About Levitation

I like the idea of people defying gravity and rising into the air. Is such extraordinary and miraculous thing really possible? As a poet I believe in the reality of magic and don't deny the existence of the paranormal. On the other hand, I am also a skeptic and aware of the fact that there is no scientific evidence for the existence of levitating people. But history maybe contradicts the skeptics. Also, according to the Gospels, Jesus walked on the waters of Lake Galilee. Furthermore, Buddha's miracles included walking on waters, too. And how about the story of the Hindu mystic Yogi Subbaya Pullavar who was reported to rise into the air for four minutes in front of a crowd on June 6,1936. The list of levitating people includes Padre Pio, a Franciscan Capuchin born in 1887, who was able to rise into the air. However, perhaps the most bizarre of recorded levitation cases imvolves the celebrated English psychic medium Daniel Dunglas Home (1833-86) that occured in London in the year of 1868. It took place in the presence of Lord Adare, Lord Lindsey and Captain Charles Wynne, at 5 Buckingham Gate. At this address, Home floated out a third-floor window, continued his levitation and flew through another window, entering the building. Soon after this, he repeated the whole astounding levitating act. It is important to add that Home's strange story was never exposed as trickery. The case is considered as an unsolved mystery in psychical research.