From a physical point of view levitation without the use of some kind of device is virtually impossible. Take into consideration the amount of energy that would be required to generate enough force to cause the entire mass of a single human body to lift from the ground. Mechanically we can create airplains or helicopters that use air to create lift, mechanical forms of flight. So it is entirely possible to create a device, say a jet pack, that can cause a person to "levitate" but the amount of energy that is required to accomplish this is a lot more than what the human body can generate (that has been scientifically proven). The amount of energy is high enough that it would probably kill a person if they could generate, and even then there is the whole issue of directing the energy towards the ground to repell gravity.
Granted by making an airplain or copter we have to consider we're lifing not only the mass of the human but of the vehicle as well. Regardless it still stands, a human body just can't create enough energy to "levitate". And even if it could, say its a windy day what force is then going to hold you in one spot? The ability to levitate is more complex than simply lifting the body from the ground. Some other mechanism has to be at work. You could say mind control that generates say a sphere of anti-gravitons around the body. That, to me is one "rational" way a human could levitate. Its just that whole gravity thing is a bit fickle. Once you negate the affects of gravity you're no longer traveling with the Earth and the Earth is hurdling around our sun at about some 67,000 miles an hour. You'd burn up in the atmosphere.
So what other possibility is there? Maybe that some how the human mind is capable of "bending", distorting, the laws of phyics and are essentially suspending the matter of the body in a fixed location above the ground. That, to me, is possible. Maybe the mind can invert the force of gravity that creats a sphere of gravity around themselves that is sieemingly repelling gravity, yet tethered to it. But again it boils down to the physical mechanics of levitation. One would still either need to generate enough energy or tap an energy source powerful enough to enable them to bend the laws of physics. However, if most of us agree that any form of litteral magick actually works, then why not levitation? After spending years learning and attempting to understand psychology I've come to the conclusion that our concsiousnesses, our minds, are the final frontier, not space. Perhaps we really are Gods in a fetal stage, only beginning to unlock our inner power.
While I will say that I am sure Tibetan monks are capable of unusually adept feats of mind over body I do not believe they, or anybody within 100 miles of civilization can leviate. And why hide an ability like that? Some might say that we, as a species are not ready to handle that knowledge. Who's to judge? We really couldn't know that until after the fact. Thus the only premise for keeping levitation a secret, that I could agree with, is keeping it secret means the potential for it to be misused doesn't exist. Its not a matter of judgement, just some higher logic that the Dali Lama, or some bushman understands a lot better than me or most everybody else.
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