Steve wrote:
> As the one who started this stuff, I wanted to add, that I have for the
> longest time wanted to repeat this particular 'trick', (or whatever it is),
> and place the four legs of the chair on some scales; to see if there was
> actually a 'measurable' weight change taking place.
>
> My guess would be that, no there is not. As the one who was being lifted;
> while it seemed a rather odd sensation; I didn't feel that my personal mass
> or it's attendant weight was being affected; but rather it was the eather.
> While the 'effects' appeared to us as weightlessness, this was really a
> symptom, rather than the disease!
>
> So! Were I a betting man, my money would be on the disruption of the eather
> surrounding my mass; which made moving my mass through the eather /
> gravitational field easier.
>
> Stephen Brummitt
> dev@icx.net
> ____________________________________________________________________
> At 10:46 PM 9/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >>It described a young girl who worked in a carnival sideshow. Her
> >>'talent' was she could do some mental trick so that no one could move
> >>her. The book says several burly men would try to pick her up or gently
> >>push her over and she would not budge.
> >
> >The laws of physics and leverage, you can get leverage on a stiff object,
> >but a mass of goo is hard to carry, WWF wrestlers use these principles all
> >the time (or did you think that stuff was real - grin)
> >
> >>There are Chi Quong and yogic masters who also claim this ability. One
> >>book said they altered their center of gravity by focussing all their
> >>weight on this area below the navel.
> >
> >I would assume with the right position and tension of muscles this is easily
> >possible by anyone. I remember hearing about a book called "body magic"
> >where you could do seemingly amazing things with your body applying physical
> >laws and principles.
> >
> >>Now, it might appear I'm getting way too excited about this but here's
> >>why. I found an article about a fellow in Kansas around 1850 who woke
> >>up one day and found himself stuck to the ceiling of his bedroom. Stuck
> >>is probably the wrong word, he was floating up against the ceiling.
> >
> >We need more detail, any more reports or data or his name? Why only one
> >person, why are there not other people able to do this?
> >
> >>The family was consulted along with doctors and no one could explain
> >>this peculiar buoyancy.
> >
> >Perhaps something happened to him electrically that caused him to float?
> >
> >>Now,laugh as you will, but I add this to my arsenal indicating gravity
> >>can be controlled, increased or decreased at will as with yogic
> >>abilities or through instrumentation.
> >
> >I would bet on instrumentation first, then seek out mind control later.
> >
> >>This is not a stretch when you think how a person who only weighed half
> >>a pound by virture of the effect of a device or mental state could
> >>easily vault over a building or freely swim through the air.
> >
> >
> >Well just tie a bunch of weather balloons filled with helium to yourself,
> >adjust so that you become extremely light, and you can jump 50 feet high
> >too.
> >
> >
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