A unique and unsolved phenomenon psychologists call dream flights, experienced by people in childhood and sometimes in adulthood. It is characteristic that these sensations are inherent in people who have never flown by plane.
There are also statistical data on flight altitude in a dream: from 30-50 cm to a kilometer, in rare cases up to 5. The well-known physiologist I. P. Pavlov tried to solve the riddle of flights in a dream, and although he came to the conclusion that such dreams are based on material, physiological processes occurring in the higher part of the central nervous system - the cerebral cortex, further research of this phenomenon for ideological reasons stopped.
Meanwhile, the yogis of India and the Buddhists of Tibet have long practiced flying in reality, rising half a meter above the ground. In the USA, on the basis of similar exercises of the muscles of the human body, a special technique was developed in 1990, having mastered which, people began to float in the air … half a meter from the floor.
The training time for "flying art" is two years. Vaping is used not so much for the sake of new sensations as for the treatment of serious illnesses. Surprisingly different, it turns out, free floating in the air has been familiar to people since ancient times.
This is what the Library for Self-Education magazine, published in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the century, wrote about this: “After all, it is difficult, in fact, to doubt the phenomenon, which for several centuries and even millennia has been repeated by numerous witnesses, chroniclers, historians, which took place a little Is it not every day before the eyes of a crowd of thousands, which is finally repeated at the present time, without arousing, however, much confidence in itself …"
In a word, we want to talk about the so-called "levitation" of people and objects and the reduction of their weight for no apparent reason. When asked why we do not meet in ordinary life people floating in the air in reality, anticipating Pavlov's teaching on conditioned reflexes, it can be noted that until recently this was simply life-threatening if an artificial flyer, for example, a native of the city of Nerekhta in Kostroma region of the Ryazan clerk Kryakutny for attempting to climb in a makeshift balloon filled with smoke from a fire, in 1731 was accused of the worst crime of that time - ties with the devil. And he had to flee, saving his life from angry fellow citizens.
And if this was in the glorified Russian Empire, then in Catholic countries the "special" department of the Holy Inquisition was specially engaged in flyers. The Albigensians who practiced flights in reality (participants in the heretical movement in southern France in the XII-XIII centuries) were thrown into the rivers in masses, but, as medieval chronicles testify, they remained on the surface, being tied up, without plunging into the water at all.
However, the Inquisition also distinguished between satanic and godly hovers. So, according to her own materials, in the first half of the 11th century “… a certain Maurus, one of the disciples of St. Benedict (the founder of the oldest Catholic monastic order of the Benedictines in Italy in 530), seeing a drowning boy, rushed to his aid, grabbed him and ran back to the shore. Only when he returned to the ground did he come to his senses and looked back. When he saw that he had run on the water, he was greatly frightened and amazed at what had happened."
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Indeed, Maurus had something to be afraid of - after all, it is not known how church circles would look at this act.
Although Christ's walking "on water, like on dry land" has become a textbook biblical example, few remember that Christ's example was followed by his disciple Peter in the same place, on the "Sea of Galilee."
“Peter answered and said to Him: Lord! if it is you, command me to come to you on the water. He said: go. And he got out of the boat, Peter walked on the water to come to Jesus. (Matthew 14: 28-29).
In the ancient Russian annals, there are also references to the ability of some wise men to walk on waters. So, in 1070, the sorcerer who opposed the Novgorod Bishop Theodore, as proof of the truth of his faith, intended to cross the Volkhov River, flowing and dividing Novgorod into two parts, in the presence of the entire population of the city. "And there will be a great rebellion in the city, and all I have faith in him, and I want Bishop Fyodor to be beaten."
In this conflict, Prince Gleb and the squad took the side of the bishop, and all the common people took the sorcerer's side: “And it was dispersed in two: the prince bo Pgb and his squad idosh and stash with the bishop, and the people all idosh for the sorcerer. And the rebellion was great between them. Probably, the prince knew about the walking on the waters of this sorcerer, therefore, not at all doubting the success of his art, treacherously hacked the sorcerer with an ax with his own hand, pacifying the rebellion and further attempts to imitate the navigators.
Already in our time, one lunatic, getting up at night, ran two miles across the sea and swam without waking up for one and a half, until at last he was caught. At the same time, he was barely able to regain consciousness and dissuade him that he was not on the bed.
There is also information about a woman who, during a seizure, threw herself into the water and lay on it for three hours. When she was found and brought home, her body was as light as straw.
Many people who normally swim, as they say, like an ax, during sleepwalking feel completely free in the water. They retire to the sea for a very long distance, so that those present are forced to take measures to keep them close to the coast in case of a sudden awakening.
If such a sleepwalker could be weighed during his wanderings, it would turn out that he is weightless. Indeed, those incomprehensible tricks that sleepwalkers sometimes do become understandable if we allow a decrease in their weight. It is no coincidence that the Virgin of Orleans was told that she, playing with her friends, flew up above the ground, and when she walked, she barely touched the ground with her feet and seemed to float above her.
Is it not these extraordinary abilities of soaring in the air that explain the amazing cases of falling from a great height, when a fallen person remains safe and sound? At least, scientists at the beginning of the century, questioning the surviving people, revealed that at the time of the fall they were in an unconscious, akin to a hypnotic, state, like lunatics.
The head of the Syrian school of the mystical philosophical doctrine of Neoplatonism, the famous Alexandrian thinker Iamblich (early IV century), felt nothing when he once rose in the presence of his followers into the air, but remained completely unaware of what happened to him. And the English philosopher David Hume (1711-1776), in his Treatise on Human Nature, also argued that "ecstatic people" in an unconscious state are subject to levitation.
The phenomena of flights in reality and walking on water still remain a mystery to researchers who are inclined to believe that during these soars, the electrical potential of a person relative to the Earth changes, and like unipolar magnets, the effect of mutual repulsion between a person and the earth (water) surface occurs.
Unfortunately, this point of view is still the only one.
Shapar V. B. Excerpt from the book "Mysterious and unusual in the human psyche"
