Since ancient times, people have dreamed of soaring in the air like birds. Flight, in their opinion, gives a feeling of freedom and lightness. The most interesting thing is that some people can really fly. This ability is called levitation.
This state is achieved through certain magical rituals. A person can overcome gravity, maintain or consistently change his position in three-dimensional space. This ability is currently not recognized by science, even despite the fact that previously irrefutable evidence of flying yogis competitions has been provided. If you believe this information, then the winner was able to hold out in the air for four minutes.
In Eastern mythology, the ability to fly was a distinctive feature of the gods, although mere mortals possessed this unique gift.
In the Indian Vedas, you can even find a practical guide to levitation, which describes in detail how a person can bring himself to the necessary state to be able to get off the ground. However, unfortunately, over many centuries people have lost understanding and knowledge of a significant part of ancient Indian words and concepts, therefore it is not possible to translate this invaluable instruction into modern language at the present time.
If we talk about the ancient Levitants, then they could rise in the air two cubits from the surface, which is equal to about 90 centimeters. At the same time, they rose into the air not at all in order to amaze others with their unique skills, but only because such a position is much more convenient for conducting religious rituals.
In addition to India, levitation was practiced in Tibet in ancient times. According to Buddhist texts, in 527 A. D. Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism from India, came to Shaolin (a famous Tibetan monastery), who taught the monks to control the energy of their own bodies, which was a prerequisite for flight. Used levitation and Buddha, as well as his mentor the magician Sammat. They could remain floating in the air for many hours.
It is noteworthy that both in Tibet and in India the art of levitation exists to this day. Modern researchers of the East call it "the phenomenon of flying llamas". So, in particular, the traveler from Britain, Alexandra David-Neel, saw with her own eyes how on one of the high plateaus a monk, sitting motionless with his legs bent under him, flew several meters, touched the ground and again rose into the air. It felt like he was bouncing off the ground like a ball. At the same time, his gaze was directed into the distance.
Levitation was well known not only in the East, but also in Europe. Moreover, the European levitants of antiquity had one characteristic feature: they, unlike the eastern lamas and yogis, did not specifically strive to master the art of levitation and did not prepare for flight. As a rule, they rose into the air, being in a state of religious enthusiastic ecstasy and did not even think about the fact that at that time they were rising above the ground.
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The officially recorded facts of levitation remained in history. Among the first recognized cases of levitation is the Carmelite nun Saint Teresa. More than 230 clergy witnessed her flights. The saint herself spoke of her gift in her autobiography, written in 1565. According to her, ascension into the air occurs unexpectedly, like a blow. And while she tries to come to her senses and collect her thoughts, it seems as if a large cloud or a huge bird takes her into the air. In addition, she notes that she was fully aware that she was above the ground, and when the ascension ended, an extraordinary lightness was felt throughout her body. The most amazing thing. That Teresa herself did not want to fly. For a long time, the nun fervently prayed that God would deliver her from this mercy. Ultimately, her flights stopped.
Among the most famous "flying people" can be called Joseph Deza, who received the nickname Cupertinsky after the name of his native village in Italy. From early childhood, the boy was distinguished by extraordinary piety and subjected himself to numerous tortures in order to fall into a state of religious ecstasy. But only after his acceptance into the order of the Franciscans, he began to fall into ecstasy, but this also began his flights. Once levitation happened in front of the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Urban VIII. Joseph came to Rome and received permission to have an audience with the Pope. The young man was so delighted that he saw the head of the order that he soared into the air and stayed there until the Pope revived him. In addition, Deza soared into the air more than a hundred times, as witnessed by the scientists of that time. They left official evidence on this account.
At the same time, Joseph's levitation so embarrassed the believers that he was ordered to go to a remote monastery. But three months later he was again transferred to another monastery, then to another. Wherever Joseph appeared, news of the arrival of the "miracle worker" instantly scattered around the area, and large crowds of people gathered to look at him. Ultimately, Joseph ended up in a monastery in Osimo, where he fell seriously ill in the summer of 1663, and died in mid-September of the same year. Four years later he was canonized.
According to official testimonies, the number of people who demonstrated their ability to fly to believers is approaching three hundred. Among the Russian levitants, one can name Seraphim of Sarov, as well as Basil the Blessed, who, in front of the crowd, was transported through the air across the Moskva River.
It is also interesting that witches are not among the officially recognized "flying people".
The century before last also had its famous levitants. So, one of the most famous flying people of that time is considered to be Daniel Douglas Hume. His first flights were even described in one of the American print media, where it was said that Hume was lifted off the floor about a foot from the floor, which was a complete surprise to those around him. His whole body shook with alternating bursts of delight and fear, while it was noticeable that he was speechless. This happened the second time, and the third - Hume ascended to the ceiling and even lightly touched it with his fingertips. Over time, Hume learned to levitate at will, and then for four decades he demonstrated his art to thousands of spectators, including celebrities of that time: the writer Mark Twain, the Emperor Napoleon, doctors,scientists and politicians.
Hume said that in a state of levitation he felt weightlessness, and at the same time did not experience any fear. During the flight, his arms extended over his head and became stiff like sticks.
It should be noted that Hume is far from the only "flying man" who has baffled the scientific world. For example, in 1934, a resident of Great Britain, Maurice Wilson, who for a long time trained in levitation according to the yogic method, tried to conquer the summit of Everest with huge jumps, rising above the ground. His body was discovered a year later, the man froze to death in the mountains. Wilson did not reach the summit quite a bit. However, the fact that he managed to overcome an extremely difficult route without special climbing equipment suggests that he still owned levitation.
If we talk about the modern world, now the most significant advances in the practice of levitation have been achieved by yoga. For many centuries, a lot of yoga techniques have been lost, but some of the innermost knowledge still remained.
One of the keepers of ancient knowledge was the Indian yogi Devi. His student was a young physicist who moved to America in 1957 under the name of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. There he became a preacher of the Science of Creative Reason, a new religious and philosophical doctrine.
The cornerstone of this teaching was transcendental consciousness, not limited by the framework, which is able to receive information not only from the surrounding world, but also from the universal mind without using the senses. In order for a person to begin to perceive a large flow of information entering the subconscious, it is necessary to completely turn off consciousness. This can be achieved with the help of meditation, the program of which was developed by Yoga. The goal of the program is to improve a person through the liberation of consciousness and the disclosure of the potential of the human body, which includes levitation. According to Maharishi, the ability to fly is inherent in every person, you just need to learn how to use it.
In the early 70s of the last century, Yoga founded his own university in Feyerfield. Training and research centers soon appeared in Switzerland. England, Germany, India and other countries. Specialists of various profiles worked there - experts in Indian philosophy, physics, mathematics, engineers, doctors, psychologists. All of them were united by a common goal - to make a person happy. Among the applied tasks of the centers was teaching levitation.
In the mid-1980s, the first "flying yogis" competition took place in Washington, DC, which was trained according to the transcendental meditation program. The press wrote a lot about the competition. Of course, the results shown by the participants cannot be compared with those flight descriptions that took place in the past, however, they can be considered very impressive. So, on average, yogis rose 60 cm in height and moved 1.8 m horizontally. In addition, what the participants demonstrated cannot be called flights, it was more like jumping: a person sitting motionless in the lotus position slowly rose above the ground, hovered in the air for several minutes, and then just as slowly descended to the ground.
Despite the fact that the cases of levitation are very numerous, they perceive it rather as a miracle or a mysterious phenomenon or anomaly that contradicts the laws of science and are on the verge of fantasy. And this attitude will remain until scientists find the answer to the main question: what is the nature of the force that lifts a person into the air? Does this force arise spontaneously or due to the mobilization of some hidden reserves in the body? Or is it outside of a person, and only periodically "connects" to it?