

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nts which took place under the circumstances and conditions then obtaining by any reference to prestidigitation is absolutely impossible. it must rest with such men of science as crookes and wallace in london, perty in berne, butleroff in st. petersburg to search for the explanation of this phenomenal power, and to prove its reality. in january 1882, the great illusionist harry kellar witnessed a levitation of the medium william eglinton, in calcutta, india. kellar s account of this appeared in the proceedings of the society for psychical research (spr (vol. 9, p. 359: a circle having been formed, i was placed on mr. eglinton s left and seized his left hand firmly in my right. immediately on the extinction of the lights i felt him rise slowly in the air and as i retained firm hold of his h

970s, as the number of new people coming into tm dropped, the movement unveiled a siddhi program (siddhis are special paranormal powers) based on the claims of the ancient yoga treatise the yoga sutras of patanjali. the program encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. maharishi mahesh yogi 967 claimed that students of this special course have successfully achieved the paranormal feat of levitation. photographs of students show them hovering a few feet in the air, but critics (and former students) have stated that the levitators merely bounce in the air cross-legged and do not float. to date, no irrefutable evidence of levitation by the maharishi s students has yet been produced, and several ex-students of the siddhi program have successfully sued the organization. in 1968, the co

, which is now in the municipal museum at glasgow. it should be said that the term martinet, signifying a severe and punctilious person, is not derived from the saint s name, but from one jean martinet, a french soldier who, during the reign of louis xiv, won fame by his ardor in promoting discipline in his regiment. martinez, louis prominent mexican physical medium, supposed to have demonstrated levitation and materialization phenomena. in 1964 he was investigated by parapsychologist w. g. roll, who found evidence of fraud on the part of one of the sitters. martinus institute of spiritual science the martinus institute of spiritual science is a new age organization founded in copenhagen, denmark, in the 1930s by a teacher known publicly as martinus (1890.1981. reportedly, martinus had und

ble, holding each other s hands, and were often enjoined to sing or talk pending the manifestation of a spirit. all this, although offering grounds of suspicion to the incredulous, was plausible to the spiritualists. as the demand for physical manifestations increased through the decades of the nineteenth century, they became more daring and more varied. the moving of objects without contact, the levitation of heavy furniture and of medium or sitters, the elongation of the human body, and the fire ordeal were all practiced by the medium daniel dunglas home for a quarter of a century until his death in 1886. at public performances of the davenport brothers, while the brothers were bound hand and foot in a small cabinet, musical instruments were played and moved about the room and objects mo

, the first of five proposed volumes. sources: miller, robin. talks with jonathon, book i: a guide to transformation. needham, mass: channel one communications, 1993. millesimo castle located in italy in the province of savona. it was the property of the marquis carlo centurione scotto and the scene of important psychic investigations (1927.28) and later on the phenomena of direct voice, apports, levitation, and materialization. mind-body-spirit festival international festival coordinating and presenting occult, mystical, psychic, astrological, new age, human potential, and holistic organizations and individuals. founded in april 1977 in england by new consciousness entrepreneur graham wilson, the festival has since been presented annually in london and australia and occasionally in the un

urope. such extraordinary accounts of his phenomena spread through psychical research circles in england and the united states that, if they could have been proved to the satisfaction of psychical researchers, he would have had to be ranked as the greatest medium of all time. such phenomena included automatic writing in more than thirty different languages, materialization of persons and objects, levitation, impressions of spirit hands, and paranormal musical performances. he also normally produced phenomena in the light of day. the first description of mirabelli s feats was published in a booklet, o medium mirabelli, written anonymously by r. h. mikilasch, general secretary of the academia de estudos psychicos de cesar lombroso. mirabelli had applied to the academy for experiments in tran

de cesar lombroso, named for the famed italian psychical researcher, was founded and headed by mirabelli, and hence the objectivity of its report is very much in question) the newspapers picked up the story. they wrote of telekinetic movement, of apports, of a miraculous teleportation of the medium from the railroad station of da luz to s.ao vicenti. 90 kilometers distance in two minutes; of his levitation in the street two meters high for three minutes; of how he caused a skull to float toward an apothecary; of making an invisible hand turn the leaves of a book in the home of dr. alberto seabra in the presence of many scientists; of making glasses and bottles at a banquet play a military march without human touch; of causing the hat of antonio canterello to fly off and float ten meters a

. charles williams was the next medium he went to see. a seance with d. d. home and sittings in many private circles followed. within about six months, moses became convinced of the existence of discarnate spirits and of their power to communicate. soon he himself showed signs of great psychic powers. in 1872, five months after his introduction to spiritualism, he reported his first experience of levitation. the physical phenomena continued with gradually lessening frequency until 1881. they were of extremely varied nature. the power was often so enormous that it kept the room in constant vibration. e. w. cox describes in his book what am i (2 vols, 1873.74) the swaying and rocking in daylight of an old-fashioned, six-foot-wide and nine-foot-long mahogany table that required the strength o

pervade the apartment. these were of a somewhat peculiar kind; and they gradually increased till they became of considerable violence. not only did the floor tremble, but the chair of each person, as distinct from it, was felt to rock and.as we scots say.dirl under him. rev. maurice davies in the daily telegraph and a dr. gully in the morning star describe the trembling of the floor during home s levitation as reminding them of an earthquake. in a similar record, lord adare, author of experiences in spiritualism with d. d. home (1870, states: we soon felt violent vibration of the floor, chairs and table.so violent that the glass pendants of the chandelier struck together, and the windows and doors shook and rattled in their frames not only in our room but also in the next. such phenomena

e, be found scattered through religious literature, such as the incident reported in the journal of george fox, the quaker founder: at mansfield, where was a great meeting, i was moved to pray, and the lord s power was so great that the house seemed to be shaken. when i had done, some of the professors said, it was now as in the days of the apostles, when the house was shaken where they were. the levitation of john lacy, as described in warnings of the eternal spirit (part 2, 1707, made the chamber shake. the wesley family, during physical manifestations known collectively as the epworth phenomena, heard vast rumblings and clattering of doors and shutters. felicia scatcherd writes of a seance with etta wriedt in light (august 3, 1912: we all felt the floor, walls and windows vibrating. i h

f the graving tool. according to a letter from moses unpublished correspondence (light, may, 1902, owasso, one of henry slade s controls, extracted, without actual pain, a bad tooth of his suffering medium. a reader of light related in the following issue a similar incident, in the presence of several witnesses, in the history of the medium miss c. e. wood. the question of scientific verification levitation of a table in the full blaze of sunshine was witnessed by charles richet in front of his chateau de carqueiranne with the medium eusapia palladino. again, ochorowitz, working with tomczyk, saw a garden chair raised in full light. an ancient instance of table levitation is described in samuel brent s judischer agestreifter schlangen balg (1610, and in zalman zebi s reply, judischer theri

the full blaze of sunshine was witnessed by charles richet in front of his chateau de carqueiranne with the medium eusapia palladino. again, ochorowitz, working with tomczyk, saw a garden chair raised in full light. an ancient instance of table levitation is described in samuel brent s judischer agestreifter schlangen balg (1610, and in zalman zebi s reply, judischer theriak 1615. zebi admits the levitation but argues that it was not caused by magic since beautiful hymns are sung during the production of the phenomena and no devil is able to approach us when we think of the lord. count gasparin, baron guldenstubbe, marc thury, robert hare, and james j. mapes were the first investigators of table turning. hare devised special scientific instruments. william crookes repeated his experiments

leman, the dinner table seating seven persons, with fruit and wine on it, rise and settle down, while all the guests stood around without touching it. in another seance, with katie cook, a piano was carried over the heads of the sitters. one of the ladies became nervous and broke the chain of hands; the piano dropped to the floor the two carved legs were broken and the sounding board smashed. the levitation of two pianos in the presence of an 11-yearold child was described as early as 1855 in marc thury s des tables tournantes. the phenomenon of a levitated piano was witnessed by president abraham lincoln in 1862. mr. jencken, the husband of kate fox, said in a paper read before the london dialectical society, as regards the lifting of heavy bodies, i can myself testify i have seen the sem

med to emanate from the right hip of the medium. at about three quarters of a yard from the floor it traversed the gauze partition, enlarging some of its interstices, and moved objects 80 to 100 centimetres distant from the medium. it seems that the medium has to make a certain effort to cause this fluidic member to traverse the screen. by using luminous bracelets we have verified that during the levitation of a small table a dark stump like that of a member could be distinguished, that it rose up under the table, raised it, and replaced it on the floor and showed itself afresh underneath it. the advantage of the cantilever theory is its simplicity. for that very reason it only explained an initial stage of telekinetic phenomena. but the theory has many weaknesses, chiefly the later discov

theory is its simplicity. for that very reason it only explained an initial stage of telekinetic phenomena. but the theory has many weaknesses, chiefly the later discovery of the fraudulent production of the phenomena in the circle in which he made all of his initial observations. also, crawford s theory does not explain movement without contact in haunted houses or in poltergeist cases, and the levitation of the human body, all of which apparently demand a different theory. charles richet suggested that telekinetic phenomena constitute the first stage of materialization which may be called mechanization. when phantom hands or whole bodies are formed, the presence of a separate dynamic organism is suggested. such a body would be created at the expense of the medium and the sitters. by cal

ry fairfield in ten years with spiritual mediums, suggesting a nerve aura that surrounds every organic structure, capable of receiving sensory impressions, acting as a force and assuming any desired shape. the nerve aura, however, suggests something different from ectoplasm. it suggests the presence of a third factor, a nervous force to which both the medium and the sitters contribute. during the levitation of a table in the margery seances on june 23, 1923, the sitters felt cold, tingling sensations in their forearms. dr. crandon at the same time observed faint, auroralike emanations from the region of margery s fingers. f. w. h. myers suggested, as a correlative to telepathic effect, a telergic action, by which he meant the excitation of the motor and sensory centers of the medium by an

rs to dwell in the spiritual world, although it is of frequent observation that the sitters thoughts exercise a certain influence upon the phenomena. m. barzini, journalist for corriere della sera, wrote about his seances with palladino in genoa, 1906.07: it was obvious that our conversations were listened to, so as to yield a suggestion in the execution of the strange performance. if we spoke of levitation the table would rise up. if we began to discuss luminous phenomena instantly a light would appear upon the medium s knees. if one considers the world of spirits in the search for the agency in psychokinesis, baron lazar de baczolay hellenbach s suggestion, from his birth and death as a change of form of perception (1886) might provide a starting point: i am convinced that the unseen wor

lopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1084 published his experiences and the perceptions accompanying them in a series of books, which during the last years of his life attracted the attention of scientists in investigating the phenomenon. paranormal side effects most religions have reported miraculous phenomena associated with the path of mysticism, including visions, disembodied voices, levitation, and gifts of healing. christian saints have their miracles and the yogis have their occult powers. it would seem that with the transcendence of normal mental and emotional life, there is an area of transcendence of normal physical law. however, the mystic is warned not to be snared by such phenomena, since it will activate egoism and pride, common faults of the beginner on the spiritua

spiritualist organization in the united states. it was an exclusive body in the initial stages, later broadening its membership. the principal medium was edward p. fowler, who had sat with kate and margaretta fox. fowler provided the location. early members included the judge john w. edmonds. at one sitting of the circle, the medium henry gordon demonstrated the feat of floating in the air, i.e, levitation, in the presence of many unimpeachable witnesses. at the initiative of the circle, the new york conference was established in november 1851, providing a focal point for the growing interest in spiritualism. new zealand the maori among the maori, the indigenous inhabitants of new zealand (known by the maori as aotearoa) the spirits of the dead played a prominent role, with the priests (o

a, oslo, nielsen was pronounced a fraud but seemed to have completely reinstated himself in 1924 in reykjavik, in sittings for the psychical research society of iceland. the report of the novelist einar h. kvaran, endorsed by scientists and other people of high standing, recorded the materialization of forms, sometimes two appearing simultaneously near the medium while he himself was within view. levitation and other telekinetic phenomena were also seen in abundance. after his exposure in 1922, nielsen refused to sit with researchers. however, that did not prevent further exposure. several years later in copenhagen, he was accused of fraud by johs. carstensen, the leader of his own circle, and a convinced spiritualist. after his exposure in a pamphlet, the medium went to court but lost his

al phenomena seemed natural. within only a few weeks, the group elicited raps from the table and communications from philip on conventional yesno lines. on one occasion this phenomenon was successfully demonstrated before a live audience of fifty individuals for a videotaped tv show. in addition, there have been instances of noises from various parts of the room, a light blinking, and an apparent levitation of the table. the results attained by the group have provided insight on the nature of spirit personality, the phenomena of the poltergeist, hauntings, and the claims of spiritualism. sources: owen, iris m, and margaret sparrow. conjuring up philip. new york: harper& row, 1976. philips, james b (1907.1987) british businessman who played a prominent part in the practical affairs of the s

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watched [as] the blood went into a tube and then into a big tank, the woman reported. the cow s eyes would glaze over. then i knew she was dead. we would fly back and drop her in the pasture with the other cows. the little people do not eat meat. they take the blood home with them (powers, 1994. another abductee, a texas woman named judy doraty, related under hypnosis her alleged observation of a levitation of a calf into a ufo one night in 1973. the gray-skinned humanoid crew cut up the animal while still alive, apparently as part of its study of the effects of pollution on earthly creatures. myrna hansen told a similar story under hypnosis, of an abduction in new mexico in 1980, during which a calf was brought into a ufo and mutilated while still alive. according to ufologist linda moult

open space. using navigatable contrivances. in his earlier life, he had done graduate-level work in astronomy at the university of michigan. in the course of his studies, and later in his adult life, he traveled in africa and south america, often stopping to examine archaeological artifacts. he became convinced that only an advanced civilization, with a technology that encompassed teleportation, levitation, and space flight, could have created such structures. eve n t u a l l y, he came to believe that about 100,000 years ago, in the pre-cataclysmic era which developed a first wave of civilization. space flight originated on this planet. we may assume that the py g m i e s. developed a civilization which discove red the principle of gravitation and put it to work (je s s u p, 1957. when a

arrival, remarking that he had something to say about the observations that we have made of your planet. he also wanted ferguson to pass on some messages to his fellow earthlings. according to khauga, a great network of canals covers the planet. electromagnetic fields enclose its cities. martians themselves, all of whom have red hair, red complexions, and broad features, float through the air via levitation. they are a foot shorter than the typical earth person. khauga expressed incredulity that human beings kill each other in battles. martians, he said, are twenty thousand years ahead of earthlings in spiritual evolution and scientific development. concerned about the state of affairs on our planet, the martians had decided to release positive energy particles into the earth s atmosphere

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ration as we would pass through ether. when death comes and we shed this so-called mortal coil, we find ourselves in vehicles that are finer than the elements of the earth. a person clothed in these finer vehicles could easily penetrate through the various strata of our globe to the center if there were no other obstacles. having shed the dense body, he is no longer subject to gravitation, but to levitation, and on that account he usually finds it sufficiently difficult to stay upon the surface of the earth. only during the first part of his post-mortem experience when he is still loaded down with the coarsest ether and desire stuff is this possible for him. the more he has gathered of that denser substance by indulgence of his lower nature and cultivation of the habit of drunkenness, cove

y indulgence of his lower nature and cultivation of the habit of drunkenness, covetousness, hatred, malice, immoral emotions, and disreputable vices, the easier it is for him to stay around low saloons, gambling houses, red-light districts, and kindred places. but the man of high ideals and lofty aspirations, who would be the one likely to seek the path of initiation, feels the impelling force of levitation drawing him outward into the purer strata of the air where the first heaven is located, and is thus effectually prevented from trespassing upon the path of initiation. stories are told of initiates having overcome the law of gravitation in order to rise in the air at certain times for a definite purpose while still in the dense body. initiates are also taught how to suspend the law of l

he coming age will inhabit the air. but we know that our dense body gravitates towards the center of the earth, therefore, a change must take place; also paul tells us that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. but he also points out that we have a soma psuchicon (mistranslated natural body) a soul body, and this is made of ether, which is lighter than air and therefore capable of levitation. this is the golden wedding garment, the philosopher's stone, or the living stone, spoken of in some of the ancient philosophies as the diamond soul, for it is luminous, lustrous, and sparkling--a priceless gem. it was also called the astral body by the mediaeval alchemists, because of the ability it conferred upon the one who has it to traverse the starry regions. but it is not to be c

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ism as a definable sect was well established. england proved as susceptible to spiritualist phenomena as the united states, and although english mediums were at first few and far between, by the 1870s they were to be found in abundance, producing all the more spectacular effectsoftheir american counterparts: direct voice messages (in which the medium spokewiththevoice of the communicating spirit. levitation of objects, and materializations of. the hands,faces,orwhole. formsofthe departed. such. phenomenausuallyoccurred under strictly prescribed conditions at seances, meetings at which thesitters-eitherthose seeking messages from dead relatives, investigating intellectuals, orthemerelycurious-sataround a table, linked handswiththemedium andwitheach other, extinguished thelights-andwaited. a

evidenceofhisownsenses.referringto his experiences some twenty years later he remarked:if anyone asked me whether i have seen intelligentwritingproduced between locked slates under circumstances which fairly exclude the suggestion of trickery, i should reply that i have; andifhequestioned me further, whether in dark seances, when the so-called medium has been held in my arms, i have witnessed the levitation of inertobjects;i should again reply that i have(studiesinmysticism,pp. 133-4).whathe didnotadd wasthatwhentheseevents occurred he was seeking, and half-believed he had received; a message from his sister.thefirst seance waswithwilliameglinton,"ayoungmediumwhohadproduced amazing materializationsduringthe1870sbutwhobythemid-1880s was concentrating on slate-writing(theproductionofalleged

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s able to set in motion, and to some extent control. either hypothesis was unlikely, because in either case the power would have been worth a fortune to the medium, and he would not have been dependent on the comparatively paltry fees he charged. but we could think of no other theory. since that time i have seen very little of physical manifesta255 tions, of the knocking, moving of furniture, and levitation nature. once seen they become wearisome by repetition. but the memory of that face seen in the old disused chapel in bloomsbury, and the suggestion of a thought-form made visible and tangible to a person with noclaimto abnormal sensitiveness, remained as a haunting problem, as also did the whole question of messages alleged to have come from the dead. my experiences with professional me

could not find this belief. and between the old spaewife and the modern clairvoyant there isbutslight difference. well but, you will say, what of the old-time witches, who mounted on broomsticks and rode through the air to carouse on the good wine in some nobleman's cellars. here again we have only to look over the files oflight,or thetransactionsofthe psychicalresearchsocietyon the phenomena of levitation, and you will find many parallel cases. we call these things by learned names now. i have met grave and learned men, whose veracity was unimpeachable, who solemnly declared that they had witnessed levitation, some even who had experienced it in their own proper persons. i do not say the stories are true, but i know that they are very widely believed. and as for the tales of witches who

f the laws of gravitation. but assuming all fraud eliminated, and testwitchcraft ritualslssconditions perfect, the natural conclusionisthat one is confronted with some material force, capable of doing material work, of whose nature we are ignorant,butwhich is asopento scientific examination and explanationasanyothermaterial force. many of the experiences recorded.intheconfessions seem to refer to levitation pure and simple. as when one of the north berwick circle speaksofbeing bodilyliftedupinherchain.andcerriedinto another room.itis true that another of the. same circle speaks. of seeing thedevil267.carrying her. and others. but at the spiritualistic seances today, weare told how 'the spirits' have moved chairs and other articles for no apparent reason except to demonstratethat'they' are

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l they had to do was whistle and heavy rocks would move into place. 10 a very similar tradition, as the reader may recall, claimed that the gigantic stone blocks of the mysterious andean city of tiahuanaco had been carried through the air to the sound of a trumpet .11 in both central america and in the far-off regions of the andes, therefore, strange sounds had been associated with the miraculous levitation of massive rocks. what was i to make of this? maybe, through some fluke, two almost identical fantasies could have been independently invented in both these geographically remote areas. but that didn t seem very likely. equally worthy of consideration was the possibility that common recollections of an ancient building technology could have been preserved in stories such as these, a tec

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ver, sufficiently material to use implements of normal matter when in cosmic areas containing it; and they required housing- albeit of a peculiar kind. though their senses could penetrate all material barriers, their substance could not; and certain forms of electrical energy could wholly destroy them. they had the power of a rial motion, despite the absence of wings or any other visible means of levitation. their minds were of such texture that no exchange with them could be effected by the great race. when these things had come to the earth they had built mighty basalt cities of windowless towers, and had preyed horribly upon the beings they found. thus it was when the minds of the great race sped across the void from that obscure, trans-galactic world known in the disturbing and debatab

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

abeyance till he might shed the yaddith body, nor did he neglect a small store of gold for earthly use. the starting-day was a time of doubt and apprehension. carter climbed up to his envelope-platform, on the pretext of sailing for the triple star nython, and crawled into the sheath of shining metal. he had just room to perform the ritual of the silver key, and as he did so he slowly started the levitation of his envelope. there was an appalling seething and darkening of the day, and hideous racking of pain. the cosmos seemed to reel irresponsibly, and the other constellations danced in a black sky. all at once carter felt a new equilibrium. the cold of interstellar gulfs gnawed at the outside of his envelope, and he could see that he floated free in space- the metal building from which h

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

est particle of the air element remains in your body, and consequently you should feel in the same normal condition as before. to avoid any counting, use the string of beads again. increase the number of breaths (inspirations and expirations) from one exercise to the next, but do not exceed the number of forty. by constant practice of this experiment, adepts will succeed in producing phenomena of levitation such as walking on the surface of water, floating in the air, displacement of the body and many more, especially if one concentrates on one element only. but magician is not satisfied with one-sided phenomena, because this would not agree with his aims. he wants to penetrate far deeper into the cognition and the mastery, and achieve more. now follows the description of the practice conc

is own, called a medium by the spiritualists. the magician may not become a plaything of uncontrollable powers; on the contrary, he directs his powers consciously and also learns to use them deliberately. in this respect, he considers the laws of the invisible world as well as those of the physical world. to further the passive communication with invisible beings, there are recommended mainly the levitation exercises with the purpose to magically prepare any part of the body in such a manner that such beings can manifest themselves with the help of levitation. let us begin the practice at once: sit comfortably in front of a table and put your hands on it. perform an accumulation of vital power in your right hand and concentrate on the fact that you are able to manage your hand and your fin

once: sit comfortably in front of a table and put your hands on it. perform an accumulation of vital power in your right hand and concentrate on the fact that you are able to manage your hand and your fingers solely with your willpower, i.e, not with the help of the muscles. afterwards, let the accumulated vital power diffuse into the universe by way of the imagination. now begin with the proper levitation exercise. accumulate the air element in the forefinger of the right hand, and concentrate on the forefinger becoming as light as air. next try to imagine that you are lifting the forefinger with the help of your willpower, leaving the hand with the other fingers quiet and motionless on the table. you must have the feeling that it is not your muscles lifting the finger, but that your wil

ou have managed to get the finger up, let it drop by your willpower. should you stop to concentrate while the finger is still aloft, it would drop instantly. one could try this only to establish how far the willpower or the muscles are intervening in it. if you are able to levitate the forefinger of the right hand with your willpower, you can proceed in the same manner with the other fingers. the levitation exercise is fulfilled as soon as you can lift and drop all the fingers of the right hand at your own will. now proceed in the same way with your left hand and its fingers. having managed this as well, try to lift the whole hand this way, first the right hand and afterwards the left one. provided you can notice a success after several exercises, go ahead by lifting the hand at will not o

ake the leaves of a fig tree dry up to demonstrate his power? he considered the same law, performing the projection with the help of a magic word quabbalah that indirectly caused the fire element to carry out his command. backed by the universal laws respecting the mastery of the elements, the perfect magician will bring about a number of other magic performances with the aid of the elements. 15. levitation phenomena levitation means the abolition of the law of gravitation. based on the universal laws the magician has found out that the power of gravity depends on the magnetic attraction of the earth. the gravity of his own body can be abolished in two ways. firstly, through constant loading or accumulations of the air element (vaju tattwa, the primary quality of this element is realized t

he can even move on the surface of the water, regardless of its depth. condensing the magnetic fluid more and more, he can raise his body into the air at will, and by means of the air element or the self-produced movement of the air, he can be carried in any direction. the speed of transport in the air depends entirely on his will. many of the yogis possess a remarkable ability in mastering these levitation phenomena, and even in the bible we read that our lord jesus christ walked on the surface of the sea. considering what has been said heretofore, it seems quite evident that objects or even people who are not magically trained can be carried away by the magician by this method if he wishes to do so. the accumulation of the necessary magnetic fluid can be performed by the magically traine

an be traced to the influence of the moon; that is why somnambulism is called moon-madness. in any case, this condition is a disharmony, a disturbance of the electromagnetic fluid, and consequently a pathological state or an illness. a person afflicted in this manner can be treated only by harmonizing the electric fluid, which has to be increased in the body. this summarized interpretation of the levitation phenomenon should suffice the magician for the present, although he might draw the conclusion from the foregoing paragraphs that it would be possible also to produce the opposite effect, that is, an increased attractive or gravitational power. as a matter of fact, that effect is brought about by increasing the electric fluid [polarity] instead of the magnetic one. this explanation is un

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

-cut to space travel 15 the home of the ufo's 20 are ufo's russian? 22 space flights: common denominator 24 part ii meteorology speaks falling ice 28 falling stones 32 falling live things 37 falling animal and organic matter 40 falling shaped things 45 falls of water 52 clouds and storms 56 rubbish in space 60 part iii history speaks disappearing ships and crews 65 teleportation or kidnapping? 75 levitation 84 marks and "footprints" 91 disappearing planes 97 fireballs and lights 101 legends 106 part iv astronomy speaks the incredible decade 115 ufo's against the sun 119 location of ufo's 125 ufo patrol 128 the height of the puzzle 133 the case is proved! 137 a note on sources 144 list of illustrations a flying saucer photographed over brasil 2 passage of auroral beam, november 17, 1882 13

up math re-cheek and as far as a good physical "result" to boot. yet the navt fears to use this result. the result was& stands today as proof that the unified field theory to a certain extent is correct. beyond that certain extent no person in his right senses, or having any senses at all, will evermore dare to go. i am sorry that i mislead you in my previous missive. true, enough, such a form of levitation has been accomplished as described. it is also a very commonly observed reaction of certain metals to certain fields surrounding a current, this field being used for that purpose. had farraday concerned himself about the mag. field surrounding an electric current, we today would not exist or if we did exist, our present geo-political situation would have the very time-bomish, ticking of

ng people, and ships; airplanes and airships crashing and disappearing without trace and without warning; instantaneous and mysterious transportations of people and things; inexplicable tracks and marks, such as the devil's footprints of devonshire, and the "cup-marks" found in stone over much of the world; the organically shaped meteorites found in tertiary rock and coal formations; evidences of levitation and flight from prehistoric antiquity; and many other phenomena which appear to us to be, or resemble, acts rather than things. 26 all of these are terrestrial events--manifestations more or less on the terrestrial surface. but there is a third great area of observational data. it is that vast conglomerate of purely astronomical observations which relates to things and phenomena in spac

of similarity. it is almost an inseparable corollary to our thesis that we admit to an unfathomable antiquity for mankind, or at least intelligence, upon the earth, and its vicinity. this conclusion is made unavoidable by the antiquity of records of ufo's and wingless flight. it is apparent in the innumerable megalithic works of stone which involve masses too huge to be moved by means other than levitation and which have been standing for ages before any written record now available. the man is close, too close. as these pieces of the jigsaw puzzle make themselves known, and as we realize fully that this is an old, old problem, we can begin to take comfort. if ufo's have been here for 300,000 years and have not yet chosen to launch a mass attack on humanity, it is scarcely likely that the

g poured uselessly into the development of rocket propulsion were invested in a basic study of gravity, it is altogether likely that we could have effective and economical space travel, at a small fraction of the ultimate cost which we are now incurring, within one decade. our present path of development will not give it to us. science has consistently scoffed at any thought of gravity control or levitation, and such scoffing has had to be accepted as authoritative in the absence of proof to the contrary. such proof now seems to be within sight, or at least there is increasingly strong evidence that gravity is neither so continuos so immaterial nor so obscure as to be completely unamenable to use, manipulation and control. witness not only the documented movements of ufo's in the form of l

scure as to be completely unamenable to use, manipulation and control. witness not only the documented movements of ufo's in the form of lights, discs, nebulosities, etc, but the many instances of stones, paper, clothes baskets and many other things which have been seen to leave the ground without apparent cause. the lifting of the ancient megalithic structures, too, must surely have come through levitation. ed: the following has no obvious reference or necessary position. i should have enjoyed seeing lemis chieftran trying to maneuver the first craft before directional field induction was discovered. that, to me, is a classic tale of howlingly good humor. the same inhibited thinking which has consistently aroused our protests is responsible for the maladjusted direction of our attack on t

n the united states was weak and spread most thinly over the world. there was just enough ostentatious secrecy about their military operations to make them appear to be the major interest. ufo's, as we have seen, and as has been pointed out by palmer and arnold, leslie, wilkins, fate, and others, have been around for thousands of years. it has been no secret that some principle of space flight or levitation was in existence; the problem was to rediscover it for contemporary civilization. as we have said before, it is easier to discover a scientific principle if it is known to exist. the russians have known this as well as we have known it. we are contemplating space travel via cumbersome methods within a few years- at most a few decades. if earthlings can be that close to it now, other rac

already have it. if the u.s.a. can foresee space navigation in such a short time, there is no reason why russia's mathematicians and physicists cannot have stumbled onto the principles which makes it possible. but there is another, and much more plausible, possibility. have the russians captured a space ship? or have space people taken over the red empire? nuts. the secrets of ancient flight and levitation, according to researchers into very ancient oriental records and reported by churchward, leslie, and others, have been preserved in the monasteries of the himalayas: in tibet, nepal, india and china. can there be a direct relationship between this fact and russian anxiety to capture and control those mountain fastnesses? could easily be so. ed: the following has no obvious reference or

l, spars, rigging, hatchcovers, deck rear, dunnage, small boats everything. took it off the beach where experienced salvors could do nothing with it took it away, completely, suddenly finally without trace. are we to keep on forever attributing this high order of dexterity and selectivity to untutored storms and whirlwinds? in the disappearances we certainly have an intimation, however slight, of levitation of something operating from above, with great and decisive power, and suddenness of action. whatever it may be, it seems to favor isolated places and ships. there is without doubt, an element of our old friend: selectivity, 94 and perhaps segregation. there is also a suggestion of ruthlessness selective ruthlessness. there is something of evasion, or secretiveness. all are attributes of

hey could live with gravity. water was to fill the quarry holes& water is the best natural gravity neutralizer known to mammals or fish. here they could sleep& rest& be more acclimated to gravity, while they also built temples in other terrestrial places,or xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx2 so the plan was to have been, s-men broke it all up. 1 italic and three markouts by mr. a 2 markouts by mr. b 103 levitation it is not within the scope of this book so show that a civilization of single origin covered this planet some tens of thousands of years ago perhaps hundreds of thousands. such a case can be made, without too much difficulty, in spite of the anti-atlantians who have a phobia against it; and we can show that there have been two at least two principle waves of civilization. the first can

power were limited in number, and available only to a few important projects. it seems that such levitators disappeared suddenly and unexpectedly. where to? 108 they went home. it is further possible that maybe there was only one machine available which could lift the greatest of weights, and that it was mobile and used first in one part of the world and then another. what kind of power was this levitation agency? how did it work? if through our crude mechanical principles of ropes, cables, blocks and tackles, how did the ancients get enough rope on a 1,200-ton block to take the strain of lifting it, and how shift the position of the prime mover? rocks are not magnetic. does flotation offer a complete answer for lifting the big ones into place? sand ramps do not seem suitable. these prove

1,200-ton block to take the strain of lifting it, and how shift the position of the prime mover? rocks are not magnetic. does flotation offer a complete answer for lifting the big ones into place? sand ramps do not seem suitable. these proved inadequete theory. true "prime-mover" caused grav. node or minor streneth (sic) or major. thus gravity didn't exist upon these stones. i have used the word "levitation" as a substitute for power or force. i have suggested that flying saucers used some means of reacting with the gravitational field. in this way they could apply accelerations or lifting forces to all particles of a body, inside and outside, simultaneously, and not through external force applied by pressure, or harness, to the surface only. i believe that this same, or a similar force wa

nd is logical. collision from outside bodies striking the earth. it is the only common denominator for our broadest and most basic problems of anthropology. heh: he's hit it. let us merely state that our tenet, and the point of inserting this discussion into the general concept, is to indicate that there was long ago a very advanced culture, which could and almost certainly did, invent a means of levitation and space mobility; that this world-wide culture was cataclysmically and instantly wiped out all over the world. remnants of humanity escaped, and it is our suggestion that at least one space ship was afloat at the time and escaped the disaster and sired a race 109 of space dwellers which has ever after used the neutral at the limit of the earth's sphere of influence as an abode or head

and therefore, not a mechanical contact. on the other hand, it appears to have been hot, or warm, or at the very least to have conveyed energy convertible into heat "f" whatever the method or manner, it conveyed enough energy to melt or remove part of the snow, almost instantaneously. what have we left to consider? anything besides a ray of some sort? it doesn't seem too likely. we have advocated levitation as an explanation before; thus the levitation of a few snow crystals in trivial as compared to the kicking, squirming body of oliver lerch, or the 1,200-ton blocks at baalbek. so we have, by elimination, a mechanical device passing through the air, emitting some sort of ray of heat or energy, at regular intervals of time and distance. what sort of device, and why the rays? close, someon

r than air or heavier than air flight mechanisms of today. that the flight of those millennia employed a type of power unknown today "seems almost certain" whatever the source of that power was it did not involve power plants as we know them today, and apparently did not result in a truly mechanical or industrialized civilization such as we have. that this power source worked on some principle of levitation or gravity nullification seems logical. it may be, too, that such a force or power does not lend itself to industry. it does. from life-boat power is xxxxx built "scout& so, on up to great arks (xxxxx getting too close for comfort xxxxxx?)1 phraseology indicates lack of courage, not worry, jemi. an hindu manuscript of ancient origin says "when morning dawned, rama, taking the celestial

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

d. there is always a human agent involved- frequently a teenage girl- who appears to be the source of psychic energy. 4) psychic healing- the ability to heal various illnesses and infirmities. there are many documented cases of this. usually it involves a healer and a subject, although there are recent cases invloving cancer patients learning to heal themselves. 5) teleportation, apportation, and levitation. some occultists feel a magician producing pk effects is simply a channel for universal energy. others think the force originates some way directly within the magician. the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 6 the subconscious postulated by freud and others, the concept of the subconscious mind is an important one. basicly, this is the idea that part of the mind no

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

uburban housewife going through a midlife crisis becomes involved in the neighborhood s local black magic satanic witch cult (seems like they re popping up on every street corner these days. following a fling with her teenaged daughter s boyfriend, she has to fend off a demon who lusts after her body. flash photograph taken during the warrick-deane series of 1924-1929. there is considerable table levitation, movement of the s ance trumpet, and ectoplasm on the lap of mrs. deane, 21 april 1925 (fortean picture library) shakespeare 247 semyaza semyaza (also known as semjaza, semiaza, and other variant spellings) was the leader of wicked fallen angels who led 200 other angels to earth to mate with mortal women there. these angels also encouraged other sinful activities by teaching humans abou

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n. as it was, i broke down during the passage of the pylons, luckily not till i had reached that of tahuti. but it is a good rule; when in doubt play pr.n.y.ma. for one can no longer worry about the path: the question is reduced to the simple problem: am, i, or am i not, going to burst? i got all the sweating and trembling of the body that heart could desire; but no .jumping about like a frog. or levitation. a pity! 11.45. i shall read for a little in the yoga-shastra as a rest. then for the end of the day and the beginning of the ninth day. zoroaster (or pythagoras) informs us that the number nine is sacred, and attains the summit of philosophy.1 i fm sure i hope so! 11.56. i get into .sana. and so endeth the eighth lesson. the ninth day 12.02. thus i began this great day, being in my .sa

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

od.s creation, just at their own sweet valuation, for by this culminating scene, close of that wondrous life of woe before and after death, we know how to esteme the nazarene. where.s the wet towel? let us first destroy the argument of fools, from paul right downward to the schools, that the ascension.s self rehearsed christ.s godhead by its miracle. grand!.but the power is mine as well! in india levitation counts no tithe of the immense amounts of powers demanded by the wise from chela ere the chela rise to knowledge. fairy-tales? well, first, sit down a week and hold your breath as masters teach49.until you burst, or nearly.in a week, one saith, a month, perchance a year for you, hard practice, and yourself may fly. yes! i have done it! you may too! thus, in ascension, you and i stand as

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

gends also deal with birds and the origin of the various colors of feathers. the navahos declare that when all living things climbed to the stalk of a bamboo to escape the flood, the wild turkey was on the lowest branch and his tail feathers trailed in the water; hence the color was all washed out. gravitation, which is a law in the material world, is the impulse toward the center of materiality; levitation, which is a law in the spiritual world, is the impulse toward the center of spirituality. seeming to be capable of neutralizing the effect of gravity, the bird was said to partake of a nature superior to other terrestrial creation; and its feathers, because of their sustaining power, came to be accepted as symbols of divinity, courage, and accomplishment. a notable example is the dignit

RUBY TABLET OF SET

ll as current leaders of the temple of set, all point out the similarity between science and magick. much of today's science would have been called magick 100 years ago. much of what is called magick today will be called science in 100 years. the willful application of scientific knowledge and thought towards a willfully chosen goal is magical. yet, when most people think of "magic" they think of levitation, spells, demons, and the like. levitation is not yet scientific. today's engineers are not yet marketing an antigravity machine. some people think that levitation is impossible. others feel we need to learn more about the laws of gravitation. the casting of spells is not scientific. occult shops carry powders and incense for increasing your finances, for attracting lovers, etc. pharmaci

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ork: philosophical library, 1953. paranormal news. http//paranormal.about.com/science/ paranormal/ library/blnews. htm. 1 october 2001. post, eric g. communicating with the beyond. new york: atlantic publishing, 1946. skeptics dictionary. http//skepdic.com. 1 october 2001. seance those who accept the teachings of spiritualism believe that the varied phenomena associated with a seance, such as the levitation of objects, the materialization of spirit forms, or the acquisition of information beyond the normal sensory channels, emanate from spirits of the dead. nonspiritualists who attend seances may hold a wide variety of religious and philosophical views, but they are likely to believe that some part of their being survives physical death, and they are willing to base their hope for life ete

ut little faith in such vows. home was forced to leave the country, and he returned to britain in 1864. the single event in home s remarkable psychic career that is most remembered occurred on the evening of december 13, 1868, when he was seen to float out of the window of a third-floor home in ashley house and return through another window to rejoin the men who witnessed the extraordinary act of levitation. among those who observed the feat were captain wynne, the earl of dunraven, and the earl of crawford, all men of solid character and integrity. ever since the phenomenon was first reported, skeptics have insisted that the witnesses themselves helped to perpetuate a fraud. others have suggested that home merely hypnotized the illustrious men into believing that he floated in and out of

ls of what i witnessed, there is an antagonism in my mind between reason, which pronounces it to be scientifically impossible, and the consciousness that my senses both of touch and sight and these corroborated, as they were, by the senses of all who were present are not lying witnesses when they testify against my preconceptions. crookes studied firsthand the full gamut of home s phenomena, from levitation to the movement of objects. the physicist noted that the movements were generally preceded by a peculiar cold air, sometimes amounting to a decided wind. i have had sheets of paper blown about by it, and a thermometer lowered several degrees. crookes also observed luminous points of light and glowing clouds that formed and often settled on the heads of various investigators. in some ins

slight cry from one of the female sitters. intrigued by this particular demonstration, crookes designed a special cage wherein he placed an accordion which he invited the spirit to play. during the laboratory-controlled experiment, the accordion floated about the spook-proof cage and unseen fingers played a variety of melodies on the keyboard of the instrument. in addition to his famous feats of levitation a phenomenon that crookes personally witnessed on three different occasions daniel dunglas home was well known for his ability to handle fire without being burned or incurring any ill effects. during one demonstration, crookes watched in astonishment as home went to the fire, and after stirring the hot coals about with his hand, took out a red hot piece nearly as big as an orange, and p

the medium exercised over each of the languages employed in these treatises. such accomplishments are made the more impressive by noting that mirabelli s formal education ended with primary school. as a physical medium, mirabelli once materialized the spirit bodies of a marshal and a bishop, both long deceased, and both of whom were instantly recognizable to many who had assembled for the seance. levitation seemed almost to be a specialty of the medium, and witnesses once observed him levitate an automobile to a height of six feet, where it was suspended for a period of three minutes. once when mirabelli visited a pharmacy, a skull rose from the back of the laboratory and came to rest on the cash register. before a gathering of doctors, who lent their names to a deposition, mirabelli cause

ory report about mirabelli s paranormal abilities which, according to mirabelli s defenders, reflected more upon besterman s inexperience as a psychical researcher than the medium s ability to produce genuine phenomena. in 1992, guy lyon playfair published an illustrated article about the incident in the journal of the american society for psychical research in which he points out that the famous levitation photograph reveals signs of careful retouching which eliminated the ladder under mirabelli s feet. proponents of mirabelli s mediumship argue that if the photograph was deliberately faked by mirabelli, it would be the first evidence of trickery on his part ever discovered by any investigator. m delving deeper mello, da silva a. mysteries and realities of this world and the next. trans

she utilized a spirit cabinet that was formed by stretching two black curtains across one of the corners of the room. inside this makeshift affair, the investigators placed musical instruments and a variety of other small, movable objects. the medium sat directly in front of the closet with at least a foot of space between her chair and the curtains. after warming up with simple displays of table levitation, palladino would call for a dimming of the lights. almost instantly, the medium would summon her spirit control, john king, who would subsequently cause the objects behind the curtain to come floating out. musical instruments would be played by unseen hands, and the sound would be easily heard by all sitters in the room. the highlight of every seance was the materialization of spirit ha

t says the number in their country is closer to two million. founded in 1992, the movement prescribes five daily exercises are to activate the higher abilities of mind, body, and spirit, and contribute to an individual s self-examination and self-knowledge. if practiced properly, hongzhi promises, falun gong will enable one to attain enlightenment and to master many supernatural powers, including levitation, psychokinesis, and telepathy. hongzhi has often stated that he believes that earth has been quietly invaded by evil aliens from extraterrestrial worlds who have come to undermine humans spirituality by contributing to the rapid expansion of technology. in his opinion, humankind would be much better off without computers and all t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u

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ne always showed the action from behind, one from underneath, and one from above. after a series of sittings with the sensitives, chairs and objects began to move. a large worktable rose up on one leg and began to whirl around its own base, pirouetting faster and faster. turck s greatest wish was that they might get the table to soar freely in the air so that he might photograph the phenomenon of levitation. a few evenings later, the photographer was able to capture the fulfillment of his wish on the film of three cameras. these phenomena were repeated often during the course of several months of sittings in turck s laboratory and were always dutifully recorded by the trio of cameras that had been loaded with infrared film. on one occasion, a large commode, of such a weight that two men co

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ancient stonework. an incredulous solid man, weighing 220 pounds, tried to sit on the airborne table, only to be tossed off as if he were a featherweight. the table assaulted the wall with such force that it chipped a two-inch hole through the surface. the footage received wide distribution throughout the south of england and generated tremendous interest. the tables were shown in almost complete levitation and the mark on the wall was quite visible. after achieving a great deal of fame as the witch of new forest, sybil leek came to the united states, where she teamed up with psychic investigator hans holzer (1920) on a series of ghost-hunting expeditions. the two were often followed by an entourage of local, and sometimes international, media, eager to sniff out a good story. frequently

a greater appreciation for the skills and knowledge of prehistoric civilizations comes forth. missing pieces of the puzzle of human development remain, however, fueling more speculation and theories. perhaps survivors from vanished civilizations passed knowledge on to inhabitants of distant lands. as the old myths sometimes suggest, the megalith builders themselves may have known magic secrets of levitation and of transforming and reassembling solid materials. ufo enthusiasts argue that visitors from outer space may have directed the erecting of megaliths, particularly since so many megalithic sites were devised with the intention of viewing and charting the skies above. ancient megaliths are generally divided into five categories: 1. alignments, stones placed in rows and other non-circula

and north america (generally dated after 200 c.e? since the 1800s, atlanteans have been credited for having had the technology to generate electricity, build flying machines, and harness nuclear power for energy and warfare. all developed more than 9,000 years before such things came into being in modern society. other claims have atlanteans knowledgeable about a formidable death ray, secrets for levitation, and pure forms of energy through crystals. many atlantis enthusiasts firmly believe that the inhabitants of the lost continent had cosmic connections with extraterrestrials and may actually have been a colony established on earth by alien explorers. since atlantis was first described, claims have been made that certain members of the civilization escaped destruction during its catastro

oai walked from the quarry to their sites on the ahus. some theorists have speculated that the monuments are remnants of the lost continent of mu. according to that account, lemurians, an intellectually advanced race of people, were responsible for crafting, moving, and erecting the monuments. the stones were moved from quarry to ahu using ancient secrets known to the lemurians, perhaps involving levitation or the secret for liquifying stone. the two most prominent theories with some scientific evidence have the island becoming inhabited by seafarers, moving east to west from south america or west to east from polynesia, who settled on the island, established a thriving community, and erected the monuments. the east to west theory was popularized in the late 1940s by anthropologist thor he

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il behavior, and its punishment would also have taken a physical form--destruction of the body on the rocks below. there are many contemporary examples of the chastening hand of the all. the bands of lunatics who periodically gather in the desert to greet the landing of giant space ships-space ships that never come-demonstrate the seduction of lucifer in the modern world. so do the exhibitions of levitation by eastern fakirs that fail before thousands of spectators and invite the scorn of humanity. karma continues to scourge those who presume to use the art for personal gain in defiance of cosmic law. those who try to get something for nothing will get more than they bargain for. having issued this portentous (some might say pretentious) warning, it can be stated that it is lawful to use t

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ect physical danger to the body while projecting astrally, but it is possible that the intense shock of scenes in hell might cause a nervous reaction, resulting in emotional or even physical damage in a secondary way by repercussion. the spirit guide acts as a kind of shield, reducing the intensity of the astral experience when necessary, or in extreme cases causing it to be lost from the memory. levitation for the religiously devout, astral projection often takes the form of levitation. ezekiel told how he was lifted up by the hand of god from a lock of his hair "and he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of god to jerusalem (ezekiel 8:3. from the wording of the verse

lem (ezekiel 8:3. from the wording of the verse "in the visions of god' it appears that ezekiel realized he had not levitated through the air physically, but only in an astral sense. chapter four: religious bilocation 55 the assertion has been made by numerous witnesses that, on various occasions, prophets and saints of the church have risen up physically into the air. in the case of saints, this levitation occurs most often during prayer. for example, saint agnes of montepulciano (1268-13 17, while only fifteen years old, was many times lifted up five feet or more into the air, an event witnessed by the entire convent del sacco. similarly, saint angela of brescia (1474-1540, who founded the order of ursuline nuns, was in 1529 seen to levitate during holy services by the entire congregatio

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ia or saturnalia has an essentially sado-masochistic basis. previous to the ceremony each celebrant has his or her allotted part, although it usually ends promiscuously and chaotically. the initiates are trained singly in their own parts and in the response expected of them. they play a passive role, for the promise of untold ecstasy. the witches take the active part throughout: thus the symbolic levitation by besom-handle. there is a meeting-place and an elaborate ritual which is an extensive hypnotic to over-ride all inhibitions. thus, smell, hearing and vision are seduced by incense and mantra (incantation and the ritual-ceremony, while taste and touch are enhanced by the stimuli of wine and oral acts. after complete sexual satiation by oral, anal, or urethral means, there appears an ex

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