Man has always been attracted by the hypothetical ability to fly without the aid of any aircraft. People dreamed about it, composed fairy tales, passed from mouth to mouth legends about flights … But are these legends, or does history actually know cases of flight without the help of instruments - the so-called. levitation?
To begin with, we all - without exception - fly in our sleep. Flying dreams are believed to occur when the body releases a hormone responsible for the growth of bones and skin cells. At the same time, to the poetic question "Why don't people fly like birds?" science gives an unambiguous answer: “The reason is the gravitational attraction of the Earth. Only by overcoming the force of gravity, a person will be able to rise into the air."
The founder of aerohydrodynamics N. Zhukovsky wrote: "A man will fly, relying not on the strength of his muscles, but on the strength of his mind." Handsomely! The aphorism became the motto of the first conquerors of the Fifth Ocean. The phrase implies that a person will be able to overcome the force of gravity through the development of science.
However, the "father of Russian aviation" did not even suspect how close he was to the truth! We are talking about the ability of a person to levitate at the moment of complete liberation of the brain from the "clogging" its external and internal information. And while such virgin purity seems completely incredible, the facts are stubborn things.
For example, in different parts of the world there are testimonies of more than two hundred saints who, at the time of religious trance or ecstasy, ascended above the earth. Among them are the “flying monk” Joseph Deza (1603-1663) from the Italian city of Copertino (more than 70 levitations documented by the then scientists and reigning persons), the Carmelite nun Saint Teresa, who spoke about an unusual gift in her autobiography (1565), Ignatius Loyola, Saint Adolphus Ligiori, and also the famous Carmelite sister Maria. Joan of Arc's contemporaries said that as a child, she sometimes, of her own accord, flew up in front of her friends. And when she grew up, many began to pay attention to her unusually smooth and light gait: as if she did not walk on the ground, but hovered over her.
Among the Russian levitants one can name the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, Basil the Blessed … Moreover, witches are not among the officially recognized levitants by the church. How many of them were burned at the stake by the Holy Inquisition cannot be counted.
One of the most famous Levitants is the Scotsman Daniel Douglas Hume (1833-1886). World-renowned scientists have recorded hundreds of his levitations. But he is far from the only one who puzzled scientists. So, in 1934, the Englishman Maurice Wilson, who had been training in levitation according to the yogic method for many years, decided to conquer the summit of Everest with huge jumps, soaring above the ground. His frozen body was found in the mountains the following year. Wilson did not reach the summit quite a bit. But the fact that he was able to overcome the most difficult route without special climbing equipment speaks in favor of levitation.
But most often cases of levitation were seen in the East. Unlike Eastern Levitants, Western Levitants did not specifically strive to master the art of levitation and did not prepare for flight. Usually they soared into the air, being in a state of ecstatic religious ecstasy and not even thinking about it. The Orientals subordinated their entire lives to the art of controlled flight.
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In the East, yogis, hermit saints, as well as brahmanas and magicians owned levitation. In the Indian Vedas, which literally means "knowledge" from Sanskrit, there is even a practical guide to levitation, a kind of know-how that describes how to bring oneself into such a state to get off the ground.
Along with India, levitation was also practiced in ancient times in Tibet. Buddhist texts say that after the Indian founder of Zen Buddhism, Bodhidharma, came to the Shaolin monastery in 527, he taught monks to control the energy of the body - a prerequisite for flying. Both the Buddha himself and his mentor, the magician Sammat, used levitation, who could remain hanging in the air for hours.
It is characteristic that both in India and in Tibet the art of levitation has survived to this day. Many orientalist researchers also describe the phenomenon of "flying llamas". For example, the British traveler Alexandra David-Neel watched with her own eyes how one of the Buddhist monks, sitting motionless with his legs bent under him, flew tens of meters on the Chiang Tang high plateau.
Currently, the greatest results in the field of levitation have been achieved by those who use the yoga technique. Over the centuries-old history of the era of loss of knowledge and the era of ignorance, much of this technique has been lost. But part of the innermost knowledge is still preserved. One of their guardians was the Indian guru Devi. Our contemporary, a young physicist, became his student. In 1957, having moved to the United States under the name of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, he preached the new philosophical and religious teaching of the Science of Creative Reason.
Its cornerstone is transcendental consciousness, which is not limited by any framework and can receive information directly from the surrounding world and from the universal mind, and not only through the senses. Maharishi claims that the ability to levitate is inherent in everyone, you just need to learn how to use it.
In July 1986, the first "flying yogis" competition was held in Washington, DC, prepared under the program of transcendental meditation, about which a lot of press and films were made. Although the results shown by the participants are incomparable with the descriptions of levitation that have come down to us in the past, they can certainly be considered quite impressive: lifting 60 cm in height and moving 1.8 m horizontally.
True, it is impossible to call what the "flying yogis" demonstrated as flights. Rather, these are just short jumps: a person sitting motionlessly in the lotus position suddenly rises smoothly into the air, hangs motionless for a while, and then lands just as smoothly. Well, at the sixth competition of “flying yogis”, held in 1993 in The Hague, Subha Chandra took the lead, having risen a maximum of 90 cm above the ground, flying 187 cm horizontally and staying in the air for 3-4 minutes.
What is levitation - randomness or regularity? Despite numerous cases of such flights, it is perceived as a miracle or, at best, as a mysterious phenomenon, bordering on science fiction and contrary to scientific laws. And this assessment will not change until the answer to the main question is found: what is the nature of the force that lifts a person into the air? Does it arise in the body itself due to the mobilization of some internal reserves, its unknown, hidden capabilities, or is its source located outside the person and he only "connects" to him?
Judgments about the physical nature of levitation are very contradictory. A number of researchers believe that levitation occurs as a result of the appearance of a biogravitational field, which is created by a special psychic energy emitted by the human brain. Until recently, many serious scientists spoke of levitation and antigravity very harshly in the spirit that all this is “bullshit”. Now they have to reconsider their position.
It all started with the fact that in March 1991 the authoritative scientific journal Nature published a sensational picture: the director of the Tokyo Superconductivity Research Laboratory was sitting on a platter of superconducting ceramic material, and a small gap was clearly visible between it and the floor surface. The director's weight together with the dish was 120 kg, which did not prevent them from floating above the ground! This phenomenon was later called the "Meissner effect".
Of course, this cannot be called levitation yet. However, this experiment can help to reveal the secret of levitants - if it is proved that the hanging in the air of living objects is explained by the activity of cellular processes.
Studying the issue of levitation, scientists could not help but ask the question: if a person, being in a state of religious trance or ecstasy, can fly, i.e. overcome the gravitational attraction of the Earth, does this mean that the theory of gravity is untenable? Difficult question…
In the East, they teach: in order to achieve the state of levitation, a person must lead an ascetic lifestyle. Before levitation, an adept must fast for several days, and then perform a series of specific exercises, the purpose of which is to "awaken the snake" and raise the kundalini energy along the spine: from the lowest chakra to the highest one. In the process of prolonged meditation, the adept first achieves harmonization of the frequencies of the chakras located in the head, as a result of which the brain is completely freed from all kinds of external and internal information, i.e. disconnection of the mind.
Then gradually, starting with the lowest chakra, mentally moves to the chakra with a higher frequency and harmonizes their frequencies. Having achieved agreement, the adept mentally moves to the next chakra and so on - until he brings the vibration of all seven chakras to a single meaning. At the moment of reaching the coordination of all frequencies, the adept comes to a state of enlightenment, and he is able to fly inside his aura.
Scientists, whose consciousness is not blinded by standard knowledge, go even further in their reasoning. Christopher Dunn, an engineer and researcher, thinks about this question this way: “What is antigravity? In my understanding, this is a means by which objects can rise, overcoming the gravity of the Earth. We use anti-gravity techniques every day. When we get out of bed in the morning, we use anti-gravity. Airplane, rocket, forklift and elevator are technologies invented to overcome the effect of gravity.
To create an anti-gravity device, it is necessary to understand what gravity is as a physical phenomenon, and, based on this, use technologies such as creating out-of-phase gravitational waves that neutralize the Earth's gravity. The nature of gravity is still eluding us. But perhaps this concept is too complicated! What if there is no such thing as gravity? And natural forces, which we already know, are sufficient to explain the well-known phenomenon, which we have designated as gravity?"
Perhaps this approach will help to penetrate the mystery of what we call levitation.
Scientists with even more open-minded consciousness go even further in their explanations of the phenomenon of levitation. For example, Professor Eric Bergoltz from the United States is convinced that the modern human race is the descendants of aliens, and it is from them that humans inherited the ability to overcome the fetters of gravity. The main thing is to awaken the gene memory, and then levitation will not seem like something out of the ordinary, then each of us will be able to rise into the air without any problems and fulfill the dream of our childhood: to fly not only in a dream, but also in reality!
As is almost always the case, the truth is somewhere in between, between science and religious consciousness. In this case, at the junction of different sciences. The day is probably not far off when philosophers, scientists and engineers will stop arguing, collect and analyze the richest heritage of their ancestors. And they will certainly find ways to overcome gravity and teach us to fly.