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[edit] Human levitation

I remember reading a non-fiction book years ago a man who travelled to Tibet (it wasnt the german bloke Sven somebody), or who perhaps lived in that area themselves, and who described how the monks could levitate. I cannot remember the author or title, but it probably was around the early to mid 20th. century, or maybe late 19th. They would sit cross-legged meditating in a cell in isolation for a very long time - months or years. With a lot of practice they were able jump into the air while still cross legged. As far as I remember when they could jump over the wall surrounding their cell, they ended their hermitage. The book was a good read - anyone know which one it was? Perhaps the man was a monk himself. Maybe I downloaded it from Project Gutenberg - cannot remember.

I have seen a modern photo of western people who claimed to be flying. The photo showed a group of them in the air and cross-legged above what looked like a room-sized mattress. I expect they all jumped into the air at the same time, and the photo was snapped.

See:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Levitation_and_antigravity

[edit] Human Levitation 2

Now I've had time to try to remember, what I meant to say was that the book referred to was not Seven Years In Tibet by the austrian geezer.

The book I read could have been A Conquest of Tibet by Sven Hedin, but I'm not sure.

[edit] Cleanup

See WP:CONTEXT. A user [1] added a number of unnecessary links and this was done to a number of pages. I'm currently tagging all pages he messed up and will attempt to clean them all up, as this will be extremely time consuming anyone willing to remove the links from this page before I get back will be greatly appreciated. --Crossmr 07:11, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Added cleanup tag. Article has no intro, no separation between physics and esoteric meaning. Somebody added a terrible esoteric and unsourced POV 'see also' section, intersecting the stub tag. Boo 03:27, 30 August 2006 (UTC)