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.

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