Subj : Case About Levitation: Full Report To : All From : roman Date : Sat Mar 28 2026 09:14:49 Table of contents: 1. Preface 2. Ancient Chronicles: When Levitation Was the Norm 3. Europe: Saints, Ecstasy, and Suppressed Reality 4. The Phenomenon That Challenged Its Era 5. Science at an Impasse: An Uncomfortable Paradox 6. Conclusion: A Legacy We Must Decipher 1. Preface Since the dawn of human history, one persistent, almost genetic dream has haunted us: to detach from the dusty earth and soar into the sky like a bird. But what if this dream is not merely a product of imagination? What if it is a vague memory, a remnant of a reality that existed in ancient times? Church dogmas and later - those of academic science - have for centuries declared the very idea of a person floating without mechanical devices as heresy. We were told: only angels and feathered creatures can fly, and later - only those bound by steel and governed by the laws of physics. But what if these laws are incomplete? What if we are only observing fragments of a much grander picture of the universe? 2. Ancient Chronicles: When Levitation Was the Norm Many researchers daring to think beyond conventional boundaries acknowledge that human development could have taken two fundamentally different paths. One - external, technical - leading from cudgels to smartphones. The other - internal, aimed at unlocking the hidden potentials of the human body itself. Historically - or perhaps intentionally - the first path was chosen. But why? Could it be that knowledge of the second, far more dangerous path for any ruling system, was deliberately suppressed, ridiculed, and forgotten? Yet, like stubborn artifacts that do not fit into official history, evidence of "flying people" has pierced through the centuries. In every nation, in every tribe, shamans, mystics, and "chosen ones" demonstrated abilities inaccessible to ordinary mortals. Among these abilities, levitation occupies a special, shocking place. Let us turn to ancient sources. The Indian Vedas, texts whose age is lost in prehistoric twilight, contain not just mentions but practical instructions on levitation. Yes, these manuscripts, called "Knowledge," include a guide on how a person can bring themselves into a state that overcomes Earth's gravity. But - and here lies the main mystery - the meaning of key terms and concepts has been lost over millennia. Translating this instruction into modern language is considered impossible. Does this not resemble deliberate encryption of knowledge accessible only to initiates? Knowledge perhaps inherited from a more ancient and advanced civilization? According to the same accounts, ancient levitators ascended not for circus tricks but for practical, sacred purposes - such as performing religious rites, finding the "floating" position most convenient. In Tibet, where this knowledge was brought by Bodhidharma - the founder of Zen Buddhism - in 527 CE, levitation became part of monastic practice. Texts claim that both Buddha himself and his teacher, the magician Sammata, could remain in the air for hours. British researcher A. David - Neel personally observed the phenomenon of "flying lams" on the Changtang plateau: a monk sitting in lotus pose moved by jumps of dozens of meters, like a bouncing ball, his gaze fixed on a "guiding star" invisible to others. 3. Europe: Saints, Ecstasy, and Suppressed Reality In the West, the phenomenon took a different, yet no less astonishing form. Here, levitation often manifested spontaneously during religious ecstasy. Saint Teresa of Avila (16th century) is one of the most well-documented levitants. Two hundred and thirty Catholic priests testified to her flights. In her autobiography, she describes the sensation: "The ascent comes like a blow... as if a cloud carries you to the heavens." Notably, she desperately prayed for God to rid her of this "gift." Her prayers were answered - the flights ceased. Does this not suggest that the church, faced with an inexplicable phenomenon, chose not to study it but to quietly eliminate it? An even more telling case is that of Joseph de la Cupertin (17th century). His levitations during ecstasy were recorded hundreds of times, including in the presence of Pope Urban VIII. Instead of investigating, Joseph was isolated, transferred from monastery to monastery to avoid unsettling believers. Essentially, the church, unable to deny the phenomenon, sought to conceal it. In total, church chronicles mention about three hundred cases of levitation among saints, including Russian saints - Seraphim of Sarov and Venerable Vasily Blazen. 4. The Phenomenon That Challenged Its Era If in ancient and medieval times levitation was associated with the divine, then in the 19th century, a person appeared who brought it into secular salons and challenged science. Daniel Douglas Hume was a unique figure. His abilities, including telepathy and telekinesis, were tested by dozens of skeptics, including renowned scientists. But it was levitation that became his hallmark. He levitated in bright light, in unprepared rooms, before dozens of witnesses - including Russian Emperor Alexander II, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich, scientists A.M. Butlerov and William Crookes. Hume did not take money and was open to verification. One of the most vivid episodes occurred in Saint Petersburg: as Hume floated in the air, an officer, trying to detect deception, sliced the space beneath and above him with a saber, finding no supports. Then he jumped onto a table and grabbed the medium's leg. But the additional weight did not prevent Hume from rising to the ceiling. British writer Robert Bell described the seance in detail: Hume lifted off his chair, floated horizontally past a window, then hovered over the heads of guests, touching one with his foot, and finally reached the ceiling. On December 13, 1868, Hume performed his most daring flight: he leapt out of a third - floor window and flew into the window of an adjacent room outside the building. He also lifted other objects into the air - for example, a piano being played at the time. 5. Science at an Impasse: An Uncomfortable Paradox Here we arrive at the core contradiction. There are numerous documentary evidence, photographs, film footage, and reports from reputable scientists confirming the reality of levitation. Yet, official science continues to classify these phenomena as "pseudoscientific" or simply ignores them. Why? The answer lies in the realm of gravity physics. Paradoxically, modern science still lacks a satisfactory theory of gravity. Even Albert Einstein, in General Relativity, "expelled" gravity as a force, replacing it with the curvature of spacetime. Physicists rarely conduct experiments with gravity, and some bold minds admit that surprises are possible in this field. Dr. Alexander Dubrov, a biologist, hypothesizes about a bio - gravitational field generated by the psychic energy of the brain. But this remains a hypothesis. More tangible experiments - such as the Meissner effect (levitation of a superconductor in a magnetic field) or tests of weight reduction of objects over superconducting disks, conducted by Evgeny Podkletnov and John Shnurov - only slightly open the door to a world where our notions of mass and attraction are incomplete. 6. Conclusion: A Legacy We Must Decipher So, what do we have? 1) Ancient levitation instructions, intentionally or accidentally rendered untranslatable. 2) A centuries-old, cross-cultural tradition of levitation in religious and mystical practices. 3) Numerous documented cases from the Middle Ages to modern times, witnessed by hundreds - including monarchs and scientists. 4) The persistent unwillingness of official institutions - initially the church, then academic science - to seriously investigate this phenomenon, preferring silence or discrediting it. Claiming that all this is mass hallucination, fraud, or ignorance sounds no less fantastic than levitation itself. It is far more logical to assume that we are dealing with fragments of ancient proto-knowledge about the nature of reality and human potential - knowledge lost when humanity chose a technocratic path of development. Knowledge that may not be "supernatural" but an advanced biophysics yet to be discovered. Levitation is not magic. It is perhaps a technology based on controlling fields and energies internal to the human being. A technology independently touched upon by Tibetan lamas, Christian mystics, and mediums like Hume. The task of modern researchers is not to dismiss these facts as inconvenient anomalies but to recognize them as tangible evidence of an alternative paradigm - one in which flight is not a privilege of the chosen but a forgotten inheritance of all humanity. The key to this mystery lies not only in future laboratories but also in careful, unbiased study of our own mysterious past. Source: gopher://shibboleths.org/0/phlog/177.txt --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64) * Origin: Shipwrecks & Shibboleths [San Francisco, CA - USA] (700:100/72) .