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Levitation or transvection, in the paranormal or religious context, is the claimed ability to raise a human body or other object into the air by mystical means.. While believed in some religious and New Age communities to occur due to supernatural, miraculous, psychic, or "energetic" phenomena, there is no scientific evidence of levitation occurring.
Levitation (on Earth or any planetoid) requires an upward force that cancels out the weight of the object, so that the object does not fall (accelerate downward) or rise (accelerate upward). For positional stability, any small displacement of the levitating object must result in a small change in force in the opposite direction.
Viktor Stepanovich Grebennikov (Russian: Виктор Степанович Гребенников; 23 April 1927 in Simferopol – 2001 in Novosibirsk) was a self-proclaimed Russian scientist, biologist, entomologist and paranormal researcher best known for his claim to have invented a levitation platform which operated by attaching dead insect body parts to the underside.
Levitation or transvection – The ability to float or fly by mystical means. [4] [page needed] Materialization — The creation of objects and material or the appearance of matter from unknown sources. [5] Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits. [6] Mind Control – The ability to control someone's mind.
Levitation (illusion), an illusion where a magician appears to levitate a person or object; Levitation (paranormal), the claimed paranormal phenomenon of levitation, occurring without any scientific explanation; Levitation (physics), the process by which an object is suspended against gravity, in a stable position without solid physical contact
Crawford in his books developed the "Cantilever Theory of Levitation" due to his experiments with Goligher. According to his theory the table was levitated by "psychic rods" of ectoplasm which came out of the body of the medium to operate as an invisible cantilever. Crawford took flashlight photographs of the substance, which he described as ...
Levitation Revisited by Elizabeth Tucker explains the origins of the game and discusses some of its occult history. The Magician's Own Book contains an entry on page 341-42 which describes an account of the game being played at a Venetian party. The Craft (1996) Light as a feather, Stiff as a board scene. Video example 1; Video example 2
Levitation. In a flash-illuminated picture taken at a séance in Wortley Hall, Finsbury Park in 1937 Evans can be seen "levitating" in mid-air. He claimed that the ...