Can people really use yogic powers/their mind to levitate?

courtrigrad

Can people really use yogic powers/their mind to levitate? How do they do this?

turbo

Yes. I do it every day whenever nobody is looking. I can teach you how to do it, but it will cost you. This is a valuable talent, the knowledge did not come cheap and I still owe my yogi.

DaveC426913

I saw some guy who claimed to be able to do that. The film footage sucked the intrigue out of it.

1] He was inside a large closed box. He would make the *box* levitate. You could not actually see *him* levitate.

2] This is speculation, but I'll bet that he best he has ever *actually* levitated is about a half second. (Note that when you hear abvout someone levtitating, you assume he can do it for a duration lonf enough to show unequivocably that he is in fact hovering.)

In the film, he was unable to succeed - not the right kind of chai flow or whatever. But it did look a whole lot like he was throwing himself around inside the box - it would jump off the floor several times.

I imagine that a really skilled person, with the right technique and a good grip and the right kind of jumping could conceivably make a box hang suspended in the air for a half second.

Rach3

Of course! And stage magicians are real too. You'd think they're just using slight-of-hands and hidden tricks to deceive a paying audience for entertiainment. But in actually they're merely exploiting natural physical laws that no one else knows about and that must not or can not be replicated under controlled circumstances. It's a secret, you know!

Ivan Seeking

If anyone could and we knew about it, you would see "yogic force" listed with the other forces of nature.

I wonder if it would go as the inverse square of the distance from a point yogi...?

Ivan Seeking

Okay, the bit about the yogis motivated me to close the thread. I too have seen some of these guys bouncing on their butts and claiming to defy gravity. Frankly, it was embarrassing to even watch. But there are claims of levitation found throughout history. Here is one link that mentions some of the more famous claims.

http://www.themystica.com/mystica/ar...evitation.html

Also, recently we have seen video trickery in this regard.

The thread is open.

scott1

Which feild force would be responible for doing this? EM is the only one I can think of.

Ivan Seeking

No way to know. But the question is not how levitation might work, the question is whether or not anyone has ever levitated. I have heard of one or two seemingly compelling stories, but AFAIK, most claims involve religion.

Averagesupernova

Oh thanks. Now you've ruined it for me. Here all this time I thought it was sleight <sp?> of hand. The magic is all gone for me now.

scott1

This site seems to have a good explantion. It doesn't say anything about levitation but I think this could explain levitaion.

Moonbear

I don't do so well without enough caffeine myself.

zoobyshoe

I have an old book called "Mental Fascination" I found at the swap meet a few years ago which has a very interesting explanation of levitation and other remarkable things. I've been thinking about starting a thread on the subject.

courtrigrad

so you think David Blaines street magic is genuine? Or is it just sleight of hand?

Ivan Seeking

Come on, do you really think that something like this could be genuine and repeatable without being the headline on every newspaper in the world?

3trQN

Pay in picnic baskets?

Tony11235

I have this aunt that says she once levitated while meditating and claims she can do it again. I get soo tired of these people who claim they do this. I'm like "Ok, then let me know the next time you plan on doing this, or at least video tape it!". Never happens of course. Gee i wonder why. lol

scott1

Look my previous post. The link in it might have a possible explantion.