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Louis Jacolliot - Sciences in India and Among the Ancients - Levitation
Identifier
013012
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Louis Jacolliot - Sciences in India and Among the Ancients (1884):
'Taking an ironwood cane which I had brought from Ceylon, he leaned heavily upon it, resting his right hand upon the handle with his eyes fixed upon the ground. He then proceeded to utter the appropriate incantations...[and] rose gradually about two feet from the ground. His legs were crossed beneath him, and he made no change in his position, which was very like that of those bronze statues of Buddha...For more than twenty minutes I tried to see how (he) could thus fly in the face and eyes of all known laws of gravity...the stick gave him no visible support, and there was no apparent contact between that and his body, except through his right hand.'