Now that the subject has arisen, the trance state of the
Lung-Gom-Pa comes to mind as a means to reduce weight which
could allow walking on water;
http://www.escribe.com/science/keelynet/index.html?mID=6916
which brings up the related claim of levitation by Simon
Magus when he was reported to have flown over the city of
Rome. I found a document a few years ago claiming to be a
translation by his followers of how he accomplished the
flight over the city. It had to do with breathing the air
closest to the earth for a period of time.
The idea being that the earth was more electrically negative
and so would suffuse the body and the cells with negatively
charged air which, by virtue of like charges repelling would
cause repulsion and reduce weight, allowing him to vault
into the air and fly as long as his body was repellent to
the earth.
http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/l/levitation.html
Numerous incidents of levitation have been recorded in
Christianity and Islam. Among the first was Simon Magus in
the first century. Other incidents reported among the Roman
Catholic saints include the incident of Joseph of Cupertino
(1603-1663), the most famous, who is said to have often
levitated through the air. It is reported he often gave a
little shriek just before levitating, and on one occasion
levitated for as long as two hours.
Saint Teresa of Avila was another well known saint who
reported levitating. She told of experiencing it during
states of rapture. One eyewitness, Sister Anne of the
Incarnation, said Saint Teresa levitated a foot and a half
off the ground for about a half hour.
Saint Teresa wrote of one of her experiences: "It seemed to
me, when I tried to make some resistance, as if a great
force beneath my feet lifted me up. I know of nothing with
which to compare it; but it was much more violent than other
spiritual visitations, and I was therefore as one ground to
pieces." (Evelyn Underhill "Mysticism," 1955)
Also Saint Teresa observed these levitations frightened her
but there was nothing she could do to control them. She did
not become unconscious, but saw herself being lifted up.
And, at the beginning of the twentieth century Gemma
Galgani, a Passionist nun, reported levitating during
rapture.
Incidents also have been reported in the religions of
Hinduism and Buddhism. Milarepa, the great thirteenth
century yogi of Tibet, is said to have possessed many occult
powers such as the ability to walk, rest and sleep during
levitating.
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one version of the Simon Magus flight;
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/littleton/ra1fic1.htm#4
By his magic arts Simon had also sought to win the Emperor
Nero for himself, an attempt in which he had been thwarted
by the apostles. As proof of the truth of his doctrines
Simon offered to ascend into the heavens before the eyes of
Nero and the Roman populace; by magic did he rise in the air
in the Roman Forum, but the prayers of the Apostles Peter
and Paul caused him to fall, so that he was severely injured
and shortly afterwards died miserably. ... This legend led
later to the erection of a church dedicated to the apostles
on the alleged spot of Simon’s fall near the Via Sacra above
the Forum. The stones of the pavement on which the apostles
knelt in prayer and which are said to contain the impression
of their knees, are now in the wall of the Church of Santa
Francesca Romana.
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There are hundreds and hundreds of reports of levitation,
usually trance related which I think we will soon learn to
duplicate at will, well at first through the use of devices,
but eventually, perhaps with bio-feedback training, to be
able to produce at will.
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